Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-16
HIS FIRST FISH,
The Frisky Small Boy Took 1t Home ..
His Pocket and Carried 1t to Bed.

The Frisky Small Boy Took 1t Home I'm
His Pocket and Carried 1t to Bed.
The small boy went fishing the other
DAY. 1t was his first actual experience
In That line, but he had often talked
the sport over with his father and knew
just what he would do in any emer-
geney He and his father got down to
the dock about noon and received ex-
ceilent reports from the other fisher
men Everybody said the sunfish and
rock bass and perch were biting well
"hlle there was an occasional black
lass to be caught
70 the small boy was given a mole
and his hook was baited for him. Then
ms father threw in the line and he was
told to keep pulling it up and down in
the water. so he might feel if he had a
hsh. As he is but bit over four wears
old the plan of waiting for a nibble
was somewhat complicated for him.
and the father thought that he would
soon tire of the sport and run I'D the
bank and play.
The small boy did as he was told. He
drew the line up and down through the
water, and once gave it a tremendous
ming and landed fish on the dock.
1t wasn't much of a fish 1t was
sunhsh about three inches long, but it
was Digger to the boy and better than
II II had been fOrty-pound muskel-
Iunge. His eyes stuck out like door
knobs and he danced about the dock
and shouted at the top of his voice for
an the folks to come and see his fish
lie had hooked it through the back
when he was drawing up his line, but
that, too, cut no figure with him. He
mad caught fish. and he was as big a
man as the sportsman who gets tar
pom after three hours struggle
he determined then and there to
take 1T home and have it cooked After
he had exhibited with the greatest
pride to everybody On the bank he put
II in the pocket of his knickerbockers.
He didn't want to lose il. 1t was safe
enough for other persons to string
. their fish and leave them in the water.
but this was a particular fish. He had
caught it and he was afraid some one
might grow jealous of him and wish to
take 1t from him. So he slowed it
away underneath his handkerchief and
his other small treasure and whenever
he thought of it during the afternoon
he would take it out and fondle its
bright sides and cautiously try the
spines of IT'S fins with the ball of his
thumb.
Father and son went home and got
there too late for supper. The small
boy decided he would have fish for
breakfast. He went to bed and next
morning his mother looked for the fish.
which she had placed on dish in the
pantry. 1t wasn't there. Search was
instituted while the boy slept, but no
fish was to be found. With fear and
trembling his mother went to his bed
side and awakened him. She knew she
would have to tell him of the loss of
his beloved fish, but she feared an out
burst. The moment the small boy got
his eyes open he made a grab under the
clothes. He had taken the fish to bed
with him.
When he gets bigger and studies
chemistry and all that sort of thing.
and comes to know about the disin-
tegration of tissues and the like. he
will understand why he didn't have
that fish for Observation-Disclosures Ex-
press.