The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-07-07
THOSE r FISH,.
They Played Havoc With the Nerves of One
Fellows Girl.

sdlu d NOuAE ITO w AO SACA III u O0LAh
IF she knows how to fish, it won't be half
SO much fun, and it will be all the more fun
if you don't know how to fish yourself.
"A friend Of mine and myself got our
girls to 90 with us to Greenwood lake last
Sunday. We hadn't any idea what we
were going to do or see when we got there,
and we didn'tc care, only SO we had a good
time. Going up, l asked the conductor what
we were likely to run against at Greenwood
to have some fur with.
"'Can YOU dance?' said be.
II told him we could.
"'Can you fish, said he.
Il told him we couldn't.
"'Then go out fishing said he.
That was kind O queer advice, we
thought, but the conductor seemed to
know what he was talking about, and we
made up our minds that we would take
his advice and go fishing. The first thing
we struck, though, was a refreshing look
ing casino, and we half concluded to take
that in, but we didn't. But when we ran
against a dancing platform, with the or
chestra just humming and a lot of folks
tripping it away to a lively waltz, al fresco,
the girls weakened and guessed they'd
rather dane than go fishing. My friend
and l kind O. laid down a little, too, on the
fishing scheme, but l couldn't get all the
way over the manner in which the con-
ductor had told us to go fishing if we didn't
know how, and SO l talked the rest out Of
the dance, and we got a couple of boats and
a fishpole apiece and some bait and pre-
pared to go fishing.
"'Where's the best place to fish?' l asked
of the man who hired US the boats.
"'Know much about fshin? said he.
mo said |.
Then it don't make no difference where
you fish, said he.
"'What kind O. fish will we catch?' /
asked.
IF you don't know how to fish, said he,
there amt no tellin what you won't hetch,
the way fish is actin in this pond
so he told us how TO bait our hooks, and
we rowed out and went to fishing. The
boats drifted about on the lake for a good
while, and | was talking to Sue and forgot
all about it that | was fishing, and Sue was
talking to me, and fishing had slipped out
of her mind, too, when all of a sudden Sue
screamed and hOllered out:
"'Oh, Charley, Something's trying to
take my fishpole away from me"
Sure enough, her pole was being jerked
down to the water, and Sue was trying to
keep it up.
Hold on to it, Sue!' l hollered. Maybe
you've got a bite
Just then a big fish jumped out of the
water, Is or 20 feet from one side of the
boat, shook itself like a dog shaking a rat,
and glazing at us the maddest kind. Sue
screamed louder than ever and hollered:
Its jumping at me, Charley! Why
don't you kill the horrid thing?'
Il put my pole on the seat and sat on it,
and rowed fast to where the fish had
jumped out, intending to kill it with an
oar if it sprang again, but when | got there
it Jumped up 20 feet in another direction,
madden than ever. knew that my friend
had his pistol with him, and l turned &c
veil to him to hurry over to US with it
when the fish leaped out of the water moi
more than a dozen feet behind our boat
Then Sue just more than screamed:
"'Oh, it's chasing us, Charley! she cried
Pull for shore and call for help"
Il don't know just what | would have
done if Sue hadn't screamed again anc
hollered:
"'Now it's heading us off, Charlie!'
Sure enough, the big fish had jumped
for us, in front of the boat ~again-at leas
that's what l thought until it jumped i'm
mediately aStern of US again, and then
discovered that two fish were after us-Ont
on Sues line and one on mine. Then dc
boiler for nv friend to come over with hi
pistol, and while ne was Oh inc way Isl
on my line gave a jump and a lunge, snap
ped the line in two and idnt come for u
again. About the same time Sue gave
shrek of Joy and exclaimed:
"'Thank goodness! He's gone at last.
The fish that had been threatening he
had broken the line and disappeared toe
When my friend came up and we told hin
ofourexciting adventure. he didn't say any
thing for awhile, and b said:
~ wonder why it wouldn't have bee
the nroper thing to have yanked them ifs