The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-07-28


give it back TO the company. Yes; q
sweet voiced girl old enough to have
been my father said that to me in q
large city over the wires once in the
purple past.
am fishing here for trout and restor-
ing tired nature by wading i'll the ice
cold streams by day and making ar
Engagements by night for kind neighbors
here to meet me along the streams with
trout on the following day
My physician advised me to como
here, and fearing that l might overtax
myself he came along, and when he
thinks have done enough he takes mo
away to spring by the mountain brook,
where the wild thyme blows or the mint
or something that has medical properties
in it, and out of a large carboy of fluid
extract of some kind marked Poison"
and For Medical Purps Only" he makes
u sort of infusion or treaturate that
shows what rapid strides the practice of
medicine is making.
Trout here are very plentiful indeed
Even the bear, the wolf, the panther
| and the serpent scoot around the uplands
yet, and was told that salt placed in q
retired spot would bring the bear in
great quantities, as they are very fond
of salt
Maybe this is not true. a neighbor
who had been selling me what eggs
used on the farm for two years told me
| that my hens needed corn soaked in
brine, and that I would find this Il good
| thing, as it would also have u tendency
to keep them out of the garden 1t did
! keep them out of the garden, but not
out of future state.
We farmers believe too readily what
is told US We are not conservative
enough, especially when we go to town.
| Politically, too, can say, for one, that
in trying to believe everything that was
told me I have two or three times
"overhet" myself.
Perhaps it might interest tho true
| sportsman if were to tell how 1 killed
my first trout here have n beautiful
rod, which was gift from IA great
manufacturer Of these artistic imple-
ments. My line is Il perfect dream, and
| | borrowed a sweet little nickel reel of
"a young lady here whose kindness 1
shall never forget while reason contin-
mes to usurp her throne
| I have volume of flies, some Of them
with yellow bosomS and blue feet, while
| others have moro hectic complexion,
with moth patches on them. Some are
| called coachmen. l used at first fly
| that | made myself according to rec
| ipe Of Mr.. Seth Green's If ] could
have thought of it in time and handed
i'll my design previous to the creation,
some of my friends think it would have
been adopted.
1t is cross between the snake feeder,
or dragon fly. and the infant buzzard.
But it frightens ii dumb animal so to
| look ut it, and it makes such IL PUNK in
| casting it, that 1 took one that / bought
at our store at home. Attaching this to
six feet OF strangulated "lcader, and
that again to the line, 1 looked careful
ly to my reel and rod, put on a pair Of
wading boots, and the first day got
mired.
That evening we played six hand
euchre.
On the following day cast my fly o
few times. but got results until l rut
Oh tall acrobatic worm. Long before
| evening got rise. Trout here rise
| teadily to the worm. was so surprised
at the attack OF the trout that almost
forgot to play him, but GOODNESS soon
! comes to the true sportsman.
Noticing that the stream did not give
much room for playing the speckled
beauty, us he is called, I threw him into
the top of dead tree resolved to dash
out his brains, or, failing in that, to
sell my life as dearly as possible. 1t did
not kill him at once, but while debat-