The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
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until one by one he had taken them all
out. There were about twenty of them in
all, and they nearly filled a ten-quart milk
pail.
Another sensational episode was the cap
ture of the big trout in the brook. Mr..
Smith was on his way to school one morn
ing with his younger brother and another
boy, and was crossing log over the brook
when he saw beneath him trout with the
genial proportions of man-eating shark.
Immediately the two other boys were sta
toned above and below the spot to pre-
vent his escape, and young Smith started
in to find him. He came across him at
once under bank and began to work on
him. He had not been accustomed to ham
die such big fish, however, and when he
closed down on his gills the big trout
wrenched away. Then he could not find
him anywhere, and after thorough search
he thought he had escaped. Under the cir
cumstances the duty of every boy would
be plain. His younger brother had let the
fish escape and must be clicked" The
small boy immediately felt the Christening
hand of his elder brother on his nose, the
conclusion throwing him violently back
ward into the stream, wetting the seat of
his trousers clear up around his neck.
When he had at length disappeared in
search of other garments at home, after
attempting for some time to give correct
imitation of the David -Goliah episode from
afar off, brother John waded in and dis
covered the trout where it had been right
along--under big log. The fish broke
away from him again and went out into
the ripple in the center of the stream.
Smith followed him there, and, after work
ing awhile, got him out at last and on the
bank. 1t was the first and only time he
ever got trout out in the open like that,
and he can only account for the circum-
stance by thinking that the trout was old
or rot nr lin R1l&h not h
and lugged him to the village on willow
stringer. When he got him there & G.
Bourne, the village storekeeper, scared him
by offering him So for the fish if he would
keep it alive. 1t appeared afterward that
Binghampton hotel had a tank of big
trout, and offered $25 for bigger one, and
the storekeeper wanted to get the fish as
an investment. 1t was no use, however,
the fish had been out of water too long and
the boy had to be satisfied with ST. which
he finally sold it for. That trout was 10
inches long and weighed pounds and 2
ounces, and when it was dressed horned
dace inches long was found in its stomach.
Fishing in this way has peculiar charm
of uncertainty about it which is it's own.
There is always feeling of mild wonder in
ceiling around under muddy bank as to
what is coming next. 1t is a sort of natural
grab-bag arrangement. You may get a
trout, an eel or sucker, or possibly a
HuQ turtle. n Wdtcr-Sndke may get YOU.
Oh. course there is good deal in Knowing
what you have got, and good deal Of
technique in handling it. A sucker is slow
and patient and as easy to catch as SUBJ
merged tomato-can, trout is nervous and
resistive and an eel is Shiny and reluctant.
Mr.. Smith has caught one or two cells by
sticking knife into them as they were
slipping out of his hands, and Priest used
to occasionally get them by using sand
paper. A bullhead is unfriendly and OBJ
stinate and requires very careful handling.
Never in after life has Mr.. Smith passed
such unhappy hours as he did when watch
ing his friend corner thoroughbred short
horned bullhead and attempt to bring him
to the surface without getting his forearm
| filled with virus.
| But in addition to these there were the
turtles and water snakes and muskrats
which were always likely to be in the line
of attack. Priest had an exciting misun-
| derstanding at one time with muskrat,
which, after spirited contest, resulted
fatally for the latter. Though the boy was
somewhat wounded, he was running his
hand under a bank, where there was an
open space above the water. and the musk
rat, which was sitting there, waiting for
something to come along, promptly
grabbed finger. Priest, who had a hole
throu ght the bank, could look down and
see the catastrophe which had come to the
member, but could not give it aid or olsen
| gage it without getting it more or less
torn. Fortunately he had with him a
snatch hook"-a cheerful looking instru-
| ment OF destruction dear to the heart of