Oxford eagle., 1895-06-13
FROM SINNEMAH0NE.
Ey FD MOTT

- Wish ~ ro+-ins~S 20 said the man
from over >inuenahnuinx wav. that
! could reueEnh.r half what mv father
uS..i 10 tell about snakes 7 really do
! do INDEED I supp-p~e that x mv
father had h.-eu telling sh-put snakes
that lived auyx here ~l~e except On the
sinnemahone SPREAD couid har~ r.
uemh~red everything Hut. i"rsi' it
would take a u8an With nine rn~us.s -.
every one - I'm phenoul~n5i. ~ r.
ul~n1b~r even LITTLE bit - what them
>iunsmahoniux snake did. h-ecans.
they 'iit - much- They were always
doing something. amt dotng it we'll =
wish somebody yuuId simply give ne
m inkling 90 what there !, in that sin
nsmahoue atmosphere that makes
things have ~ much more snap IN
them than things have anywhere
~l~s- On top - earth Even Erasshof-
p-rS Now. know heaps - places
where there i twenty times more sra->
than Is on the Sinuemahone. A. for
that. Sinnemahone doesn't run particu-
larry 80 grass We slash ont a good
many hoop poles, and We peel consider
able Of bark We do . little in the
maple sugar way. and cur taters Amt
few N the hill hat We don't braS On
our grass Then why should gras>-
hopp~rS seem u like 10 settle down
with u 81 much. and get to - - over
powering smart among u.s. I give IL
up I don't know But 10 prove to
you that they do. I'll tell vou sorne-
thing, I don't pretend IN explain these
things, mind you simply give you
the facts
-lou know. of course. that there
amt any better halt for trout along
late in the season than graSshopp~rs-
Our sinnemahone grasshvppers know
that we'll, and want To- tell you that
its a hard matter t. run one down mi
catch him when you want to % fish
ing. But used to manage, by various
slick bits of strategy. To- get enough -
fish with, but il was hard work and 50
| was delighted one day. being over to
the county seat, tn see in n store an
artificial graSshopper. with a hook
concealed about IL The yraSshopper
was a. natural as life. and saw at
once that there wasn't any use of my
Pitting myself any longer against our
smart Sinnemahone graSshoppers tn
get halt. when could uSc the artificial
grasShopper To fool the trout with. and
! bought IL II worked ~ a charm.
think the trout went for il better than
they did for the real thing. for have
an idea that they knew how smart our
Sinnemahous grasshoppers were. and
a - g.. II 4 -.
imitation grssshoPPer with great sue
cess
4 had i tame trout in a spring near
my house. II had been in the spring a
year. II was big one. had caught
II one day ON q Sinnemahoue grass
hopper. and a. the hook hadn't hurt il
much put il in pail OF water and 90,
Il home alive and active. l put il in
the spring and il lived and thrived. A
funny thing was that the grsSshopper
! caught the trout with wasn't killed
by the trout nor oy the hook Being
through fishing. took the graSshopper
of the hook aud tossed il on the
ground IL moved away. but was
minus one leg Its eyes were just a.
bright as ever, though. and as I re
member it now. il kind o. shook its
head and looked volumes As IL limped
away. headed straight for nv place
don't know where that crippled grass
hopper wintered, but when warm
weather came next year give you my
word thas grasshopper was the first /
saw on my place IL was perched on a
saw horse in my back yard reeog
niEesi IL at once, and il seemed to rec
ognize me. for il shook its head and
had a queer look in its eye As il limped
on one leg along the saw horse. tum-
bled of and stumped away.
"'As long as I've got a place said /.
that grasshoPper has a claim on il. and
anyone that hurts that grasshopPer
must settle with me-
Well, sir, that grzsshopper hung
around the place. and hObbled about
in a melancholy sort of way. but al
ways with that queer look In its eyes
Every time it met me il settled down
and shook its head. spit tobacco Juice.
as yrasshoppers will. and stumped on
its way. know now that that grass.
hopper had vengeance on its mind. and
was Only biding its time
This was the season ! got the
artificial grasSpopper. frequently
saw the crippled real one sitting on
the nat stone over the spring where
my pet trout was. glaring down at the
trout aud shaking its head in u start.
ling way. The grasshopPer remem-
bered that this was the trout that had
rrfrr0fa1 Z. -w.l = ,,--. ., ~. sr--,,s,
70 g;a-e az the trout and show its hate
used 10 sFeal-s Tor 81, fer ny .raG'