The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-05
NEw uAVENERs, EXPERIENCES
Among the Green Hills of Vermont and Along the shores of Lake Champiain-A Notable Fishing Trip Described.

AtnOuE Nh6 ofGeh hllb Ol uhu Along the shores of Lalfe Champiain-A Notable Fishing Trip Described.
 Pyramid lodge boys. A. o, U. w., are noted for having good times at their lodge meetings and jovial good feeling abounds among them. Frequently they are entertained by the reading of orig inal essays which abound in incidents of life in fishing camps. and smack of the mountain breezes. The fish stories told are said to be hard to beat and equal in coloring to the bear stories of some of the New York dailies, 9th CTS are less romantic, but are very in- structive, but all have touch of genu- inc kindly humor that, if not equal to Howell's or Bret Harte's is relished ex- ceedingly. Of the latter one by ex-Al- derman John M. Crampton, read re- gently before the lodge, is as follows: It is entitled
 FISHING.
 While this subject may not interest all of our lodge members, and friends, am sure there are some whom it will
 I have neither the time, nor you the patience, to go into each and every de- tail of this art, so shall treat the subject briefly.
 But to begin with the old veteran Isaac Walton, the writer, who was Of English birth, and genius born in 1898 and died in 1883, at the good ripe old age of ninety-without doubt prolonged his life by this artistic sport; other other famous writers gave this as their opinion also that his writings and meth ods were the very best ever produced.
 Nearly every one of us has his hobby by way of outdoor sports, and person. ally am glad that all do not turn their attention to angling; for were they as persistent asl our brother, Dave Clark, and should they meet with one half his success in three years time there would be neither fin nor tail left in one of our streams or lakes, from the Northumberland Straits, to the Golden Gates.
 Neither is he alone in this particular, as our dearly beloved distributor of Colengela and extracts, is not far be- hind him. while Brothers Congressman Sperry, Kimberly and Atwater always stay on the stream, or lake, until the last particle of bait has disappeared, and the sun has quietly sunk behind the grand old mountain.
 And do you wonder? You would not, if it had ever been your fortune to sit in your boat and every moment watch for the tip of your rod to bend with a sudden snap; then instantly grasping the butt and lifting it from ...the thole as the line spins through the dead eyes of your rod, and the reel clicks It's merry tune at the rate of 800 revolutions minute; and you for the next ten minutes wondering and guessing the weight of the agile beauty tugging at the end of at least 200 feet of line for his or her liberty.
 And after getting it, which, by, the way, he often does, leaving you, and you alone. to communicate the loss to your guide while he ejaculates sen tences that are not found in the Holy Book, from Genesis to Revelations.
 Now to leave the speckled and lake trout and take a trip north, leaving our city at Il a. m. and go to Channplain, lake named after its discoverer, Gen. eral Champlain and separating Can- ada from the United States and let me stop for only a moment to comment on the wonderful and beautiful scen-