Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-20
A DAY OFF.
MT. VViggIesworth Takes His Wife on .
 Fishing Trip.


 fortably filled lunch basket, and on the way MT. Wigglesworth stopped at a store and bought two poles, with an ex- traordinary accompaniment of lines and hooks.
 The tide was low and the lodges, GOV cred with clinging seaweed, looked cool and inviting At the very first step Mrs. Wigglesworth feet slipped on the slimy weeds, and she broke nearly all the crockery ill the lunch basket.
 That's the way" cried her husband, "that's the way to start in, jarring the rocks and soaring the fish away r'
 "I'm sure didn't mean to" sobbed Mrs. Wigglesworth helplessly. land I should think you might help me up."
 Which MT. Wigglesworth did with more haste than was entirely necessary, so that his wife's hair came down and she had to get out upon smooth ground to adjust herself. Meantime Mr. Wig ellsworth was overhauling and adjust ing tho tackle.
 "Where's that bait box?" he called, after fruitless search.
 They found it eventually in the lunch basket, but Mrs. Wigglesworth's fall had involved it considerably with the refreshments, and it took some time to find a sound worm large enough to fit salt water hook. As he cast his line into the water his wife got back.
 "Whero's my line:' she asked.
 Mir. WigglcswOrth indicated with a jerk of ths elbow, and sweeping down upon it Mrs Wigglesworth put the hook through her thumb. The shrieks she gave sent MT. Wieglesworth's line fly ing i'll the air, and the hook attached it self to an overhanging tree.
 "What ye try to act out?" he snapped, yanking at his pole.
 "Oh, do come tuke this hook away!' !' implorcd Mrs. Wigglcsworth through her tears. ''It hurts awfully'
 "Well, s'poso it does?' comforted her husband. "That any reason ye should go yelling out like that and make me lose my line? Might have slipped off thcSo rocks and been drowned, startling mo that way!'
 Not without considerable pain was the flesh imbcdded hook released, borne, however, with much philosophy by Mr. Wi2g ellsworth, and then he sent Willie into tho tree for his own hook, with which, after season, that young man returned, wearing it in his trousers, and whence it was cut out with knife.
 "Oh, dear" said Mrs Wigglesworth after q long silence, "my wrists are bliStcring drcadfully!'
 ''Sh " hiSScI her husband. "I'vc got q bitc!"
 "O.o-o-h-h!" screamed Mrs. Wiggles- worth, hystcrically pulling up her line. "Where is it-whcre is it, Ellcry:"
 "Whcro iS it:' howled Mir Wiggles- worth. "Wherc dye think it was-over behind Moody mountain? Reckon it's OH Hurricane island, don't ye? Mcbbe ye think it's on the Grcpnhack ticket? What yc want tO ga and make a splatter for and scare him off:"
 II didn't go to, protested Mrs Wig gleSworth Was there one on your hook"
 Was thcre:" clustered her husband. "Wrll, should say! Biggest fish I've seen since I was a boy. Bet he weighed ninr pounds.
 "Uh, won't that hr splendid:" cx. claimed AirS. Wipglr@wurth "Weu have him fvr dinner tomorrow. Put your hook right down again, Ellery, and catch him.
 But the nine puuu'l fish had adjourn Cd vixen the hook got back there. Time Jagged on. The sun discovered Mrs. WigG lcsWurth $ nose and began lifting the skin from 1t, while every few min utes she would draw up her hook, utter noto of aStOniShmcnt and diSmay and hand it mp to Mir. Wigg glcsworth for a new bait Now and then she would catch it ill the rocks, and Mir. Wiggles- worth, at the peril of drowning, would chamber painfully down the weed clad prccipicC and effect its release. His gar mclItS were glued tn him with the heat and there were indications uf a falling barometer and lut';ll disturbance.
 Then something tugI,.,i at hislinr.
 "Great Scott! !" he shouted. It < the biggest fish on the coast !''
 So it Was, but it was on his wife s hook. and their lines were crossed and hc didn't know it. Mrs. WigglcSwwth, feeling the tug, turned and started up the rocks, screaming loudly.
 "L"t go ycr polrE' yelled her hus- band. "What yc trying to do:"
 But Mrs Wigglcsworth only ran the harder, graSping tine pole firmly and giv ing II mighty toss. The fish at the other end of the lin" Was thus sent fly ing through the air, and. catching tho tlcnHicd WigSlrsWurth in the face, slid around that gut lcniau x neck. winding tho line after it, aud with cry of wrath he went down on the rocks. put his f,rt aud arms ill tho air, and clutch ing vaguely at tho ringing scawceds went sliding and Jumping into the hcaving sca.
 A man living on the ridge back of the shore noticing a hatlesS woman running distractcdly through his potato patch, came down 10 inquire the trouble. He found lIr. WiggluaWortL clingiuY to tie rocl-s and !, lrvd him out to place of safety, where he stood for some mo- ments dazcd and dripping.
 My darling Ellcry!" sobbod Mrs. Wigglcsworth, wiping some green stuff out of his whiSkcrs But how 2 lad I am that you saved the tiShH'
 Then for the first time Mr. Wiggles- worth noticed that the fish still hung about his neck. Tearing it away, he dashed it upon the rocks and pounded it viciOusly with his heel for several mo- | mCnts
 Why, Ellery,' expostulated Mrs. Wigglesworth mildly, that would have made'-
 "Ye shut your head!" yelled her husband
 Mrs. Wigglesworth did SOW. O. Fuller, Jr, i'll New York Recorder. How to Use Soft Lemon Jelly.
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