The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-12-12
PATIENT ANGLERS.
strangely Enough, Nervous Persons Are
the Best Walters For a Bite.

Strangely Enough, Nervous Persons Are
the Best Walters For a Bite.
1t is one of the Suriosities of hui
man nature that the most nervous
and excitable people are often the
most patient fishermen with hook
and line. This is true as to, nations
as we'll as individuals. The French,
who are of all people perhaps the
most mercurial or ''tindery," are
also Of all races the most extrav.
agantly devoted to angling, and
Paris, their excitable and revolu-
tionary capital, is a city of fisher
men. A recent Partisan writer de-
clares that the amateur fishermen
are more numerous than ever.
"They form a double wreath of hui
mainly on both sides of the Seine"
he declares, reaching from Charen-
ton clear to Maison-L afitte. For them
were created the fortunate isles of
st. Cloud and Croissy and the YER
durous shores of Port Marty and
Chauton. Isolated there in the midst
of tumult, calm in the very bosom
Of agitations, the ~passersby smile
at their aspect and gibe at their at
titude and their immobility. They
never catch a thing, the passing
skeptics say. What a mistake! The
vulgar laity know naught of what
these fishermen catch besides fish,
for fish are not alone the things they
go for This can that the con-
temptation which is in a manner en-
forced or those who fish with hook
and line, especially where no fish
T to be found, often results in the
apprehension of important things
which would never have come if the
fishermen had remained among the
distracting e of Partisan life.
A distinguished French academi-
clan is accustomed to declare that
he fished his acadenical chair out Of
the Seine with a hook and line, for
the poems which really won for him
his literary crown came to him while
he was counting the wary gudgeon
on the banks of the river. He is
far from being the only author who
has worked in this way. There are
300 and more living dramatists
whose works have in some shape
been brought out on the boards of
the Paris theaters, and out of these
80 have declared that they should
never have had a single success if
they had not elaborated their dra-
matte schemes while angling.
One of these dramatists once came
back, radiant with glee, from a ses-
sion of seven steady hours on the
banks Of the Seine. On his way
home he met a friend. "Well, did
you catch anything9' asked the
friend. "Catch anything9 Well, I
should think I did! I caught a fifth
act in three tableaus and a denoue-
ment that will draw all Paris!"
But he had not one fish. A some
what amusing story is told of a min
lister of the interior, M. de Corbiere,
who was accustomed to get up every
morning very early and go, out with
a hook and line to quiet his nerves
on the banks Of the Seine. There
came to Paris a man from the prov
inces who had made application for
a certain Office, a sous prefecture in
the country. The Office seeker had
no influence with the minister, but
in some way he learned where the
spot was to which the minister went
to fish.
Providing himself with ''tackle, ="
he rose still earlier than the minis
ter, and when M. de Corbiere went
to his favorite place he found a
stranger installed there, paying no
attention to the minister and appar-
emily quite ignorant of his identity.
The minister went somewhere else
and got up earlier the next morning,
but on arriving at the place he found
the same man installed there. Again
and again this happened. 1t was
useless to try to forestall the man.
Hewas at the spot before the slight
est break of dawn. At last the min
lister approached the man and said
politely, "You seem to be very fond
Of fishing, sir?"
II am, SIR" answered the other,
land for the present I 4 employ it as
a means of passing the time while I
am awaiting a response to an appli-
cation which I have made to the
minister Of the interior"
"You are looking for an office"
IA small prefecture, sir, in the
country. l have waited a long line
and may have to wait still longer,
but we fishermen, sir, know how to
be patient"
evil you kindly give me your
name and address, sir9 I have a lit.
tie influence perhaps at the depart.
ment, and I shall be glad to mention
your a Between fishermen,
sir
OAR 7 %borly won, uo,o &c ,o1,