Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-12-30


!. thar, < Indicating 8 third person.
The lone fisherman got q match from
the same source and lit his pipe
sWhar you beonf'' asked the stranger,
leaning over tho back 4of the seat
3 /" Fishing..'''' answered the other, snok-
y That's sos'' :..
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!: ''Whar you been feeshins' .f..@4s
''Blacl river" $780, f:s.t
'sNcll,s All swan! Whar you goinp''
+ EST. Louis home said : the fisher
man, uneasily drawing q newspaper from
his pocket and feigning to read. H.
''Tha' sofs Well, sab, Ah'm goin t.
Poplar Bluff. FRS time All been outen
Ahkansaw f. ten year"
Here the conversation threatened to lag,
for the st. Louisan evidently wished an
end of it, and the Arkansan had failed to
finish his speech with question.
well, All swan" he murmured, lean
ing still farther over the back of the seat.
''S' you all been feeshin?"
"Um!' aff1rmativeIy. : !
"Whar's tn feesh:'' S.e.' :
Sin the bucket i
How long you been feeshin'p" :
1.-Two or three days - !;
"Got pow full little flesh, didn't youp"
"Oh don't KNOW laughed the St.
Louisan testify. I'm not fishing for the
Market
''Thas SOP What's feesh with N sain
Luse about nowP'
Don't know. Fifteen cents pound,
perhaps
"G'wayl Never gifts over bit at Para.
go. How many poun's you calculate you
got in that pails"
''Twelve. weighed them."
"Dolla' eighty counts with. Well, All
swan! How much you calc'l late it cost you
t. come all tn way t Black River t.
feesh?"
We'll, hadn't thought of that said
the ST. Louisan, smiling scornfully. Il
came for a little rest and little sport.
like to fish, and don't think IL pounds
is SO bad for two days easy fishing. I've
got dozen nice one pound bass"
THAT thar amt 10 days spoht in All
lansaw What'd you ketched 'em wifi"
asked the amused back woodsman.
Rod and line, of course" The sports
f, man was blushing.
"Lawd, Lawd! Tibet thar ain It no way
t. feesh Las time All went feeshin All
got fo' hundred pounds in lessen TO-
hours
where did you catch them?" The
city man was interested now.
''D!aok river" said the countryman.
What kind of bait?'
''Bait! All never used bait. Talk
about spoht-Ah got 'em SO big All could
hardly lift 'em outen the water"
How big?"
"Well, All never weighed none o. thin
bass. but All oalc'late some on 'em was
eight FOUNDER err NOAH. Tha's what All
call spoht!'o
"Yes, indeed. It must take good rod
and stout line to land eight Founders
from that river -:
''Rod and line! Now see var, stranger,
you pokin fun It me- III doan feesh wifi
no fool rod an li4t.tc'..+~ a h .feesh wifi a
hoop net. They amt no spoht like hoop
net feeshin. Nah pardner, he lows
trammel g fob to ore better'n a hoop, and,
they ain no use talkin, it's great spoht
when you git eight poun bass in a tram
mel. Whopi He goes agin the trammel,
and the wuss he hops the wuss you got
een."
The sportsman was looking at the en-
thusiastic "sport" with unspeakable dis
gust, but the latter was sure that he had
teur who had travelled 300 miles at great
expense only to ride back to St. Louis with
not enough "feesh'' to mako one Arkan-
sas logger a square meal.
eth bes' feeshin out, tho, is baitin
wifi co 'nmeal," suggested the zap, grow
ing confidential, and leaning SO near the
cityite's face that he could detect the
moonlight flavor on the Arkansan's
breath eth bes days spoht All ever
seen was one day las spring All baited
hole in Black river wifi co'nmeal.'
'How did you get the fish out?"
''Fust All drapped a tied sack o. con-
meal in a good bass holo. All lef' it thar
overnight an comes back tn next even
in an th'owed in three sticks O dynamite.
Well, All swan, eff it didn't take me an
nah pardner fob hours t. git all the big
feesh that come t. tn top. We es lef' tn
little, small fry 60. Never took nothin
lessen two FOUNDER. All COLL dern nah '
skin eff that river didn't run dead feesh
fer two days. Thet's what All call feeshin
what is feeshin."
'Do you 'feesh' much nowadays" ask
ed the St. Louisan with a sarcastic accent
lost on his new acquaintance.
''Nope. All doan feesh much no noah
Nah pardner, he met Il awful death feesh-
in, and All doan care bout feeshin alone
Hank Shaw buck, tibet was NAH partners
name, s been dead nigh two year now, an
up aroun Gilly's Bend, whar we all lives,
tn wimmin is dead sho' tibet Hank ha'nt
is ridin ON tn river most every night. All
doan take no stock in ha hts, but All doan
go feeshin nohow, mostly cause yo' can't
git no price fur 'en in Paragoo no NOAH. I
Bottom drapped clean outen tn NAV ket. >
What happened to your partner? Was
he drowned?'' I
All doan' know, sab His Remains
was found bout week afterwa Ids with q j
imply whisky bottle in one han an a dog
feesh in tn other. Mos people says
Hank s overloaded hisself wifi Ticker, but
All low he got q dog -feesh in his tram
mel an the dog-fsesh bit him, bringih on
a spasln, an Hank musta fell outen tn |
boat and drowned Ah'm dead sho Hank
cud q drank fob gallons o. whisky with
out overlooking nothin, an Q quaint was
7on'y eye opener for heem. = Isl.
a. :. Poplar Bill -luff!' yelled the brake
man, thrusting his head in the doorway,
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