The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-15

80 80 fishing. Tom was going to start
early next morning and drive to Clear
Take about six miles distant. II he
haa good luck fishing, he was then
going to Bashan Grove to sell the hsn
to the MethOdists who were holulhS d
camp meeting there. 81,
While he was digging. ms ooS 0ieP
began to growl I'D
.sEyhad's the matter. ShepDy?" asked
Tom. batting him on the head ana lueIi
ds-aAziae- forth a particularly tat worm
from the earth. Shops ruff was pIISI-
isd and his eyes cleaned IN the Ilsnl
OF the lantern Somebody was coiiiille.
TOM peered through the gloom, pul
saw no enc. Just then he heard q
voice that seemed TO come out o. :"
particularly big rock in front OF nun
aI3o YOU want TO know how 10 caJcn
all the fish YOU can carry away sd!u
the voice Tom was startled, Out ne u
heard Of ventriloQuists and he imagined
that sot.-eone was playing tiich III uii
him. so he said why, sur Z, --e
more / have the more III sen. Hsi
are YOU anyhow2 --,,,
= pm right in front of you, but You
can't sec me because you are a nor edl
and I'm not. Your dog sees me, though,
sssa hos frightened stiff. Tell him ne
bassnothing TO fear from me lie can
hear me: he can only see me
Tom quieted the dog and told nm 20
lie down. and Shep stopped growing
ara charged by his masters teel
u AMI a rock gnome." said the voice.
81 and my brothers live in the rocks
a1,,s{ Of tie farmers aereabouts wage
- on onr homes and blast them, put
.s..,,,. farther is content TO get his lNlnS
.-ith.lit disturbing us, and we nave
long wished to show that we appletciidte
ais blindness You re eoiHe .
aren't vou?
yes answered Tom. I'm going
fshine the first thing in the morning,
and j d like to get some rock bass, only
,,o,.irs. are Door bait and crickets am
much better. and there amt any helga-
mites around here
"Tn fix all tlIat" said the voice.
seNh hen you have dug all The worms you
want and caught ali the crickets, leave
them in a heap on the big rock that
stands in front Of the north barn door
The one that the horses have TO step
over every time they come in with a
load az hay The king of the gnomes
lives under that and he VIII instruct
shfs worms and the cricketS TO catch
ali the fish you wantt-rock bass, black
bass. pickerel perch and anything else
the Jake affords They VIII be just as
good as any fish that were ever caught,
evening. If you can sell them before
thai time they viii be as fresh as when
fs,ey were caught. but if You have them
on YOUR hands al Z. no matter whether
xasa keen them on ice or not, they VIII
All disappear And this luck you may
eiu.avs have if Won viii promise never
Il hIast or remove the rocks that lie all
over the place.
Il guess I can promise Tor rather,
aaf1 Tom. laughing. 1t would take
hard work 10 get rid of the rocks, and
father'd rather fish than work, any
day. ,,.a, ca
s7yen. donp your bait and you Il find
# an mere in the morning. Goodbye.
..tS<od- bye. said Tom, and dumped
his bait ca the big rock. Then he
7s.es,i in and told his father OF the
EMMA ri chat he had made. Mr.. Love
1a.,S laughed and said: We get the
hses of that bargain. Tom, FOR l
,s,s,sidu.t touch those rocks for all the
,,-o,id. They were there when was
bor,S ard I've had TO dodge them IN
.niopfsnn ever since ] could say gee TO
- "a and they'll stay there until m
=, i1i away amid the carved rocks OF
tie tgrare yard
'r' Tg.sn was up betimes. and hurried
Am II, the big rock. There lay the
.,..,k,,s moist and fresh and wriggling,
MI never Offering TO get away, and
',,se crickcts were ali sitting in bunch
Era nt:4 Them into tn boxes. Ih en ne
!, s-s,,.asseed I'D jess. He found that the