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

bait was hardly in the water when he
pulled out a large fat bass that
weighed at least four pounds; it ives
the biggest fish that he had ever
caught in his life and his delight was
boy-like. He could have kicked him.
self TO think of the hour lost with the
ordinary bait, and he baited two hooks
and cast them both out at once and
! pulled in rock bass and big perch.
Then followed such fishing as was
never enjoyed by mortal before. Some
| of the fish were SO large that he had
hard work hauling them in, but he
/ didn't lose a fish, and by the end of an
hour his boat was so full of Topping
fin wearers that he had to stop for fear
of swapping it.
He rowed ashore and transferred his
cargo to his wagon and found that he
had ever a hundred big bass half as
many pickerel and more perch than
he could count.
He judged by the sun that it was
| about 10 o'clock. He ought to reach
Bashan Grove by u and sell his fish in
an hour and then he would reach home
by 4 with the biggest pocket full
of money that had ever come into the
Loveland homestead.
He deluged the fish with a pail full
of water to freshen them up and then
he covered them over with a blanket,
and putting Jess in the shafts he start
ed for the grove. The morning was
cool, the breeze was delightful and
Jess swung along at a lively gait.
AS for Tom, he sang at the top of
his lungs or whiStled or shouted for
joy. He would easily get $50 for the
fish even at the low price at which
he would sell them and that
would buy COW to take the place of
the. one that broke her leg on the stone
in front of the stable door. The neigh
bors had said in the unpleasant way
that neighbors have that if the rock
hadn't been there the cow wouldn't
have broken her leg and had to be shot,
but Ezra had said that something just
as bad might have happened and it
was no use crying over spilled milk.
After Tom had gone a couple of miles
he met q. team coming from the grove.
The man who was driving knew Tom
slightly and he pulled up to talk to
him. Tom gave him a peep at the fish
and the man said, why. boy. you'll
have EN- crazy. They're short on meat
and you can sell those fish as fast as
you can hand 'em out"
Just how do you get here?' asked
Tom excitedly. First road to your
straight ahead" called out the man
glibly as he drove off and disappeared
around a turn in the road.
Il think he said first road to my left
and then two to the right and then
straight ahead, but I'm not sure. How
ever. l can ask again"
But he did not meet another team,
and at last, after driving two hours
with no signs of the grove, he hailed
a. man in a cornfield and asked him
how far it was to camp meeting
About fifteen miles. You're going in
the wrong direction. Go back half
mile and then take the turnpike to the
right and ride until you come to Ken
ton schoolhouSe. Then ask some one.
else, for I'm not sure which road it is
An hour later he found himself at the
schoolhouse, but it was vacation time
and there was. no one to ask which of
the two roads he must take. He took
the upper road, which led down a steep
hill, and half way down the girths broke
and if Jess hadn't been a very good
Jess indeed. he might have had bad
accident. He fixed it with a tie line as
well as he could and then he decided to
stop and feed her, as it was long past
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When he started again he found that
Jess was lame. She had sprained her
foot when the girth broke in her eff
forts to keep the wagon from running
her down, and he had to drive her very
slowly indeed. That and the fact that