Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-18
HIS DREARY OUTING.
THE rpLER FISHES uNsucoEssFvL-
LY. EVEN As you AND I.
A PICNIC RAIN WAS ON HAND.
This. Combined with Other Circ""-
.tnncc., Ruined His Luck-freP"-
x.,,o,s for the sport and Supernn-
ru.tcd Jokes Upon His Return

,he snort and Supcrnn-
uuated Jokes Upon His Return
There Is a man who loves fishing i''S
in itself Is not the worst thing that o'''
he said against him. He has other iaui's'
ON hot summer nights, when soda-wa'ei
| fountains are Sizing and humming e'e'
tric cars are making life miserable loi
dwellers I'm cities, he puts on seer
sucker coat and drops in to see me-
khave known men TO do worse thihss' ~
nv friends faults do not stop mere ~ -
his custom on these fiery occasions 70 u"
of limpid lakes and crystal s're"i'iie'''
and TO paint with his brush-lKe 'o"s'o
,,e ereen-grav shadows which culver OH
st,l waters OF the tremor of rejected ie"i
let's in rural ice-ponds. And more sun ~
bis discredit Under the influence Vi
roorl-tintcd tobacco smoke he depicts the
sc,rtiiIations of playful trout that reap
from their liquid lairs or sketches the ui0
tatorial bass as he slugsishly snaps a'
the transfxed minnow, and tnen vicious
lv fights for liberty. All these tmiiss NY
friend does. and yet, despite MS uiSpl"s'
of weakness. his sins are those OF oiiiiS
sion rather than commission III ON,
words his fault lies (and so also MS
torpue, not so much in what he says
about fishing as in what he does not say,
As the lawyers would word II, MS Irauu
consists more in the Suppressed Neil
than in the "suggesio falsf -that -
more in the suppression OF the truth IMAM
in actually false statements.
one night. when a notified moon was
burrowing i'm piebald sky and the very
earth was exuding heat, this man PEI
suaded me to 80 a-fshing. II all happen
ed in a moment He had drawn his Woru-
picture tinted his landscape, ana thrown
In the mezZotints on the water, Nheh,
without a moments warning, he oiIereN
me the bait. In a moment l gulped. 1 TN
norary insanity can make a man 90 az
moet ANYTHING. For just one minute-lo
Gfty-nina seconds-I was enthusiastic
Ther l repented, but it was too late
Great cities have been built with 1aT
less labor and thought than are require
in the preparations for ishins eNpeui-
ZION ! was close to all the Confederate
oonoroIs during their arrangements for
the Inflated Pennsylvania campaign, put
those following NY acceptance OF the III
,ita+ion 70 go a-ishing There was Il
| lunch IN he prepared-the usual canheu
| ,oo,+ and bakers bread, OF course-and
the old clothes TO be gotten out, ana the
| box for the food 10 be found. ana the Sc
! lection Of warm hosiery, ana goodness
| I,nows what all. And then, OF course,
tbere was the hunt for the tackle ana
noles and the minnow bucket, ana a
vigorous discussion as 10 the selecu"h VI
halt. Nothing is more epicureah IMAM =
fish. You cannot induce them 10 DC c'us ~
unless YOU serve up the daintiest uu-plla
on the hook. and even then they arc VeIS
ouick TO become offended ana Will sNe
/ YOU the go-by on the slightest proFo0'
ton. .,.o5 .no
The cook was unusually excited the
dav we started out, and so were my Wiie
md the neiehbors. while the Chinese lauh-
drvman next door laid down his nat
IRON and waited until the buggy bearing
rho man who loves fishing and myseil
had disappeared. The day was very pedu-
tiful and very hot, and it was not untll
we got three miles from home thal clou"1
darkened the sky and thunder mutlereu
over the treetops Of distant loWlaIuS
pba niscatorial fanatic. who considered
ovorv svmptom Of nature as having an
Immediate bearing on the amapihty OF
the fish. predicted that this was just III,
kind Of weather that made bass Dlle'
regretted that we had not Droushi WIZ
ne a stout piece Of twfne, on Wilch u
oong tho DAYS catch My friend sug'
l-e,tod tbat q willow switch could be
nd ia serve our purpose. He was rlsh'
ohout il. -Four miles from the city we
found divergent roads, one OF when ,e.
10 the uond whittier we were going. u'
otber road did not lead 20 the pond. Ne
took the road that did not lead to th'
noud Finally we realized our mistake
and nersuaded the horse that we hd'
r,nept no harm by our blunder. The rlgh
road being a Virginia thoroughfare' wa
all that rocks. ruts, corduroy logs, ans
mudholes could make it, though we ulu
matelv reached our destination.
Before my eyes | saw placid pohu
iret as nv friend had painted it, only ~
,ra,,, onncared to be jumping out Of tn
water and there were no shadows oi
It's surface. as the weather had now aDou
decided to rain. Inquiry elected the rae
that the fishes in this sheet OF waite
would touch nothing but live minnoWs
,boueh no one knew just where thes
niunows could be obtained. FINALLY III
! piscatorial enthusiast procured net an
messed over the hills and dales j
soorcb nj q small streamlet where n
could capture the silvery wigglers. wa
eft behind in a pine grove, and In son
! tude communed with nature. a no
steam. saturated with odors from IN
cone-bearing forest, rose up around me
"a tho air was rife with mosquitoes
In fact. there were bugs Of oil KIND
! around me. do not think bucolc poet
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