The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-28
A FISH STORY.
The Man From Bean Lake Can Join
BrYon Clients Glass


Frank Sanderson and Alonzo Stone
have just returned from a fishing trip
TO Bean Lake. They report a good time
and plenty of fish, but they do not say
where the fish were plenty, whether in
the lake or in their baskets. A man
from the vicinity of Bean Lake was in
town today and tells the following story
on Sanderson and Stone.
Those two fellows said the man,
referring to SandersOn and Stone. came
TO Bean Lake and Sandy. told the mat
ron at the club house there that he
was at the head of the boiler depart
ment Of the shops here, and that Stone
was his first assistant The matrOn be-
leved all that and gave them the best
that the house afforded They borrow
ed a boat and padded out into the lake
and after several minutes o< hard
work. they had baited and put into the
water long string containing about
$50 hooks Hardly had the hooks been
let down into the water when immedi-
ately all around the boat there arose
an immense cOmmOtiOn. and a thous-
and fish. more or less, bobbed up out of
the water.
Gosh said Sandy. will you look at
Look at them said Lon, do you
think that I am blind We ought to
have brought a refrigerator car with
Us What viii we do with all that we
&c 7 don't know said Sandy, it almost
makes me tired TO think Of having to
carry so many home
Let's have a smoke suggested
Lon, and then We will look at the
hooks So the pipes were filed and
lighted and soon both were smoking
away, and at the same time watching
the continued moving back and forth
OF the long stick which they had tied
the end of their line to- Now and then
the pole would bend down and almost
touch the water and then back again.
MY gracious, did you see that pole
bendg said Lon. after a few minutes
silence III bet that it was a whale
Say. Sandy. lets look at the hooks
sandy agreed and soon they were
rowing along the line to which the
hooks were tied and pulling up first
one hook and then another and not one
OF the entire $50 had been even nib
bled.
%" I guess we were a little bit too
quick said Lon. Let's row off and eat
a little and come back in about half an
hour This was satisfactory and after
half an hour they came back, and look
ed at all the hooks again.
Not hook had been touched. and
even the bait was all there. Sandy
said Lon, ! believe that we have been
hoodoOed- What do you say to waiting
half an hour more and then looking at
the hooks again and if there are no fish
on them. then let's pull up and go
Another half hour passed. and thev
again looked at the hooks with the
same result. NO fish, nothing disturbed
but the water all around the boat
Lon, said Sandy. I am going home
SO am L said Lon. And then they
took in their hooks and began to row to
the shore They had eroved about half
way across when just in front of them
there appeared an extra large fish and
on its sides was painted the following:
sandy and Lon. We knew that YOU
were coming. Don't get gay with the
fishes
I knew it. said Sandy, and would
you look behind us and turning tbaI-
saw more than a thousand fish follow
ang the boat, swimming with their tails
out OF the water instead of their heads
In this way the boat was escorted to
the shore