Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06

cellent cooking of the coloners eastern
shore cook. old Aunt Mandy, is responsible
for his added girth, and one need not look
further than the colonels stock of "acces-
sories'' to account for the deeper shade of
carmine in that familiar nose.
We'll, well, WELL he said, as he shook
both my hands at once, with that bluff
cordially which We all used to recognize in
former days as preliminary to the raising
of slight loan. "Damme, but | am main
glad to see you. BOY"
Shadrachs appearance with the 'acces-
sories' at that moment attracted our atten-
ton. He bore tray upon which was a
cut-glasS bowl containing what L knew to
be the colonel's famous old apple toddy- In
pan were dozen baked apples, steaming
hot, apparently just out of the oven. The
colonel makes his toddy cold, puts it aside
for day and serves it with red-hot ap-
pie.
Shadrach placed the accessories on a
small table near the glowing CRATE, We drew
our chairs about and drank the first one in
that reverent silence which is the BETTING
tribute to such noble brew. After a
pause, deep. indrawn breath from the
colonel and the judge, followed by a sigh
of satisfaction. told that the benefcent
brew was working its genial will.
We'll, colonel, did you get any good bass
fishing last summer" l asked, knowing
that l touched upon responsive chord.
''Oh, yes, the jedge and l spent several
weeks around Goshen, on the Calf Pasture
river, which, while 1t isn't much of a
stream for name. is chock full of what Old
Man Granville calls the 'Fightin est bass
he ever see Old Granville has fished that
stream and the Cow Pasture river, the
other side of the mountain, for thirty
years.
He knows the location of wonderful
holes where one-pounders TEEN and four
Founders, occur frequently. Many of these
holes are near neighbor to sparkling, cool
springs where bottles can be kept at just
the right temperature. There are stretches
n tor ~i,,ry 81 ,x-l,-
hung by towering cliffs whose afternoon
shadows lull you, to DOING while the bait
floats down 100 feet until a big bass
strikes it. Then there are rapids with
slowly circling eddies in the lee of big rocks
where one can get a fine cast of a fly. Or
If you prefer, wading water where you
go waist deep into the indigo tinted fluid
and drop your fly minnow close to the
shore and snatch out two-pounder every
onst and awhile as Granville says
The first day l went fishing with old
Granville" continued the colonel. THE
ledge was little indisposed and stayed
back. Just before We left the hotel how
ever, guest. who was a stranger to me-
requested to be permitted to join US. AL
though his appearance did not promise
much as sportsman and still less as de.
sirable fishing companion. for he had
very prim manner. his request was couched
SO courteously that 1 could not refuse 50
along he came
We'll sir we fshed FOR more than an
hour and did not get strike l knew what
the trouble was. all the time, but / did not
like to say anything. being very careful
when with strangers not to wound their
scnsibilities. Finally, the stranger who
seemed to be getting a little restless, said,
kind of cautious like, Does being so close
to the water ever affect your rheumatism
sir?'
Most decidedly, sir L said, with en-
phasis.
1t is the same with me- said the stran-
ger.
Permit me-" said. to offer your some of
the preventive which l have brought along
and produced a quart of old bourbon
Allow me. sir. to offer you some of
mine, he said. and he flashed up a quart
bottle from his creeI. We looked at each
other and laughed. Why said the stran-
ger. would have had this out long ago.
hut l thought you were a Methodist bish-
op.'
a Baptist circuit rider
well. took wee nipple and We
hadn't set the glass down before We both
had strikes. and before lunch caught
eighteen bass, one of them weighing three
pounds eight ounces. 1t Is my firm belief
that misunderstanding had not been cleared
up
No danger of me being mistaken for
either Baptist circuit rider or a Methodist
bishop" put IN the judge, demurely. as he
reached the pan of hot apples on the CRATE
fender.
But must tell you about the case in
up there" said the colonel. Some of the
guests. who had stopped over on their way
east, had been fishing on Sunday and
were caught by the constable. They were
arraigned before old Squire Beasely, who
keeps Justices court over in Bull-Head