The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-07-29

and I hauled him In, says; Whynt you hand
c Sss T shs boa, like says q small S1Y' KID 0I n S a hurry Ssi 70
learn how TO dive says: Say. you made 9
s.done no worse. he looked at me and The
green paint of n his stockings run down and
stained the boat. l couldn't git a word out'n
Tie was game. though. Next day we tried
It agin and the musky wouldn't rise. Guess
he had the hook In his mouth yet and might
fiji" ias my felsr left the iotysraf oatn!' At
come back the next summer and did the same
thing. ! arsked him what he was gittinx out'n
I, and he said he was Citing lots Of stories.
This time he didn't have no rod and no reel
and line. .He was wearing a blue flannel shirt.
waterproof shoes, a sun-hat and canvas trous-
room, unlocked his trunk. and showed me q
hundred feet Of steel chain pretty nearly as
big as a OK chain. liz had q hook made from .
six inches long, It was. two inches wide on the
curve and the bsrb Of II was pretty near az
long as the frs, Joint, q my thumb He says:
h SSs BET IL a ssys: y viii Rf's ss S'0Y You jas I1Sfr :
your Uncle Sammy. boy
st. Croly to the bend. He picks out a sapling
on the bank that was twenty-five feet high
and Ss says to me to trim The limbs sn,n il clear
as high as you kin and bend it dswn to the
ground for me That was easy. and I swung
down with the TOP Of the tree, II was a hick-
While held the tree he fastened one end Of
the chain to 1t and then We let i fly back straight.
That left ssyenty-nye, feet Of chain. or maybe
where the musky kept. house wasn't more'n
fifty feet away. He baited the big hook with
a bull frog that must q, been a foot and a half
1-- -~ 900 10 IA I~S siD a.l 10 49,
a-weighed two pound ten ounces. ur maybe
eleven. My. Teller jumped inter a piroGg we'd
brought and padded out to the right spot,
hustled for shore. be haaa a Bic red and green "
float a foot across the tor. hitched TO the chain
six feet above the frog. We air down on tho
but In half an hour we saw that hoat 60 under
the water In q hash. Then begin the durndest
circus you ever see;
pool was there and a nsh come up two yard
above the top Of II and went back with a ker-
fummuI tibet sent little waves over the lily
YRs ca d s.5 { h s"ndI !s% ' s.shl m e ssIn a fhc Ssni
The water, was ,churned into foam. the broken
s Ssss f &. Int. sSn the m.S r. a LIKE Sll Ri,sS' d,s sl tSsE s "Ss'n
that Ssh ssped, but maybe It was a hundred
was out'n the water a good deal more'n he was
".Flst he'd go down head foremost and then
e., s 11ssp 81 his t sIds an. nd I It s Sounded de- r Ike a x sin
had gone of, And whenever he was up his
head was shaking to and fro and his bulldog
ts. :v was :, . . sTs41 m and h. Rsb Ilsls u sy re- ,yism like
sapling. benz halt. way, to the ground and sprung
back when II got a chance and 7 was plain TO
p gs'd IN B., . LITTLE while that haiti / the the chain hss and .o S1l
some tme IN ruther. In nf6een minutes his
lears. was rust as many and AZ fast, but they
S "a, g b high -, Then Tier, he =, g sss :. that he Tss could Ia
begin 10 swim around in lltye circles, The
S l,Is. work; Then AZ :. ,t2}SSpsa s ~ I ara Ave sI min;
Of his belly showing in the rolled stream.
we went out and towsd him to shore and
went to the hotel and GOT 4 wagon and hauled
q SlaIn worry. ! kuess it was shame as killed
hun, We put him on the scales down at the
hotel barr. where they weighed the hay for the
pounds Il thirteen ounces before he was dressed
rom his front teeth to his teii.fork and he was
ffTSee t tel t M shs si tSe% Of PET Pa ,a Hn :. ssos sdi an fnGh
and q half high. When my ,fsler wasn't look
ing I prisi 2 scale or'n his side and 1t vas
f SsS w sas % Old that he had moss q ha,l,,iinScsSS
high on his back and he didn't hsvs but one
eye. The other had been soused opt guess BY
some hook ur rnther. ! skinned him rsht
IlNl u Ii Entti N"T n VI 81 Ah'A
thick. Ny Teller took the hide home With him
to have IL stuffed and he give me. the chain
and the big hook which, weren't OF no use to
me, sence the only Ash they was good for was
dead. All my feler said TO me when be paid
me oY was: i alters was a fool and I left my
camera at home this trip. l could a-sold them
picters fur SEQ"
The man in the stern 81 the boat that drowsed
among the liliesIround-cupped and golden
looked hard at Fergy for a minute or two and
then said:
Didn't your Teller as you call him. give
you the red and green float alsQ2"
NO" said Fergy, he took II home with him
Said he wanted IL as a psmenter."
Well, when you are through with That WED
less hook you're holding TO, let me have II and
ri try 70 catch n muskallon9e for your supper
Just a trifer Of say thirty or forty pounds. ~
"Yass," said Ferey releasipg the hook and
putting his slopin9 knotted shoulders into the
oars as the boat shot ont upon the lake, they
don't grow down here like what they do up on
the st. Goix."