The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-21
SPORTS.
HE JUST BUI'1ED in.
Green Englishman Gets Into .
Crowd With Col. Wheaton,
Bert Powers, 1t. al.
Does Not Like the Colonel The
Fate Prepared for the
"Butter-In."

I, There ought to be drastic law enacted
against "butting in For instance. here
are the Hon. Sam Iverson, the Hon. G. w.
Somerby and the Hon. w. s. Dedon, but
ting into" my private bass preserve. and
considering the proposition Of some Duluth
fellow-whom may Eblis hand his deserts
in the ultimate-to lease the bottom there
OF for a mining proposition. And there
are bass there which saw the launching Of
the ark and have been gathering wisdom
since at such rate that Father Izaak,
Grover, or any other emeritus fisherman,
would be proud to do battle with them,
even If 1t ended in defeat, as it probably
would. "a
But If they do lease that lake bottom,
they had better keep out Of this country
afterwards, for I am certain that no jury
can be empaneled here which wouldn't
acquit me without leaving the box after
handed them the fit punishment to At the
crime. But sometimes the crime brings
Fits own punishment. In proof Of which
statement, I append a letter received by
a gentleman here who had been kind to
wandering Englishman who "butted in'
here recently, and got all that was coming
to him, as will appear. +
The subject OF King Edward, by the
way, was good fellow enough, but wasn't
up on sport little bit, for he had been in
business In a big provincial English town
from his youth up, and was here on bust
| ness. Which business brought him into
contact with the gentleman he writes to,
and also into hearing Of the usual fish
stories here current-wlich are commonly
warm enough to fire the blood Of more
phlegmatic people than even those Of Eng
land. Well, he determined to go fishing
and set about providing himself with
tackle. etc, without asking any mans ad-
vice, and-but his letter tells the rest.
Leaving out portions not germane to the
story, here it Is:
Il had been struck by the wonderful
cheapness of fishing outfits, as advertised
In your city papers, and seeing that a
drst-class split bamboo rod, reel, line and
all other needed tackle could be had in
the basement of one Of the great depart
ment stores, as you call them, for SLIPS,
sent for one, and was surprised at the
quantity Of tackle received. Then ]
happened to hear the host Of the inn ]
was stopping at, speaking to three other
gentlemen of going afshing, and, relying
| upon the camaraderie said to exist in
proposed myself member of the party.
THE landlord replied by hoping that
my nerve was in good condition, and sup
posing he referred to wild beasts or In
dams to be encountered in the wilderness
around the town, I replied that T did not
want to boast, but was certain that could
encounter danger readily as he or his
friends after which they consented to
me as a member Of the party and
after the usual American fashion, imme-
diately insisted on my going with them to
the taproom and having something
! I'VE started in the morning before day
light, the landlord taking myself and two
others Of the party in a very comfortable
light wagon, with boat cart carrying a
boat, affixed to it. The other gentleman
came with the savage they called indif-
ferently Roy, colonel, and also, after the
American fashion, by a variety Of pro-
fame explosives which I will not repeat.
They told me before starting that the
road was "a little rough and I am sure
4 that no country on earth can show q
rougher. I was never SO jolted and thrown
about In my life, and to make matters
worse, one wheel went down into a seem
ingly bottomless mud hole when we were
perhaps twenty miles. out Of town, and
was hopelessly broken. We got out and
invest igated, but repairing the wheel was
out of the question, and the: landlord
whom his friends addressed as Dan, said
there was nothing to do but to wait the
advent of s'Yank'-another nickname Of
the savage guide. u@
1T was nearly an hour before he came
along, and ordered us to git a move on,
an hist that wreck outen the road
which insolence was about to properly
rebuke, when the gentleman called Bert
II think his name was Mr.. Powers
| whispered me to pay no attention to the
colonel as he was bughouse. What did
he mean by 'bughouse'? We then meekly
obeyed the order, and the guide proceeded
! to attach the boat cart to the heavy
wagon he was driving, which had large
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! to sling all our truck into the boat, and
scramble in ourselves, and git a move on
dom it. The freedom Of speech allowed
the lower orders in America is; beyond
! belief till it is experienced personally.
1 However we made the best of oul
1 way, leaving the landlords wagon by
| the roadside, and his horses at log
house we soon reached, but such a tor
! ture as that, ride was I never expected
would fall to my lot. was assigned t.
the stern seat Of the boat we were riding
in and the wild man driving ran ovel
every stump and rock possible, Earring
and jolting me almost beyond human en-.
1 durance. II
/ When I attempted to expostulate will
the driver and urge greater care on his
1 part, he only yelled at me: Steer hel
i straight, old man! Steer her straight
You're In the stern seat. an sponsiblt
4 fer the way she runs!' And the gentle.
man they called Ed-Mr. Kren1er, as
rememb er-offered to lend me a compass
3 tho what he imagined could do with i
i I cannot imagine. Ali along the road the
mosquitoes were very thick, but as non,
of the others made complaint, I did not
. and late in the afternoon we reached a,
old camp of woodsmen, where we wer,
: to spend the night
TT was in good repair, and we ,sool
had our belongings arranged. and tn
other four went out for the evening fish
ing. AS for me / was too weary to d,
Z anything but rest, and getting under I
mosquito net which the guide erected
4 fell asleep, and didn't awake till h
} bawled support In voice fit to wake tn
dead. He had prepared very tempting
!, meal, which we ate by the dim light o
stable lanterns, after which we sat an,
smoked till Dan produced a pack OF cards
2 and the four started at a game OF wha
. they called freeze out
8 "They did not invite me to play, a
which felt rather sighted, for tho di
not know the game, might have learned
! but I think must have been in some wa
! connected with their game without know
: ing, it, as after they had played some tim
!. Dan threw down his cards and the other
J set up a yell Of laughter and the savag
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