The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-28
From the chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 The first day there was sunshine but they reached the lake too late to fish
 The next day it rained-and they fished.
 The next day 1t rained and hailed, and they ished.
 The next day 1t rained and hailed, and showed, and they fished; and the next day it hailed. and sleeted, and showed, and rained, and they fshed; and the next day it showed. and hailed, and sleeted, and big wind came up and turned the lake upside down, and they flshed.
 And for seventeen days 1t hailed showed, sleeted rained and behaved out rageously but they fished. The day they left the sun came out again to observe what progress they had made. And the first thing he saw was a twenty-eight pound muskellunge If he had been wise lumnary he would have come out the day before to have seen the catching of the big muskellunge, but he didn't, and that was his funeral
 The Man Who Tells the Story and The Other Man had been tied down at their desks all during the summer. During the not udYB, when granite pbNS4ASHto A07 minded The Man and The Other Man of the hot stones the Fijis use for the fire walk, they had sat and wished they were up in Wisconsin, or any place where there were lakes, and muskellunge, and mosquitoes, and no brick pavements, and brick walls, and roll top desks.
 When 1t had been tolerably hot they had sat and had talked fishing and fish ing tackle, and they had driven each oth- CT to desperation, and had been obliged to spend the rest of the hot night driving around the boulevards in cab to cool off.
 Well. anyway The Other Man had said the fishing wouldn't be good now.
 Don't you think 1t, The Man had said "Fishings good any time. Then they had felt worse about 1t. They were supported by the hope that when October did come and bring them their rest they might fall in with some perfect autumn days.
 And they don't make any better days than just that kind" said The Other Man.
 Then finally they had escaped They had reached the lake. They had their one hour of sunshine. and then the dozen different varieties of other weather came down on them.
 we went to Lake Manitowish," said The Man Who Tells the Story The day we got tAere the sun was out. That was his last appearance. For the rest Of the seventeen days it did everything that respectable weather should not do on a mans vacation. But it didn't matter. The musltellunge didn't mind it. And we didn't care half so much about weather as we did about them.
 Some days 1t contented Itself with do- 1 ing one thing. Some days 1t did a dozen different things, and most of them at once. It would snow, hall and rain all at the same time, and the wind would try to push the lake over us.
 "On this particular day we had been out in the dozen different varieties until we were nearly frozen. At last l said to The Other Man that we would have to get ashore and get warmed up. There was log cabin off at one side of the lake. and we turned the boat for that. The Other Man was rowing. l had not had a strike all day.
 T had noticed that something was queer about the line. It was the feeling you have when there is a knot in the line way out. Just the feeling that there is something wrong with the line. You can tell that way. l started to reel in and took in about foot. Then there was a hitch.
 "The line was covered with ice and so was the agate tip and the agate guides. and the line had frozen on the tip. Then is when we put for the shore to get thawed out and warmed up.
 We were about thirty-six feet from the shore when I got strike. From the feel of 1t I thought it was about six pound snake and I told The Other Man, dwell- ing picturesquely on the perversty of a snake that chose such moment to grab the spoon
 ".Shake him off,' he said, and tried to. I gave the snake slack and he went to the bottom and sulked By that time he was feeling like a fifteen pounder I pulled off my mittens with my teeth mittens are the only things you can keep warm in-and dropped them in the bottom of the boat.
 .when I got the strike there was about thirty feet of line out. All of sudden the beast left the bottom and started.