Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-05

ooh! But you say that professionals
don't fish that way"
''Of course not, unless they can't kill
Ssh in any other way"
"But if it isn't the best way to fish
why does any one fish that way?"
Because gentlemen fish for sport
and not for spoil. 1t is more sport to
chum for fish and catch them with a
rod and reel"
''Then it is really not good form to
fish for bluefish unless you chum for
them?'
ooh, it is all right to catch one or SO
for meal, but it is not the thing to
do if one is out for sport"
''Well, we are out for SPORT aren't
we? At least think l am" she added
mischievously.
"Of course, but your mother wants
a fish, and this is the only way to get
one at present"
''But I do wish that we could chum,
Marvin" she said as if entirely uncon-
scious of double meaning. The poor
fellow gasped, for he saw the chance
to make the idea of cumming lead up
to a remark involving their cumming
together for life. But the very thought
of being SO daring put him in funk.
Leona looked at him innocently, then
with a satisfied smile at the struggle in
his mind that was making itself SO ev-
ident on his blushing face sank back
contentedly among the cushions.
Again the silence fell, and Marvin
kept his eye seward like an able sea-
man, though not like the host of so
pretty a guest. LeOna looked at him
from time to time and smiled mischie-
vously, for she knew that whenever she
liked she could torment him again, as
she had often done in the past. He had
made at least a dozen futile attempts
to propose to her and had been pre-
vented by his bashfulness. On each oc-
casion she could have helped him out
and enabled him to speak the mOmen-
tous words, but it was too much fun to
be free, and, though she had always in
tended accepting him in the end, she
could not help putting off the hour of
evidence of trying to escape. Of course
he had run away from her after every
attempt to propose, but he always came
back. He seemed to move around her
in much the same way as comet goes
around the sun. He would approach
with ever increasing velocity, just miss
embracing and then whirl off in the OPP
posite direction on an orbit Of wonder
full extent.
"After he has gone around the globe
on one of his runaway trips I'll take
pity on him and help him out" Leona
confessed to her mother And in spite
of her cruelty she cared for him as
much as he did for her and had no in
tention of losing him, but it is true she
would much prefer having him do all
the proposing himself.
Leona was quite comfortable among
her cushions, and it was no small pleas
ure to her to sit and watch the young
the sail and tiller. But she made up her
mind that she would not speak again
until he did. They were almost at the
fishing grounds before the silence was
broken, and then he remarked
I'm going to throw out line now.
Do you care to do the fishing?'
Anything to pass the time" she said
somewhat viciously, for she was tired
of the long silence.
He unrolled the line, tied one end Of
it to hook in the gunwale and drop
ped the squid overheard. She took the
line and let it troll through the water,
while her fingers felt the slight vibra-
ton that showed that the hook was
clear of weeds. But the fish were not