The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-23

mits. but sitting i'm a boat and waiting
hours for trout or a bass to bite Is sim
ply not INIT" he says"
Tom has had much success on his frog
catching expeditions lately. and he is fully
convinced that no man in Indianapolis can
come home after a night on a good pond or
river or creek with as many fine frog legs
he car.
Frog-catching is a sport Of many parts
and Is difficult to become expert in, but
Tom says he has got to the bottom of the
thing.
"All you do is to get good, strong light,
throw it in Mr.. Bull Frogs face and he is
yours"
That's the way you do It, Tom says;
And Tom has discovered the original Indi-
ana frog preserve, too, he claims. 1t Is not
far from Indianapolis and is very accessi-
ble but he will not allow 1t to become gen.
orally known outside the circle OF his init
mate friends where all this frog meat can
be got.
81 was up the other night and could have
caught 500 of the biggest, finest frogs you
ever saw if / had only had a good light.
But with the poor light / had got ninety
eight. When you throw strong light into
a frogs eyes he instantly becomes mesmer-
lied or stunned, for he does not move, and
all you have to do is to walk or row up to
him and pick him up
Cassius Hadley, deputy attorney general
of Indiana, says it will be too hot to fish in
Indiana when his vacation time comes
round, and he is going up to Lake Wal
loon. in Michigan. There are fine bass and
trout i'm Lake walloon, he says, and he al
ways finds lot of good sport there.
Last year | caught several four-pound
bass there besides a lot of fine small fish,"
why don't you tell about the fourteen
pound dogfish?" asked Baron Rothschild,
the assistant attorney general.
az caught so many bass forgot all about
the dogfsh," replied Mr.. Hadley.
xxx
Three exceedingly handsome young girls
were travelling unchaperoned from their
school to spend the long vacation at home.
AS may be imagined, they were in the gay
est spirits possible at their release from the
bondage of school life into the fresh and
beautiful June world 1t CHANGED that their
train halted at a wayside station, where
the passengers alighted for luncheon at a
country hotel There the three pretty girls
encountered three collegians, likewise out
for a good time. The six young people
were seated at the same table and the three
boys strove by every means in their power
to induce their fellow-travelers to take
notice." However, the little maidens had
been we'll brought up and knew that to fiirt
with unknown and attractive young men In
public dining rooms was reprehensible to a
degree, so they treated their would-be en-
tertainers with cool indifference, paying no
attention to their most side-splltting re,
marks, except for irrepressible dimples and
giggles discreetly ended in coughs or
smothered in handkerchiefs. At last des-
sert was in order, and when the waitress
demanded, after the fashion of country
hotel Mattresses everywhere. Are you
ready for pie?' one young man said. 'Ill
take some pumpkin dough" "Why, we
haven't any such thing said the waitress.
Then what do you have it on your menu
for?" holding up his menu card, wherein
was printed:
Apple Pie.
Pumpkin Do.
This was too much, even for the dignity
of the ''three little maids from school," and
the meal ended in general peal of laugh
ter.