The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-04-15

UoS VutOo1o oo oneAA 11'
with specially fine specimens OF the
scaly beauties. The two days catch
was very bountiiul, and your sali7ary
glands would have overfown had you
been in such proximity to the frying
pan as would have awakened your
olfactory sense. The daily feasts
were grander and more relished than
those of princes, or millionairee, and
eaten with more zest and digested
with greater celebrity than in the
ordinary conditions and surr ound-
ings of life. Mr., Editor, We would
certainly have had several barrels OF
fish to bring home with us, it we
could have kept Dave Matthias from
everlastingly blowing about his
wonderful crops, of every description,
raised by him in The last few years,
by using Cromer's Magnum Bonum
Triple Ammoniated Boxalic Acid
Compound fertilizer. However, Just
before breaking camp, he jerked out
a jack so big that I omit mentioning
it's weight, for fear that due respect
for my oath of varacity may be sus-
pected. You may form some concep-
tion, however, of it's ponderosity when
informed that in his effort to pull
him out Dave got a "crick" in his
back, and that set him to thinking
of something else than crops and
fertilizers. He has preserved the
jacks jaws, with the intention Of hs7-
ing it articulated with copper wires,
a spiral bedspring inserted between
them in their front end, covering it
with the jacks skin after it is tanned,
and converting the invention into q
saddle tree, making the skirts out of
one of the trout skins he caught, and
the stirrup feathers out of eel skins
that he ensnared. He intends ap-
plying for patent, claiming that it
will ride easier than Juggling board,
and prove superior in every way to
either the Texan, Mexican, or army
saddle. Prices will be announced to
the public as soon as he revisits
Taylor's old pond and secures more
big jack jaws and trout and eel skins,
y7hen wholesale manufacturing will
begin at Matthias & Sons Triple VI
brating Saddle Factory. Send in
your orders at once before the crowd
gets ahead of you.
When Dave had exhausted his vo-
cabulary of adjsctives in praise of his
big jack and saddle invention, Press
Corley, who had, for quite awhile,
been quietly but suspiciously viewing
the wonderful fsh, exclaimed: "Boye,
that's no jack, it's an alligator" mo,
sir" said Lee Hook, ''its shark. !"
Wrong again" said Charles Thom-
son, sits a whale" My opinion is
that one of these coniectures is cor
rect, for Capt. Miller considered for
some little while the possibility of
converting it's back teeth into those of
circular saw; John Hite took COIL
pie home to use as bull tongue plow
moulds; Wade Roof captured one for
a riding spur; Will Buckley appro-
priated several of the front ones for
| presentation to his sweetheart for hat
pins, and Scott Hook got the boys to
help him lift the largest one into the
wagon, saying that he intended hol-
lowing it out and turning it into
either a beehive, or rural free de-
livery mail box.
In addition to the fishing sport,
the boys bad an exciting fox chase,
lasting over an hour before the brush
was captured, and three hours run
| after a catamount before he was
brought down. The latter was
skinned and the skin is being prop
erly prepared by the undersigned,
but the carcass war awarded to Dave,
a. the most popular entertainer in