Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-14
New York Globe.

developed angle worms. During the
winter only an occasional drink OF cola
water was necessary for their suste~
nance and comfort. but along in tho
following March a few cups of sweet
milk was occasionally poured in. They
took it as naturally as weaned pig
and the result was some mighty fine,
lively worms, light in color and tough
as rubber. And in those days there
we're no vexatious laws, no 25th OF
March or first of April. when the
crowd all were on the trout brooks at
daylight when the law was out" We
went a-fishing when we pleased.
Didn't wait for the snowbanks to be
ali melted. Sometimes there was Ice
on the still pool below the rapids.
What did we care? We had big car,
of worms along, and the brook trout
don't wait for Easter
And one remembers the good women
of those days, who would get up at 4
o'clock in the morning and prepare q
nice. warm breakfast for the outgoing
fisherman. And there was 15-year-
old boy who found it no hardship to
get UP at half past and feed tho
horse and get his harness on before
breakfast" And after putting in the
buggy a market basket full of lunch
fperhaps we'd need supper as well az
linner), what was the ride of eight
niles over a rough, hummocky. frozen
roado Didn't we get to the brook by
lavlighte And then this is where the
l5-year- old boy came in. 1t was tough
to have '.the old man. get out and rlg
40 his fishing tackle while the boy haf!
10 drive mile farther down the road
where the brook crossed again. And
Dobhin had to hurry that last mile.
Then he was hitched to pair OF
bars" breakfasted and left for the old
man. to pick up and drive to the next
crossing. where the came operation
was repeated by the boy. And now
the kid" was at liberty to go a-fishins.
carefully picking out white or black
birch. he cut it with previously we'll
l.sharpened knife, and he had fish
role twelve to fifteen feet long that
soon had line and hook attached and
on went two or three big fat angle
logs" Forgotten We're the old man,
nobbin, home. weather and everything
on EARTH File threw the baited hook
carefully into the brook just above the
bend in the stream few feet away
and it slowly tioated down the river, .
sometimes on top and sometimes un~
der the water. And then
Here the writer lacks words. Moth
ing but a fash of lightning will COM
pare with the disappearance of that
bunch of worms. Less time than it
takes to tell it, and something" had
| grabbed that bait, the line cut the wat
er and under the bank, almost under
the Youngsters feet, was the end OF the
timber birch pole. 1t was time for ac-
ton not theory, and the boy pulled Up
into the air went something, and twen-
ty feet behind the young fisherman lay
an eight ounce speckled brook trout.
1t didn't take long to transfer that
handsome fish to his coat pocket Less
time was used in batting up" Now
there's talent in putting worm on
Il hook The boy did not run the hook
thru the worm langthwise, just hooked
| it here and there, so when 1t foated
again this time on the rapids it looked
like a loose worm. What made 1T stop?
Caught on a rock? The boy lifts f1is
line easily and there was "solnelthlng
doing" again. The trout went twenty
feet down the rapids in two seconds,