Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-23
ORIGIN OF SOME FISH YARNS.
photographer Tells How He Struck ,

PHOTOGRAPHER Tells How He Struck
Gold Mine IN the Maine Woods,
Boston Post--"During a vacation
in the Maine woods | discovered
gold mine, so to speak, that gave me
my start in business, said photo,
grapher whose name is now ON scores
of pictures of stars In the theatrical
armament
AN uncle Of mine had 4 farm In
the Rangely lake district, had Just
begun 70 set interested In amateur
work with camera, so took one
along with me, One day while | was
fishing by the lake. with my camera
and luncheon basket with me, two
men in dugout came along,
" Say, buh, said one OF the men.
can YOU take pichwcsG'
Sure thing replied
" is that your string OF fish, asked
the other man,
Right again, | said
"ln less than three minutes the
deal was fixed up. Those two boston
sports who had been fishing all day
without getting more than a bite,
posed Ia tholr dugout, In all their
fancy fishing togs, My string Of fish
was hanging over the side One of
them had his pole over the side OF the
duguut MS though waiting for q bite.
The other was IN tho act OF hauling In
n tlsh--one that had caught an hour
before,
II took three poses OF them doing
the heavy sport act, and. later
on, one showing them sit.
ting ON bank. after hard mornings
work, enjoying my iuncheon, Five
dollars was my hrihe for the string
of fish and for holding my tongue,
and five more was promised when
delivered the proofs next morning
THE dead game sports were de,
lighted, They ordered dozen OF
each negative. and mailed them to
their friends In the clty--'mst a snap.
shot. you know, taken by our gtrlde.'
More than that, they took me fishing
with them for two days and sent
presents OF Ash back TO town TO back
WI the NH0IuBFHNHb,
II made good thing and got an
idea | Established the reputation OF
dozen city sports that summer. My
old uncle was delighted. All the Gun.
ming OF native New Highlander In
doing some greenhorn up came TO the
surface.
"'You wait till fall he said to me.
and so north few miles when the
fellers come shooting for deer and
moose. I'll go with ye. We can
make quite penny, I'm thinking
THE old man took me to place
stopped for a day or two on their way
back to Bangor, On the oustslSirts OF
the town he put up little log shanty
and made II look for all the world like
a hunters cabin In the heart Of the
wilderness. There was no difficulty
bear, which we stuffed
"rhe first victim came along as
soon as we were ready for business
| He had been oUt three weeks and
never got n smoll OF deer But we
threw one or ours across tho back or
his pony and he went back to the
city with photograph of himself
plodding along on one side Of IL, and
his guide on the other, returning
weary. but triumphant, from days
chase, We sold him fine pair of ant.
lers to hang In his dIningroom. He
was only too pleased to give us $40
for the job,
my uncle figured In about thirty
sporting pictures that fall. He was
guide, cook or anything else required
Once he made up as an Indian to
please young chap who wanted to
tell about visit TO the oJfbways.
The graft worked so well that went
back the next summer and did the
same thing. One of the men helped
to make a valiant sportsman through
camera evidence gave me my start in
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