The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-06
"AGOIN ER-FISHING!"

and tomorrow hours are too precious
to be wasted in digging bait. Then
YOU tell me OF a rotten stump IN Dea-
con Bassett's orchard that's chock full
eF grubs-sockin' big fellers. and we
get a lantern from the barn-its quite
dark now-and go cross lots 20 the
deacon's orchard.
We're tired enough when we get
home-you'r going TO sleep with me
and We go to bed early and TO sleep
quickly. for w. must be Up long before
the sun. 1t seems as if we had only
got TO sleep when there's a knock at
the door and mothers voice calling:
Come, boys. it's most o'clock
1--WE jump out of bed and into our
clothes, but we don't wash up much,
for what's the US amt nobody goin'
ter see US; and we tiptoe doWnstaifs-
father amt up veto find that moth
er is ahead of US. ham and eggs SUI
ficient for four, which we somehow
condense and pack into two.
while we arr performing this ap-
parently impossible gastronomic feat,
mother puts us up bountifui noon
time snack and we find ourselves on
our way, When we reach Myrick' s
pasture we separate, you going IL
Jones' woods, Will / go 10 the woodS
beyond Browns HolIer.' you having
elected to fish one branch and | the
other of Silver brook. The first at the
junction waits for the other fellow and
when we get tog Their we'll eat lunch.
Soon / am in action. You and /
having reached the age Of IA, We no
longer reckon horned poat and perch
.or even pickerel as worthy or our ef-
forts; we'rz after trout.
so, regardless of the fact that l
shall undoubtedly be wet up to the
waist in fifteen minutes. ] carefully roll
up my trousers, cut and trim a forked
switch on which TO string my fish, and
am ready for business. You always
insisted it was bad luck to cut switch
before you had caught Il flsh. but /
never would allow that 1t made any
difference.
II guess I'll try a grub first off.
They're so white that even the most
sleepy-eyed trout must s3e them. So
the grub is artistically draped upon the
hook and 1 step cautiously into the Icy
water, which sets my blood a-tlngling,
select a promising rifle and drop the
cleaning bait. Away IL goes. and
finaIly, as l intend d it should, dis
appear around q big boulder, piunSing
into the pool beyond. For moment
| leave it there, and then, as nothing
happens, / sweep it to one side and
quietly draw it back. Again l drop IT.,
guiding it, this time so that it dis
app ars around the other end or the
boulder.
"As it disappears there comes the
electric thrill With a quick movement
I set the hook and, feeling him still
there. l sock it to him. In other
words, carefully avoiding the switch
ing of overhanging foliage and with
out disturbing a single pebble under
my feet (there may be other trout IN
that hole) l land him high and dry on
the bank-a beauty weighing almost d
pound.
II had eighteen and you had twenty
speckled beauties. l vowed that three
of yours We're under size and we quar-
relied all through lunch.
Later we 6shed down the brook side
by side-it was a gOod-sized stream
below the junction-and at evening we
reached home happy. hungry and tired,
and mother gave us ripping good
supper and fathsr took good deal or
notice of US and said to let him know
the next time we thought OF going
fishing. ,.o,,
Not very exciting yarn, IS II!
said the country-bred man, as he
pushed back his chair.
No replied his friend, its not so
very exciting, but I almost wish had
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