The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1905-11-23
OFF MILTON
POINT.
(By Ruby Douglass. J

stones to the big fishing rocks off
Milton Point. Her russell oxfords
were wet, her hair was blown about
in an untidy, if bewitching fashion
and on either cheek the delicate blue
rose had bloomed into veritable
american beauty in it's coloring.
| Perhaps for the first time she re-.
allied what a comfort masculine arm
is when one goes fishing and climb
| ing over slippery rocks, Her arm was
! tired from carrying her rod and bait
and cushion-Dorothy could not go
| fishing without a cushion.
She had walked all the way from
the Oxford because certain young
man with whom she did not care to-
have any more to do had gone 10 the
beach and she could not get boat
without coming in contact with his,
distasteful presence
The fat rock was deserted, and
Dorothy heaved a little sigh OF re-
lief She hoped the usual anglers
would not come because-well, be-
cause one really should be alone
when one nSh0u.
Little wrinkles of perpleXity lodged
in and out on her brow and played
hide and seek beneath the beruffled
sunbonnet when she began to get her
rod and line ready for fishing. Such
a tangle as it was in. She almost
cried with vexation at the rod, OF
course.
One by one she undid the tangles
and did not notice the boat coming
over the sound toward the rocks.
big-hatted gray whiskered person
with a pipe and several rods was pre-
pairing to Aensconce himself on the
rocks
Il never thought he would do such
a thing Dorothy was commenting,
mentally. sAnd then for him to think
| would accept an apology. 1t was an
objectionable offence-to let girl
go home with a whole crowd and at
their mercy Who ever heard OF
mans being held by force when he
had a girl to take home?
At last she had Strengthened out her
line and, gingerly, she drew the bait
pail toward her She looked in among
the crawling fiddlers and shuddered.
How could she ever pick UP one and
stick hook through it?
She tried to summon up courage,
and finally put her hand into the pail
! "Ol o." she cried, jumping up and
dropping her rod into the water. One
of the fiddlers had nipped her finger
and was stubbornly hanging on.
At her screams the other occupant
of the rock turned from his poles
and looked at her
Please. she said tiInidly, seeing
that the old man did not offer to as
sist her, won't you take this awful
thing OFF,
With some difficulty she recovered
her pole and baited it, and was soon
sitting placidly on the rocks, fishing
and thinking
''If only it had rained, she was say
ing to herself, ''he might have come
back, but the horrid crowd would not
wait for him.
/ A nibble called her back to her oc-
! cupation She pulled in her line but
found nothing but portion of the
fiddler on the hook.
Suddenly there was strong tug at
her line and Dorothy gave such
i jerk that the long, slippery, squirming
something on the end landed square
ly on the head of the fisherman and
sent his broad straw hat flying.
80, what have | done?" cried Doro-
thy.
And then she gasped. A sleek head
of brown hair. What a surprise to
see> that hair with the gray whiskers.
The man took the eel-for it was an
i eel Dorothy had caught-and threw
it back into the water.
/ "Tom Stanford Dorothy whisper
ed almost inaudibly.
Dorothy" he replied, smiling.
/ Neither of them paid the least at
tention to the hat and the rods which
were floating about in the waters OF
the sound.
How could you do such a mean,
mean thing?" she asked pushing her
hair back beneath her. bonnet and
trying, generally, to recover herself.
Tom did not know which of the
things she referred to--the escapade
of the night before, or the prank he
had just played on her
Because of you," he ventured, an
swering the latter idea
.But-but I wasn't going to have
anything more to do with you after
last night she said, slowly, tying and
/ untying her bonnet strings
''It was absolutely unavoidable, Dor
i othy That gang of fellows held me
forcibly upstairs, and | could not get
away to join you. Do you think that
/ / would purposely leave you to go
home without me when I had escort
| ed you there?"
/ mo" she admitted reluctantly
.'And you will accept my apology
and admit that played clever game
to see you alone and force you to lis
| fen To me?" he asked going nearer