The Washington herald., 1907-05-26

of the fishes mouth and he says he
reckons he must Of throwd that perch
quarter OF a mile and the hook instead
Of doing what Il ought 10 DO, few right
at Hank and sunk itself into his thumb
clean over the barb so that the only way
he could get Il out was by cutting his
thumb with his old barlow knife. Hank
saws he ought OF knowed enough TO OF
went right home then. but like a bull
headed OK he tied his thumb up in his
-ed handkerchief and baited up his hook
again and kept on fishin.
After he mad set there for = hour with
out getting another bite and had almost
went TO sleep IN the warm sun some
thing took holt of his hook and started
with II pullln Ike a colt This woke
Hank right up and he tried to pull the
thing out OF the water. but he couldn't
pull II only half out being as II was
pickerel that must OF weighed six pounds.
When Hank seen the size Of the fish he
got excited and stood up I'm the boat and
lost his balance and fell over backwards
plump into the lake turning the boat
over until It filed with water clean up
20 the ginwsles. Hank was so dabber-
gasted and surprised that he almost let
60 Of his rod but not quite. When he
come up from under the water ChoSin
and coughln he was night beside the boat
and he grabbed Il with one hand still
holding his pole with totber. The boat
kept Hank hoatin but whenever he tried
70 climb into II Il would begin TO sink
clean from under him.
II was "A awful perdickament for poor
Hank The piCherel was still on the hook
because he could feel Il pullin. and pres
entity Il begin 10 cut didos n the
water and took several turns around
Hanks legs until he was all snarled up
IN the line and then Il broke away and
excaped. To tanks great couster-
nasnion he saw that the oars had floated
or. also his lunch. which was done up
IN a pasteDOzrd box. There he was
hengin on to the boat away out hun
dred yds OF more from shore. Then he
hollered as loud as he could holer for
help. thinking Ben or Missis Wade would
hear him. but nobody come to his relief
and he calIilates he must Of hung on TO
that boat and foated around for hour
He would Of let the boat 90 70 thunder
and swur- ashore. but Hank can't swim
a stroke and never could. He calkilates
Il must Of been about T. m that e
little breeze sprung up on the lake wiiCh
drifted Hank and the boat towards
shore, but Il was slow work. and he
calkilstes It must Of took hour before
he felt his feet touch bottom and walked
ashore. pulling the boat out after him.
Then Hank made straight for Ben's
house. which was nearby. drippin wet, 10
inquire why the thunderashion somebody
didn't come 10 his rescue when he hol-
Tered Help so and TO ask casual il
the Wades was the kind Of people who
would let a person drownd before their
very eyes. When Hank reached the
house he found II all locked up Then
he remembered that Ben said that him
and his wife was a going to drive to
Hardscrabble 10 take some butter & eggs
10 market.
Hank was most starved. but there was
nothing to eat there. so ne starts to walk
the FIVE miles to Bingville, soaking wet.
and arrived here about p m After
Hank had et a hearty meal he went
right upstairs and to bed. being as he
said If he remained up AMI around he
was afeard something else would ha9-
pen TO him. He hadn't scarcely got into
bed until about a 50. yd OF plastering
from the ceiling fell with q crash right
on top Of him. filing his eyes full Of dust
and making him most sneeze his heal
of. Then he got up and dressed again
and went out Of the house and set on the
front fence I'll bedtime. being as he
thought Il was safer there At o'clok
he went TO bed again, out ne says he
was restless all night and didn't sleep
much, being as he was afeard his streak
Of bad luck wasn't over yet However.
nothing else happened to him.