Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1908-08-21
Burke's Gar den Fish Talk.
Burke's Garden. Va, Aug. l

Ye sportsmen, ye fishermen, each
and every one of whom thinks that
he, individually,is is 1.-The only pebble
on the beach" hearken to this fish
tale !Once upon a time-which time,
by the way, happened To be Monday
afternoon, August II, 1905 three
little men went fishing. These bows
were Masters Henry and Fink Crosse
close and Trbuie Meek, and they
caught not, as the story goes "A good
old whipping in reality, n beauti-
ful California trout, measuring 10
inches in length, s inches in circum-
ference, and weighing two and one
half pounds. And this is the way il
came about: The boys persuaded
their good friend, Daniel Jordon, To
help them make a drag net out of a
piece of coffee sacking and after prac-
ticing some time in an imaginary
creek in their Grandfather Crosse
closes yard, these three young fisher
men hied them off TO the sure enough
creek along the cliffs near Trubie
Meek's home. The first time the net
was cast they brought out Ia nice,
fat, little chubs. The next-oh, ioy
Three small boys struggled up the
bank with Mr.. California Trout. One
excited youngster said, HE nerly
splatched us TO defr' And all the
while Dan went quietly on with his
work, not suspecting that he had
helped TO rear a light house among
the rocks, along the shore of the
ocean of three boys lives, for there
will never come a time when they
will cease TO look back with pleasure
and emotion to this supreme moment
and remember the kind hearted color
ed man who aided them In this, one
of their first signal successes.
After having kept the gentlem an,
L mean the California trout, on ex-
hibition and ice until next morning
he was fried for breakfast and duly
devoured by three small but hungry
fishermen assisted by Trubie's Father
and Grand Father GrosecIose.
'Twould have been nice if Henry and
into that breakfast, too.
About II years ago Mr.. J. Kelly
GroSeclose, now of Blacksburg, then
living in Burke's Garden, brought a
lot of tiny California trout from the
fish hatchery, near Wytheville, and
put them into this creek, little
thinking that his sons would get
both pleasure and tangible results.
Have you ever seen>a California
trout2 If not then you can not even
imagine the symmetry and grace of
form or the delicate coloring and
rainbow tints set forth in the make
up of this lord of the stream.
This splendid fish was caught
right blythe very cliff where some
ten years ago Henry and Frank $
father and Trubie's mother killed a
beautiful antlered deer.
After this, wary old fish who wish
to escape with their lives, had better
watch out else they will be beheaded
without mercy after this trio of
brave young fishermen with their
broad nets have swept the mere -
Prof. Canady and wife, from
Salem, Va, spent Sunday night
and Monday here.
Revs. Carr and Miles are holding
a protracted meeting at Central
church.
Mrs. Graham Porterfield left Mon.
day for her home in Abingdon, Va.
Mr.. Joe Meek was marketing a
fine lot of lambs Tuesday.
Mr.. A. III. Howell, Naturalist,
from the department of Agriculture,
Washington, ID. c., was here last
week going into the caves catching
funny little bats with ears two
inches long and large enough to sliI
ones finger into and eyes the size o.
a pin point.
Mrs. James III. Groseclose and lit
tie sons, James and John, of Laredo
Teaxs, are visiting relatives IL
Pennsylvania while Rev. Mr. Grose
close is attending the meeting o
Epworth by the sea at Corpus
Christi, Texas.
Miss Garnet Lawson is gracing tn
home of her aunt, Mrs. l.. l.. Coope
+ in Wytheville, for a few weeks.