The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13

hotel put it, the jays bite freely and tho woods are full of fish, which is very diff ferent when you come to figure it out. Summer has come and I know that I'm due. Every summer I very carefully make up my mind that this is the sum mer when positively will not go fish ing, after which very carefully up and go. I can't seem to help 1t. All of a sudden, some morning, I am seized with the desire to snatch some inoffensive fluke or law-abiding moss bunker out of his native fluid and carry him around with me in the hot sun until he begins to smell in such a way as to invite adverse criticism.
 q think it must be the call of the wild stirring within my veins. Nearly every body, if you'll notice closely, suffers
 from an attack of that call-of-the- wild disease about once year. Some men satisfy it by going into the North woods, having visions of bringing down a bull moose with set of antlers on his head like mission hat rack. Only they never do. They don't bring down any thing except the secret scorn of the guide who gets $4 a day to go along with them and keep them from hurting them love of danger which seems to turk in every human breast, by taking ride on the hazardous Erie or the perilous B.. & O. Some get married some get di- vorced and then marry over again. Some climb the Andes mountains and some talk back to policeman. But as for me, go fishing.
 "I can always tell, Larry, when I'm about ready to go on my annual fishing excursion It comes along shortly after I've decided never to go fishing again as long as I live. Why is it, anyway, that as soon as a man makes up his mind he won't do thing, he begins pre- pairing the plans and specifications to do it? It's a question that's never been satisfactorily answered. Possibly to look at me you wouldn't think 1t, but know a great number of valuable things. Of course there are some things that nobody on earth knows-how a Chink laundry man keeps his books, and what's the reason dentist always has canary bird in his office, and why one year the show girls will lean so far over when they walk that you'd think they were getting ready to steal second, and the next year they'll all be reared way back, with their chin in the air. like they were waiting for their base on balls? One year they're emphatically to South Bend, Ind, and the next year it's Straight Edge, Minn, for theirs.
 Those are some of the things that mo- body knows the right answer to. And it's the same way with this determined res olution proposition A man decides to swear off. He wakes up some tired morn ing following busy evening. with a taste in his mouth like a felt insole and feel ing that a swarm of bees have hived in the back part of his head and are now trying to elect queen by the Australian ballot system. So he says to himself-never again for mine. Well, for awhile, it's a very pleasant jaunt. The red-faced party with the spicy breath, who's sitting to the left of him on the front seat, remarks that it's been long, dry spell and he says right off that he never minded a little dust in his throat. The person with the prematurely gray hair, on the right, complains because the conveyance travels so slow, and our -offing hero replies that personally he never cared much for joy-riding any way. He's happy and comfortable. His eye Is clear and keen, and he's so full of high moral resolves and conscious rec titudes that he can feel lem slosh around inside if he moves suddenly.
 "But the thought that he promised