New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-06-21
APOLOGIZE OR FIGHT
BY N. QUAD.

Copyright 1909, by American Press Asso'
ciation.l
Miss Prue Gordon Of the city and Q
summer visitor at her aunt's manor
house had never caught fish in her
life. She didn't even know that she
wanted to until she strolled out to
the lake on the grounds on the third
day Of her arrival and was welcomed
by a ragged lad Of fourteen, who had
a pole and line to spare. When he had
baited her hook for her and spat on
the bait he bluntly asked:
"Say, you got Teller yeti?
"A feller?" she repeated.
Eyes, q beau"
"Of course not. I'm just out or
school,"
"Well, you'll get one in time. All
gals do. Fellers are looking for gals,
and gals are looking for fellers. It's
right too. I'm glad you come out here
this morning. If you catch whopper
of fish you'll have beau within
week. Never knew it to fail In my
life. There's an awful whopper IN
this lake. He's pickerel. He's two
feet long. He's bit OF more n hun
dred lines. If you could only catch
him-Lordy"
"What would happen?" asked Prue.
you'd catch on to Teller in no
time, and he'd be daisy, and you'd
get married and live happy forever
after. won't be here this afternoon,
but you come out and fish by yourself.
The old whopper always comes around
in the afternoon. Don't get scared II
he bites, but shut your teeth and pub
for all you're worth"
In the afternoon Miss Prue fshed
again. A young man took seat on
log forty feet away, and without look
ing in her direction he calmly prepar-
ed line and hook and cast them into
the lake. 1t was likely some one sum-
mering in the village hotel, and he had
been told that the lake was free to all.
Miss Prue was nettled. The longer
she watched the young man out or
the corner Of her eye the more annoyed
she felt. 1t would have been at least
"fresh' for him to have approached
her. but his action seemed to ignore
her. A long, dreary hour had passed
when the stranger suddenly leaped to
his feet and began to dance around.
That "whopper" had taken his hook.
She watched his excitement for mo-
ment and then threw her fish pole
into the lake and started for home
with swapping eyes and blazing cheeks.
In telling her story after she got there
she wept tears Of anger and humilia'
ton. That evening as she sat on the
veranda after dinner, gritting her
teeth now and then as she thought OF
her wrongs, Dick came sauntering up
to hear how her fishing had turned
out. She poured the story into his
ears, and he said:
81 know the Teller He's an artist
stopping at the tavern. l told you
about that whopper and got you to
fishing, and now it's up to me to do
something. I'm your guardian like
I'm going to do something"
but what can you do?" was asked.
LOTS. He's got to apologize or
light"
But, Dick, you see"-
But Dick was on dog trot for the
village. He had never spoken with
the artist, but that made no difference
to a boy like him. He had come on
an errand, and that errand must be
done. The artist was found on the
hotel veranda enjoying a cigar and
the cleaning, and no time was lost
in addressing him with:
"Say, you, but you've got to apollo
gize or there'u be the biggest kind of
q row around here"
IF l have hurt your feelings l don't
remember It," replied the surprised
guest.
"Oh, it amt my feelings, but girls.
Don't nobody never hurt my feelings.
It's a girl, and you made her awful
mad, and you made her cry. VIII you
apologize or fight a duel?
Il hurt a girls feelings? When?
Where? Boy, tell me all about it"'
ITS a girl named Prue. She's Aunt
Judith's niece. She's from the city.
She's as handsome as duck. learn
ed her to fish this morning. I told her
about that whopper Of pickerel in
the lake, and told her that II she
could catch him she could catch a dan
DIV Of a Teller. l wasn't back there
this afternoon, but she was. She was
fishing for the whopper when you but
ted in"
"Oh, it was that girl at the lake, eh
Why, 1 never spoke to her,"
"No, but you caught that whopper
of a pickerel jest as he was going to
take her hook, and you must apologize.
She's waiting for you to come along
back with ME and do It,"
The artist was only twenty-four and
romantic and yentureSOme. he allow