New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-05
ISAAK IS OUTDONE BY
FRESH AIR FISHERMAN
Table. TabIeCloth, Ice Cream
and Cake Hooked Out
Under the Trees.
MANY WITNESS THE FEAT
Youngsters Applaud, and Then
Join the Feast-It Was a
Great Night at Ash
ford Hall, Ardsley.

uany PEOPLE thought the last word had
,.,n said in fishing when. two or three
..,rs ago. they saw the doughty fisher
IAN who angled twice daily in the Hip
0odrome tank pull to shore a wriggling
n,p PUP. But almost anything is apt
% happen In the sea serpent or fish story
Inc in August, so it IS not strange that
r,aak Walton has been outanged again
,ioreover. this is a true FISH story.
picture the scene: Ii is night. albeit
,hs darkness is tempered somewhat by
the light Of the moon and a skyful Of
,,srs-fu.l as only an August sky can be
IN the bank are seated the witnesses
mats the only way 10 be absolutely sure
ot any dsh story-and the fisherman
The witnesses are all laughing and talk
ing seemingly unaware that they may
h soaring of the fishes. Only the fish
srran preserves dignity worthy Of the
OCCASION and the sport. lie sits apart
rom the rest, putting at his pipe. for ne
,s real fisherman. Crouched under hts
slouch hat, both eyes are glued TO his
hon Not even the "Compleat Angler"
would tell you what he's thinking about.
Suddenly there is a hull in the shouting
and the tumult. He seems 10 have a bite
and begins TO ,ul in his line. But there
,s nothing on the line, and he casts again.
After few moments he yawns and is
heard to murmur something that sounds
Ike hungry
Almost Immediately there is a terrific
Jerk at mis- line. He begins 10 haul in
ike a sailor landing a six-inch hawser.
The spectators on the bank are breath
less
1t must be a whale. says one.
or a sunhsh." says another
or a. begins a third. but before he
can say what, il is on land and the fisher
man has il by one leg. After he's looked
il over carefully he sets 1t down on its
four legs and casts again. 1t doesn't run
away. Tables can't run. And, anyhow.
before il has time he IS pulling on his
line again, with a square cloth on the
hook This he spreads over the captive
table and casts again.
You may believe about the first two
catches. but you'll doubt when you hear
that this time his catch proves to be d
basket containing a plate Of cake and a
dish OF ice cream. No one is so dull as
10 need 10 be told that the tickle fisher
forthwith forsook following Izaak Wal
ton 70 join the ranks of the epicureans.
And Just then the curtain-more accu-
-ately. the sheet-was raised 70 disclose
the fellow actually eating ice cream and
.ake. Think Of mis- hardihOod, for around
him sat $50 Fresh Air youngsters as hun
,ry for such delicacies as sharks are for
egs.
But maybe-yes sure enough. there II
,ones. ice cream for the whole crowd, for
nobody eats ice cream at Ashford Hill
.nless everybody else does, even If II IS
,nlv the fisherman who has been making
'shadder pictures in the evening en-
ertainment
That's the true fish story-a story OF
able and cloth and basket hooked
1ehind d sheet 10 make fun for some
Fund guests al Ardsley, y. J..
Il the scene was not real, IL was al least
Enacted under a real sky studded with
gonderful stars and a glorious moon IN
real grove Of great trees. on a great NIL
hat lowered about the surrounding coun-
.rv. amid pure, sweet breezes fresh from
meadows and helds filed with wonderful
wild sowers-and for real children fresh
from New York; tenement houses.