The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-02-06
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GREAT BIG UGLY FISH

knows how to fish it won't be half SO
much fun, and it will be all the more
fun if you don't know how to fish your
self"
Then the enthusiastic young man
proceeded to explain his proposition.
"A friend and l." said he, got our
girls to go to Greenwood lake last
Sunday. We hadn't any idea what we
were going to do or see when we got
there, and we didn't seem to care, only
SO we ran against good time.
ION the way up asked the conduc-
tor of the train what we were likely to
find at the lake to sort of round out
a day with some fun mixed up with
it.
"Do you folks dancer said he.
Sure thing said I.
"'Can you fish?' said he.
NO said l, positively.
"Then go f1shin',' said he, and
passed on.
I'VE thought it was kind of queer
advice, but the conductor seemed to
know what he was talking about, and
. up Jul W tdhc Ills Ctu-
vice and go fishing. When We got to
the lake we found a man who had
boats and fishing things to hire got a
couple Of boats, fish pole apiece and
some bait, and prepared to go fish.
ing.
Where's the best place to fish,
asked the man we hired the outfit
from.
know much about hshing?' he
asked
Il told him we didn't know thing
about fishing.
Don't make no difference, then,
said he, where you fish
This seemed to bear out the advice
the conductor had handed us, and |
considered that we we're following the
right path to overhaul fun, so after the
man had told us how to bait our hooks
We rowed out on the lake and went
TO fishing Our boats drifted about for
a while, and as the situation was all
to the restful and dreamy | was pass
ing quite few over to Sue in the line
of soft nothings, and Sue was taking
'em for all they were worth and now
and then murmuring one or two back
to me, the fishing stunt kind O. slipped
my mind and hers, too. Then all Of a
sudden she gave a scream that almost
lifted my hat and holIered:
"'Oh, Charlie, something is trying to
take my fishpole away from met
EaI lnnEod nnnnOh hor h
pole was being jerked down in the wa.
ter and she was trying to keep it up.
Hold on to it, Sue!' I shouted
Maybe it's bite
Just then about twenty feet from
one side of the boat big fish jumped
out of the water with Sues hook in
its mouth 1t shook Itself like a dog
shaking a rat and glared at us the
maddest kind Sue screamed louder
than ever and hollered:
It's jumping at me, Charlie; why
don't you kill tho horrid thing?
Il put my pole on the seat and sat
on it while l roWed fast to the spot
where the fish had jumped out, intend,
ing TO slaughter it with an oar il il
sprang out again, but when l got there
the ugly critter had moved and came
leaping out twenty feet in another di.
rection and madden than ever"
"'Oh, it's chasing US, Charlie she
hollered. Pull for shore and call for
help
Il don't know just what l would
have set myself to work at doing II
Sue hadn't screamed again right Cd
the heels OF her last yell:
"'Oh, now it's heading us off, Char
lie!' she hollered
Il turned and looked in that direc,
ton just in time to see the big fish
glaring at us off our bow and shaking
Itself in the air till everything ratified.
At least thought 1t was that big fish
until out Of the water astern of US it
came again and then ! discovered that
two fish were after US, the one on
Sues line and now one on mine.
Then | certainly did yell for my
friend to get in there on the double
quick with that gun of his. Seems to
me that those two big and ugly fish
must have caught on to the meaning
of that hurry call, for while my friend
was on his way in answer to it the fish
on my line gave one other great jump
IN the air and with a tremendous
lunge tore loose from the hook and
didn't come for us again. Following
its example, Sues fish did the same
act Sue gave one shrek of Joy and
exclaimed:
"'Oh. thank goodness, Charlie. He's
gone at last!'
When my friend came up and we
told him our adventure he didn't seem
to have words to make any comment
on it for a while, then he said:
Wonder why 1t wouldn't have
been the proper thing to yank them
fish in and land 'em in your boat?'
why Of course 1t would. Charlie"
said Sue reproachfully. Why In the
world didn't you think of that? The
very ideal
IT wondered a little at it myself and
declared that We would try for EN-
again. We did, and 1t wasn't long be-
fore Sue yelled that the fish was after
her mole again Whether II was tha