The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-08-01


three old-time fishermen, and while
they were busy with the minnows the
sun was busy with the seats in the au-
tomobile. The return from the min
now hunt was made upon cushions
that might have been satisfactory to
fried egg and entirely comfortable,
but as it happened neither of the men
wanted to give an imitation of fried
egg. A man who passed them Is au-
thority for the statement that they
stood up most of the way home. When
they sat down they first carefully
sprinkled the seat from the minnow
bucket. q forgot to mention that they
had on Palm Beach suits.)
We'll, the minnow bucket episode
was of no particular interest to the
fisherman save in the fact that they
had a bucket well filled. They hired
a boat and rowed to the center of the
lake.
AS you may possibly recall, it was a
trifle warmish on Wednesday after
noon The sun tended strictly to its
business and the gentle zephyrs re-
fused to zephyr. The three fisher
men noted that one in search of a
warm situation could not do better
than to sit in a boat in the middle of
a lake on a midsummer day. How
hot 1t is under these circumstances
can be correctly described only in a
masculine vocabulary-say one of the
General Sherman species.
The sun shone the water sparkled,
the fishermen wiped their perspiring
brows and dropped dozens of min
nows into the placid water Of the lake
but the fish refused to bite! This
breach of etiquette on the par; of the
fish was fully supplied by a colony
of chiggers that were out prospecting
when the three fishermen had waded
through the weeds and had located
claims upon the spinal columns or
each.
All in all the three men in the boa
were having pretty lively time of it!
At last. when the sun had winked
a parting salutation and expressed
regret that his bedtime ha 1 come so
early that evening, the me-, decided
that ttc fish had been fe.l a bountiful
supper and they would 20 hcme to
,hei,s. 1t was after nine o'2' ,c% any
way, and nine o'clock was strictly OBJ
served as their bedtime. One de-
clared that he wasn't going fishing
any more in 1913, that it was hoo
doc year.
When they reached the horse and
buggy, they discovered that TIE horse
had been in a playful mood, and had
broken the shafts to splinters. They
were borrowed shafts too. No human
ingenuity could patch them sufficient
ly to make the trip home.
What was said on the banks of that
lonely lake when this accident was
discovered only the moon and the
fishermen will ever know.
One of the fishermen is tip-top
salesman; as he surveyed the broken
shafts and made a mental calcula-
tion of the expense account, the only
thing he could have sold during the
next five minutes would have been
the fittings for a funeral.
The three fishermen looked like
three undertakers off on a lark. An
Cther fisherman is an expert on ship.
ping goods, but the only tipping ia
ciiities he could suggest f'r that
Cowd was that the three Of them
III unit the steed and, Seekas. the
! hadowy places, return to the city. So
hey sadly hung the haraess about
the neck of the borrowed horse, as in
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flowers upon the necks of the sacred
bulls. Then the man with the fancy
English name mounted in front, just
back of the horses ears. The long and
lean one got on in the middle and the
sized one climbed on behind.
The minnow bucket was. doubtless,
anchored to the horses tail.
The shades Of might protected them
from curious eyes. If moving pic
ture man had been on the spot with |
his camera he could have made a
fortune out of the fish.
Now, this animal, upon which they
rode had not been sold for saddle |
gaits: he might possess them, but if |
he did it was his own business. He |
was hungry and he knew he was
headed towards supper. He lit out
across the country roads with liciiiy |
split that made the profile of those
.hree lucliless fishermen resemble
some of the hops and jumps that