The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-31

Or more to the point, that I'm as
green" as I appear to be!
But I was reminded while my
drummer acquaintance was "avering'
with such extravagant abandon, how
easy it is sometimes for us to let
our tongues get the better of our ,
judgment. .
When I startet< my story about
Bride Bells 71a FOUNDER yellowmouth.
had no idea that it would consume
so much space in the telling; other
wise L should have only hit the high
spots of the story and passed on to
what Pee Wee" Worthington, AL
Freeman and Hubert Ansley. COM
posing one party; and "Old Cap"
Charlie Allen and Bob Hixon, COM
posing another, did Sunday morning
up in East bay and around the mouth
of East river. And of course you'll
excuse me if I tell you that what I'm
now proceeding to pass along to you,
isn't predicated upon f1rst-hand in
formation; far from it-eVery bit of
it's what "Old Cap" and Pee Wee"
told me, and before l go word fur
ther into the narrative, 1 want it
distinctly understood that I'm not in
the remotest way responsible for the
yarns that "Old Cap" and Pee Wee"
tell; not even their truthful ones.
But l am willing to commit myself
TO the extent of saying that / be-
lieYe the story Pee Wee tells to the
effect that he and his bunch got 80
Of the genus squeteague in about so
minutes" and returned to town in
sIanter in order that they might re-
gale themselves with broiled yellow
mouth slabs for their Christmas
eve Sunday dinner; also that "Old
Cap" and his side kick. Hixon, stayed
and stayed; and then stayed some
more, until they accumulated a creel
of so, or more, "a to 5-pounders,
most Of which spoiled on their hands
before they could get to town with
,nem in the fog which blanketed the
lace of all creation, late Sunday after
aOon.
There are Two "Pee Wees"
And by the way, before 1 get off
of the subject of Pee Wee" Worth
! ngton, desire to caution readers Of
With Rod and Gun not to confuse
! MIN with Pee Wee" Day, who is
! another and entirely distinct per-
! sonage. In other words, how have
| Two Pee Wees" to write about, but
| Pee Wee" Day has been SO inactive
I
| his department of The Journal, the
| past several weeks, that he hasn't
/ given me any excuses to write about
nm. Nor do l want my readers to
get the idea into their heads that be-
| cause Worthington and Day are Pee
| Wees" in statue they are Pee Wees"
| IN other particulars. Far from it; they
Ear from it; they are both giants in
are both giants in everything but
avoirdupois. And no finer fellows live
| ,han both Of them.
Sunday at EIeven-Miie Creek.
| However, if l continue indefinitely
% dGcribe the attractive qualities
and other undergraduates Of my two
! Pee Wees" I'll be forgetting to tell
the story about Uncle Walker
! Humphreys. Doc" D'Alemberte and
! ,he latter's young son, Buster" out
1T Eleven Mile Christmas eve day
| But in telling this story, 1 must also
| explain that it too Is predicated en-
tirely upon hearsay, and not personal
| information. But come to think
about it, DOC" is my authority, and
| what Pensacola Dip Is there who
| wouldn't accept DOC" as authority
! LOT any information which he would
! care to communicate? I'm sure I'd
accept him even on a fish story as
| Improba BILE and hard to believe as
| the Kalamazoo drummer's story
about 5-pounder yellowmouths being
thrown back to grow, down at Co
Goa, Florida. But I'm wandering
away from the thread of the story
| about what Doc and Uncle Wal
ker' and Buster" did at Eleven
! Mile, Sunday, which reduced to it's
| essence is nothing more nor less than
| that they held themselves, in the wee
| sma' hours of the morning in ques-
| don, out to the creek. And arriving
| there before the dew was dry or the
| yellowmouths had been aroused
| from their nocturnal slumbers, with
careless abandon and considering not
| whit how much racket they made,
| proceeded to troll-down the creek
| then up again; and down, and uE
| again. Meantime. the dinner hour
arrived and at the old camping place
| by the big cypress tree which has
marked it these many year. they
! went ashore to prepare a feast of
! yellowmouth slabs and the trimmings
! that go herewith. But 10, they
isappointment. Uncle Walker" es-
were doomed to the bitter pangs of
sayed to perform the culinary stunts.
while Buster" and doc" prepared
| the slabs. But "Uncle Walker" had