Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-12
Cr1tS and
Gravel :
BY T. MOSES JONES

1T seems by the following letter that
one more person read about those
big fish your Old Nose caught up at
Lake Junaluska.
august g., 1888.
| Henderson, N. c.,
| Route No. 4.
Dear T. Moses:
I will drop you line as 1 saw in
the paper where you had been off on
a big pleasure trip and struck up
with a fine fellow fisherman who
showed you how to catch some nice
carp. 1 would like to know just how
to fix bait to catch some nice fish like
those. Please put it in your next
column if you have room. 1 will re-
main as I have no news to write.
J. w. Harris"
And now Mr.. Harris, let me say that
I am only too glad to furnish you
with the recipe of how to make that
most hypnotizing fish bait. You may
remember my telling that I fished ali
morning and did, not get catch, bu.
was finally rewarded in the afternoon
with couple of good-sized carp.
learned that it takes even more patti
ence than the recipe calls for TO
catch fish.
When Waldo, the fisherman, fixed
his bait, he did not measure it, so YOU
will have to use your own judgment
part of the way in fixing it. Take
an equal part of self-rising flour with
that same amount of corn meal, about
one pint of each. Mix in about tea
spoon of brown sugar. Mix with water
and work it up a long time until it
gets good and tough. If possible, make
it up the day before you use it and
let it set all night. Then work over
again the next morning. Put in two
or three drops of one of the following
things: asfedity or vanilla flavorins
or banana flavoring.
When it gets too dry, just wet i,
slightly and work it up some more.
Cover the whole hook completely up
with a little long bal of the bait. DO
NOT put any cotton in the bait. l.
you don't get it exactly right the frs
time, then you can experiment to you
own satisfaction and maybe you vii.
finally get it so you can catch some
fish. But, Mr.. Harris, if you know
where some real fish are to be
caught please don't forget to tell a
| little bug about it and turn him loose
so he will fly straight to my ear and
tell me. I really hope you will catch
some fish, and wish you luck wit
the bait.
Fred Farris, of the Tanner Roofing
Company was over to our town yes
! Nv
ing up somebody's top over in this
vicinity.
Fred Sadler said he was to leave for
Canada Wednesday. His brothe
Car ton and wife left some days ago
Carlton is that little two hundred ano
fifty FOUNDER what it doesn't take
much for him to eat.
David Morton, Willard Dickerson
and Lindsey Crews have returned
from Carolina Beach with thorough
l1ly baked and biistered sun-tan.
Changing the subject very abrupt
ly, today is my birthday
1T was born ten thousand years ago
There are e.any, many things that
1 don't know
And as that old saying goes, IA lot
of water has poured over the dam
since that time. It was about mile
beyond Huntsboro, where we lived
We walked to cd Salem school. There
was one teacher for all the different
grades and classes and ages. And
she had her hands full.
We used a paste-board water
bucket and drank water from the
spring and sat on benches and home
made desks. We raked up the leaves
and burned them in the fall and had
Easter egg hunts in the spring. We
rode on spinning jennies made by US
ing a long, narrow plank and the tall
stump of pine tree.
In those days they cut tobacco with
a two-edged tobacco knife and we
little boys "kept up" sticks, while
the larger boys held" the sticks. I
wore dresses until I was a good-sized
"chap" and well do I remember the
very afternoon my mother finished
my first pair of pants. I put them
on and wore them and ran up and
down the road in front of our house
until my poor little legs were almost
worn out.
At Salem Sunday school Cousin
SArah Hunt, cousin Ouu10 nuHI, anu
Cousin Lucille Aiken were three Of
my teachers. Miss A. Daniel Marrow
who now lives at their old home
place near Marrow's Chapel, taught
at Salem school for several years.
Those were the days of Harrington s
Sp,eller, Maury's Geography, and
Holmes Reader.
When we moved to- town I entered
the third grade. and went to school
for years, spending two years each
in several different grades. I was
way yonder past grown when I stop
ped school at Christmas while in the
tenth grade. And if you don't believe
I was dumb, just ask Mrs. Paris. Yes
/ am old and gray, but not near a.;
old as folks think. That parrot in
Bob Hester's shop was born down ir
South America just year or so be-
fore 1 was, according to Bob's account
of the parrots age.
I think I have told this before, bu'
here it is again. On the very day o.
May 80, 1913 Il think that was the
date), that the wind blew the circus
tent down over there in Henderson
| d,,rirC hi5 Storm and the daV we