Favorite Fish and Fishing 



"A Riband in rior. With captlves chained to his chariot 

 Youtv^ ° wheels, entering the gates of the Eternal 



City with a hlare of trumpets and the 

 applause oi the nuiltitude. was an event to 

 fill his soul with just pride — but it descends 

 to the level oi vainglory and mediocrity 

 when compared with the swelling heart of 

 the lad as he enters the farmhouse kitchen 

 with two or three old " lunkers " of black 

 bass strung on a willow withe. Many 

 times during his homeward march had he 

 halted to admire the scale armor and spiny 

 crests oi his captive knights! 



And then to an appreciative audience he 

 relates, in a graphic manner, how this one 

 seized a minnow, and that one a crawfish, 

 and the other one a hellgramite — and how 

 often each one leaped from the water, 

 and how high it jumped — and how the 

 " ellum " rod bent and twisted as the large 

 one tried to regain the hole under the big 

 rock — and how the good line cut the water 

 in curving reaches and straight lines as 

 another one forged toward the sunken roots 

 of the old sycamore. And then came the 

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