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little schoolma'am by the hand, and stepping boldly 

 up to the old gentleman asked his permission to trans- 

 fer his daughter from the parental bed into his own. 

 The old man surveyed the embarrassed couple for a 

 few moments, in thoughtful silence, and then said: 



"Well, young man, I have no objection provided you 

 marry her first." 



Long Lake is best reached from the Lake Villa depot 

 on the Wisconsin Central. It is an excellent fishing 

 lake, and in my estimation ranks next to Fourth or 

 Miltimore Lake. Some of the ground in the south- 



east corner is exceptionally fine and contains very 

 large bass; in fact, it is no unusual thing for an angler 

 to catch a string of a dozen fine bass weighing from 

 two to four pounds each. But this kind of work is 

 usually the result of expert bait-casting, for there is 

 no lake in the whole chain where the novice or bungler 

 is more apt to meet with disappointment than at 

 Long Lake. In this respect it is somewhat similar 

 to Lake Marie. Either a good surface ripple is re- 

 quired to obscure the keen vision of the fishes, or 

 extremely fine and far-off casting is requisite to catch 

 the larger ones. 



Of course, all my observations are intended to apply 

 to large fishes only, or, in angler's parlance, "sizable 



