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thing he wanted for the asking. Mary Anne, who was 

 a .sharp-witted girl, immediately beckoned to her lover 

 who had been watching the whole proceedings 

 through the crack of the door and together the young 

 couple plumped upon their knees before the old man, 

 asking him to ennoble Lym with the title of Burgher 

 and allow them to start housekeeping without further 

 loss of time. The old man, tweaking Lym's nose twice 

 (the usual method of conferring the patent of nobility 

 in those days), addressed him as Lym the Burgher, 

 thus forever emancipating him from his serfdom and 

 raising him to the rank of a Burgher. Lym the 

 Burgher, as he was now called, started a cheese factory 

 as soon as he was comfortably married; the cheese was 

 named after him and called Lym-the-Burgher cheese, 

 which after many years was shortened into the present 

 method of pronouncing it, and called Limburger cheese. 



I should have remained silent on the above history, 

 but, as so few persons are aware that Limburger 

 cheese owes its origin to a humble fisherman, I felt it 

 my duty to the members of the angling fraternity to 

 enlighten them. 



Taylor's Lake is located one mile and a half from 

 Gray's Lake Depot on the Wisconsin Central Line. 

 The fishing is fairly good at times, but never anything 

 extra. There is a prevailing opinion that this lake is 

 netted, among most of the anglers with whom I have 

 spoken; whether this is true, I am unable to positively 

 state, but certain it is that the fishing has ceased to be 

 anything like it was six or seven years ago. In fact, 

 Taylor's Lake has not held its own as the other lakes 

 in the vicinity have done. The use of set lines may 

 have something to do with it. 



There is excellent bass ground on the shore just east 

 of Joe Litwilder's house. The best pickerel ground 

 is just off the shallow, in the northwestern portion of 

 the lake, during the warmer months, and outside the 

 fringe of bass weeds on the eastern shore during the 



