fish, now completely exhausted, ap- 

 peared at the surface lying on his side, 

 while I was reeling in the line; when 

 the coon slipped into the water, grabbed 

 the fish in his mouth and swam ashore. 

 Climbing up the bank he turned, grinned 

 at me and went into the bushes with my 

 trout, now his trout, in his mouth and 

 about three feet of leader trailing behind. 



BILL stood four feet three inches in 

 his stockings, and if Bill had ever 

 been on a scale, he would have tipped it 

 at seven pounds and six ounces. Bill's 

 body was about the size of a white 

 leghorn hen. He was mostly legs and 

 neck. 



Abe Lincoln once expressed the opin- 

 ion that "a man's legs should be long 

 enough to reach the ground." Bill 

 was a wader by inclination and of ne- 

 cessity. Long legs were, therefore, re- 

 quired in his business, and having 



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