270 DAYS IN THE OPEN 



exclaimed: " For Heaven's sake! What sort of a 

 pastor have we drawn?" 



It was a year or two later that the Preacher, 

 when spending a few days on Tomahawk Lake, 

 caught a muskie that went a little over seventeen 

 pounds. Recalling the skepticism of his parish- 

 ioner, he had the fish packed in a box where it 

 could lie out at full length, surrounded it with 

 moss and ice, and expressed it to the doubter. 

 When he reached home again the skeptic had been 

 soundly converted from the error of her ways. On 

 their first meeting after the reception of the mus- 

 kie, she said : " Pastor, after this you may tell 

 any fish-lie you like and I will swear to it." 



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