"Well, you've got a polka dot memory all right" 

 was the rejoinder. 



"How's that?" said Muhlhausen. 



"Good in spots" was the answer. 



John F. Storm of St. Louis is Secretary of the 

 famous Jim Lewis Fishing and Sporting Club, an 

 organization of National repute, that holds an annual 

 meeting at Petoskey, where Judges, Doctors, Lawyers, 

 Bankers, Senators and Representatives and plain every 

 day gentlemen gather to fish, dine and sing. The 

 author in' grateful to the Secretary for attention given 

 by the Globe-Democrat at his suggestion and as 

 follows : 



Sylvester's New Poem on Jim Lewis Club. 



Maj. Richard Sylvester, of Washington, D. C, who 

 years ago was a St. Louis newspaper man, has burst 

 into song again. It was Sylvester, by the way, who 

 composed the famous fish poem, "De Clickin' of the 

 Reel," and it is fishing that has inspired his muse this 

 time. The latest product of his divine afflatus is 

 entitled "Storm at Petoskey," and is dedicated to the 

 Jim Lewis Fishing and Sporting Club of which Maj. 

 Sylvester is official punster. Here it is: 



Hear that storm you know so well ! 



It scatters like the shot and shell ! 



It blows around here every year, 



And brings the gathering luck and cheer. 



It blows the hookworm on the line, 



And makes one's eyeballs brightly shine. 



When it comes the reel must run ; 



Then the bass has lots of fun. 



Look to the left, then to the right, 



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