Won and Lost 



Mr. E. W. Scott, of Topeka, Kansas, has writ- 

 ten the charming story which follows. Mr. Scott 

 is on the staff of the "Arthur Capper publications," 

 and if he can write as well about agricultural mat- 

 ters as he certainly can about the sport of fishing, 

 may I venture the thought that he is a valuable 

 asset to the great Senator from the State of Kansas. 



It is not the easiest thing in the world to drag from 

 its pigeon hole in the subconscious mind the really 

 "most tragic fishing moment " for every fishing 

 moment has an element of tragedy in it ; if not for the 

 fish, then for the fisher. And as I write there come 

 trooping such incidents as the inadvertent handling 

 of a frog box, allowing the escape of some three 

 dozen beautiful frogs in an apparently frogless coun- 

 try which we had just come to fish, and a subsequent 

 fishless trip as a result; the lightning-like rush of 

 the river boat through the swelter and swirl of the 

 rapids just above the confluence of the Turtle and 

 Flambeau Rivers, where our guide was swept into 

 the river by an overhanging tree and our boat all but 

 wrecked on the ledge of rocks at the foot of the 

 quick water; then there are the fish that got away 



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