A Boatload of Excitement 



My friend, Everett E. Lowry, famed cartoonist 

 and writer, has here written one of his character- 

 istically witty stories. Mr. Lowry was the favorite 

 cartoonist of Colonel Roosevelt, and the originals of 

 his work hung in the Colonel's office when he was 

 President. When this great man retired to private 

 life, he wrote Mr. Lowry that the only picture ac- 

 companying him to his home was the original of 

 the famous cartoon, " His Favorite Author." 



I noticed right at the start that Friend Wife did not 

 enthuse over the prospect of an extended fishing trip 

 among the northern lakes, and I should have grown 

 suspicious had I realized at that time that there really 

 are people, and among them, possibly, one's own wife, 

 who are not exactly wild over the gentle art of angling. 



We hadn't been married long, however, and I had 

 yet to learn that when Friend Wife thought of fish 

 it was merely as an article of foodstuff, to be consumed 

 more or less religiously on Fridays, and I now actually 

 believe that until she went with me on this eventful trip 

 she supposed fish came originally from the Booth Pack- 

 ing Company. Such was her artlessness on the sub- 

 ject, and I soon learned if I was to make of her a fisher- 



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