Tragic Fishing Moments 



I jumped through the brush and was in the stream, 

 just having the time of my life with this boy, when 

 in my excitement I had wandered into an open space. 



There was I with a trout on one end of the line and 

 Pistol Billy coming with something in his hand ! 



Listen, good people, if you should meet up with a 

 sixteen-inch trout who is towing a willow rod, please 

 get into communication with Otis Francis, because I 

 just now figured out that the trout was going due 

 north. I passed him the first hundred feet. And that 

 ain't all that trout knew he had competition, because 

 I made time, and a world's record for two miles was 

 broken, only there were no official witnesses. 



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