WHERE BASS ABOUND. 



J. A. BOZMAN. 



A party of my friends, summering at 

 Lake Minnetonka wrote so enthusias- 

 tically about the good time they were 



. FROM MINNESOTA WATERS. 



having that I determined to visit them 

 I gathered up bag, baggage and fish- 

 ing tackle and took the first train heading 



Northwest. Two days and nights of riding 

 took me to Excelsior, on the lake. 



My friends had arranged for a day with 

 the bass, and to that end had engaged a 

 steam yacht, together with a yawl and 

 expert boatmen. Early the next morn- 

 ing we were aboard the yacht, headed 

 for the upper lake, 18 miles distant, 

 towing the yawl behind us. Our boat- 

 men had provided 12 dozen frogs for bait. 

 We arrived at the fishing ground about 

 9 o'clock, rigged our tackle and committed 

 sundry unfortunate frogs to the mercy 

 of their finny admirers. Black bass and 

 pickerel jumped fairly out of the water 

 in their eagerness to swallow those poor 

 little croakers. By noon we had 48 fish. 



Then we ate lunch on a little island 

 near, and lounged on the rocks and 

 sand. From 2 to 5 we fished again. We 

 did not count our afternoon catch, but 

 after reaching the hotel found we had 98 

 beautiful black bass, weighing in all 210 

 pounds. They were taken within' 6 

 hours by my friends, Mr. Martin and 

 Mr. Reed, and me. 



You apparently do not know that 210 

 pounds of fish is at least 3 times the 

 quantity any 3 decent men should 

 take in one day. You have displayed 

 your bristles by loading your boat in 

 this way and then boasting of it. I trust 

 that if you are ever lucky enough to go 

 where fish are plentiful again, you will 

 stop when you get enough. — Editor. 



Every day 13 million kind hearted 

 girls sit down to the piano without a 

 thought of the misery they are about to 

 inflict. — Life. 



"New York is a great city for a military 

 parade." 



."Why so?" 



"There's hardly a street in which troops 

 couldn't fall in." — Yonkers Statesman. 



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