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RECREATION. 



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FRAU ZIM AGAIN UPBRAIDED HIM. 



clever. Persistent and stubborn, enthusi- 

 astic, a good stayer and mixer, with fine 

 sense and ripe judgment; a man who knew 

 well that it is enjoyable and healthful to 

 be out of doors when it is balmy, but pru- 

 dent to go in when it rains. Yet, for all 

 that, it was no uncommon thing for her to 

 make light — nay, to make merry of his at- 

 tainments ; and one of her favorite re- 

 marks, which took the form of an accusa- 

 tion, was that he was not even capable of 

 learning to boil water." 



"I want to know !" exclaimed Dobbs. 



"I will thank you to pass the tobacco," 

 said Hobbs. 



"Certainly; wasn't capable of learning, 

 as if there should be any need of his trying 

 to learn, when his mind was entirely pre- 

 occupied with matters more important. 

 Versatile, as he was acknowledged to be, 

 full of the love of his art, and quick in the 

 solution of more intricate problems, he 

 might easily have learned to boil water had 

 he seen fit. But I come to his adventure. 



"It was late in the afternoon of a Sep- 

 tember day, after Fran Zim had again up- 

 braided him, that he went alone on foot to 

 the brink of the river, the whirlpool of the 

 Ohio, where that stream forms the South- 

 ern boundary of a tract of land granted to 

 General George Rogers Clarke, whose 

 rank and file induced the Indian to depart 

 therefrom by the employment of tactics 

 known to the soldier as the 'double quick.' 

 It was not to fish that Jacob went on that 



stroll, but to ponder and forget. A small 

 flatboat lay at the shore, one used in trans- 

 porting workmen to and from the improve- 

 ment of the channel at Wave Rock, a bad 

 obstruction. Jacob boarded the flat and 

 sealed himself on the gunwale. He had 

 not rested there long when he saw the out- 

 line of a fish near the surface of the water, 

 which, in the twilight was not clearly made 

 out as to variety, but was at least a 6- 

 pounder, and Jake was spellbound. 



"In my porn days, alreatty, I haf never 

 seen such a fine pass feesh like dot,' " said 

 he. 



"Whereupon the fish saw fit to correct 

 him with the information that it wasn't a 

 bass at all, but a German carp." 



"Isn't Tom Pepper dead?" murmurec? 

 Dobbs. 



"The heavens weep, the sea moans, a tree 

 will sigh; then why not a fish talk? I 

 believe this story," confessed Hobbs. 



"I thank you, gentlemen, for the faith 

 you have in my veracity," observed the 

 speaker, and he resumed : "Then Zim 

 knew that indeed he had a sympathizing 

 friend to whom he might reveal his woes. 

 During their conversation Jacob felt that 

 it was the first bit of real sympathy he had 

 experienced in many a day. And so, em- 

 ploying German and English alternately, 

 they talked on into the night, until the fish 

 was forced by the lateness of the hour to 



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