May, 1919 
FOREST AND STREAM 
251 
by the way; but get home as soon as you 
can.” 
When about halfway to town I hap- 
pened to place my hand in my pocket 
and found my knife, much to my sur- 
prise, and said: 
“Oh, Johnnie; Mr. Jerry put the knife 
back in my jacket pocket when he 
warmed it at the stove!” 
“Yes,” said he, “you know a knife 
cuts friendship; that’s why.” 
At the appointed time Johnnie and I 
went to visit our friend at the box car, 
to meet young Jerry. We took with us 
a small package containing a selection 
of our best crystals, agates, chaneys and 
white alleys, and a lignum-vitae top with 
a sharp steel plug capable of splitting 
any ordinary top when “plugging in the 
ring.” To these were added my copy of 
“The Boy’s Own Book,” a fishing line 
fitted with hook, sinker and a red and 
green float. These treasures we intend- 
ed for young Jerry. But bitter disap- 
pointment awaited us, for on arriving 
at the old box car we found, not Jerry, 
but another man, his successor, who in- 
formed us that our friend had been pro- 
moted and transferred to a station far- 
ther up the line, but he did not know 
just where. We never saw Jerry again, 
as we failed to locate him after dilligent 
inquiry. We never told our parents of 
the affair at the old stone quarry for 
fear that they would have lost confidence 
in our oft-repeated assertion that we 
could “swim like ducks.” 
As previously stated, when I lost con- 
sciousness and sank for the last time, 
Johnnie appeared to me like a huge 
white bird about to take flight. He ex- 
plained this by saying that he was then 
removing his white shirt, w'hich was 
pulled up over his head with his arms 
stretched out. This illusion to my dis- 
torted vision perhaps had some connec- 
tion with his anticipated flight of the 
month before. 
(to be continued) 
THE BOY AND THE 
TROUT 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 214) 
all, and the fight was on again. 
During the next few moments the Boy 
experienced many thrills, both of elation 
and of despair, as the big trout came 
almost within his grasp and then as sud- 
denly eluded him. It seemed to the Boy 
as though the fate of empires hung in 
the balance. What if he should make 
some clumsy move at the very end and 
the prize that was almost his should be 
denied him? 
To make a very long story a little 
shorter, the Boy was finally fortunate 
enough to get his thumb into those gills, 
and after what seemed like two hours 
of the greatest fight he ever had with a 
fish (but which w'as probably half an 
hour) , he laid that beautiful old war- 
rior on the grass and danced for joy. 
One of the most triumphal entries in 
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Boy approached the group still sitting 
around the fire at home, and carelessly 
displayed a 16-inch brook trout to the 
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