Sept. 15, 1906.] 
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PIKE AND MAN AND SPUR. 
A singular incident connected with fishing is 
related by the author of “Wild Sports of the 
West of Ireland.” A party of fishermen were 
out in a boat after gudgeon near Sunbury. One 
of the men, who had lamed his horse some miles 
from home, had been taken on board, but was 
not fishing. As a penalty for wearing spurs, he 
sat in the bow with his feet hanging over the 
side of the skiff. Soon after he got into the 
boat one of the anglers caught a small gudgeon, 
which he playfully hung on the horseman’s pro¬ 
jecting spur. The incident was forgotten, and 
the gudgeon hung there, its tail just touching 
the water. Suddenly the man gave a cry of 
astonishment, and the others, looking up, saw 
a large pike floundering about the dangling foot 
and splashing the water in vigorous fashion. 
The boat began rocking, and the man in the bow 
lost his balance and tumbled into the lake, where 
he disappeared from sight. 
A moment later he rose to the surface, the 
pike still thrashing the water about his foot, and 
it was seen that the fish was caught on the spur. 
The jack was a huge fellow and very strong, 
and in its struggles for freedom it plunged 
toward the bottom of the lake, dragging the 
man feet foremost after it. His weight, how¬ 
ever, was too much for the fish, and it made 
small headway. The fishermen now went to the 
assistance of their luckless companion, and one 
of them struck the jack with an oar and stunned 
it. The man was pulled into the boat and the 
fish dispatched. The big fish had jumped for the 
gudgeon, fixed its teeth in its body, and had 
somehow been caught by the gill on the crane¬ 
necked spur! 
IN THE FISHING SEASON. 
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the room, extending something toward him— 
He retreated. 
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earth are you doing with those old fly papers?” 
“I saved them for you from last summer,” she 
answered. “You said you always had to buy flies 
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