July 5. 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
3 
The Fish Story Club. 
The night was warm and sultry. Josh 
Whiting, Hi Bessemer, Lew Cornish and Fred 
Leek were sitting on the latter’s front porch. 
“Waal, sir,” said Fred, mopping his brow 
with a red bandanna, “I’d ruther eat a nice fish 
than anything I know this hot weather.” 
“Did ya have fish fer supper?” asked Josh 
Whiting. 
“Bass,” answered Fred, filling his pipe. 
“Caught' ’em up by the dam yestiddy.” 
“I was up there fishin’ two weeks ago,” 
answered Josh, “and I had one of the strangest 
experiences as ever fell to any man.” 
And they were off. 
“I was settin’ on the edge of that there 
dam fer hours and hours,” said Josh, “and not 
a fish so much as nibbled my hook. Fer all I 
know, ail the fish in that there lake might of 
just packed up and gone to Yorrup fer the 
summer fer all the ketchin’ I did that there 
hull afternoon.” 
“Ha, ha!” laughed Lew Cornish, who loved 
a good joke. 
“So I jest lay back and says tew myself, 
‘Josh,” says I, ‘you ain’t gonna let no fish worry 
you, are you? Jest take it easy.’ And so there 
I lay, holdin’ on to that rod jest more because 
of habit than because I expected to ketch any 
fish. 
“Well, there I lay that way fer about fif¬ 
teen minutes when biff, bang! somethin’ hap¬ 
pened. Out of my hand flew that there rod, 
skimmin’ along the surface of the water like 
a bird, and the line pointin’ downward was as 
stiff and taut as a steel wire. 
“Well, I jest stood up and watched that 
fishin’ pole shoot up the lake—and it shot some, 
tew. Then when it had gone about 200 yards, 
it got stuck in some broken branches as was 
lyin’ near shore and stopped, jumpin’ up and 
down as crazy as a monkey on the stick. 
“Then I got on tew myself, jumped in a 
boat, rowed out as fast as lightnin’, grabbed 
that pole, and hauled in as big a fish as ever I 
seen. It weren't no monster, but it were some 
fish. When I had got it in the bottom of the 
boat, the funniest thing I ever seen happened 
right then and there. The hook was way down 
in the in’ards of that fish, and I couldn't ex¬ 
tract it nohow. 
“I pulled and broke the line. Then I rowed 
back to shore, waited till that there fish ex¬ 
pired, and then opened ’im up with a jack¬ 
knife. And I saw what kept that hook down 
there so fast. 
“In the in’ards of that there fish was the 
biggest magnet I ever seen—as big as a horse¬ 
shoe easy—and stuck fast to that magnet was 
the hook. The magnet in that fish’s stummick 
had jest natcherly attracted the hook and pulled 
the rod out of my hand' the way I was fellin’ 
you about. 
“It was- the strangest experience I ever 
had,” concluded Tosh, mopping his brow. 
“I was settin’ in that same spot about a 
month ago,” said Lew Cornish, “readin’ the 
paper, with my rod fastened under a rock, when 
all at once a shower of fish leaped up out of 
that there lake and begun to fall all around me 
on the ground. It must of kept un fer five 
minutes, me settin’ there all the while like if 
I was turned tew stone. Then I got up and 
piled ’em in a heap. 
“The only explanation of that strange pro¬ 
ceeding which I have tew offer is this: I had 
the front page of my paper turned to the lake, 
and on it in big letters were the words: ‘Fish 
Jumn to Destruction.’ That there headline had 
plumb hypnotized them fish.” 
Fred Leek rose 
“It’s nigh bed time, I guess,” he said. The 
company silently disappeared into the gathering 
shadows.—New York Evening Sun. 
In Minnesota three tvpes of farming pre¬ 
vail, viz.: grain raising in the western and north¬ 
western parts of the State, diversified farming 
in Southern Minnesota, and special crop farm¬ 
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