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THE BARBER’S PIKE. 
Having occasion to visit an easy-going, one- 
cabbed, little town in the Eastern Counties, and 
having forgotten to place within my traveling 
trunk my razors, and other tonsorial weapons, 
you may be sure that, when my chin began to 
assume the stubbly appearance of a close-shorn 
wheat field, I was exceedingly glad to drop in 
at the first barber’s I fell across; and him I 
found up accidentally in a little back street. 
The name of Absolom Eggpenny was printed 
large over the shop front, with the announce¬ 
ment below, in smaller capitals, that anglers 
were catered for on the most advantageous 
terms. A tin pike, sixteen inches long and 
eleven broad dangled before the “P” and the 
“E” when the wind puffed not, and made un¬ 
certain pendulum arcs when the breeze was a 
bit playful. This tin beast was the pride of the 
local tinman. 
As I sat down in a rather dilapidated arm¬ 
chair, Mr. Eggpenny came forward from a cor¬ 
ner, where he had evidently been examining 
some small fish in ah aquarium, and politely 
asked: 
“Hair-cut, sir, or a shave?” 
“Well, both,” I replied; “and tell us what 
sort of fishing you’ve got around here.” 
He essayed to particularize several likely lo¬ 
cations, and talked learnedly of the descriptions 
of certain ponds, becks, ditches, and such like, 
and assured me that he kept not only the best 
stock of gear in the country, but the most 
reasonable in prices. 
“You’ve got a nice pike there!” I said, point¬ 
ing to a 24-pounder in a case on the wall. 
“Aye, sir, it’s a beauty,” he said, “and I 
caught it myself; ah, lor, it took some catch¬ 
ing! I used my own home-made tackle, what 
ain’t to be beaten in the country. It’s four 
year ago when I caught that feller in a pond 
four mile north of the town.” 
“Four years!” I ejaculated; “it looks 400 
years old, if a day.” 
“It’s the gas, sir, the gas here has most in¬ 
teresting properties. Stuft pike is the worst 
thing in the world to stand our rotten gas. 
Well, it was in January, 1906, as I went out 
with my rod and a can of nice bright roach. It 
was blowin’ and snowin’ like blazes. I’d just 
fixed on my hooks a nice white bait and hulled 
in, when steppin’ near the rondy-like margin, 
both my legs goes slick into a pulk hole, which 
I hadn’t noticed as was covered with snow. 
The rod slips from my hands, and I tries to pull 
myself out. But the more I wriggled, the 
further and tighter I went into that infernal 
ooze-” 
“Nice start,” I said, getting my mouth full 
of lather, for he happened that moment to 
swing the brush round from my jaw. 
“Beg pardon, sir, but it was; and as bad luck 
would have it, there wasn’t a creature within 
a mile, let alone hailing distance. I hollered, 
but that wasn’t no good, and I felt terrible 
skeart. It seemed hours, but it couldn’t have 
been minutes afore I heard a horrid groaning 
noise, which I knowed to be emanating from 
the throat of Barnaby Barham’s old pied bull. 
Presently up he comes, and seein’ only part of 
me above soil, no doubt stands wondering 
whatever I could be. Then he comes snufflin’ 
up to within a yard of me, his great feet squash- 
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