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ing deep holes in the soft earth. Thinks I, 
this’ll be nice if he plumps into the same quag- 
hole alongside me! 
“Then a thought occurs to me. I’d tried to 
haul myself out by the reeds, and had dug my 
fingers deep into the soil and struggled all to 
no purpose, and by this time was fairly sitting 
with my legs fast as in a trap. Thinks I, ‘now, 
if you’ll only tow me out you’d be a doing 
suffin’.’ He was tremengous suspicious, al¬ 
though, had he met me on terror firmly he’d 
have had no hesitation in tossin’ me, and other¬ 
wise maulin’ me. Then, as luck would have it, 
he sorter bounds by me, his tail cornin’ within 
hail of my fingers. You may be sure it was 
only the matter of a second for me to clutch it 
with both hands like grim death; and the bull, 
feeling the incubuss on his handle, bounds off, 
jerkin’ me out of the hole; but, lor, it fared 
as if my legs was bein’ plucked out of my 
trousers; as it was, I left my boots in the 
slough. When I’d been hauled some twenty 
yards, I let go, and the bull, more skeared than 
ever, took himself off to the far side of the field. 
“Looking back, I sees my big red float going 
away like mad, and the reel unwinding as I’d 
read of windlasses onreeling when a whale was 
off with the harpune. There was suffin’ as had 
took the bait. My rod laid handy on a hard 
bit of ground, and though I was all’of a tremble 
over the bog and the bull, I crept toward it 
and scuttled back to safer soil. 
“I played that fish two hours, and both of us 
got exhausted simultaneously; if anything. I 
was the stronger. I must have been, for I 
wound the line tight, the fish coming in like a 
log; and now I had that there 24-pounder at 
my feet.” 
At that moment a customer came into the shop. 
“You’ll excuse me a minute, sir,” said he, 
“I’ll shampoo you as soon as I serve that 
gentleman—he’s ordered some bait.” 
During the barber’s yarn a 'local customer 
had brought in a good capful of thick, red hair, 
which badly needed Mr. Eggpenny’s art to put 
it in anything like respectable order. 
“I reckon, guv’nor, he’s been tellin’ you about 
that ere pike?” he remarked. 
“He has,” I replied, “and what a time he had 
catching it.” 
“Rubbidge, sir,” said lie, turning to see if the 
barber was within hearing, “it’s his weakness. 
He s. as sane as. a parson on everything else 
barrin that pertickler fish. He once dream’t 
that yarn, and it made such an impression on 
him, that he told it to several of us—that was 
twenty year ago. He told the yarn so often 
that he got to believe the thing really happened 
and was as true as Gord’s truth; he don’t mean 
to he no more ’an you or I do. I remember 
him buym that old fish and case in 1887 at a 
sale. He gave four and sixpence for it. Don’t 
say nothin’ to him. sir, or he’ll have a fit. He’d 
sooner you call him everything you could lay 
your tongue to than a Her.”—Anglers’ News. 
FOUND IN A PIKE. 
The tastes of fish are curious and sometirm 
to judge from pike legends, alarming, but seldo 
can speculation have been more aroused than 1 
the salmon of the following story, which ] 
Cronm-Coltsman has discovered in the O 
Kerry Records, 1829, and kindly sends to t 
it runs: “A gentleman (Mr. Comerford) 1 
KilJarney, while fishing on the lake at Wate 
ville, killed an extraordinary salmon weighii 
57/2 pounds which, when opened, was found 
contain in its maw a small canister of Lambkir 
snuff and a part of an epaulette. How it g 
there is the question, but of the fact there 
no doubt. The salmon with a taste for cani 
ters of snuff and outlying portions of militai 
men is worthy of being added to the famoi 
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swallower of the ring of Polycrates, and en< 
J ™ the. great and honest Thames pike. Th 
hs.h haying become possessor of a sovereig 
mislaid by an angler in a lock cutting, was sul 
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rumor runs—found to contain, not a sovereig: 
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