those bass must think, invaded in this 
way and wonder where they hid them- 
selves and how they had the courage 
to come back to the spot where they 
had been driven and frightened away. 
Some days we would come out along 
it with our sling shots and sometimes 
a lucky boy would have an air rifle and 
we would plug away at the frogs, get- 
ting very little in the way of frogs but 
much in the way of fun, having the 
time of our little lives. How tickled 
we would be if we hit an old and tough 
grand-daddy bull frog and such look- 
ing an peering as we did! 
ANY a night we would come out 
to bob for eels, which involved 
much digging for worms the afternoon 
before. What excitement there was 
when the one who had the pole would 
have a bite and jerk the line out of 
water quickly and throw an eel way 
up the bank. We would hear it thrash- 
ing about in the bushes and hurriedly 
grabbing off the old bag from the lan- 
tern, rush to the spot and dance madly 
about trying to catch that eel. What 
times those were! This old stream 
must have seen queer doings in its day. 
When I came to learn that the black 
looking fish, that we wondered at as 
boys, were really bass, I cannot remem- 
ber. There seems to be a lapse of mem- 
ory for a few years of my life and 
after that it seems as if I had always 
known about the bass.- It may that I 
picked up the knowledge from men I 
met along stream and, seeing them 
with their shiny rods and reels, was 
curious to know what they were going 
to catch with them. Just as a few 
years ago I met a little country boy of 
some twelve years of age, poking along 
the stream, of whom I asked out of cu- 
riosity if there were any fish there- 
abouts. He said there were plenty of 
sunnies and eels and that there were 
some black mullet, which were very 
scary. He went on to say that he never 
could get a bite from these black fel- 
lows. Then with a little persuasion 
he took me up stream to a pool, where 
he showed me, where those same shy 
mullet were to be found. I chuckled 
to myself, as it was a favorite fishing 
spot of my own and I had spent long 
hours casting across its surface. But 
I crept up, and finding the water clear, 
saw a dark shadow or a fish, at first I 
could not tell which, until looking long 
enough for my eyes to get accustomed 
to the shadows and depths, I saw that 
the shadows were my old friends the 
bass. I lay there quietly watching the 
movements of the fish, so long that the 
small boy left me there, wondering no 
doubt what I could see in that mullet. 
ae I grew older and began to learn 
about game fishing, I realized of 
what value these fish and this stream 
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