Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1881 — A True Fish Story, [ARTICLE]

A True Fish Story,

A country hotel’s guest went forth to fish. He splashed himself with brook mud, tore his clothing and hair in underbrush, and at the close looked like a volunteer at the close of Bull Run. At night he strode up to the hotel and exhibited thirteen trout to the veranda’s occupants, and related how easy the trout came to grief, how he climbed fourteen trees to unhitch the line, and how inferior the r, suit was compared with what he usually accomplished. At that moment a boy came up, well out of breath, and exclaimed: “Mister, ma says I can’t sell yer them fish ; they’s promised to another man ; here’s yer money.”