Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — A London Fish Story. [ARTICLE]

A London Fish Story.

An angler went to work by the side of a pond. He fished with a worm, and had not been at work five minntes before he had a bite. He caught an eel but found some difficulty in hauling it out. "When he succeeded, however, he found another eel hanging to its tail. The second eel had another attached to it, and the third eel hauled out a fourth, and so on. The angler, surprised and disgusted, set out to walk home. At last he found his burden ; heavier than 'he could bear and he laid down his rod. talking back he found no fewer than 150 eels in a line Curious to see how far the fishes would extend, he walked back and sat down in the grass. Then he began to haul away, and before he had got the last he counted 6,500 eels. Even then they came up in battalions to get hold of the tail of that last fish, but missed it. The special trains employed by Her Majesty Victoria during the past nineteen years have cost $46,300. The British public imagined that she paid for these herself, but is shocked to learn that the Government has footed the bills. , _ *