Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — A Great Find. [ARTICLE]

A Great Find.

The agent of a dime museum, who had been sent out by the proprietor with a roving commissi®u to replace a leading attraction who had lately married another freak, and gone out of the show business, came upon a Long Island fisherman. “Anything unusual in the fish about this vicinity ?” he inquired. *'Naw, nuthin’ out o’ ordin-rey,” replied the old man, “ ’cept that they bites more one day than they does t’other.” “Didn’t you ever hook a big fish that pulled you overbeard, and towed you across to the other side of the lake ?” “Naw, never ded.” “Didn’t you ever see the fish so hungry that they jumped right into your boat to get at the bait ?” “Naw, can’t saay thet I ded.” •“Didn’t you ever see the lake so full of fish that you had to get out of your boat and shove it along over their backs ?” “Naw, don’t think I ever ded.” “Never caught a fish that had swallowed a precious gem of untold wealth?” “Saay, does I look es es I hed?” “How long have you been fishing, anyhow ?” “Nigh onter sexty year, man and boy.” “Old man,” joyfully exclaimed the dime museum agent, as he took h«m bv the lapel of his coat, “come with' me! I have gold for thee.”— Exchange,