Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — Philosophical. [ARTICLE]

Philosophical.

An old schoolmaster, a venerable disciple of “good old Izaak Walton,” once told this pleasing tale of his life as an angler: I remember, when I was a boy, going out one morning before sunrise to fish for pickerel. I had just hooked a big one, when along came a countryman. He said nothing, but with mputh wide open, stopped to see the fun. The contest had lasted more than half an hour, when suddenly, just as I was about to land the prize, the pickerel, with one last rush for liberty, made good his escape. With a lump in my throat, I instinctively turned, to the countryman for consolation. “Waal, -I’ll be hanged!” he exclaimed. “Yew held on ter yoor end, young feller, but he didn’t hold on ter his’n!” t '