Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1910 — Fishing. [ARTICLE]

Fishing.

The devil, we are told, is the father of lies. Fishing, therefore, must be the father of the devil, or else somei intimate family friend.Fishing is not an art; it is not a sport; it is usually an unaccomplished act. The essentials to fishing are a pole, a line, and an eliminated conscience. Also the person who desires to take; up fishing as a means of occupying his time for a day or so must have so much hope that he has to carry most of it in condensed form. Some people fish by casting the line hither and yon, then working the reel and swearing. Others cut out the casting and the* reeling-in and double up on the profanity. The mystery about fishing is not why you do not catch anything, but why, when you move from an apparently fishless spot, the other man can row in there hnd immediately catch a whale, y Jonah for years was suspected of being merely a fisherman.