Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1913 — Keeps Out of Water Now [ARTICLE]

Keeps Out of Water Now

Gander With Fishing Line Tied to His Leg Has Lively Time With Pickerel. A Wisconsin gander was so upset by experiments made upon and through him by a mischievous boy that tor a long time he would not go into the water. The gander's determination to abstain from water as a means of bathing grew out of the following circumstances: Tbe boy thought he would tie a fish-ing-line to the gander's leg add with a hook properly baited turn the bird qut Into the water. The bait was a frog. Tbe gander went Into tbe mill pond, where he swam around for half an hour, turning “flip-flaps” and diving for food. Suddenly he felt a pull at bis leg and looked as surprised as the “lone fisherman” when be caught a whale. /

Tbe gander concluded that there was something the matter, and be looked to ascertain tbe cause. The pickerel on the hook gave several jerks, whereupon the* gander decided that he wanted to go home.

He at once started for the shore, but tbe pickerel on tbe hook wanted to go the other way. The gander

seemed frightened at first. Then he Evinced signs of anger and tried to fly to shore, but the pickerel pulled him back. After half an hour of the hardest work he bad ever done, the gander came ashore dragging a six-pound pickerel up the bank.

She boy took off the pickerel and ed the hook with another frog. He tried to Induce the gander to go in for another swim, but no amount of persuasion could get the bird to do so. He simply could not be driven in. For many weeks tbe gander would not go into the water. He would proceed with the rest of his flock to tbe water’s edge, but there he would stop. He would seem to be arguing with them with reference to the danger they were courting.