Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1913 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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LITTLE FIBHEB. Some of the party in the clubroom were swapping fish stories and of course the size of the talk was all out of proportion to the size of the fishes. Finally Charles Kenyon, the playwright, smiled. “Reminds me," he explained, “of a fishing party down in Florida. One afternoon three of the fellows went out and the blggeßt thing they caught was about four Inches long: This, however, was no damper on their happiness, and to everybody they proudly exhibited the catch. “ ‘By the way,’ said a charming young lady, to whom the string was shown, 'fishes go in schools, do they not?’ ‘Yes, certainly,’ answered the happy fisherman. “Why do you ask?’ “ ‘Merely a fancy of mine,’ sweetly responded the young lady; ‘I was thinking that you must have broken up the infant class.’ ”