Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1918 — OLD BOSSY DOTED ON FISH [ARTICLE]

OLD BOSSY DOTED ON FISH

Cow Feasts on Angler’s Prize Salmon and Tops Off Lunch With Trout He Flung at Her. The angler could cast a fly, and had caught trout In the soath of England, but had never so much as seen a salmon river. Great was his joy, therefore, when one day he received an In--vltatlon to flsh one of the most famous spring saln*i rivers In the north of Scotland, relates the Field. In the very first cast that he tried he hooked and landed his first tenpounder. The first salmon is always the most perfect and beautiful that ever was seen, and the angler reflected that if he carried his flsh In the bag all day it would dry and lose its lovely sheen. On the top of the brae there was a marshy nook that would answer his purpose admirably. He deposited his treasure in this nest and, having covered it with a thick layer of rushes, went on his way. The rest of the day he caught nothing except a half-pound trout. Still he was very happy and content as he turned homeward, and whistled merrily as he approached the marshy nook. But there he found a Highland cow in the act of consuming his salmon, of which little remained except the head and the tall. In his anger he flung the trout savagely at the cow, hitting her fully in the face; but, so far from taking offense, she seemed rather to think that he had brought her a bonne bouche whereivlth to complete the feast, for, after gazing at him for a moment with the Innocent, confiding eyes of her kind, she contentedly swallowed the trout.