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Show This Gold Fish Was A Banker Fish stories are rife in -May, and un- i r.er the seductive influence of baimy ; fprliig new versions come to light of ! the same old stories we have heard : filnce boyhood days. Congressman . Plumley of Yerment, of portentously serious mie'n. asserted to a smiling group of colleagues that a couple of seasons ago he lost his watch and a ' $20 gold piece overboard while wait- I j ing by a placid pool for a bite. The I next year, he declared under oath, he caught a fish in that self-same pool a "gold fish" of course and he found within the finny armor of that Vermont Ver-mont bass his watch, the $20 gold piece and 30 cents accrued interest. Fish Commissioner Bowers insists that this is another result of his labors la-bors to propagate thrifty habits among gold fish. He says that the monetary question has been so much discussed in Washington, that It has affected the spawn sent out through the country, and if these fish stories continue he will not be responsible for results. An the party broke up it w&s agreed that Congressman Plumley deserved i"ue plum of the fish story season. "Affairs "Af-fairs and Folks," Joe Mitchell Chappie in Joe Chappie's News Letter. |