Show Dave Lilly By J Joyce Kilmer Theres There's a brook on the side of Greylock that used to tobe tobe tobe be full of or trout But ut theres there's nothing there now but minnows they say its it's all fished out I fished there many a Summer day some twenty years ago And I never lle quit without getting a mess of a dozen or so There was a no man man Dave Lilly who vho lived li on tho the North Adams road And he spent all his time fishing while his neighbors reaped and sowed He was tho the luckiest fisherman in the Berkshire Hills I think And when he didn't go fishing hed he'd sit in the tavern and drink Well Dave Daye is dead and buried and nobody cares ver very much The They have no use in Greylock for drunkards and loafers and such But I always liked Dave Lilly be he was was pleasant as you could wish He was shiftless and good good- nothing good or-noth or but he certainly could fish The other night I was walking up the hill bill from Williamstown Williamstown Wil Wil- n nAnd And nd I came canie to the brook I mentioned and I stopped on the bridge and sat down I looked at the blackened water with its little flecks of white And I heard it ripple and whisper in the still of the Summer night And after niter Id I'd b been n there a minute it seemed to me mo I could feel The Thc presence presence of some one near me mt and I heard beard the hum of a reel And the water was churned and broken and something was as brought to land landBy landBy B By a twist and a n flirt of a shado shadowy rod in in- ina a deft and shadow shadowy hand I scrambled down to the brookside and hunted bunted all alla a about out There wasn t a sign of a fisherman there wasn wasn't t a 1 sign of a trout But I heard somebody chuckle behind the hollow oak And I got a whiff of t. t tobacco bacco like Lilly used to smoke I Its It's fifteen years years they tell me since an any r one fished that brook And theres there's nothing in in it but hut minnows minnows that nibble the bait off your our hook But before the sun has haa risen and after the moon hits has hasset set setI I know that it its it's 5 full of or ghostly trout for LilI Lillys Lilly's s ghost to get ct I 0 I 1 guess Ill I'll go to the tavern an and get a bottle of rye And leave it down by the hollow oak where here Lillys Lilly's ghost went by br I mea meant to go up on on the hillside and try to find his grave ae And put some flowers on it but it-but but this will rill bc be better for Dave T T Indianapolis News |