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Show Yan. I had heard before that crabs wero good bait for black bass, aud thinking think-ing that I might get some fun out of them as well as anybody else I went over to Lake Keuka outlet to bait. I banged around in tho creek for three hours turning np stones and slopping about in the water knee deep, and succeeded suc-ceeded in capturing five little crabs. " 'Well,' I said to myself, 'that isn't a very big lot of bait to start on a day's fishing with, but I guess 1 won't have any trouble getting two or three nice bass, anyhow.' "I waa about leaving the creek when I met a small boy. Ho was a Penn Yan small lx)y and ho had nerve, and he hailed mo familiarly and said: " -Hullo, mister. What you after?" "1 told him I was gathering crabs for bait, but that they were powerful scarce. " 'What'll you give me to get you someV inquired tho small boy. "I thought it would be a nice thing to I have a couple of dozen or so of crabs, for ! I'd want to be going out after more bass ! the next day, and knowing what a tough ; and tedious time I'd hud getting only five, I thought I'd make it worth tho boy's while spending a day tugging and sweating sweat-ing among tho stones, and so I said I'd give him live cents apiece for crabs. " 'How many '11 1 git yon?1 he asked. ' 'Oh, all you can,' I replied, feeling that all he could get would certainly be few enough. " 'All right!' he said, and I went np the lake a mile or so with my five crabs to get somo bass for my snpper. I fished all the rest of tho day and never got as much as a bite. It was supper time when I pulled for home. " 'The next man that says crabs to me,' I (said to myself, 'it won't go well with.' "After snpper I was sitting in my offien, feeling a little sore yet over my day's fishing, when a knock came to the door. I opened it, and there stood the small boy I had hired to gather crabs for me. I had forgotten all about him. '"Hullo, mister!" he said. 'I got tome!' "Crabs were the very last thing I was hankering after just then, but ef r8e a bargain was a bargain. " 'All right,' I said. 'Fot "The small boy stepped asit mediately appeared again, acco., by another small boy. Each boy .., in a big tobacco pail. Each pail . filled with crabs. " 'Great heavens! I exclaimed. 'How many haye you got? " 'There's two thousan', mister,' said the small boy I had bargained with. I 'But we'd 'a' got a lot more if the pails I had lieen bigger.' i "Two thousand crabs! If you'll take ! the trouble to 1 " '-" i that you'll find ' that at five con W crabs will come to just an that was the price per cr pay. While tb an idea that tlx were crndr, for anxious and app them I induced basis of lata then they iniahy nie that the ns) crabs to jb ' I chtiny-'"' Mill UK II malrft lankea Bladta Bow Dr. Tompkir.i Found Halt Fnor.Cll to Flah for Kius All Ills Life. "I like to do a littlf!ack bass fishing fish-ing now and then," said Dr. Tompkins, of Penn Yan, "bnt I'm not one of those enthusiastic people who can't get along without it. The other day, though, a friend of mine came in with a fine catch of bass, and the sight of them rather put me in the humor of going out andgotting lot myself. "What did yon catch 'em with?" I asked my friend. "Crabs," he said. "We call crawfish 'crabs' in Penn |
