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Show Wicked Trick on Trout Fisher. J. H. Blethen and Alfred Stetson, of Linneus, went on a fronting expedition nd captured eleven fish. They placed them in their wagon aud then went off to look after some bear traps. Wbile they were gone Dr. Boyd happened along, and recognizing the team proceeded to purloin the trout. He took them to Mr. Blethen's house, told Mrs. Blethen how he came by them, and requested her to say nothing, but o cook them the next day and surprise her husband; meantime mean-time she would probably hear a pretty good fish story, he predicted. When Mr. Blethen arrived home his story, in reply to his wife's inquiries as to his luck, was fully np to the expectation of the plotters. file said they had caught forty-eight trout, and most of them were of monstrous size, in fact the finest string he ever saw, bnt some evil minded person had stolen them from the team while they were absent, and so on. When his wife produced eleven fried little fishes for dinner the next day and told him that there were his forty-eight monsters the fisherman wilted like a morning glory in a noonday sun. Houl-ton Houl-ton (Me.) Pioneer. |