| Show THE GENTLEMAN ANGLER servant attended to everything except the hooking ot of the fish henry B hawkins deputy unite knitel I states revenue collector is a true sportsman whether with a rod and reel or gun he is in his element even a cross country run on a wheel after the long island moon shiners satisfies his sporting appetite at times but duthe tie was disgusted a few days ago when lie he saw a fellow who thought he knew something about fishing gittlin sitt sitting lin on the banks of a stream d dangling an gling a hook in the water heres the way mr air hawkins tells the story 1 I took a run rim down on long island a few days ago and made up my mind to catch a mess of fish I 1 was sitting in a small boat when a young fellow appeared on the shore he was dressed in a sporting suit that I 1 know was never intended to be worn within SO 90 yards of a bait basket baskel the bewitching thi thing ng was accompanied by a colored man who selected a nice comfortable for his master and then carefully brushed the spot before the gentleman fi would wold seat himself that was bul f 1 commencement the colored attendant got out his bai r asters rod and put it together 11 II fixed the line and then the hook and finally the bait in the meanwhile ma BO young gentleman gazed d at his placid stockings and at the water once he con descended to look at me the servant when he had everything completed except catching the fish han handed ded the rod and line to the sport you would have thought the attendant was a young society fellow feller handing a bouquet to his lady idly love and then to see the fisherman take the rod roc between his finger tips well ho however he really threw the hook into the water without the aid of the attend ant of course there was no reason wha he be should not have caught a fish as tl tin stream was a preserve and the fish hall hail been fed carefully all winter and so the fellow got quite a mess every time a fish was hooked the gentleman would pull it out of the water and swing th line inshore so that the colored c man could remove the fish from m the hook and replenish the bait the whole proceeding nearly s spoiled my sport I 1 was as so dis disgusted guste d that I 1 pulled my boat out toward the ibe sound N Y herald |
