Show SENATOR FRYE CAUGHT A DUCK bat the statesman Sta teiman wa fir at th time there was a session of the congles bignal fishing club in the coat rooms did you ever hear asked senator blackburn of the time senator frye caught the ducke it waa this way his specialty Is fly fishing and casting from a moving canoe well one day la the fall we were fishing up above anchored under the lee of a projecting point of land just watch me cast a minnow said the senator as he sent the bait whizzing far out into the river hardly had the minnow struck the water until the line paid out and the reel began to sing it s a five cried the boat man let him run senator let him run well there was some excitement the reel kept singing the sweetest music in the world to a fisherman at length the line was all run out and much to the senator s surprise the rod was pointed straight up in the air instead of toward the water the old boatman nearly fell in a fit in the bottom of the boat with laugh ter for there up in the sky soared a wild duck with the senator s minnow pull up said the senator in dis gust and lets go back to the club house fish in the rain barrel off the porch with uncle joe cannon and dave henderson for the rest of thia trio |