Show J 1 1 VISITS WITH vIT L i 1 BY I Some men who go fishing miss halt the fun they fun they dont don't catch their ow own I frogs Fish Fishing I n g with frogs purchased purchased pur chased of a a boy is 1 t J like spending the j money a rich uncle has left lert you you you-you you l dont don't appreciate I w your our good fortune Ever catch frogs Missed hall tall your life I Next time you go on a vacation take a ayt solemn and binding bind ing obligation to be i V your own frog 4 rte catcher The fatter fat ter you ou are themore the themore themore more sport these thee Vi I is in It it Add to your luggage one landing net landing net and when you ou arrive at the summer resort secure the of services a eyed cross cross left handed neighbors neighbor's rs r's boy to go with you Into the dark grass YOU you go whacking whacking whack whack- ing the tufts with your landing net Suddenly with a bark like a bull pup tugging at a root a big mottled akal- akal awag of a frog leaps from beneath your feet and startles your equilibrium Before you have recovered he I is J seven leaps to the good In a crotchety line that suggests too much dewdrops drops with a stick In them screams the boy there he goes there he goes and you go too like a black bass bas snapping at a fly but you merely succeed succeed suc sue teed in stepping on the tail tall of ot a grass snake and g getting tUng another nerve wrecker Bye and bye you startle a second dappled frog from the succulent grass grass- heaps and fall all over yours yourself lt trying to grab the batrachians hind leg as ashe ashe ashe he flies files like a tangent through the ozone When you come to you recall the net landing-net To be sure that net was brought onto the field of ot battle for fora a purpose purpose You proceed to utilize the frog catcher by stalking Glory You have Mr Frog right under that net In his excitement the boy trips on the pan pall he is carrying and almost kills the frog by a too fervent t pressure of the seat pantaloon-seat accidentally ad ministered gasps the frog and who can blame him Score one for the boy with the frog in the pail pall Next time you get a marsh athlete under the net however you refuse to let the boy fall faU into the net and squash him Instead you get carefully and tenderly down on your knees and peep under the edge of ot the net Just In time to catch that composite colored Jumper In your eye as he leaps for tor liberty liberty lib lib lib- erty and the pursuit of happiness Then you fall Into a b g and while the boy is rescuing you the lid of ot the pall pail comes loose and the pressed frog springs to life and takes to the tall cat cat tails I When you feel how wet your knees are you get mad and change places' places with the boy Then business picks up and all you have to do is ISI to shoo the measly slippery t things h I n g s sInto into the bottom of 11 the pail pall while the boy shovels em emIn emin ll llin in at the top Once t you get a fi fighting 1 bull frog by the toes toes' of his right hind leg and he almost almost al al- al most dislocates your vertebrae so pronounced is his kicking r Thou Thon you go goj goI j I home home- When you I get dried out it Is bed time Carefully Carefully Care Care- fully put your frogs under the bed and retire first Impressing upon your wife the necessity necessity sity of ot rising early mother d dear ar morning You want to try a sunrise sun sunrise rise cast Did you ever hear a bull frog growl Great Ker Kerl ker ker he begins Jug g Jug g g g a rum he be continues Jug Jug gr arum gr gr-gr gr tearing off ort the guttural guttural gut gut- tural obligate until the slats shake Ever try to sleep while a of frogs are playing the Irish Washerwoman Washerwoman Washer Washerwoman woman on the top of a bait can lid Hd Great Only that doesn't express it But strange to say your wife does not appreciate it and Just as you are dreaming of a big strike and have out about feet of ot line on a whale she puts her cold feet Ceet in your back and makes you get up and take those frogs from under the bed Thump Rub dub Crack Bang go the speckled beauties against the pall pail Sadly you arise again and put them Just outside the door door and and every hour after that your dreams are rudely thrust aside in response to a strenuous oils ous nd dem to take those frogs out of at hearit g distance The last Jast time you carry them two miles Into the country and drop them Into an old welland well welland welland and and then you wake up and go fishing Did you ever put a frog on a fish fishhook fishhook fishhook hook Notice how bow he looked at you and gurgled And still men men wonder at crime But there Is lots more fun fishing with your own frogs you frogs you appreciate the bites better you know t |