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Show TRU TH 6 sort the country with a pack for years, neighbors guessing as to what until at last a war widow took pity of a procession was passing. on him and married him, and gave we him a home. Perry was fond of eels, When we reached the pond built a small fire for lighting pur- so he said, and was one day complainposes, baited some hooks and began ing to Doc Stevens, who ran a saw fishing. The eels didnt take to the mill up the creek, just below Ben bait at first, but the bull heads did, Agers, that he had never had all the and for a half hour the man with the eels he wanted, and just for the fun map of Ireland for a countenance and of the thing would like to have enough I were busy unhooking them. Then to satisfy him. Be it known that the suddenly Patrick had a large bite; a eels come up from the sea in the heaving bite; a tug, a pull and rush spring and run down again in the fall. that nearly took him In with it. On the way down various devices are Land him, I yelled, its a whopper; used to catch them. One consists in It making an opening in the bulkhead, land him. Paddy landed him. would which weigh was a silver eel just above the water wheel, attaching five pounds, if an ounce. As the fish a box with a slat bottom- that came swinging through the summer thereto atmosphere into the glow of the fire- will let the water run through and light the Irishman saw him for the keep the eel in. It is opened at night first time. A shnake; a shnake, he and next morning when the water is screamed, dropping his pole and run-1 turned off and the lid opened a man Well, ning as fast as he could. landed the eel all right, but no more is liable to find all the way from a Doc told fishing for my comrade that evening. dozen to a hundred eels. mornnext We had fish for breakfast Perry if he would drive up next day ing, but divil a bite would he ate, he would fill him so full . of eels he for, as he expressed himself, hed not could not keep his shirt on. Perry acate shnalces. Mother offered to fry cepted and went up. Now an eel is him some bull heads seperately, but cut into chunks about three and a Poor old Pad- half inches in length, parboiled, no, hed none av it. me told twenty years after- rolled in flour and then friend in butdy, he not ate thim things fer tin ter or suet fat, mixed with lard.. The ward hed CHATTER. years aftherward, but hed larned to fish has only one bone and that runs of the like thim sure, an wirra, wlrra, phat straight through him from head to (Being the personal opinions He tail. Perry sat down and Mrs. Stevis one a foine mess they were avick. else writer and for. which no had missed a whole lot of good atin ens, good old soul; she could cook in any manner responsible.) in that time, sure he had, for an eel like a chef in a French cafe, began habis about the daintiest bit of fish meat cooking eels. She cooked, and she Bill Heywood has acquired the I know of when the woman who cooks cooked, and she cooked and then it of asking questions of late; not the them has the right sort of grey mat- some. Finally Perry pushed back and sort that ordinary folks ask, such as ter. cried a halt. Said he had had all the ones judgment on the political situadt & eels he wanted. He certainly looked tion here and elsewhere, or whether It. He went out to thank the Doc Pedlar Perry- was the name of a Alma Katz licked Dr. Mayo, or vice down the turnpike afterward kept the paunchy old plug who traveled around personally for the great kindness vouchsafed him and when he had gotversa, but questions about things that ten outside Mrs. Stevens and Fred n ed to interest both the writer and measured these bones left by the himself away back in the days when side of the plate. Honestly, had it one eel it would have measured at' been were much younger than both thirty-thre- e feet and some Inches. p esent. He sprung one on me a week Doc estimated afterwards that Perthat was all right; asked me if ry had surrounded some eleven J had ever treated a chicken for the pounds of eel meat'. pips. Of course I had. Every boy who lived east of the Mississippi and Eels were a part of the commerce .aised chickens had to doctor them for in that locality. An eel was good for AND comThis disease, pips. malady, something after he was dead. His plaint or whatever it may be, will hide was stretched on the side of the ield to no Christian Science treat1 Studies w 11 be resumed September 7Minim, Primary, Academic, barn and used to tie the swingle to ment. Mind may have a dominion and College University departments. Thorough courses in Ancient and over matter in many instances, but the handle of the flail used in thresh-- . Modern a Music chicken has the pips you when and Commercial Languages. X Science, Mathematics, ing out buckwheat, oats and other can work your mind until the cows branches receive especial attention. X Students are prepared for West grain. Small boys wore eel skin suscome home and the pips will be Point, Annapolis and all departments of Civil Service. limited A X penders and old men tied eel skins there when your mind has fagged out. of private rooms, for which early application should be made. number around their abdomens to cure rheuI About the chickens mind dont of lull efficient and A matism. The eel was a standby for corps experienced professors. X For further know, neither have I any knowledge the poor and a dainty for the rich. of the minds of the worms which call on address or particulars, Let cause the pips in the chicken. every blooming butcher in the THE VERY REV. PRESIDENT. world go on strike and it made no "Pips are caused, as I remember it. difference; the boys set a lot of lines y an abnormal growth of small and had eels for breakfast. An eel worms in the craw of the fowl, and a good chowder for dinner and made to in the vicinity adjacent the craw, eel fried for supper wasnt bad eating. rrul when they had established a res- niiAiAimmimiiAmAAiAAiAiAAAiiAAmiAAmaAUiAiiimiiAiAmnniimiAiiiiiAiAimmniiMnf idence they proceeded to multiply and replenish the limited neighborhood But to return to He cerin which they lived until the poor lit1 tainly has been theHeywood: cause of a great tle bird became very ill. Then it was deal of chatter. Bill didnt live in the that the boy got in his work. Medi-- , (ine was no good, because to kill same neighborhood as the writer, bethe worms with medicine meant to cause Bill was from over the Alleghekill the chicken also. So the lad nies, somewhere In Ohio. Bill set a vsed to sneak up behind the horse, ARE STANDARDS OF PERFECTION hen one day and when she came off (teal a long hair out of his tail and ush a foot or k two of it down the with about eleven chickens he start: throat of the chicken, until it became ed in the poultry business much the ; t ick and ejected the bacilli, or whatsame as Halsted StarK used to let his ever scientific name the parasites are entitled to. boys raise colts. They were always the boys colts, but dads horses. a Heywood sprung another on me Bills chickens got to frying size, all re-I two or me Asked i if ago. day but one, and the old man hurried thfem membered how many fish 1 used to off to market and got the price. The catch each mill race one exception was a small chicken of year, when the ; the male sex who gQt- around under a ; went dry. Did I? Well I should 40 Richards horse one day and was stepped on. I say. Because when the mill race The chicken had'a leg broken below f I went dry it was because .the pond iiuiiumii!iiiiniMiiiuuiiiiiiiiflniltliOi!iiMiiuiinMinTTITTTTinPPIMIIIMinnni the joint. The elderr Heywood want-was drained, and when the pond was drained it meant all sorts of pickerel, suckers, bull beads and river chubs. And oh, my, how the eels did bite o nights, when the water was low. Speaking of eels, what a lot of fun these Salt Lake kids are missing by not having any to catch. The average Salt Lake boy wouldnt know an eel if he met one, and in some countries that assertion would be sufficient to bring to the young man the sympathy of the entire community. Dad hired a greenhorn Mick one time to work for him and after two weeks hard toil we learned one Friday that the pond was to be drained the next. I proposed to fris Celtic joblots that we go fishing the night the water was drained off and he acquiesced, somewhat cautiously, as I now remember. We dug a lot of bait and started for the pond after supper, just as the stars were coming out, the terrier walking on his tip toes from the time we left the house. I remarked upon his peculiar gait and asked him why he did not plant his ample brogans square on the soil, whereupon he whispered to me and Inquired Av it wud be safe? O course, I replied, and why not? Sure, he responded, isnt it poaching were goin? I recall informing him that this was no egg cooking expedition and it took U3 half an hour to explain matters, he that poaching meant going after game when twas agin th law, and me in declaiming that in this land of the free and home of the valiant any one could go and fish until he could not rest without fear of any uniformed minion of the law interfering with him. This seemed to impress him very profoundly, because the clatter of his sabots as we rustled . - - All Hallows College Salt Lake City BOARDING j DAY SCHOOL - 1 j Kranich & Bach Pianos 1 . s Daynes . i 1 & Romney Piano Co. Street. - |
