Show I 1 I 1 GOING r FISHING but I 1 don t see the point pro bersted the summer the young man with his foot rest ing on the lower step and two fish poles over his shoulder shook his head patiently haven t I 1 just explained he said that when one goes to the country one must indulge in outdoor sports and that fishing la Is included in the category 9 given a perfectly good lake full of trusting little fish why not fishe it if one does not fish why not stay in town where one can order fish planked and then complain to the waiters do try to be in keeping with your surroundings just at present yo yoi i are theoretically surrounded by shiny bass begging to be caught I 1 im in not I 1 declared the summer re sorter flatly I 1 rn surrounded by a gale of wind direct from the north pole and I 1 in freezing to death and I 1 want to go back to the log fire inside the cottage from which you called me you may think this Is june but III tell you it isn t alts it s the middle ot of winter oh come on begged the man on the lower step honest fishing isn t half bad besides it its s no tun fun to go alone I 1 this Is perfectly idiotic grumbled af he the summer ten minutes later as she tramped along in sweater and k 4 old coat her nose pink and her eyes 0 weeping from the wind im I 1 in frozen r clear through and I 1 loathe fishing any how and besides any self respecting respect inc ilar fish would stay at home on a day like this I 1 id d have no regard not the slightest for a weak minded fish that would go deliberately wandering around in the ice water looking for bait merely to be accommodating when it could just as well as not stay in the nice warm mud at the bottom of the lake I 1 t care to eat a fish like that really don t you think it is going to snow its it s really too cold to snow ad bitted the young man if it could storm icebergs I 1 id d be willing to prophesy those but not just plain or binary snow all the horses at our place are blooming out in n winter coat of heavy fur still the fish don t mind that because you can cut holes in the ice in winter and get them you know arr D r r shivered the summer re sorter as they ro the outskirts of the woods and came out on the lake front I 1 in glad to discover what you call plea pleasure urel of course if you had invited me to go on a merry little jaunt through a cold storage plant or something like that I 1 would have known what to expect fishing has always been represented to me as an agreeable way of killing time I 1 don dent t see anything agreeable about this I 1 wish I 1 had brought my furs ve arent fishing yet yett said the tha young man patiently we are mere ly y on the way the zest of the sport will ow w w I 1 moaned the summer how was I 1 to know that horrid hook was swinging loose if you tear my best puffs getting it out never forgive you as long as I 1 live I 1 then vou 11 have to unpin them and tet let them dangle on the hook said the young man shortly they may attract the fish yank it out commanded the sum mer fiercely I 1 hate fish hooks I 1 heard beard of a girl once who got a fishhook caught in her ear car when she was a child and they couldn coulden t get it A out and she had to go through life that way too bad she couldn coulden t unpin her ear as you can our puffs said the young I 1 man uns unsympathetically arn path ethically eti cally now you sit on the box and bait your hook ugh said the summer there must be something wrong with a human being who can handle angle worms and act as though he liked IV it doesn doean t it make creeps go down your spine i to no said the man callous ly I 1 in just as wrong as they make em pa don me but fish as a rule don dont t skate along the surface of the water you d better lower your line truly said the summer through her chattering teeth are you having a good time she stared questioningly at the ong man aiho sat hunched up bebide beside her crappel in a disreputable heavy coat and wl ni h a pipe between his teeth yes indeed he declared cheer fully aren arent t youl this Is great I 1 in not sa d the summer uncompromisingly and the lake is getting rougher and rougher and pretty soon oon it will splash over this pier and wash our stiffened corpses away oh what s the matter Gota bite said the young man running the words together what a nice bass put it into the basket he ile rebal ted his hook and then aa as the summer didn dian t come cote bach back to her seat he looked around what in creation are you doing II 11 roared sending this poor little fish back ionic she said coolly as she dropped t into the lake it it U looked so ittle and sort of lonesome can t you atch them bigger than thata the young man looked at her and set his jaw then he arose resignedly come on he said and ik well ell go bach back to the log fire I 1 don t believe I 1 care much about fishing today |