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Show THE FISH JUMPED INTO BOATS Frightened by Motor Craft Actually Imperiled Children Appears to Be True. Waukesha, Wis. While boating up the Fox river a -five-and-a-half pound bluck bass jumped into the rowboat of Lloyd and lone Thomas, aged ten and twelve respectively, children of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Thomas, and because of the confusion that followed a serious seri-ous accident was narrowly averted. Other fishermen went to the rescue of the children. It has been reported that on at least six different occasions' this full fish have jumped into boats on the Fox river. They become frightened, it is said, when struck by the motor boats, which they are unable to see at a distance because of the dirty water. |