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Show A Story Full of Interest UP AROUND Spooner, Wis., it Is natural, of course, that spoon fishing should be popular not only with the natives, but with the 26,444 visitors who inhabit the region re-gion every summer. At least, that Is the assertion of Fred Record, of Barrington, 111. "One of my friends fished a lake in the Spooner region fifteen years ago, but with indifferent success," says Record. "The man used a spoon, but for some reason the lure of Its whir failed to attract the fish. "My friend was quitting in disgust dis-gust and leaned over the side of his boat. A $10 gold piece for in those days the possession of gold was no misdemeanor fell from his pocket, spun in the water and was seized and swallowed by a fish, which darted away. "Five years ago, that friend and I returned to the same lake. Again my companion's luck was poor. But just at sundown he landed an enormous enor-mous pickerel which we took to camp for our dinner. You can imagine imag-ine the delight of my friend on cleaning the fish, to discover a $10 gold piece In its belly. "The treasure was slightly tarnished, tar-nished, It Is true. But to offset this, my friend also removed three $:; bills from the fish. The $6. we figured fig-ured out later, represented 6 per cent interest on the gold piece for ten years. It pleased us to learn that the amount was exactly correct." cor-rect." C Western Newspaper Union. |