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Show THE WAY OF THE FISHERMAN It Is Made Hard for Him Wlwn He Has Big Story to Tell. A flshormnn who was worming for trout on tho Ythnn had Just laid his rod down to visit Ms sandwich box. when without warning It suddenly roso In tho nlr nnd soared away llko a nierlot blplano over Esselmont Woods. Kor ono wild moment ho thought (horo wero visions nbout, but tho explanation was soon apparent. A trout had seized tho worm nnd had thon In turn been seized nnd gorged by a horon. Awny flnpped tho heron, only to find thnt It had captured something of unusual wolght. Still It bravely How towards Its nont In tho trcctops, and tho angler might never moro hnvo recognized his rod had It not got entangled In some tolo-grnph tolo-grnph wlros, with the result that tho cast pnnppod, tho heron wont free nnd tho rod was eventually rostorod to Its owner. I romombor telling this story to a man who b' "" I had even got as far as tho telegraph wires interrupted mo assuring mo thnt It was mere ovory-day ovory-day commonplace to what had onco befallon a friend of his whon mash soor fishing In India. It seems that bis angling frlond was casting with n largo spoon, and In n back cast drovo It Into tho car of n tiger which had been going to spring on him from bohtnd. Ooardod by tho pain, the brute sprang clean over him nnd Into tho river, nnd tho fisherman actually played with It for an hour as It swam to and fro In midstream. mid-stream. It Is such -'-rlos whl"h bring down on fishermen the unmerited reproach of being liars. , Onco whon I likd been describing some memorable light with one of tho big flsh of tho past I wroto: "I live over those tense moments again and again." Did tho printer so Interpret me! Not at all. What he preferred was: "I Ilo over thoso tenso moment again and ngnlnl" This sort of thing Is very hard Whnt mndo It worse a. tho time was i the fact that tho friend who drew ' my attention to tho misprint was a golfer Ilnlloy's Magazine. |
