Show KANOSH most fis fish h stories are advised i to be taken with a little salt butchis but this one is entirely fresh fora number of days our town was alive with tho information that clear lake was under proper authority to be denuded of its common fish namely carp and suckers we had all heard of the lakes crowded condition and the carp ta angerly bumping bulpin 9 aga against inist each other tons of these erian fish were to be taken from the lake to mako make room for the more aristocratic gamesters ga under protection of the law it was publio publia kly given out that none could get these without first providing themselves with a licence costing one dollar and a quarter a trifling amount for a wagon load of fish boxes and barrels were in demand the larger the better hay and bread was piled in the wagons and one gentleman took teok a good sized cook stove for immediate use we all wished them good speed and waited longingly their return but the inviting 0 news of this great fish harvest had been published in the deseret news and of course the fish heard of it il and were on the qui vivo vive arrived at the lake thirty miles from homo home monday night they looked at the clear moving waters with bubbles f from rom the breth of carp floating on the surface landwere and were glad they had come next day the promis hed bed official scaine had not ai arrived aided and by means pitchforks f and twenty four men caught twenty three fish and they are reported to have beon been delic delicious iou s high priced food is generally so considered on the third day the scaine arrived f from rom the north the carp had had time for council and as soon as the waters became troubled the aholo multitude dived into the mud and the suckers are sad I 1 to have hid themselves in every kuok and crany of rocks on the sides of the lake and poss umed for the remainder of this official visit of destruct ion on the entire cutch had bad been made the twenty three fish had boten ben devoured wilh gusto and not a fragment fracine at remained disappointed Disa pointed good men thought of their tender wives wiver at home and the fishy promises they had made them they dare not return empty handed banded on the morning of the fourth day the crowd parted a number of tho the bravest determined to keep faich with their wives went many miles further west to swan lake there was a safe catch just cut cub a hole bole in the lee ice the fish would come to see what was going on you loud load up at ufa your you leasure laaser e th 6 other aher biscart pis cartor ors s r ame acme on the he emedin ev evening eDin or of the burth fourth A dy we saw a good neighbor returning up m main ain street and we rejoiced at the thought t of the morning breakfast As he drew near we noticed the boneys looked fagged bagged 0 as they slowly palled through the mud the man sat stooping looking 0 between the horses at the wagon tongue in the vehicle we noticed two or three sticks of wood and the fifty gallon fish carrel barrel laying sideway side sido way we went into the house and quietly shut the door whispered to our wife and lost our appetite for fish two days later the swan lake crowd arrived home hoine they had not induced a swan lake carp to come near their air holes and had lived on hume home made acoves without flah fish wo we are a people A gentleman drummer quietly remarked the only person erson who appears to have caught any suckers is the licence clerk |