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Show MAW CANNOT LIE ABOUT FISH Nothing On Can Say on the Subject Is Too VoIrd to Be Duplicated In Actual Experience. Everything 1b possible where Ashing Is concerned This talk about flshlng-men flshlng-men outraging the truth or departing from voracity 13 bosh, tommyrot and nonuense. A man may think ho can manufacture a Jie about flsh. but It is a mistake. Nothing you can say on the subject is too weird to be duplicated by actual experience There are fish which weigh 3,000 pounds, and thoro are other flBh who speak French and eat with an oyster fork Philip C. Kennedy, tha engineer, who knows all there Is to know about fish, heard n man ridiculing a story that bass could bo caught In the muddy mud-dy water of the Potomac river by a man striking an oar on the surface ol the stream and watching the fish loap merrily Into the boat. Then the engineer engi-neer told this: "In the hot and slmmarlng summer of 1S97 I wan with a corps of engineers engi-neers making surveys of the Shenandoah Shenan-doah river which unites with tho Potomac Po-tomac at Harper's Ferry Ono party lived In a cabin on a large flat-bottomed boat, and the shadow caBt by this boat attracted fiflh In largo quan-Itlee. quan-Itlee. The baas, particularly, were bo filled with curiosity that In Jumping Jump-ing up Into the air for the purpose of Investigation they foil ovor the sides of tho boat, and we picked thsm up at will." All of wb5ch Indicates tho time wasted wast-ed by gentloxn-en who have carefully figured out that they bave to ueo a hook and line. As a means of sport shadow flBhlng has shadow boxing backed off the boards. Popular Magazine. |