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Title: Stories of lake, field and forest. Rambles of a sportsman-naturalist. With ten half-tone engravings
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bates, Frank Amasa, b. 1858
Subjects: Fishing Hunting
Publisher: South Braintree, Mass., F.A. Bates
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ill wasan encyclopedia. He knew more than enoughand finally like some men, got so muchknowledge that it killed him. There used to be a nice little lady nextdoor to where we lived, that I used to thinka good deal of—and another little lady—notquite so nice—in another part of the town,that I used to like pretty well. They bothliked Bill, and both of them imagined thatthey had a cinch upon my afiections. Nowmind you, I dont say Bill got to tellingtales about me, but somehow those two littleladies found out that I was a cruel, heartlessflirt, and the result was that we all quarrelled.I blamed Bill for the whole business. Therewasnt any funeral, but Bill was dead enoughwhen I got through with him. There is sucha thino: as knowino; too much. **I was so tickled over that yarn that Iwent home and wrote it down just as nighthe way he said it as I could. Hes a funnychap, keep a feller laughin all the time. Idlike to go fishinwith Gammons. Hed makebully ballast for that canoe o yourn. Say,
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HORN-POUT FISHING. 79 member the first time I saw you ? I wasdown on the bridge, ketchin horn-pouts. Yes. Why. Well I was thinkin Id like a mess, theymust be gettin ready to bite pretty quick.Dont you wanter go ? I dont know, Bob, I dont care muchfor that sort of fishing, and the mosquitoesare biting pretty well too. I dont care tobe eaten by mosquitoes for a few muddy horn-pouts. Theyre not worth it. *I dont see why you are so set gainsthorn-pouts. I druther have them than perch,and its just as much fun ketchin em. Well, Bob, you can have your choice, butI prefer the perch to any fresh water fishthat swims. I have eaten pouts caught fromcold waters in the sandy lands, that werepretty good, but those from these muddybottomed rivers are a little too rank for mytaste. Oh, I know they are not so good as somefish, but they smell fishy, and I haint beenfishin but once since last fall. Come on,please do. So I went, more to hear what Bob had tosay about horn-pouts than for any other rea- 80

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