SAD FISH STORY
An opening of the fishing season tragedy is reported. In a family, fowlyard strutted two bantam roosters, one with the touchy dignity of old age and a splendid dressing of springtime feathering, the other a perky newcomer. Oh Tuesday afternoon the master of the house deprived the ancient bantam of life, explaining with a wealth of argument that he could no longer tolerate the persecution of the fledgling by the other—he was sorry about it, but the peck, peck, pock fairly upset him. The evening he spent in pondering over the sadness of it all, and picking out hackles, making the best of a thoroughly bad job by making what use he could of them for the tying of trout flies. If yet more record bags are taken from the Wainni this year that bantam will not have lived, and also,died, quite uselessly
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 22
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SAD FISH STORY
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 22
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