THE LATEST FISH YARN.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8141, 28 November 1894, Page 4

THE LATEST FISH YARN.

Mr Angler : "Jb sometimes occurs thftb in troub fishing particularly, oil the known arts of the piscator will fail to lure tho wary game, and onco I romembor having to try a very unoportamanliko recourse." Mr Listener: "Yes? What) was bhab?" *'T was fishing one day in the Sprain brook and discovorod in an old pool a brout bhab must have weighed coven pounds. I tomptod him first) with all the artificial baib ab my command, from gray hackle to flamingo flies, flhook a butbon off my ahirt into bis eyes, offered him a sbrawborry on a hook and a forelook of my red hair, flirted all the known brands of worms in fronb of his suggestive mouth, and wasted all my lunch on him in the way of decoy ; and whon T was jusb aboub bo give up in despair a thought) sbruok me." " Acting upon it, I went to a neighboring farmhouse, borrowed a bwoquart syringe used for the demolition of insect posts, walked back, and drew all the water out of bbo pool, and, walking into the exhausted reservoir, picked up my seven pound spookled troub."

A Paisley man who could nob account) for tho way in which ft pigeon came into his poHaesaiou has gob ten' clays' imprisonmeab to cjuiokea his memory,