A STRANGE FAD.
I came across the following funny story the other day. Any fisherman wishing to experimentalise in the same direction might possibly be able to purchase a second-hand costume, the early part of next May, after use by some local 11 Jack-in-the-Green."
Dr Birch was very fond of angling, and devoted much time to that amusement. In order to deceive the fish he had a dress constructed which, when he put it on, made him appear like an old tree. His arms, he conceived, would appear like branches, and the line like a long spray. In this sylvan attire he used to take root by the side of a favourite stream, and imagined that his motions might seem to the fish to be the effect of the wind. He pursued this amusement for some years in the same habit till he was ridiculed out of it by his friends.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 27
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151A STRANGE FAD. Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 27
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