A New Fish Story.
' _ Kawson was coming up the street, osteutatiously_ swinging a dozen trout on a string, and sniffing superior to the whole world. He knew that he had been coming out of a fish si, op, but he had his usual slock of cheek with him. and was happy. " Had good luck, haven't you?" remarked a neighbour "mildly. " Good luck! " he replied, jumping at tho j opening like a wall-eyed pike at a minnow, j "Good luck! Well I should think so! I ! never saw the fisfi bite as they did. From the ! time I cast the first fly till I stormed from j sheer exhaustion, I was playing fish and haulj ing them all day." i "' But you surely didn't spend the whole j day playing and killing a dozen fish? Funny, { isn't it," added the neighbour musingly, "that so many fishermen catch fish in even dozens or half-dozens?" " Who said I caught only a dozen ? " demanded the fisherman with a snort, overlook ing the insinuation. "I caught 74!" vVell, if I am not impertinent, may I a-k where are the other 62?" "Certainly! As I knew we couldn't ufc more than a dozen, I sold the rest to a fish- ! dealer. Didn't you tee me coming out nl that fish shop?" And while the neighbour was recovering j from the faint into which he fell, the fisheri man passed on to try the story on his wife, i: ' '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2302, 14 April 1898, Page 52
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242A New Fish Story. Otago Witness, Issue 2302, 14 April 1898, Page 52
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