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Uawson wae ffoing along the street, ostentatiously swinging a dozen fre<-h filth on » string and feeling fcunenor to the whole world- Ho knew that h« had j been seen comins out ol the fishmonger's, but b»
Shew how to explain matters and was happy. "Had good luck, hadn't you?' remarked a friend, coining lip to him, mildly. "Good luck !" he replied, jumping at the opening like a pike at a minnow. "Good lock! Well, I should just say I had. I never saw the fish bite as they did. From the time I put my line- in till I stopped from sheer exhaustion I was playmg fi3h and hauling them in all day." "But you surely didn't spend" the- whole day playing and landing a dozen fish . Funny, isn't it," added the friend, musingly, "that so many fishermen catch fish in e\en dozens or half-dozens?" "Who said I caught only a dozen?" demanded the fisherman, overlooking the insinuation ; "I caught 74 !" "Well, if I am not impertinent, may I ask where are the other 62?" "Certainly! As I knew we couldn't use more than a dozen, I sold the rest to the fishmonger. Didn't you see me coming out of the shop?" And while the friend was recovering from the faint into which he iell the fisherman passed on homewards to try the story on his wife.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 78
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