LATEST THINGS IN FISH STORIES.
‘Went fishing in Flushing Bay yesterday,’ said Equivocatus Mendacius in the atrium or his club in Pompeii to a throng of gilded youth. A groan, followed by oppressive silence, was the answer. ‘ Yes,’ went on Equivocatus, cheerfully, ‘ I had great luck.’ Then a storm of weary protests : —‘ Caught a tarpon on a silk thread, I suppose,’ sneered one. ‘Or a muscalonge with a diamond ring in its stomach,’ chimed in another. ‘I fished all day,’said Equivocatus solemnly, ‘and caught one small flounder ; but as I was leaving the boat my toga caught. I gave a jerk that pulled off the board that covered the fish well, and there, floating in the water, I found two national bank notes for one thousand sestertii each.’ And then Equivocatus had to buy liquid refreshments for the whole party as the inventor of a new lie.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 30, 26 July 1890, Page 6
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147LATEST THINGS IN FISH STORIES. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 30, 26 July 1890, Page 6
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