ANOTHER FISH STORY.
An Englishman visiting a Californian lake asked a native if there was good fishing in the lake. * Oh, yes I stranger. ’ * What kind of fish do you catch here? * Oh ! all kinds, stranger.’ ‘ What did the largest fish you ever caught here weigh ?’ ‘Wall, stranger, we don’t take no weighing machines when we goes fishing, and I am an honest man and wouldn’t like to say how much that last trout I caught would weigh. But I tell you, stranger, that when I pulled that fish out of the water the lake went down a foot/
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 2, 10 January 1891, Page 20
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99ANOTHER FISH STORY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 2, 10 January 1891, Page 20
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