THE BOY AND HIS PENNY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1768, 5 June 1913, Page 4

THE BOY AND HIS PENNY.

0 ALL IN A DAY'S FISHING. Of all sportsmen, the dovoteo of tho rod and lino is perhaps well to the front , in 'availing him- or herself of all occasions to pursue tho gentlo art. Oil Wellington's wharves and harbour foreshores each day tlio year through can somewhere ho seen tho patient fishenvomcn as well as men—casting out tho dripping lino for a "bite." Thero are experienced fishers whoso baited tiook seems ever to luro tho select among tlio finny species; others can never catch anything but tho despised 'l'ueaday's bright holiday saw many of Izaak Walton's disciples at wharf-ends, mid, as ever, their castings and haulings had many idling watchers, 'liie now Clyde Quav A\'harf is a favourite "ground," and'here a littlo band from the workaday world spent tho sunniest hours of tlio Birthday holiday. An intent silence prevailed during tho "catches," the most interested spectators of which were two littlo boys, of about five and six years of age, who had wandered to tho pierhead. Tho tinier'tot, fascinated by the steadiness with which ono fisherman was depleting tho ocean of its herrings, at last leant too far over the barrier, and he shot head-first into tlio sea, where during a momentary alarm he lazily floated on tho incoming tide. A man among tho spectators quickly sized up tho silnation, and swarming down one ut' tho polos, dropped into the sea to tho rescue. The other lad, in his turn, shot out a fisherman's line to his brother in distress, but tlio floating liiito had been grasped and handed to n mail who was hanging to a lower stringer. ... . . Poon, dripping wet, tho tot, with his sodden rescuer, was again on tho wharf. Tie was not concerned aljout his dip; all lie wanted, and wailed for. was his penny. The fishorinon could not find it, and failing to comfort him on his loss, they sent him and his brother home, where, perhaps, comment would bo made on ot.icr things than the lamented penny. Later tho penny was discovered on tlie wharf, and another boy, who was still watching the fishers, received it as Ins l'oward.