DOBSON GOES FISHING.
[From the “ Carson Appeal.”]
It was about midnight when Mrs Dobson rolled over in bed and remarked;; “John, strike a light quick ; there’s a rattlesnake in bed, I can feel its fang in my left foot.” “Oh no, dear, that's only some fish-hooks that must have dr pped out of my pants. Some of these midsummer flies jfor brook trout.” Mrs Doheon sprang out of bed, hut only one foot struck tho floor, as the line was wound pretty short around the bedpost. Dobson was so excited that he began to haul in on the slack and tried to bring her back to bed with alanding-net. Sho fell oyer into a pile of enells, reels, and hackles, jumped up again and eat down in a box of cold and clammy trout. Then she fainted away under the supposition that she had found a corpse. Vhen Dobson struck a light he found his wife hooked in nine places and wound up iu two hundred fath ms ot silk line, which envelop ad her like the web which so bothered the Lady of Sbalott. Next day while Pobson was out she sawed up his jointed fishing poles for kindling wood, threw all of hia hooks and flies into the well, and gave tho boys the lines to fly kites with.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2059, 29 September 1880, Page 3
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