A Michigan Isaak Walton.

Manawatu Herald, 3 September 1896, Page 4

A Michigan Isaak Walton.

Tvm told me by an angler, a troat and gray* llag^tranf l*r, who said that he could coax tb« fishjaductlvely to bite, w^fitSStad his every measure, they seemed to M think It pleasure, he said, to bans upon his ■ hook and fly oat in the light HtMlr-ffracef ul creature finny was really such a ■ ate»y, so far as this great fisherman was - with their fate concerned. / They fairly rushed and wriggled, gasped, gnr- ' _ (ltd, flopped and giggled, and for a place upt os his barb most anxious cried and yearned. L He said in every water, he .made such .fearful f slaughter that people who came after found tat mullets or a chub. ■ They might as well try fishing by staying home I and wishing or taking practice timidly by ■ aPgMpg in a tub. KBis catches were amazing, his reputation blaz■P~ihgt Ee chartered sturdy donkeys to trans- ■ port his wondrous catch. luring finny treasures until they packed H~P*ck measures and all the bags available no■ifcody saw hia matcl~ ------ Ppitn some of t^ese were- long ones; most beau4{fully strong ones; the trout were mostly two pound ohaps, the grayling bigger still; t The muskellunge astounders, thirty or forty ft pounders, and these in one day's catching Px would a rowboat nicely fill. L j should perhaps have added, and. hia stalwart I I stories padded; "By remarking that he said he I was a very truthful elf, I ynd such his deep anxiety to help and nurture I /.piety that he could toll no falsehoods, for he r Wd us this himself. ■ -I* day from care exempted, the Btreams at ■> . is«t emptied, he fell among crawfishes— ■•' here they found him lying still, B this heirs with prospects healthy found he ■ id made them wealthy— his rich lmaglna- ■ »he had left them in his wilL ■ .^-f • Tribune.