Colossal Lying.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue XXXXV, 10 December 1903, Page 4

Colossal Lying.

It is our sad duty (writes an American contemporary) to announce the appcarujiici* of one of the most collossat lies of recent years. Tlr- storv which tin- man tells is this He has a farm on .Missouri Kivcr bottom, near hsk Valley. Some time ago the river Ijvgan to rise, and he saw that all his lan.i would be submerged. He transferal his family and also his stock and movalile property to higher ground. There r.vas 011' his farm, so lie kh.v.s. exactly two miles of barbed wile fence, and there were tliirbarbs to I lit rod, or a grand total of l<tc2,-ln<) barbs. Yet this industrious liar and the hiibd man put badts 'Oil evety one of tiiese barbs, a small piece of meat being used. They liflished 0)1(1 escaped for the bluffs as the water came up. For twenty-six hours the water remained five feet above the top of the fence. Then the river receded aml the man went down and examined his fence. He found, yo he has the assurance to say, a lish banging from every barb except three —or IOU.fS'JT in nil There were pickerel, bass, pike, suckers, and many othi*- varieties. They averaged lOlb each in /weight, 'giving him the astonishing ,tul|a! of 1,02:5,5)T01b of fresh fish. He discharged tilie hired man bit'aiivie he had not properly baited tbc three Harlis which failed to catch WIV fell. I