JIMS PET FISH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 313, 11 January 1908, Page 3

JIMS PET FISH.

_ 0 .Tim llauce is a famous guide in the Crawl Canon of Arizona. When tourists are thick Jim rides over to Hie hotels and talks to them. He has marvellous tales to tell. One day he was standing by the top of the Bright Angel trail, with a few pieces of meat in his hand. "What are you going to do with that meat, Mr. ITance?" askul a pert tourist lady from Boston. ' " Why, I'm going down to feed my ■ pet fisli with it." "Your pet lish? Have you a pet fish? Oh, tell me all about it!" "Will," said Jim, "it was this way: One time, some years ago.T was fishin' down there in the canon in the Colorado Uiver. I wasn't havhf much luck, nut, all of a sudden 1 soon a commotion in fllic water, and a tolerable-sized fish riz up and looked at inc. T seen the fish | was angry, and. as there ain't anythin', ! much more desprit than a mad fish. 1 ■ ducked. T was just in time, for the fisli leaped out of the water and straight I' at mo. He'd 'a' speared mo sure if il hadn't lieen for that dm-k of mine. As it was, he wont clean over me and bind-

eel in it pool in [| hollow of the rocks behind me, where there was a considerable pond of water. He couliln't get nut, mill he's there yet. Him and me is fail friends now. and f go twice a week and f(v<l him." "How lon't was that?" "It was seventeen years ago." " The fi-h must he ipiite large by this lime." "Oh.'" said .lim. "not so much—not so much. Lust tine I put the tape on him he was onlv twenty-seven feet long, lie ain't got his full "jrowtli vet." '.l'lie Berlin branch o.' the Tmperial Insurance Company has set aside tlie

yrarly sum of €3OOO for the purpose of providing a dental institute in tic city for working men holding its policies. The institute will provide artificial teeth for all working men needing tliem. It lias been found bv the comjmhv that men provided ivitTi good dentil apparatus make a liet.ter risk than oilier*, and the new institute is expected to save money to the company in the course of a few years.

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