Wonderful Eels.
Mr Hogentogler tells the following/ incident in the Philadelphia PMfcl He had started with his mute?®' wagon on a wood chopping expedition : along the mountain side that borders! the dam. A Stony Creeker always 7 carries a hook and lino with him, aud • when he tiros of chopping wood-or digging for assasfris he invariably takes a little recreation by bobbing for eels in the dam. - Last Thursday Mr Hogentodler baited his hook .with some corned beef aud landed both of; the famous eels, much to his surprise, aud after a tough struggle. Oue ; eel was within two inches ot four feet in length,' and the other measured a trifle; over Bft. He skinned his prizes at once, and, to prevent the hides from shrinking, stuffed each with- green; walnuts and tufts of dried grass.
When Mr Mogentogler had finished his day's work in tho woods he his mule home with a well-loaded waggon. About twenty yards from his barn, just as darkness had begun to settle in tlie valley, the wagon stuck ; in a mud hole, Mr Hogentogler whipped his horse vigorously.. The ; animal strained and tugged in an effort to move the waggon, make the situation still more el& peratiug, both of the traces broke. In this emergency Mr Hogen-. togles bethought himoftheeelskm / They were tough and he substituted them for traces. When they had been emptied of their contents, fastened to the swingletree, and tied across the breast of the mule, the . whip was put to the animal again, and he moved off without difficulty. He had gone but a few paces, however before Mr Hogentogler discovered that the waggon was standing still. The skins were not yet dry aud were. stretching. When the. mule reached, the barn the wagon still remained XSjjg the mitdhole, aud it was quite dark, . "But I wasu't a darned . bit '
bothered." relates Mr Hogentogler. "I just slippedtliera new traces over the end of a hitching post and went to bed. 1 linowed those skins would shrink, and sure enough they did. In the morniug that waggon load of wood was drawn plump 'up agin that post." * jg. Mv Hogeutogler will preserve the eelskius, and has nailed them on the outside of his barn doors.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2905, 22 May 1888, Page 2
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374Wonderful Eels. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2905, 22 May 1888, Page 2
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