This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...It appears that my partner's watch had also been swallowed bv a black bass, and in course of time, through the mysteries of scientific propagation, this musical watch attachment had become hereditary, and every black bass taken in that lake was found to be his own timekeeper, and occasionally the fish danced the Fisher ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...It appears that my partner's watch had also been swallowed bv a black bass, and in course of time, through the mysteries of scientific propagation, this musical watch attachment had become hereditary, and every black bass taken in that lake was found to be his own timekeeper, and occasionally the fish danced the Fisher's Hornpipe to their own music in a most amusing manner. THE ADVERTISING FISH. Several years ago, when I was living in Texas, I had a somewhat unusual experience, quietly remarked Mr. Wm. (.'. Hunter, advertising manager of Boyce's Big Weeklies. I am a hunter by nature as well as by name, and spend a considerable time in sport with the gun and rod. On the occasion referred to I was in the Indian Territory, the guest of "a squaw man" at Eufala, and we started on a fishing trip in the Choctaw nation. Arriving at our destination we prepared to worry the festive bass. No sooner did I cast than a large 5-pound bass jumped out of the water and took the hook in ten minutes I landed him. I held him up to show my friend, when I noticed a peculiar marking on the belly of the fish, caused by the veins showing through the skin. In a moment my friend caught a bass about the same size and si milarly marked. Upon looking at the strange marking we found the veins formed the letters BpW. We tried in vain to solve the meaning of the veins and started to fish again, and in three hours we caught ninety-three bass, every one marked the same as the first two. I never solved the enigma until about three years ago I told the story to Mr. Boyce, and he smilingly informed me that the letters represented the words: Blade, Ledger, World--Best Paying Weeklies. I saw the connection at a glance. Mr. Boyce is up to all new schemes for advertising, and I would like ...
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