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Updated: June 2, 2025
"All feet don't tread in one shoe, Uncle Shub," said young Brewster, capping the old fellow's proverbs with another. "Don't see why I shouldn't make money as well's other fellers. It's a free country, an' if a feller wants to try suthin' else 'sides fishin' uv it, what d'yer all want to be down on him fur?
This was a surprise, for Herbert had not thought of the effect upon his own business prospects. "I have got a place, thank you, Mr. Graham," he said. "You don't call trampin' round huntin' and fishin' work, do you?" said Ebenezer. "It is very agreeable work, sir." "But it stands to reason that you can't earn much that way. I wouldn't give you twenty-five cents a week for such doings."
He plays the fiddle to the delight of all the balls and weddings through the country-side; and he speaks English to the admiration and envy of the other guides. But like all men of genius he is modest about his accomplishments. "H'I not spik good h'English h'only for camp fishin', cookin', dhe voyage h'all dhose t'ings." The aspirates puzzle him.
I had lain there thinking an hour or more when I caught the jar of approaching footsteps. Looking up I saw Jed Feary coming through the bushes, pole in hand. 'Fishin'? he asked. 'Only thinking, I answered. 'Couldn't be in better business, said he as he sat down beside me. More than once he had been my father confessor and I was glad he had come. 'In love? he asked.
But he didn't; an' they's nothin' else to it. There sits the ol' man, smoothin' his big red beard, singin', 'I'm Fishin' for the Maid I Loves, while he looks at the poor cook, which was washin' up the dishes, for we was through with the mug-up. An' the devil was in his eyes the devil was fair grinnin' in them little blue eyes.
In that way I caught all I wanted, and could have caught a bushel. It isn't a very science way of fishin', but it answers when a man is hungry, and hasn't got any bait or fly." "I scarcely know why," said the Doctor, "but Cullen's account of catching his trout, reminds me of a circumstance which occurred when I was a boy, and which for the moment made a deal of sport.
"No, not any definite one. She heard from the man's wife sayin' that her husband the cousin had gone on a fishin' trip somewheres up in Canady and wouldn't be back afore the eighth of next month. Soon's he does come he'll write her. But Mr. Hilton thinks, and so do I havin' heard a few things about this cousin that it's mighty doubtful if he sends any money." "Yes, I shouldn't wonder.
I know Janoah Eldridge from crown to heel, an' it ain't like him to go off fishin' by himself." "I shouldn't fret about it if I were you," Bob said in an attempt to comfort the disquieted inventor. "I'm sure he'll turn up all right."
When the word was passed around that anybody that wanted to might get out and fish, we was the first to volunteer. Seems this had been the scheme right along that our party was to do more or less fishin', so as to give any natives that might be hangin' around the proper idea of why we was there. Professor Barr is right on hand, too; and Dudley tries it just to kill time.
"We leaves un over at Tom Ham's whilst we were at the fishin' in summer," explained Toby. "Tom Ham lives at Lucky Bight, ten miles to the nuth'ard from here. We'll be goin' for un soon now." "It must be fun traveling with dogs," said Charley. "Aye, 'tis that," agreed Toby, "when the weather's fair and the travelin' is good.
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