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Updated: June 12, 2025
Without a word, but still smiling to himself, Jason went out on the back porch, got a hoe, and disappeared behind the garden fence. He came back presently with a tin can in his hands and held it out to Mavis. "Let's go fishing," he said. While Mavis hesitated the mother, with an inward chuckle, went within and emerged with the bow and arrow and an old fishing-pole.
Still again they crossed the road, where it ran over the foot of the spur and turned down into a deep bowl filled to the brim with bush and tree, and there, where a wide pool lay asleep in thick shadow, the lad pulled forth the ball of earth and worms from his pocket, dropped them with the fishing-pole to the ground, and turned ungallantly to his bow and arrow.
There was Hank in corduroys, with an axe over his shoulder; and Hank in a broad straw hat and no shoes, with a fishing-pole in one hand; and Hank chopping wood; the chips littering the ground. There was Ezra Pollard sitting in his buckboard with a buffalo-robe tucked about him, and Samanthy by his side.
"Look hyeh," she said, and she pulled into sight the fishing-pole and the old bow and arrow that Jason had given Mavis years and years ago. "She fetched 'em over when I wasn't hyeh an' HID 'em." Slyly the mother watched her son's face, and though Jason said nothing, she got her reward when she saw him color faintly.
I have been happy many times in my life, but never more intensely so than when I received that first fishing-pole from my uncle's hand, and trudged off with him through the woods and meadows. It was a still sweet day of early summer; the long afternoon shadows of the trees lay cool across our path; the leaves seemed greener, the flowers brighter, the birds merrier, than ever before.
The Sallie Growler you caught bit my dog on the nose!" exclaimed another boy and he began striking at the brown thing Laddie had caught, which was now fast to the nose of the dog that had been eating marshmallows the night before. Laddie dropped his fishing-pole. Russ let go of his crab-line, and they both stood looking at the dog and at the strange boy.
"I'm for Buch and Breck," said Billy. "Misses she give me a dollar to vote for Buchanan, I know " Leila delightedly encouraged him. "Did you?" "No, it was for poll-tax. Take in those baskets at once," said Ann. "Yes, ma'am. Bought a fishing-pole." The confusion of mind which had made this practical use of Ann's mild political contribution was new to the Squire, and deliciously funny to Leila.
To have the North Pole for a fishing-pole, and the Equinoctial Line for a fishing-line.
"I'm going to stop here and rest, and make a wreath of these pretty wild roses for baby: it's her birthday, and it will please mamma," said Polly, sitting down on a mound of moss, with a lapful of flowers. "I'm going to cut a fishing-pole, and will be back in a minute." And Ned went crashing into the thickest part of the wood.
Besides, that fellow who nearly got drowned had about a couple of hundred dollars on him." "Humph, I thought so," Winton said. I said, "Why?" "Oh, just because," he said. "The day he came over to try to buy a fishing-pole he had a roll as big as a cobblestone with him. I suspected he'd lose it some day and that somebody would get blamed." "Nobody is getting blamed," I said.
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