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Now and then the General is sorry to inform his many friends that he is a little ill; to which a voice here and there is heard to say that he is not inclined to do the clean thing. "Well, I saw what the feller wanted; so I pulled out a fist full of shiners, just to show him what Young America could do. The seeing the dimes smoothed him down into the most agreeable amiability.
"But I've always heard old fishermen say you couldn't catch nothing unless you did." "Did you ever try to?" "I can't say as I ever did. What would be the use when you know better?" said Mr. Shrimplin, who was strictly orthodox. His cork went under and he landed a flopping shiner on the bank; this he took from his hook and tossed back into the water. "It's a funny thing about shiners!" he said.
'Fagin, said Sikes, abruptly breaking the stillness that prevailed; 'is it worth fifty shiners extra, if it's safely done from the outside? 'Yes, said the Jew, as suddenly rousing himself. 'Is it a bargain? inquired Sikes. 'Yes, my dear, yes, rejoined the Jew; his eyes glistening, and every muscle in his face working, with the excitement that the inquiry had awakened.
It was indeed the slow-moving and ponderous Inspector Barnabas Letstrayed that loomed up in the doorway and inquired about the cuff-buttons, while Holmes answered him very sharply: "Wake up and come to life, old General Incompetence! All the eleven shiners have now been run down and captured before they could bite anybody, by me, you understand, me, your ancient rival!"
The interviewer replied that his wife thought it her duty to take off her hat. "She behaves better than many ladies of the theatrical world. The other day I could not see a bit because of the enormous hat worn by Miss , and Miss and Miss were just as bad." It would be pleasant to give the names which would identify popular actresses who are great shiners in this matter.
It was one of Dan's lucky days, and the lines were drawn in again and again, until the college girls' breakfast and many more silvery shiners were fluttering and gasping in old Neb's fish basket. Then Dan proceeded to deliver his wares at neighborly island shores, where summer campers were taking brief holidays.
Let's go back to the banks of our beloved river, you and I and get up early in the morning and run to the riffles near the old cooper-shop and catch a bucket of shiners and chubs, and then hurry on to Boomer's dam or 'way upstream above the Island where we used to have the Sunday-school picnics or, maybe just stay at the in-town dam near the flour mills and the saw-mills where old Shoemaker Schmidt used to catch so many big ones fat, yellow pike and broad black-bass.
And you're to get ev'ry penny, you thief o' the world, if you win it! but for all that he seemed to be laughing at something that Jack wasn't up to. "At any rate, surely, they palavered Jack betune them until he sot down and consinted. 'Well, says he, scratching his head, 'why, worse nor lose I can't, so here goes for one trial at the shiners, any how!
"Why, my lad, we shall see to-morrow morning; but you gammons so about the rhino, that we must prove you a bit; so, Kate, my dear," to the pretty girl who had let me in "score a pint of rum against Why, what is your name?" "What's that to you?" rejoined I, "let's have the drink, and don't doubt but the shiners shall be forthcoming." "Hurrah!" shouted the party, most of them now very tipsy.
In the stream also were horned pouts, perch, shiners and that silly little fish we called "kivers," for which my earliest fishing was done with a bent pin. I was naturally capacitated for fishing by my fondness for silence and solitude. The mystery of water drew me from one pool to another and a constant expectancy of a larger fish than had ever been caught.
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