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Title: Wild scenes and wild hunters of the world
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Webber, Charles W. (Charles Wilkins), 1819-1856
Subjects: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 Smith, William, fl. 1790 Hunting
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Bradley
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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to who should catch the most andlargest fish. It so happened that I had either not been inthe mood for fishing, or had been in poor luck, for I hadcaught little or nothing. As evening closed the party embarked in the boat to returnacross the Pond, and were quizzing me most unmercifully formy poor success; and I in return was making empty boasts,which I had no dream of realizing, as I stood in the bow idlylashing the water with my line, that I would surely catch alarger fish than all theirs put together, before we reached theother shore. There was no bait on my hook, and there seemedsurely no great probability of my performing any such miracle.Our boat was slowly winding among the buried logs, ofwhich I have spoken, when suddenly, as my line dropped inour wake, the gleam of the leaden sinkers caught the eye ofa huge fish which made its lair under the logs, and in a twink-ling I was jerked head-foremost over the bow into the water,amidst tlie laughing shouts of my companions, who under-
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• THE NATURALIST DEVELOPING. 73 Stood the thing in an instant. Some one shouted comfort-ingly in my ear, as I rose spluttering from the sudden plunge, Ha ! ha ! I think the fish has caught you instead ! Hold onto him ! hold on ! The fish was secured, after a desperate struggle, with ourunited force; and as I was yet quite a little fellow, the jokeof my having been caught by the fish, was too good a onenot to tell for a long time among such boys ! We had skating, too, in the winter, and many a wild scenethere was when we were flying, like squads of swallows, hitherand yon upon the ice. There were some winters when extra-ordinary floods came in the early part of the season, and thenthe whole forest on the lowest side of the plantation wouldbe flooded, and its trunks stand several feet deep in the clearwater. The change of a night or two would freeze this oversuddenly—and then such a time ! The earliest dawn of Saturday found us afoot with prepa-ration, for we had scarcely slept for

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