ke to wade in my bare feet," said the smaller boy.
"Well, when you learn to swim you'll like that," replied his father. "But
now let's see if we can catch some fish. I told mother I'd try to bring
some home, and I guess Muffin is hungry for fish, too. So we'll bait
our hooks and see what luck we have."
Mr. Bunker stopped rowing the boat and got his own fishing-rod and line
ready. Russ could fix his own, but Laddie needed a little help. Soon the
three, sitting in the boat, were waiting for "bites."
All at once there was a little shake and nibble on Laddie's line. He grew
excited and was going to pull up, but his father whispered to him:
"Wait just a moment. The fish hasn't taken hold of the hook yet. He is
just tasting the bait. If you pull up now you'll scare him away. Wait a
little longer."
So Laddie waited, and then, as he felt a sudden tug on his line, he
quickly lifted the pole from the water. Up in the air went the dripping
line, and on the end of it was a fine fish.
"Laddie has caught the first one," said Mr. Bunker. "Now we'll have to see
what we can do, Russ."
"I think I have one now," said Russ in a low voice.
Mr. Bunker looked at his son's pole. The end of it was shaking and
bobbing a little, and the line was trembling.
"Yes, you have a bite," said Mr. Bunker. "Pull up, Russ! Pull!"
Russ pulled, as Laddie had done, and he, too, had caught a fine fish.
"Well, well!" exclaimed Mr. Bunker, as he took this second one off the
hook. "You boys are beating me all to pieces. I'll have to watch out what
I'm doing!"
"Why don't you pull up your line. Daddy, and see what you've got on your
hook?" asked Laddie.
"I believe I will," his father answered. "Here we go! Let's see what I
have!"
Up came his line, and the pole bent like a bow, because something heavy
was on the hook.
"Oh, daddy's got a big one! Daddy's got a terrible one!" cried Laddie.
"It's bigger than both our fishes put together," added Russ.
"I certainly have got something," said Mr. Bun
Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.