"Do you know what it was?" Reade insisted.
"No."
"That was a black bass!" declared Reade, as though it were one of the seven wonders of the world.
"Keep cool, Reade," chaffed Danny Grin. "We all knew, that there are fish in the lake."
"But black bass——-" choked Tom.
"Are they any better eating than any other fish?" asked Hazelton.
"Not so much better," Reade confessed. "But black bass are gamey, and hard fish to land when you hook 'em!"
"They're no better food, but it's harder work to get them," laughed
Greg. "Sit down, Tom, and keep cool"
"No real fisherman would ever talk that way," Tom insisted indignantly. "The greatest charm about fishing comes in hooking and landing the really good fighting fish!"
"How much does a black bass weigh?" asked Greg.