Half an hour later they were all standing on the hotel steps, and Black Dan was holding up the pickerel.
"Dat ar's de boss fish, shuah! And you done cotch him wid a fly and dat ar whipstalk? Was you dar, Charley Morris?"
"I saw him do it, and so did Jeff."
"Well, ef I ain't glad he's done got dat ar pickerel out ob my way. Dat fish has been a soah trial to me!"
And Jeff and Charley had had their own fun, and their first lesson in fly-fishing.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.—Drawn by W. T. Smedley.