As for the railroad man--quite so, the reader knows it
as well as I do--you can tell him because he carries a
pole that he cut in the bush himself, with a ten-cent
line wrapped round the end of it. Jones says he can catch
as many fish with this kind of line as Kernin can with
his patent rod and wheel. So he can too. Just the same
number.
But Kernin says that with his patent apparatus if you
get a fish on you can _play_ him. Jones says to Hades
with _playing_ him: give him a fish on his line and he'll
haul him in all right. Kernin says he'd lose him. But
Jones says _he_ wouldn't. In fact he _guarantees_ to haul
the fish in. Kernin says that more than once--in Lake
Rosseau--he has played a fish for over half an hour. I
forget now why he stopped; I think the fish quit playing.
I have heard Kernin and Jones argue this question of
their two rods, as to which rod can best pull in the
fish, for half an hour. Others may have heard the same
question debated. I know no way by which it could be
settled.
Our arrangement to go fishing was made at the little golf
club of our summer town on the veranda where we sit in
the evening. Oh, it's just a little place, nothing
pretentious: the links are not much good for _golf_; in
fact we don't play much _golf_ there, so far as golf
goes, and of course, we don't serve meals at the club,
it's not like that--and no, we've nothing to drink there
because of prohibition.
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