THE BOGALUSA ENTERPRISE — MAY 27, 1915
HERE’S ANOTHER FISH STORY FROM SMITH ♢ This Time He Puts One
Over His Fellow Fisherman
Bill Case, of Smith, La., is mad. He says that it is all right for Doc Holmes to be a fisherman, but he’ll be dog goned if Doc didn’t carry it too far with him, and that he is entitled to the three-pound-seven-ounce trout Doc caught yesterday. Bill and Doc went fishing the first two days of the season and brought in nice catches. The trouble was that worms were scarce. A couple of days later Bill was taken sick. His wife called up Doc on the phone and caught him just as he was starting fishing. He was out in the garden digging up all the early vegetables hunting worms.
Doc hustled over to Bill’s house. He diagnosed the case as appendicitis, got out his instruments, performed the operation, got Bill back to bed and hurried off to go fishing. He came back that afternoon and stopped in to see Bill, who was doing well.
He brought in the big trout to show his patient who nearly had a relapse. Now Bill declares Doc just operated on him to get his appendix for bait and that he caught that big trout on it.
From— Bogalusa Enterprise. (Bogalusa, La.), 27 May 1915. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
