"There's many a truthful word spoken from the chest," I sighed, just asUncle Peter made his first cast and cleverly wound about eight feetof line around a spruce tree on the opposite bank.

The very aged man began to boil with amazenement as he pulled and tuggedin an effort to untangle his line, and just about this time Tacksbecame the author of another spectacular drama.

In the search for the elusive worm that feverish youth known asTacks the Human Catastrophe, had finally succeeded in prying therock loose and immediately thereafter Uncle Peter dropped his rodwith a yell of terror and proceeded to follow the man from Cook's.