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Part 6 of Trout Fishing in America

...THE HUNCHBACK TROUT





The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew

too close together. The creek was like 12, 845 telephone

booths in a row with high Victorian ceilings and all the doors

taken off and all the backs of the booths knocked out.

 Sometimes when I went fishing in there, I felt just like a

telephone repairman, even though I ...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard


Part 9 of Trout Fishing in America

...SANDBOX MINUS JOHN

 DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT?





Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I

took the baby and went down there this morning. They were

watering the cover with big revolving sprinklers. I saw some

bread lying on the grass. It had been put there to feed the

pigeons.

 The old Italians are always doing things like that. The
...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

The Old Tin Hat

...In the good old days when the Army's ways were simple and unrefined, 
With a stock to keep their chins in front, and a pigtail down behind, 
When the only light in the barracks at night was a candle of grease or fat, 
When they put the extinguisher on the light, they called it the Old Tin Hat. 
Now, a very great man is the C. in C., for he is the whole of the s...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

What Happened

...rd one another's rights.

With a unanimity dear to patriot hearts
All those hairy gentlemen out of foreign parts
Said: "The good old days are back -- let us go to war!"
Swaggered down the Grand Trunk Road into Bow Bazaar,

Nubbee Baksh Punjabi Jat found a hide-bound flail;
Chimbu Singh from Bikaneer oiled his Tonk jezail;
Yar Mahommed Yusufzai spat and grinned with glee
As he ground the butcher-knife of the Khyberee.

Jowar Singh the Sikh procured sabre, quoit, and mace,
Abdu...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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