Bill's Gone Fishing

I knew a man who was raised by a farmer, who had a very large family; and this man that I knew was one of 8 boys and 6 girls. This family farm was located on some of the richest soil in all the world, and it was surrounded with great scenery. But unlike his father, he never became a farmer but worked long and hard for a company up North that made farming machinery. An early retirement brought Bill back to the family farm that was then being leased out by a younger brother to other farmers. It wasn't long before Bill became a fisherman. Bill loved to fish, and if anyone ever asked of the whereabouts of Bill, all they'd have to say was, "Bill's gone fishing". I was never privileged to go fishing with Bill, but his sister, my wife, would often speak of the great fisherman that he was. She'd gone fishing with Bill a time or two, and would tell me that it seems that the fish knew Bill personally. Of all the nets cast into the same plot of water, it appears that the fish raced to Bill's line more than any other in the water. Bill the fisherman was not in it commercially. It seems that next to actually catching fish, giving fish away was Bill's greatest joy. 081722PSCtest, A Jolly Fisherman, Julia Ward