Isn't he pretty?
Look how funny he bats his eyes," and she laughed gleefully as she gingerly picked up the fish by the tail and dropped him into the water.

"Now, Mr.Goggle-eye, if you are wise, in future you will beware of tempting looking bugs." For an hour they had splendid sport.

The pool teemed with sunfish.
The bait would scarcely touch the water when the little orange colored fellows would rush for it.

Now and then a black bass darted wickedly through the school of sunfish and stole the morsel from them.

Or a sharp-nosed fiery-eyed pickerel--vulture of the water--rising to the surface, and, supreme in his indifference to man or fish, would swim lazily round until he had discovered the cause of all this commotion among the smaller fishes, and then, opening wide his jaws would take the bait with one voracious snap.
Presently something took hold of Betty's line and moved out toward the middle of the pool.