hat it is wrong
to fish on Sunday, they will be brought right close to the fish, and
can see better than before, that if a poor man is rowing a boat across a
lake on Sunday, and his hook hangs over the stern, with a piece of liver
on, and a fish that nature has made hungry tries to steal his line and
pole and liver, it is a duty he owes to society to take that fish by the
gills, put it in the boat and reason with it, and try to show it that
in leaving its devotions on a Sunday and snapping at a poor man's only
hook, it was setting a bad example.

These Sunday school people will have a nice time, and do a great amount
of good, if the fish continue to bite, and they can go home with their
hearts full of the grace of God, their stomachs full of fish, their
teeth full of bones; and if they fall out of the boats, and their
suspenders hold out, they may catch a basin full of eels in the basement
of their pantaloons.

But we trust they will not try to compete with the local sports in
telling fish stories. That would break up a whole Sunday school system.

A DOCTOR OF LAWS.

A doctor at Ashland is also a justice of the peace, and when he is
called to visit a house he don't know whether he is to physic or to
marry. Several times he has been, called out in the night, to the
country, and he supposed some one must be awful sick, and he took a cart
load of medicines, only to find somebody wanted marrying. He has been
fooled so much that when he is called out now he carries a pill-bag and
a copy of the statutes, and tells them to take their choice.

He was called to one house and found a girl who seemed feverish. She was
sitting up in a chair, dressed nicely, but he saw at once that the fatal
flush was on her cheek, and her eyes looked peculiar. He felt of her
pulse, and it was beating at the rate of two hundred a minute. He asked
her to run out her tongue, and she run out eight or nine inches of the
lower end of it. It was covered with a black coating, and he shook his
head and looked sad. She had never been married any before, and supposed
that it was necessary for a justice who was going to marry a couple to
know all about their physical condition, so she kept quiet and answered
questions.

She did not tell him that she had been eating huckleberry pie, so he
laid the coating on her tongue to some disease that was undermining her
constitution. He put his ear on her chest and listened to the beating of
her heart, and sh