I Know Her Very Well, Still I Hesitated
About Wearing My Short-Skirted Outing Suit, Fearing It Would Shock
Her.
But a day or two after we got here she said to me, "What are we
to do about those fish, Mrs. Rae?
I always catch the most fish
wherever I go, but I hear that you are successful also!"
So with high spirits we started out by ourselves that very morning,
everyone laughing and betting on our number of fish as we left camp. I
wore the short skirt, but Mrs. Ord had her skirts pinned so high I
felt that a tuck or two should be taken in mine, to save her from
embarrassment. The fishing is excellent here and each one had every
confidence in her own good luck, for the morning was perfect for trout
fishing. Once I missed Mrs. Ord, and pushing some bushes back where I
thought she might be, I saw a most comical sight. Lying flat on the
ground, hat pushed back, and eyes peering over the bank of the stream,
was Mrs. Ord, the society woman! I could not help laughing - she was so
ridiculous in that position, which the pinned-up dress made even more
funny - but she did not like it, and looking at me most reproachfully
said, "You have frightened him away, and I almost had him." She had
been in that position a long time, she said, waiting for a large trout
to take her hook. The race for honors was about even that day, and
there was no cause for envy on either side, for neither Mrs. Ord nor I
caught one fish!
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