This book says this line will bear twinty pounds pressure, and
sometimes it's takin' an hour to tire out a fish, if it's a fighter.
I bet you the Black Bass is a fighter, from what we know of him."
"Ye can watch me land him and see what ye think about it,"
suggested Dannie.
Jimmy held the book with one hand and lightly waved the rod with
the other, in a way that would have developed nerves in an Indian.
He laughed absently.
"With me shootin' bait all over his pool with.this?" he asked.
"I guess not!"
"But you can't fish for the Bass with that, Jimmy Malone," cried
Mary hotly. "You agreed to fish fair for the Bass, and it wouldn't
be fair for you to use that, whin Dannie only has his old cane
pole. Dannie, get you a steel pole, too," she begged.
"If Jimmy is going to fish with that, there will be all the more glory
in taking the Bass from him with the pole I have," answered Dannie.
"You keep out," cried Jimmy angrily to Mary. "It was a fair
bargain. He made it himself. Each man was to fish surface or deep,
and with his own pole and bait. I guess this ~is my pole, ain't it?"
"Yes," said Mary. "But it wasn't yours whin you made that
agreemint. You very well know Dannie expected you to fish with the
same kind of pole and bait that he did; didn't you, Dannie?"
"Yes," said Dannie, "I did. Because I never dreamed of him havin'
any other. But since he has it, I think he's in his rights if he
fishes with it. I dinna care. In the first place he will only scare
the Bass away from him with the racket that reel will make, and in
the second, if he tries to land it with that thing, he will smash
it, and lose the fish.
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