No doubt he felt in his soul that they should settle the question of who landed the Bass with the same rods they had used when the contest was proposed, and that was not all.
When they came to the temporary bridge, Jimmy started across it, and Dannie called to him to wait, he was forgetting his worms.
"I don't want any worms," answered Jimmy briefly.

He walked on.

Dannie stood staring after him, for he did not understand that.

Then he went slowly to his side of the river, and deposited his load under a tree where it would be out of the way.
He lay down his pole, took a rude wooden spool of heavy fish cord from his pocket, and passed the line through the loop next the handle and so on the length of the rod to the point.

Then he wired on a sharp bass hook, and wound the wire far up the doubled line.