"Cut yoursel', and let me get my fish!" So it happened, that when Mary Malone, tired of waiting for the boys to come, and anxious as to the day's outcome, slipped down to the Wabash to see what they were doing, she heard sounds that almost paralyzed her.

Shaking with fear, she ran toward the river, and paused at a little thicket behind Dannie.
Jimmy danced and raged on the opposite bank.

"Cut!" he yelled.

"Cut that domn cable, and let me Bass loose! Cut your line, I say!" Dannie stood with his feet planted wide apart, and his jaws set.

He drew his line steadily toward him, and Jimmy's followed.