[Dave Porter at Star Ranch by Edward Stratemeyer]@TWC D-Link bookDave Porter at Star Ranch CHAPTER XVII 3/12
"I don't wonder that fishermen come many miles to gratify their taste for such sport." "Here's another!" exclaimed Belle, merrily, and brought in a fish that was a beauty.
Roger and Dave both leaped to help her, and soon the catch was dropped into a side pool with the others. While the boys and Belle were fishing, Laura and Jessie wandered up and down the rocks and the grassy glade beyond, gathering wild flowers and also some blackberries that grew in that vicinity.
Dave's sister also succeeded in getting several photographs, including two of the others with their fishing outfits. "Now, I want you all to stand in a group, with your fish on strings," said Laura, a little later, when the fishing seemed to slow up a little. And then she arranged them to suit herself and took two snapshots. "Now, let me take a snapshot of you and Jessie, with your bunches of wild flowers," said Dave, and this was soon added to the other films. They had great fun building a campfire and preparing lunch.
The boys cut the wood and started the blaze, and even made coffee, while the girls spread a tablecloth that had been brought along, and put out tin plates and tin cups, and the various good things to eat.
Then some of the fish were cleaned by the boys and fried by the girls, and all sat down to enjoy what every one declared was better than a feast at a hotel.
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