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	“Suckers were plentiful and easy to catch but they did. not give you the battle that a salmon or a red horse could put up and that was what lt took to make fishing fun. We had. canoes ‚ but we used a plain old flat boat, a good deal like a small ferry boat, most of the time. There was about the saine difference in a canoe and a flat boat that there is in a nice passenger automobile and a truck.“

	When asked if he remembered any of the tunes and wrds of the songs he sang as a child, John was silent for a few iriornents and then began to sing:

“A frog went courtin‘
And he did ride
Ifli hunh
With a sword and pistol
		By his side
tili hunb.

“Old uncle Rat laughed,
Shook his old fat side;
He thought his niece
	.	Was going to be the bride.
		 tih hunh ‚ uki hunh
		“Where shaLl the wedding be?	.
Uti hunh
Where shall the wedding be?
13h hunh
		“Way down yonder
In a hollow gum tree.
tJh hunh ‚ ~th hunh ‚ uh hunh.

“Who shall the waiters be?
tlhhunh .
Granddaddy Louse and. a
Black-~eyed flea.
t3h hunh ‚ uh huxth ‚ uli hunh.