May 30, 2003

Doesn't that beat everything?

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It was a rainy day on Au Train Lake, but our guest Pat Byahm brought in a truly excellent 26 inch, 6 pound 1 ounce Walleye!

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One of the crew turned off the switch and Fred had me come over very close and get down on my hands and knees and crawl under the press until we came to a very dark place and then he lit a match and showed me a bat hanging upside down from a housing.

"What do you think of that?" Fred said.

"Yeah," I said, staring at the bat.

"I found him there a couple of days ago.  Doesn't that beat everything?" he said.

"It's got a head start," I said.

Richard Brautigan, from his novel In Watermelon Sugar.

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