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Royal coachman, black gnat, grizzly king, professor! If Calvin Coolidge never again has sport he will at least remember the summer of 1928 as the time when he learned his fly-book by heart, casting on the brown Brule stream. As July petered out and the level of the waters dropped a little in the dry weather, the Brule's inhabitants grew hungrier and hungrier. There came an evening when the President canoed home to Cedar Island Lodge with no less than 26 trout. This was one more than Wisconsin's legal limit but Wisconsin took no action...
Conversations of great men are often just as simple as that. The two at Brule thought of no more to say, so Coolidge cigars were passed around and the interview was over...
Nominee Hoover (speaking for the first time): "The point of major interest is whether there are any fish left in the Brule...
...Hoover explained that he was a mere private engineer then, on vacation. Mr. Henry Clay Pierce, late owner of Cedar Island Lodge, did not invite -the visitor to enter, but Engineer Hoover found a back entrance and fished the Brule anyway...
...Hearing that newsgatherers were talking about mosquitoes on the Brule, President Coolidge asked specifically if any newsgatherer had been bitten by any mosquito on the Brule. There are, he let it be known, no mosquitoes on the Brule and whoever says so is a bearer of false report...