Adeline Rose: Fishergirl

It didn’t take her long to get the hang of it.  Lay the tipup off to one side, pick up the line, set the hook, and then hand-over-hand the line until there’s a fish flopping on the ice.  She did not number in the millions of American children that day, the ones in the recent national statistics.  The average American child now spends 52 hours per week in front of some kind of electronic device, and 40 MINUTES per week outside!  We had to get the upper hand on those odds, so we spent 7 hours on the ice.  There was a fish dinner that night to show for it.  Makes a grandfather proud.