“Mama said he was talking nonsense and that if we depended on him for our food we would starve to death. Papa asked her if she could do any better and mama said she was sure she would catch the fish if she was the one fishing. Papa taking that as a challenge told her to prove it”
“Did she?”
“In her own way she did”
“She caught the fish?”
“Not exactly”
“What happened?”
“Well mama carried a basket to put the fish in and got into the boat and told papa she would have would have caught at least three fish within the hour. Papa said he would be waiting to see that. Mama and I went out onto the river together while papa went back to the bait shop to get more ‘appetizing’ bait for the fish.”
“Sounds like you have an interesting family.” Lance commented.
“They are interesting characters I must admit.”
“So did she prove him wrong?”
“We spent the next thirty minutes with our fishing rods in water. I asked mama if we were really going to catch anything and she told me that she had a point to prove. We waited another ten minutes and then mama told me to lift the fishing rods out of the water. Naturally I was puzzled, I thought she was giving up but......
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