Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

The editor of the Manchester Democrat tells of a man who had a large nose, and who in crossing a corner of Lake Winnipisiogee to reach the wood where he was chopping, cut a hole through the ice for the purpose of quenching his thirst. A large trout, mistaking, for some tempting prize, the nose of the chopper, which protruded through the hole into the water, bit a hold of his nose with all its might. The man upon the ice, alarmed by this unexpected assault, made a hasty retreat, and not only took his nose out of the water, but with it a good sized trout weighing nine pounds.