This scanned large, so you have to click on the image to see the whole thing. Imagine the kid with all the fish is me, and the kid with the flyrod is Kent. The cartoonist was H.T. Webster, who was popular in the early 20th century. Apparently the word "milquetoast" came from his character Caspar Milquetoast, who starred in a series of cartoons called "The Timid Soul."
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The cartoon's a good one, and your fish was definitely the real deal, cheese and all. I seem to remember a certain trip to Dinky Lake in which dry flies ruled.
Ancient history.
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