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In a letter to Admiral Beardslee, dated April 19th, Mr. 

 Carrigan gives these further details, especially interesting 

 to the angrier : 



* * * I have some news that will interest you. We 

 have a young lady friend visiting us — Miss Sara Beazley 

 of Columbia, Missouri. On Friday, the 17th inst., Mrs. 

 Carrigan and Miss Beazley drove out to Lake Crescent 

 to spend a few days with Mrs. Mitchell. They returned 

 in triumph at 4 o'clock this afternoon, with four trout 

 weighing 21 pounds. 



Miss Beazley, Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Carrigan went 

 out fishing at 10:30 yesterday, Saturday morning, April 

 18th. They took the copper wire troll that you sent to 

 Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Beazley did the fishing, using 

 trout belly for bait. When off Eagle Point, at 11:30, 

 Miss Beazley caught and successfully landed a magnifi- 

 cent speckled trout that measured 27 inches in length, 

 was 6 inches through, and weighed 8 pounds. The top 

 of the head and back of the fish is a dark blackish green, 

 the head and back being thickly covered with quite large 

 round black spots which extend down the sides about 

 halfway to the median line. From there to the median 

 line the black spots are equally thick, but are irregular in 

 form, two and sometimes three spots lapping on to each 

 other, making angular looking black spots of various 

 sizes, some of them quite large. The irregular spots ex- 

 tend in a scattering way below the median line. The tail 

 is thickly marked with round black spots. 



The upper jaws and gill plates have the appearance of 

 clouded reddish mother-of-pearl, somewhat iridescent. 

 In some lights the " reddish " shade has a burnished 

 copper effect, and in other lights it presents a pale ma 

 genta shade. There are six large round black spots on 

 each side of the head, on the upper and back portion of 



