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We asked the oldest piscator that lived in the vici- 

 nity of these " dry lakes," for information regarding the 

 early history of arrow-fishing, and he told us, that it was 

 '' invented hy old Uncle Zac," and gave ns his history 

 in a brief and pathetic manner, concluding iii^ reminis- 

 cences of the great departed, as follows : 



" Uncle Zac never kuow'd nothing 'bout flies, or tick- 

 ling trout, but it took Jiiju to tell the difference 'twixt 

 a yarth worm, a grub, or the young of a wasp's nest ; in 

 fact, he know'd fishes amazin\ and bein' natur-ally a 

 hunter, he went to shooten 'em with a bow and arrer, to 

 keep up yerly times in his history, when he tuck Inguns 

 and othrr varmints, in the same way." 



