224 Sport and Life. 



sporting over the lake are a grand sight. A hunter several weeks ago saw 

 a crane swallow one of these fish when in its normal condition, but before 

 the crane had got more than fifty feet up above the lake the fish had taken 

 in enough air to explode the crane, which, at the sound of a report like 

 that of a gun, flew all to atoms, and the fish came lightly down on the 

 water, no worse off for the short ride in the air. The fish is a great 

 curiosity, never having been found, I believe, in other waters. 



The last statement is true. 



