THE BLACK BASSES 



The Small-mouth Bass 



"The little-mouth has little scales, 



There's red in his handsome eye, 

 The scales extend on his vertical fins, 

 And his forehead is round and high. 



"His forehead is round and high, my boys, 



And he sleeps the winter through ; 

 He likes the rocks in the summer time 

 Micropterus dolomieu" 



Little-Mouth (Black) Bass. 



TLTIGH in the list of favorite fresh 

 4 water game fishes is the black 

 bass, foremost, in fact, as viewed 

 by that eminent angler-author, Dr. 

 James A. Henshall, whose assertion 

 that it is "inch for inch and pound for 

 pound the gamest fish that swims," 

 has become the slogan of thousands of 

 anglers who prefer black bass fishing 

 to any other form of sport with rod 

 and line. Of the fighting character of 



