ARROW-FISHING. al 
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 by old Uncle Zac,” and gave us his history 
in a brief and pathetic manner, concluding his reminis- 
cences of the great departed, as follows : 
“ Uncle Zac never know’d nothing bout flies, or tick- 
ling trout, but it took him 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 other varmints, in the same way.” 
