WHO CAUGHT THE FISH. 



The enthusiastic Walter S. Harban, was relating 

 some of his remarkable experiences, and said that a 

 few years ago in company with several other gentle- 

 men, after breaking Camp on the Shennadoah, near 

 Bentonville, Va., he boated down the river as far as 

 Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, making the trip in 

 three days. The first night out they stopped at a farm 

 house ten miles below Riverton, Virginia. Upon 

 approaching the shore of the place, the water being 

 shallow for some distance, a Common Cur Dog was 

 standing well out in the stream. As he paid no 

 attention to them, nothing was thought of him until 

 when leaving the boat for the night, the dog appeared 

 and had with him a wriggling bass. The next morn- 

 ing while sitting on the porch talking to the pro- 

 prietor, the dog appeared on the front lawn, this time 

 carrying in his mouth a fine Black Bass, weighing 

 not less than two pounds. They weie then reminded 

 of the incident the evening before and the natural 

 query was, where in the deuce he got them. The owner 

 of the dog informed them that since a puppy, when 

 hungry, he would go to the river several hundred 

 yards away and catch fish and eat them, that it was 

 not unusual for him to bring in much larger fish, and 

 upon depriving him of them he would return to the 

 river and catch more. They were also informed that 

 a well known Angler of Washington, often visited 

 his place, and as this same Angler has reported many 

 large catches in the Shenandoah, it can well be sur- 

 mized who caught the fish, Angler or the dog ? 



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