was he upon the work before him that the forward cast was made exactly 

 in accordance with his original intention, the eye was jerked from its 

 socket and fell in the water at the spot which he had intended to reach 

 with the minnow. The fish seized it eagerly, and then began a most 

 remarkable battle which ended, by my assistance, in the capture of 

 the fish. 



During my college course I had made a special study of the human 

 eye, with the intention of becoming an oculist, and the knowledge thus 

 gained proved of great value to me in this emergency. Fortunately my 

 case of instruments had been placed in my coat pocket, and observing 

 that the eye of the fish was almost identical in size and color with that of 

 the angler, I determined to make a remarkable experiment in surgery. 

 Carefully removing the eye from the fish, I placed it in the socket from 

 which the negro's lacei'ated optic had been torn, and connected the 

 severed nerve so deftly that within a few minutes, the negro was able 

 to take a glance at the fish with the borrowed eye taken from the fish 

 captured. At the present time scarcely any difference can be detected 

 in the eyes of the colored angler, except that the one transplanted from 

 the fish has a slight " cast" in it. 



BUFFALO SHOOTING ON THE WING. 



Perhaps you never heard of shooting buffalo on the wing, said Mr. 

 Conrad Budke, of St. Louis. I do not, of course, mean the wild buffalo 

 recently described in the Saturday Blade^ referring to a long-lost herd dis- 

 covered somewhere out West. The kind I have reference to is the buffalo 

 fish, to be found in the Southwest. It is one of the gamest fish in Louisi- 

 ana. The bayous overflow all the flat country, which at certain seasons is 

 covered to a depth of about twelve inches, affording excellent feeding 

 grounds for the buffalo fish. 



The local sportsmen and planters manage to have excellent sport in 

 this way: On finding a herd — I mean a school — of buffalo fish, the 

 chase begins. Upon reaching the board fences, which run across the over- 

 flowed fields, the fish take flying leaps, and gunners stationed along the 

 line pick them off by snap shots. Some of the expert shooters use repeat- 

 ing rifles, and it is very exciting sport, 

 especially 

 fromthewater -; 



fences, the -'/ ''k^^*_*'J^---l —fl~^^ boats, submerged brush 

 heaps, and '^"^^^^^^^ L^^l^^ i - ^ --* even the dwarf trees grow- 



ing along the -t-'^^^^~~^ '- lowlands. 



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^\ when the buffalo, arising 

 (Kry ^j^ on all sides, fly over the 



