F. P. Reed, of theMonon Route. It is the custom among certain planters 

 down in Alabama, and on the Gulf coast, to bait deep holes and attract 

 immense numbers of game fish, which are then caught bv set lines. Angle 

 worms are often used, but Mr. Moonshine, who runs an illicit distillery 

 down there, gathered a lai*ge quantity of the small spiral still- worms, and 

 scattered them broadcast in the river near his home. With the worms was 

 quite a quantity of worked-out mash from the distillery. 



The next morning on visiting the place, he found the river in terrible 

 commotion. A desperate, half-drunken conflict was going on between the 

 catfish, eels, pike, sharks and almost every other variety of fish known to 

 these w^aters. Mr. Moonshine fired several shots into the thickest of the f raj, 

 when he Avas instantlv attacked by the catfish, gars and other vicious fish, 

 and chased across the swamp to his own gate. The fright and nervous 

 shock so prostrated him that he made application for a pass to Wisconsin 

 or to ^lichigan, or to any northern state, where he could recuperate and 

 be free from the voracious attacks of fish. 



I have heard that northern railway officials, jealous of our reputation 

 for unequaled fishing resorts, claimed that the man was chased by revenue 

 officers instead of fish, but the plain, unvarnished tale as it was told to me 

 by the planter was worth all the transportation we gave him. 



SCIENTIFIC CAT FISHING. 



Did you ever see a cat fish? inquired Mr. Grover Cleveland, 

 of Washington, D. C. I do not mean the ordinary catfish of 

 the waters, but a, cat that will catch fish. Some 3-ears ago I was 

 the proud possessor of a cat that supplied the family table with 

 trout, black bass, and other game fish, during the proper season. 

 ~^~ This cat took to fishing as naturall}- as a duck takes to water. 



Just at dusk our fishing cat would go down to the river, and after first cap- 



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