True As SINGULAR. 435 
return homeward from visiting a patient, when a summer 
shower reminded him that it would sharpen the appetite of 
the bullheads in the river which he was approaching, and he 
therefore reined up under a shed near the river, hitched his 
horse, cut an ash pole, found a line armed with a hook and 
sinker in his pocket, dug some angle-worms, and forthwith 
went a-fishing. 
There was a punt moored at the shore, and, leaving it an- 
chored to the side of the stream, he stepped into it and be- 
gan to fish. The bullheads put in an appearance immediate- 
ly, so that within half an hour he had taken some two dozen 
fish, and as fast as he took them he cast them on the grassy 
bank of the shore. Having a pretty good mess, he eut a 
switch and went to string them, when not one was to be 
found. This surprised the doctor, and he at once concluded 
to solve the mystery, and so commenced fishing again, and 
throwing the fish on the shore as he had before done, but 
keeping a sly watch of them. After he east the fourth one, 
a large bullfrog leaped from the water, took hold of a bull- 
head, and rolled into the water with it; leaping out imme- 
diately, and taking another fish, he rolled in as before, and so 
continued until he had returned the four to the water. The 
doctor continued fishing, and as fast as he had cast three or 
four fish on shore, the bullfrog returned and helped them 
back into the river. 
As Dr. White is an educated gentleman who enjoys the 
confidence of a very wide professional and intellectual con- 
nexion, I feel assured of the truth of the foregoing incident, 
and therefore report the case for Professor Agassiz or some 
other naturalist, with the view to a learned decision on the 
nature of the link which connects the bullhead and frog. 
The bullfrog could not have helped the bullheads back to 
the stream to feed on them, for the spiked dorsal and pecto- 
rals of the latter forbid it. Even the pike—the most vora- 
cious fresh-water fish in the world, excepting the sire, 
which is a species of catfish—is deterred from the attempt. 
