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each acknowledge in the Flathead dialect was, "How do 
you do?” “ It’s a joy to know that so rue one human ia 
heai - us, if it be no more than a poor, old squaw,” ejacu¬ 
lated Kate. “ That’s not an old voice, Kate,” said Mary. 
“ Kla-ha-ya?" came again so near the “ breath of it did 
almost cleave their ears.” “ True enough,” replied Kate. 
“ I am nervous to-night. We will know who it is,” and 
a search was at once commenced. 
The larger the mill the larger the sawlogs, therefore the 
logs about the Ludlow mill are all the way from two 
hundred to three hundred feet in length, and from Bix to 
twelve feet in diameter. You can calculate the amount 
of pluck required to climb a mile of them. But then it 
is nothing to climb when you know how, and our girls 
gave no thought to that part of the programme. They 
are in Bearcb of a voice. “ Kla-lia-ya?” a third time, 
but not so frightful. “ It’s on the other side of the log,” 
and no sooner said than done. Kate was a third of the 
way over the monster; a moment more and she had 
reached the pinnacle. One look on the opposite side, and 
Kate’s face turned to an ashen hue. She clasped her 
hands in an agony of despair, and screamed, “ A Jew and 
a baby 1” “A Jew and a baby ?” echoed the group below. 
“ No, a jew-fish,” answered Kate. “ Don’t come down, 
we want to see, too,” shouted Anna, and Kate was very 
soon joined by her companions. Sure enough here was 
Mr. Stcrcolepis gigas high and dry, and to all appearance 
fearfully sick. -- Why, he is as large as a whale!” ex¬ 
claimed Mary. “I wonder if he has swallowed Jonah, 
and has 1 come upon dry land to vomit him out?’ ” queried 
Anna. “You silly girl, didn’t the whale rid himself of 
Jonah centuries ago,” replied Belle. “ This is no whale. 
Kate says it is a jew-fish.” It’s large enough to be a 
whale, any how,” muttered Anna. “ Did you say Jonah, 
girls?” spoke out Kate, who ail this time had been quite 
oblivious to the remarks of the others, “ It’s the derrest 
little pappoose that he has in his jaws. See ho v rithes 
again,” and out popped Kla-ha-ya to the shoulders, spry 
as a cricket, and back again. The girls laughed outright. 
* 1 He hasn’t the strength to expel her, or else something 
holds her, 1 am not certain which,” said Kate. A tre¬ 
mendous gust of wind, and puff came a shower, as 
though an over-stuffed feather bed had been ripped from 
one end to the other. Feathers flew in all directions ; 
the air was smotheringly thick with them. “ Kln-ha-ya 1” 
but this time on the other side of the log. The girls 
turned, but the atmosphere was still so stifled with feath¬ 
ers they could discern no object. “ Kla-ha-ya 1” repeated 
with a wonderfully metallic ring. Another moment, 
and there was our pappoose reposing on the great horse¬ 
shoe magnet, with Belle’s embroidery scissors grasped in 
her tiny fingers. (Belle, by-tlie-way, had accidentally 
flung her scissors into the water a few days previous.) 
“ But, Kate,” said Anna, “ that’s not a real pappoose ; it 
has a fish's tail.” “A fish’s tail!” exclaimed the other 
three. “ Yes ; come and see.” True enough, a change 
of position revealed a tail. “ It’s a mermaid, then,” said 
Kate. “I am so glad. She will soon take off to the 
water, and then be out of trouble. I fear, however, 
Dick's magnet has made sad havoc with the fish. But 
for the secret power in that magnet, the fish could have 
very easily disposed of the mermaid. The moment she 
had cut herself loose she had only to flop over the log, as 
you see.” 
A weird, strange light began to spread in every direc¬ 
tion, and for the first the girls saw that the sun was gone. 
“Can it be the moon? - ’ whispered Belle. “No; this 
must be some phosphorescent light,” replied Kate. “ Let 
us look about for its source.” They had scarcely turned 
on their heels when directly in front of them appeared an 
immense cavern, at the entrance of which poised an 
eagle’s wing and a vulture’s eye. In the centre, on a 
huge cake of ice, sat a young seal, apparently floating on 
a sea of fire. Here in all the glory of the Aurora Borealis 
sate this creature in state. The dome of this cave was 
like a canopy of gems.; stalactites of every hue of the 
rainbow fringed the interior. In the soft cadence of the 
JEolian harp came the melody, “ It seems as if this 
world was made for only you and I.” The seal was evi¬ 
dently wooing the mermaid. “Kate! Kate! where are 
we?”’ventured Belle. “Well, I have just determined,” 
replied Kate. “ This is the abdominal cavity of that jew- 
fish, and the facts are simply these Like ourselves he 
is journeying; he wasn’t born up here among these pines 
any more than you and I were. He belongs in the Col¬ 
orado River and' to the south of San Francisco. But this 
fellow must have been as far north as Sitka to have se¬ 
cured that seal; possibly his objective point was the open 
Polar Sea.” “More likely he was travelling for Barnum 
or collecting specimens for the Smithsonian Institute,” 
quoth Anna. "The limit of fish intellect is still an un¬ 
settled question,” replied Kate. 
“ One thing is certain, like all creatures of the male 
persuasion, he possesses a ravenous appetite. He has 
never called for particular recipes for cooking meals, that 
I know of ; but to the contrary, he takes anything and 
everything that happens in his way. You see that he 
has feasted on birds, although he was unable to digest 
their feathers, and he knew no better than to swallow the 
seal, ice and all; for this lack of judgment he has suf¬ 
fered. The ice from its very nature would freeze his 
vitals, and furthermore he had previously gormandized 
to the extent of a ton of sick salmon, which left in a state 
of repose possesses the wonderful faculty of devouring 
itself. The salmon to a certain extent is pure phosphor¬ 
us, and from this phenomena we have also our illumina¬ 
tion.” 
“Verily, the salmon is a wonderful fish,” exclaimed 
the other three girls. “Yes,” replied Kate, “but the 
jew-fish is the biggest eater.” Rebecca. 
Correspondents will please address all letters to 
the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT. 
The Next President. —The politicians are anxious on 
this subject, but a much more important thing for all 
who have poor appetite, or skin diseases, or an enfeebled 
constitution generally, is to know that Warner’s Safe, Bit¬ 
ters will cure them. $ 1,000 will be paid to any one who 
will prove that there is a better medicine of its kind.— 
[Adv. 
Improved Bathing.— The insufficiency of the ordinary 
bath is conceded. Let those who have just taken their 
ordinary bath rub their skin with the tips of their fingers, 
and it will be seen that the scarf-skin will come off in 
dirty granulations, thus proving the insufficiency of 
the simple bath. The pores are yet clogged. To remove 
this dead skin (so to speak) something is necessary. 
After much investigation and numerous experiments, 
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those whose sedentary occupations results in imperfect 
action of the pores, the wonderfully efficacious article, 
Weston-Rowelline, which tones and invigorates the bvs- 
tem, lessening liability to ill-effects of sudden changes 
of temperature natural to our climate. A sample will be 
sent to any one by addressing, enclosing twenty-five 
cents, 381 Sixth avenue.—[Ado.] 
Are Bears Left-Handed 1— Bethel. Me., Dec. —, 1879. 
—“Ursus,” in Forest and Stream, Dec. 18th, gives his 
opinion that bears are left-handed, because, he says, 
“they are usually caught by the left foot.” For that 
very reason I contend that they are right-handed. A bear 
never takes bait directly with his muzzle, but takes it 
with his paw and so passes it to his mouth if lie likes it. 
The .very fact of his stepping his left foot forward into 
the trap, shows that he intends to take the bait with his 
right foot. And further, I have seen many a dog which 
had approached too near his bearship, knocked several 
feet with the bear’s right foot. 
I once saw a Boston schoolboy in bis'vacation, on an 
excursion with me, against my advice, go too near a 
bear in a trap to strike him with a club, get all the cloth¬ 
ing on the hinder part of his person let down in a hurry 
with the right foot of the large bear, to the great discom¬ 
fiture of himself and the amusement of his schoolfellows 
who were with him. Therefore, I conclude, our Oxford 
bears are likely to be like us hunters, sometimes left- 
handed and at others right-handed; they, however, know 
how to use either hand very spry in an emergency. 
J. G. R. 
—It doesen’t hurt a good man to have his character in¬ 
vestigated ; neither does it hurt a gold coin to try its ring 
on the counter. 
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F OR SALE—A Parker Breech-loader, 
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new; used only one season. Also, forty Metal 
8holls, Barclay loader, etc. Will sell very low. 
Address J .jMoCLEEKY, Milton, Pa. JanS,lt 
Live Trout For Sale. 
Twenty-six thousand, one year old. Bred at 
the Aquetong Trout Ponds. 
For terms, address 
THOMPSON BROTHERS, 
New Hope, Bucks Co., Penn. 
panted. 
JW TICKS WA N T E D—Wanted ducks 
LA raised from wild fowl to stock a preserve. 
State kinds, quantity and prices, delivered at my 
farm, Jobstown, Burlington County, N. J. 
ec 35-41 P. LOBILLABD. 
pHOICE RED IRISH ) SETTERS FOR 
V - SALE.—Sired by our Arlington, winner of 
First at Boston and St. Louis. 1879, and ran In 
Eastern Field Trials; out of imported Flora, 
winner of First New York, 1878, First Boston, 
18i9; and Phantom, First New York, 1879. Prices 
low. LINCOLN & HELLYAB, Warren, Mass. 
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