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FOREST AND STKEAM. 



[Septembek 8 1881. 



We take an active interest in th's question because the 

 South Bay is a convenient fishing-ground for New Yorkers, 

 and we have advised many people to go there. Every day 

 Fohkst and pThKAM is asked many times, either personally 

 or by kit r, how the fishing is there, and it' it is better to go 

 there or to Baruegat Bay, or elsewhere. It this slate of 

 things continue, we will be under the necessity of advising 

 our readers to go anywhere for good fishing, rather than to 

 the Great South Ray. 



W. C. CoTO-.— Our old friend Coup, formerly of the New 

 York Aquarium, lias been lost to the Sight of New Yorkers 

 for the past two years, but lie has not been idle. Mr. Coup 

 is a restless man, who is never satisfied with playing second 

 fiddle in anything he undertakes, and is always planning, re- 

 gardless of the cosi, to astonish the world witli something 

 which it has not seen. He first appeared in New York as 

 the business manager of P. T. Barmim and built the Hippo- 

 drome, where his "Congress of Nations" is remembered by 

 New Yorkers as the most dazzling pageant ever beheld hi re. 

 He soon after left this concern and built the Aquarium. 

 Now, after two years' search of the old and new worlds, lie 

 turns up at the old place with an exhibition wh ch eclipsis 

 everything in the way of circus, menagerie or museum that 

 has ever appeared here. 



It is the custom < f circus owuers to advertise, " The Great- 

 est Show on Earth," but Coup's undoubtedly is the largest, 

 handsomest and costliest. It contains tin ee rings and a hip- 

 podrome track forty feet "Wide around them all, beside the 

 menagerie and museum, with simultaneous performances in 

 all. The trained broncho horses are indeed wonderful, one 

 of them distinguishing colors and bringing a flag of any color 

 ordered from among several different ones, walking on 

 stilts, etc. 



Who docs not love the glory of the circus ! — its glimpse of 

 fairyland to the youusters and its exciting "hoop-la." And 

 Jiow necessary it is for all of , Johnny's unehs to attend it, 

 "just to see bim enjoy it." We hope never to get too old 

 for the circus and its teals of daring, and intend to study 

 Coup's animals often before he staits again for the road. 

 Perhaps after he leaves town we will give our readers a hint 



to how menageries are made. He only came in for a two 

 weeks' season, beginning on the 0th, and, knowing him to be 

 an honest, large-hearted and enterprising man, we wish him 

 Ml measure of success. 



Tub GutKNwooD Lake .Salmon. — In cur lust i?sue we 

 publish' d a letter from Mr. James R, Boyd, of the Enc rmp- 

 ment Hotel, a'. Greenwood Lake, N. Y., in which he reported 

 tht capture if a strange Ihh, which was supposed to be one 



the California salmon placed in Ue lake some years ago. 

 As the fi-h nas cooked all hope of identifying it was lost, but 

 Mr. Boyd promse to take goi d cure of any other specimens 

 which might be found. Yesterday we received a letter from 

 him dated September 5, saying that auo her one was caught 

 and was held there alive. We immediately telegraphed to 

 have it roll d in muslin, to keep keep it from bruis ng, and 

 p. eked iu fine ice and sent to our office for identification. It 

 came, and alas ! proved to be a fine twelve inch ^specimen of 

 Sfinot his bullaris, called in d. ft'' rent localities "fall fish," 

 ''dace," "chub," "roach," etc. It grows to eighteen inches 

 in length, and is a game fish, rising to the fly. We arc un- 

 der obliga ions to Mr. Boyd in enabling us to identify this 

 fish, and arc exceedingly sorry that it did not turn out to be 

 a salmon. 



The Amatory Clam.— The "loves of an oyster," and "an 

 oyster crossed in love" have been so often mentioned as to be 

 familiir phases. It. has, however, devolved upon Mr. Lani- 

 gan, of the New York World, to show how clams can love. 

 We publish his poem, "Molluscus and liivalvula," in another 

 pluce wherein he tells in tuneful verse how the loves of clam- 

 kind do not always run smooth. The argument is that Mol- 

 luscs, a noble young clam longs to see the world and per- 

 haps c .nqner it, and declines to be detained at home by the 

 tears of fond Mollusca, whose siphons overflow at the thought 

 of the dangers her hero may encounter. We have been per 

 mi ted to pu'ilish this entire, for the first time, by favor of 

 the fair Secretary of the "Pot-Luck Club," and bene efortu 

 we wi.l eat our "Little N< cks" with circumspection, lest our 

 molars may crush a tearful "Bivalvula" just parted from htr 

 "Molluscus." 



"But Give Me," said the Postman to us the other day, ' a 

 young voodchuck. Fellers talk about game birds, but I 

 take a woodchuck every time." The Postman is not alone 

 in his taste. A correspondent of Mrs. Lewis's Food and 

 Health says that since the woodchuck lives on clover and 

 other "clean" food, it ought to be good eating. He has 

 actually tested its edible qualities by having some wood- 

 chuck dishes served at a New York restaurant, and he, to- 

 gether with his friends, who were not aware what they were 

 eating, pronounced it a delicious dish. Clearly there is yet 

 a line of food experiments which are out of the scope of the 

 tpthyophagous Club. Can we not, following the example 

 of those gentlemen, extend the list of the edible inhabitants 

 of the earth and air f We might take a hint or two from the 

 Digger Indians. 



. — H»— - • 



Hawk Dsstiujution.— The new Ohio hawk law is working 

 well. One county in the State he,3 already paid $94 in 

 bounties on 183 hawks. Let the good work go on. 



Wno Deserves tub Ckrdit?— A correspondent asks who 

 first imported English sparrows into America, If we are not, 

 mistaken several claimants for the honor have appeared. In 

 the year 1810 Thomas Woodcock, President of the Natural 

 History Society of Brooklyn, N. Y., brought over from 

 Eugland several specimens of the field birds of that country. 

 Among them were some English sparrows, although it is not 

 on record that (hey bred. Eight y< ars later, in 1854, Col. W. 

 Rhodes, now of Qu h c, Canada, imported some sparrows 

 into Portland, Maine, and subsequently into Quebec. In the 

 year 1808 the Messrs. Chas. Reiche & Bro. , bird dealers, of this 

 city, imported a number of the birds into this city, and from 

 these aud subsequent importations the present birds are de- 

 scended. We have no precise data to give our correspond- 

 ent. 



We are deeply pained to chronicle the death of Alexander 

 Moseley, for many years senior editor of the Richmond, Va., 

 Whig, at his residence in New Kent County, Virginia, A llgust 

 30. A' more fitting notice of the life and character of our 

 friend will be given next week. 



It is said that large numbers of oiioles are being killed in 

 Maryland to be used in advertising the coming oriole festival 

 iu BaHimore. This is a very foolish piece of business, and 

 the bird-killers should be punished according to the law. 



POT-LUCK POETRY. 



WE have before recorded how Mrs. Marion T. Poilescue, 

 the Secretary of the Pot-Luck Club, gave a piazza 

 picnic and banquet on August 7, at her vil'a at Rockville 

 Centre, Long Island, in honor of the fifty-second birthday 

 of Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, the president of the club. In 

 our brhf mention of the jolly occasion where the wit flowed, 

 rippled and bubbled over among the assembled literati, we 

 only hinted at the poetiy, two specimens of which we have 

 been fortunate enough to secure for publication. Fiist 

 comes one on the president's family or familiar nickname : 



"BOB." 



By John IIaiibekton. 



When man wsvs boy In days long pasl 



Aud compliment seemed tame, 

 Uow swelled nls heart when tost lie heard 

 "Mister" befureliis name. 



But wlien the years witli cruel hand 



Had scrawled Ms features e'er, 

 Frown ehangerl to smile If some one spake 

 His hoj ish name once more. 



Lucky tlie man we greet, to-day, 



Though. TJiae may meanly rob 

 His store of years, it cannot steal 



nisyoutliful nickname, "Bob," 



Long be h s days among us all, 

 And, knowing Mm, may you 

 Search out the way to be addressed 

 Asboysatrmy-two. 

 A clever journalist who could not be present to help 

 slaughter the clams sent the following account of their loves: 



MOLLUSCUS AND BIVALVULA. 

 By el. T. LASigan. 

 In a far beach, remote from human view, 

 From youth to elamliood bold Moliusous grew ; 



Was m i: - more swiftly bun-rowed In Hie mud, 

 Was none whose siphon sucked an ampi.-r EtoOtl 

 Was none that sought to thwart Mia In Ills suit 

 For fair Blvalvula's hand-I should say foot. 

 Fair was Bivalvula, a fay might well 

 Envy the toot thrust coyly from her shell. 

 Plump and plquante, old Ocean ne'er a, more 

 re had seen upon Ms shore 



Bewitch iu 

 Since lot 



Suite) s ha 



d --he to s. >■ 



es. from all apart 



She kept, 



with-Mgorou 



s reserve, her heart. 



The clam 



you in the re 



Btanrant behold 



Upon the 



Vainly tin 



ee-bloek coi 



Id not be more cold <_ 

 itors strove to tell ; 

 and closed her shell 



BUI when his tale of love Molluscus told 

 Through alt her tubes a throbbing current rolled, 

 And Mushing to her shell, the maiden coy 

 CbnresseiJ her passion and revealed her joy, 

 And in the sand they nestled tide by side 

 Happy as— clams at a propitious tide. 

 Blest was their wooing, yet Bivalvula 

 From time 10 time with seorel anguish saw 

 Within Molluscus' bosom, passions swell 

 That fairly seemed to corrugate his shell. 

 The wild desire tor a wider life. 

 The tumult, tlie mastery and the strife. 

 Onee as they sat, nor feared the Usher's toe, 

 'The moon had risen and the tiae was low) 

 Unto Bivalvula, whose siphons Rehe 

 Her nensive shells betrayed, Molluscus spike: 



" Valv 

 Ha 



■el i o s 



VaHie, adored, there is 



a world without 



This finite beach, we i 



lothingknow about; 



J long to trait this nan 



owllfe and tatao, 



And make myself a fo 



tone and a ininr- 



Spout not that pensivt 



tearl All win go well. 



1 wilt return and e.asp 



thee to ray shell, 



And cheer our happy 1 



ife until the last 



With tales of all the st 



:ges i have passed.' 



Perils that a 

 Peruse the a 



ait thee in another sphere, 



The paths of glory I 

 But he replied : " Bl 

 Tiusl thy Mollusem 



ad but to the pot!" 

 alvula, my dear, 

 Due and have no tea 



Our qualities for imita 

 In gladdest hours a m; 

 As happy as a'— man? 



Of the su 



Bid not .' 



Of ' LlTTl 



3 BO 



'Mwg Austrian p 

 As our Mends tie 

 In our own land l 

 In politics, socleti 

 to, the poor Indit 

 Our cast-off shell 

 Behold fhe Pilgrli 

 As Mother Hubbard' 

 Shall not their work 



e hold their heads Efl Mgh 



■ So 1 Libert 



portant parts we've plays 

 mi trade. 



, whose untutored mind 

 or eurreney designed; 

 Father in despair, 



the eupboaid bare, 

 die, and M 



Seen 



is saved— the 



s cabinet— my love, be cairn 1 

 As well as Fish, the 'bob-tailed Yankte' da 

 is there one board, the poorest to the best, 

 At which the clam is not a welcome guest ? 

 Nay, when our hardy fishers go abroad 



ivume 



ickor the cod, 



bed Bivalvula Hie pearly t 





in not thy Molluscus, 



e, dear ; 



■if shall with him tare, Bto 



noo Shalt see: 



arrow, darling, thou shall c 



ome with me. 



lavenot been Invited V Ti 



ue, but stiii come 



And from my tube, the unbidden tear will slurl, 

 J know thee good and brave, but oh ! I tear 



Be our Strong snide— we'll to the least repair. " 



lie spoke; Bivalvula wiped her tearful eyes. 



Where Ignorance ts bliss 'tis folly lo be wise '. 

 They came I The young', the beautiful ; ! H hei e 

 ire braye YloPuseus and Bivalvula the fail".' 



Ordain iLe> wei e not served on different phi to- . 

 And may the guests who met them here to-daj 



Enjoy a p'easauter Pol-luck than they. 



L'ENVOI. 



Pi inccss, accept these verses, written down 



on a hot morning in the dusty town. 



Ami when you.read them may It pleasant uj 



i;\ the cool waters of the sounding sea. 



May you nol find them stupid, harsh arid haul ; 



And eat a clam unto your absent bard ! 



Mrs. Forlescue then read a poem of greeting, of which > 

 only poss.sj the following verses : 



From mountains green and mountains white, 

 From gray old Catsklll's rugged height, 



I- rom distant seas where the amorous breeze 



Lays down its life in golden ease, 

 From brimstone springs that flow by nlglit. 



Where dawdling the day out hour by hour , 

 Fair maidens oroides the broad sunflower 



In straggling cluster of liqui l lu-i- ; , 



On the 'dusky aesthetic kitchen duster, 

 vVllh shaded woods In a shady Dower ; 



From Spanish hill and Alpine rock 

 Our scattered dear, fond faithful flock, 

 Send word of gold home to the fold, 

 " God bless our Prince of Pot-luck bold, 

 For whom e'en Time turns back Ms clock." 



From "Savages Ride," by Mrs. Sprague, descriptive 

 the adventures of Dr. John Savage in search of "Marion' 

 Rest" on a former occasion, we take this : 



" My heart," said the bard, "b blithe andgay ; 



Queen Marlon holds her court to-day ; 

 A court marine beside the sea, 

 (Its lady chief-justice, not Shea, hut she) 



And the clerk of that court I'll surely be ; 



And oh 1 the ro. licking time to-day 



At Marion's, twenty miles away." 



The Tha.ieotokt studies of our correspondent, "P., 1 

 which were published in our last issue, are supplemented 

 to-day by a paper on the subject from the able pen of Major 

 H. tW. Merrill Bolh gentlemen have a thoroughly pracl 

 cal as well as theoretical know edge of rifle-shooting, ant; 

 both are sportsmen of long expeiience. The two article 

 are valuable contributions to the literature of the subject of 

 projeciiles. Major Merrill explodes the " dead on " f allacj 

 in which many shooters still persist, 



