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entering Burt Lake. Here we hoist sail, and being favored 

 -Willi a slight but favorable sailing breeze we make the eight 

 miles to the head of Indian River, where we pull up at Ihe 

 hotel, and prepare for a couple of days' slay. He we find 

 quite a camping party, and among them the old veteran, 

 "Series" (Dr. Franklin), of Ann Arbor. Seems to me I bave 

 heard "Old Hickory," lough bass wood, or some sueh coguo- 

 rnen attached to him some where ; at any rate "he was I re. 

 wrestling with a tumble- down old yacht, and ready to tell 

 some everlasting big stories about the whopper of a big bass 

 that got away. 



This point, to my mind, is the most central and best place 

 in Northern Michigan to make headquarters from which one 

 can radiate. After being comfortably located at the hotel, 

 Capt. Pete and I light a cigar, take a comfortable chaiJ on 

 the porch, hoist our feet at a, comfortable, angle, the perfect 

 picture of contentment, while "Wood row "goes out to look 

 for a deer." Fbank N. Bkkbh. 



To he Continued. 



AMPHICECIOUS PISHES. 



Med: a, Pa., October, 1881, 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



I send the following list of fishes which inhabit both salt 

 and fresh water, as an addition to those given by the late 

 Prof. Milner, Prof. G. Brown Oor.de and Mr. Fred Mai her, 

 in the paper read by the latter before tho American Fishcul- 

 tural Association and published in Forest and Stream of 

 July 14: 



Sea trout, or weakfish (C'ynoscyon carolinensis). 



Channel bass, or redflsh (Sciamops oeellalm). 



Shark (species unknown). 



Tarpum (Megahps thrissoides). 



Cavalli (— species ?) 



Mullet (Muoil alhahi,.' 



Drum (Pogonia* chromh). 



I have caught all the above-mentioned fish in fresh water, 

 on the west coast of Florida, except the tarpum, which I did 

 not catch. 1 was once plaj iag a sea trout with a light rod, 

 when a tarpum seized the fish id its mouth, and then the novel 

 scone was introduced of playing a tarpum wil h a 9 oz. fly rod. 

 As we were nearly matched in size, the "odds" were rather in 

 favorof the tarpum. I expected, of course, to lose my leader, 

 but before the line was all drawn from the reel, the trout man- 

 aged to escape from the tarpum. When I reeled in the fish, 

 I found its sides well marked by the bite of the tarpum. The 

 tarpum and drum do not go into the fresh water often, except 

 in summer. Josawi Willoo.y. 



BIG BROOK TROUT. 



Oswkgo, N. Y. Sept. 1. 

 Editor Fared and Stream: 



In FoKBSl' and stream of September 29, " Seven" records 

 the capture by a New York city sportsman of a four-pound 

 six-ounce trout, measuring twenty-one inches, in the Oswe- 

 gatchie River Inlet to Cranberry Lake, St. Lawrence Co., 

 N. Y. , and adds that every one in the vicinity united in calling 

 it the biggest trout caught there within the memory of the 

 "oldest inhabitant." 



Now the fish was a beauty and its captor has just reason 

 to be proud of his "take," hut the " oldest inhabitant" if a 

 resident of that region for the term of half a dozen years 

 only, must have an abominable memory. I have before me 

 the life-size photograph of tour brook-trout, caught by a 

 party of gentlemen from this city in the inlet named above in 

 May 187(i. These trout weighed respectively five and three- 

 quarter pounds, four and one-half pounds, three and one- 

 half pounds and three pounds. In length, the fish spoken of 

 by "Seven" overlaps the largest of this redoubtable four, as 

 "Seven's" trout measured twenty-one indies while ihe 

 speckled king of 1876 was but twenty and one-half inches in 

 length. 



These fish were taken during high water with bait and 

 minnow-fishing. t H. 



Cazenovia, N. Y., Oct. 1— Editor Forest and Stream: In 

 the Oswegatchie River Inlet to Cranberry Lake, on the fif- 

 teenth or sixteenth of June, in the year eighteen hundred 

 and sixty-nine, I caught a brook-trout twenty-two and three- 

 quarters of au inch in length. Had no scales to weigh him, 

 but Charley Marsh, the guide, said he would weigh five 

 pounds, and from the length and weight of one caught by 

 your correspondent I no longer doubt but that Charley was 

 right. "Will H. Crtjttbden. 



A STUDY FROM LIFE. 



THE subject of these lines is usually found in the bar- 

 room of a country hotel. Old and weather-beaten is he, 

 with the grime of toil upon his wrinkled hands and his aged 

 form bent with the weight of years. He is conscious, in a 

 dim, undefined w^p, that he has been hardly used ; that in 

 the battle with fate he has received some blows below the 

 bell, which have effectually removed what little hope he may 

 have had of winning the fight. And now, from the summit 

 of his eighty years, he looks back over the long and dusty 

 way he has trod with weary, aching feet, and drearily 

 wonders how he has succeed- d in climbing so high. Even 

 now he can be seen at Martin's Hotel, on the Saugerties road, 

 in the taproom of that famous old hostelry, sitting in an arm- 

 chair tilted back against the wall, his few scattered locks 

 covered with the remnant of a si raw hat ; his Kentucky jean 

 trousers supported by one suspender, and his feet thrust 

 stockinglees into a pair of cowhide shoes. He has succeeded 

 in finding, somewhere in the cavernous depths of his pocket, 

 a bag which at some time in the dim past contained tobacco, 

 ard his trembling fingers search for the morsels which have 

 collected in the corners, carefully placing them, when found, 

 between his toothless jaw and the inside of his leather-like 

 cheek, with an expression of intense satisfaction. After 

 patiently listening to the conversation of a couple of ■■• 

 who have just returned from a fishing trip to the Esopus, 

 the fossil suddenly becomes instinct with life. -'You fel- 

 lers can't ketch no fish I" he vehemently remarks. "Why 

 not?" mildly inquired one of the party. " Esse ye don't 

 know how," and as he. warmed to the Subject and the blood 

 eommenced to move in his mummy-like veins, he continued, 

 patronizingly: "You don't see me usiD' any newfangled 

 bait; no, Sir-ee— none o' yerdobsils an' sich on my line when 

 I'm arter bass: lis giv' me a grasshopper an' I'll pull Vm our 

 faster'n ye kin take 'cm ofPn the hook." The speaker, 

 thinking he detected an incredulous look on the face of 

 one of his listeners, confirmed his remarks by an appeal to 



a friend: "I'll leave it to Sile Jones, over I he re. Say, Sile, 

 ain't it so?" and Silas solemnly affirmed it was true as Holy 

 Writ. The aged Walton went on : "I seed a feller — sort o' 

 style-ish chap— down t' the bridge yislerday, and he didn't 

 have a flshiu 1 pole no thicker'n my finger, with a little clock 

 onto it. and when he hooked a fish thar the darn fool stood 

 turnin' the handle o' that little clock, and the fish ruunin' 

 roun' an' roue', nn' th' little fishin' pole bendin,' an' I swar — 

 Now ain't that the God's truth, Sile ?'' To which forcible in- 

 terrogation Silas uoddtd vigorously — "if he didn't monkey 

 an' moukey," continued the antediluvian, "fur purty nigh 

 half an 'our with that ere bass afore he got his flippers onto 

 him. Now, that's what I calls cussed nonsense. None o' 

 ycr monkcyin' with a bass when he get a-holt o' my grass- 

 hopper; I yanks 'em out if I loses a leg," and the bleared 

 eyes of the ancient turned with a longing gaze toward the 

 bar, and thcu;ioward his auditors, but seeing no indications of 

 an answer to his mute appeal, he relapsed into semi-torpidity 

 again, until the departure of the fishing party roused him 

 long enough to say: " I kinder think you fellers is jist like 

 that darn fool I seen yislerday."— Kingston Freeman. 



Lake Sitkevshbad— Fairland, Ind.— I inclose you a de- 

 scription of the lower jaw of an animal or fish — or some- 

 thing—the best informed in our vicinity cannot tell what, 

 which we would like you to throw some light on, if my 

 description is at all sufficient. The lower jaw was found by 

 the little hoy of Dr. E. N. Tull, of this place, under the 

 house, where it had doubtless been dragged by cats or dogs, 

 some dried remains of flesh still adhering to it. The im- 

 pression inclosed shows the number of teeth, except those 

 lost, to be about one hundred and twenty on the lower jaw. 

 It measures three inches across condyles ; width across teeth, 

 two and one quarter inches ; size of dental triangle, two and 

 one-quarter by one and one-half inches. It may be a very 

 common specimen — too common to excite any interest in one 

 who has made such things a study— but while we are quali- 

 fied to identify anything that comes under the head of orni- 

 thology by the help of Dr. Cone's Key — thanks to the advice 

 of your excellent journal — we do not have the books neces- 

 sary to identify this specimen, which is evidently, from the 

 number of teeth (two hundred and forty), if the upper jaw 

 contains as many as the lower one, of the earth, and prepared 

 to do a great deal of grinding. W. 



[The jfaw is that of a fish, one of the scireniiite, and is^that 

 of the lake sheepshead, Ilaphidonotus grunniens.'] 



Stukoeon and Caviare.— It is claimed for Wilmington, 

 Del., that it has the largest sturgeon fishing firm in the coun- 

 try, where it employs between thirty and forty nets on the 

 Delaware River. A schooner is kept busy in the ice trade, 

 aud a steamer accompanies the boats. While the men are 

 fishing the steamer moves from boat to boat, taking on the 

 sturgeons as fast as caught, dressing them on the boat and 

 taking the caviare from them. The seines in which the fish 

 are caught are about 200 fathoms long, are 32 meshes deep, 

 aud are made of 32-GQtton twine. The firm uses three tons 

 of cotton twine a year. The season commences about April 

 1, and shotdd close about July 1, bo as to give the fish a 

 chance to spawn. As it is, the river is fished clear up to the 

 freezing time. Speaking of caviare, mentioned above, it 

 should be sta'.ed that it is the spawn of the fish, and is a fa- 

 vorite sauce, particularly with the Germans. It consists sim- 

 ply of the fish pggs, properly cured, and epicures regard it 

 very highly. Many hundred kegs are shipped to Germany 

 each year. The firm, after much trouble, is able to put up 

 the caviare very nicely, with a patent preparation. 



A Nilw TitiPt.E Hootc. — We have been shown a new de- 

 vice for bailing a triple hook for bass and pike fishing. Two 

 hooks are made on one steel wire and bent back to back, 

 forming a ring for attachment to the line, in the usual man- 

 ner, and the third one soldered between them. A needle to 

 hold ihe bait has its point a trifle below the bend of the 

 hooks and runs up through the ring and is soldered on the 

 opposite side, its farther end projecting under the union of 

 the hooks and bent into a clasp for the needle, after the man- 

 ner of the fastening of a brooch. The minnow or other 

 bait is pierced by the needle and held in place by the 

 clasp. It is made for Abbey & Imbrie, of 48 Maiden Lane, 

 New York. 



Camp Cooked Fish. — The editor of the Planter's Journal 

 says : " Our method of cooking fish in camp was to take out 

 the entrails and then fill the cavity with seasoned dressing, 

 the principal ingredient of which was roast or boiled beech- 

 nut kernels or chestnuts. We then encased the fish in au 

 inch of dough-like mud and placed it in the ashes to bake. 

 When done the edges of the crust were broken and served as 

 platters. The scales and skin of the fish stick to the earth 

 aud the deliciously-fiavored and perfectly-baked meat can be 

 eaten from the improvised plates. This is a royal dish for 

 use in camp." 



Harper's Ferbt. — A Baltimore correspondent wishes 

 name of party at Harper's Ferry, or at Point of Rocks, who 

 can furnish live bait for bass fishine. 



JUisffcultim. 



EISHCULTTJRAL NOTES. 



MR. CALVTN FLETCHER, the newly-appointed Fish Com- 

 missioner of Indiana, has an appropriation of only $1,000 to 

 provide food for two million people. His term expireB September 

 20, 1883. 



Tho Richmond and Alleghany Railroad havo decided to evert 

 fifteen or more liahways over their dams on the James River, and 

 have adopted the McDonald plan for all of them. It may theu be 

 possible to have shad and other fishes again at the headwater of 

 thin river. 



Thfl New Jersey Commission are thinking of stocking the 

 Passaic with black bass. They may do so this fall if the fry can 

 be obtained, and the fish may do well in a, portion of tho river 

 which is not. polluted by the drainage or Patterson and Newark, 

 which contains much chemical matter in addition to ordinary 

 sewage. 



The United States Utah Commission sent 400, 000 quinuat salmon 

 eggs to Germany by Steamer " bJnnau" on the 8th, aud 100,000 to 

 France bv Steamer " Canada" on the Pith. Of the former lot 

 350,000 were for President You Behr. of the Deutsche Iischerei 

 Yeretnaud 30.110(1 for C Bnase, Geestemoode. Mis, A. Columbe, 

 of Paris, reeowed those for France, The eags were sent by Mr. 

 Livingston Stone from the U. S. Salmon Breeding Ranch on the 

 UtaCloud Biver, California^ to Mr. Fred Mather, of Forest asd 

 Steeam who repacked them in refrigerating boxes, 



HOW DID THE ELSE GET THERE ?— Crockett, Tex., Oct. 3. 

 —I was somewhat disappointed at not hearing souas explanation 

 iu regard to the way the fish oaraa in my pond. Now it is tho 

 same thing over. The time that I draiued my pond it was per- 

 fectly dry for two or three weeks ; then I stopped the How and 

 the water from the spring tins been steadily accumulating since. 

 I have not received my carp as vet, but to 107 surprise *nd ohagrio 

 I find that the pond is full of minnows from one-eighth to two 

 inches long. I am fully convinced now that the eggs are either 

 rained down or come from the spring water. I am convinced that 

 one or the other is the case on account of the very small ones. I 

 find that au exclusive carp pond cannot ho had in this part of thfi 

 country.— R. O. B. 



FISH COMMISSION REPORTS.— Two weeks ago wo published 1 

 a list of the reports of State Fish Coinmis-intis which were missing 

 from our tiles which were being prepared for binding. Since then 

 wc have received the first report of the State Of New York, for tho 

 year 1868, from Mr. Seth Green, to whom wc tender thanks for the 

 same. It is exceedingly difficult to obtain hack numbers and we 

 appreciate tho kindness. Wo still lack (lie following ; Massachu- 

 setts— 1st, 9th, nth, I2tb, 1.1th, Mth. Pennsylvania— 1870 and all 

 before; also 1872, '73, '70, '77 and '78. New Jersey— 1st, 2d, 3d, 

 1878, and all since. Wc havo reports of Virginia from 1873 to 

 1878, both inclusive, but none other. Auy person having spare 

 copies which thoy wiBh to put where they wdl do the most good, 

 may send them to this office where they are needed for frequent 

 reference. 



FISH IN INDLiNA— Lafayette, Oct. 10.— We have a chance 

 now to stock our rivers with fish aud keep out the seiues, and it is 

 a step iu the right direction. There is a strong club being organ- 

 ized here to protect our fishing interests and stop all unlawful 

 fishing. Our Fish Commissioner is the right man m the right- 

 place, and has adeep interest in that he has undertaken. If from 

 the laws wo have now we cannot stop all unlawful fishing and re- 

 stock our streams without having them dragged with seines and 

 dynamited, we might as well set all law aside" aud let people kill 

 at their pleasure every fish that is to bo found.— J. M. Smith. 



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FIXTURES. 



BENCH SHOWS. 

 OctoDer 10 to 15. National Fair Association Bench show, Wash- 

 ington, 1). y, a. H. Blackburn, Cor, Secretary. 

 Septemuei 27, 2.5, 29 ami km, at London, Out., London Dog Show. 



I-:iil I : :- '' 1-.' ! i-po.'i I'j'.-r 2. < Ti i ,. I '_ In. . on r . r'-mi. 'i J_"-: ■ . - . I . i- 



seh House, London, Ont. 



Decern oti u, 15 and 10. at Lowell, .Mass Lowell Dog Show. Entries 

 close ) leccm bcr 6. ( 'has. A. Andrew, Y\ est Boxlord, Mass. , Superin- 

 tendent. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



November 25. Louisiana Slate Field Trials.. Lull i'-s close November 

 i. Krtwr.nl LSlsf, Se.cr-i u •, . New Orles 



December 5, at Grand Junction, Ten 

 Club's Field Trials. Jos. II. Dew, Sucre 



OUR LONDON LETTER. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



On reading your issue of September 8 I was much struck with 

 he very sensible letter on bull dogs, signed "Hemlock's Hero."' 

 I've owned as many bull dogs as auy man. and have as many 

 prizes for them, and I never had a really savage one. On the 

 contrary, they were affectionate dogs— too much so, iu fact— for a 

 bull dog, unless teased, will to a certain extent fraternize, with any 

 body. Many accuse them of stupidity. I deny that they are at 

 all wanting in sagacity ; on tho contrary they can keen their end up, 

 when it comes to 'cutenesi, with most breeds,. But think how 

 frightfully the bull dog has been handicapped in the battle of life. 

 Look at the class of men with whom he is generally associated, 

 and a moment's reflection will cause his direst enemy to cool ess 

 that it is wonderful that tho bull dog has any instinct left after so 

 many generations of his ancestors have been treated and confined 

 as his have been. Sportsmen shrink from breeding from un- 

 broken parents in the case of field dogs, because they say the 

 progeny are less steady- Jnot that they have less brains in then- 

 heads. Apply this rule to bull dogs", aud see what chance tho 

 creature has had of proving himself superior to any other breed 

 m intellect or whatever you like to call tho faculty which dumb 

 animals possess for showing their intelligence. 



Another subject which interested roe considerably was your 

 showing up of a dog-dealiug gentleman with a. variety of names. 

 I don't know whether this is the same person who kindly referred 

 au American gentleman to me as one wLo " would i'lr-nk i'< r Inn ." 

 I was horrified to receive a call from the purchaser, who told me 

 that, as he was in Loudon, he had come to sav he bad not much 

 opinion of the dogs I sent out to some dealer or other whose name 

 I forget. Eventually I satisfied my visitor that he had been 

 hoaxed, aud that I never sent a dog to the States iu my fife, nor 

 did I intend doiug so while connected with the press. In my ex- 

 perience journalists worth their salt don't deal in dogs, for it 

 would be most unfair for them to sell a beast one day aud criticise 

 his merits on the next. Added to which, dog-dealing and quill- 

 driving don't mix at all. 



Since my last letter two fair dog shows— Eastbourne and Birken- 

 head— have taken place. The latter contained nothing very much 

 out of the ordinary ruu of dogs among those j irosc or, but Eastbourne 

 was the first exhibition which I have visited where champions are 

 barred from competition. The object of the promoters of this 

 class of show is avowedly to gaiu entries which (hey would not be 

 likely to receive if there was a probability of champions compet- 

 ing. The result, however, in my opinion, is not encouraging, for 

 it is not pleasant to see a lot of third-rate dogs figuring as win- 

 ners of prizes when one knows their owners have better tackle at 

 home, and would have brought it had it In.- 1 bile to 



do so. Granted that such regulations pie!.: 1. : indif- 



ferent tykes who wish to figure as possessors of m-i-prize winners, 

 it is still worth while considering whether or not ' . .!. 



is encouraged by first-rate specimens b. ing mpetatfon. 



The quality of the dogs was nothing 

 hibition received the full support of 

 good prize list into the bargain. 



Talking of the Kennel Club makes 1 

 which I alluded to iu a former letter, _.... 

 their attack upon Darlington and other show 

 the club to foist their rules upon them. Mat 

 a bit since I last wrote, and there is to be a bi 

 ter next month, at which the Kennel Club r 

 forced. It may be mentioned that the Honor: 

 Manchester fixture is a leading member of th 

 others equally high in position in the club an 

 shows that thev are not unanimous in their 

 gramme, aud tho question arises i i 

 pulsion of the Darlington and other 

 '*Tis true 'tis pity, pity 'lis 'tis true, I 1 

 feeling imported iuto the case ; and m.i o.oi 

 the Club Committee punished me by not speakn 

 show, and this because I am credited, rightly o 

 ting the ball of independence rolling iu th 

 1 should never have alluded to this trivial 

 tar to show how very sill 



e tbi 



.-.ml had a 



j£ ol .i excitement 

 liich is the result of 

 i, who will not su Iter 

 it mended 

 Ig show at Manches- 

 rdfl* will not be en- 

 ihle Secretary it th:> 

 ll Club, aud 

 -. This aij 

 >tting" pro- 



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a meats recent 



IV, with set- 



the /■>«. 



dent had it uot gone 

 'hen Ibeil Lobbies 



1 attacked, and how unfitted folks become, when iurluen.-ed by 

 06, to act as dictators to the canine or any other world. 

 }till Ore Darlington people, to use a racing term, have their toes 



