WHITE GOATS IN DOMESTICATION. 



I hand you herewith a photo of 2 Rocky 

 mountain goats that were captured when 

 about a month old by Charles Chapman and 



A PAIR OF WAIFS. 

 Now in the New York Zoological Park. 



James White, 2 trappers of this place. The 

 boys caught the kids in the Rockies, on 

 White river, a tributary of the Kootenay, 



POSING AS FISH HOGS 

 You write me inquiring if my wife and 

 I caught 47 bass in one day. I will give 

 you the facts, then you can judge whether 

 I am a fish hog or not. We were at Rock- 

 ledge, Florida, and went out to Lake Poin- 

 sett, with 2 gentlemen from Newark. They 

 caught 21 black bass, my wife and I 26. 

 When we came home in the evening they 

 wanted to know if they could have our 

 fish in the morning to put up and get their 

 picture. I said yes ; so in the morning they 



and brought them to town by boat, a dis- 

 tance of about 100 miles. On the way down 

 their only way of feeding the youngsters 

 was to let them suck a 30-30 shell, fitted 

 into the mouth of a bottle containing evapo- 

 rated cream. The kids were caught from 2 

 separate bands of goats, on the 10th and 

 nth of June respectively, and they ar^ 

 male and female. They are now in good 

 condition and have learned many tricks. 

 They follow Mr. Chapman all over town, 

 and are as tame and seem to thrive as well 

 as if running wild in the mountains. 



John Carson, a miner, recently caught a 

 full grown female goat about 2 years old. 

 He simply lay on the ground and the goat 

 came up so close to him that he grabbed it 

 by the fore leg. Then he secured it with 

 his belt and brought it home, 22 miles, on 

 a pack horse. He has had it about a week 

 and it is doing well. 



I like your plan of killing game hogs. 

 We have a few here, that I should like to 

 see driven into your pen and slaughtered. 



There are good hunting grounds here and 

 good fishing in the mountain streams. 



R. A. Fraser, Fort Steel, B. C. 



put them on a rack and then asked my 

 wife and I to have our pictures taken first, 

 which we did. 



Charles Robbins, Groveport, O. 

 No, you and your wife did not make an 

 excessive catch, according to your report, 

 but you did display bad taste in standing 

 by a string of dead fish, that probably stunk, 

 and being pictured with them. Such con- 

 duct is disgusting to all decent sports- 

 men and the sooner the public learns this, 

 the better. — Editor. 





A STRIKING DISPLAY OF BAD TASTE. 



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