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A Jealous 8kvk T0BKEEB. — The following remarkable 



:c erf jealousy and revenge, exhibited by a Skye terrier, 

 is parroted by a distinguished Scotch lady in a work privately 

 printed some years ago ""We bad," saysthelady in question, 



yc terrier named Oscar, which had a particular affection 

 for Nanny, the dairy-maid, and always accompanied her 

 to the milking of the cows, for which attention she rewarded 

 him with a basin of warm milk. He always went with her to 

 her father's house at Liulathenon the Sunday evenings, ^dis- 

 tance Of two miles, after having been to the established 

 church at Murroes, but on. the occasion of the opening of the 

 Free Church in the parish of Monitieth, which is not far 

 from the dwelling of Nanny's parents, he went there alone, 

 remained in the tent during the forenoon service, was ob- 

 served among the congregation in the new building in the 

 afternoon, and we. suppose he must have remained till the even- 

 ing service, as he did not appear at home till past eleven o'clock 

 atnight, when he gave tongue at the window of the maid's 

 room. Once or twice after this Nanny had inadvertently gone 

 from home without him, and he had observed her caressing 

 some, strange dogs on the road, which threw him into such a 

 paroxysm of jealousy that he nearly demolished her ward- 

 robe. He went to the. room where she and the other maid- 

 servants kept their clothes, drew two of her best caps from a 

 basket, carried them down stairs, and hid them among some 

 lgs in the slick-house. Being unable to extract the 

 straw bonnet from the basket, he chewed the strings of it, and 

 'lore up i handkerchief, and finished :::ff by selecting a printed 

 gown of hers from among those of her fellow-servants, and 

 lore it to shreds. Great was poor Nauny's consternation 

 When she discovered that the creature whom she always said 

 "had mair wit than many bodies ' should be guilty of such 

 misconduct, so she gave him a good thrashing, and he van- 

 ished from the house, No one saw him again for a couple of 

 days, Nanny looking very mysterious all the time, and feeling 

 assured that he had ' ower muckle wit.' The first intimation I 

 received of his delinquency," adds the lady, " was from him- 

 self, wdicn he come creeping to my feet, and looking into my 

 face, as if entreating forgiveness. He did not go to the byre 

 with Nanny for more than a week after this, but., on mature 

 deliberation, he made an advance to lick her hands, and she 

 restored him to favor. — Ex. 



— Mr. John E. Develin's imported red Irish settcrbitchMol- 

 lie,full sister to Mbya, and first prize winner at. the New York 

 Bench Show of May, 1877, i'or imported red Irish setter brood 

 bitches, gave birth to eight, puppies, August 1st, at the kennel 

 of David G. Ilartt, Norfhport, Long Island. The brood con- 

 tains rive dogs and three gyps, which are by Kufus, who was 

 also a first prize winner at the Bench Show. [_8ee advertise- 

 ment. 



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BcTLEE on Tnn Dog. — A fifth edition, illustrated, of this 

 work has just been issued by D. S. Holmes & Co., of Brook- 

 lyn. Price $2.00. 



- The managers of the Louisville Industrial Exposition are 

 arranging tor a bench show of dogs during the last -week of 

 the Exposition. 



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—St, Louis is to have a Bench Show in October, when 

 $1,000 will be distributed in prizes. 



Bona Canis Oiuta.— Mr. Wm. H. Balcom, of Worcester, 



Mass., has lost his highly-prized setter Peg, valued at $-500. 



— Mr. F. O. deLuze, Spratt's agent, has just received a 

 fresh lot of biscuits. 



Music Hau. Dog Show.— The classes of this interesting entertain- 

 ment, to watch the public of Boston and vicinity are to be treated for a 

 short lime, are nearly filled. 



Through the extra exertions of the management, a large number of 

 dogs, both useful and ornamental, will be offered to the public eye. 



Many of the canine pets will be objects of attraction, and although 

 there will not be so many hunters or sporting dogs, as in former shows 

 held in other cities, there wiU be much to attract and interest the visi- 

 tor. Most of the pets are owned by people who have shown great in- 

 terest in assistmg the managers by their prompt entries, and altogether 

 we look for a grand affair, W. S, N. 



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FISH IN SEASON IN AUGUST. 



FHESH WATER. 



Trout, Halmo fontinalis. 

 fialnimi, Stitimo salwr. 



Salmon Trout, xnhno confinte. 

 Laud-lookcd Salmon, Sal-mo gloveri. 

 Grayling, Thymallvs tricolor. 

 Ml act l'Jass, Microliter ux salmoides; 

 ' M. nigricans. 

 Wascalonge, Esox nobilior. 

 Pike or Pickerel, Esoxlucius. 

 Yellow Perch, rerca flauescem. 



SALT WATER. 



Sea Pass, Scicenops ocellalus. 

 Slleepshead, Archo&argus probato- 



mphalus. 

 Striped Pass, lloccuft Iinaeat.ua. 

 ■White Perch, Morone amerieona. 

 "Weaktisli, Cyiwscwii, regalia. 

 Blueflsh, Pomatomvs saltatrix. 

 Spanish Mackerel, Cybium macula- 



tv/ni. 

 Cero, Cybium regale. 

 Bonito, tarda pelamys. 

 Kingnsh, Meiiticirrus nebulosus. 



Fish in Mabket.— The novelty in Fulton Market this week 

 is an installment of very fine green smelts from Bathurst, 

 New Brunswick. These fish are packed in snow and moss and 

 shipped per fast express to Mr. Blackford's market, where they 

 arrive in perfect condition with their peculiar and delicious 

 cucumber flavor unimpaired. Blueflsh and Spanish mackerel 

 from the Long Island coast, arc plentiful. Our quotations for 

 the week are as follows : 



Striped bass, 18 to 35 cents per pound ; smelts, 20 cents ; 

 blueflsh, 8 to 10 cents ; salmon, frozen, 30 cents ; mack- 

 erel, 13 to 83 cents; weakfish, 12 cents; Spanish uiackerel ( 

 20 cents; green turtle, 15 cents; halibut, 15 cents ; had- 

 dock, 8 cents, king-fish, 25 cents; codfish, 8 cents; black- 

 fish, 15 cents ; flounders, 8 cents ; sea bass, 18 cents ; 

 eels, 18 cents; lobsters, 8 cents; soft clams, 30 to 60 

 cents per 100; Lous' Island trout, 75 cents, Salmon do., 15 

 cents; Canada do., oO cents; sbeepshead, 20 cents; wkitelMi, 

 15 cents,- hard shell crabs, $3 per 100; soft crabs, $1.25 

 er dozen j frog's legs 35 cents per pound. 



RIO GRANDE TROUT. 



Cim akron, New Mexico, Aug. 8, 1877. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: 



From the allusion to this fish in your issue of July 26, I am 

 led to infer that the general information in regard to it is so 

 meagre that a few notes on its occurrence and habits may not 

 be without interest. The Rio Grande trout, the Sahnopkuri- 

 &WS of dope, is found in all the mountain streams of Southern 

 Colorado and New Mexico, the finest fishing being generally 

 found in the. head- waters, in the parks which lie on cither side 

 of the main ranges of the Rocky Mountains, at an eleva- 

 tion of from 7,000 to 9,000 feet above the sea. In some of 

 these beautiful basins, nestling at the base of snow-capped 

 peaks, 13,000 foot or more in height, one can find during the 

 months of summer and autumn, a combination of maguiti- 

 cient mountain scenery, exhilarating climate and fine fishing, 

 not excelled anywhere. This species is undoubtedly one of 

 the handsomest, as well as gamiest, of its kind. I have taken 

 it in many different streams in this region, aud find some 

 variation in its specific characters. I have recognized two 

 rather well-marked varieties which arc distinguished by the 

 color of the skin on the belly. In one it is yellowish white, 

 with scarcely a trace of red about the fins and head, and in the 

 other a brilliant deep pink, This difference is not due to age, 

 as it is observed among all sizes. The spots in all are black, and 

 vary greatly in number, but they are generally numerous, 

 arranged in longitudinal rows along the whole length of the 

 body and covering the caudal fin. But a few days ago I took 

 one about eight inches long with very few spots, and those 

 distributed only on the anterior half of the body, the tail and 

 rear half of the body being entirely free from them. There 

 is also a difference in the flesh of these trout. In some it is 

 a pure white ; in others it assumes an elegant pink or salmon 

 color. The latter are by far the finest for the table, possess- 

 ing a firmness and flavor not found in the others; but the 

 color of the flesh does not correspond to the outer markings, 

 for those with pink flesh invariably, so far as my observation 

 goes, have white skins. The white skinned fish do not always 

 have pink flesh, however, nor am I able to affirm positively 

 that none of the red bellied ones have it, though I have not so 

 far observed it in them. 



It is a voracious fish when in the humor, and will take al- 

 most any kind of bait, though like its congeners itis capricious 

 in its appetite and will at times display a most unaccountable 

 indifference to the most tempting lines. Angle worms are 

 generally good, and also grasshoppers ; at times they rise 

 eagerly to the fly, and when they do the sport is superb in the 

 larger streams. Hackles are by all odds the best flies, as they 

 keep their shape better in the very swift streams. The winged 

 grasshopper, or locust, is perhaps the most killing bait for 

 real sport. Used with light tackle and without sinker you 

 have all the excitement of fly fishing, while you are much 

 surer of your fish in small brush-lined streams where there is 

 little chance for a good cast or accurate strike. Sometimes, 

 however, they will not take even this attractive bait. Indeed, 

 I once fished one of our finest streams for nearly a week in 

 September, where the trout were numerous and little disturbed, 

 and they would not take grasshoppers nor artificial flies, save 

 sparingly in the afternoon. But the eyes when floated on the 

 ripples and sunk three or four inches in the pools and eddies 

 at the foot of ripplesproved attractive, and were the means of 

 capturing several hundred. At times these trout are very 

 wary and must be approached with great caution, or the 

 angler gets no fish. The native Mexicans who fish with sinker 

 and bait, large hooks and short lines, and who often thus take 

 large numbers in the winter, prefer to have the stream a little 

 muddy, as they say the fish bite better. The reason is appar- 

 ent. Sometimes, however, the rapacity of the trout renders 

 them oblivious of all danger, and they will take the hook time 

 after time until landed. The fish commonly taken here aver- 

 age seven to eight inches in length, though as one becomes 

 familiar with their habits he can capture enough of the old 

 fellows to raise this average considerably. The heaviest I 

 have taken is about a pound and three-quarters, though they 

 are reported to be four and five pounds in San Juan River. 



I had some excellent sport recently at the head-waters of 

 the Vermejo, in this county, when a friend and myself took, 

 in three half days fishing, near three hundred, among which 

 were twenty odd weighing considerably over a pound each. 

 Generally these large fish were shy, and required careful ap- 

 proach and sometimes patience, if not hooked at the first rise. 

 There were some cases, however, illustrating the extreme of 

 boldness. For instance, in fishing along where the stream was 

 twenty feet wide or less, and a beach on one side without any 

 cover or hank for cencealment, the opposite bank being some 

 two feet above the water with a little grass overhanging, and 

 casting from the unprotected side, my friend struck a heavy 

 fish, which got off, however. Immediately he took the bait 

 again— a floating grasshopper— and kept it, hook and all, being 

 lifted two or three feet out of -water in the struggle. I then 

 came up and could plainly see the fish lying under the oppo- 

 site bank six or eight inches below the surface. We fished 

 for him together, and within five minutes he was hooked no 

 less than three more times and raised to the surface, but es- 

 caped each time. All this time, be it remembered, we stood 

 on a level beach in plain sight ; he then disappeared and we 

 parsed on down the stream. On returning a half an hour 

 laterl discovered him again in the same spot. My first east 

 frightened him apparently, but he at once returned, and when 

 the next time the grasshopper, with his pink and white wings 

 spread and fluttering, was carefully dropped just above him, he 

 tinned, and with one. deliberate motion seized and swallowed it. 

 AJquick turn of the wrist fastened the bait in his gills, and he 



started down stream toward some roots and Snags with a 

 speed and strength that made the reel buzz. Checking hint 

 rather quickly 1 lifted him on to the pebbly beach before he 

 could recover for another rush. He was a beauty, fifteenia- 

 ches long, and weighing no doubt, when taken out of the 

 water, two pounds. He had the hook, which he had before 

 taken, clear down in his stomach, having by some means got 

 it free from the gills and gorged it. 



Within a hundred yards of the same place and just before 

 capturing the last fish I had an example of the opposite dis- 

 position. I was carefully approaching a bush standing beside 

 a rather large pool of still wafer above a beaver dam," when I 

 saw 71 dark brown object rise slowly to the surface and lie 

 there. I stopped and watched it, puzzled by its singular ap- 

 pearance and action, and in a little, while it sank as slowly and 

 mysteriously as it had arisen. Seeing it imperfectly, I thought 

 it must be some kind of water-snake, or strange monster new 

 to me. Reaching the bank under the friendly shelter of the 

 bush, I watched and soon it appeared again in another place 

 rising slowly and vertically until it rested on the surface, when 

 its head and fins revealed the presence of a very large and very 

 dark colored trout. Instantly my bait was lightly "dropped in 

 front of him, which he surveyed a few seconds and disappear- 

 ed. Six or eight times he rose and sank in this manner, 

 never appearing to be in search of food or anything else, but 

 displaying the same lazy indifference to grasshopper's, the ''.yes 

 anil tins of his fellows, aud the most tempting casts of flies. 

 He would take nothing, and I had to leave him, only regretting 

 that I could not take time to try him at sun-down, when a 

 better appetite might have instilled a little more life and energy 

 into him, and at the same time alas! proved his ruin. When 

 railroads render this region better known, many sportsmen 

 will pronounce these streams equal to any elsewhere i'or the 

 talcing of this splendid fish. Apache. 



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Spoke in Eastern Coijheotiout, — ITorwMi, Conn., Aug. 

 24, 1877. — Our city, situated at the head of tide-water on the 

 Thames, at the junction of the Yantioand Shetucket Rivers, 

 is located in the midst of what is naturally a great game dis- 

 trict. Fresh-water fishing is the order of the day at present. 

 In the spring we had very fair trouting early in the season, 

 if one could find a brook that had not been fished. Our county 

 is fairly lined with good, natural trout streams, but the fish 

 have been pursued incessantly in and out of season almost to 

 extermination. Some good catches were made early in the 

 season, but later it was difficult to find a trout. One pound 

 is as large as most strings show. July 1st our black bass 

 season opened. The Shetucket and Quinebaug Rivers are well 

 stocked with bass ; they are caught as high up as Willimantic, 

 lift ecu miles on the Shetucket, and at Jewett City, eight miles 

 up the Quinebaug. Five pounds is the largest fish I have 

 heard of. Strings of twenty to forty have been caught. One 

 party of four claim ninety ; another, one hundred and twenty. 

 Gardner's Lake, a beautiful sheet of water seven miles west, 

 is stocked with bass, though no very large catches are made. 

 The writer took one of one and a half pounds, trolling with 

 spoon, and a friend caught a three-pounder. For bait dobson 

 is the favorite, as that catches the large fish, though worms 

 are full as taking for the small ones. Our motto, however, is 

 quality rather than quantity. Have tried fly fishing unsuccess- 

 fully', though bass have been taken in the river with the fly. 

 We find the bass a very uncertain fish, one day taking the 

 bait readily.and the next every enticement failing to secure even 

 a nibble. In taking the bait they are fully as wary, if not more 

 so than the trout, though the writer found a notable exception 

 a few days since — was fishing with "dobs" with a nine- 

 ounce bamboo rod, and making a very long cast to reach a 

 certain pool. The dob is lively, and its special aim seems to 

 be to get your line fast on bottom. I had a strike and com- 

 menced reeling in, but fetched up and, concluding my strike 

 was the dob under a stone, I finally cleared by parting my 

 line, leaving leader and hook behind. Had scarcely got 

 another hook and bait into the water when a fish had it, and 

 I landed a half-pound bass. I found stuck down his throat 

 my lost hook and dob, and four feet of gut leader hanging 

 from his mouth, and both hooks were fast. Our greatest 

 difficulty here, is to get dobson. They cost from $3 to $5 a 

 hundred, and those who have the secret of finding them koep 

 it well. CTnoas. 



*v Lake Erie Bass Fishing.— H. came into the office last 

 May with glowing reports of the fishing at Kelly's Island 

 which awakened all rny enthusiasm, and believing that busi- 

 ness*ould last forever, and bass fishing but for a brief season, 

 I concluded to seize the opportunity, and with a party took 

 the evening train for Sandusky. After a fair night's sleep 

 upon the road we found ourselves listening to reports by 

 railroad employes of the wonderful fishing at the Island. We 

 marched down to the Myrtle, a fast steam passenger tug ply- 

 ing to the Island, whose captain told us that bait was scarce, 

 am 1 consented to wait for us, while the desired material was 

 procured, The captain kept the donkey engine running all 

 the way to keep our bait in fresh w r ater, as the day was hot and 

 nothing else would keep them alive. 



An hour's ride brought us to the Island. We put our min- 

 nows into the tanks at the capacious boat-house, and Jacob 

 Rush at, the "Island House" found rooms for us. Dinner 

 over, boats and oarsmen were selected, tackle rigged, and off 

 we started, some to North, some to South and some to 

 East Bay. South Bay is a very good fishing ground in sight 

 of the hotel, and directly in its front. 



At night wo compared notes and fish, and were most of ns 

 somewhat disappointed with the sport. The afternoon had 

 been still and hot, the has? were sluggish and showed no fight ; 

 still wc caught twenty lish each averaging in weight two pounds 

 The little show of' fight was discouraging; as one who 

 tried it said he " would as lief fish with a hand-line for 

 cod as for such bass." 



At supper the house filled, and pleasant surprises met us. 

 There were fishermen whom we had met on the shores of in- 

 land streams, in the ocean surf and in the wilds of the North 

 Shore. The result was the usual marvelous tides of salmon, 

 striped bass and trout — successes and failures, with an occa- 

 sional reference to the black bass. Indeed, some fishermen 

 told larger stories o it he last than of any of the others. Nor 

 did the day's fishing suffer in the telling : How one boat 

 (with an oarsman and two fisherman) had brought in one hun- 

 dred and fif t y bass ; how another had one hundred and ninety, 

 and so on until one reached two hunched and ten. This made 

 our little catch of forty per boat sound small 



Next morning an early start w r as made, at which hour fish- 

 ing with a fair breeze gave us better sport ; but -while the 

 number of fish taken was not proportionately greater than the 

 day before, there were larger fish, reaching, some of them, 

 four and a half pounds, aud the catch (counting out a few 

 "croppies," or " speckled" bass as the boatmen termed them) 

 averaged about three pounds each. The boat average for tlw 



