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was 825 lbs., and probably when taken from the water did 

 not weigh less than 400 pounds. It netted the lucky fisher- 

 man $26, and is retailing here to-day for ISic per pound. 

 Boston, Sept. 22, 1877. N. G. 



Fishing in Greenwood Cemetery. — Two men who were 

 caught stealing gold fish with a net from the lake in Green- 

 wood Cemetery were sent to jail for twenty-nine days. 



Kinsey's Ashley House— Barnegat Inlet, Sept. 21.— No 

 fishing of note past week except sea bass and a sprinkle of 

 striped bass. Bar too rough to bluefish. Capt. N. Crammer 

 caught a 29-pound drum on a squid on the 19th. 



Pennsylvania. — Greenville, Sept. 20. — Black bass have 



nest. At the very first note of the triumphant cackle of the 

 egg-laying hen, the imp is off like a shot to look for her nest, 

 and unless the vigilant Becky, who also has charge of the 

 poultry department, can outfoot him in the race, or unless the 

 nest is beyond his reach, he is sure to seize and gobble the 

 egg. "Why, sir, if this puppy, when grown to mature dog- 

 hood, should find birds in the field as he does eggs in the nest, 

 he will become the champion of all the field trials in America, 

 and his owner might safely throw down the gauntlet to the 

 kennels of Smith, of Strathroy; Tileston, of Paskack; 

 Raymond, of Fox Farm ; Guido, of Memphis, and even the 

 been'cau£htlnqiute7aige"numbe7r' James Heube.Tveteran S reat Warwick, who, as I write, is slaughtering the woodcock 



in the business, has brought in some fine strings lately. 



^ That Shark and Its Oil.— In reply to our friend B. of 

 Austin, Texas, relative to the oily subject, I woidd say that 

 the liver of the shark named in my article "Red Snapper 

 Pishing in the Gulf of Mexico," after cutting away a part of 

 the upper portion, filled to the top an empty half-barrel from 

 which had been used the corn beef it contained. The state- 

 ment that the liver weighed about 125 pounds was simply a 

 guess. The Captain of the vessel filled two five-gallon cans 

 with the oil before my friend and I left, and all hands esti- 

 mated there would be not less than ten gallons more. The 

 apparent incongruity in my statement arose from my modesty 

 in estimating the weight of the liver in the raw. B. H. P. 

 Vicksburg, Sept. 19, 1877. 



A Game Pish.— A Detroit paper says : " The other morning 

 while George W. Osborn, of that city, was fishing from the 

 east end of the long crib off Stoney Island, with a hand line 

 and float, he had occasion to leave for a few minutes and made 

 his line secure to the crib, as he supposed. Upon his return, 

 hovever, nothing was to be seen of his fishing tackle, and as 

 no one had been near it during his absence he concluded that 

 it had been hooked by some member of the finny tribe. Five 

 minutes later the float was observed upon the surface of the 

 water three or four hundred feet away from the crib, alternate- 

 ly appearing and working toward the middle of the river. 

 There was no small boat in the vicinity with the aid of which 

 to recover thetackle, and the float finally became lost in the 

 distance. This was between eight and nine o'clock in the 

 forenoon. Between three and four o'clock in the afternoon 

 Mr. Osborn walked down to the end of the Canada Southern 

 ferry-dock, and looking over the western side discovered his 

 line and float near the dock. With considerable risk of getting 

 into the river he climbed down to the water, some ten or 

 twelve feet, and got hold of one end of the line, but found 

 something lively tugging at the other end of it. The tele- 

 graph operator at the ferry station now came to his aid, and 

 with the help of a pike-pole, a ten-pound pike was soon 

 landed on terra firma more than six hours after it had taken 

 the hook. 



An Angler's Catechism.— Down at Sea Grove the pastor 

 has great trouble in getting Sunday school teachers. After 

 much inquiry he secured a long, lank fisherman, Sol Warring- 

 ton. The following is a verbatim report of his first lesson : 



Q. How many ways does the Old Testament teach of catch- 

 ing fish? A. Angling, with a seine and hooks; Isaiah xix, 

 8-11; Amos iv., 2. 



Q. Who were the best of the Apostles ? A. The four fish- 

 ermen, Peter, Andrew, James and John. 



Q. How did the Apostles like their fish cooked ? A. John 

 xxu 9 ; Luke xxiv. 



Q. What was considered a fair day Vluck fishing ? A. St. 

 John xxi, 11. 



Q. "What was a poor day's luck ? A. St. John xxi, 3. 



Q. How far from land did the Apostles fish ? A. St. John 

 xxi, 8. — Philadelphia Bulletin. 



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To Correspondents.— Those desiring us to prescribe tor their dogs 

 will please take note of and describe the followiug points in each ani- 

 mal: 



1. Age. 2. Food and medicine given. 3. Appearance of the eye ; 

 of the coat; of the tongue and lips. 4. Any changes In the appearance 

 of the body, as bloating, drawing in of the flanks, etc. 5. Breathing, 

 the number of respirations per minute, and whether labored or not. 

 6. Condition of the bowels and secretions of the kidneys, color, etc. 7. 

 Appetite ; regular, variable, etc. 8. Temperature of the body as indi- 

 cated by the bulb of the thermometer when placed between the body 

 and the foreleg. 9. Give position of kennel and surroundings, outlook, 

 contiguity to other buildings, and the uses of the latter. Also give any 

 peculiarities oi temperament, movements, etc., that may be noticed ; 

 signs of suffering, etc. 



YOUTHFUL, CANINE DEPRAVITY. 



WHAT is to be done ? The sweet calm of our household, 

 at Fern Bank, has been sadly ruffled by the advent of 

 a setter puppy which is the source of endless trials and tribu- 

 lations to my daughter and her factotum, Becky, our house- 

 keeper, and the " mammy " of my little grandson, Freddie. 

 This puppy, the cutest little imp that ever tried human pa- 

 tience, is the incarnation of perpetual motion, mischief and 

 deviltry ; he has all the acquisitiveness and secretiveness of a 

 magpie. Shoes, slippers, socks — anything left within his 

 reach is either damaged beyond the possibility of repair, or 

 hidden away in remote places, to he recovered, if at all, only 

 by accident, or the most diligent search. These, however, 

 are the natural peccadilloes of youth, the effervescence of a 

 growing vitality, and they may and should be condoned ; in- 

 deed, a sedate puppy, without the spirit to be mischievous, is 

 rarely, if ever, worth the raising. But alas, wretched whelp! 

 though only in his fourth month, and with a pedigree as 

 ancient and illustrious as that of Bruges' Rufus or Mohawk's 

 ill-fated Crown Prince, he has evinced a depravity of morals 

 and appetite grievous to all true lovers of " blue blooded " 

 dog?, and calculated to shake our faith in the whole canine 

 race. Alas ! that I should be compelled lo chronicle the fact ! 

 This beautiful puppy, of such gentle lineage, has become, 

 even before shedding juvenile teeth, an inveterate egg sucker, 

 and is as skillful at finding as some people are at hiding a 



at Lake Glenida, over the peerless mother of the youthful 

 Con. 



To this possibility, however remote— to this possibility alone 

 is the little scoundrel (Banquo by name) indebted for his life 

 in spite of his blue blood. 



Mr. Editor, I like a fresh egg for my breakfast, and that 

 great Italian artist, Moretti, of your city, has taught me to 

 dote on omelette au ham, and omelette au frontage, but 

 since the coming of this egg-sucking demon I have observed 

 that these luxuries have disappeared from our table. On 

 complaint to Becky, she throws the responsibility on the pup- 

 py, which, I verily believe — though she is a good-hearted girl 

 —she would gladly see consigned to that instantaneous and 

 ignominous death which my eccentric and gallant friend, the 

 late Emmet Howe was wont to invoke for his imaginaary 

 enemies. 



So far, Tom Greene, my son-in-law, the unfortunate owner 

 of this depraved little beast, and myself have resisted the just 

 remonstrances of my daughter, who has the laudahle house- 

 wifery ambition to have a well stocked poultry yard, telling 

 her that such trials of temper and patience are sent to her as 

 they were to Job, and that she has a chance of becoming the 

 peer of that illustrious patriarch. But she retorts, with con- 

 siderable force, that we men are utterly ignorant of the im- 

 portance of the egg in domestic economy, and she points out 

 the folly of sacrificing such an indispensable element in the 

 culinary art to an untrained puppy, which may die of distem- 

 per before ever taken to the field. And then she enumerates, 

 until my mouth fairly waters, a long list of delicious edibles 

 and drinkables of which the egg forms a component part, 

 and threatens us with their loss if the depredator is not sent 

 away. 



We are to have no egg-nog at Christmas and no egg-flip to 

 tone the stomach and steady the nerves of a morning ; we are 

 to be deprived of our delicious batter cakes and omelette, and 

 even clear coffee at breakfast ; we are to have no dressing for 

 our lettuce, or custard at dinner, and no pound-cake and jum- 

 bles for our tea. Now I confess, Mr. Editor, that I feel 

 shaky under the substantial and, I may add, succulent elo- 

 quence of this plea, for I have reached that age at which the 

 pleasures of the table are more attractive than those of the 

 field. Meanwhile Tom and I are exhausting our ingenuity to 

 convert the young sucker from his evil ways. Among other 

 unsuccessful expedients resorted to was the famous " pepper 

 cure," deemed infallible by the sportsmen of the south. 



You, Mr. Editor, who are known to and appreciated by the 

 culinary artists of Gotham as an enlightened and distinguished 

 gourmet, have doubtless tasted that exquisite preparation of 

 African pepper bearing the imprimatur of Mansel White, and 

 so hot as to be called by the Creoles of New Orleans "fou 

 d'sufet." Well, through a minute perforation in the butt of 

 an egg we injected a teaspoonful of this liquid fire. The bait 

 thus prepared was placed where the puppy could find it, 

 which he speedily did, and then, incredible as it may appear, 

 he gobbled up the egg, pepper and all, not only without the 

 howls of agony which we hoped to hear, but with a wagging 

 of his caudal extremity, eloquently expressive of the highest 

 enjoyment and satisfaction 1 



Our patience and resources were alike exhausted. We pro- 

 ceeded to pass judgment on the criminal, and he was ordered 

 to execution at the hands of our henchman, when my little 

 grand-daughter, Belle, interceded for him. No gentleman, 

 much less a doting old grandfather, could resist such a plea 

 from such a source. A reprieve was granted, and now, at 

 Belle's suggestion, we appeal to the Forest and Stream in 

 the hope that you or some of your numerous readers will 

 suggest a cure for the puppy, and thus enable us to eat our 

 eggs in peace. F- G. S. 



Fern Bank, Sept. 7, 1877. 



Claiming of Names.— The naming of canines, as now under- 

 stood, is a matter of considerable moment. If one gentleman 

 names his dog Joe, another who may have a fancy for the 

 same is supposed to be debarred its use. There is no necessity 

 for this whatever ; it is in fact perfectly nonsensical, and a 

 continuance of this theory will soon push nomenclature to 

 the wall. Because one names his dog Jack, is no reason that 

 another may not have the same designation, any more than 

 because the first names his child Henry, a son of the sec- 

 ond has no right to be so called. Names are plenty and 

 more may be manufactured, yet, after all, the English al- 

 phabet contains but twenty-six letters and but six vowels, 

 and their changes will soon be exhausted by following out the 

 ideas of nomenclature as now promulgated. What then is to 

 be done ? 



We see no reason why the name should not tfe prefaced by 

 that of the owner, and thus made distinctive. When we say 



with this system, and by the aid of a kennel regi 

 difficulty entirely disappears. The name Dash may nd 

 does belong to hundreds of curs of high and low degree, 

 but Rodman's Dash is a distinctive title and no one will eon- 

 found it with Dash whom the street gamin whistles around' 

 the corner. If Rodman sells his dog to Johnson the animal 

 takes the distinctive title of his new master, and becomes 

 Johnson's Dash, or, if we desire to be more explicit, we aay 

 Johnson's Dash, late Rodman's. This does away witaj|gj 

 petty disputes and quibbles that are constantly arising, and 

 also with the necessity of constantly torturing one's brain for 

 new alphabetical combinations. Of course no one has the ' 

 right to apply the distinctive name of another to his animal, 

 any more than Jones may name his children Smith. We be- 

 lieve that sportsmen will not only find the new mode satisfac- 

 tory, but that it will prove a welcome relief from the quarrels 

 that are now being engendered. 



Right in this connection we wish to speak of a circum- 

 stance happening in this office. Both Mr. Morris and Mr. P, 

 R. Ryer claimed the name of Con for puppies. Mr. Morris 

 claimed priority and appealed to us for a decision, to which 

 we replied in our columns that the matter rested not with us 

 but with the National Kennel Club. Mr. Ryer desired to 

 answer Mr. Morris, but we refused to allow a controversy to 

 appear in our columns, and referred the latter to the National 

 Kennel Club. On looking over our columns Mr. Ryer dis- 

 covered that the name of Con had been claimed for Ills flog 

 by Mr. Evers previous to the claiming of the same name by 

 Mr. Morris. We stated to him that we would gladly accord 

 room for a simple statement of the fact in our columns. The 

 following day we received a communication from Mr. Ryer 

 which he desired inserted, stating that unless we would Dffi 

 it as it was, "icithout cutting," he desired the article returned, 

 As Mr. Ryer is a very positive person, having 

 opinion of his own merits, and moreover somewhat bellicose 

 in nature, and his article being somewhat offensively personal 

 to Mr. Morris, we declined to publish ; whereupon the honor- 

 able gentleman takes exceptions, and rushes into print with 

 some of the less conscientious journals, giving utterance to 

 the falsehood that we declined to publish because he would 

 not concede the Foeest and Stbeam to be the only comet. 

 authority on canine matters— an assertion that, has no other " 

 foundation than his own imaginative brain. The only eomt • 

 authority on canine matters is undoubtedly Mr. F. G. Ryer- '. 

 in his own estimation— though ' 'little rills" may flow elsevfjftj 

 We wish it distinctly understood, as we stated to this vem.j| 

 cious gentleman, that the Fobest and Stream is not a rrj&dll 

 urn for personal strife. 



Feeding Puppies.— No animal can be expected to ftttm 

 its full size and form except it receive a full supply of wtJM 

 some food. Only those breeders who have given the m|M 

 close attention can realize how much a healthy, growing puppy j 

 will consume, consequently very many young animals arfrA-1 

 jured through want of sufficient and proper nourishmenfaM 



Some bitches will supply nourishment for nine or ten HM, 

 pies until they are four or five weeks old. Others have bat dl 

 small secretion of milk, and can sustain no more than fotttorj: 

 five, but for a short time; hence it is necessary to wtum 

 closely to know what, the bitch is doing for her progeny, mill 

 supply any deficiency accordingly. Even when the materflJlfl 

 supply is ample to keep the offspring in good condition, it li 

 decidedly better to commence feeding the Utter with Mi 

 food when they are four or five weeks old, in order to nVoIdji 

 too sudden change of diet when they are taken fromtlfy 

 mother. About the best food at such time, is good Mi 

 cow's milk with the addition of a little scalding hot watpMI 

 which may be added after a few days, well-cooked corn (tfi 

 oat meal, the latter being preferable. When seven or JpBH 

 weeks of age, give them beef or mutton soup with musk mi 

 milk ; substituting in turn, wholly or in part, scraps front tkl 

 table as this age is doubled. Meat, bones, bread, vegetM 

 gravy, etc., form an excellent diet: for growing puppies of thin 

 age, as well as for adult animals, when given in quantiti^H 

 ficient to keep them in proper condition. One of th$^H| 

 important matters in the rearing of young animals is thaflffl 

 be kept in proper form, consequently they should be /ftjHV 

 ly fed, and receive as much food as they will eat cleanly. I' 

 feeding is allowed but twice a day they become almost* 

 mished, and eat so ravenously when supplied as to become I 

 "potbellied" and misshapen, and frequently our 

 consequently from the time they are weaned until thgB 

 two or three months old, they should be supplied with fOgW 

 least five times per day, the two extreme meals being giTJBB 

 corresponding early and late hours of the flay. After tnrefl 

 months thrice daily will be found sufficient. 



In regard to the rearing of pups solely upon a 

 we may say that, so far as personal experimental knoj^H 

 reveals, it is by no means the proper course to PHH 

 Youngsters thus "fed will, if not overtaken by disease, SflM 

 an unreasonable and undesirable size, and having uH 

 habituated to meat only, it will be found difficult to (MO 

 them to accept of sufficient vegetable food to keep tifB 

 anything like proper condition for work. Besides tMJM 

 more apt to maul or mouth the game they retrieve. Akjnj 

 ing pups and adidt hunting dogs require more or IeMa 

 with their food, but in the case of the former, it is befflH 

 the animals if it be in the form of broth mixed with tfloj 

 mush. — Hallock'n Sportsman's Gazetteer. 



Muzzling Dogs.— The muzzle is an instmmen 

 belonging to the Dark Ages, and should be class 

 vise, thumbscrew and rack. Why should it be u 

 scientists acknowledge that it answers no sanitai 

 and incalculably injures the animal, preventing 

 tion, and denying to him the privilege of drinking 

 son of the year when water is most sought and needed? j 

 four years the writer has collected statistics of 

 rabies reported through the papers and medic; 

 which show that at least three out of every fiveca 

 occurred during that time occurred in the moi 



ceinber, January and February, and not a singlt 

 Morford's Joe, we certainly do not mean Smith's or any other I a^e has occurred in the months of July aud Augl 

 man's Joe, though there may be a dozen of the name; and I August, fust designated as hydrophobia, but late 



