Nov, 14, 1889.] 



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AN INCREDULOUS RHYMSTER. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



To the uncertainty of the biting of fish all anglers can 

 testify. When one is himself alone disappointed the 

 trial is enough to bear, but when he feels the disappoint- 

 ment of othersT'too. it is very annoying. It fell to my 

 lot to endure such, torture this summer. 



Having been for several seasons to Philipsburg, Prov- 

 ince of Quebec, and having always met with reasonable 

 success with bass, I took it upon myself this summer to 

 write several friends to accompany me, holding out as an 

 inducement the almost sure capture of plenty of bass. 

 We went. The weather was superb, but the week passed 

 and six of us caught altogether perhaps about ten bass. 



Four of the party left in disgust. My companion and 

 myself having been in the place and being possessed of 

 the true piscatorial spirit of patience, waited and fished, 

 from the day the skeptics left the bass began to bite. We 

 took a goodly number each day, one day bagging seven- 

 teen nice ones, and among others taking two which 

 weighed over 41bs. 



To show the boys what they had missed I disinter- 

 estedly wrote them an account of my luck after they left, 

 and among other scurrilous epistles received the follow- 

 ing "epic" from one of them, which you may think it 

 worth while to publish: 



ANANIAS THE FISHER. 



There once were six fishermen who 

 With the wind into Philipsburg blew. 



For hass they were laying. 



And for good weather praying. 

 For each day would he spoiled hy a "too." 



The first day was "too hot and still," 

 The second "too rough and too chill," 



And somehow a leak 



In each day of the week 

 Would prevent it from filling the hill. 



There was "too much north wind" did they troll, 

 Or "too little" to fish with a pole: 



So the bass wouldn't strike, 



And the largest-sized pike 

 A wizard alone could cajole. 



Then some went a-frogging with joy, 

 Homo went courting the milkmaidens coy: 



Some lay in the grass, 



And fished for the bass, 

 Which to catch you a corkscrew employ. 



And after a week, three or four 



Of the fishermen skipped from that shore. 



Of the two left behind 



One grew low in his mind, 

 Tho' often he had been there before. 



At his hair and his whiskers he tore, 

 And 'tis said that he cursed and he swore, 



And in language unclean 



Said "Me hoped he'd be seen 

 In Halifax if he fished more." 



But after the tempest was o'er, 

 He permitted his fancy to soar; 



So large bass he did take 



('Twas a hypnotic fake), 

 At least seventeen or a score. 



For he fell into a mesmeric trance, 

 And about him saw 10-pounders dance. 



And real bass be thought 'em, 



And believed that he' i-aught 'em 

 Without wetting the plinth of his pants. 



Now, no one has ever told why 

 It is that a man who won't lie. 



Will, by a simple fish tale. 



Make a tombstone turn pale, 

 And then he will only half try. 



For when he awoke from his dream, 



This man's eye showed a treacherous gleam, 



Which revealed without doubt 



That Jekyll was out. 

 And that Hyde was the boss of the scheme. 



For with limitless "voltage of gall." 



And a nerve that would make Keeley crawl, 



He wrote down on a card, 



By no scruples debarred, 

 What I hope he will quickly recall. 



"The name of the bass it is Mud 



(Cold as ice, as lie wrote, was his blood), 



For this day, old boy, 



I caught to my joy, 

 More bass than have lived since the flood. 



Then humming the bar of a song, 

 He mailed it to one of the throng 



Who had just gone away 



On the previous day, 

 But who had never done him a wrong. 



But success he will never attain, 

 And he'll fish for the suckers in vain, 



If with such rotten yarns 



He mends and ho darns 

 All those very large holes in his seine. H. 



Why must we ' 'truthful" fishermen bear the opprobrium 

 of the "liars" of the guild? A Constant Reader. 



A Trout Painting.— Anglers, as well as connoisseurs 

 in this vicinity, will be greatly interested in a painting 

 of a large brook trout now on exhibition in the windows 

 of Messrs. Tilden, Thurber & Co., jewelers, Providence. 

 The study is from the easel of Mr. T. Sedgwick Steele, 

 son-in-law of Hon. Darius Goff, and represents a 5ilb. 

 trout suspended by silver scales, the weight of the fish 

 being indicated on the scales. The fish was captured in 

 the Eangeleys, Maine, and painted to order for a gentle- 

 man at Mr. Steele's home in Hartford, Conn. Trout of 

 this size are not common, and one seldom sees them so 

 exquisitly painted with all the rainbow colors. — Provi- 

 dence Times. 



Scarcity op Whales.— The whaling season just closed 

 in the North Pacific has been remarkable for fine weather, 

 but the catch of whales was smaller than ever before '. 

 The San Francisco fleet is reported to have taken only 45, 

 while the Okhotsk fleet captured 60. It is said that at 

 least two vessels besides the schooner Nicoline have gone 

 to winter at Herschell Island near the Mackenzie River. 

 The breeding grounds of the bowhead are reported in 

 that vicinity. 



Abundance of Sharks.— Net fishermen along the New 

 England shores complain greatly of the annoyance caused 

 by sharks. Sometimes several are entangled in a single 

 net, and the damage is considerable. It is astonishing 

 what an amount of rolling and twisting a five-foot shark 

 can do before he is drowned in the net. The mackerel 

 shark is one of the commoner species in this unpleasant 

 muddle. 



Anglers' Association of Eastern Pennsylvania.— 

 At the annual meeting of this association, held in Phila- 

 delphia, Nov. 9, a proposition to change the name of the 

 organization to one more indicative of its work and ob- 

 jects, was announced for consideration. It has long been 

 recognized as a fact that the association is a powerful 

 factor in the protection and increase of food and game 

 fishes, and especially active in originating and enforcing 

 legislation having for its object the improvement of the 

 waters of the Commonwealth. We shall, therefore, wel- 

 come it under its new name and cherish the memory of 

 its achievements under the old. 



Blooming Grove Fly-Casting. — Blooming Grove 

 Park Association fall tournament, Nov. 4 (see report on 

 page 335). Distance fly-casting, two classes, for gold and 

 silver badges. First class, those who cast in matches — 

 A. J. Post, 53ft.; D. Willis James, Jr., 60ft.; Nat. T. 

 Smith (handicapped) 74ft. Smith gives James 10ft. and 

 Post 5ft. Post gives James 5ft. Smith wins gold medal. 

 Second class, all others who had not cast — D. Bacon, 

 50ft.; B. E. J. Eils, 57ft.; C. T. Wills, 45ft.; E. M. You- 

 mans. 50ft. Non-members casting: for private prize — 

 John Firth, 50ft. : S. H. Bacon, 45ft. Silver badge won 

 by Eils. 



W. S. Barrett, widely known as "Bill" Barrett, the 

 mountaineer, died at Camden, Me., last Monday night, of 

 paralysis, aged seventy -six years. He cultivated a three- 

 hundred-acre farm near Lake Megunticook, and his place 

 w as a favorite resort for tourists. 



A Big Eel. — A fisherman recently caught an eel in 

 Wenham Lake, Mass. , thirty inches long and weighing 

 nearly 41bs. 



Seines, Nets of every description. American Net & Twine Co.. 

 Mfrs., 34 Commercial st. Boston, or 199 Fulton at.. N. Y.—Adv. 



STOCKING THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. 



WE have referred in these columns of Sept. 19 and Oct. 3 

 to the planting of brook, California and Loch Leven 

 trout in streams of the Yellowstone Park. Nearly 7,000 

 yearlings of these species were distributed during the month 

 of September. In October the work of stocking was con- 

 tinued, as shown in the following statement of the collec- 

 tion and distribution of whitefish and black spotted trout 

 in Yellowstone Park during October, 1889: 



2,000 whitefish collected at Horse Thief Spring, tributary 

 of North Fork of Madison River, Montana, and planted in 

 Twin Lakes, near Norris Basin. 



1,000 whitefish collected at Horse Thief Spring, and 

 planted in the Yellowstone River, above the falls. 



1,000 black spotted trout collected at Howard's Creek, 

 tributary of Snake River, Idaho, and planted in the East 

 Fork, Gardiner River, above the falls. 



The Commissioner has directed Mr. Clark at Northville, 

 Michigan, to set aside, to be forwarded next spring, the fol- 

 lowing members of the Salmonidae: 



For Lakes Shoshone and Lewis: 30,000 landlocked salmon, 

 25,000 Loch Leven trout, 100.000 Mackinaw front (namay- 

 cush. ) 



For the Nez Percez and the Madison: 25,000 Von Behr's 

 trout (fario.) 



For the Gardiner: 25,000 brook trout (foniinalis.) 



Col. McDonald will keep a party at work for two months 

 next summer collecting grayling, whitefish and black 

 spotted (or red throat) trout and transferring them to 

 streams within the limits of the Park. He expects to see in 

 this reservation the finest assemblage of trout and salmon 

 waters in the world, and we heartily wish him abundant 

 success in his efforts to accomplish this purpose. 



COLLECTING EGGS AT U. S. FISH COMMISSION 

 STATIONS.— At Great Brook station, Ellsworth, Maine, 

 140,000 eggs of the landlocked salmon ha-ve been taken up to 

 date. The species was not known to occur here in large 

 numbers, and the take of eggs is a complete though agree- 

 able surprise. The effort to gather eggs here was merely an 

 experiment, but it will be a very profitable, one. 15,000 

 yearling landlocked salmon, reared at Craig's Point, were 

 planted in Green Lake. At Sandusky 21,000,000 whitefish 

 eggs have already been secured. If this rate continues the 

 stations will all be stocked soon. The present capacity of 

 the stations is about 800,000,000 eggs. At Gloucester 12,000,- 

 000 eggs of the pollock have been placed in the hatching 

 house. 



CARP SENT TO TEXAS.— For the additional imforma- 

 tiou of our correspondent in Guanajuato, Mexico, whose 

 queries were answered in Forest and Stream of Oct. 24, 

 we have from Mr. Geo. H. Moore, Superintendent of Dis- 

 tribution in theU. S. Fish Commission, the following names 

 of persons in Texas who have received carp from the U. S. 

 Commission: Ed. Stevens, Adolph Schuring and M. S. 

 Carty, San Antonia, Bexar county; Chas. Neber, Ysleta, 

 El Paso county. Mrs. E. Cartey, 600 S. Laredo street, San 

 Antonio, Texas, received 16 small carp eight years ago. 

 They have now increased to many thousands and no doubt 

 the fortunate owner will be glad to furnish materials for 

 stocking waters within reach. 



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FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Dec. 5 to 7.— First Dog Show of the Continental Kennel Club 

 at Denver, Col. A. L. Weston, Secretary. 



Jan. 6 to 11, 1890— Annual Dog Show of the Michigan State 

 Poultry and Pet Stock Association, at Bay City, Mich. W. F. 

 Brace, Secretary. 



Jan. 13 to 18, 1890.— First Annual Dog Show of the Georgia Pet 

 Stock and Bench Show Association, at Augusta, Ga. A. H. Von- 

 derleith, Secretary. 



Jan. 27 to Feb. 1, 1890— Dog Show of the Colorado Poultry and 

 Pet Stock Association, at Denver, Col. 



Feh. 11 to 14, 1890.— Fourteenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Cluh, American Institute Building, New York. James 

 Mortimer, Superintendent . 



March 11 to 11, 1890.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Rochester 

 Kennel Club, at Rochester, N. Y. Harry Yates, Secretary. 



March 25 to 28, 1890.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Mass. 

 Kennel Club, Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



April 1 to 4, 1890.— Sixth Annual Dog Show of the New England 

 Kennel Cluh, at Boston, Mass. J. W. Newman, Secretary. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 18.— Eleventh Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, at High Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Sara- 

 toga Springs, N. Y. 



Nov. 22.— Eighth Annual Field TiIhIs of the Robins Island Cluh, 

 for members only. Walter L. Wellington, Secretary, Brooklyn, 



Dec. 2.— Inaugural Field Trials of the Central Field Trial Club, 

 at Lexington, N. 0. C. H. Odell, Secretary, Mill's Building, New 

 York, N. Y. 



Dec. 16.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Southern. Field 

 Trial Club, at Amory, Miss. T. M. Brumby, Secretary, Marietta, 

 Ga. 



Jan. 20, 1890.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Coast 

 Field Trial Club at Bakersiield, Cal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary, 313 

 Bush street, San Francisco, Cal. 



Jan. 27, 1890.— All-Day Field Trials, at West Point, Miss. F. R. 

 Hitchcock, 44 Broadway, New York, Secretary. 



Feb. II, 1890.- Fourth Annual Field Trials of the Texas Field 

 Trial Club, at Marshall, Tex. W. L. Thomas, Secretary. 



THE A. K. R. TRANSFER. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In your last issue I find the following item: ''About 

 the American Kennel Register.— In Mr. PeshalFs letter 

 last week was a statement which it was our intention 

 to correct by a note in that issue. Mr. Peshall said, 

 'Through my many interviews and efforts made with Mr. 

 Grihnellj of the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., Mr. 

 Grinnell, through Dr. Perry, offered the A. K. R. to the 

 A. K. C. for the sum of .$500, wbich offer was shortly after 

 accepted by the A. K, C, and the rival register ceased to 

 exist.' In this Mr. Peshall is mistaken. The sale of the 

 A. K. R. was not effected through bis influence, nor was it 

 ever offered through Dr. Perry to the A. K. C. It was sold 

 to Dr. Perry, and his subsequent disposal of it to the A.K..C. 

 was entirely his own concern." 



In reply, permit me to say that I had so many interviews 

 with the Forest and Stream officials in regard to the sale 

 of the A. K. R. that I had the right to assume that I in- 

 fluenced the sale. 



If your editor had taken the trouble to refer to the pro- 

 ceedings of the A. K. C. of Feb. 21 last, as published in your 

 issue of Feb. 23, your correction in last week's paper, 1 am 

 sure, would not have appeared; so you will now please do 

 me the favor to publish this extract from your published 

 report of said meeting: 



The Chairman— It is proper for me to state here that in con- 

 nection with this. I had to do that on my own responsibility, and 

 I think I must report it to you, although the contracts are not 

 signed. I took it upon myself to make arrangements to buy the 

 American Kennel Register, because it was naturally a [rival] publi- 

 cation of the Gazette, and you appointed Mr. Peshall a committee 

 six months ago, I believe, to wait upon the Forest and Stream 

 and see whether the purchase could be made. When I found that 

 t he National Dog Club would come in, and that.it would be a very 

 desirable thing at the same time to suppress the Register— that in 

 fact the suggestion came from Dr. Perry himself, and he said he 

 would buy tbe Register from the Forest and Stream, and that 

 the Register then would he handed over to us and suppressed. 

 The contract has been drawn up, and I believe the purchase price 

 has been paid by Dr. Perry, and in connection with their coming 

 in they hand that over to us. Now, if you want to act upon the 

 price, or if you want to ratifyit.it is in order, or if you want 

 to leave the matter in the hands of your officers, so that it 

 shan't become public, which, perhaps might be the wisest plan- 

 but having taken that step I thought it necessary to report it to 

 you and leave it to you to do whatever is best. 



Mr. Anthony— I think it is a delicate matter. It is one of 

 those diplomatic things that ought to be left to the officers to 

 close. It is virtually closed now, but, at the same time, it might 

 be wise not to givs too many of the details for publication. I 

 move that the matter be left with the president, of the club. 



Mr. Peshall— I think the matter is well known. I heard it on 

 the streets. I think it is best to ratify it. 



The Chairman— If it is well known perhaps it is as well to 

 ratify it. 



Mr. Peshall— Tho strm is $500. 



Mr. Anthony— I move that the arrangement made by Mr. Bel- 

 mont in regard to the purchase of tbe American Kennel Register 

 be ratified, and that the officers be empowered and instructed to 

 carry out the same. 



The Chairman— I wish to say to you this, that in the contract 

 there are restrictions with regard to selling the Register to any 

 competitor, and in publishing the Gazette we are a competitor of 

 the Forest and Stream. Consequently the American Kennel 

 Club cannot purchase the Register directly. That would be in 

 violation of the contract, and, personally, my relations with the 

 Forest and Stream are not such as would lead me to make any 

 personal contract with them. That is why it was done through 

 Dr, Perry, and if you will, perhaps, put tho motion this way, that 

 the club appropriate a sum to be left to the discretion of the officers 

 for tbe purchase of the American Kennel Register, the contract 

 can he carried out with some individual and the same object will 

 be attained, and the money can be appropriated and we do not 

 really become the direct purchasers, but there is the money to" 

 pay for it. 



Mr. Anthony— I will modify my resolution in accordance with 

 the. suggestions of the president. 



Mr. Peshall— Mr. President, I move nn amendment to it. that 

 the parties who are managing it be allowed to remain in their 

 management until the matter is closed. Motion carried. 



Your Mr. Reynolds was present at this meeting and heard 

 the statements made, which clearly show that Dr. Perry 

 was acting as the agent for both parties, and these proceed- 

 ings were published in your paper some time before the 

 transfer of the A . K. R. was made. 



As the A. K. C. is now the owner of the A. K. R., the 

 rules should be amended to include all dogs registered in 

 the A. K. R. as officially registered. Peshall. 



[We simply repeat what we said last week: "The sale of 

 the A. K. R. was not effected through his influence, nor 

 ■was it ever offered through Dr. Perry to the A. K. C. It 

 was sold to Dr. Perry, and his subsequent disposal of it to 

 the A. K. C. was entirely his own concern."] 



CENTRAL FIELD TRIALS. 



NEW YORK, Nov. 9.— Editor Forest and Stream: The 

 Board of Management of the Central Field Trial Club 

 would consider it a very great favor if all spectators and 

 handlers who intend being present at the trials will send 

 their names to C. H. Odell, secretary, March House, Lexing- 

 ton, N. O, not later than Saturday, Nov. 23, and state 

 whether they will require a saddle horse or a team of horses 

 and wagon, or both. 



Central Field Trial Club, E. R. Coleman, Pres. 



Following are the entries for Free-for-AU Stake: 

 pointers. 



SALL Brass II. (Graphic— Meallv), Chas. Heath. 

 Lebanon (Tim— Peg). Lebanon Kennels. 

 Roger Williams (Bang Bang— Lalla Rookh), C. H. Odell. 

 DOLGOROtiKi (Bang Bang— Lalla Rookh), C. H. Odell. 

 Consolation (Bang Bang— Grace III.), C. H. Odell. 

 setters. 



Nora (Count Noble— Lit), J. Norris Cochran. 

 Little Gift (Roderi go— Queen Bess), Bert Crane. 

 Count Erie (Count Noble— Fannie W.), Dr. W. H. Daly. 

 Roi D'or (Roderigo— Bo Peep}, O. W. Donner. 

 Roger (Count Noble— Queen Meg), L. Gardner. 

 Bettte S. (Roderigo— Bo Peep), Memphis & Avent Ken- 

 nels. 



Chance (Roderigo— Bo Peep), Memphis & Avent Kennels. 

 Antonio (Roderigo— Bo Peep), Memphis & Avent Ken- 

 nels. 



Rowdy Rod (Roderigo— Juno A.), Memphis & Avent Ken- 

 nels. 



SALE OF DOC— Philadelphia, Nov. 9. —Editor Forest 

 and Strecim: I have sold the well-known cocker spaniel 

 champion Doc (A K.C.S.B. 8511) to Mr. A. C. Wilmerding, 

 No. 152 Broadway, New York. It comes very hard for me 

 to part with the little fellow, as I am greatly attached to 

 him, but he is deserving of better care than I could give 

 him, and as a stock dog he merits more use than he would 

 ever get in this vicinity.— William West (American Cocker 

 Kennels.) 



