Jan. 5, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Crossley sighed and looked down and seenipd nlxnit to 

 disi-ovcr new vn-tiu^s in Dan when Kelluj) wciii .m lusav 

 that he wouldnt lalce him as a 2;itt. He iji'eterred a 

 Noiiim'. uijiitleil dri<4-. with Ins lutnre nil a pleasant mvR- 

 terv. He saul lie \va.s lUst that tnolisJx. Tlien he !e])eated 

 his uuestion. 



( rossliiv iiinii^ his thumbs m his vest liolcsand observed 

 Ki'lhip s]ir(.'\vdlv. witli liiH evew at navi'ovv j^aiie'e Idee an 

 nrtist when he Arants to see tiirovmh liis snbneet. and tlie 

 old iienlleniau wished he hail lett ihe I'ann at home and 

 \s oi II ins i lotlu N toi 111 u mil Mli i1 d I In n ( ^os^ 

 les'- slowly opened his eves and said distnietlv — "Twentv- 

 tive dollars. 



11 was some lime aitcr ili;it tlie errand lun- at tlie store. 



m a momenl ot conhilenrp ;-;nd. 



"Sav. mv t)rother-in-law s o(,t ^ome do2;e-' 

 ■■Tlair so. Tonimv. WludkindV" 

 ■ B.-^oille:-. ;) heedle and tour iinppies. 



Kellup laid down Ins pen and (ook the bov inside, lie 

 didn t want his tellow elerks to iieac. He didn t care to 

 liav(- tlieni know how he sjient his holidavs. 



• \\ liat dors \onr brother-indaw— a-lieni. does he want 

 to sell ojie. 1 ommy .- 



• N cs. sir. Imvc dollai-s a ivieee. 



^ iln I ill )\un_ siiii I ^ j,,^ I\i llnj) tiud^^m^ tow iid d 

 i;'ottaMe m the suburbs cji ilie etl^e of the Tacailt lots, 

 luere was a oarn. ana scane hens and a,n express wagon. 

 The brother-in-law was not at hoine. but the vonn^ -wife 



"PODGERS'S" MENAGERIE. 



San 1' KANClsco. ( ah. Iter. •,>;•!. — I sec hv niv last !<( iKh'.s'i' 

 AND &TRE_^M that ( he nnnks lia \ p liepti |iu( on Hip retn ed 

 iLst and tliat tlie boli-tailed cat or lynx lias sneeeprled him. 

 and I eome to tlie front a£;'a.m on tins rjnestion. Iinvmo- liad 

 some experienre with this s|U'eips ot ratrimomit. and whioli 

 IS ahoiit as \ icious and iiiitaiuable a. va.riuiiil as i p.vivr liail 

 a,n\ a.C(.|na.nitauce witli. 



W Inic siaiioiied (low n upon the Rio Ci-rande at one time 

 Willi ivMi oilier Imele Sains orphans, and rnnnmL'' a 

 baelielo)' pstahlishment. v\e took a taney to collpet a 

 moiiasfene. nonsistma; ot two youns? specimens ot flic lynx 

 tamilv , a couple ot racci_>ons. an. armadillo, a liear. two 

 dppf ami a. Mcxa-aji leopard — rlic latter a little <'.liap when 

 we acifiiirpd him. aliout the size nt an orthnarv cat. All nt 

 tJipsc we lamed aim icd lnose lo run around (he hoiis(> 

 pxcept tlip t\\ .. ot the IviiTv si>pcips. These ue never cdiild 

 tame, and had to liecp iii cdiilinenicnl*. all oiii' clioris to 

 ^?et on sociable terms wiili tliem tailed. Ihev would 

 spit and snarl, and onr .Mexican dov vvli(» led Iheiii was 

 St \ I I tmi 1 I ll\ SI 1 it( h( d iiid I KLi Ui d in ittcniptiiif, 

 1(1 be laniiliar wilh them, and we had to give d- iij) alter a, 

 six monllis trial. 



i he little leopanl. on tliii contrary, became as tame ixs a, 

 linuse eat . a nd as pinvful. .He was a, beant.itui little tellow. 

 with soft fm' and marked all over with black spots. He 

 always slept on my bed, and when he had slept enough 



house. dra|!;ffins; his corrn,a,at(;d tail after him. which 

 -oiinrli d 111 ( di u^iiu i |Oin1 ol loiu pip okci th( dooj 

 He was the last- ol the nienau-erie; and we leit luin as an 



heirloom to our sii'^cessors. 



All ot wluch (3X]iprience as set forth e;oes to jirove that 

 however tame and amiable nearly all so called wild ani- 

 mals may be m ihPir ^'("iintj- days, they are liound to show 

 U}j their nat ural jiroi.'hvities as ihev erow older, it is •■aa.'in 

 natlir tor them to reniam docile beyond h. certain age 



I see m this saiac coj A' or l^cvitKST and Stream the story 

 ot a sea captain aJtout the devil lisli that Ins crew har- 

 |)o(iued. which he deRoribed. a,s something ot a. marveOous 

 a,ml wondertul size. 



A'VJule at the mouth ot tlie Rio (jrrande. and during the 

 mi n i_( I u \ I 11 i< 1 1 \ 1 oni I nl\ niiiis< na nt I ~) tik( 

 the httle .iO-toot pilot lioat and run down on the bar and 



har-j n oim; ol 1 he.se devil iisn. aJid to be towed to sea 



otteii tor a distance ot ten milps. at such a. rate ot speed as 

 t( pil( ilu u dii 1 hi„b IS ih( <hfl d th( bo \ s it dwrys 

 ending' m the hsh retiirniUL; t-o Itie |ioiTil<ot departure. W e 

 < i)ilui( d do/eu t th( in Hip I ii;_,< si J m m mh i inersiu 

 mg 2btt. across his back, ami ab(iut tlip sauip m lengtb. 

 ThcN IK I ( dh until 111.^ I 1 1 It \ I I ^1 I 11 I tt( s uid 

 lie hiiinliss \f Hh jiKstid liim th \ [acvnl in im 

 limited ntunbers on tlie bar at the mouth ot the Rio 

 Urande. 



Now fetch on yoiu- next discussion," and two to one 

 I can "seeyoii" on the question, whether it be fiish or 



J 



A GREENWOOD LAKE FISH STORY. 

 From photo b.y Daniel K. Toung. 

 (Forest and Stream Amateur Photography Competition.) 



gave him the key to the shed' and a, pan of warm mush to 

 make friends with. 



There was a wliimpering within as he unlocked the 

 door. The motlier, a half -size rabbit hound with hea\-y 

 dugs, got up and eyed him with dignified mien and a 

 droopin.g tail, witli ncA-er a. wag on the end of it: tait the 

 family — three little chaps and their sister — recognized 

 him at. once as Someliod.y , and all tried togetlrer to fall 

 into the pan of rnush. 



Kellnp conchided not to push acquaintance with the 

 dam. She looked carniyorous. Her present condition 

 illy disguised the strong, graceful lines, .supple and sinu- 

 ous like a. panther. She seemed a tlung of 7>rey as she 

 i-a,ised Iter muzzle to%\-ard him from her bed in the straw 

 and qtriyered lier nostrils, so he concluded to .go and .jfidge 

 the rest of the show outside. The iirst one was out'of it. 

 on accoimt of the license— too high. The next was too 

 small. Tlie third went inside and sat up beside his 

 mother on the straw and whimpered. There didn't 

 seem to be anything the matter: appetite all 

 right and couldn't be homesick, so Kelltqi con- 

 cluded he was troubled al>out the world. He 

 had been out and looked it oyei- and come back disap- 

 pointed. So that left the black and tan with Avhite on the 

 breast and between the ears. He made a good showing 

 so long as he kept his legs Avell braced apart, and then 

 collapsed. KeUup concluded his fore legs were unnec-es- 

 sarily heavy and his tail altogether too strong — he wagged 

 himself all of a. hea]) every^time he felt good natui-ed. 



The result of it all was Avhen the 7:30 train -went out next 

 morning there was a black and tan bound puj) in a little 

 crate in the baggage car and Kellup .standing on the plat- 

 to rm tiU liis small wailings were no longer heard. 



JEPFEBSON SORIBB. 



And while we are speaking of heads, here is a little 

 story we saw the other day, credited, we believe, to an 

 English paper, TiclBits: 



Enfrlisli lady wtio visited Ataea-ica inaiiy years ag-o usedtoteU 

 tlie f. 11 .wiiit ^iory: On the voyage she wasone day shocked by .'see- 

 ing a sliij i -; uiiicer knock down one of tlie crew who was Inclined to 

 njutmy. tso much ihd the sight att'ect her that slie retu-ed to her 

 cabin, and (Ud not again arii_ie;ir on deck until laud was sig-hted. Then 

 she perceived at the wheel the man who had received the blow. Ap- 

 proaching him, she asked, with deep sympathy: "How is your bead, 

 BOW?" "West-and-by-nor', ma'am," was the answer. 



would crawl up "and wake me by ijtin-ing in my ear and 

 insist on being amused. He grew rapidly, and finally 

 became so heavy as to be an unjileasant bed fellow, for he 

 would persist in lyin.g across me and bis weight was 

 op]jressiye. His weak points was dogs, and woe to any 

 unsuspecting canine tltat came to the house; but as he 

 grey- older he began to assert hunself ; one daj' we had a 

 disagreement, and when I attempted to disciphne him, he 

 sho^ved fight; and although I subdued him, I did not con- 

 quer him. and got badly scratched in the fracas. However, 

 we made it up, after a fashion, but after our pet had 

 chawed up a valuable setter belonging to an officer visiting 

 us. we concluded to dispense with him, and ga,\B him 

 away to a friend who took him to Ncav Orleans, and we 

 never lieai-d anything more of Don Thomaso. 



As for the cats, they were our Jipfr^ ,,,>i .-^ We could 

 find no one to accept them, until one ■ - mboat cap- 



tain said if we would send them dc, . .ii;,,;,, ,| he would 

 take them down the ri\ er and turn them loose. But how 

 to get them there was tlie question. Finally the Mexican 

 boy solved the conundrum by lassoing tlie largest and 

 snaked him out of his <.-age. The way tlie rascal charged 

 around and spit and snarled created a panic, and we got 

 out of bis way. To lead him was impossible. As it hap- 

 pened, tile watering cart was at the door, and the driver 

 said. ■■hirc-Ji him on h) the tad of the cart and I reckon he 

 will have to come along." After considerable skiimksh- 

 ing tliis was ac-comphshed and ftie cart started. After 

 hanging back a few moments the \ armint made a dash 

 fors^-ard and entangled the rope around the hoi seV; lieels. 

 This terrified the horse, which started off at a 2.40-gait. 

 kicking and snorting. The driver was thrown off, the 

 cart demobshed; and when tlie terrified horse finally 

 brought up at bis stable there was veiy httle left of the 

 other animal: lie had been kicked to a jelly. As for the 

 horse, he was ruined: wlienever put into harness subse- 

 quently he;svould tremlile and kick himself clear. 



To get rid of the other cat we administered a dose of 

 strychnine. 



The coons got fat and mischieyou,s and made forages 

 into the neighbors' hen roosts and met their fate from 

 shotguns. The deer grew ugly and dangerous and we 

 gave them away. 



The little armadillo alone stood the test of time. He 

 was what Artemus Ward would have called "an amoosin' 

 little cuss." He lived tinder the house, where he spent 

 the day, and at night came out and trotted around the 



some other specimen of natural history. I am not out of 

 experiences yet by a long shot. The one already quoted 

 goes to show that you need not waste your valuable time 

 endeayoring to tame bob-tailed cats, "ydept lynxes, for 

 you can't do it. He is the quintessence of pm-e cussed- 

 ness (if you hear me) and the greatest disgrace to the 

 animal kingdom— not excepting the httle chap in the per- 

 fumery line. PoDOEBS. 



A FISH STORY. 



As WE strolled down to the boat house from the Green- 

 wood Lake club house, we overheard some of the guides 

 telling fish stories. As we liad just beard a batch of them 

 at the club house from the members, w^e had some curi- 

 ositj- to learn whether tlie members or tlieir guides ex- 

 celled in this, the most important requisite for a good 

 foherman. 



• 'We were rowing tip the arm of the lake." said 

 Garrison, ■•when we saw straight ahead very rough water 

 as if a great gale was blowing over the water there. It 

 was right s^nootll where vre were, so we went ahead to 

 see what it was." 



"I know." said Storms "it was the fish jumping in the 

 water and out of it. I have seen that often." 



Garrison looked somewhat abashed at having his story 

 forestalled, but pleased to bear it yeilfied. 



■'A\"ell, that is just what if Avas. but what do you 

 suppose hapipened to us wlien we readied them?" 



••Why." rephedRyerson, ■■the boat bumped up against 

 theiu hsh as if it had hit a stone and you couldn't pull 

 through them. That's wdrat happened to me once." 



Garrison was balked, but he soon recovered his second 

 wind and this time rushed to the end of his .story without 

 givmg the others a chance to interrupt him. 



"Yes. sir, them fish blocked the way so that we 

 couldn t get through." 



"Will you swear to that?" asked Ryerson raising his 

 light hand. 



"Yes, sir, on a stack of Bibles. And then them fish 

 began to jump in the boat and over the boat and on to us. 

 And in, a mimitp the lioat w^as so full that she began to 

 sink. And we had ter jump out and walk over them fish 

 that wa.s in the water to tlie slu .re, and there wasn't one 

 of us that so much as wet a shoe, because yve walked 

 right on the fish you see, and every one o' them fish was 

 a small-mouth black bass that weighed full eight pound 

 and waa as long as that," j), k. Y, 



