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4-pounders, until the wearer of the judicial ermine, 
covered with mud and glory, was very tired and they 
came back to town. That night a fisherman friend of 
Galley's who lives next door to him heard him talking in 
his sleep, and then and there discovered the secret that 
there is fine black bass fishing in Elmendorf Lake. 
O. C. G. 
Description, of the No-Shee Trout. 
A. NEW SUBSPECIES OP TROUT FROM M'OLOUD RIVER, CAL. 
Salmo gairdneri stonei. subsp. nov. 
Allied to the form called Salmo irideus, but distin- 
guished by its small scales, the number of scales in a 
transverse series being about 155, 82 before dorsal, where 
they are small and imbedded, 25 above lateral line. 
Teeth fewer and smaller than in var. irideus, those on 
the vomer in a Bingle zigzag series. Axillary scale of 
ventral small. Pectoral 1£ in head. Eye large, 4£ in 
head. Maxillary 2-10. Upper part plain greenish. Spots 
small and sparse on dorsal, adipose fin and caudal; a few 
spots only on posterior part of the body. A faint red lat- 
eral band; cheeks and opercles with red, no red between 
branches of lower jaw. Depth 4 in length. Anal rayB 
11. Described from a specimen 14in. in length, collected 
by Livingston Stone, in McCloud River, at Baird, Cali- 
fornia. 
This form is well known to the Indians, and to the 
fishermen on the Upper Sacramento. According to Mr. 
Stone, the Indian fishermen say that it is abundant in the 
McCloud River about eight miles above Baird. They are 
larger in size than the ordinary irideus, one having been 
taken weighing 121bs. 
(Named for Livingston Stone, Director of the U. S. 
Fish Hatchery at Baird.) 
Lamper Eels in Iowa Waters. 
Vinton, la., Nov. 5.— Editor Forest and Stream: Liv- 
ing on the sunny prairies of Iowa, hundreds of miles 
from the ocean, and knowing that the lamper eel is a 
salt-water fish, it is with much misgiving and no little 
timidity that I send you this communication. 
• Mud Creek runs through my farm and empties into the 
Cedar River a mile below Vinton. Every spring for 
about five years fishes have ascended the creek, and of a 
kind that puzzles me. They are from 4 to 8in. in length, 
and the longest ones are -Jin. in diameter. They have a 
sucker mouth, and the head is from i to lin. long, some- 
what larger than the rest of the body, and it has a row 
of eyelets on each side. They have no scales. They 
have fins, but I cannot now describe them, and although 
I have not seen them "rise to a fly," yet they will suck on 
to the rocks in a genuine lamprey way. 
I do not like to expose my ignorance, but as I have seen 
in the Iowa State Museum at Iowa City the tusk of an 
elephant that was found on the banks of the Iowa River, 
a tooth supposed to be that of a mastodon found in a 
slough a short way from here, and pieces of something 
that I believe to be parts of the tusk of an elephant taken 
from the creek a few rods from my place, I am almost 
prepared to see 'most anything, even lamper eels, coming 
to Iowa to five. Mount Tom. 
[Jordan says that the range of the small black lamprey 
is the Great Lakes, upper. Mississippi and Ohio Valley.] 
Try the Fly on Pleasant Pond. 
New York, Nov. 14.— Editor Forest and Stream: If 
the landlocked salmon of Pleasant Pond are anything 
like their schoolmates of Lake St. John, the query as to 
whether they are likely to take the fly can best be 
answered by the classical expression, "Well, I should 
smile!" In May and June, when they are playing at the 
surface they go splashing about in small schools earnestly 
hoping from hour to hour that some one will kindly cast 
a fly among them. When the fly does alight the ones 
that don't get there first are all mad about it and nerv- 
ously await their turn. It is best to use only one fly, for 
if two or three fish are hooked at once the leader is not 
even a follower. . It seems to sort of explode. In my ex- 
perience the silver-doctor is the best fly. When I am 
doing well with other flies I always have the feeling that 
I might be doing better with the best fly. It does not 
pay to cast indiscriminately over water in which land- 
lockB live. It is better to hunt around for a school and 
then go directly to them, just as you would go straight 
up to a hill of potatoes to dig it. Robert T. Morris. 
This queer looking mess is a tangle of fishing tackle taken from the 
stomach of a codfish by Preneh fishermen. The illustration is from 
La Nature, and was sent to us by Mr. H. Stewart. 
Paintings of Fish. 
Mr. Thomas Sedgwick Steele is giving an exhibition 
of his recent paintings of fruit, flowers, fish and still-life, 
at his studio in Hartford. In the list we notice several 
trout pieces, a branch of work in which Mr. Steele 
excels. 
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^whmliun and Jfimh §toii>ction. 
Landlocked Salmon in New Hampshire. 
Hudson Centek, N. H., Nov. 16.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Mr. Webber of Charleston in his article of Nov. 2 
states that in my letter to A N. Cheney I claim the stocking 
of Pleasant Pond in New London with landlocked salmon. 
If we claimed the stocking of Pleasant Pond it would be 
false, as the pond was stocked for the first time before any 
of the present Commissioners were on the board. 
What I intended to write Mr. A. N. Cheney was this: That 
the pond had been stocked with landlocked salmon four 
years and eight months by the New Hampshire Commission, 
and made note of the remarkable growth they had made 
during that time, which is not more remarkable than Mr. 
Webber claims for the specimens that he and Commissioner 
Hodge took from Sandwich Pond, 12in. in two years' growth 
and weighing probably lib. It is very well known that after 
a trout or salmon attains that size with plenty of smelt for 
food, as there are in Pleasant Pond, their growth is very 
rapid. Mr. Webber says his colleague abstracted a few from 
one of the large lots sent to Sunapee about that time and 
placed them in two other ponds in the vicinity; "One of them 
I know was Star Pond in Springfield, and the other I think 
was Pleasant Pond." Farther on he says, "I am sure it was 
made in 1880, and this will account for the 121bs. fish to-day. " 
Since reading this article for the first time, I have written 
to R. P. Sargaut, of New London, one of the best fishermen 
and sportsmen New Hampshire can produce, a man whose 
land runs to the shores of the pond, and who with L. J, 
Cheney has had the interests of this pond at heart more than 
any other two men in the State. They are the men who 
went to Sunapee Lake with the permission of Commissioner 
Hodge, and took aureolus for the purpose of stocking Pleas- 
ant Pond and did it at their own expense. I will quote a 
part of Mr. Sargant's letter which I have received to-daj : 
"I am very much surprised that any one should question 
your letter in regard to the growth of salmon in Pleasant 
vPond, for it can be proved beyond a doubt by the people of 
New London, that they were never introduced prior to 1890. 
My own knowledge goes further than this, as I was very well 
acquainted with Mr. Powers, and he told me when speaking 
of Pleasant Pond, that he was never ou, or very near it, but 
according to my description, would be a nice place for 
salmon. I heard him speak repeatedly of stocking Star, and 
think Sid (Mr. Powers's nephew) must remember it any 
other pond was stocked at that time. We have seen the 
growth of these fish from the time of introduction. And 
with different talks I have had with Col. Hodge, he said it 
was no uncommon thing, everything being favorable, land- 
locked salmon grew very rapidly. We have watched the 
brooks, and last fall was the first time spawning salmon 
was ever seen there, which proves conclusively that there 
had been no plant there previous to 1890." 
Mr. Sargant also says: "We have taken but two sizes this 
fall; one ranging from 51bs. to 71bs. (evidently the plant of 
'913, the other from 71bs. to lOlbs.— the first plant. Now, if 
they had been introduced fourteen or fifteen years ago — out 
of 35 fish taken there would have been a greater variety." 
Another point I will make, these brooks running into 
Pleasant Pond previous to four years ago had always been 
open to trout fishermen, and we nave never heard of a land- 
locked salmon being taken in these brooks. At any rate 
they are there in quantities, and no doubt there will be as 
good fishing there as in any part of the State while it lasts. 
Landlocked salmon in my opinion are the coming fish. 
N. Wentworth. 
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"Newfoundland As It Is in '94." 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I should be obliged for space to reply to the remarks made in a late 
issue of your paper respecting a former letter of mine on the above 
heading, by the Rev. Moses Harvey, of Sc. Johns, N. F. Mr. Harvey's 
letter is to a certain extent a mere reproduction of former attacks 
made on me in the St. Johns papers, on account of what I said at a 
meeting of the Royal Geographical Society in London, his account of 
which differs very much from what actually took place (vide the 
journal of that institution). 
Mr. Harvey very foolishly asserts that I know very little about the 
interior of the island, and adds that I only visit the high barrens, the 
hunting grounds. Well, but these high barrens are for the most part 
situated right in the interior. To gee there, unless a man has wings 
he must traverse the lower portions. In this country the natural 
highway is up the rivers, which I have ascended and descended several 
times. 
Mr. Harvey calls in the official reports to his aid. Now, these reports 
do not bear him out in some of his most extravagant statements, 
such, for instance, that '"the great barrens in the interior are a splen- 
did ranching country, equal as a cattle and sheep raising district to 
the foothills of the Rockies in Montana or Alberta," or "that this 
island compares favorably with Ireland or Scotland in natural re- 
sources." Now, I have yet to learn that official reports are neces- 
sarily free from error or even bias, Not that for one moment I wish 
to throw any doubt on the bona fides and honesty of the compilers 
thereof. Further, a man may be a good geologist, but not had much 
knowledge of practical farming. 
Mr. Harvey, I perceive, has recourse to a plan sometimes pursued 
by an adversary for want of a better; he attacks my motives, which 
he tries to make out are of a sinister kind, a plan I think at once 
feeble and to be deprecated as by no means of a high order. He is 
kind enough to assert that my letter was instigated by indignation at 
the recent game laws, which limit the stags to five, not "six," and en- 
forces a license. Now, so far from being averse to, I cordially agree 
with this law, as keeping out pot-hunters who formerly often came 
here, men who never held their hands but fired at anything on four 
legs; the license money is also much needed to provide funds where- 
with to prosecute poachers, who are many, and kill deer out of sea- 
son, etc. 
I now come to a paragrapli in the reverend gentleman's letter which 
passes the bounds of all fair controversy between two gentlemen, as 
being the publication of a gross and cowardly calumny, viz, that I, 
"some two or three years ago, with some friends, slaughtered some 
seventy or eighty deer on that island." A yarn somewhat akin that 
now circulated, and equally untrue, appeared a few years ago in the 
St. John (N. F.) press, and was contradicted by me in detail in one of 
the papers of that city, and it is not unreasonable to presume that the 
circulation and my denial came to the notice of Mr. Harvey. As Mr. 
Harvey says, I have visited Newfoundland for the last twenty years, 
not annually, as he with his usual incorrectness Btates, but on seven 
occasions, shooting. Now, during these seven trips only once did my 
own bag exceed eight deer (which be it noted is the limit now imposed 
by law); at that time my bag was eleven, but sometimes it only 
reached five to seven, had I wished it might have been more, and that 
when no game law existed. The largest number of deer ever killed 
by myself and a friend in one season was thirteen. I never shot with 
more than one companion. Since the new law I have been out twice 
and killed but five deer on each occasion. I never cared to shoot any 
but real big stags, and consider that half a dozen or so should satisfy 
any sportsman. So much for his attempt to discredit me as a true 
sportsman. Richard Dashwood. 
St. Johns, N. F., Nov. 1. 
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DOG SHOWS. 
1895. 
Feb. 18 1 to 22.— Westminster Kennel Club's nineteenth annual show, 
at New York. James Mortimer, Supt, 
Feb. 26 to March 1— Mascoutah Kennel Club, at Chicago J L 
Lincoln, Sec'y. ' " ' 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Dec. 17.— Southern Field Trials, at New Albany, Miss T M Brumbv 
Sec'y, Marietta, Ga. - ■" 
Beagles Shot. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
It is with sadness I write of a most unmanly case by 
which I have lost two valuable beagles. I have hunted with 
them the past three years and was much attached to them. 
My custom has been for the past thirty or more years to 
visit friends and have a rabbit hunt on Staten Island, near 
Huguenot station. I have had permission from the late 
Larry Kerr to hunt on his farm and the adjoining land occu- 
pied by the Excelsior Pishing Club, and was also permitted 
to shoot by the adjoining farmer, Mr. Cornelius Andronet 
of the shore. In fact, I have gone where I pleased over the 
land and swamps without let or hindrance. Between these 
owners a farmer has bought or leased a strip of land and is 
engaged in raising poultry. I was hunting with my beagles 
last Thursday week and was on this party's property for 
about two hours. He saw me with the dogs, but did not 
object or tell me I was trespassing. I saw them working 
around the house and they saw me with my gun and heard 
and saw the dogs. I looked for signs or notices on the trees, 
but saw none. (Permit me to say here, having hunted for 
years, I ought to know when land is posted. I never know- 
ingly trespass on land when I see it posted, but go in a manly 
way and ask permission, which has seldom been refused). 
. My dogs were running a rabbit in a swamp, part of which 
is on this man's property, and about 600ft. from his dwellin°\ 
As the sun was going down 1 told my companion it was time 
to get home, especially as the dogs had lost the scent and 
stopped tonguing, and that the dogs would follow at the 
sound of the whistle. We left this man's property and then 
heard seven distinct shots from, as I thought, a revolver. I 
thought it strange my dogs did not show up, but started for 
home, calling for them. I expected the dogs would follow 
as they would always take my track and follow home 
wherever I was staying. 
In the morning, my dogs not having come in, I started to 
find them. One of the young men with me mentioned that 
a sign had been put up a few days back, which read: "Pri- 
vate Property— No Trespassing— No Hunting." This sign 
was about one mile from the house or the swamp. I soon 
found the farmer and apologized to him for unknowingly 
trespassing on his property. He then told me of this one 
sign. Also that he had shot two dogs the day before down 
in the swamp. I asked him to show me the dogs, and he 
led the way to the swamp. There lay my dog Lee, quite 
dead. The man said the other dog— Sedgwick— was further 
in the swamp, where we found him still alive. As I spoke 
to the dog he looked up appealingly with his beautiful hazel 
eyes, and I saw that the bullet had fatally wounded him. 
but this man seemed surprised that the dog was yet alive. I 
then asked him where he was when he shot the dogs He 
replied on his house stoop, which is about 400ft. away. He 
then went home for his rifle and shot Sedgewick dead. After 
shooting the dogs the evening before he never went near 
them to ascertain if they were dead or merely wounded I 
gave him my address and stated that I was a member of the 
National Beagle Club, and in all probability the club would 
take hold of this case. 
Now, this man may have all the law on his side through 
having this one sign up about one mile away, but his land is 
open with only a fence here and there. If the law justifies 
him no sportsman's dog is safe from being killed. I cannot 
conceive why I was not told to leave the grounds when hunt- 
ing, but he seems to have waited until I left for home, and 
then shot my dogs. I almost wonder that he did not take a 
pot-shot at me. I have given you the facts without any 
embellishments or falsity. John Bateman, 
Gravesend Beach, Nov. 5. 
Foxhounds at Providence. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
•I have been asked by my friends to tell about the fox- 
hounds at Providence. I am an American and am proud of the 
fact, and a charter member of the American Foxhound Clul> 
We have no American dog but the Boston terrier, and I am 
not in love with them. I see no reason why we cannot have 
a foxhound that any tyro can say at sight is an American 
foxhound, and the only way to do it is to get away from the 
English and the cross-road kind. 
I do not claim the honor of being the first to recognize a 
distinct type of American foxhounds; it was C. H. Mason, 
who, when judging hounds as hounds, saw the general dif- 
ference between the English and American, and he sat down 
heavy on the short ears and broad heads. 
The head gives type and character, the best type we have 
is a distinct type. A narrow head, prominent occiput and 
long folding ears. Elite was the nearest to my ideal in the 
challenge class and I gave him first and I stuck right to that 
type to the end. Ranger II. is a fair dog, but too English. 
We all know what a kicker Tom Aldrich is. Well, Tom 
did kick about Commodore. He said any dish-faced hound 
should be disqualified; and Tom was right. Who ever heard 
of any kind of dish-faced hounds? 
Commodore lacks type or character, the same may be said 
of Tom Aldrich's Jowler; it had a short broad head, short 
ears and was shown hog fat; he would hunt for nothing but 
a soft place to lie down. Some of the dogs were good but 
too English, most of them were like Commodore and Jowler, 
just a cross road type, for you can find that kind at every 
cross-road in the United States. They have no type, they 
are just hounds. It would make no difference to me if the 
High-Mucky-Muck or the King of Corea said they were a 
good type of American foxhounds, I would not believe them, 
common sense should teach any one better. 
I am bigoted enough to think I have done my share for the 
good of working spaniels. All who entered dogs in my 
classes at Providence knew who was to judge, that I am a 
crank for type and that I have some ideas of my own and 
they took their chances. It came near being a serious affair 
to me, the Doctor wanted to have me hung, the Captain 
wanted me shot, the Dago wanted to cut me and the farmers 
to lick me; some thought they could talk me to death, but 
quit when they had to write it*. Your "Uncle Dick" ain't 
dead yet, he expects to live to see good American type fox- 
hounds and working cockers bred and win as they should at 
all the shows. 
I wish to be distinctly understood that I am not now and 
never shall be a member of the Judges' Protective Trade 
Association. The boys can kick and kick all they want to, 
it does them good and don't hurt the judge, but I reserve 
the right to protect myself in the sporting papers, not 
through the A. K. C. Yours for type and work, 
J. Otis Fellows. 
HornellsvtliIjE, N. Y., Oct. ST? 
