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and tlien saw a glimpse of water on my right, over tlifi 
heads of the heavy bushes. Iiito this I broke, and for 20 
iiiiHutgS i sat on' a log waiting for the stream to clear 
[rolrl the Stirriiig tip T had giveli H. 
The Day cf Jtefeng^. 
Th's was the day on which I was to have niy f^'i^ffige 
■^ii these tl-QWt of the alder swamps. The sky now rapidly 
jj'ecairie qvercaSt. 1 saw ftn occasional splash tinder the 
fnishes, the str^aiij pi-eSentiiig more life than it had on 
tlie day when 1 first Saw it.. Tlie air Was cooler. All 
at once— evgi-y angler knows how it. is— -the ffdttt W^ilt on 
tii.e.feed. . From >vhere I sfoocf, iiip, cleepi .iti the Wafef, 
with ihy fee.t carefully iinbedded in the sand and tuj-riifig 
nfeitker .to the .right nor to the left, I saw a great, gleafii- 
:ng flash of silver greet tne dropiprig of my first fly-. I 
s.aw that old .Col, McGinty was going to be the thing that 
day,- also. I fished McGinty and royal-coachmari, ^Ha 
they did the business, espec'ally McGinty, which for 
some reason oi^ Othei", pfote?} to be a hot favorite in that 
particular alder thicket. 
I remembered Mr. Mershon's injmictioii,s itDoiit eafdwl 
going and moti^jnless casting. I was an fioiir in fisHin§ 
two bends. I did not know how far I was above me 
rendezvous where I was ins ructed to report at half- 
past three in the afternoon. I did not mind the thunder 
gtorlti wjiieh t goilld. naw heht approaching across the 
foi-e§t: 1 Was alike tiie happiest and tih fttost, tinhappy 
man in tiie world— happy becajase i knew f Ka!d .tfoHt 
coming, and unhappy ucciiiig'i 1 knew I ought to hiirfy 
home. It was two o'clock before I llad time to ttirri 
around, and I had four beauties in my basket. I lm4, 
even though by coimsel of a superior officer, learned 
how to ^lay the game. The loose bottom of this stream 
gives Wide herald of one's approach, and the water is so 
smooth thst bm daliiiOt Wade without gtartittg tip a series 
bf i-ij)ple§. Whigh •WOttld Je tile feest possible announce- 
hieiit of his coming. Thef-efore I adopted Mf. Mef- 
Shor^'s piiiti, piditjng 6k{ my pool— and there ■vi'ere sCSf e.S 
of them from which to select— Siid getting into a. posi- 
tion -H'tiieh gave tne. the best chance for frOij.t aiid, fc/aek 
ciist. Tlieh I Wdiild stand ujitil the water cleared. riiOc 
daring to niove ihy foot brie. iiiCll.for fear it would start 
floating sand. I cast with the wrist jiltogetli^r, showing 
as little motion as possible, and always standing as deep 
in the water as possible. I laid out my line with more 
eagnerness than I ever did in all my life before, and 
used Wliat. little art there wa§ in my reper.oire to the 
very last degree, it ^bald neVef do to go out of that 
swamp on this morning witliout smrie f)sh to jshow! 
I must say that the fish did their part,. FinaHy. I 
begun to see the great flaming flashes of brillitint eblofea 
trout as they rose from the black holes under the bank 
and struck the alluring McGinty. Time after time I felt 
the sharp tug of a well-hooked trout at the end of my 
line. I had not time for ceremony. I fought them fierce 
and hard a^td sharp, for I wanted to get as many in 
the basket as I could before nty t'nie was up, and the 
stoi-fn Wag eoming on fast. One big fellow, which 
Weighed an el'en pound, a trout iS^i inches long, did 
give liie a beaiitiftil tiltie of it. He wanted to go under the 
alders aiid I didll't wattt him to go there. I crowded 
hiffl so hard that at last he came to the surface and 
simply qti:t, several minutes sooner than other smaller 
fish did. Then I lost a fish which broke through' my 
landing net; lost still another in basketing, and still an- 
other, which corkscrewed of? at my feet. They came 
and., kept on coming, in spite of the thunderstorm, and 
my basket grew heavy at my side. I had 8, 10, a dozen 
fish! I dared not look at my watch. Wheji I did I 
found that I was an hour past the meeting time, and 
with no one knew how much space between the river 
and the appointed place. 
I may have been a very wicked man in my life, but if 
so, I think I suffered for it all then. There is no pen- 
alty worse than passing hole after hole filled with big 
trout which are eager to be caught, wading as for dear 
life, your fine rolled up, your face tiathed with perspira- 
tion and your heart sinking in your bosom with regret. 
I passed a mile or a mile and a half of beautiful trout 
waters, indeed, passed the best chance I had on the trip 
to malce a fine basket of trout. 
At length I came to two bushes stuck up in the water 
which marked the place where Mr. Mershon had started 
in to fish. This was a mile from the bivouac. Presently 
I heard a shout and hurried on as fast as I might. 
There was one special hole which Mr. Mershon had 
showed me where he had seen some good fish. I recog- 
nized it as I passed by some logs which lay at the bot- 
tom of it. "I'll fish this hole," said I to myself, "if I 
never get out." I allowed myself two casts, and at the 
first one I hooked a grand trout, which I bustled into 
my basket as quickly as most trouts ever travel over 
that road. Then, half choked with the misery of it, I 
rolled up my line for the trip, cut oft my leader, and 
ended it by 15 minutes of as hard walking through the 
water as I ever had in all my life. I was wringing wet 
when I struck the team. I had 13 trout at that time. 
In an hour more I could have made it 26. Had the day 
held with the fish rising as they were when I was in the 
stream, there is no telling how many beautiful trout one 
might have taken. My only regret was tfiat I did not 
secure a big grayling. Indeed, of my grayling, of which 
I caught ten or a dozen during the trip, none of them 
went over ID inches or perhaps 11 inches. The record of 
that day showed other grayling, however, Mr. Davis 
having a. nice one and Mr. Mershon bringing a couple 
more grand ones out of the alder swamp with him. The 
latter gentleman took 8 fish. Major Lyon 8 and Mr. 
Davis 9 that afternoon, there being only about 2 or 3 
hours' fishing in all. Much of my own time had unfor- 
tunately been lost in the walk up the stream and the 
necessarily hurried walk down stream. This came of 
not thoroughly knowing the waters to be fished. As a 
matter of fact. I had gone into the river nearly where 
Mr. IDavis and Mr. King had the day before. I do not 
think I fished more than half a mile of water in all. 
and must have gone over more than three miles of it 
that day. 
Homeward. 
jO.ur 5torm blew over after giving jusrc enough rain 
cool things nic.ely. We had a hurrie4 cup of tea and 
then proceeded to hit the trail for the railroad. We drove 
agaiit across that wilderness of the slashes, across the 
jack pine plaitts and over the huckleberry flats, among 
the Norway clumpS atld across the magnificent niaple 
forests. We saw the stofffl dottds gather on the horizon 
like the peaks of some titanic itlountain range. We 
pitfnged iflto the black pockets of the overlapping forest 
trees', and here and there crossed a rushing little trout 
river, SMnS bf these streams once historical as trout_ and 
grayling streams. And so in time we ended our trip, a 
grayling trip in the year igoi, one which was not only 
pleasant but successful. I shall very long remember it 
in the bright pages of my lengthening sporting calen- 
daf .■ 1 ^ - - - 
Totals. 
Mr. Daivi§ kept § fieeofd of otlf fish, and we find that 
the totals for.tfie first day Wefe 20 trout and grayling, 
for the second day lof, trottt and grayling, for the third 
day 44 troilt and graiyling, for the foHfth day 125 trout 
and grayling, for the iMi dSy 3'8" tfotit And grayling. On 
the first and last day we fished i^botit 3 hours each. We 
found that the total taken on the difi^efeftt rods on these 
five (kv^ were; Mr. Davis 118 fish, Mr. Mershon 99 
fisii, Majof hfon gO.fish, and myself 57 fish. Geo. King, 
our guide, tool ^?*h mt day and 20 the day previous. 
We had a total of 33^ ifOlit arid grayling. Of these 295 
were trout and 44 were grayling\ Of the grayling, we 
brought home but 30, returning the others. At the 
railroad we counted up our baskets of trout, wiped them 
all dfy, put them back in the refrigerator baskets atlfl 
admired^ ffiefil onee more- We found that we had 22I 
troiit. This I consider tb be a remarkable catch for 
the iiSt -H'^ek in jtily. 1 do not need to state that this 
was strictly fly-fishiftg. There is no meinber of the Sagi- 
naw crowd who wotltd arly iriofe think of using bait 
than he would think of shooting a bird on the ground. 
As to our take of grayling, if Mr. Mershon's photographs 
come out nicely, metfiinks we can show a ba,sket of gray- 
ling whieh will ofter more interest as a sporting picture 
to-day than almost any other which could be devised, un- 
less it Were olte of a floek of wild pigeons or a bunch of 
wild htifMo. For myself, I was entirely gratified. I 
took no very large grayling, and I kept only 3 or 4 of 
those which 1 landed. The main thing was that I saw 
th's beautiful fish In almost its last fastnesses, just as 
once I saw the reffinant of the buffalo far down in the 
Pan Handle o! Texas. Two years after that the buffalo 
were gone. Two yeafs after this, I imagine, and in 
spite of all the care which can be exercised, in spite of 
the fact that this last Michigan stream has a .good stock 
of grayling in it at this date, the grayling will have dis- 
appeared and have disappeared forever. The State of 
Michigafi hag grayling enough now in this stream to keep 
theni forever, but it will not do it. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford BtritDiUG, Chicago. II!. 
The First Pifce Egg Hatching. 
FranxvLin, "Vt., Aug. 8. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
In Fred Mather's book, entitled "Modern Fish Cldture," 
Mr. James Nevin states that he (Mr. Nevin) hatched 
pike-perch in 1877. and that these were the first pike-perch 
ever hatched artificially. Without wishing to detract 
from the credit oi Mr. Nevin's early labors with pike- 
perch, it is only fair to< Mr. Livingstone Stone to say 
that Mr. Stone preceded him several years in hatching the 
eggs of this fish. Mr. Stone began experimenting with 
these eggs, I think, in 1869, but at first without success, 
of course, the eggs being treated like trout eggs. Mr. 
Stone at last succeeded, however, in hatching pike-perch 
eggs by taking one layer only on pares cf common win- 
dow glass, and placing them edge down in a current of 
water. In 1872 I saw these eggs on glass myself, as I 
v/as there on the Missisquoi River, assisting Mr. Stone in 
making preparations for taking living fish to the Pacific 
coast in the first California aquarium car. 
I do not know hoiw much earlier Mr. Stone may have 
hatched pike-perch, but I am certain that he succeeded 
in doing it in 1872, which is five years earlier than Mr. 
Nevin claims that he hatched, them. 
Myron Green. 
FishetmanV, Rare Lock. ' 
A REMARKABLE affair is reported from Morehead City, 
which is vouched for by reliable parties here. A fisher- 
man living near Bogue Sound in a small shanty, saw 
a large school of fish go up one of the creeks or blind 
guts that enter the marshes in that vicinity. He had a 
quantity of nets on hand and a numerous family, and 
they all turned out and closed up the mouth of the short 
creek, capturing the entire school of fish, which were 
mainly large trout. The lucky fisherman has kept the 
fish inclosed in the place, taking them out as fast as he 
could handle them, selling large quantities* to the fish 
dealers at Morehead City. His sales have amounted to 
$4,000 worth of fish, and several thousand dollars' worth 
still remain in the pond. The facts were learned from a 
dealer who came here for additional funds with which to 
handle the fish for shipment. It is considered one of 
the most remarkable incidents on record on this part 
of the coast. — Raleigh (N. C.) Post. 
Florida Lobsters. 
Below Miami we have a substitute for the lobster that 
lives in the crevices of the coral rock till his season 
comes, and then he sprawls over acres of sand, fat and 
fine. This Florida sea crawfish is of excellent flavor, 
grows to four pounds in weight, is abundant and easily 
taken. He is not only the equal of the lobster, but bet- 
ter. It only remains that he be introduced to the gour- 
mand with proper pr^,aration, and he will immediately 
become a favorite. "We would much prefer to see some 
Floridian grow rich on thistv^lorida dainty, but if none 
of us will do so, let the fisirers of the North Atlantic 
come down and take possession; it is not well that such 
good eating be left to the watery world alone. — ^Jackson- 
ville (Fla.) Times-Union and Citizen. 
All communications intended for Forest and Stream should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., New 
York, and not to wy i»4ividu»l conn^ct^d with the paper. 
ThelWeigfhts of Fishes. 
Wellesley Farms, Mass., Aug. 14. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: In your issue of Aug. 16, referring to the 
"weight of a fish," you say Mr. J. A. L. Waddell gives 
the formula for arriving at the weight of a fish by rrieas- 
iiremcnt. I do not think that Mr. Waddell would wish to be 
held responsible for this rule. In 1892 I was given tllis 
method by Dr. Cornell, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and gave this 
to others, and no doubt to Mr. Waddell. This rule will 
not hold good on all fish, but does on most varieties I 
have tried it on. Even Dr. Cornell did not claim to be the 
first, as he gained his information from some formula 
for weighing beef cattle. C. A. Dean. 
h0 Mmml 
Fixtures. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Sept. 8-11.— Toronto, Can.— Twelfth annual show of the Toroftto 
Industrial Exposition. Fred Jacobi, Sec'y. , „ . 
Oct. 7-9.— Danbury, Conn.— Danbury Agricultural Society's show. 
John W. Bacon, Treas. ... . „ 
Oct. 21-24.— Frederick, Md.— Frederick County Agricultural So- 
ciety's annual bench show. J. Roger McSherry, Supt. 
Oct. 21-24.— New York.— Ladies' Kennel Association of America's 
show. Miss M. K. Bird, Westbury, L. I., Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 2S-29.— Philadelphia.— Philadelphia Dog Show Association's 
show. M. A. Viti, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Aug. 26.— Salem, S. D.— South Dakota Field Trial Association's 
(member of the American Championship Club) third annual trials. 
E. H. Gregory, Sioux Falls, S. D. . „ , 
Sept. 2.— Inaugural trials of the Minnesota-North Dakota Field 
Trial Association. Dr. W. A. Moore, Sec'y, St. Paul, Minn. _ 
Sept. 4. — Carman, Man.— Sixteenth annual trials of the Manitoba 
Field Trials Club. Eric Hamber, Sec'v, Winnipeg. 
Sept. 11. , Man.— Fifth annual trials of the Brandon Kennel 
Club. Dr. H. Tames Elliott, Sec'y, Brandon, Man. 
Sept. 11.— O'Neill, Neb.— Nebraska Field Trial Association's 
inaugural chicken trials. M. H. McCarthy, Sec'y. 
Oct. —.—Drakes Branch, Va.— Inaugural trials of the Virginia 
Field Trial Association. C. B. Cooke, Sec'y. 
Oct. —.—Independence, la.— Eastern Iowa Field Trial Associa- 
tion's inaugural trials. J. C. Burk. Sec'y. 
Oct. 20. , . — Western Field Trial Association's second 
annual trials. C. W. Buttles, Sec'y, Kansas City. 
Oct. 27. — Paris, Mo. — Missouri Field Trial Association's (member 
of the American Championship Club), sixth annual trials. L. S. 
Eddins, Sec'y. Sedalia, Mo. 
Oct. 27.— Washington C. O., Ohio.— Monongahela Field Trial 
Club's field trials. A. C. Peterson. Sec'y. 
Oct. 28.— Whitby Island, Wash.— Pacific Northwest Field Trials 
F. R. Atkins. Sec'y. Seattle, Wash. 
Nov. 3. — Robinson, 111, — Illinois Field Trial Association's (mem- 
ber of the American Championship Club) fourth annual trials. W. 
R. Green, Sec'y. Marshall, 111, 
Nov. 3.— Thirteenth annual field trials of the National Beagle 
Club of America. Charles E. Stevenson, Sec'y, 106 Market street, 
Camden. N. J. 
Nov. 3. — Lake View, Mich.— Michigan Field Trial Association's 
(member of the American Championship Club) fifth annual trials. 
C. D. Stuart, Sec'y, Benton Harbor. Mich. 
Nov. 4. — Washington C. H., Ohio.— Ohio Field Trial A.ssocia- 
tion's (member of the American Championship Club), fifth annual 
trials. C. E. Baughn. Sec'y. 
Nov. 7-8. — Robinson, 111. — Western Irish Setter .Club's inaugural 
trials, T. L. Fenn, Secv. 
Nov. 17-— Glasgow, Ky. — Third annual trials of the Kentucky 
Fipld Trial Club. S. B. Hays, Sec'y. 
Nov. 10. — Bicknell, Ind. — Independent Field Trial Club's (mem- 
ber of the American Championship Club) fourth annual trials. 
H. S. Humphrey. Sec'y. Indianapolis, Ind. 
Nov. 11. — Hampton, Conn. — Connecticut Field Trial Club's trials. 
F. W. Smith. Sec'y, New Haven. 
Nov. 10. — Ruthven, Ont. — North American Field Trial Associa- 
tion's (member of the American Championship Club) fourth 
annual trials. Richard Bangham, Sec'y, Windsor, Ont. 
Nov. 11.— St. Joachim, Ont.— International Field Trial Club's 
fourteenth annual trials. W. B. Wells. Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 17.— Glascow, Ky.— Kentucky Field Trial Club's (mem- 
ber of the American Championship Club) third annual trials. F. 
W. Samuel. Sec'v, Louisville. Kv. 
Nov 18. — Ruthven. Ont.— Fourth annual trials of the North 
American Field Trial Club. Alfred Wigle, Sec'y, Windsor, Ont. 
Nov. 20.— Manor. L. I. — Pointer Club of America's (member of 
the American Championship Club) second annual trials. R. E. 
Wcstlake, Sec'y, Scranton, Pa. 
Canine Elegies and Epitaphs, 
Readers are invited to send for this column any epitaph or 
elegy of departed dogs of which they may have knowledge. We 
continiie the series from last week: 
Byfon's Boatswain. 
A Rochester correspondent sends us these comments on Byron's 
epitaph on Boatswain, which was printed in our issue of -Jast 
week, and to which wc hope the reader of AVm. Redmond's Id^tter 
wiU turn again: 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
In the opinion of at least one reader j'ou have added new interest 
to the ever-interesting pageis of Forest and Stream through the 
establishment of the "Canine Elegies and Epitaphs" department, 
and I should have presumed, long ago, to offer my contribution, 
had I not supposed momentarily that I would be anticipated by 
some one, and I see now that you have published it— Byron's 
epitaph on his Newfoundland, Boatswain. It is probably the most 
famous epitaph and eulog}' ever written upon a dog. It is need- 
less to remark that, as the subject of such lines, tie noble canine 
has been for more than ninety years, one of the immortals. It 
will be noted that the great poet, who was born in 1788, was only 
twenty years old when the epitaph was written. Let those who 
will carp at the misanthropic tone of the verse; but who with any 
knowledge of dog nature, will presume to question the absolute 
justice and truth of the prose part of the eulogium? 
E. M. Redmond. 
XVIII.— Neptunr. On an Urn near OIney, Eng. 
Here Hes one who never drew 
Blood himself, yet many slew; , 
Gave the gun its aim, and figure 
Made in field, yet ne'er pulled trigger. 
Armed men have gladly made 
Him their guide, and him obeyed; 
At his signified desire 
Would advanve, present and fire. 
Stout he was, and large of limb, 
.Scores have died at sight o,f him; 
And to all this fame he rose 
By only following his nose. 
Neptune was he called; not he 
Who controls the boist'rous sea, 
But of happier commaad. 
Nepttine pf tbe fnrrowvd land; J 
