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FOREST AND STREAM 
January, 1919 
know of the various kinds of fish around 
here. 
Our club is situated on the Dog River 
about two miles from the mouth or where 
it enters Mobile Bay and that point is 
only about tw'enty miles from the gulf. 
The water around the club is fresh from 
November until June and from then on 
it is more or less salty. Just across 
the river from our club site two creeks 
enter the river, fresh water and quite 
clear. Around this vicinity we catch the 
following fish: black bass, bream, perch, 
croakers, sheepshead, speckled trout, 
white trout, red fish, cat fish. At the 
entrance of Mobile Bay and the gulf and 
Mississippi Sound we catch tarpon, mac- 
kerel, cavallier, pompano, black fish, 
drum and a few others that I cannot re- 
call at present. 
I thought it a wise suggestion to let 
you know that we have a fish country 
here and that the readers of Forest and 
Stream would like to read about our own 
country in some future issue of your 
publication. 
E. Steele Partridge, 
Mobile, Ala. 
The article on the fish in gulf waters 
is in our files, Mr. Partridge, await- 
ing its opportunity to enlighten and in- 
terest our readers. Watch out for 
it! Thanks for your letter. — [Editors.] 
FROM A SOLDIER’S MOTHER 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream : 
T T is with regret I will have to ask 
you to discontinue sending me For- 
est AND Stream. On account of failing 
eye sight I am not able to read myself 
and my sons have all left home. But 
I want to say there have been no mag- 
azine we enjoyed as much as we did 
Forest and Stream during the years 
that my boys have grown to manhood. 
Am enclosing a picture of my son Amo 
(who is now in Italy with the American 
Expeditionary Forces), with three wild 
geese that he shot on a little slaugh 
on our own farm right here in Du Page 
County, only 22 miles from Chicago. He 
was only seventeen years old at the time 
and believe me he was a very proud boy. 
Thanking you for past courtesies, 
Mrs. D. H. Uhlhorn, 
Dorners Grove, 111. 
This letter from a soldier’s mother has 
given us deep satisfaction. We are re- 
producing her boy’s picture herewith. It 
gives us pleasure to know that he has not 
been deprived of the enjoyment of read- 
ing Forest and Stream, although he has 
been at the front. Ever since America 
entered the war wd have been supplying 
the Y. M. C. A. Overseas with as many 
copies of Forest and Stream as they 
could handle and there has been hardly 
a hut but has had our paper to cheer 
the leisure hours of the boys. — [Editors.] 
FOR THE BENEFIT OF OTHERS 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
T THANK you very much for the For- 
EST AND Stream Conservation button 
which I received all right and I will try 
to merit the wearing of it. 
My catches up to the present have 
been mainly “perch” and “sunnys” and 
it has occurred to me that there might 
be others who were not too successful 
in capturing game fish — some like my- 
self, who would like to know just how 
to do so, but are lacking in knowledge 
and in experience; hence, if the success- 
ful contestants, or better still, all those 
who really deserve honorable mention 
by having taken bass say of six pounds 
or over, would write a brief description, 
a few hundred words would do, telling 
of the places fished, the conditions of 
wind and water, location of the stream 
or lake with respect to weed beds, depth 
of water, sand or gravel bars, and other 
conditions under which their prizes were 
captured, and these could be printed for 
the guidance of the rest of us it could 
be of inestimable help to all novices who 
have no other teacher and would help 
us in learning how to turn the trick. 
Thanking you for the conservation but- 
ton which I prize not only for itself, 
but for what it represents at this par- 
ticular time, I am. 
Yours very truly, 
Martha S. Bates, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
Arno Uhlhorn, now in Italy with A. E. F. 
AN APPRECIATION 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
A llow me to congratulate you on 
your November cover. It is a dan- 
dy, but you can’t go wrong with Ost- 
haus pictures. Only wish I could meet 
him and thank him for the pleasure he 
has given me. The first of his pictures 
I remember was a steel engraving that 
I saw in St. Louis, years ago, called 
“First Lessons,” I think; a setter bitch 
and her pups, teaching the pups to point; 
doutbless you know it. 
A friend’s unbroken young setter came 
into the house a day or two ago, car- 
rying with great pride a three-quarter 
grown ruffed grouse, or partridge as 
they call them here. It made a fine 
broil for supper last evening. 
A week ago looking out of my window 
I saw a covey of 23 quail run across 
the road, through our hedge and down 
in our rose garden, first I have seen 
this year. 
Did Osthaus paint a head of a setter, 
black, white and tan like the one on your 
cover, with a grouse in his mouth? I 
think I have seen one somewhere and 
thought it might have been on Forest 
AND Stream. 
Our shore birds and ducks have been 
a failure this fall and a great disappoint- 
ment to all the “wise gunners.” 
Success to the Forest and Stream. 
H. Lindley, M.D., 
“Northwood,” Center Marshfield, Mass. 
Thank you for your appreciation of 
the November cover. We are rather 
proud of our covers, ourselves, and feel 
gratified by the many proofs given vs 
that our readers appreciate the best art 
in outdoor subjects. 
A picture similar to the one you men- 
tion was reproduced on the cover of 
Forest and Streiam issue for April, 
1917. This painting was by Percival 
Rosseau. — [Editors.] 
BETRAYING KING CAT 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream : 
I N the November issue Mr. W. L. Mac- 
Ilrath delightfully crowned the catfish 
king of the corn-belt states. He may be 
King Cat, fairly enough, but no king can 
rule securely without an army and navy. 
Missouri is one of the provinces of the 
Corn-belt Kingdom and the thoughtful 
powers that be have a fully mobilized 
army and navy well trained and equipped 
to uphold the honor and dignity of His 
Majesty, the King. 
Now, fully realizing the necessity of 
having a combination of strategy and 
fighting ability in commond of his forces. 
King Cat has placed Admiral L. M. Bass 
in charge of his deepwater dreadnoughts. 
Rear Admiral S. M. Bass commands the 
gang-hook torpedo boat destroyers. Col- 
onel Jack Salmon leads the “devil-dog” 
marines, while back in reserve is General 
Trout watchfully waiting with his ever 
ready Rainbow Division. 
Yes, our king is well equipped to meet 
any invasion by land or water if King 
Caster, President Fljnnan, or the old dip- 
lomat, Secretary Stillfisher, cares to at- 
tempt it, and now with open disloyalty 
to King Cat the enemy is to be informed 
of the whereabouts of his dreadnoughts 
and destroyers. 
Through wild, wonderful scenery tum- 
ble and flow sparking, dancing invita- 
tions to the angler who harkens to the 
call of the wilderness. Here he will learn 
that no gamer bass exist than can be 
found in the waters of our own Ozark 
Mountains. Creeks, small and large; 
rivers, big ones ; and lakes, calm and 
deep; all stocked with game fish by na- 
ture and the government. These waters 
in the heart of the mountains offer the 
most ideal outing imaginable. 
The bait caster, the fly-rod expert and 
the lover of “still” Ashing will find this 
a paradise. The caster who prefers 
shore-line work will find an abundance of 
strikes that will test his skill to the ut- 
