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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 27, 1906. 
Tajciderm fats. 
SAVE YOUR TROPHIES. 
v. XOrite for oar Illustrated Catalogue, 
“Heads and Horns.” 
It gives directions for preparing and preserving Skins, 
Antlers, etc. Also prices for Heads and Rugs, Birds and 
Fish, and all kinds of work in Taxidermy. 
Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
J. KANNOFSKY, 
PRACTICAL GLASS BLOWER 
and Manufacturer of 
Artificial eyes for birds, animals and manufacturing pur¬ 
poses a specialty. Send for prices. All kinds of skulls for 
the fur trade. 369 Canal St., New York. 
Please mention Forest and Stream. 
ROWLAND, 
TAXIDERMIST, 
A specialty in mounting Moose, Elk, Caribou and Deer 
heads. Call and examine work. 
No. 182 SIXTH AVENUE. 
Tel. 4205 Chelsea. Near 13th St. NEW YUKK 
FRED SAUTER, Taxidermist. 
Established i860. 
Formerly No. 3 
No. William St., 
Removed to 
42 Bleecker St., 
cor. Elm St., 
will continue to 
please customers 
2 best durable work. Also carry large assortment of Game 
Rugs and attractive groups, for sale and to rent. 
TAXIDERMISTS 
Dealers in Supplies, Glass Eyes, and 
all materials used by the trade. 
All kinds of Game Heads purchased 
in the raw. Mounted specimens for 
sale. Send for Catalogue. 
THE M. ABBOTT FRAZAR CO. 
93 SUDBURY ST. 
Dept. 2 BOSTON. MASS. 
Mount Birds 
m °"^p r Wecan teach you by mull to stuff and mount all 
? kinds of ItlrdH, Animal*. Game Head*, etc. 
f Also to tan skins and make mgs. He your own taxi- 
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FREE. WRITE TODAY. N. W. School ofTuxI- 
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RAW FURS WANTED. 
Highest cash prices. Send for circular. E. G. BAKER, 
& SON, 116 South Water St., Providence, R. 1. 
16 Hants and Exchanges. 
WANTED. 
FIRST-CLASS FISHING ROD MAKER. Apply to 
the ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO., 57 Reade St., 
New York City. 
TO Exchange.—A $125.00 DALY 12-gauge for an 8-gauge 
of good make. A. B. PHILLIPS, Lakehurst, N. J. 17 
For Sale. 
Small-Mouth Black B&ss 
We have the only establishment dealing in young small-mouth 
blaes bass commercially in the United States. Vigorous young 
bass in various sizes ranging from advanced fry to 3 and 4-inch 
fingeriings for stocking purposes. 
Waramaug Small-Mouth Black Bass Hatchery. 
Correspondence invited. Send for circulars. Address 
HENRY W. BEEMAN, New Preston, Conn. 
BROOK TROUT. 
Eggs, fry, yearlings and two-year-olds, for stocking 
brooks and lakes. Address NEW ENGLAND TROUT 
FARM, Plympton, Mass. 
BROOK TROUT. 
It will pay you to correspond with me before buying 
eggs, fry or yearlings in any quantity. I guarantee a 
safe delivery anywhere. Crystal Spring Trout Farm. 
L. B. HANDY, So. Wareham, Mass. 
BROOK TROUT 
of all ages for stocking 
brooks and lakes. Brook 
trout eggs in any quantity, warranted delivered anywhere 
in fine condition. Correspondence solicited. 
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT CO. 
Plymouth, Mass. 
BROOK TROUT FOR SALE 
We have constantly on hand 
fine supply of Brook Trout, 
all sizes for stocking purposes. 
Also for table use at 75c. a 
pound. Visitors privileged to 
catch own trout. 
PARADISE BROOK 
TROUT CO., Parkside, Pa., Henryville R.R. Station. 
THE BROOKDALE TROUT CANNOT BE BEAT 
for stocking ponds and streams. For the next few 
weeks we will make a very low price on young fry and 
large fish. Also fly-fishing. 
BROOKDALE TROUT CO., Kingston, Mass. 
LIVE QUAIL. 
Positively Western birds. Shipments commence October 
1. Early deliveries advised. Also pheasants, rabbits, etc. 
Established 1838. 
E. B. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich St., New York. 
Trained ferrets; ferret harness, muzzles, sacks, rabbit net; 
ferret and pheasant books. WALLACE & SON, Lucas, 
Ohio. 
AN OPPORTUNITY. 
Fine quality imported double-barrel shotgun, 12-bore, 6% 
pounds. Cost price, $100. Will take $50. Write REGEL- 
MAN, 17 State- St., New York. 18 
25,000 Pairs of 
HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGES 
will be ship¬ 
ped during 
the season 
Oct. to Feb. 
by Julius 
Mohr, J r., 
U 1 m, Ger¬ 
many, larg¬ 
est direct ex¬ 
porter of the celebrated Hungarian game. 
From many years’ experience I found 
that late in fall these game birds are in 
their prime condition; being larger and 
much stronger, they can resist the hard¬ 
ships of travel far better than earlier in 
the season. 
First shipment to the United States 
about Nov. ist, under personal care of 
experienced keeper. 
Write for particulars, and send your 
orders to 
WENZ ® MACKENSEN. Yardley, Pa. 
Agents for the U. S. A. of 
JULIUS MOHR, JR. 
Exporter of all kinds of wild animals, 
live game, ornamental water fowl 
fancy pheasants, etc. 
Out of all proportion also was the pancreas. The 
great proportions of these two organs were, no 
doubt, due to the fact that its food was largely 
of a fatty nature.” 
That is a plain explanation of the make-up 
of the monster. But it is not out of place to 
give what I observed about the creature. The 
fish, as has been stated, measured twelve feet 
across and somewhere about seven or eight feet 
in length. There were no scales to weigh it on. 
but the taxidermist located at the Pass, and 
who preserves tarpon and other fish and birds 
for those who desire to decorate homes, esti¬ 
mated the weight at between 1.500 and 2,000 
pounds. The boatman estimated it at that 
weight from the strength required to get it on 
the beach and to swing it up by block and tackle. 
Its skin was like that of a shark, though coarser, 
and felt to the touch exactly like fine sandpaper. 
Its mouth resembled a covered road scraper, 
and it is evident that it was used as a scraper 
on the bottom of the sea, the flippers attached 
to each side of the orifice, for it could hardly be 
called a mouth, since it was fixed and immov¬ 
able, being used to fan food into the orifice. 
The inside of the mouth appeared to be large 
enough in this specimen to contain the contents 
of a barrel. The lower part of it looked like 
the cooking apparatus of a gas stove. It was 
gridironed throughout and these gridirons or 
seines were movable. As the creature fanned 
food into its mouth the seines or gridirons 
worked, and small crustaceans, such as small 
crabs and shrimp which lie at the bottom of the 
sea, went into the stomach, while the coarser grist 
that came to the hopper, such as oysters, were 
spewed out. 
The vitality of the thing was wonderful. It 
had carried thirteen boats and twenty-six men 
for miles and miles, and from about 10 o’clock 
in the morning till ten minutes past 2. in the 
evening, that being the exact time when the 
first shot was given it, and yet its spine had 
been broken by the thrust of the first harpoon. 
After two strokes from the harpoon, after four 
or five holes had been torn through it by the 
dreadful dum-dum or soft-nosed bullet, and 
after being dragged from where it was mortally 
wounded, six miles from shore, it still lived when 
beached. I do not believe that we would have 
secured it at all if the broken spine had not 
rendered its course erratic, for it was fully able 
during the hours it was towing us to have 
carried us so far into the sea as to have made 
us cut loose. 
In the first flush of excitement there may have 
been a sense of winning glory in what might be 
called the encounter. But in the last stages of 
the affair, cutting cord wood was just as 
glorious as the combat, to the three or four in 
it. The rest, who sat in the boats behind and 
were being towed around thought, perhaps, of 
their names appearing in the papers in connec¬ 
tion with the taking of the monster, and were 
glad; and then they thought of ice water and 
food, and were not so glad. The next day no 
one took a harpoon with him. Other devil fish 
were reported convenient for the slaughter, but 
no one was disposed to seek them. Every man 
in the party, on the morning after, went to the ■ 
sea with small hooks and small bait and the 
most of them fished from the jetties for the 
sheepshead. For, in truth, all had tired of large 
game. 
One word more. A story went the rounds of 
the press a short time ago to the effect that one 
of these creatures had swallowed an anchor of a 
fisherman and proceeded to sea with him. It 
was such an absurd story that no one believed 
it. Yet in nearly all things it was true. More 
than this, it was not the first time a boat had 
been run away with by these monsters. Several 
years ago a man with his child and his boatman 
was fishing for mackerel when suddenly his boat, 
which was anchored, pitched forward and started 
for the open gulf at a terrific speed. It was 
sometime before the occupants of the vessel 
could recover sufficiently to appreciate their 
danger and cut the anchor rope. On the late 
occasion, a gentleman. I think it was Mr. Leach 
of Palestine, was in an anchored boat when it 
suddenly surged forward and skimmed toward 
the gulf. He, too, cut loose, or the anchor be- 
