Nov. 9 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
583 
PORPOISE FISHING. 
A friend of mine, says Dr. H. A. Lawton 
in the New V'ork Sun, who has done much fish¬ 
ing told me once never to go after porpoise, 
because, lie added, porpoises when wounded cry 
like human beings, and until my dying day I would 
feel as if I had slain one of my own kind. But 
I was out with a man from Cleveland, who, 
when he gets after fish, has no mercy. 
Well, we were off Key Largo, when we 
started into a blind creek to get loggerhead 
turtles. Ketchel, the guide, who was on the 
lookout, suddenly turned and said, “If you want 
some sport 1 can give it to you. There goes a 
bunch of porpoises up that blind creek. It is 
shallow water, and there is no way for them to 
get out except by passing us.” Well, I didn't 
want to hunt porpoises, but my friend was eager 
for it, so I gave way. 
When the school of porpoises realized that 
our boat was between them and deep water 
they started back. There were probably twelve 
in the lot. and as they rushed by Ketchel sank 
his harpoon into a little calf. It towed us along 
like fury. But the bull and the mother of that 
calf put up the most pitiful fight I ever saw. I 
begged Ketcbel to cut the rope and let the calf 
go, but my friend wouldn't have it. You know 
the porpoise is a mammal, but I did not know 
it could be so attached to its young. They 
fairly flung themselves out of the water. The 
bull stayed by the calf, but the mother jumped 
over and dived under it. bit at the rope to 
which the harpoon was fastened, and as her 
head came out of the water she made noises 
that were like awful human groans. Once the 
mother turned at the boat and jumped clean 
over the bow. narrowly missing Ketcbel. If 
she had hit him he would have gone overboard 
sure, and the things were enraged to such a 
point they would have undoubtedly attacked 
him. The mother tried to tip our little boat 
over, and Ketchel had to beat her over the head 
with an oar to keep her away. Well, that battle 
lasted half an hour, the other porpoises trying 
to release the calf. Then the poor calf gave up 
the ghost with a real groan and the mother 
kept sobbing pitifully. Finally Ketchel took 
a machete and sunk it into the calf. There will 
be no more porpoise hunting for me. It's too 
near cruelty. 
BIG PACK GIVES CHASE TO DEER. 
Barre, Mass., Oct. 16 .— The Brunswick 
Foxhound Club opened its all-age field trials 
to-day at the Kneeland farm with sixty-five 
dogs in the pack. This beats all previous 
records as to number. To-day’s sport could 
not be properly called a fox hunt, but rather 
a deer chase which was fast and exciting. 
There was nothing spectacular about the 
getaway, but it was a pretty picture, as the dogs 
started out in search of a fox. There were 
foxes a-plenty, as several hunters reported see¬ 
ing them, but the stronger scent of the deer at¬ 
tracted the hounds when they had reached a 
place known as The Steps, which is a ridge just 
outside of Barre. 
Nearly the whole pack took up the trail at 
this point and drove the deer for eight miles 
toward Hardwick at a fast clip which changed 
from a drive to a race. 
Those on foot were soon out of the run¬ 
ning and the mounted hunters were obliged to 
use the spurs to keep up with the pack. 
There was a fine race through brush, over 
rocky plains, up and down valleys and then up 
and down hills again. The hunters who used 
automobiles to follow the hunt covered from 
thirty to fifty miles and some more in follow¬ 
ing the hounds. 
About three-quarters of an hour after the 
getaway Dr. A. C. Heffenger sighted a big fox 
in a meadow about 150 yards off the Hardwick 
road. About six stray dogs came across the 
trail and gave a fine drive toward the west and 
were soon out of sight and hearing. 
An hour afterward a pack of dogs got track 
of a doe and gave chase- toward Poverty Hill, 
where they were joined by the big pack of 
about fifty hounds. The chase was up the side 
of the nearby hill, which is the highest point 
in the town of Barre, and then down the Hard¬ 
wick side. The deer succeeded in escaping by 
plunging into a pond formed by Muddy Brook. 
After the deer trail was lost the hounds 
circled around the hill, worked hard to get back 
on the scent. An hour later a pack of about 
forty dogs was seen racing a doe and a buck 
in the hill region to the west. The animals 
were in plain sight of several hunters and gave 
some fine exhibitions of high jumping. 
The hounds pressed the deer hard which 
headed for another pond about three miles from 
Hardwick. Both the doe and the buck jumped 
a wall and plunged into the pond. The doe 
circled the pond two or three times. One of 
the hunters threw a stone at the animal to 
frighten her out and she came ashore and hid 
in the bushes, the hounds being unable to find 
her, she did not move until their baying could 
be heard in the other direction. 
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