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know a man must keep on the shelthered side 
iv the ditch when it’s a question iv kesh in the 
matter iv housekeeping.” 
“Oh, may the divil have me the minit I make 
mintion iv it,” answered McLoughlin, taking a 
final pull at his glass. “An’ it’s joy I wish ye 
iv their company, mornin’, noon an’ night, as 
long as it plazes the powers to lengthen your 
life.” 
“An’ it’s no better company I’d wish for, 
Micky, for sure the music iv their sweet voices 
’ll warm up the cockles iv my heart betther nor 
all their pyanas, an’ melojins, an’ harmonias, an’ 
their ould monkey windbag instherments, that’s 
enough to turn a man’s sinses inside out, wid 
their blowin’, an’ scrapin’, an’ grindin’, an’ ould 
pongoes dhressed up in red to look like mud- 
crushin’ milishey-men. Och! I'd sooner hear all 
the cats in the townland let loose in the grave¬ 
yard on a moonlight night nor listen to the 
best iv them for two minutes. Yes, Micky, give 
me ither the nacheral thing in itself, or, wantin’ 
that, the bagpipes.” 
“I’m glad to hear ye say so, Denis, an’ iv 
coorse ye'll thrain them yourself, as they get 
ould enough.” 
“I’ve put me hand to the plough, Micky, an’ 
I’ll see to the end iv the furrow. Thrust me for 
that, an’ if they don’t turn out parfect jewels to 
the young squire, I’ll make hare soup iv me ould 
huntin’ cap an’ niver taste whiskey nor lade a 
‘cry iv dogs’ for the rest iv me life.” 
“But ye didn’t tell me their color, Denis.’ 
“Liver-an’-white, an’ sorra a betther brace iv 
span’el pups ye’d see in a day’s walkin’. An’ 
so good-night, and pleasant dhrames to ye, 
Micky.—Marshman, in the Shooting Times. 
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Mrs. Don McKay, a resident of the Pelican 
Bay country, took one of the big Williamson 
River beauties in upper Klamath Lake recently. 
Mrs. McKay’s fish weighed 21 pounds and 
measured 36 inches in length with a girth of 21 
inches. This fish was believed to be largest 
taken in that country in over 15 years.—San 
Francisco Call. 
The best single day catches of trout from the 
Spokane River that have been reported for this 
year were made Wednesday. The white-winged 
fly is meeting with better success every day, 
and for the most part the catches were made on 
them. J. Carter and A. Bertrand landed 38 
trout about 20 miles down the river, the largest 
of which weighed four pounds. These were 
taken largely on the fly, although some of them 
were caught by the spoon. H. J. Fuller hooked 
sixteen at the old smelter. The largest weighed 
3/2 pounds, and all were caught with the fly. FI. 
N. Gardner landed 14 below Fort Wright on the 
spoon and fly. The largest weighed 4*4 pounds. 
George Crandall took twelve on the spoon at 
Natatorium Park. The largest weighed slightly 
over 3 pounds. Ed. Whitsel landed four trout 
whose aggregate weight was 7 pounds, at the 
foot of Mission street. They were taken on a 
fly.—Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle. 
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Prince Edward Island are found extensive de¬ 
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ganic remains of countless generations of oysters, 
mussels, clams and other bivalves of the ocean 
and of crustaceous animals generally. The 
shells, usually more or less intact, are found 
embedded in dense deposits of a mudlike sub¬ 
stance and this combination is a fertilizer of 
high value and potency. It supplies lime and 
organic matter, besides small quantities of phos¬ 
phates and alkalies. An ordinary dressing of 
it secures fertility in a striking manner to the 
poorest or most exhausted soil. The shells 
decay slowly, year by year throwing off a film 
of fertilizing stuffs. The deposits around Prince 
Edward Island vary from 5 to 25 feet in depth. 
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from rafts in summer or from the ice in winter. 
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