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FISHING DOGS. 
Stories of fishing dogs always are interesting. 
I remember one of a deg which always accom¬ 
panied his master trout fishing—went with him 
jl in lieu of a landing net. The water usually 
fished was a club length where the limit for 
takeable trout was eight inches, and the intelli¬ 
gent brute, the moment a trout was firmly 
hooked, would swim out, take it gently but 
firmly in his jaws, swim, back to the bank 
measure it off with his tail, and immediately 
chuck it back into the water if it happened to 
be under the limit size. I have heard of an 
; angler who had a dog that used to swim across 
I the river when the angler got his flies hung up 
in a tree at the other side, and climb up the 
tree and disentangle them. Then I had a friend 
who had a very clever pointer—who would point 
anything—fur, feather, or fin. He was a first 
rate retriever, too. > 
One day my friend had him out with him in a 
boat pike fishing, when he hooked a most ter¬ 
rific, tantrummv old pike, which lashed and 
gashed in a most furious fashion. In went the 
long-legged pointer to retrieve the game. Snap 
went the vicious pike’s wicked jaws as the dog 
came up, and the poor brute’s forelegs were 
clean bitten off close to the body. In his anguish 
the dog managed to turn round to swim to the 
boat, when snap went the sharp, horrid jaws 
again, and off came about seven-eighths of the 
l dog’s hind legs. His master got him back into 
the boat, rendered first aid, and carried him to 
a veterinary surgeon, who treated him so skill¬ 
fully that the stumps healed beautifully. Of 
course, he was no good any more as a pointer; 
but he made a first rate dachshund.—Fishing 
Gazette, London. 
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TAILLESS TROUT. 
In “Whitaker’s Almanack” for 1871 is an ac- 
h count of some tailless trout having been discov¬ 
ered in Loch Macrichen, in Islay. This loch is 
1.000 feet above the level of the sea, and although 
I surrounded by other lochs in none of them were 
| tailless trout found save in it, and there they 
I were in excellent condition. The notice con¬ 
tinues: “At the mines of Wanlochhead, Dum¬ 
friesshire, and Leadhills. in Lanarkshire, there 
| are, according to Dr. Grierson, of Thornhill, 
i streams coming from the shafts, in which trout 
i without tails, and often deficient in fins, are fre- 
1 quently caught. Such fish are often blind.”— 
| Fishing Gazette. 
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