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GUNNER GUMPTION’S 
LANTERN LECTURETTES ON 
GREENER GUNS 
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poses. only one screw has to be re¬ 
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Look at the drawing, its simplicity 
cannot fail to convince you that the 
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ceeded only 40 miles up stream, when it re¬ 
turned and ran aground at Staten Island, where 
it lay stranded and was slaughtered.” The 
other whale seems to have been of a more ex¬ 
ploring bent than its companion, for it “ran up 
the river and grounded near the great Chahoos 
(Cohoes) Falls.” 
Whether whales habitually traveled up the 
Hudson River between the cruise of those two 
and 1707 there appears to be no record, hut 
some one wrote to the Boston News Letter 
from New York on February 24, 1707, that 
“last week a whale about 40 feet long struck a 
few miles to the eastward of this city, and after¬ 
ward passed through the harbor and was killed 
in the Hudson River and brought down hither, 
where she is exposed to view.” 
A whale 45 feet long, so says a contemporary 
chronicle, ran ashore “at Van Buskirk’s Point, 
at the entrance of the Kills, on December 11, 
1752, and was killed by some Staten Islanders.” 
A few years later a whale 60 feet long was 
killed in the bay, “in the course of the Brook¬ 
lyn ferry.” This whale having been purchased 
by Samuel Waldron for £20, he obtained 70 
barrels of oil from it. 
Coming down to later times, _ New York 
waters continued to provide material for enter¬ 
taining and edifying stories of fish and things. 
For instance, “a striped bass weighing 49 
pounds was taken day before yesterday,” an 
item in a New York newspaper of October 25, 
1821, records, “by a colored servant living with 
Benjamin Bailey, Esq., on the banks of the 
Harlem River, just below the bridge.” 
“The fish was discovered by the man from 
the end of the dock, which projected some dis¬ 
tance into the river. At times he would sail 
gently along past the dock into the shoal water. 
No net, no hook, and no bait was at hand, and 
as the golden opportunity might not last long 
our hero quickly resolved to encounter him 
single-handed in his native element, and at a 
favorable moment he leaped from the dock di- 
rectlv on his hack. 
“The affrighted fish darted from under him as 
though a shark was in pursuit, and as luck 
would have it took a direction for the shore 
and ran up nearly high and dry into the mud. 
Before he could get fairly afloat again and have 
plenty of sea room to make his. escape, the 
colored man seized him by the gills, dragged 
him upon the beach and secured his prize. 
In newspapers of various dates in October 
and November of that year are the following 
items; 
“Thirty thousand horse mackerel were taken 
in a net at one haul a few days since a little 
above the dry dock.” 
“On Saturday (November 9) a turtle weigh¬ 
ing 1,600 pounds was stranded high and dry in 
a piece of meadow land near Mr. Baretto s 
place on the East River just above Hell Gate. 
The American Museum bought it for $500. 
“On Monday (November 21) one of the senti¬ 
nels on Blackwell’s Island was walking his 
rounds and he discovered an eagle hovering in 
the air over the river intent, doubtless, upon 
plunging upon some one of the many fishes that 
dwell there. It was a tempting mark. The 
musket was loaded with one bullet. The senti¬ 
nel fired. The bird’s head was hit and scalped 
with Red Jacket skill. The eagle fell and was 
taken to the hospital and placed, under the care 
of a physician and is doing as well as could be 
expected.”—Hartford Globe. 
NOT FOR WILLIE. 
A country woman and her little boy were 
visiting the city and while seeing the sights of 
the place the mother’s eyes was attracted by the 
showy display of stuffed animals in a taxider¬ 
mist’s shop window. 
“Let’s go in here and see what we can get 
for you, Willie,” said the mother. 
“Sure, ma, and”- His eye fell upon a sign 
over the door which read, “Let us tan your 
hides.” 
“Oh, no, no, ma; let’s don’t go in there. I 
get ’nuff of that at home,” he cried excitedly, 
and they passed up the taxidermist’s shop.—Na¬ 
tional Monthly. 
