[Jan. 4, 1908. 
A GUN WITH PERFECT BALANCE 
Best Selling Gun in 1907 
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Parker Hammerless, "D. H.” grade, 12 gauge, 7 lbs. 10 oz., 30-inch "Titanic” steel barrels, both full choke, 
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Adventures with Indians and Game. 
By Dr. William Allen. Price. $2.16, postpaid. 
This is a pleasing narrative of adventures on the plains 
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American Big Game Hunting, 
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books. The boat ahead was apparently bound 
on the same errand as ourselves, and reached 
the fishing ground a few rods in advance of us, 
anchoring on a favorite spot, while we stopped 
a short distance west of him. The fellows were 
friends of ours and we chatted together as we 
rigged our lines, and put over. 
Not long did we wait before my nephew 
struck a nice one, and soon landed a two-pound 
blackfish, then one came my way, and we had 
two to the good. Then a wait for some little 
time and the boy took another, and so it went, 
now one for him and then one for me until we 
had a very pretty mess of fish. It is true that 
fish were what we came for, but they really 
comprised only a small part of that glorious 
afternoon’s sport. The air was like wine and 
the winds were asleep, while the sun, like a 
great golden ball, sank nearer and nearer the 
horizon. .. . 
Suddenly an exclamation from my friend m 
the other boat startled me. 
“What is the matter?” I called. 
“Matter! Where is my other rod gone? 
He was fishing with two rods. One he would 
bait, throw over and lay down across the gun¬ 
wale, trusting that some stray fish would hook 
himself. This rod was gone slick and clean, and 
not a thing to show for it. We both watched 
out sharp, when I spied the butt of it sticking 
out a couple of feet under his bowsprit. inere 
is your rod,” I shouted, and swinging the boat 
a little, he reached down and grabbed it. T. he 
butt came all right, but there was something 
fast on the other end that wanted to stay under 
water, and for all he could do the fish still 
stayed on the bottom. Sometimes a lazy surge, 
and a short turn would make the excited fish¬ 
erman run from one end of the boat to the 
other, while the tough cane rod was bent nearly 
double and still the fish was under water. After 
some little time, turning from his long fight the 
fish broke water, showing a broad black back 
like a porpoise; then down he went again until 
the strain proved too much for him, and they 
brought him alongside of the boat. How to 
get him in was the question, having no gaff, 
nor net. This my friend soon solved by reach¬ 
ing down and getting his fingers in the gills, 
when a quick pull, and they had him. This was 
the largest blackfish that it had ever been my 
good fortune to see taken, and it tipped the 
scales at eleven pounds. 
We took a few more after this. episode, but 
the fishing was about over, so, giving the other 
boat a line, we took him in tow, and started for 
the north shore just as the sun sank from 
sight in the west. Tired with the day’s sport, 
we lay back and watched that wonderful trans¬ 
formation that comes to us daily, the changing 
of daylight into night. Darker it grew in the 
east, as dimmer faded the golden glow in the 
west. The steady bark of the engine whirling 
the propeller under our stern swiftly put the 
miles behind us, as with our bow pointing 
straight for the North star, we ruled a white 
line across the inky surface of the water, and 
night like a mantle settled over earth and sea. 
E. M. Leete. 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE STOCKING 
QUESTION. 
It is an open secret that for some few years 
past the premier fishing club of the Test has 
adopted a method of stocking which is a distinct 
innovation on pre-existing plans. Having, con¬ 
structed a considerable number of well-designed 
rearing ponds, they have purchased yearlings 
on an extensive scale from different piscicul¬ 
turists and turned them into these ponds during 
the winter or early spring. These young trout 
have been liberally fed on horseflesh parboiled 
and passed through a mincing machine, and, as 
might be confidently expected, they have thriven 
and grown rapidly. The general routine has 
been to keep them in captivity until they have 
reached a weight of approximately 2 pounds, 
and then to turn them into different parts of 
the river about the middle or end of March. 
This has provided a number of well-fed, sizable 
trout fit to be killed during the same spring and 
summer. 
Detached Badger, writing for the Field, says 
