604 FOREST AND STREAM OCTOBER, 1918 
DISLODGING ANOTHER PORKER 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Am greatly interested in Friend Hulit’s 
articles, especially the one in the August 
magazine and more especially about his 
adventure with the pig under the house, 
since I had a similar one with a hog that 
had taken its temporary abode in a shack 
and under the bed. That was fifty years 
ago down at Potter’s Creek (now Bay- 
ville) near Barnegat Bay below Tom’s 
River. I was teaching school down there 
at that time. 
One day in June after school I went to 
call on Aunt Marcy Worth, an old lady 
over ioo years of age, who lived in a di¬ 
lapidated shack not far from the bay, and 
found her on her knees trying to get the 
pig out from under the bed by punching 
it with a crutch. At each punch the 
porker would let out most ungodly squeals 
but wouldn’t budge a bit; but armed with 
a beanpole I soon managed to get the crit¬ 
ter out from under the bed and out of the 
house, and received the thanks of the pro¬ 
prietress of the establishment. 
Andrew L. Lyon, Putnam, Conn. 
SOUTH AMERICAN FISHING 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have done quite a little wild fishing 
of one kind or another. I have caught 
Roosevelt’s Pirhania in many rivers of the 
Amazon country, and many varieties of 
what you would call catfish ranging from 
a four-foot soft skinned fine eating fish to 
an armored variety which would defy a 
can opener. We lived for quite a while 
on a fish called Aymaras by the natives 
which for sheer wickedness has anything 
I know of beaten a mile. One uses a hook 
about 6 or 7 inches long and protected 
with tin for a foot or two above where it 
joins to the line. A small or medium sized 
shark hook would be just what the doctor 
ordered, but we did not know that we 
were going to encounter them and so were 
not loaded. However, we got a goodly 
number of these fellows ranging in weight 
from eight to fifty pounds, of course on 
heavy hand lines as we were fishing for 
food and could not carry any of the usual 
outfit. They have proportionately a goodly 
maw and armed with triangular teeth after 
the order of shark’s teeth, but smaller of 
course. They would come out of the water 
snapping like a bulldog and whenever pos¬ 
sible I never took a large one into the 
canoe without a precautionary pistol bul¬ 
let through his head. All of this in the 
upper waters of the Essequibo, far above 
where the head of navigation ceases on 
account of the falls and rapids. This is 
water that probably at that time not over 
four white men had ever seen, at least to 
get out and tell about. And the chap that 
I was with was the third and I was the 
fourth on the list. 
QUESTIONS, 
ANSWERS AND 
LETTERS 
Lacking tackle and time naturally I 
missed the sport proposition, but we surely 
found some queer specimens. I saw a fish 
roll over in the water one night, name un¬ 
known, called by the Wapisiana Indians 
who were with me a leopard fish. He 
rolled over in the water, showing a length 
of four or five feet and a de,ep rich scarlet 
hue. I guess that I had better stop there 
because you will begin to think I have a 
touch of Ananias fever. This upper Esse¬ 
quibo region and the boundaries between 
British Guiana and Dutch Guiana and 
French Guiana, that long watershed from 
the Rio Bronco to the Caribbean, has never 
been touched by the naturalists and an 
area at least half as large as the United 
States in the Tropics is bound to contain 
many new species. 
We were on an anthropological trip for 
a university and you can also realize that 
we could not bring anything out in the 
shape of natural history specimens. We 
were too much occupied in getting out our 
anthropological collections and negatives. 
When I tell you that we succeeded in get¬ 
ting out of an Indian country with three 
urn-burials of the ancestral Machuchis 
with the specimens and with the good will 
of the tribe you may imagine we had a 
few anxious moments. We saw several 
tribes that had never seen white men be¬ 
fore and met with uniform good treatment 
from them, had no accidents and saved all 
collections and negatives. 
Franklin H. Church, M.D., New York. 
WOODCOCK AND WORMS 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In the last issue of “our magazine” is 
an interesting account by a correspondent 
who watched a woodcock feeding and saw 
the way he took worms from the soft 
ground. 
I think, could he have been nearer, he 
would have found the worms come 
through the soft soil without waiting to 
find the hole made by the feeding bird 
and this is why I think so.—After the Civil 
War I used to hunt and fish with a couple 
of young country friends who had man¬ 
aged to get an old musket with a long 
steel ramrod. 
When they wanted worms for bait they 
simply thrust the small end of the rod into 
the soft ground where worms were known 
to be and gently moved it, and out would 
come the worms. I was told that the 
worms “thought” a ground mole was after 
them as the rod did just the same thing 
for the top soil that moles did. 
In the old days I secured worms many 
times this way. Thinking this may be of 
interest, I send it. 
Ernest L. Ewbank, Hendersonville, N. C. 
AN APPRECIATION 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The soldier’s letter to his dog in the 
August number of Forest and Stream, with 
the admirable picture on the cover, has 
touched me deeply, almost brought tears 
to my eyes. There is a wonderfully human 
sentiment about it, bringing forth the di¬ 
vine side of human nature which is pro¬ 
jected in man’s love of the silent forest 
and the chattering stream. You are to be 
congratulated on the writer and the artist. 
Dr. J. D. Quackenbos, Lake Sunapee, N. H. 
FROM A BROTHER IN UNIFORM 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Through the kindness of a Y. M. C. A. 
man I was fortunate enough a few days 
ago in locating a copy of your magazine. 
I have read Forest and Stream for years 
and would continue to do so were it pos¬ 
sible to obtain copies. 
There are thousands of men in our army 
to-day who are sportsmen and who have 
been accustomed to read the outdoor mag¬ 
azines, but the Y. M. C. A. huts have 
everything from well-known women’s mag¬ 
azines to technical journals with the ex¬ 
ception of Forest and Stream and similar 
magazines. The sportsmen at home evi¬ 
dently are not sending their copies to the 
brothers in uniform. Why not make a 
more vigorous effort than the notice by the 
Postmaster General on the front cover? 
By the way, if you are using a H. P. 
rifle and have any trouble with metal foul¬ 
ing, try the following solution: 
Ammonia water (strong).. cup 
Peroxide ... cup 
Washing soda . I oz. 
The only advantage this has over the Gov¬ 
ernment standard solution is that you can 
obtain the ingredients at any drug store. 
The solution is rapid on both metal and 
powder fouling and does not attack steel. 
It has not been suggested to the Govern¬ 
ment because it is as expensive as the 
standard solution, but it does have the ad¬ 
vantage of being easy to make and to ob¬ 
tain the ingredients. 
L. F. Phillips, 2d Lieut., I. R. C., 
4th Tr. Battalion, Camp Lee, Va. 
We have never published on Forest and 
Stream the little request to mail It to the 
soldiers after you have finished reading it, 
for the simple reason that we notified the 
Y. M. C. A. that we would supply them 
ivith as many copies of our magazine, cur- : 
rent issue, as they would ask for. At one | 
time they were taking as many as 2,000 
