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THE HEARING OF FISH. 
So far as my opinion goes upon this subject, 
says Thos. Poole, in the Shooting Times, allow 
me to say that I have long thought that fish 
under water cannot hear sounds which take 
place above it. I have been fishing with a 
gentleman who did not like to speak for fear 
the trout would hear him. I ridiculed the idea, 
and said, “Let us fish away and talk as loudly 
as we can for a while; then let us fish and hold 
our tongues for another while, and see if there 
is any difference in the rising of the trout to 
the fly.” There was not the slightest difference. 
Among all the anglers of my acquaintance I can 
only call to mind this one who held the idea 
that sound above water frightened fish under it. 
The firing of big guns from forts has been 
alluded to; but generally in these cases a ball 
goes hopping along or a shell bursts and causes 
a movement in the water. From the fort at 
Kinsale they fire toward the harbor’s mouth, as 
I have seen many times when in our yacht at 
anchor in the harbor. We were told that the 
locality where the balls strike was quite 
deserted by the fish, but in other parts of the 
harbor the fishing was not affected. Small, 
narrow streams in Ireland often hold trout, and 
one day, unperceived, I got close to a trout in 
one and shouted as loudly as if tallying a fox 
from covert. The trout took no notice and did 
not move, but the moment I made a movement 
and showed myself off he went like an arrow. 
In the same stream I saw a trout lying close to 
the bank, and, getting above him, I tore a few 
bits of white paper from an envelope and let 
them float over him. He at once rose and took 
a piece. This was repeated three times when 
the paper floated directly over him, but when 
they passed him on either side he took no 
notice. If a hook had been in one, it would 
apparently have been as good as the best fly. 
In the Bandon River I saw trout rising outside 
the reach of a man with a 12 -foot rod. When 
he was gone, having caught nothing. I took 
his stand, and, covering the trout with my 18 - 
footer, pulled out six. I never thought of any 
effect from stamping on the bank, and never 
tried it. 
SYZYGY AND CLAM DIGGING. 
“I hain’t never saw no tides off like these,” 
said Dave, as he pulled alongside the float stage 
with his flatty loaded down with soft clams. 
“That is, I hain’t saw no such tides off in the 
thirty years I’ve been hoein’ clams out of these 
banks exceptin’ there was a howlin’ nor’wester, 
which they hain’t ben now.” 
“Why,” he went on, “they was clams out 
there that hadn’t ben above water sence they 
.was born, and they was spoutin’ up through the 
sand like whales a-blowin’ off Montauk Point. 
They must er thought they was up in a arrow- 
plane or in a divisible balloon.” 
“It’s a syzygy,” said a stranger. 
“Don’t know him,” replied Dave, “unless you 
mean Sizinsky of Bath Beach.” 
“Didn’t you read in the papers,” asked the 
stranger, “how the syzygy of Mars, Saturn and 
Jupiter is pulling on the land and sea?” 
“Never heard of the firm,” said Dave, “but if 
Mars, Saturn & Jupiter think they have formed 
a combination with Sizinsky in constraint of 
free clam diggin’ they’ll find they’re up agin 
Dave. 
“Look o’ them clams,” Dave went on, “al¬ 
most every clam fit for a fryer! And the few 
little ones is just right to be steamed.” 
“But Prof. Perret says this syzygy will pro¬ 
duce earthquakes,” said the stranger. 
“I’ve heard too blamed much of him of late,” 
Dave replied. “Maybe he has discovered the 
North Pole, as he says he has. but if he is play¬ 
ing in with the gang, with Sizinsky or what¬ 
ever his name is, and that firm you mentioned, 
he can’t frighten Dave out of the clam digging 
profession by no predictions of earthquakes. 
“If earthquakes comes maybe all the sand¬ 
banks between here and Cape May as far out 
as the lightships will be hove up. and if it 
comes to that, Dave will be out there hoein’ 
out soft clams as big as the Half Moon, and 
don’t you forget it.”—New York Sun. 
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