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game, as from his high post on the trees he is 
able to detect everything moving beneath. If 
a man appears he sits stock still, but when rey- 
nard comes into view he chatters amazingly, 
and displays by his every antic that something 
detestable is on the prowl. Reynard would 
eat him if he could; but Pug is too wary to get 
far from a sheltering tree. Pheasants take ad¬ 
vantage of the squirrel’s warnings, for they have 
learned that he does not give alarms just for 
the fun of seeing them start, and probably he 
has often robbed the fox of a dinner. 
The squirrel is not beloved of the present- 
day forester, for he has no reason to appreciate 
the little creature’s planting operations, al¬ 
though many a flourishing sapling which he 
is glad to utilize may owe its origin to the 
squirrel. 
The keeper has grave reason to suspect the 
squirrel, for there is not one of the fraternity 
unable to relate facts regarding these little 
creatures being caught red-handed—stealing 
game-chicks or robbing nests. However, there 
is cause to believe that squirrels generally are 
blamed for the sake of a few which have ac¬ 
quired vicious habits. Probably, old squirrels 
are the most guilty, and are responsible for all 
the damage done. It should not be forgotten, 
too, that opportunity makes the thief, and it is 
possible that extensive preservation and shoals 
of eggs and chicks all over the place cause the 
squirrel to leave the paths of rectitude. 
THE CAPTAIN’S FISH STORY. 
Capt. Fred. Chetwynd, of the fishing 
schooner Matiana, told this morning- of an ef¬ 
fectual way he took on his last trip of getting 
even with the sharks that hung about his vessel 
and robbed the trawls after they had been set, 
says a Boston correspondent in the Sun. 
Like the other captains who have been fish¬ 
ing in the channel grounds lately, Capt. Chet¬ 
wynd found the big sharks there bolder than at 
any previous time within the memory of fisher¬ 
men, and after suffering loss of gear and fish 
through them, he determined to get rid of some 
of them. 
Sharks gulp down anything small enough to 
be swallowed whole, and the one lucky' to get 
to the fish first took it in. hook and all. Then 
came a stirring time, as the watchers tried to 
haul the squirming fish out of the water with 
block and tackle. When it was got high enough 
over the rail to give good chance to the man 
who waited with a long knife, the head of the 
shark was hacked off and the body allowed to 
drop into the water, where the other sharks 
made short work of it. The head was thrown 
over also. Capt. Chetwynd kept up his fishing 
for sharks until he had killed fifty of them, but 
that did not appear either to diminish the num¬ 
ber about the vessel or to intimidate the others, 
who fought for a share of the last one with as 
much avidity as they had for the first. 
THE BIG ONE GOT AWAY. 
Last week some fishermen from Boston 
went forth to fish. They fished until finally, 
off George’s bank, they caught a thirty-foot 
shark weighing nearly a ton. Then began a 
battle royal between Capt. Frank Dougherty, 
commanding the fishing schooner Albert Wil¬ 
lard, and his gallant crew of ten men, as parties 
of the first part, and the monster shark as party 
of the second part. Everything seemed against 
the shark, and he had to struggle against such 
odds as five harpoons and the ship’s ice pick, 
pressed into service. For two hours the con¬ 
flict raged between the fishermen and the fish. 
Then victory rested with the sea monster. Be¬ 
cause he was towing the schooner rapidly to¬ 
ward a dangerous shoal the captain ordered 
the crew t<j cut away the lines, and the shark, 
with a vicious farewell wave of his powerful 
tad, swam away with the ship’s irons. Then 
the fishermen sailed away home and told all 
about the big fish that got away, in a perfectly 
regular way, and quite according to the books. 
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