The Home of Five Hundred 
Swallows 
EARL L. HECK, 
BOUT seven o’clock one August 
evening not long ago, I noticed a 
swarm of hundreds of swallows hover- 
ing over an old smoke stack of an an- 
cient foundry built in a secluded spot 
along the old Erie and Miami Canal at 
Middletown, Ohio. One by one they dis- 
appeared inside the stack. Within a 
period of two minutes fully thirty-five 
had gone down there to spend the night. 
From al! directions came more, in pairs, 
in threes, or in groups of five or ten. 
They came from everywhere until the 
space above the top of the chimney was 
black. Around it they flew in a clock- 
wise direction. One by one did they 
disappear and within fifteen minutes 
more than five hundred had entered the 
stack. 
Fred G. Shaw’s School for 
Fly Casting 
HE comparatively recent introduc- 
tion of dry fly fishing into this 
country has created a demand among 
anglers for style and finish in their 
easting. Accuracy and delicacy are 
prime requisites to success and he who 
does not possess facility is, to say the 
least, handicapped. 
Devotees of that most graceful of 
the angler’s tools, the fly rod, have come 
to realize that coaching may be of as 
much value in lake and stream work as 
it is on the football field, or fairway. 
Fred G. Shaw, of Brooklyn, advises us 
that he is now booking clients for his 
1925 school. 
We know Mr. Shaw’s work person- 
ally and having been present when, in 
one of New York’s large sporting goods 
stores, quite informally he picked up a 
dainty four ounce rod, rigged with 
tapered line, and casting horizontally, 
he flicked a coin from a counter some 
forty feet distant, we have the great- 
est admiration for his skill. 
In 1904 Mr. Shaw won the Inter- 
national Amateur Championship of the 
World in trout fly casting, a title which 
he held until 1908. 
Established in America, he now de- 
votes his entire time to instructing 
others in the art of which his long 
years of practice have given him 
mastery. 

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