
to bottom like a streak, then came to 
the top and shot about four feet out 
of the water. 
When I saw the fish I shouted, 
“Here’s where I cop the FOREST AND 
STREAM prize!” By some good judgment 
Pete and Norman sat still. After quite 
a fight I got him close enough to the 
boat to nab him by the gills. Norman 
got excited and jumped up and down, 
causing the tippy boat to capsize and 
throwing us all headlong into the lake. 
We hung on to the fish and swam to 
shore through lily pads, sawgrass, and 
alligator nests. We got into the car 
and brought our fish to town without 
changing clothes. 
The fish was a large mouth black bass 
and tipped the scales at 11 pounds and 
1 ounce. 
I am the son of Dr. T. E. Sample, of 
Omaha, Neb., but spend most of my time 
in the lake regions of Polk County, 
Fla. 
Tom SAMPLE, JR. 
Age 14, 
Early Nesting Woodcock 
DEAR ForEST & STREAM: 
THOUGHT you might be interested 
in the following bit of natural history 
upon which it was my good fortune to 
stumble while quail hunting in North 
Carolina last week. At the Oakmont 
shooting club, of which I am a member, 
my shooting companion and I were out 
with our dogs and a guide and while 
crossing a branch, the dogs flushed a 
woodcock which flew down the branch; 
just as the guide, who was 20 yards 
ahead, was about to cross, a hen bird 
flushed ten feet to his left and flew 
over his head and down the branch. 
I heard him give vent to an ejacula- 
tion and stoop to the ground, 
upon coming up to him we found 
ourselves looking into a woodcock’s nest 
with four eggs init. To me this is 
most remarkable, because in the first 
place I did not know that the woodcock 
bred in North Carolina (our club is not 
far from Greensboro), and in the sec- 
ond place it would not seem possible to 
find a nest as early as February 18. I 
thought readers would be interested in 
the incident, and I would like to hear 
from them some expression as to early 
nesting. 
JOHN SUTPHEN, 
New York, N. Y. 

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