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A FRENCH PIKE STORY. | 
Since the days when the signet ring, w 
Polycrates cast into the sea to avert the ¢ 
of the Eumenides, was found in the maw | 
fish, and returned to the Tyrant of Samos, t 
has been no lack of stories of strange things 
have been swallowed by fish. Some of these 
plainly mythical, such as the variants of the G 
legend which have made their way into the { 
lore of many lands. Others are no less ple 
fact, and recently many curious instances ] 
been recorded on good authority in the F 
The following is from Chasse et Péche, w 
it is given with the comment that truth does 
always appear probable, which is more te1 
expressed in our own saw—truth is stranger 
fiction. By Gérardmer in the Vosges is a \| 
known lake much favored by fishermen. 
cently a visitor who was staying at the | 
went boating on the lake, and by some m 
dropped his purse containing 180 francs into 
water. On his return he spoke of his loss, 
apparently there was no help for it. Some | 
after his departure one of the village fisher 
caught a fine pike weighing over 33 pov 
which he sold for ten francs to the landlor| 
the hotel. The pike was sent to the kitc 
and on opening it the cook found the purse. 
at once took the prize to the landlord, who 
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The Canoe: History, Uses, Limitations and Vari 
Practical Management and Care, and Relative ] 
3y C. Bowyer Vaux (“Dot”). Illustrated. ( 
168 pages. Price, $1.00. New and revised ed 
with additional matter. 
A complete marual for the management of the c 
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SIXTY-THREE YEARS AGO 
‘‘Bill’”” Hamilton, then 20 years of age, set out from St. Louis, 
Mo., with seven other free trappers under the leadership of old 
Bill Williams. 
Seven of these eight men are dead, but Hamilton | 
still lives out in Montana and still sets his traps. 
He has written 
the story of his early trapping days and the book has been | 
published. It is called 
much that is history. 
which there was no striving for effect. 
It is illustrated by a portrait of the author and one of the) 
celebrated Chief Wishaki, and by six drawings of old-time |, 
trapper and Indian life, by Mr. Charles M. Russell, the celebrated 
cowboy artist of Great Falls, Montana. 1 
223 pages, cloth, Illustrated. 
=) Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 346 Broadway, New York’: 
MY SIXTY YEARS ON | 
THE PLAINS | 
By W. T. HAMILTON | 
It tells of trapping, trading, Indian fighting, hunting, and all) 
the many and varied incidents of the trapper’s life. 
adventure and excitement, but the story is told modestly, and| 
there is nothing in it that is lurid. Amid much fighting, there is) 
nothing that can be called ‘‘blood and thunder,” but there is| 
It is full of, 
The book has all the charm of the old volumes telling of early| 
travel in the West; books which were simple and direct, and in| 
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Price, $1.50. 

