Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03

John Ennis, the pedestrian, who is also q
shooter of merit, acted as referee, and the
score and time were kept by representative
of the Forest and Stream.
The Forest and Stream has received many
" fish stories in competition for its prize Of
a mammoth fshhook to be awarded to who
ever should tell the biggest out-and-outer
about " fish swallowing Fl h." The following
is specimen: 1.-The summer of 1868 | spent
at Moosehead lake, enjoying camp life with a
merry party of sportsmen. When not fish
ing, we spent considerable time in rifle shoot.
ing. One day Doctor the genius of the
party, proposed tying a quarter of dollar to
long string and then fastening the string to
tine branch of tree that extended over the
water 50 that when it swung to and fro we
could shoot at it ala Carver. After arrang-
ing it we went to dinner. While eating our
attention was attracted by crow sitting on
the limb where we had tied the string, appa-
rently untying it. Being united, the string
slipped SO as to allow the silver piece to
touch the water, when to our establishment it
was immediately seized and swallowed by a
large perch, The crow by this time had
obtained a good bill hold ON the string and
ing. Several times the crow, by diligent use
of claw and bill. succeeded in lifting the
perch out of the water. Finally, just as its
tail was leaving the water, there was a rush
and we saw the perch disappear in the mouth
of four-pound trout. The combined weight
was too much for the crow, and the string
slipped so as to allow the fish to regain the
water but the crow quickly seized the string
with its bill, and then commenced the most
exciting and novel struggle that was ever wit
messed. The trout was darling to and fro,
and the crow was tipping and bobbing, owing
to the struggles of the fish. Never did an
expert disciple of old Isaak play fish, with
a light tackle, better than did this CROW, and
we were betting high on the crow to win,
when to our surprise the bird was jerked
from off the limb it's feet becoming entapgled
in the string, the fish swimming out into the
deep water of the lake, and the crow flying to
keep up. We watched the crow for nearly
an hour, when from exhaustion it dropped
into the water, and was lost from view. But
now comes the singular part of the story.
The next forenoon Doctor and | were fish,
ing with live bait, from separate boats
twenty yards apart, when l had a heavy
strike and hooked my fsh-it proved ten
pound pickerel. Upon landing it was sur
prised to find two lines in its mouth. / re-
Just captured a fine pickerel, and was sur
prised to learn that his fish also had two lines
in its mouth We each pulled in the line out
of the water, and to our mutual astonish-
ment we found each had hold of the same
line, SO We pulled the beats together by it, and
proceeded to investigate by dissection the
strange case. Upon opening my pickerel
found four-pound trout with the line in its
mouth. and in this trout found a perch, and
in the perch, at the end of the line l found
the quarter of dollar that we suspended
from the tree. A dissection of my friends
pckerel disclosed our fisherman crow en-
tangled in the line. AS we were in the dis
secting business we dis ected the crow, and
in its stomach we found seventeen hair-pins, a
red string, several trout flies, and a gold
badge that recognized as one lost the year
previous when on fishing tour to the Thou
sand Islands"
COUNTY CLERK DE JABNATT has a deer
which he has been keeping for some time in a
lot near his residence. He is good big fel.
low, and has formidable horns The other
day he got out, jumped into the yard of a
neighbor, and went for the Chinese cook.
The Chinamau ran into the house exclaim-
ing: "Cesus Klist what you call him 90
He next made his way to Goad Extension,
and, observing Chinaman making gare en-,
he made for him. The heather barely saved
his distance by taking refuge in the house.
The Chinese cook at the same place went out
around the house to see what had so fright
ened his friend, when the deer took after
him. For several hours the deer went around
town with no other seeming purpose than to
get good butt on some Chinaman. His
motto seemed to be, 1.-The Chinese must go. u
The sand-lot at San Francisco ought to have
that buck.-[Coiusa Sun.
The Wheeling Intelligencer of November
9th says: H0ne day last week while Jessie
Huff was out hunting near Dallas. he saw a
squirrel. as he thought. in tree He took
am and fired, but still the squirrel remained
stationary. He repeated the firing three
times in succession. thinking that bis gun had
gone back ON him, until the last OF the three
shots fred when to his surprise down trm-
bied four squirrels, all Joined together. AtteI
the three were shot they pulled the other one
OFF, not being able to hold them up. They
were joined together by narrow strip, Sc
that one could not move without the other
ard had been born that way and were al
grown"
A CORRESPONDENT at Harrisburg, Pa, pro
pounds two questions. The first is: I'D,
you think thoroughbred GLOSS advaatageou