The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1903-10-02

from the start. To make the contrast
even greater, he drives Ma Bass out of
the house after she has presented him
with twenty or thirty Thousand pros
pective infants in the form Of eggs
and will not permit her to come near
her offspring then or later.
1t is he who stations himself near
and gently stjrs the waters about the
eggs and drives away the intruders.
He is a very good mother butsomeway
1T seems tremendous reversal of the
accepted order of things and it is not
easy to grasp to our satisfaction this
vealed by the fish family
The incest ''dad'' in the bunch is
Uncle Tom, SO named from having
been caught by Mr. Beeman in Mt Tom
lake, five miles away on the road to
historic Litchfield. He is a great ia
Vorite with children and takes dainty
tidbits of worms from their hands to
their perfect delight and his evident
satisfaction.
JUNGLE TOM" MORMON.
When I first made the acquaintance
of Uncle Tom he was busy protecting
his second family of 10000 children. A
bit of Mormon is Uncle Tom. He had
lduICuCu Ullc SSd VI ll1O
his first wife's children, than he
promptly invited another to share his
hearth and home. II the hearth is a
joke, the home is not. Very simple
and neat is Uncle Toms home. 1t was
provided by Mr. Beeman to the great
amusement and incredulity of onlook-
ers, for the fishery has been a constant
source Of interest to the villagers and
visitors from other towns since the
Matching season was on. Senator Or
| Vile II. Platt has been among the
number, coming over from his beauti-
full home in Washington for the ex-
famous fisherman and the restocking
of Lake Waramaug is an enterprise Of
particular interest to him as to all
others who visit the lake.
| AS visitors watched Mr. Beeman sink
boxes beneath the waters provided
with sliding screen doors, they laughed,
they even reared, and scOfingly ex-
claimed: II suppose you think when
those fish are ready to spawn they will
swim straight into those boxes and
carefully deposit their eggs. Are you
going to put up curtains as well as
screen doors?" Mr. Beeman went
said "He who laughs last laughs
best" HE knew better than they'that
the small mouth bass has peculiar hab
it's of it's own and one is to select 6
clean pebbly place at this important
time, and therefore inside the box hi
scattered clean, smooth, enticing peb
bles and the wary fish had found {
warier master.
MRS BASS HOUSE HUNTING.
Not mother fish looking about he1
for home comforts but gaZed with ia
vor on these ready-tO-use apartment
houses, and there founded her hom
until driven forth by that mOnstrOu
Mr. Bass. 1t required careful watch
ing to corral the fry in season to pre-
vent their escape through the doc
which must be closed in the nick O
! time or the tiny Inhabitants would b
= scattered throughout the basin. The
Y the big fish, true to their instincts
S have a chance to prey on their Ow
! children after protecting them so care
e fully at the first.
J. One night in May there was bi
y storm and it filled Mr. Beeman with
b great anxiety and the basin with muC
r DIV water. Screens had been provide
for this purpose in the nursery depart
: ment but the sediment came fast an
r furious and filled up the interStices S
rapidly that unless watch was kept tn
water would overflow and carry ava
the little fish.
SAVED FROM THE STORM.
q All night long in the storm and darl
e ness Mr. Beeman watched in trul
e Scriptural fashion. eyes," said h.