The sun., 1919-10-17
ROD AND GUN NEWS

lions are suggested by the weights ia,
to twenty pounds. Coming to the nsh Of
from forty to ninety pounds, and the hand
lines a suggestion OF the surf may exl,t
although 1t is by no means certain.
Can any one tell when the SURF rod did
start out on It's career? II it isn't much
over fifty years old there should be soms
first hand testimony available to-day,
Asbury Park, Oct, 16.
DIR. Jordan on Jonah and the Whale.
Recently a correspondent of Robert Page
Lincoln asked the well known angler his
view OF Jonah and the whale. Not feel
ing quite capable of answering this par.
ticular question MIR. Lincoln asked DR.
David starr Jordan his opinion.
DR.. Jordan wrote to Mr.. Lincoln as fol.
Il believe that IT is commonly though,
that the story of Jonah. like the story Of
Job and ancient tales in the Bible Is Of
the nature OF poetic fable, and valued not
for it's literal truth but for the lesson 1t
Zone Of the most unfortunate things In
religious history Is the literali1ing Of
words OF men who talked with Oriental
Tin comparing religious truth to the
shade of the great rock In a weary land.
phenomenon should correspond to those Of
a shade in a desert. This Is the explaua-
ton which was given by the well known
Israelite, Rabbi Voorsanger.
THE ordinary whale OF the various
species has only a narrow throat and feeds
on smaller organisms. The sperm whale,
which does not enter the Mediterranean so
far as I know, has a much larger throat
and jaws with strong teeth,
According to Dinn@us the whale that
swallowed Jonah was a great white shark
(Carcharodon carcharias) which has been
known to swallow men-but usually in
Il secured one at one time at Sequel
Cal, thirty feet long with a partly grown
sea lion OF 100 pounds which 1t had swal-
lowed whole. But the sea lion, though a
tough animal did not escape and was In
a rather poor condition when l found him.
Il believe that IT Is unfortunate that the
be obseured by nsistenee on I 4EGp ST in
Los Angeles. Cal, Oct. 10.
DIR. George b. Grinnell. Old New Yorker
Dr. George Bird Grinnell, an old New
| Yorker, recoNects when woodcook wers
| found in many places and in portions Of
| New York city now as crowded with peo-
| pie as are Fifth avenue or Broadway,
and where there were also hocks Of quail
On the marshv meadows near the Har-
| lem River there was fair Hnipe shooting
| in spring and fall and many ducks dropped
| in along the Harlem and Hudson rivers.
Speaking Of passenger pigeons the other
day he said: "As a small boy ! remember
see a large flock OF pigeons feeding in dog
wood trees close TO the New York City
| house-so many that all the birds could
| not find resting places on the branches.
| Much later, when the pigeons were flying
| north or south along the Hudson, we boys
! used to go up on the roof OF the house
| to shoot at them as they passed over"
| Dr. Grnnell still possesses the skin OF
| passenger pigeon killed in that way.
with Thanks to Don Marquis.
Chapter ".
To eIucidate the surf cast. take a lot Of
terms
Git 'em out of apples, git EN- out Of germs,
Git 'em outer doctors books suhragettes,
| Mechanical encyclopedias, turkish cigar
cites,
Git 'em outer brainstorms, git 'cm any
| where,
snag EN- with the gaT hook, drag '.sn
frum their lair
| Pull EN- up an haul 'em in, an tie On
with a moose,
send EN- to the paper an they make
grape Juice.
ITO he continued In our neNt)
The Cheerful Authors wish - state that
their numbers are increasing and that they
can soon go on the forty hour week. keep.
ing the JOB covered continuously without
overtime.