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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT John Symonds. a fish merchant, on opening his premises at .Great Yarmouth, England, the other day, found that an oyster hud a mouse tightlv caught by the head. Apparently the oyster had 0eiied to feed, when the mouse tried to eat the oyster, which, being alive, closed its shell and killed the mouse. Anglers News. A whale weighing nearly a ton was captured in August near South Alloa, Scotland, in the higher reaches of the Forth. A motor boat oartly sighted the whale lying on a sandbank and fifed four shots at it. A rope was then attached to its tail, in tlie belief that it was dead, but the monster immediately recovered and dragged tin? boat a considerable distance. The party were in danger of being swamped, but managed to kill the whale and get It ashore. At a fair in Daren Germany there is a set of swing boats largely patronized by British troops. Evidently when the "Kilties" use the boats the native sense of decorum received a shock, and a notice was put up: "Attention! Soldiers without breeches have not admittance." Then, to crown the humor of the situation, two- boats at the end of the line were provided with a discreet screen of canvas and labeled: "For Scottish troops." London Sportsman. A numler of pike of over twenty-eight pounds have been recorded from English waters from time to lime in The Anglers News. The two biggest authenticated pike taken by fair angling are: Fifty-two pounds, caught trolling on Iough Naouean, County Fermanagh, by Constable Thomas Kenny in July, 189S, and forty-two pounds, taken on Lough Derg Portumna by John Monoghnii, professional fisherman, in March, 1109. It had a four-iound salmon in its inside.
