. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 188G. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLABS A TEAB Sporting1 Notes. When Jessop and Gill handed their play "Oar Governor" to W. J. Florence, he was delighted with its tone and general character, but many of the stories put in the month of Pinto Perkins were so palpably overdrawn that even Florence could not stand them, and to the disgust of one of the authors, Jessop, they were struck out. A few specimens are as follows: "When I was fishing on the McLeod river with Charley Kaeding (before yon were born my dear) the trout
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 188G. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLABS A TEAB Sporting1 Notes. When Jessop and Gill handed their play "Oar Governor" to W. J. Florence, he was delighted with its tone and general character, but many of the stories put in the month of Pinto Perkins were so palpably overdrawn that even Florence could not stand them, and to the disgust of one of the authors, Jessop, they were struck out. A few specimens are as follows: "When I was fishing on the McLeod river with Charley Kaeding (before yon were born my dear) the trout began to rise before I could cost a fly. I had a royal coachman on the end of my leader, and brown gnataoove it. They got tangled just as I was goiug to make my first cast. I was standing on a flat stone about ten feet from the bank of the river, and when I separated the two flies and left them dangling In the air for an instant, a brace of trout rose from the stream and each'seized a fly. I held tham at arm's length for an instant, then gradually dropped them into the surface of the stream where they stood on their tails for half an hour splashing the water ten feet high at every stroke. When they, got tired I nut them on the scale and they weighed 17 pounds 3 ounces. The McLeod is a wonderful trout stream, at least it was when I was an angler!" The second story is like the first: "I am very fond of hunting. California is the finest hunting coun- try in the world, and Lake county the finest in California for the noble sport. One day I went out deer hunting with Capt. Dick Floyd on Clear Lake. We each had a Winchester rifle, and we hunted in canoes, for the Lake county deer are very fond of the water, especially in the month of August. We had only paddled about a mile from the shore when the Captain put up his telescope towards Uncle Sam, and as he took a sight called to me 'here they enine!' and sure enough, nine- teen noble antlered bucks came down the spur of the
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