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Show How They Learned What Ate the Trout. Hockey's pond, near the Tobyhanna mills, has been stocked with trout a number of times, but something seemed to be destroying the fish right along, and recently the men who had stocked it made np their minds to find out whether the trout devonrers were water snukes or eels. So they made a plank box four feet long and about eighteen inches wide and high, and through the sides they bored several inch and a quarter auger holes. Around the inside of each hole the leg of a stocking stock-ing was tacked securely. Then they placed the pluck of a calf and a sheep's head in tho box, nailed the box up and sunk it in the pond. On the third day they pulled it up.and opened it. There was more than a bushel of eels in the box. Thoy liad crowded in after the fresh meat, and when they tried to get out the stocking legs got in tho way and kopt them in. In the stomach of each eel there wero trout of various sizes. The largest eel contained a six inch trout that had been swallowed only a short times It will lie impossible to exterminate extermi-nate the eels, and the sportsmen have concluded not to stock the pond with trout any more. Scranton (Pa.) Letter. |