Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1913 — Catches a Whistling Fish [ARTICLE]

Catches a Whistling Fish

Angler In Cleveland Has Treasure in Aquarium—Job Whipple Telia of Concerts. Cleveland. —A musical fish was caught the pther day In one of the lakes of Shaker Park. Its captor said 1 that it whistled .when taken into the [ boat, and this claim was vehemently corroborated by the two young women who were with him. The young man who caught, the whistling fish said he so surprised when the fish whistled that he nearly tell Into the lake. Its whistling, he said, was all the more mystifying because it’s mouth wan so wide it seemed nearly Impossible that it could pucker enough to whistle. He brought the whistling fish asbqre alive In a bait bucket and took it home to put in an aquarium, 'saying that when It bad regained its composure IF might favor with the rest of the tune. * William Hoffner. a well-known agriculturist and engineer, who formerly lived near Shaker Lakes, said that the so-called whistling fish was doubtless of the common pout variety, which he said he \>ften had''caught in a lake near bis farm in New England. Mr. Hoffner said that the young

man who took the pout home, hoping that it would favor with the rest of the tune, would almost certainly be disappointed, as pouas. he said, hate but one note each. Mr. Hoffner added, however; that he had been told by Job Whipple, an old resident of the neighborhood, that on still, moonlight summer nights the pouts sometimes gather atf the far end of the lake in a school and whittle in chorus. Each pout pipes in its low, sweet, watery note v to /blend with the other pouts in a choral effect which Is most strangely affecting, said the old resident