How the St. Bernard Fish and Game 

 Club Came to be Formed 



In the year 1872, General George P. Foster, of 

 Burlington, Vt, was stopping at the St. Leon Springs, 

 drinking that best of all spring water for rheuma- 

 tism, when one evening the proprietor of the house, 

 Mr. Oilman, said to him, "General, come out here, 

 I want to show you something you never saw be- 

 fore." The General followed him to his ice house 

 and there spread out on the cold saw dust was about 

 one hundred pounds of the finest "brook trout" he 

 ever saw, from a half pound to four pounds in 

 weight. The General was astonished and said: 

 "Where did they come from?" "These two men 

 caught them about twenty miles from here in Lake 

 Saccacoma and other lakes in that vicinity." Fos- 

 ter then noticed the two fishermen, one a fine speci- 

 men of the native "habitant," John Modiste by 

 name, and our faithful guardian of today, and the 

 other, a powerful, well built Abenikis Indian, "Mag- 

 wando" in the Indian language, "Bon homme," pro- 

 nounced "Bonom," in French. "Did you catch 

 these trout?" "Yes," said Modiste, who spoke Eng- 

 lish very well. "Are there more where they came 

 from?" "Plenty." "Can I catch some like them if 



