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quarters for ruffed grouse, quail, woodcock, 
&e. The extensive pime and hemlock forests 
in the viciuity of Pen Haven are full of deer 
and bears; but to get sport, you will have to 
rough. it. 
Stroudsburg, Monroe county, is located in 
the valley of the Delaware, on Broadhead’s 
Creek, about four miles from the river, and 
the same distance from the celebrated ‘‘ Wa- 
ter Gap,” and is noted for its abunnant game 
fields. Added to which are perfect facil.ties 
of access from Philadelphia and New York, 
bringing the regiou within a few hours’ travel 
of those great cities. It is within easy access 
of the most attractive portions of the Dela- 
ware, the Lehigh, the Lackawana, and the 
Susquehanna Valleys, Making it, in all re- 
spects, a desirable resort for those seeking 
good hunting. Reached by Delaware, Lacka- 
wana & Western Railroad. 
North Mountain, near Shippensburg, about 
forty miles from Harrisburg, on the Cumber- 
land Valley Railroad, are some wild turkeys. 
The Westbrook Meadows, in Pike county, 
just on the confines of Bloomivg Grove Park, 
have long been known as a capital ground for 
woodcock shooting 
Sellersville, cn the Northern Pennsylvania 
Railroad, is a neighborhood where quail, 
woodeock, ruffed grouse, rabbits, &¢., are 
abundant. 
Ruffed grouse, suipe, hares, around Lacka- 
waxen. A wagon ride of eight miles will 
bring the sportsman to Moses Westbrook’s, 
where good deer shooting can be had. Take 
Erie Railroad from New York. 
Gray squirrels are very numerous in the 
woods surrounding Sharon. This season, 
pheasants, quail, rabbits, and woodcock are 
reported as being more abundant in this sec- 
tion than for several years. Reached by Erie 
& Pittsburg and Atlantic & Great Western 
railroads, 
At Clinton, Raccoon Creek (near Baden ) 
Quakertown, and New Brighton, ou the Pitts- 
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, good 
shooting can be had at quail, woodcock, ruff- 
ed grouse, rabbits, and squirrels. Wither of 
the nlaces named are easy of access from 
Pittsburg. 
Capital grounds for Autumn cock-shooting 
can be found in the neighborhoods of Easton, 
Mauchchuuk, and Lehighton. The bird is 
known there as the “shrups ” and * bog-bird,” 
and is recognized only by few as woodeock. 
It is also a good section for ruffed grouse, 
quail, deer, rabbits, and sqnirrels. 
Gaymount is in the vicinity of good shoot- 
ing. Quail, woodcock, and ruffed grouse aie 
quite plenty, while rabbits and squirrels are 
abundant. 
Good snipe and woodcock shooting may be 
had at Findlay’s Lake, eight miles from North 
ust on the Lake Shore Railroad. North 
last is seventy-three miles from Buffalo, New 
York. 
AMONG THE TROUT STREAMS, 
In Lycoming county are many fine streams, 
Pine Creek 13 one of the best in tlhe State. 
Trout Run, in the Laurel Mountains, is pro- 
perly designated. Lycoming Creek and its 
tributaries, Roaring Run, Pleasant Stream, 
Ralston Creek, and Loyal Sock, reached from 
Ralston; Tim Gray’s Ruu, and several other 
streams, of easy access from Bodinesyille ; 
Lewis’ Lake and other waters near Muncy; 
and the brooks and streams in the vicinity of 
Trout Run, all afford good sport. 
Luzerne is the best watered county in the 
State. [t is traversed in all directions by fine 
streams and dotted all over with small lakes, 
in which the angler can cast his line with 
every assurance of reaping a fair harvest of 
the speckled denizens. The Lackawana, Le- 
high, Nescopeck, Wapwallopen, Tunckhauna, 
Falls Creek, Shickshinny, Haryey’s, Tobay’s, 
Bouman’s Huntingdon, Green's, Stony Creek, 
and several others, and a)l within a few miles 
of cither Wilkesbarre, Carbondale, Penn Ha- 
ven, or White Haven, are all fine trout 
streams. 
Tobyhanna and Funkhanpa creeks, uear 
Tobyhanna Station, Broadhead’s Creek, and 
all the streams around Stroudsburg; Horn- 
beck’s, Dingham’s, Adam’s, Tom’s, Mill, Cole, 
and others, in the vicinity of the Water Gap, 
Monroe county, and others, more fully de- 
scribed in “ Pleasant Places along the Erie 
Railway,” will yield an expert, one who yn- 
derstandeth the ways of trout, a fair a 
of fish. Pike county is full of trout streams, 
and many of them are in the immediate vicin- 
ity of Milford-—some of them flowing through 
the village. By making Milford headquarters, 
one cannot go amiss, and if he does not meet 
with success, it will be simply because he 
