242 Reminiscences of 



surplus of food. Scarcely a day passed without see- 

 ing deer in the morning and at night, feeding or 

 wading along the lake shores, or in the water, and 

 several nights we heard them in the vicinity in the 

 adjacent woods. Moose were not so plentiful, though 

 we saw two, both cows with calves, and one passed 

 along the water front near us with its calf, as we 

 were preparing our evening meal, so near that it 

 could probably have been brought down with a 

 charge of buckshot. But to have killed a noble 

 animal of this magnitude in our situation would have 

 been criminal, and I have had several instances since 

 that period when I have seen this mighty animal, 

 which has always seemed to me to have been a sur- 

 vival of the ancient days, pass before me unmolested. 

 In some of the small streams connected with the 

 Schoodic salmon waters, I frequently caught on my 

 fly while casting for brook trout, the smolts of the 

 land-locked salmon, which generally remain in the 

 streams when hatched for the first and sometimes 

 the second year, and which rise readily to the fly. 



IN 1869 I made an excursion with a friend, from 

 Cheyenne in Wyoming to the Laramie Mountains 

 for elk and deer which we found plentiful, and for 

 trout in the branches of the Laramie River. The 

 trout were tolerably gamy, but not equal in that 

 respect or in flavor, to the eastern, and we soon had 

 our fill. Wyoming for many years will aff'ord a great 

 field for sportsmen having a great variety and plenti- 

 fulness of game. 



We then proceeded on by the Union Pacific Rail- 



