WHERE THE SPORTS:\rAN LOVES TO LINGER. 85 



lii^lier court that court AvoukI liold that a sportsman avIio 

 killed ^ainc out of season for his own nse while in camp 

 was not violatini;' the intent of the law. 



In TOur stock of provisions it is well to take some ping 

 tobacco, even if you do not chew it. AVe placed a certain 

 plug where it did us a whole lot of good. While Ave Avere 

 in camp at the f(^ot of IMount Katahdin, on the West 

 Branch, a l)at(^au A\'as scnm coming up stream loaded Avith 

 barrels and boxes of provisions. They stopped opposite 

 our camp, and a A^ery gooddooking fellow came ashore and 

 asked if Ave had any plug tobacco. We made him a present 

 of a plug. He Avas transporting suppli(^s for some civil 

 engineers Avho Avere building a dam at Sourdnahunk Falls 

 for a corporation known as the Great Northern Company. 



Horses and a sleigh called a '^jumper'' were used by the 

 company transporting the supplies over the carrys. Some- 

 times the carry Avould be on one side of th(^ river and then 

 on the other, necessitating the horses swimming the river. 

 They seemed to sense the situation and took to the Avatej* 

 as if they had some duck blood in their veins. 



The great question in the lumbering business in the State 

 of Maine is to get sufficient Avater to float a log to the mill. 

 The (Ireat Northern must have a pull Avitli the powers 

 that be, as they dam up the riATrs, OATrfloAv the lakes and 

 change the Avater courses of the State Avitli impunity. But 

 a man living Avhere Tammany Hall rules supreme does 

 not throw up the sponge if he happens to run up against 

 a pull; if he did the sponge Avould be in the air all the 

 time. The incident of the plug of tobacco had passed out 

 of mind as we broke cainp and started on our trip up the 

 riA^er. T\'hen aa^c reached the foot of Sourdnahunk Falls 

 Ave were surprised to again see the young man to Avhom we 

 had oiven the tobacco. Tt seems he was the boss of the 



