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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Pantuek, Moose and Mas.— This version 

 oE a pleasant episode in Adirondack sport is 

 vouched for by the writer, who was there. 

 The story is told in the Utica Mepublican. Per- 

 haps the moose was one of those recently in- 

 troduced into the North Woods. We have 

 been through some queer experiences our- 

 selves in the course of our Adirondack cam- 

 paigns, but we never kept watch between a 

 pmtlKT and a moose, and, what's more, we 

 never care to: 



So much lias been said about Smith's ad- 

 venture with the moose, near Jock's Lake, 

 and so little of which approximates the truth, 

 tliat the writer, who was one of the party, 

 deems it best to give the details. The party 

 consisted of seven men, all experienced in 

 woods life, and members of the Norway 

 Foresters, as follows : Charles Hall, M. D , 

 Hiram Austin, Walter Servis, Zenas Smith 

 and Willis Kelley of Norway, and Jay Dele- 

 van and George H. Worden of Prospect. The 

 party met and organized at the house of Ed 

 Wilkinson, at Wilmurt, at 5 a. jr., Wednes- 

 day, June 5, and proceeded to the last house 

 on the Jock's Lake road, occupied by a one- 

 :ii niud soldier by the name of James Stevens, 

 where we breakfasted, leaving there about 8 

 A. m. An adopted son of Stevens carried our 

 knapsacks as far as the Frazier clearing, tak- 

 ing the horse back to their place, where the 

 o.hers were stabled. From this point we 

 packed in, making a short stop at the Jock's 

 Like outlet shanty; then crossing the outlet 

 we arrived at the mouth of the Indian River, 

 which makes into the west branch of the West 

 Canada Creek, about fifteen miles above Ed 

 Wilkinson's, on the east side. Here we went 

 in to camp and stayed until after dinner, when 

 Smith's adventure commenced. 



Zenas Smith is rather below medium height, 

 smdy complexion, clear gray eyes, and, 

 withal, a fine-looking, frank, easy-appearing 

 young man of twenty-five years. He and I 

 wore to take our rods and baskets and go to 

 the "Four-Mile Stillwater," or the West 

 Branch, and if we found the fishing good, 

 were to camp there and fish the next day, a 

 distance of about five miles from where we 

 were. We left camp aboutl2 m., and kept 

 along the creek trail for over a mile. 



While we were clambering along we were 

 suddenly startled by the appearance directly 

 in front of us, and not more than twenty rods 

 distant, of a large moose, probably eighteen 

 hands high or more, which was making di- 

 rectly for us. In the same moment Smith 

 Ciughtme by the shoulder and pointed to a 

 tree near the moose, where I beheld the glit- 

 tering eyes of a panther. We were without 

 arms and ammunition of any kind, the only 

 offensive or defensive weapons we possessed 

 being our pocket knives. The moose was 

 upon us ; at a glance we knew that he came 

 for protection, but the huge panther still 

 loomed over us, and had stopped iu his head- 

 long course. " Smith," said I, " howis this ?" 



"I believe we are all right," said Smith. 

 " The moose has come to us for protection, 

 consequently he is not belligerent ; the panther 

 is undoubtedly cowed by our numbers, or 

 dire not tackle a man. Let us build a fire, 

 and I will stay here while you go back to 

 camp and bring the rifle, and have one of the 

 oiker boys come back with you." 



To this 1 demurred for a long time, but 

 finally concluded to go, leaving all my traps 

 with Smith, to make the more rapid progress. 

 This part of the story can be told very short- 

 ly. I got lost, wandered around until after 

 dark, built a fire, slept some, got out next day 

 and traveled till dark again, built a fire, 

 and started next morniDg (Friday,), and 

 tramped until about 10 a. m., when I came 

 to a stream, and, following it down, came 

 to Jock's Lake outlet shanty, and from there 

 went back to the Indian River shanty, where 

 the first man to meet me was Smith, who, I 

 supposed, had been converted into panther's 

 meat before this time. I was nearly starved, 

 but asked Smith, " How was it ?" 



"After you left," said Smith, " I got all the 

 wood together I could and kept up the fire, 

 the moose standing back a little, but keeping 

 me between itself and the panther, which 

 kept his position in the tree. We kept this 

 up all night, the moose one side of me, the 

 panther glaring with eye-balls of fire upon 

 the other, and you may imagine I acted my 

 part as middle man without, getting very 

 sleepy. About sunrise Thursday morning the 

 panther gave a terrible growl, sprang from 

 the tree, and rapidly disappeared in the forest. 

 While I was watching the panther I had not 

 thought anything about the moose, and when 

 I turned my head he was gone. I immedi- 

 ately came up to camp and found you gone. 

 Some went to look for 3^ou, some went hack 

 with me, lint we found no further trace of 

 either the moose or panther." 



The Bbmjm Teeatx and tub English 

 Gbotjsb Season. — London, August 31. — I 

 have heard it gravely asserted that the Berlin 

 treaty would have been a much better piece 

 of work had it not. been for the grouse in 

 Scotland. Grouse-shooting begins on the 

 12th of August, and the. British plenipoten- 

 tiaries, it is averred, were hurried into mak- 

 ing concessions, which, with a little patience 

 and firmness, they might have escaped mak- 

 iDg, by their anxiety to reach home with 

 their work in time to permit Parliament to 

 adjourn before the festival of the sacred bird 

 of the moors. As it was, Sir Charles Bilke 



rind a few other unpleasant fellows contrived 

 to keep the Government in town past that 

 lay; so that, the sacrifice, if really 

 made, was made partially in vain. Whether 

 this story be true or false, it at least illus- 

 trates the passion of Englishmen for what 

 they call sport. Whether this passion is a 

 natural or an artificial passion might be worth 

 discussing, perhaps, had I time just now to 

 indulge in such a discussion, as'Juckily for 

 your readers I have not. But, natural or arti- 

 ficial, it certainly determines the movements 

 of half the upper classes of England, and on 

 Monday morning every county in the island 

 will be alive with gentlemen and their game- 

 keepers making war upon the English par- 

 tridge as savagely as for three weeks past they 

 have made war upon his Scottish cou3in. The 

 Paris papers toll us that Marshal MacMahon, 

 weighed down with the cares of state and ill 

 with the "nausea of office," has been heard 

 to declare that he " would rather he a game- 

 keeper than President of the Republic" I 

 think he would reconsider the matter if he 

 were called upon to be an English gamekeeper 

 for the next three or four weeks— unless, in- 

 eecd, it fell to his fate to be put in charge of 

 one of the "let shootings," of which tales are 

 told now, and of which we hear that they are 

 shot empty by their wily owners in advance 

 of the season, on shares with the keepers, 

 who divide the profit and undergo the pain- 

 ful experience of facing the disgusted and 

 disappointed " cits " who, paying roundly for 

 the privilege of killing off a certain number 

 of birds, come down and find no birds to kill. 

 Certain it is that partridges of the year have 

 been procurable at the London restaurants for 

 a fortnight past, and rumor even assertB that 

 they were served up as long ago as on the 

 18th of August at a dinner in Cowes given by 

 a lady of fashion and partaken of—my pen 

 trembles as I write it— by no less a person 

 than H. R. H. the Prince of Wales.' Of 

 course if the British public could be made to 

 believe this the Prince would never be per- 

 mitted to ascend the throne of his ancestors. 

 Indeed, he would probably be put to death 

 at once in the Tower. Let us hope, there- 

 fore, that the story is not true. Certainly 

 the charming American ladies who are just 

 now basking in an Indian summer of London 

 fashion at the Isle of Wight owe it to so pro- 

 nounced a friend and admirer of their sex and 

 country as H. R. H. to unite in a round-robin 

 denouncing the tale as a wicked and revolu- 

 tionary fabrication. — Corrtxporuknct New 

 York World. 



Sea-Hoksk akd Sea-Cow. — Not the queer 

 creatures which are put down in the books. 

 The sea-horse was discovered some time ago 

 by Oapt. Edwards, of the fishing smack 

 Amelia, while beating off Skunnett, on the 

 Rhode Island shore, one day last month. 

 The captain made sail, but could not over- 

 haul the animal, which was making desper- 

 ale efforts to reach the main land, three 

 miles away. At times he would disappear 

 from view in the waves which broke over 

 him, the sea running very high at the time, 

 but a moment later he would reappear, and 

 with a loud snort and loss of the head shake 

 the water from his head, ears, and eyes, and 

 renew his struggle with the billows. At last 

 he made the shore, and, without pausing a 

 moment, dashed up the beach, his long tail 

 and mane floating outward in the wind. 

 Keeping up a rattling pace, he soon dis- 

 appeared from view, leaving the captain and 

 crew to wonder what he was and where he 

 came from. Since which time this natatorial 

 equine has got on swimmingly in the papers, 

 having crossed the Atlantic. His exploit has 

 been equalled by the adventure of a cow, 

 which is thus, set forth in the Green Bay, 

 Wis., Advocate: "Some two months ago 

 Blish Mitchell, of the Long Tail Point Light- 

 house, took a cow from this place to the 

 Lighthouse, and turned her loose on the is- 

 land, where their is good feed. During the 

 first night, hovever, she started off, swim- 

 ming toward the main land, and that was the 

 last heard of her until a day or two ago, 

 when it was ascertained that she was in Bay 

 Settlement, some four or five miles by water. 

 She evidently made a determined swim, that 

 night, for home and liberty. " 



Spaebows and Total DarBAViiy.— Here 

 is a story told by an unblushing correspond- 

 ent of the New York Times. It is of the 

 good old times, some fifty years ago, iu Eng- 

 land when they paid a premium on sparrows: 



In the village where I was born the Over- 

 seer of the Poor was the person whose duty 

 it was to pay the money lor the sparrows' 

 heads that were brought, to him. It so hap- 

 pened that he was an elderly bachelor, and 

 his mother (a very old and fastid 

 kept house for him. He was generally absent 

 on business during the clay. Now, we boys 

 would go and rob the sparraws' nests, get the 

 heads of the young ones, wrap them up in 

 a very dirty piece of paper and take them to 

 the Overseer's house, of course knowing 

 he was absent. The old lady would take 

 them iu her fingers as gingerly as if they 

 were nilro-glycerine, give us our money (2 

 cents Eor every three heads'), and, as soon as 

 we were gone round the corner, would throw 

 Ihem into the back yard. We would then 

 watch the old lady, and, as soon as we were 

 sure that she was in the front part of 

 the house, one of us would slyly slip round 

 to the back yard, pick up all the heads, and 



then, in about an hour or two, go back to the 

 old lady and sell them over again. I have 

 myself sold the same lot of heads to her fuur 

 times in one day, a) 

 But boys will be boys, you know. " N. D. 



"Devil Bibds."— In the Laccadives a 

 species of rat suddenly appeared which, fly- 

 ing in the crowns of the palm-trees, nibbled 

 off the young nuts and threatened to ruin the 

 colony. The Indian Government being ap- 

 pealed to for aid, sent over a stock of cats, 

 but as the cits could get fish to eat below 

 they declined to climb ninety feet up the 

 (ices in get rats. Tree-snakes were then 

 tried, but the villagers were prejudiced 

 against reptiles and killed them. Then the 

 Government sent out a consignment of mnn- 

 gooses, but the mongooses declined to climb 

 trees after rats while they could get chickens 

 on the ground. With cats and mongooses on 

 the ground refusing to ascend to the rats, the 

 officials decided that all that was required 

 was to make the rats descend to the cats and 

 mongooses, so they sent the islanders over 

 some owls. But they had overlooked the 

 popular prejudice against these birds, and in 

 committee assembled the people decided that 

 even rats up I in the trees were better than 

 these " devil-birds. " They accepted the 

 birds in all apparent gratitude, but as soon as 

 the coast was clear the owls, cats and mon- 

 gooses were all conveyed in procession to a 

 boat and solemnly deported to an uninhabited 

 reef. 



How the Shbcmj>8 Grow Fat. — Sea-bath- 

 ing cannot be safely indulged in at Ostcnil, 

 neither will the shrimps grew fat till after the 

 Dean of St. Nicholas has, on the last Sunday 

 of June, blessed the sea. An altar, pro- 

 fusely decorated, is erected on the pier, and 

 the path leading thereto is strewn with i a I v 

 berries and small squares of colored paper. 

 The procession consists of burghers in black, 

 with medals and badges, bearing banners 

 with strange devices supplemented by Finn- 

 ish explanations of their respective meanings 

 upon tablets fixed to the tops of long poles, 

 the banner and supporters of St. Nicholas, a 

 band, seven children dressed as virgins, each 

 escorted by a retinue of little ones' typifying 

 characters eminent in ecclesiastical history, 

 and the Den bearing the host and attended 

 by clergy, beadles, incense beareis.etc. After 

 an intoned service lasting a quarter of an 

 hour, the host is carried to the back of the al- 

 tar and held up facing the sea, a flag is hoist- 

 ed and a salute of three guns fired. The 

 bourgeoisie and rich peasantry compete hotly 

 for the leading role* in the procession. 



Two Waj-s— One Wait.— At Merthyr 

 Tydvil one of the great events of the year is 

 an athletic meeting on a large scale, organ- 

 ized by a society of licensed victuallers. Be- 

 cause ttrtts organized before the meeting took 

 place this year public prayera were offered up 

 in several chapels that rain might be sent to 

 spoil the sport. The other way : — Beginning 

 of the shooting season in Yorkshire. — Sport- 

 ing Rector: "Saturday being the Feast of 

 St. Enurchus, there'll be morning service at 

 eleven. To-morrow there'll be. the usual 

 Bible meet—." Ditto Clerk (in a loud 

 whisper) : "Hou'd on, pairsoo ! Thu's forget- 

 ten t' pairtridges!" Rector (hurriedly) : 

 "Hem!— the Bible meeting will not take 

 place. Let us sing," etc. 



A Bit of Oo&lpaiirotivts Philology. — I 

 once heard of a green-colored South Amer- 

 ican parrot who was more than one hundred 

 years old. This aged fellow could speak in a 

 real language which was known to have been 

 used by a tribe of South Americans who, it is 

 supposed, petted and taught him when he 

 was young. One by one the Indians died, 

 until there was no one left who could under- 

 stand a word of their language. The poor 

 old bird tried bard to keep cheerful, but 

 there were sorry time3 when he would mope 

 by himself and say over some of the words 

 of the language that had been spoken by his 

 earliest and dearest human friends.— Si. 

 Nicholas. 



How to Destkoy tbe Moths. — A large 

 pile of brush was burned on the river bank at 

 Senna, Ala, the other night, and .luring the 

 hour and a half which it employed in burn- 

 ing a continuous swarm of moths from the 

 neighboring cotton fields, attracted by the 

 light, poured into the flames. It is estimated 

 that several millions of the insects were thus 

 destroyed, and the building of large Ores 

 about the cotton fields is suggested as a 

 method of protection against the pest. 



Not ReF-ResbHTEd. — A great international 



show of bosses ami asses opened at Haris on 

 the 10th inst. England, Belgium, Hungary, 

 Denmark, Italy, Holland and Russia are rep- 

 resented. We regret that the American ass 

 should be left out. We know several asses 

 who would make a fine display of themselves 

 at Paris, as they do everywhere else, and 

 M'hom America could well afford to dispense 

 H time. 



Converse whs accidentally shot by 

 Newell Delphin, while hunting mi 

 Stafford, Conn. Converse had climljed a tree 

 to drive a coon out Of its 

 was Killed by a charge from his ci 

 who supposed he was firing at the game. 



Fish Story.— The pike placed in the Sac- 

 ramento River form lines across the rivrr 

 with military regularity, having their heads 

 upstream, and devour all, the young salmon 

 and other small fish 



If m! Coat Fits Ycra, Weak It.— We 

 know a sportsmen who calls his tailor wood- 

 pecker, because he bores him with his little 

 bill. 



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