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place within the last few weeks, principally in Licking Creek. 

 The turkeys have been shot off in large numbers. Five nr 

 six were shot last week. Babbits have been shot without 

 number. Pheasants are killed in considerable numbers. To- 

 day there were three wing shots from the Susquehanna region, 

 accompanied by their setters, who went into Licking Creek 

 to remain a week. Ducks have afforted considerable sport. 

 A party of six went deer bunting in the Licking Creek and 

 Black Log Mountains hunting grounds the other day. But 

 one deer was seen, and that was a prongless biped arrayed in 

 petticoats. E. J. S. 



Tennessee — Nashville, Nov. 21. — Buckbolz, Mitchell and 

 Turner in one day's shooting got 93 quail. Another parry, 

 consisting of John Carter and Dr. Briggs, had some excellent 

 sport within a few miles of this city; "they bagged 57 quail. 

 A gentleman from Milchellsville, on the Louisville and Nash- 

 ville Railroad, killed 120 in a day and a half's shooting. Miss 

 Peyton, daughter of the late Col. Bailey Peyton (a once cele- 

 brated member of the turf), reports very large numbers of 

 quail upon her beautiful farm Peytona, in Sumner County. 

 On Inst Saturday evening I met a man from Dixon County 

 with a string of 35 squirrels, which he had killed that morn- 

 ing and which he was trying to sell at six cents apiece. It is 

 a great shame that our game laws are so poorly enforced. 

 Great quantities of quail are being caught in traps and nets 

 and brought to market and openly offered for sale, without 

 the offenders being molested. On Tuesday I saw a number 

 offered for the low price of SI per dozen. Would not the 

 Tennessee Sportsmen's Association do well to look into this 

 matter? A German resident of this city has just completed 

 the task (on a $50 wager) of eating one quail a day for 30 

 consecutive days. He says he will bet Ike same amount that 

 he could continue eating one a day until the end of the season. 



J. D. H. 



FayelUvilU, Nov. 22. — We are having splendid sport par 

 tridge shooting ; birds were never more plentiful. I went out 

 the other evening, was gone just two hours, end bagged 22. 

 In less than one mile from town I found as many as five 

 coveys in one field of about ten acres, a thing that has not 

 been done for years before. J. E. C. 



Geoboia.— St. Mary, Nov. 21. — Partridges are more plenti- 

 ful this'season than 1 "have ever known them. In places where 

 there were none last spring, not even a stray whistling cock, 

 they are abundant. And one thing strange to me is frequent- 

 ly finding a bevy of different sizes, part fully grown and part 

 not. One bunch, within a stone's throw of my dwelling, 

 is thus. I always find them together, and there are not 

 enough of them for two broods. Ducks are scarce ; I hope 

 they are yet to arrive. Squirrels so abundant in places as to 

 be troublesome ; but shooting them, I must confess, is poor 

 sport to me. The old hunters of Southern Georgia are strong 

 advocates of the Florida belief that deer feed by the moon. 



SllOT. 



Abkahsas — Jacksonport, Nov. 19. — Game prospects good. 

 Many fine bags of quail ; turkeys in mo8erate abundance; 

 venison coming in ; bear hunters cleaning up their rusty guns ; 

 ducks coming in slowly on account of warm weather ; a few 

 ■woodcock, also a few swans brought to bag. 'Wet weather to 

 fill the lakes and sloughs, with a moderate degree of cold, 

 will help us. Squirrels so plenty as to be in the way. 



Yell. 



Tex4S— San Antonio, Nov. 14.— Quail abound in every 

 direction around San Antonio. I saw one on the main street 

 on the 10 inst. Turkey are on the Medina River fifteen miles 

 from San Antonio. On the Frieo, 30 miles distant, deer can 

 be got with a Winchester. Sportsmen are corning from the 

 north. I notice hunting parties going out every day. 



Almo. 



Ielinois— Illinois River, Nov. 6.— These celebrated hunting 

 grounds, lying about twenty-five miles below Peoria, and ac- 

 curately described in "Tne Sportsman's Gazetteer," have 

 lost none of their former attractions this year. The fall has 

 been one of unsurpassed beauty, and hither have come from 

 every point of the compass the numerous sportsmen to enjoy 

 their annual hunt. The duck shouting has been usually good, 

 and from Sept. 1st until the present date there has been no 

 cessation of hostilities against the feathered race. As I write, 

 the numerous lakes, ponds and sloughs are dotted with the 

 camps of the hunters, and from morning's earliest dawn till 

 evening's dark shades, naught is heard but the booming of the 

 gun and its echoes through the forests. To these I should 

 have added the muffled cadence of the oars, the rippling of 

 the waters and the soft murmuring of the winds. Over all 

 these and much more besides, the Indian summer prevails, and 

 who would ask for more ? "To be, contents his natural de- 

 sire." The number of ducks (and later geese) which stop 

 here fall and spring to feed and teat is immense. No one can 

 number them. A few thousand only fall at, the huntsman's 

 crack, while an untold number in due time pass on to their 

 next stopping place. All is well (but it is so. When large, 

 yellow, fat mall irds, and delicious at that, go begging at 

 thirty cents a pair, and the exquisite juicy teals at twenty 

 and twenty-five cents a pair, it is well that no more are killed, 

 but that the great bulk of them should pass on to parts un- 

 known. W ith keen eyes, acute hearing and swift of wing, 

 they are quite equal toman in his warfare on them. They 

 soon learn to measure a chose-bore with precision, though in 

 experimenting many often tumble to the ground very unex- 

 pectedly. II. W. MehKILL. 



Quincy, Nov. 14. — Two of us drove out the other day for a 

 turkey and quail hunt. After going two miles we stopped at 

 a farm house in the afternoon and spent the time until supper 

 in the field, Tip bagging 18 quail and myself 13 in two hours' 

 shooting. The next morning, accompanied with a cur dog, 

 we started out before daylight, and soon came across our game. 

 The day's bag was 4 turkeys and 41 quail. A. B. B. 



A Chicago Game Disstbr.— A great gome dinner was 

 given at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, to which an eenv 

 500 guests sat down, were served by 125 colored waiters, and 

 took their choice of 121 delicacies on the bill of fare. 



Bba.es Shells. — A correspondent gives his individual ex- 

 perience as to brass shells, a3 follows. The new shell he al- 

 ludes to is indented for a certain distance. It is manufactured 

 by the Union Metallic Co., of Bridgeport : 



Philadelphia, Nov. 24.— The Sturtevaut people are get- 

 ting up a brass shell, especially adapted for holding wads 

 light. I find that the fibre wad is the only wad to use, and 

 one size larger than the shell used. Brass Fhells ought not to 

 be cleaned ou the inside if von want t.u make thy w a 

 Tto Sturt'SV&Br, is io ay opieiou Uiu beet shell (brass) madoi 



I have used them for four years, and have not. had one get out 

 of order. I havo bought over 1,000 of tbem for different 

 friends, and have yet to hear of the first complaint or the 

 breaking of an anvil. g f. (j. S. n 



' Gld-Squaw Calls— Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. IS).— In the last 

 number of FoKest and Stream your correspondent, " S. G. 

 S. ," of Bridgeport, asks if any duck call ia for sale with which 

 the note of the old squaw duck may be imitated. Such a 

 thing would be impossible ; but if " S. G. S. " will go to some 

 good point where he can hear the ducks calling frequently, 

 and will repeat in a loud voice and on a high key the sylla- 

 bles, ou-on-on-ah-e, he will in a short time be able to imitate 

 them perfect!}'. I am not especially favored in being able to 

 imitate birds' notes, but have called old squaws over my de- 

 coys for hours at a time. Geese also may be called as readily 

 with ihc voice as by having a honking gander among the 

 stools. The. duck calls Bold in 1 1 10 stoics are very got id indeed 

 for calling black ducks and mallard, and also teal, if you are 

 in a locality where these, species have been in the habit of 

 feeding together. The old-Hquaw call will be of no use in 

 fresh water, as the ducks very seldom call until ou the sea. 

 I have called to them a great, many times on our inland lakes 

 and have never known them to take any notice, when, if on 

 the sea, they would have been turning back and pitching into 

 my decoys every few minutes. B. T. M. 



Nature and Art. — New York, Nov. 20. — Thinking some 

 of your readers may be reminded of pleasant times spent on 

 tne Great South Bay, I place the following (told me I bis fall 

 by an old gunner) at your service : I had just remarked to 

 him that his decoys were in first-class shape. "Yes," he 

 said, " but nothing like what they were. AVby, you know, 

 when I first got 'em I stored 'em up in the lot's, and darned 

 if rny old cut didn't get up there and eat the breasts off'u three 

 of 'em 'fore she found they was wood " AV. T. 



Spomtsmen at Dinner.— The stockholders of the Blooming 

 Grove Park Association gave an excellent dinner at tho Hoff- 

 man House last night, partly for tan and partly to discuss the 

 condition of the club. A telegram was received from Presi- 

 dent Dudley Field, who was 'detained at Philadelpbia, and 

 Mr. John Avery, the Vice-President, took the chair in his 

 stead. There were present M. B. Brown, the silent but liberal 

 member; William P. Jones, the staid and abstemious gentle- 

 man ; E. Sandford, the traveler, who has slaughtered foxes in 

 Russia and assisted at pheasant battues in every preserve in 

 Europe ; John McGinniss, of Wall street, the wit of the club ; 

 William H. Fearing, the financier ; the brothers Washington 

 S. and O. Andrews, the solid men of the association: A. A. 

 Drake, the punster; T. E. H. Curtis, the Solemn man"; John 

 Avery, the scientific member; Cassius II. Read, the confi- 

 dential treasurer ; H. H. Wolfe, the impulsive man; S. B. 

 Eaton, tho professional man ; T. E. \V. Clarke, the "up in a 

 balloon" man; the venerable Gen. John G. Anderson ; S. M. 

 Nash, the Adirondack explorer; George S. Greene, Jr., the 

 special consulting engineer; George H. Gleuney, the odouto- 

 logical genius ; Ronald Thomas, of an inquiring disposition ; 

 George H. McLean, D. L. Bartlett, Frank Uaynolds and 

 Count D. B. Monzilly. A long report of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, with suggestions, was read by Dr. E. Bradley. The 

 reading was frequently interrupted by well earned applause. 

 The report showed that the association had a balance in hand 

 of $283, with $2,115 uncollected du< - ere slip kid, 



together with dues of April, the debt of -$:j,G00 could he ex- 

 tinguished, with SI, GOO to spare. After somo discussion it 

 was resolved to appoint a committee Of nine, consisting of 

 Messrs. Greene, McGiuniss, Eatou, Count Monzilly, Thomas, 

 Bradley, Avery, Sandford and Andrews, to report within 

 thirty days upon the best means to relieve the pre; 

 gencies of the association, as well as to further the improve- 

 ments proposed of the preserve in Pennsylvania in the shape 

 of a wind-mill, laundry, more gamekeepers and additional 

 protection to game.— N, Y. World. 



Shooting in En&lahd.— At Rhiwla?, Bala, North Wales 

 (the seat of Mr. It. J. Lloyd Price), on the Uth, the hag was 

 307 pheasants, 136 partridges, 122 hares, 140 rabbits, 

 and 14 snipe ; and on the 12th, 256 pheasants, 21 partridges, 

 1 woodcock, 10 hares and 37 rabbits. Game is pi 

 Bichmond Park this season, and there are a fair number of 

 pheasants and rabbits in the inclosuas. II. K. H. the fluke 

 of Cambridge had, one afternoon, from 12 to 3:30 amongst the 

 ferns, when three guns killed 2S| brace of partridges,^ hares 

 and 2 rabbits. H. H. the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, the 

 Earl of Leicester, Earl de Grey, Lord Walsingham and Lord 

 Huntingfield shot at Elvedon Hall last week, killing on the 

 15th, 934 head of partridges, pheasants and hares, and on the 

 16th, 753 head, on the 1701, 397 head, and ou the 18th, 589 

 head. 



Whebe Caribou Abound.— A friend of mine who visited 

 Newfoundland on an exploring expedition, informs me (hat 

 there the caribou holds almost exclusive domain over an un- 

 broken wilderness of nearly 30.000 square miles, in a country 

 wonderfully adapted to its habits and bountifully supplied 

 with his favorite food— the reindeer lii 



The caribou is posseted of much furiosity, and does not 

 readily take alarm at What ho sees. Where his haunts have 

 been unmolested he will unconcernedly trot up within range 

 of the ritle. I am inclined to believe that a great deal of this 

 apparent fear! ness is due to defective vision If this is 

 so, be is compensated by having a marvelous gift of scent, 

 quite equal, W not superior, to the moose. The wandering 

 habits of the caribou make it very uncertain where one v ill 

 fall in with him, even in his accustomed and well-known 

 haunts. When once started, the chase is sure to be a long 

 one, and its results doubtful— in fact so much so that an old 

 hunter seldom follows up a retreating herd, but resorts to 

 strategy and tries to head them off, or at once proceeds by 

 the shortest way to some other barren in hopes of finding 

 them there. The caribou in jumping is more than the equal 

 of any other deer. — O, O. Wait!, in. Bpr&mer. 



—The Bohemian Class Company are now placing 250 glass 

 balls to the barrel instead of 300,80 as Lo allow more room 

 and less breakage. They also make an allowance for break- 

 age. The company is also fully prepared lo furnish chimneys 

 for Argand burners when especially ordered by friends.— [See 

 adv. 



A Much Lost MaK.— E$tor Forest and Stream. : I often 

 hear sportsmen talk as if they knew not what lost meant. 

 The writer as a boy, well instructed in woodcraft by some Of 

 England's best deer stalkers, was bound to be lost; many a 

 twenty miles, an the Yorkshire Moors, to see a house away m 

 the distance, footsore, tired and hungry, to reach 

 by dark to know which "way Ihe Leads Bead wai I 

 audit, with a tramp of 10 lo 30 mil 



ttoe Norfolk Wood*, dow t- : Wales, to 



stay al I n ight in atabbit burrow. America found me a healthy 



' I wanted to hunt the prairie chicken to the State 



of Illinois. I went, to be the worst lost boy I know of. I 

 tilled my pockets with chickens, then to find I was not on a 

 Yorkshire Morn', but on the west plains of Illinois; as far as 

 eye could reach, tall grass. Four days and three nights I fed 

 on chicken. Bless that farmer who was hunting his lost 

 horse, betook so much interest in me and my breech-loader as 

 to drive me to the nearest depot. I was lost on the Wabash, 

 in Indiana, to sleep in a snipe bog al) night. The Union Pa- 

 cific was being built. I wanted a buffalo. I joined a party; 

 cleaned up my ritle ; a spirited pony and plenty of lS-shells 

 completed my out lit. We struck buffalo. I hit one. I chased 

 him and I geft the largest game I had ever seen; I skinned 

 him, and I got lost. I lived three days on that buffalo and 

 lo driver. I was lost and slept within a 

 hundred yams o I cirnp on the Trinity River in Texas. I 

 was lost on the Pineysin Colorado Co., Texas, at a turkey 

 roost,; to eat turkey two days, and had to guard my game from 

 wild cats. My trusty breech-loader laid out ten wild cats tha,t 

 lost. I was lost on the Sandies amidst cane-brakes ; could 

 not see ten yards ahead; bear and wild cat, after rue and 

 around me all the time. Two fine bucks bung up not, 800 

 yards off, still I had to get supper and breakfast on wild cat. 

 Found by a pack of hounds, whose owners directed me home. 

 I was lostou Miller's Creek, where I hail killed u fine doe. I 

 dined and 1 reakfasted on her, and found myself. I was lost 

 on the l>i"o, Beficar Co., Texas ; dined ou jack rabbit and 

 guarded my horse at night from Indians. Always carry 

 matches end tobacco. 1 pity the lost sportsman who does not 

 smoke. A good strong old pipe by a roaring fire is good 

 company in the canebrake or the thick woods. Lost people. 

 I have always been told, go in a circle. I go in a bee line 

 i want to go. Some carry a compass; I havo 

 never found it of much nse when I did not know 1 from where 

 1 started. Creeks always run toward the river, but suppose 

 you do not know if you want to go up or down? Trees are 

 always heavier on the south side, but suppose you do not 

 know whether you want, to go north or south ? The only 

 way I know bow not to get lost is to stay at home. I love 

 the woods and plains alone with my gun and dog; pleasure 

 is not to be had without pain, and do not laugh if I git lost 

 again. Almo. 



San Antonio, Texas, 



Shooting on tub Wing.— Poor Sothern, the actor, is in a 

 bad way in England ; softening of the brain, or something of 

 that sort, they say. It is fear P | ei play again— 



nor flab, nor hunt, as he used to do. Sothtrn dem. 

 of each summer's vacation to fishing and hunting in Canada. 

 P G. de Fontaine, in his inimitable biography of the actor, 

 relates a little incident which occurred at Quebec, when Flo- 

 rence, Geo. Holland and Sothern were rambhng through the 

 town waiting for the steamer. They had started clown the 

 principal street. 



Suddenly Florence commenced to yell : "Hi, hi, there! 

 Vou— man with the birds! Hi, hi, come here!" 



Sothern and Holland turned to see what the bluster was all 

 about, and observed Florence gesticulating to a man on the 

 other side of the street who was carrying a lot of birds on a 

 string. Sothern said : 



" Florence, what the mischief is tho row?" 

 Florence replied: " Sh-h-h-h I Birds, my boy, birds. 

 We'll buj them from this sportsman and take them down 

 with us; it will be a pleasant change of diet— broiled birds on 

 toast, you know." 



By this time tho "sportsman" had crossed the street and 

 was standing before the trio. He was rather a singular sort 

 of a fellow, and withal a German. His face was about as ex- 

 pressive as a bologna sausage, and though not deaf, it seemed 

 to take minutes for each inquiry to reach his understanding. 

 This at first made Florence think he couldn't hear. Billy 

 opened the negotiations by asking : 

 "Do you want to sell your birds?" 



The Teutonic spoilsman, after a long, dull look, replied: 

 Vot?" 



'■ I say," repeated Billy, much louder, "do you want to 

 sell your birds?" 



The same long, dull look from the man, and then he 

 drawled out: " Veil, yes, I dink I sells dein." 

 "Well, how much for them?" 

 " Vot ?" with same stolidity as before. 

 :l I say, how much for them?" howled Florence. 

 " You buy dem?" 



"Of course I'll buy them; how much do you want for 

 them ?" 



" Vou buy dec 



"Yes, yes, I'll buy them all. Come now, let's finish the 

 bargain." 



r \ot .-" wiili the same stupid look. 



"Oh, Lord!" said Billy, BOX getting red in the face. 

 "What a Stnpid fellow! Look be ICO for the 



birds ?." 



Theveu'li 

 for be commenced very slowly and in the most exasperating 

 i |y count his m . Floxei ee 



hi, and just going to bawl but again, when 



'"l" 1 '. i •••-'■ .i n -.-.- to ' 



the man looked at him as before, anil slowly remarked : 

 "Veil, Lbi i dollar." 



"All right," said Billy. "Now, where did you 



them?' 

 Vot ?" 



ahool 



"1 sav, where did you 

 " Vere I shood 'em?'' 



shoot them?" 



Yes, whei 



"1 snood dem out mil der woods. Voutd yon rjinj 

 birds in 



This rather staggered Billy, and they all oOmun 

 laugh at oh", lor ho wars now Ine color of a boilc 

 ing at the top of his voice, he replied i 

 "'Why, of course; I suppose you shot them in the woods, 

 but ftow did you shoot them ?" 



"Vol?" 



"I say, ftw did you sibbest them?" 

 "Sow I snood 'em?" 



" Yes iunb? Did vou shoot them on the wing :" 

 "Vot?" 



"Bid you shood them on the wing ?" howling in bis ear. 

 " 1 BhOOd 'cm on der cintj ? ' 



"Yes on the Mioiff." Here Florence went through a pan- 

 tomime with hia amis to dsscrib wings. 

 The sportsman gravely ■ ' aoment, and 



vine, some 



