FOREST AND STREAM. 



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der same so long vot I got 'em." And then he looked at 

 Billy, as though be was saying internally, "Yot idea; shood 

 birds ou der vim mail !" 



Billy bought the birds and left instantly, observing that lie 

 felt sure gunning as a high art did not ttouristi in Canada. 



QUAIL AND OPOSSUMS IN DELAWARE. 

 Pnrr.AtiEi.pniA, Pa., Nov. 20, 1873, 



PlllTOR FOKKST 1ND STREAM I 



Saturday, Nov. «, ] reached my destination, slgttt miles west oi Pel- 

 ton, on tne Delaware Ram-oni; and bearing that birds wereBovery 

 plentiful, my friend with whom I was stopping got, his traps in order, 

 and by half past three we wee tinder way. To bo aure, the weather 

 Sad been very dry, no rain having fsllBii for mora than a month ; and 



the flen^ : ij'i a ""-: weK rerj m ' •■ I i. i ave caused lite birds 



lo migrate further south toward the Chogtoak River; bat we ranged 

 through as Hue cover and feeding grounds as ever I hunted over, and 

 dldnotilnd a covey of birds until after sundown, and these the dog 

 found In a stubble, not More than flfty yards from a dense cripple". 

 ] got one shot, and by good luck put down three with my Mat bairel as 

 they rose, With the sky in the background ; but before I could get sight 

 on another bird, they had darted Into the (stipple. Monday we changed 

 our course, and found but three 6nl 11 001 and killed six birds 



from 1 he coveys as ihey rose; but the cover being so thick: and briery 

 wa could not get at tham again. 'L'ue-day we w. -at over lo a friend or 

 mine, Curt. Johnson, who lives four miles beyond Greensboro, Md. (a 

 drive of eleven miles), and arrived There too late to shoot in the after- 

 noon, but jn time to indulge in a good, old-fashioned coon and 'possum 

 hunt, at night. There were a couple of genuine Maryland darkles, 

 together with three oi us ; and having four excellent doge, we so.m had 

 the satisfaction of "hearing tfieband play." Soon aTier reaching the 

 edge of the swamp, Dslgo gave tongue ("Vow, yow," "Tow yow") 

 very softly, when our darkey friend broke out, "Dar go»3 de old man, 

 Mr. Jornson; lione'otr lies, he's talk'.n 1 to them. Row Jlat yi ce 'ml.' 

 Presently another dog joined, " Dat goes Minnie, Mr. Jotnson; do ye 

 yore liori,v An" by golly, dargo;s Jenaleand Emo,"'and lliewaolo 

 four dogs dashed off through the swamp and down the branch. We 

 hunted tin a o'clock, and e ■ imc and a a - and had 



me pleasure of listening to tie Unest mu-lc that ever gree'ed a sporis- 



.;ii'-: i.l . i '.' : n.ij'j . : : i - ,-.| ,'.,■ ii ,.,r . I ' . ■ .1 ■: 'ii ,";, f' : - 



hunting; Johnson has caught already this . 'ptusnms 



and seventeen coons, one ('(the form ■■■■.,■' ■•!.. 



The uext morning we made an early stavr, uiul foiled a c •■'.-.-;- 

 in about half an hour, and killed three ; and by noun wo had fourteen) 



'possum add swee iluA'nrj ahb>ti $ i .'-..n.i.i with a Keen 



how to appreciate. At half-past two we starred off 



aeyun, ;..'--i;; jr an opposite course fr, -in our morning'* iremp. and one 



led, 1 

 or ten. We flushed three other eeveysi « 



No. 8 Biltimore Soli [lot, Sod lc 

 leaves, two-thirds of the lurl - . 

 altogether, minus a goodly number of f .-.•. 

 loader, and used Sparge' No. i died all 

 range than Johnson, and m the same env 

 birds went down stone dead; thus den 

 chilled ov-r soft shot In snooting in tflos 

 quail and a woodcock that day, and was j 



There is an abundance of quail in thai 

 theininlo close cover; and by the first ol December, afteJ seme of those 

 pirates have been killed aud others frightened oh", the snooting will be 

 better than It Is now. We returned lo Delaware the some night, and 

 shot ou Thursday and friday, tint failed to timl naif as many birds OS 

 we had found in Maryland. 



Rabbits are very plentiful. On Saturday I killed seven In about two 

 iiMirs. 0. C. 



iV:' III 



raiing the superi nity of 

 er. I killed thirty-two 



el! 



A TEXAS STAGE RIDE. 



San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 14, 1S78. 



EDITOR IfOEEST AND STREAM ! 



At 6 a. m on the morning of Oct. II we seated ourselves in the 

 stage (?), a sort of two-horse vehicle on the " dropper" order (i e., > 

 cross between a common f.rnl wagon and an ambulance, with a ten- 

 dency to breed back to the. farm wagon), bound tor the village of tU- 

 vllle, the county seat of Live Oak County, and distant irom Ban An» 

 tonio eighty-live miles. Down the valley of tie San Antonio Kiver for 

 twenty mihs, to Greytnwn, we logged in four hours. We saw a few 

 coveys or quail in t lie road, but the cover on each side was lo i perfect 

 to see birds ten feet oft. Although we have had as yet no cold weather 

 and the thermometer rises to the nineties every day, the ducks have 

 arrived) Tor we saw at leas: a dozen large Bocks in that twenty miles. 

 Our stage had two seats without b.cks. On the front one sat the 



female American citizens of . r ascent it has been oar 



drew up ii er proboscis abom hall u teaspoonf. ul of black snuff; and 

 then taking a dog -wood stick out of her hrattll) she would sortie the 



wet end in the snuff and deposit the same between her extensive 

 molars and drop back happy as at oyster in deep water an I looking 

 about U3 intellectual. At p. m. the old lady an 1 Iter em prayer, Mr 

 Hart, got out and left us alone with a new driver for a thirty miles' ride 

 :i , the road we saw coveys of quail of 

 ia quail ami the Co Kkuotl :■ d blue quail, 

 Is way from the higher plateaus and 

 a; ■i,v::. , i | ol ooltan-tail rabbits that 

 , and an occasional flock ci turkeys are 



to make by midnight, 

 two kinds, the commoi 

 Which is fast drifting c 

 table lands northwest c 



seen. Wc should have mentioned the to. 

 flret, the rabbits not appearing until the 

 was out. We crossed tne Rocky and I lie \ 

 are appropriate, the one being rocky and t 

 one at all inclined to be watery, altlio 

 trees on the high bants sixty feet ah 

 driver said: "When the oriel ffl 



outel she gits down." We d 



what stage drivels tell us, but we li i i« 

 i lie honest truth. We don't pretend ti 



1 the moon 



mi! in tin 



■reek, 



d the 



ar we camp out, on the hills 

 ally give credence In fall to 

 > that that stage driver told 

 a luuid deseiiet'oaof the 



country we passed tkrouga, but it was a good game country for certain 

 kinds of game, bat no Ash. A large proportion of the way we were 

 from twenty to twenty-live miles from water, although ; 

 map one would think there was plenty of water everywhere. This 

 thirty miles of road ia as straight as a Texas surveyor couid lay it out, 

 and being new and all the way through timber, was rather stumpy ; in 

 fact, very stumpy. We told tlie driver we were used to rough roads 

 (being Texas born and raised), aud suggested that we could stand the 

 Buaklng to get the extra sleep that an early arrival at destination wonld 

 give us. He took us at our word and "let 'em ont. 1 ' We untie that 

 thirty miles in five hours, which, for the condition of the roads, was 

 just stunning time. Had a good rest at the Nation House, and a fall 

 breakfast and au •'invite" to a turkey hunt., hut couldn't go, as busi- 

 ness called us back to San Antonio forthwith. Mr. Nation says, in 



answer to our interrogatories, that, "The boys have to go quite a 

 ways to get turkeys n-.nv ; sometimes half a mile, sometimes not so 

 fur; but this time they are going to a p ace six mites eff, where there 

 arc just thousands ol 'em." Mot being acquainted in tne town of Oak- 

 vlile, we passed the day In our room— fine, cool, breezy, and with a 

 line view from the window o! the surrounding country, for this Is all 

 country lo u;. So, between reading up the sporting news and miking 

 up iu naps for lost, sleep, we managed to wear Out the day. We started 

 Intek for San Antonio i hat night at la m., wakened out of a dollolous 

 dream of falling go >' '.'ing "spring chicks" as the young 



mpa 



e was bettor loaded, In 

 bodies on board, which, for a 

 gn. More turkeys, rabbits, 

 e noticed many skrnks ou the 



two-seated Vehlc! 

 quail aud ducks, a 

 way back. 



The moral of the above is, if you go from 3an Antonio 'to Oakville on 

 the stage take your lunch olongi ItkxAn. 



—See BogHTdus' advertisement. 



PIGEON MATCHES. 



The BooAEDtrs Tournamknt.— The Bogardus tournament 



yil| be Ii eld December 25, 20 and 27, instead of November 25, 



!8 and 27, as stated last week. Don't forget the date. 



Bog moos' New Eclks.— Last week we published a new set ot rules 



BQgardUJ. We have a mu tlpllclty of English and Ameri- 



:au rules a'ready established and adopted by different clubs tlirough- 



iiiiry, and tie Captain has given us some ot his reasons for 



■ previous set of rules, as i.ls experience has been very 



sive, andheha 



rs of the different 

 its will naturally 

 ■Itfis : 



g the v 









irlence, the new 









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first of my i 





•ules, which you 



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the 



use or only one 





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shot in tne e-.d 



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 wrong practice 







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dozen times be- 



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1 OU1000011110100010 0— 8 



1 Ollli (I 011010000100 II— 8 



1 1100111110100W 



B Hasting* ki 



o Martinez 2S 



Daun I Woods IS 



Ueurg! Williams.. 21 

 Mr Z.ras is 



Maine— Tops-ham, A"by, 15.— S? verside Cob had a shoot for club 

 medal; IS yards rise : 



Knight 1 110111111111 (—13 



AQGoud 1 1.1 10 u 11111111 1-13 



tj Gond .0 n 1 l 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 l l o 0-11 



TSenoey 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1— (l 



1/lkey 1 10101 1010110— 8 



Keyes 0111101111111 1—12 



York l 11 101 11010100 l-io 



Baker o 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1— lo 



Perry 00U01111001111— 8 



Tie on thirteen— 21 yards, 



A'J Guild 1 1111—5 Knigllt 1 1 1 1—4 



W. A. S. 



Buooki.vn Dmvtso Pakk— Farktiite, L. T., Sov. SI— Pigeon shoot 

 ia gun presented by Mr. A. Ii". Weaver, shot for at seven birds each 

 fromilvi; traps, haudtcapued rlae, ion yards boundary, commenced 

 November 20 ; lies shot off November 21 : 



Madison 27 yards 1 * *— 1 o ■•— l l 0-1 l l— to 



Watts 25 " -' i l—* o *— i i o—i o o—s 



KJdy,2i>yds t 1 1—2 Do Fraine, 25 yds 1 1—2 



■ ,..,,;. i-n.i.Mi) Shooting fatrB— Daxier Part, C/ipress Rills, h. I., x<,« 



lOfi sheila aiidVivi ivy-iive rtound en shot : shot tor at seven birds each 

 from H and Ttrais, Handicapped nsj, eighty yards boundary ; ties 

 t-hot off at three birds: 



llroadway 2S yards 1 11111 1— T 



EUd? '-'5 " , 1 lllll 1— T 



Keddiiig 23 " 1 llllil-T 



Hughes ,..-26 " i oiioi 1-0 



Turner 21 " 1110 11—0 



llance. «S " 1 1113 1-0 



Mirphy 21 " 1 1 10 11 1—6 



Madison '.9 " 1 1 1 1 fl 1 B— 5 



FUntsle 21 " i oiiio 1—5 



GKnetc 25 " u 1 o l o 1 1-4 



Ml.Uvuv '.1 " 1 10 10 1—4 



Huberts 21 " 110 10 1—4 



Aiin.l U " 1 tl 1 w 



Ties on seven. 



Broadway 1 1 1-3 Eddy 1 1 1-3 



Redding 1 1 0—2 



Second tie. 

 Broadway l 1 1—3 Eddy 1 1—2 



I Oil SIX, 



Hughes ,0 1 1—2 Turner 1 1 0—2 



Hunee i o o—i Murphy o o o— o 



Second lie. 



Hughes 1 1—2 Turner 0-0 



•• Ties on five. 



Madison ,1 1—2 Baulsie g 0— fl 



Broadway won the cun, finches won the second prize, and Madison 

 won the third prize. Referee— Mr, 0. F. Gddersieeve, o( Long Island 

 siiooiimr ciitii. 



Long Island (Ins Cum— Grmmdn of Jersey City llehihu Qiin (Huh, 

 Niw. 23.--lhindlc.ip at tidy glass bails, IS yards rise, three, traps: 

 EG Murphy- scratch... r l HI 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 111 11 1 1 l "l 1 1 11 



1 l 1 1 'l i) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—19 

 Dr Zellner-two balls— 1 1111110 11111111 0011 110 11 



11111111111 II 1111 I 1111111 1— 4T. 

 J A Jauiiesou— W o b ills— l llOlllllOlllilOlllllll 



1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 h I 1 1 n 1 1 l 1 1 0-44. 

 ii Wa fere-three b tin— u 111111111 mini 11111:0 



1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-41, 

 or stone— twelve halls-0 lOioiuiioioioiiuiioolOO 



I 1 , 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 II n I 1 1 I 11 I) 1 1 1 1 0-40. 



j s ho. v-ten balls-i i) 11 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0111011101 



II 1 : e ; 1, 1 n 1 I) il J 1 1 1 1 I II 1 II 1-39. 



Second match : same condl ions : 



,n-,, -1 i,iu ..1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1— 16 



it Wallers— threo bulls 1 1 1 l 1 1 1 1 1 I 1— 1-1 



.1 S Ibiiv-'mir balls 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 I 1—14 



IT tf cllitt r— otic, uei 1 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 II (I 1 0-1 (i 



Mi-lladden lour -'.sua n n l 1 i I i i 1 u ii 1 u I is 



Mr Oram— three Lit Is I d o 1 1 11 o 1 1 0— S 



EQMurpiiy— serateli llillOlllOw 



- i cold badge of Jersey Ciiy Heights Gun Club, held by Dr. 



Burdett: 



Dr Burden 21 yards ooll lllllll llUOll 1—16 



Mr Hadden....i8 " ..,,..1 t n 1 1 1 o 1 i 1 1 o 1 u 1 1 1 o— is 



Dr Kollner 18 



J S Hoc,-.,. 



Mr rosier 13 



.Mr ..rant Is 



Mr Heretag....l3 



Heaside Gt-N" CLrB.-f.0n7 Branch, A". ./, Ami. 93.— Match atblrdB 

 English rules ; for a gun and set of Bogatdua traps : 



DrBEllis 3ft yards 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—10 



ltBAngell 31) •■ 1 11111111 1-10 



OUastmgs .is " ,,,,1 11111111 1—10 



W J Nelson .,.-...21 " 1 irliloill-9 



1 "Putney 88 " 1 10 1111 11 1— » 



11110 1 1 — 8 



_ 1 1 1 1 1—8 



110 10 1110 1—7 



... I) 1 1 1 1 I 1 1—7 



1 10 1 10 110-6 



1 1 1 w 



1 1 0W 



Ties shot off. 

 Eilis 1111—1 Angell 1110—3 Hastings 1 0— 1 



Match at Gla-s balls, 21 yards, Bojardus rules, for set of traps and 

 100 lbs, shot: 



Percy II ■ stings 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 1— 15 



ABVates 1 111110 1111111 1-14 



W J Nelson 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 l-ii 



Joho Caswe.l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1— 11 



U Putney , 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0— ll 



Itny Lloombs 11 1 1 (I 1 1 u 1 1 1 1 u 1— 



EHaatlngs 1 1 11 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 0— » 



iMiiusiinliowe 1 1 1 1 n u 1 1 1 1— g 



Samuel Clark I 110 110 110 0—7 



Daniel Woods 1 1 1 1 1 w 



The contest between E B. Angell, repri Seating Hew York ; Thomas 

 B. Owens, representing Philaleiplin, and E ijrar orcen, representing 

 Monmouth, was then called. The match was thirty bltdi each, 20 yards 

 rise and 80 yards boundary ; I.oag island rules : 



New York— BB Angell 1 1 11 11 11 01 01 11 11 01 11—17 



Philadelphia— TB Owens U 11 01 11 11 10 01 11 1" 11-16 



Monmouth— £ Green »i 11 1 1 11 in 10 11 01 10 ll—u 



The day'ssport closed witn two handicap hweepefatojs. 



" Mickey Free."— That was not liis name, lint lie thought 

 that "JViickey Free, the Pedestrian," sounded a great ifcul 

 better than liobcrt Harriott, the name liicy ruvc Itiiu at the 

 baplismal font. Cominir from Inland S"me thiily yours ago 

 with some reputation as a walker alreadv ncqui 1 ft !, Alicki-y Fit e 

 went, to Jersey Oily and soon announced that lie woiikl walk 

 1,000 mil. s in 1,000 hours. At ii ho went ; wnlk il be did ; 

 though, people did say that at meht Iris wile used to assume 

 his Donny brook costume and walk for him. Willi the money 

 which came iu from the exhibition he bought a shanty, aud 

 having nn place to put it, rigged it on wheels and moved 

 about, from one place to another. He was a peripatetic 

 squatter. Finally >\ nmn gave him enough laud for his house, 

 Mickey knocked oft lire wheels and lived there the rest 

 king the 1,000 miles he considered 

 :,ev. When President Lincoln slopped 

 iy lo Washington for his first itiutuju. 

 hered at tlie railroad depot. Mickey 

 1 ilu.'cn.\vi.l, passed the guard, mounted 

 :: Lincoln by the hand : 

 " he exclaimed, "put it there. I'm 

 e. May our shadow never be less. 



if hi3 life. Aftei 

 himself a public clmrac 

 in Jersey City on his \vi 

 ration a great crowd ga 

 elbowedniswayturoug] 

 the platform and catigh 



"Ah, me puny boy: 

 the bould Mickey Frt 

 God bless us!" 



He looked upon this incident as one of the most notable of 

 his career. At the outbreak ol the rebellion he enlisted for 

 three mouths in the Filth New Jersey Regiment, and at the 

 expiration of his time re-enlisted in the Thirty-third Regiment. 

 New Jersey Volunteers. He served three years, the citizens 

 of Jersey City caring for his family in the meanwhile. Dur- 

 ing the recent elections Mickey advocated the election of 



-. shanty 



ou the meadows, and hundreds of persons went there to see 

 them. 



College Foot-Ball.— The Tale and Harvard foot-ball 

 fifteens met in Boston last Saturday. The contest took place 

 ou llio grounds oi the famous Boston baseball champions, al- 

 though the Cambridge grounds were in much better con- 

 dition for good sport than the Boston ball field. Harvard 

 was compelled to select, the latter grounds in order to secure 

 tlie presence of one of her best rushers, who was recently sus- 

 pended and thereby forfeited the right to visit Cambridge 

 during the term of his suspension. Harvard labored under 

 somewhat of a disadvantage by the absence of three of her 

 regular team, whose places were, however, well taken by sub- 

 stitutes. The make-up of the teams was: Harvard— Rush- 

 ers, Cusbinjr, 11. S. ; Swift, "19; Home, '70; Perry, '79 ; 

 Warren, '82; Thatcher, '82 ; Cowdin, '79; Morse, '81.* Half 



Walson, S. S; Camp, '80 (captain). Backs-iNixons, '81; 

 Wakeman, SI. S.; Lyman, '82. After some spirited playing 

 on a slippery ground the game was won with one goal for 



YnV 



—The Princeton team play the Yale team at Hoboken 

 to-day. 



Qceens County Hunt.— The annis-seed bag of the Queens 

 County Hunt led them a right gallant chase over the Long 

 Island meadows last Saturday. Several gentlemen and one 

 lady turned out for the fun, spurred their horses hard and 

 rude not in blood but in mud, a part of (he way. Last even- 

 ing the members of the club und their Long Islaud friends 

 gathered at a grand feast and Thanksgiving live supper in the 

 Queens County Agricultural Society. 



A New Bow. — Messrs. Conroy, Bissett & Malleson, the 

 well-known makers of " split-bamboo " rods, have added to 

 their business a special department for archery. They have 

 turned their large assortment of seasoned timber to new uses 

 in the construction oi a split-bamboo bow, which for power 

 lightness and beauty will compare favorably wilhthe beat ioi- 

 pmted stock. They are offered at reasonable prices. 



Hare and Hounds.— The good old English sport of "Hnre 

 and Hounds" is to bo introduced into Westchester County. 

 The Westchester Hare and Hounds is n newly organized club 

 which has its first run to-day, starling from C. ntrul Avenue, 

 near Woodlawn, and running about seven miles and return! 

 The rules of the South London Harriers have been adopted. 



Thanksgiving Athletes.— The Mn.nhatt.an Athletic Club, 

 Eighth avenue and Fifty-sixth street, aud the Scottish-Am- 

 erican AtUetic Club, Fifty-fourth street and Eighth avenue, 

 hold athletic meetings this afternoon. 



