FOREST AND STREAM, 



him to his grave. We will repeat bis modestly told ac- 

 count of the affair, as he related it. Said he:— 



"I couldn't tell exactly how I gol it. Just think of l he beg- 

 gars bagging almost Bvery borsewe bad. Two of na went in 

 Tor reprisals, and wantednt least Rome of their ponies. They 

 were, pushing us hard, and two bucks (that is 1he approved 

 phraseology) let their little horses cul abend of them as a lure. 

 They were bold, because lliey thought ihoy bad us. J. had a 

 Wes'tley Richards, and I bad a Kemingion. The black- 

 guards' absolutely bantered us. 1 wanted h horse to take 

 home, so badly. ' We made a bold face and pitched in to 

 them, J. tired at a handsome fellow, and I think only 

 grazed him, hut I fancy I fetched the other, (that's the 

 phraseology again I believe,) and I made tor the pony, 

 that was somehow tangled up in his lariat. I thought both 

 of the Indians were down, and had my hand on the horse's 

 head, hut he did'nt like me, and snorted, and kicked when 

 the other red skin, wounded as lie was, (for J. had only 

 touched him), tired at me at almost point blank. 1 never 

 knew 1 was hurl until 1 found a kind of warm 

 shower-bath of blood most blinding me. Poor devil of a 

 savage, I did'nt have the heart to kill him, some body else 

 did, but I got the- little beast. 1 think killing those two 

 young braves took the heart out of thern as it did out of 

 me, but they were the aggressors. Beastly practice, seal ping. 



is it; not? Well, air, would yon believe it, J lavished my 

 affections on that Indian horse, bul it was love's labor 

 I wanted to take him home, but al Omaha I swopped him 

 Off for a jack knife, (phraseology aeain, excuse it), That 

 horse lulled civilization, while "men," and law and order. 

 Bui I assure you, I would not have missed thai, little skrim- 

 mage on the I .■_■',, ': .'-.... ■ . foi a great deal, though having 

 seen the pleasure of ii once, 1 givejyou my word of honor, 

 once in a life time a mess of that kind is quite sufficient. 

 Scalping is beastly. Your people ought never to scalp." 



The Pinnated Grouse n? England.— Since printing 

 our statement last week regarding the failure of the first 

 attempt to plant pinnated grouse in England, we have re- 

 ceived the following note from Mr. Valentine, who first 

 instituted the experiment, to which we have lent what 

 co-operation we could. We are glad to know that Mr. 

 Valentine is determined not, to give it up, and that he does 

 not despair of eventual success. 



J ANF.svna.K, Wis., August i, 1874. 

 Kditou Forest and Stream: — 



Yours of the 3d, containing result of our experiment 

 w : th grouse eggs in England is at hand, I am very sorry 

 they hatched so badly, hut considering all things, ii is not 

 to be wondered at. The season WOS well advanced when 

 the eggs were gathered and the weather was warm. There 

 had been a hard tain storm a few days previous, which had 

 soiled them badly, and 1 have since learned thai, they could 

 have been packed better. The batching of ihe three 

 proves at least thai (he eggs can be -hipped great distances 

 and be hatched, and next year i shall try it again, and 

 lake more pains in packing. 1 shall now make arm ngc 

 ments for gathering a goodly cjtiaiitity of eggs early next 

 spring. Also for obtaining this fall' some live birds of 

 both pinnated and sharptailetl varieties, which I propose 

 sending to Mr. 11. J. L. Price, North Wales. I can Obtain 

 any quantity of live birds. I propose to introduce these 

 birds* into England, and shall keep at it until I make a 

 success of it. "Yours, truly, Richard Yaientike. 



P. S.— I have received several letters from commission 

 merchants in England requesting shipments of eggs or 

 birds to them. If you have any such inquiries, please say- 

 that I am not Interesting myself in this matter for Ihe pur- 

 pose of making money. Ii any gentlemen in England, 

 however, desire to obtain a lot of live birds, I will procure 

 them for them, and if necessary accompany them in tran- 

 situ, and see them well cared for. Birds are reported 

 plenty this season all through the West. We have more 

 here than for several years past. 



A Rare Opportunity. — We desire to call attention, 

 through an advertisement that appears in oui paper, lo an 

 opportunity seldom offered to sportsmen for the purchase 

 of Canadian shooting and fishing leases, offering the very- 

 best facilities for sport in both branches. There are three 

 of these leases. As to the reserve at Point Pelee, in Lake 

 Erie, our readers have been repeatedly informed through 

 our columns. The fishing can hardly be surpassed. The 

 shooting on all three is among the best that Canada af- 

 fords, and game can be multiplied indefinitely by protec- 

 tion. The leases run for tweuty-one years, and, as they 

 are for Ordnance Lands, will probably go at a low figure. 

 This matter is really worthy the attention of our sports- 

 men, most of whom spend more time and money, annu- 

 ally, in search of desirable ranges than is. required lo pur- 

 chase either one of these valuable tracts. 

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Wisconsin State Sportsman's Association.— The prom- 

 inent sportsmen of Wisconsin, who are interested in the 

 preservation of fish and game, have called a convention al 

 Portage City. August 18th, for the organization of a Slate 

 Sportsmen's Association. All sportsmen arc invited lo at- 

 tend, and contribute to the success of the enterprise, winch 

 we trust will be such a one as the State may well be proud 

 of. Everything appears favorable for a large and success- 

 ful gathering. 



Messrs. G. & H. T. Anthony, photographers, of No. 591 

 Broadway, have published a series of views of objects of 

 interest in Blooming Grove Park, including the Club House, 

 Deer Park, Game-keeper's Lodge, &c. These, beautiful 

 scenes of hunting, shooting and fishing are now on sale, at 

 the Messrs. Anthony's gallery, and can also be purchased 

 of the President of the Association, Edward R. Wilbur, 

 Esq. , No. 40 Fulton street. 



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To Advertisers. — We print but three pages of adver- 

 tisements this week, having cleaned out every particle of 

 dead wood and discontinued several yearly favors which 

 have expired with the close of the volume. Should our 

 patrons desire a tcnewal, they will oblige us by an early 

 notification, as we shall keep the ur.itler standing for a 

 short time. 



[from our special correspondent.] 



THE English hni'ij Td,:ijr,q,h is again the I&llgMDg 

 stock of the London press, For alas, the story of the 

 light between the man and the bull dog has turned oul to 

 be but a delusion and a snare, and but the dream of their 

 special commissioner I was wrong in attributing il to Mr. 

 G. A. Sala. and I hasten to correct my error-. The article 

 in question waswritten by a Mr. Greenwood, and he is well 

 known in London circles as the " Amateur Casual," from a 

 lucky hit he made -. lew yoats ago by disguising himself 

 as a tramp and visiting a metropolitan workhouse, the 

 description of what he saw there being published in a se 1- 

 sational letter iu the Times. 



As it may be imagined, ins paper on the scene lie wit- 

 nessed at. Hanley made a great noise, and the authorities 

 in Ihe town made every effort to discover (he originators 

 of this brutal diversion, but without the .smallest success. 

 The policemen know nothing about it, and a liberal reward 

 has failed to lempt any of'tlie pitmentodisclo.se any. 

 thing about it, though they have nothing to fear and everv 

 thing to gain by the disclosure. Lastly, the- secretary ol 

 the society for the prevention of cruelty lo animals has 

 taken Mr. Greenwood down to the scene of the combat, 

 but when there he failed to recognize the spot and could 

 only point out the iun where he first met the dwarf who 

 fought the dog. The landlord of the tavern denies this 

 fact, and the public journals have arrived at no other con- 

 clusion than that the story is an entire fabrication. 



To a sportsman, oi rather to a sporting man, there are 

 several glaring inconsistencies in the simple talc. The 

 lighting do- of the pitman is not the bull dog, but the bull 

 terrier. The bull dog is a quiet, good naturcd brute, wil b 

 no mouth that can punish his antagonist. He can only 

 hold on tight and allow himself to be cut to pieces joint by 

 joint without a groan. Bul the bull terrier is a very diff- 

 erent animal. Quick and active as a puma, brave as it 



mouth and sharp teelhlike a surgeon's knife, and open 

 gashes which soon let out the life of the creature he at- 

 tacks, This is the dog thai the collier would have pitted 

 against "Brummy, the dwarf." But '-our special com- 

 missioner," evidently a Londoner, believes a bull dog to be 

 iir proper thing, and forgets all about tlta iastinftt of the 

 breed which makes him "hold on," and so he represents 

 him as biting and then letting go, The fact of the man 

 being chained also looked suspicious and written for effect. 



The amateur championship of the Thames was decided 

 on Wednesday , the final heat being rowed between Mr. A 

 C. Dicker, of St. John's college, Cambridge, the holder of 

 the sculls, and Mr. W. H. Eyre, of the Thames Bowing 

 Club, and it resulted in the easy defeat of the latter. The 

 river was very smooth, there being but a slight breeze suf- 

 ficient only lo cool "the 'eated kafmosphere," as the cock- 

 neys call it, and there were plenty of those who came to 

 see and be seen. The umpire was a Mr. Brifikwood; who 

 informer days has held the palm himself, and was there- 

 fore well qualified lo judge who should hold it now. Al. 

 thirteen minutes past seven Mr. Se.-irle gave them the word 

 to go, and straightway the Cambridge man, getting to work 

 at once, drove his light craft a quarter of a length ahead 

 in the first three or four strokes, Mr. Eyre seeming stiff and 

 slow to i begin. At the steamboat pier Mr. Dicker led by 

 half a length, and was sculling with great power, while his 

 opponent pulled short and in bad form. A little farther 

 on it was evident that there was only one man iu the race, 

 aud when Mr. Dicker passed under Hammersmith Bridge 

 in 10m. 8s. he led by a clear five lengths, and his backers 

 were shouting themselves black in ihe face. Opposite Bit- 

 ten's Wharf the behinduiost sculler spurted vigorously, 

 bul could not catch the cantab, who, however, lost some 

 ground by making a mistake in going too near the Middle- 

 sex shore. After this Mr. Dicker drew gradually away, 

 and when the wished for gaol was reached he had won by 

 100 yards in 25m. -to 2-.~>s., the race being rowed out by Mr. 

 Eyre, who had not the smallest chance. 



The sale of Mr. Richard Garth, Q. C.'s, pointer's and 

 setters was very interesting to sportsmen, as the area! ce- 

 lebrity, Drake.' well known at field trials, where 'he had 

 won a large quantity of important prizes, was to be put up 

 without reserve. This fiue old pointer, though seven years 

 and upwards, has not lost his extraordinary powers, and is 

 as good in the field as ever, though he has not lately ap- 

 peared iu public. He has been in his day most popular at 

 the stud, and ha boasts a long and excellent pedigree, trac- 

 ing back to the Spanish breed. The peculiarity in Drake 

 was 'dropping" on his point instead of standing lo birds, 

 arid siuee he introduced it this practice has become much 

 adopted, as a dog is far steadier when "dropped" than 

 when standing, though this steadiness is acquired by the 

 loss of all "style," and there, is no grand picture in the 

 i nan's foreground. Besides tills, a "dropped" dog 

 cannot be seen if the cover be at all high, as it often is, on 

 the moors. The chief point in Drake's performances » as 

 Ids wonderful speed, which has never been surpassed. 

 After much competition, he was knocked down to Mr. 

 Lloyd Price, of Bala, North Wales, at 15U guineas, and as 

 Mr. Price owns Belle, the champion pointer hitch, he will 

 now have as good a pair as any man in England, or perhaps 

 the best. Mr. Garth's entire kennel sold for £685. Of the 

 setters Rob, by Mr, Stat ter's celebrated Rob Roy, fetched 

 (hirly seven guineas. Bloom, with two puppies, brought 

 ep guineas, and Bess, by Fawke's Rap, £86. 



Doll, a pointer bitch, sold for fifty-five guineas; Major, by 

 Drake, went for sixty-seven guineas, and the average price 

 for setters was £22, and for pointers £32, but some pup 

 ptes broughl down the average, and at auction 

 and setters seldom fetch large prices, as there is no oppi 

 tunily for trying them in the field. 



I' '-'has reproduced this week a copy of the en- 



graving of the Michigan grayling, which appeared iu 

 Forest and Stream, and 1 may venture to add that this 

 paper is very much increasing in circulation ,;. I a 

 English leaders. The article on the grayling identifies the 

 Michigan fish with the Arctic grayling, but the « riter is al 

 a loss to aceouut.for its having get into its present -. [tore, 

 and il seems there is a way lot accounting for the hair on 

 the cocoauut, but not for the milk inside. Mr. Francis 

 Francis has been writing some interesting papers oil -nl- 

 moii fishing, aud he seems to have had much sport with 

 the blue aud yellow phantom minnows in Loch Tay and 

 other lakes and streams. He says that a lady actually 

 caught two fiue fish in one day, whilst her husband had no 

 sport for three weeks. So the vicissitudes of fishing seeni 

 precarious. 



Iu (he parish of Oddington a vixen has chosen for tin 

 acconchment hospital Ihe pulpit of an oid unused church, 

 and her cubs arc allowed to be unmolested in the strange 

 place where they first saw the light. There seems to be ai: 

 abundant supply of foxes, as I read that nine cabs weft 

 round in one litter last week at Devize's, but they fell into 

 bad hands. Otter hunting fc, still in full swing. Mr. Cheii- 

 ton's hounds met at New Bridge, on ihe river Taw, last 

 v. i ak, and aftei an exciting hunt of two hours the oiler, a 

 fine old dog of twenty-five pounds, was broken np, bat tint 

 until he had shown them fine sport, and led (hem a merry 

 dance down tbe stream; On Saturday these same hounds 

 met again, and I can well believe that there isno sport so 

 thrilling as otter hunting, though you don't want horse 

 flesh, and have to gel up very early iu the morning. This 

 time "the varmint" was killed in an old quarry pit, which 

 had been improvised by Lord Forlcscuc as a, shelter for 

 fish. Perhaps no better compliment could be paid his 

 lord-hip's judgment than the fact that this beast took up 

 his quarters there, for il showed that Ihe fish also fre- 

 quented it. One of the Spectators says it was a grand 

 sight to see Ihe waters of the still, black pool lying placidly 

 in the midst of a wealth of yellow gorse aud purple heather 

 loam again, as the hounds drove through the water "lo a 

 gaze," and hunted ihe quarry from holt to holt and strong- 

 hold to stronghold. These rough hounds ;..re exceedingly 

 picturesque, and the Carlisle pack have often formed the 

 subject of charming sketches by Laudseer, Frederick Tay- 

 lor, and oilier animal painters of "ton" aud genius. 



lUSTORE, Jli . 



$ie Hmnel. 



THE SENSATION OF HYDROPHOBIA. 



I was surprised to see appear, from a black cabinet, peo- 

 ple who spoke to me; then enormously long rats ran along 

 the furniture, always by the side. The illusion was such 

 that at first 1 often changed my position to convince myself 

 whether it was an illusion or a reality. Afterward falling 

 stars appear at a moment when I least expected them, al- 

 ways from the internal to the external angle of the eye, 

 which forced me instinctively to turn my head. Simulta- 

 neously I was seized with trembling of the skin and a feel- 

 ing of unspeakable horror. In the place of darkness, 01 

 during the night, my room appeared illuminated us by a 

 flash of lightning. At lust, seeing that nothing- would 

 arrest the mysterious agent, I had recourse to the datum 

 stfumensirum, or thorn apple of Peru. A Catholic mis- 



some difficulty] 

 u effect, when 

 fireworks, or 

 ny limbs, from 

 j of the skin a 

 •ompanied by a 

 ling of terror 

 eyes. I re- 

 BineS to me I 

 . :e vital mortal 

 principles, the latter of which endeavored to impose itself, 

 tyrannically, tike a denominating power, against which all 

 the active lorces reached with a superhuman energy; A: 

 the same moment I became delirious, and lost "all con- 

 sciousness. 



in the delirium the dominant idea of 

 f endeavoring lo repossess his 

 i this slate the convulsions be- 

 y arc always accompanied with 

 , and thfl necessity of reaction 

 force is p,odigiousIv increased -. 

 weight of the body is no impedi- 

 LS only necessary to make Ihe 

 u-lli, as in certain dreams. The 

 of the legs causes a sudden fall, 

 when lie becomes perfectly rigid. He realizes he has fallen, 

 when tie is restored to consciousness by the shock of the 

 fall, and he arises quickly. The nervous excitement is 

 such that he is very nearly insensible to pi.in. 'Ihe figures 

 of the most familiar persons appear furious, threatening 

 and provoking ; and contrary to the general sentiment of 

 terror which one feels internally from concussions, one is 

 intrepid and ready to brave all exterior dangers. The par- 

 oxysms commenced al half past two in the afternoon, At 

 ten o'clock in the evenitig Ihe remedy began to take effect, 

 and theuexi day Duly a great prostration is felt. The in- 

 valid attributed all the phenomena of the delirium to the 

 gas produced in the organic tissues by ihe influence of the 

 virus. — Cotirrirr Dei Mtttii Urns. 



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