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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Apbil 14, 1881. 



es in Ilk vest pocket for a day's shooting:, 

 game ont of the country when he Shoots 

 il different limes killed both of a pair of 

 be water op the wind at 100 to ISO yards 

 ii of course several times. I have killed 

 200 to ;!00 yards away after shooting at 

 great many times, the splash of the balls 

 a little, the crack of Hie gun not at all. 1 

 quails out of a flock vvhen feeding on a 

 it at a ruffed grouse, Uliliug him with the 

 Immuring. Several times I have had shots 

 _. long rantre. before hitting them. There- 

 fore it is a good rillu for "meal" and amusement, a grand 

 thing to shoot, fish with. Its killing power is truly wonder- 

 ful. I liave killed at long range many large blue and white 

 hereto) large hawks, turkey buzzards, raccoons, etc, and 

 generally they quit and lay right down when hit. It, is a 

 lovely Sunday gun when you arc out of meat aud don't wish 

 to disturb your neighbors. BtBXB. 



Fmcoii, Illinois. 



away, missing the 

 single thicks often 

 them sometimes a 

 would startle then 

 have hilled seven 

 sward. I have sir 

 fourth shot, when i 

 at large hawl 



April 6. 



NOTES FROM NEVERSINK. 



Nxvxibikx I.oooh, Orange County, N. Y. 



A FOX TERRIER, a hull dog or any lighting dog \ 

 very well to kill woodelmeks, but before ymi rl 

 vou must bring llicm to hay; for this purpose 

 small dachshunds will do. I have drawn many a 

 chuck with them. It requires, however, a good deal o 

 labor to assist the flog t , > dig after " chucks." Here 

 modus op/i;r/idi, run your game in first, then put 

 dashchutul in, and if he strikes the woodehuck he " 



ill do 



that 



ul i 



dachshund 



'chuck off. 

 terminate tl 

 poisoned c< 

 boll from oi 

 "bull" "oi 



I see vou 



Tin 



dig do 



l to the 



spot, wlic 



; the c 

 line, and < 

 rill make 



quite 



dig a circle all around where you hoar the 

 tongue, and you are sure of heading the 



is is what 1 call the sporting way to cx- 

 a surer wny is by trapping, of coinse, or by 

 I shall try ferrets, but. doubt if they will 



Have dug only one ont this season and rny 



id" him at once. 



a about cockers being good 



:olonyof rats 



■ought into the fight. 



ratters I had 

 stack. A large, 

 id two cockers 

 They killed sixty-five' 



the birds had perished.' 



lha 

 and 



eight birds I think 

 cent, had perished. 



gathered all the iu 

 farmers aud old residents, 

 among any of them a sing 

 or partridge to perish from 

 remains in the spring wh 

 death from some other eai 

 being a deep snow folk 

 forming a stout crust sb 

 the ground and, lit h 

 them. The parlr.o _.- 

 keep themselves warm, an 

 snow by thisicv sheef eill 

 capo by the aid' or a little 

 them. So much for the fc 

 lot's see about the siarvati 

 nter 



id 1 ha 



one. Have 

 id choppers, 

 iot yet found 

 one who ever knew either quail 

 old oi hunger, or ever found their 

 they could not account for the 

 > than r;old or hunger, the worst 

 ed by rain and a sudden freeze, 

 ting in the quail which roost fin 

 getter, allow the snow to cover 

 live into the snow presumably to 

 even when imprisoned under the 

 •of these birds will very often es 

 I'arm sun to soften the crust over 

 fishing from the cold. Now 



Oi 



lifr'oi 



npletely 



live in w 

 usually c 

 and often 

 cet anything to eat c 

 No, indeed fas amy oi 

 the woods lata iu the 

 trees are near a thick f 

 poor (?) bird ftilting 

 making a meal off tire 

 iimlis as lordly as jrou i 

 the green sward, and al 

 believe thev will live w 

 and WhO has known I Hi 

 About the quail 1 Cm 



day wl 



round. Vet does he perish ? 

 'asilyfuid out by going into 

 ere birches, maples or apple 

 •th, and there you'll see this 



the 



ops of th, 

 ends 



yorniff t; 

 of the, small 



in a tree at 

 g to prove 

 bat by and 



all. Have heard oj i a ting, out us 1 a 

 that hearsay is nol always reliable I wil 



s'ale what I know to he a fact,, viz. : that several coveys of 

 quail managed "by hook or by crook" to keep alive through 

 all the cold weather and deep snows iff the past, winter, and 

 keep in good running order mil. I ihe coldest weather had 

 passed and the ground was half bared, and then " I where 

 were they?" Not one siiihl, or sign can I gut,, or even hear 

 of them,' not even Ihe ones that were fed. Have 100 per 

 cent, perished after outliving all the cold and snow ? 

 I did almost fear that such was the case, and so made a 



any hazard to live up to his creed, was stilled iu death and 

 the world, in its wisdom of making all deeds square with 

 ties, gives a. verdict of ' suicide ' when no idea of self- 



ghl.e 



lei in 



Upto 



I 



i this 



l's path out of 

 ill bell, ve that 

 lave made him seek 



intered the mind of tli 

 in the sincere conviction of its truth, 

 too conscientious, too noble to make 

 any difficulty, and no one who knew 

 any distress," any apprehension couk 

 refuge in aught but work, duty and honor." 



Now 1 applaud that sentiment with all my heart, as all 

 must do who knew the brave and accomplished General, 

 whom to know was to love. I have no personal motive in 

 defending him against the dishonoring verdict of willful self- 

 destruction. This is not my purpose'in these lines. My ob- 

 ject, is to show by two or three out of a score of incidents, of 

 which I have positive knowledge, and for the truth of which 

 I am prepared to vouch, how r easy it is for public opinion to 

 err in adjudging a perfectly innocent man guilty of suicide, 

 aud consigning him to the grave beneath ihe shadow of a 

 great, crime. In supposed suicide, as in murder, judgment 

 Should be suspended till all the facts in the case shall" have 

 been obtained, then upon the facts construst your theories, 

 form your judgment and found your verdic', giving to the 

 accused every reasonable doubt. 



member well what a pall fell upon 



wick, N. J., when one of the si 



th by a bullet crashing through his hi 



Ir 



that he 



his bed 

 he been 



nfo: 



college at New 



[s came to his 



from a revolver 



he sat upon 



oying with one day after 

 He fell back upon his pillow and soon died. Had 

 alone how plausible would have been the theory of 

 and how the papers of that staid old city, ever on the 

 the next, sensation, would have picked it up and 

 id ii abroad to the dishonor and disgrace of the poor, 

 late lad. But as it happened, his chum was present 

 ■ the accident, which circumstance put to rest the 

 theory of suieid •. 



It was General Upton's habit to sleep with his revolver 

 within reach. Is it not reasonable to suppose that he might 

 have taken it up in a casual, careless sort of way, and per- 

 haps cocked it, and while looking it over with the muzzle 

 toward his face, it accidentally discharged. A case of per- 

 sonal reminiscence to the point. One morning last, August I 

 arose at half q nist four o'clock, slipped my little " Smith & 

 Wesson " into my pistol pocket, took my bass rod and spoo 



ist be! 



It 



villi great rapidity and enjoyed the sport 

 ely^ I)o all coolers make ratters? 



irts 



Your 

 terrible. My q 

 farms I hear it 

 regularly. Habl 

 also. Ducks ai 

 1 saw them hen 

 black and wot 

 drake. Woolc 

 have disappear 

 have no quail 

 Jack went 



from 

 ,il 



all dei 



about 



quail are 

 ; on neighboring 

 1 I had mine fed 



:s stood the winter well, partridges 

 more plenty this spring than ever 

 we have killed a good many 

 duck, faying nothing of shel- 

 •k have, conic in plenty. Snipe 

 again with the cold. 1 fear we 

 ft Fast to amount to anything, 

 routing on the home, farm anil 

 i Hinders 

 ctlypre- 

 »d trout, 



look seven beauties iu ten minutes, all :l 

 —Palmer fly. Now, mind, although Sli 

 served, they are wild and not fed > 



id I. 



: thev light ! 



hawks 



1 adv 



) kill 



but 



My decoy shoo 

 tremendous sued 

 occupy their B pi 

 Here is my rece 

 within thirty yo 

 one or a stuffed o 

 foot cross slick, i 

 will appear at 

 them No. -1 shot, 

 (imply pay you f 

 shooting, but ran 

 details can write i 



Can't the sporting asB'iciations of tl 

 aw passed In the Legislature to c 

 kennels from taxation. .My la: 



all sportsi 



1 ; Ha. 



Anybody a 

 lid I'll send al" 



this yeai 

 ihe assesa 

 present, bi, 

 mi ted acli 

 exempting 



It ii difficult 



•ho wants full 



with pleasure. 



Slate get A 



tmpl regu- 



s for dogs 



ious charge. I have 

 aid collectors tied up with an injunction ul 

 i.ir they will beat me any how. 1 think some 

 ought 10 be t iken at Albany to get a new law 

 ;ular breeders. CjROXTBI'ir. 



1 struck out for" a poiutin tl 



for the porpose of taking a few I 



alone, not another soul was ast.i 

 quarry, the refuse fro 

 river bank. On the 

 and stone-chippings I saw a slender, slick little 

 animal, very agile in his movements from place to 

 place, which 1 concluded was a weasel, though 1 

 could nol tell positively, for I was quite a dis 



the village, 

 fast. 1 was 

 near a stone 

 st down the 

 k of earth 



Taki 

 ed at bit 



tancc away 



pocket 1 tir 



cession without el 



a filial di play of n 



suddenly oecured t 



tied all the chambi 



carelessly, with my 



upon the trigger. 1 



the revolver up in 



able to look into the chain!: 



V 0t-' 



m 



THE LE ROY SHOT & LEAD M'F'G CO.'S PRIZE. 



■ ..,,'. i..,n,,. -,,.,,.,. Yorlc slam SfiiMti n'-, VssWfll ^eettngat Concj Islaiui, 



June, 1681. 



very long tramp through places where they were last seen, 



MASSACHUSETTS GAME. 



B 



3av> 



OTII partridge (ruffed grouse) and quail were quiU 

 plenty for this vicinity last fall, and I undertook to 

 what were left after January 1, by feeding all li 



, hard tr; 



and many a ] 

 filled with wheal sc 

 a paper bag of the s 

 other, with the sno 

 as the snow grew e\ 

 the superlative de; 

 was too large, or tot 

 ovey after auoihei 

 shorten my route ai 

 storm came and wi 

 far and near. Yet 

 as soon as the >suow 

 withstanding the di 

 so completely usei 



id I 



rigs ha 



fully tl 

 n deeper 

 ee, I fo 



id s(.o 

 s, 1 Si 



it-red fa 



Jib a la: 



me. mt from my s 

 e hand and a sir. 

 tee feet deep on 

 mid eold weathe: 

 nd that 

 ead for n . 

 ry reluctantly dropped 

 liv load, until Yennor's 

 lie drifts blockaded every 

 rmined to find the bird's 

 ed blowing and drifting 

 ed with some wheat, bu 



"gl'i, 



g the in 



' failed 



home i 

 birds I, 

 Bhraild 

 fsd tl 



my old I na 

 "perish," b 



restii 

 •ry 



•ry to let 



, I I 



t d 



until the jrrou 

 Jded to let them shift I 

 Di 



'.unity to 

 recently ? 



ihe wint 

 eittie in I 



mqu 



of on 



t fully determined that this one brood 

 t of food. And they did. nol, for I 

 nd 'was quite bare, and then Con- 

 or themselves. 



or I improved almost every oppor- 

 faruiers if they had "seen any quail 

 .ffirmative, and 



aid favon 



doubt the 



reports 

 ssibility 



ed b: 



of fr< 



sit 



vine; J/". 



qu 



amveved theidea,'aiHl, with all du 

 I must Bay that I believe there is 

 ruffed grouse perisbing 

 ,„..i.as fronTfiO to 100 per Cent, by cold Oral 

 luring the past winter, in the first place I shoul 

 laow how your informants possessed themselves of 

 1 >rination as to enable them to state that "sixty per 



and al tin 

 perished 1 

 of the qu 

 speak of 

 cent, ha 



i of the 



the time th . . 

 White until May, almost, June in Mat 

 partridge freezing, it, should be enough t 

 can stand the cold of the winter just pa 

 have about here— I think they will nol.fr, 

 I think if we arc fortunate enough to li\ 

 we shall see some quail. H our "city sp< 

 a few quail in the spring, now and then, 

 West. [ think we could 'furnish them will- 

 There are game clubs all about here. In 

 thcin wo get here are dogs and gune, in - 

 season I 'had an abridgoaeril of Olu m 

 posted up where they would be s, en lit tin 

 with the words, " All parties are warned 

 law on these grounds;" printed in [ ill Fa 

 torn, and it, had a splendid effect, and I tl 

 good idva fo have a large quantity ol 

 printed and sent QUI all over the couiltrj 

 the game districts, as well as 



remains o! several crows that had 

 last fall, I could not imd anything 

 ye. Some of your correspondents 

 nolo," and so" infer that 100 per 

 quail ever have any note at this 

 do they not always disappear about 

 nd do We hear ihe weleoruo Rob 



setts ? At 



. that If they 

 i I know they 

 cry soon j and 

 »;i October 15 

 ■ii w :!! send us 

 . the South or 

 r shooting. 

 i only signs of 

 and out. Last 

 w printed and 

 ires and fields, 

 to violate this 

 •e at the bot- 

 it would be a 

 • such posters 

 3 nested up in 

 at railroad 



revolver from my 

 I times in quick sue- 

 ■n I cocked again for 

 larksmanship. when it 

 : possibly I had emp- 

 is suddenly, and very 

 cocked, and my finger 

 ay wrist so as to bring 

 ion w here I might be 

 , which of course 

 would naturally increase the finger's pressure 

 upon the trigger and also place the muzzle of the 

 barrel near Hie eyes. To cup the climax of my 

 folly, finding the exposed chambers to be empty, 

 with the revolver in the position which I have 

 described, my first impulse was to pull the trig- 

 ger, when it" flashed in my mind as quick as a 

 wink lliat peihaps the chamber covered by Iho 

 barrel contained a cartridge, and sure enough, 

 aiming at the weasel, 1 pulled the trigger and 

 oil she wenl. All this happened in much less 

 lime than it has taken me to tell it. You can 

 readily understand how it could not have con- 

 sumed more than five seconds at the utmost. 

 It was simply the mind and hand a nd eye acting 

 instantaneously and almost simultaneously. A 

 thought of the mind, a turn of Ihe baud, 

 a glance of the eye and it was 'done. It 

 second evil thought to which my finger 

 igger was about to respond, which came very 

 ig my days there alone upon the river's brink. 

 nine home I related the circumstance to ray wife ; 

 and remarked I hat if 1 had been found there dead with a 

 bullet through my head by my own pistol, il would have been 

 reported near and far as a case of genuine suicide, audit 

 would have required the judgment day to Undeceive tbo 

 world. Where the case is involved in mystery it is better 

 to err in the formation of our judgments, on the side of 

 mercy, aud where there is room for the construction of a 

 theory, of sufficient plausibility to exonerate a fellow man 

 from the guilt of so heinous a crime as self-murder, to 

 adopt it in charity. Bl& 



Ur 



i., April 7.— 

 extent of a 

 Pedagogue," 

 And really I 



m 



. Who will join with me and help do it? 

 4vj I w. /!/«.«. ' G. W. EuWAiroB, 



BTJIOTKES VS. ACCIDENTS. 



THERE appeared a 

 Chicago Mer-Ow 



army officer in New Ypl 

 theory that the late Gen 

 eiaeo may not have beer 

 that the General's habit 

 near at hand ; hence tl 

 have seized his revolver 

 His fellow-soldi 

 table constructii 

 death, is made t 



xirae-raph in a recent issue of the 

 h in which if was stated that an 

 [ advanced the somewhat plausible 

 ral Upton's sad death at San Frau- 

 m,, ,;,, (mi accident It was alleged 

 -as to sleep with a loaded revolver 

 t theory that, in a dream, he may 

 in self-defence and killed himself. 

 ity seeking b 



MrsKK'rs, Darkies and Game — Augusta, ( 

 I beg leave to intrude on your columns to 11 

 difference of opinion with your correspondent, 

 Who, no doubt, can do better work elsewhere. 

 don't think the game's in much danger from him personally. 

 Rut, what I particularly object to is his license proposition. 



I do not know what, locality he may be in from the article 

 of March 23d. But 1 wish to say that we down here in 

 Georgia waul, no license law, and we want a strict enlorce- 

 ment of the present game laws of our State. Game is getting 

 scarce where, it was once plenty, because every vagabond 

 negro that, can get, a three-dollar gun aud the pot-hunting 

 crackers are killing everything that flies. 



It is useless to put up your notice of ''Trespass." No at- 

 tention is paid to it, and coveys on your own grounds are 

 often trapped or driven away by the constant raids by old 

 army muskets altered into shot guns. 



If the gentleman will come down to see us in the hunting 

 season we will do our best to amuse him. Oi.o Spobt. 



possible u(ion the pti 

 -A sleepy gras] 





) br 



dbi 



In voi ii issue of November 95, 1880, in speaking of the 



. Arnold House, " Nessmuk " says: " Here it was that Joseph 



ari- Herreshoff after losing a princely fortune in the vain attempt 



his to make a fortune out of the plentiful iron ore hereabout, 



■ous I shot himself in despair." Now the gentleman's name was 



his Charles Frederic* ilerreslioff, a son-in-law of John Brown, 



i of I He was a Prussian by bjrtb and was buried in noonvilie.- 



I at : VV. S. I». 



