July 21, 1881. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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are when one has lived in a crowd and been obliged to re- 

 spect the commands of society. The evening smokes on ve- 

 randas, the yarns of adventure that are spun, the sweet, cool 

 sleep and the betimes demands for breakfast are not l he least 

 of these dear delights. 



Come np and take a week with rue, somebody — anybody 

 who never knew what such vacations mean. For an hour or 

 two in the. evening the chief occupation of the crowd is mos- 

 quito figuring, but. that is only a kind of contrasting prepara- 

 tive for the solid comforts which in general are at the com- 

 mand of all the happy crowd at the Flats. Ppntek. 



GAME AT THE WEST. 



' . Monroe, Mich., Jul y 12. 



TT is gratifying to learn by advices from the West and 

 X Northwest, as the close season for game progresses, that 

 the prospects for grouse shooting are excellent. '" Ducks are 

 also reported to have bred exceedingly well, while the num- 

 ber of quail seen around the roads and whistling on the fences 

 show that they also liave passed the severe winter far better 

 than was anticipated. 



Here also in Michigan our prospects for ruffed grouse 

 (the king of all our game birds) have not been better 

 for years, and quad seem by the numbers now, com- 

 pared with their absence in spring, to have been sent 

 by the same hand as they were to the Israelites of old. 

 Those, however, might have been of a different variety and 

 sent for a different purpose, as I learn that some of these are 

 meant for the education of canine luminaries expected to 

 capture a part of the prizes at the Eastern Field Trials next 

 November. The unexpected appearance of so uianv birds 

 where so few were expected is considered a favorable omen 

 in their favor. That their wishes may be fully realized, and 

 also that the field editor of the Fokest and Stream may be 

 there to give us a fair and imparl iul account of flue running 

 in the sportsman's newspaper of America is the wish of 



John Davidson. 



Minnesota Notes.— Sauk Centre, Minn., July 16.— I have 

 just returned from a plover shoot and dare not give you a 

 record, for the score was so fearful poor I am ashamed." The 

 tiirds are very wild, and require a bard hitting to bring them 

 to bag. I had enough to say 1 had been "out," but if 1 had 

 had my empty shells counted I fear the odds would have 

 been largely in favor of the birds. Much obliged to "A," of 

 Long Prairie, Minn., for his advice about those shells. Will 

 put, it, in practice next winter and report to Fohbbt and 

 Stream. Ducks are seen nearly every evening living from 

 one lake to another. There is splendid fishing in Fairy Lake 

 about four miles from where I live. Pike, bass, etc., are in 

 fine order, and take almost any kind of bait greedily. — Dull. 



Wisconsin Duck Shooting— Waushara County, Wis.— 

 The wild rice crop in this section promises to be immense. 

 The marshes around Lake Poygan and along tributary 

 streams as well as those along the Fox River both above and 

 below Berlin are all bearing largely, and prospects for ducks 

 are good. Young mallards are said to be unusually plenty 

 on the Poygan marshes. Our close season expires August 15. 

 — Badger. 



The Wild Rum Chop.— Mr. Charles Gilchrist writes from 

 Port Hope, Out., under date of July 14: "The rice is all 

 above the water, and it will be a very good crop I will 

 have about 400 bushels this fall ; will send advertisement 

 When ready. My son took the sweepings of the floor of my 

 drying house, lie got about a peck of rice. It had been 

 laying tor nearly three months, and as dry as a bone. We 

 sowed it in a lake in a place about twenty feet square. It is 

 all above water, and will be quite a crop. It was in Novem- 

 ber last he sowed it." 



How the Cockney Got Ahead of the 'Squire.— There was 

 a Cockney, as they calls them Loudon chaps. Well then, Ibis 

 'ere Cockney was staying in the next village— the folks there 

 call it a town because it's a bit bigger than our'n— and the 

 'Squire, living as he did half way between the two places, 

 only about a mile apart, and being a hospitable, kind-hearted 

 man, took notice of this 'ere Cockney, and asked him to din- 

 ner, and so on. A cleverish sort of chop he was, by his own 

 acount— and talk! Well, he could talk, for certain ! He 

 could do this and that, and t'other : and made us all feel wo 

 was nobodies, and knowed nothing, and could do nothing — 

 Shoot 1 Why, nothing with fur or feathers could live, if it 

 got up before his gun. At last the 'Squire got on his mettle, 

 and challenged him to go out with him on the 1st, and made 

 an agreement with him for £5 a side who should make the 

 heaviest bag, and whatever one shot the other was to carry. 

 Well, there was a goodish party of us started, but only the 

 Squire and Mr. Cockney was to shoot | so about 8 o'clock in 

 the morning off we all went, and the 'Squire good-naturedly 

 gave the Cockney first chance. Bang ! bang ! one barrel 

 after t'other he went, but nothing dropped. Then the 'Squire 

 pulled trigger, and fetched down a bird with each barrel, for he 

 was a fairish shot. The Cockney made some excuse for miss- 

 ing, but there we could soon see he could do nothing, while 

 the 'Squire hardly missed ash tit ; and as the bargain was that 

 what one shot the other should carrv, Mr. Cockney toward 

 lunch-time was very glad to be eased" of his load. He mide 

 a good fight of it, however, and made up for his bad shooting 

 by his talking. But by 4 o'clock he had as much as he could 

 well carry, and as the 'Squire always, like the sportsman ho 

 was, made it a rule not t / shoot after this hour, we started for 

 home. The poor cockney went staggering along with the 

 'Squire's bag ; and I can tell you it was pretty heavy, and he 

 looked regular done up, for it was a hottish day. Well, we 

 bad got pretty nlih home, and were going through the little 

 paddock close to the 'Squire's house, and one had asked the 

 Cockney if he could hit, a hayrick or a barn, and such like 

 chaff was going on, when we came across a goodish-size calf 

 as had been capering round the paddock, and all at once 

 come and stood stock-still within a few yards of the Cockney 

 and was just going off for another scamper, when Mr. Cock- 

 ney turned sharp round and let fly both barrels one after 

 t'other, bang ! bang ! and shot the calf as dead as a hammer, 

 and says to the 'Squire : "Now, dang it, carry that." Larf ! 

 Lor' a massy on us, how we did larf to be sure, and the 

 'Squire most of all, though he lost the wager ; for you see, 

 sir, the bargain was that which of the two made Iheheaviest 

 bag was to be the winner: and, good as the 'Squire's was, the 

 calf outweighed his'n. But there, he managed to get it up, 

 but could hardly stagger under it for larfmg. So, you see, 

 sir, the Cockney made up for his bragging by his 'cuteness. 

 It was a smart Inck, wasn't it, sir? And I always larfs 

 when I thinks on it. — Chamber.^ Journal. 



Shinneoock Bay.— Good Ground, L. I., July 19.— Bay 

 snipe continue to fly regularly, not by fits and starts, but a 

 steady flight. Parlies making good bugs every day. Not 

 many jacks yet, but we are looking for a flight, now every- 

 day. Birds "stop on the marshes to feed more than usual 

 this season, owing to the grass having died out last season, 

 during high tides, making better feeding grounds on the 

 marshes. — William N, Lane. 



Major Max, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, 

 listened patieinly while his wife told of Alaskan bear killing. 



"Quiet your fears, my clear," said the Major when his 

 wife had finished. "That is the way they killed the bear 

 when that story was first published, but in the last twenty 

 years an improvement has been made, which I will tell you 

 about, if you will kindly aive me just a drop more of coffee, 

 with cold milk, this time.' The way the thing is done now 

 is as follows : When Captain Berry, of the Rodgers, wants 

 a polar bear for dinner, he gives a midshipman a copper bed- 

 spring and a chunk of salt pork. The midshipman com- 

 presses the spring perfectly Hat, wraps the pork around it. 

 tight, and holds it so until it freezes solid. Then the frozen 

 pork, stuffed with the bed — spring, is thrown out to the 

 nearest iceherg, when it is promptly swallowed by a polar 

 bear. . When the heat of the bear's stomach thaws out the 

 pork it releases the spring, which fiies'OUt, and the bear soon 

 dies from a pain in his side." 



"Major." said Mrs. Max, with much warmth, "I don't 

 believe that, story is true." 



" No, my dear, and you won't, until, in a few years, you 

 see it in some fashion paper, and then you will swear by it." 



A Neehaska Hftv't— North Plalte, Neb., July 11.— Buf- 

 falo Bill (Cody; and a party of friends start to-day for a 

 grand hunt up the Dismal. They anticipate a good tune.— 

 P. II. M. 



Tknnmske— Nashville, July 11. — I saw a perfectly white 

 owl a few days ago. — It was taken in Wilson County, and 

 was a rare specimen. Mr. T. J. Hogan, of ttiis comity (Da- 

 vidson) killed a, hawk on his farm last week which meas- 

 ured fifty inches from tip to tip. The great heat has put a 

 stop to dove shooting for the present, though they arc re- 

 ported abundant, everywhere.— J. D. n. 



Ax Enolisu SpAHKOw-BLA'GI ko k.vkmek asks the German- 

 town Tiii'gnrph if he. has the light to shoot these birds. The 

 editor replies: "We should say that he can shoot any bird 

 or wild animal which comes upon and destroys his property; 

 but he must, show that it does so. It is a natural right." 



CaEEnMOOB.— Creedmoor had its postponed 1th of July 

 everybody's match on Satuiday last. The postponement 

 from the day after the attempt" on President Garfield's life 

 did not injure the prospects of the day. Many ladies ac- 

 companied the. riflemen who went to the. range by the early 

 trains. Although the sun shone brightly, the heal was tem- 

 pered by a strong breeze. While (lie marksmen took their 

 places at the firing points the ladies formed sets for lawn- 

 tennis and croquet, and some, of the more spirited misses 

 arranged a match with the bow and arrow. Many children 

 roamed over the spacious veranda of the club-house, and 

 baseball and football amused the larger boys. The number 

 of visitors increased with the arrival of the afternoon trains, 

 among the passengers being Gen. Wingate, Col. Scott and 

 Secretary Donaldson, of the Board of Directors ; Col. H. G. 

 Litchfield, United States Army, and Major Sporkley, United 

 States Army, of Fort Leavenworth. The sky became over- 

 cast soon after midday, improving the light for shooting, but 

 a "puffy" wind blowing from left to right across the line of 

 fire caused many of the shots to go " wide." The principal 

 rifle contest was open to all coiners, and enlisted 4S7 entries. 

 It was at 200 yards, five shots, military rifles. State model. 

 In order to accommodate visitors who were not provided 

 with military guns, rifles were loaned free of charge. The 

 principal prizes were a silver cup of Tiilauy's workmanship, 

 valued at $50, a, copy of Webster's Dictionary and several 

 historical works, three marble and bronze mantel clocks, 

 telescopes, sets of lawn-tennis, croquet, and archery, rifles, 

 revolvers, oil paintings, etc. The scores of the prize win- 

 ners were as follows, the highest a'tainable number being 25 

 points : 



A. D. Pona, 23; J. S. Shcppard, 22; General (i. W. Win- 

 gate, 22; G. J. Seabury, 22; YV. F. lliggius, 22; Major C. 

 Shorklev, 22; Captain E. S. Browe, 23; J. .1. Dixon, 32; 

 VV. M. Summers, 22; J. L. Paulding, 22: D. Miller, 22: G. 

 S; Harrington, 22: Frederick Alder, 23; T. J. Dolau, 32; 

 Captain J. L. Price, 22; A. J. Howe, 21; II. Oehl, 21; E. 

 Bennett, 21; G. D. Guillard, 21; W. V. Gverbaugh. 21; Dr. 

 M. M. Maltby, 21; J. W. Todd, 21; J. C. Mallerv, 21; J. 

 McNevin, 21: W. It. Bostwick, 21; C. L. Madison, 21; A. 

 B. Van Heusen, 21: Thomas Lloyd, 21: H. B Thompson, 

 21: J. Mvers, 21: C. E Lewis, 21; N. D. Ward, 31; H. 

 Holges, 20; C. Donohue, 30: Q. W. Munson, 20; S. F. 

 Glover, 20; M. Dorrler, 20; C. K. Overbaugh, 20: F. A. 

 Wells, 20: D. F. Davids, 20; Ml Sullivan, 20; J. (1 Koop, 

 20; F. J. Donaldson, 20; H T. Lockwood. 20: John Klein, 

 20; O. H. Decumbus, 20; John Horan, 20; F. Seward, 20. 

 J. J. Simmons, 20; Colonel G. D. Scott, 20; T. Hearty, 20. 



There were numerous " ties," some of which had to be de- 

 cided by lot. Mr 1 A. D. Pena, the winner of the first prize, 

 is a resident of California, and is at present visiting Mr. 

 Daniel Edwards, of the Seventh Regiment. His last"effort 

 at rifle-shooting was about four years ago. 



AVQ have examined one of the F. Yvi 

 William Bead ,-, Sons. , a Boston, ami can e) 

 genuine aruele and worth the price asked. 



sson rules advertised by 

 eertully say, that II, 1s the 

 See Adv. 



New Hampshire Forest Trees are of large variety. A 

 writer in the Manchester Minor says that New Hampshire 

 was originally an entire forest, and the mountainous regiou 

 was once covered with a heavy and thick growth of oak, 

 maple, beech, walnut, hemlock, fir, white pine and other 

 trees, while the plains and valleys were crowded with elm, 

 cherry, ash, poplar, hornbeam, birch and other woods. Of 

 the pine there were several varieties, and the white pine was 

 perhaps the noblest tree in the country; its stem rose Spine- 

 times to the height of two hundred feet, and was perfectly 

 straight, while its top was crowned with a beautiful tuft of 

 green, presenting a tree that often exceeded six feet in di- 

 ameter—a size double that of the famous tree on the Baker 

 farm. The pbch-pme was also of great size and height. 

 In the year 1786, near the river Merrimac, a little above 

 Dunstable, was cut a white pine, straight and sound, which 

 was seven feet eight iuches in diameter at the butt end, and 

 which furnished a log nearly 140 feet long. 



\m and Ewer 



FISH I1V SEASOIY I1V JTJI/T. 



Grayling-, ThymaUua tricolor and 



Blank Bass, Mi:ropt_?,-w, ,;,;:„,„,',;,,. 



and M. pallidw). 

 M is ilonge, Earn nobilior. 

 I'lckeni, Mstjx retxculatw. 

 PUce or Pickerel, Esox Ixtdtts. 

 Pike-perch (wall-eyed pike) 



salt water. 

 Sea Bass, CaOropriUis atrariuii, 



Striped Mass or Rockllsh, ifixse 



lineatiw. 

 Willie Perch. Moron* amerimno. 

 Bluelish or Taylor, Pornatom 



Stteotethivm amer ieamim, 8. 



Yellow Perch, Perca Jluviatilis. 

 Striped Bass, Rooms 'intatus. 

 White Bass, Jioccnn enrt/snpa. 

 Hock Bass, Amblophtea. (Two 



speeles). 

 War-month, Ohomobrytixg glitomia. 

 (.'nipple, J'iw..6,s fi : ,r,„nai:ulatv.s. 

 Bachelor. P.,mu:Ci/« annularis. 

 Chtilj, Xe-moliliK cotporalie, 

 Shad, Alosii BP-pidissiWi. 



iaUat ... 

 Scup or Porgie, Stenulmnns anji/- 



Pollock, Poltachius earbonariiia. 

 Tautog or Bluckflsli, Tantoaa 

 oniti*. 



i ' ash or Sf[notague,C>nosci/oi» 



Lit I raj SttS or Spot, L.;,:sh,mv.ioMi- 



Cll.uiii'.l Bass. Spot, or Kedllsh, 



probata* 



S ;,-..■ riKlie ;,,!, .:,■,,',. 



vepfiatus. 



Klngflsh or Barb, Meiilicrmis 

 nfbnioait.fi. 



LRTno angler, whether In i he bloom of 

 matured manhood, or with the sliver lock; 

 hie wrinkled brow, ever Induce within hhn 

 the belief I hot al. nil limes and places le- is 

 uions uouts In vast numbers, b 

 no mo case, wecion't insist upon anj m 

 captures, but we request Ukat do one, after j 

 maintain next morning, or oven that very night, thai 

 most toilsome but very glorious day, and has killed (! 

 lour 01 Hie finest Wants 'he human eye over aa/eil npo 

 aro liars" -and several anglers-Is a proposition Hie e 

 which depends much on the mode Of construction.— ,1a 



IMP ASP OCN. 



irly youth, the power of 

 >f hoar iinttituity ahove 

 if. or express to others, 

 ipci mil i.v en i (Tiling cnor- 

 pen to know that - tills Is 

 weighing every flsh ho 



I IT, Will 



THE ANGLER'S CONFESSION. 



San Puancisi'o. .lutvT, 1881. 

 Editor /'• .• I 

 I hterewitu inclose you n clipping containing a poem which mavjn- 

 .I.m-soi KoiiKsr ami Stisba.1i. II. was composed tor tile 

 Izink Walton " High Jinks " o' the Bohcinl.in club or mis city. The, 

 author Is Daniel o 'Council, a nephew (I believe) of the Great Agita- 

 tor, T. D. D. : 



THE ANflI.KK'3 CONFESSION. 



I've angled In ninny waters, 



on many a summer's day, 

 By many a murmuring river, 



In many a tang-led way ; 



Ami the M./li" 1 '- oi iiie l,|-rn,!: i;.is n.-. p-r 

 Lost, Its pal lios and eliarm lor me, 



As it ripples and runs forever 

 To 11* grave in the mighty ecu. 



These were the days the angler, 

 in the Hush of Innocent .youth, 



Told all his simple story- 

 Told doUiiii£- but the truth. 

 "I lislicU I lie si.roa.ii] near I lie mtU-ilam 

 Hour after hour in vain— 



I've not a trout in niv basket, 

 To-moiTo-.v in try it again." 



But now, alas I this bosom 



Is shockingly ci.aiiy.yl-I fear 

 I've learned in lie, lii.e others, 



in (he anemia' innhli., at the ,vi ar. 

 "Fishing v I rat her think so, 



A Hundred in half a day- 

 Two poundeis ami strong— such mousiersl 



loach took rne an hour to play.'- 



I've learned lo lie like orhers- 



I'iill me when he had caught 

 Just enough to nil my oaski-t. 

 And thus my nsli were hough','. 



Then over my nice clean stockings 

 I've plastered the river mud, 



And (he sleeves ut lay unfiling Jacket, 

 I've smeared with the ashes' Wood, 



Andsirolletl to me terry landing 

 With a wear? look in my eye, 



Then levelled for days succeeding 

 In one long luxurious lie. 



How T fell from ihe massive boulder, 

 HowlBwuin ilii-i.o-lailciit bronk, 



How in one pool four ami twenty 

 speckled beauties 



Men may rave oi til 



Bui 



The i 



lys of angling, 

 inigilrig'lles. 



DISGUSTED PODGERS WANTS A PISHING PLACE. 



Down East, July 10. 



HAVING just finished the perusal of the last number of 

 Porkst abb Stkeam, wherein I have read of wondrous 

 flsh being lakenby skillful anglers, I lay down the paper 

 with a f'e ling of anguish at their good luck and the compari- 

 sou witli my own very bad success in coastwise fishing, and 

 I am compelled by a sense of utter wretchedness to tell you 

 of Hie flsh I have "not caught. 



The Pobbst and Stkbaai is so replete with big flsh stories 

 and of the big oues taken thai it will be novel at least lohear 

 from a fisherman that has caught nothing save sundry duck- 

 ings from the sudden shower. 



With a mind oppressed wilh n sense of the absolute mces- 

 sity of going somewhere to fish, and with a vivid recoileciion 

 of tue old-time fishing on the coast, which a protracted resi- 

 dence on the Pacific side had not obliterated, I s'arted out to 

 fish on the Eastern Shore. 



Taking Boston as the objective point, I essayed to make a 

 start from thence on a cruise Eastward. The first effort to 

 charter a craft suitable to the occasion was met wilh demands 

 about equal per week to the cost of the craft. Somebody 

 sail go to Gloucester; lots of boats thne— cheap. So to 

 Gloucester I went, only to find that as I journeyed East 

 prices advanced. About Ihe only b at to be had down this 

 way is the inevitable "dory," a craft that has its beginning 

 at Boston and its ending the Lord only knows where, judging 

 from i he fact that the further Kisi, I go the more dory. The 

 dory has its qualities, both good and bad. In rough water it 

 is safe— a splendid sea boat ; in a wind it is the luosl exas- 

 perating craft man ever undertook to haudlc. Being buoy- 

 ancy itself and having no hold upon the water, it cuts up 

 fearfully and has a malicious habit of turning around and 

 looking you in the face. It is a good boat for its original 



