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fore the wood blazed. The fire was kindled, however, and 
after enjoying it awhile, was left burning, A mile further 
on the horses failed us altogether. We had not the 
heart to urge them farther. Whip and word would avail 
nothing, it was 11 o’clock, and we were still six miles 
from the Forest House. What was to be done? It was 
soon decided that two Bhould remain all night with the 
fishes, aud the other two push forward with the horses to 
the hotel. This being agreed upon, the teamster and the 
writer look their departure, agreeing to return as soou as 
possible with afresh team. I would have willingly have 
given my place to.Mark Twain, that he might have added 
to his experiences in roughing it. Had he ridden that 
horse bareback through the banks of snow, be would have 
had communicated to his sensitive system the pleasures of 
a skeleton ride, and though the animal stood fifteen hands 
high, 1 could shut my eyes and see nothing of the quadru¬ 
ped hut his back-bone. That impressed me. Before 
reaching the Forest House my horse fell several times, 
throwing me at each plunge into the feathery snow. Mr. 
Phelps, my companion, varied the journey by walking. 
Wlieii walking lie could only advance by aid of the an¬ 
imal's switch. A dog pressed close upon my horse’s heels; 
the snow covering the old fellow, save his nose and a nar¬ 
row strip of his back, At last we gained the hotel, the 
horses were stabled and we were seated by a warm fire. 
The wind screamed around the building like a wild ani¬ 
mal Jet loose from the mountain. The snow beat the win¬ 
dow paues, and banked up the doors. The storm might 
rage were the boys in. The team that we expected to find 
fresh for-our return, had just come in, and was worn and 
fatigued. It was out of the question, therefore, to go back 
for the men and fishes that night. With the first light of 
day the teams started. The snow was still falling. The 
day had nearly worn away when our companions issued 
into the clearings, from tlie woods. Men and horses were 
literally covered with ice and snow. They advanced to¬ 
ward the hotel after the manner of machines, rather than 
human beings. Our greatest concern was for the fishes. 
The cans were examined, and not one of the little “inno¬ 
cents abroad” were dead. There were the little finny fel¬ 
lows full of life, wiggling in the self-made current, delight¬ 
ed with the prospect of being accounted worthy ot a home 
in the Fulton waters. I just began to realize what a per¬ 
ishable commodity liny fishes are. Before, I had had no 
conception of the care and attention required in conveying 
these on their journey. Not an hour had passed since our 
departure from the hatoliing hoube that was not full of 
labor and anxteiy. The water had to be aerated continually. 
That your readers may form some correct conception of 
the labor consequent upon the conveying of young fish to 
the almost inaccessible waters of our State, 1 uecd but 
recite the experiences of a single night. At 8 o’clock on 
the night previous to the oue when the fish were put iu the 
lake, tile cans were filled with fresh water, aud I took 
charge of them. They run all right up to 11 o’clock, 
when 1 commenced to draw the water, filiiDg the cans with 
new. I discovered the little fellows wiggling to- the sur¬ 
face, a sure sign Hint they wore suffering, and iu oue can 
they lay on the bottom, giving but little sigus of life. Mr. 
Marks was aroused, and tor three hours, it was One contin¬ 
ued effort to resucitale the young saluiOD. At last we saw 
a decided change in their condition for the better, but 
agreed that the surest plan to preserve their lives was to 
put them at once into tlie lake. I aroused a man to aid in 
cutting a hole iu the ice. Alter much trouble we succeed¬ 
ed iu making a cavity large enough for the small salmon 
to escape through. The balance were taken on a hand 
sleigh lar up the stream and put into the Fulton Chain. It 
may be well to remind anglers, when seated in their boats 
amid the green foliage, enjoying the scenery of these lakes, 
unsurpassed in beauty, trolling or casting tbe liy, of the 
winter day when these fishes came to the waters. Also call 
to memory the dayB of waves and winds, of wet aud cold, 
when Setn Green aud his men gathered spawn on Lake 
Ontario. The patient study and experimenting of Mr. 
Green has made our waters as susceptible of production as 
our acres of laud. Mr. Green is already receiving encour- 
agiug reports from waters recently stocked with young sal¬ 
mon and other highly esteemed table fishes. Tlie State 
has just commenced the hatching of brook trout, and now 
our streams ouce famous for these fish will contribute 
again to the table of the mountain farmer, aDd afford the 
bare footed boy with beech rod aud twine, rare sport, and 
the Isaak 'Walton’s of our land may bend their way to 
streams, where far from cure and strife, from smoky town 
and busy life they may cast the fly o’er the finny race. 
This southern gate way to the wilderness (The Fulton 
Chain) is uusurpased in fine scenery and excellent sport. 
The Old Forgo House, newly named tlie Forest House, 
stands on an elevation commanding a fine view of the pic¬ 
turesque Moose River. Tlie hotel is new and commodious, 
and wiil accomodate from seventy-five to one hundredguests. 
Important improvements are to bo made in the honse this 
spring. Those who have visited the Fulton Lakes will be 
glad to learn that the hotel lias been leased lor a term of 
years to Mr. Joel T. Comstock, of Boonville, N. Y., who 
knows from experience how to keep a that class hotel. Mr. 
Comstock wiil furnish sportsmen with camping supplies, 
tents, cooking utensils, provisions, &c. Those who wish 
to tarry at a first-class toiest house and enjoy tlie combiued 
beauties of wood, lake, and mountain Bcenery, can find no 
more pronounced location and charming spot, than at the 
Old Forge, As one writer of note has said, in speaking 
of the hotel and us surroundings, “Hone will fad to pro¬ 
nounce this location amost appropriate oue for aforcst inn, 
ladies will especially note its superior attractions as a sum¬ 
mer resort.” 
Tnere is an effort being made to obtain the non-resident 
tax of the counties within the region, from the Stale, to 
expend on the road from Lawrence’s Hotel to the Forest 
House. The waters wilt be stocked with salmon and 
brook trout, making the section unusually attractive to 
anglers. 
Many tourists aud lovers of this favorite haunt in the 
the John Brown Tract has described Us charms. “A ride 
through these eight lakes,” says one, “is an episode in a 
man slife he can never forget." “The eight Jakes," writes 
another, “are connected by streams aud form a group of 
surpassing beauty. Tney vary both in size aud shape, 
each with a different frame work of hills, and the change 
is ever from beauty to beauty." While another remarks, 
“the beauty of the waters, their elevation, and the wild 
Scenery which surrounds them, would not fail to attract 
visitors.” 
The eight lakes are moreover the point of entrance to 
the boat route through the heart of the wilderness to Paul 
Smith’s and Martin’s. It is twenty-five miles from Boon- 
yille by stage to the Forest House (Old Forge). Boonville 
is about forty miles north of Iftica, and is reached by the 
Black River Railroad. 
The guides of the John Brown Tract are a superior class 
of men, intelligent, competent, and well mannered. Those 
sportsmen who have ever had tlie misfortune to be in camp 
with a lazy, low-bred guide, will bail this announcement 
With joy in case they wish to visit the region. An igno¬ 
rant guide, in the sense of tlie writer, is one who has 
neither tlie capacity to find game nor ingenuity to capture 
it when found. With such a guide a sportsman will be 
robbed of all pleasure ami comfort, and be in danger of 
slnrving. 
Tbo John Brown guides are “independent” i. e , not 
hotel guides. The latter are never to be engaged, if the 
former can bo secured. Those intending to visit I tie Fulton 
Chain would do well to write to Mr. Joel T. Comstock, 
Boonville, N. Y., and engage guides. I intend to spend 
the summer mouths with my family in a little cottage by 
the lake adjacent, to tbe hotel. “What,” says a friend, 
“take your wife and children into the wilderness to be de¬ 
voured by black flies and mosquitos?” Not. so. AVhat you 
call the wilderness is full of life and beauty to mo and 
mine. In the woods the nights abound with silence and 
repose. How sweet and full their sleep, and the morn¬ 
ings and evenings of the forest are sublime. The morning 
air comes laden with the aroma of the balsam and odorifer¬ 
ous trees, the sweeel fragrances are spread by the breezes 
from mountain to valley, and the gum trees are there for 
tbo healing of consumptives, and my girls will be down 
by the waters with early song, watching the Tipples, and 
romping the shore with my pointer Ray. After breakfast 
we shall take a row on the lakes or go lo a little pond, a 
hidden gem that is ever lulled by the sweet toned pines, 
aud angle for trout. There are to us, thousands of new 
objects and sounds in the woods and by tbe waters. 
The night after depositing the little fish in tbe lakes, as 
we smoked our pipes around tbe fire, someone speaking 
of the habits of fish, Marks, the “spawn man,’* related the 
following as an actual fish story: He said, “Some time 
last summer, a small dog having fallen into one of the 
trout ponds at Caledonia, tbe one containing the oldest 
fish, he, being near by weDt to assist the canine out, and 
was much surprised and amused to observe that on the dog 
attempting to crawl up, and just as he would lay his paws 
upon tbe edge, tbe trout would dart for him with mouths 
wide open, and fastening their jaws upon him would pull 
the animal iu again, then dart off, curving about immedi¬ 
ately,‘however, seeming lo exult over their victim." Tlie 
listeners agreed when Marks bad finished, that in time be 
might tell a good fish yarn. The good natured Arnold 
was not to be outdone. He said “1 once saw, when row¬ 
ing in Fourth Lake, a trout - capture and kill a duck.” 
Marks reiterated thathis story was a true one. “So is mine,” 
retorted Arnold, “but it was a young duck that the trout 
captured.” The evening was spent in the recital of amus¬ 
ing stories relating to personal, experience in the pursuit of 
game. 
Friday morning wo loft the Old Forge, with two teams, 
on our return, aud were fourteen hours reaching Law¬ 
rence's Hotel, Moose River, From this point we liad a 
pleasant ride to Boonville. The popular hotel of Boou- 
ville, is Hie “Hulbert House.” The proprietor, Mr. Geo.' 
A. May, is tlie most, obliging and genial of landlords. It 
can but continue to he the tavorite hotel for sportsmen en 
■route to the wilderness so long as it shall remain under his 
management. Both Mr. Day and Mr. Lawrence contrib¬ 
uted toward paying tlie expenses of transporting the fishes 
to the lake, and by the important suggestions of Mr. B. P. 
Graves, the merchant and enthusiastic sportsman of the 
town, we were enabled to make our trip a successful one. 
All theso gentlemen, besides others, take a lively interest in 
all that pertains to the John Brown Tract. 
I expect lo leave here with fifty thousand brook trout 
for the eight lakes within a few days. 
A. B. Lambekton. 
—The Fishery Commissioners of New York give official 
notice that the time for receiving orders for all kinds of 
fish from the Fish Commissioners of the State expired last 
Monday, the 20tli of March. 
— We call the attention of our readers who arc interested 
in fish culture, or who would value a country summer resi¬ 
dence, to Mr. Dexter’s advertisement of Hatching Works 
for sale. _ 
|\ht fennel. 
THE KENNEL REGISTER. 
l’hfi fallowing arc the names of the dogs entered in the Kennel Reg¬ 
ister for the week ending March 31st:— 
SETTERS. 
Mr. Jeffeison’s Flora. 
Mr. Archer's Koenig. 
Mr. Drane’s Belle Sheppard. 
Mr, Burgendthal’s Rake aud Fanny. 
Mr. Dortch's J uno. 
Mr. Shapicy’a Bess and Styx. 
Mr. Durgin’s Starlight, 
Mr. Moses’ Buff. __ __ 
The Springfield Bench Show.—F rom all we hear we 
gather that Springfield will run Chicago very closely as re¬ 
gards entries, etc., at the Bench Show of Dogs to be held 
in the former city under the auspices of the Rod and Gun 
Club, on the 26th and 27th of next month. The show of 
last year, although hurriedly gotten up aud not widely ad¬ 
vertised, was a grand success. We expect that the present 
one—the gentlemen having it in charge having taken time 
by the forelock— will equal in quality anything yet held. 
A Bench Show in Kentucky .—A Bencli Show of Dogs 
will be held in LexlDgton, Ky., on May 9th, in connection 
with the annual meeting of the Stute Sportsmen’s Associa¬ 
tion. 
—Mr, Schuchards blaelc pointer Fan (by his Tom, out of 
Arnold’s Fan) has visited Dr. Strachan’s liver pointer Shot, 
—We have at this office the certificate of registration of 
the orange and white setter Sam, owned by Mr. J.J. 
Snellenburg, of New Brighton. A letter so addressed 
having failed to reach Mr. Snellenburg, and been returned 
to us, he will please cal) at this office and receive his cor 
tlflcate. 
—Why the Kentucky Legislature, in passing a hill im¬ 
posing a tax of $2 on dogs, should have rnado it to apply 
only to dogs over three years old wo are at a loss to imag¬ 
ine. Is-it becauso dogs in Kentucky are only considered 
to be of any value after arriving at that healthy age? And 
how is the dog’s age to ho determined? We presume the 
object of a tax on dogs is mainly to keep down the accu¬ 
mulation of worthless, sheep-killing curs, who do so much 
to bring (lie whole canine family into disrepute. Why not, 
then, impose the tax on puppies six weeks old, and thereby 
discourage the breeding of all hut those dogs whose pros¬ 
pective value will cause their owners to at once decide be¬ 
tween thecistern and the tax collector? 
—“Guyon" sends the following words of wisdom from. 
Corinth, Mississippi:— 
“The ‘Squire’ has the everlasting thanks of Mrs. Guyon 
on account of an article in the kennel column, in which 
he stated that dogs should not be allowed to lie on the 
hearth rug and hake their brains before the fire. She now 
has the authority from tbe fountain head to keep them out 
of our sitting-room. The Forest and Stream says so, 
and it is so ordered; and so old Nora, who has been en¬ 
gaged for the last eight winters in a truly laudable way in 
trying to bake her brains, has to give it up, just as they are 
beginning to get done brown.” 
Death of “Fly.”— Our correspondent “Podgers” writes 
us from San Francisco under date of March 9th as fol¬ 
lows :— 
"I am in despair; have just lost ray Gordon setter slut ‘Fly’ that I 
purchased of our old sportsuura friend Horace Smith. Fortunately I 
raised oue fitter of pups from her by ‘Jeff,’ the dog that kept the train 
waiting, and they are accounted about the best stock in California. 
‘Jeff’ is still on hand, and at this moment lies at my feet, and by the 
same token is giving my desk a series of vibrations equal to a small 
earthquake, all iu the eager pursuit of the Industrious Ilea, tbe bano of 
California dogs’ existence, and not only of a dog’s, but of a human 
being’s, as all new comers can lestiry.” 
ON RETRIEVING. 
Westfield. N. B., March, 1870. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Many sportsmen seeui to think that it is an advantage to have setters 
and pointers taught to retrieve, with the exception of menwbo ouly 
keep one dog, it appears to tne lo be a mistake. It is clear that Lewis 
thongbt so {vide p. 119, Lewis’ “American Sportsman”), bat he was 
probably not then aware of tbe existence uf any reliable breed of trod 
retrievers, and looked upon retrieving bypoiuiers and setters ne a neces¬ 
sary evil. Dogs that are wanted to hunt in first-raid Btyle should not bo 
allowed to retrieve, as the retrieving of wounded game (not dead gamel 
injures them, by causing them to take notice of the foot scent, and con¬ 
sequently teaches them ‘‘to patter,” and bringB their beads too close too 
the ground. It also makes them unsteady, always wanting to run in 
as soon as they see game knocked down. I feel sure that moBt men 
would shoot with more comfort, and hag more game with a retriever aud 
a brace of setters than with three retrieving setters; besides which it 
Will take less lime and trouble breaking these three dogs to do their own 
particular work, than it will to break one setter to do everything thor¬ 
oughly well. No one who has; seen a first-rate retriever and first-rato 
setter at work, can have failed to mark the difference in their style—the 
former keeping Ills nose close to the ground, white the latter carries his 
head well up. If a Better has only to learn to range, set, back, and 
down charge, he can be made thoroughly reliable in a few weeks: but if 
the additional accomplishment of retrieving is expected of him, it must 
he a matter of years in making him perfect. How many excellent set¬ 
ters iu other respects are bard-mooilied? I think I have more than once 
seen inquiries made as to how they may be taught to carry properly, A 
well-bred retriever will always oarry alive (unless spoilt by bad manage¬ 
ment); nor does he require much training, except to be steady to heel, 
before being taken into the field; he will come to hla work very quickly, 
if he gets plenty of it, and having ouce learned it, will seldom give his 
master any further trouble. He can also bo used instead of any other 
dog for cock, snipe, and wild fowLshooting. Ibex. 
la the above letter our correspondent urges the propri¬ 
ety of using a dog expressly for retrieving while shooting 
over setters and pointers, for the reason, as he alleges, that 
the breaking of the latter to retrieve is a very long and te¬ 
dious operation, and then, wlieu they are so broken, they 
will “break shot,” and are otherwise difficult to manage. 
Now, we hope “ibex” will excuse us when we doubt if lie 
ever shot over a setter or pointer which was properly bro¬ 
ken to that accomplishment. Notwithstanding our very 
long and constant practice in the field, aud having allot iu 
most of the States, we have never met a single individual 
who pursued the course recommended by “Ibex," and wc 
would be glad to have an opportunity to conviuce him that 
nothing in the way of shooting “traps” could be more use¬ 
less than having a dog tagging at one’s heels for no other 
purpose than retrieving the game. We have frequently 
heard sportsmen say they would not allow their setters and 
pointers retrieve, for the same reasons given by “Ibex,” 
and also alleging that a dog so frequently having birds ill 
his mouth affects his nose. Whenever we have met with 
persons holding those views we have made it a point to 
have some shooting with them, if possible, and the result 
has been that without a single exception they were con¬ 
vinced of their error. Instead of its being a long, tedious 
operation to teach a dog to retrieve, we can have any set¬ 
ter or pointer of any age broken to retrieve within twenty 
days from the time he is taken iu hand; and then, if a dog 
is skillfully worked in the field, and made to retrieve prop¬ 
erly, he will not “break shot" or be more difficult to 
manage than one which does not retrieve, aud as for its 
affecting the dog’s nose, it is certainly a mistaken notion. 
Many years ago, when we were living at Trenton, N. J , 
the tale Gardner Hubbard, * of Boston, one of the most 
skillful sportsmen we have ever met, came on to have 
some shooting with us. He brought with him an extra Hue, 
