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FOREST AND STREAM. 



A ' nKt-ll' upon his hind-foot, while the oneforedeg 



ins on his hind feet, and coining 

 down at full length on his front one. repeat the operation" 

 Thus the, 



re about five inches ahortei tbanonthe 



d b f, andtl is, together with toes] Ml li g, go. fcd sh » that 



'i vhile a fawn, and the gttMit tf' tiie light 



Bide thereby retarded. 



this critical examination, he Was hung np to be 

 dressed, and we were all inrii is toe a scoi 

 'Hi marks the pulling off of hid hidfl would disclose, and 



golvq another mystery, viz., why hi t ugj I n killed by 



any of theiu. First, oamc two 5 1 ■- in the hips, made by 

 ball, that gave evidence of being probably a umnii 



old ; then four fresh ones through the body, back of the 

 lights, the result of Jake's last shots. Now came the lame 

 shoulder ; but when it was stripped, the; closest examination 

 foiled to disek.se a bullet wound, or a wound of anv kind. 

 The shoulders had, in all probability, been displaced bys 

 full upon a rooky hill-side. In despair-, 1 continued hauling 

 the skin off. until the ears were reached, but Still no mark 

 td was sound also ; but finally I discov- 

 ered a small, fresh bullet hole through the thick part of the 

 ear, which set my mind ,,i i Be. 



When those "old hunters" claimed bullet holes in the hide 

 Club-Footed Buck, they probably thought that he 

 was bullet-proof, and would never be killed for examination. 

 After the hide was hung over the pole, the venison quar- 

 tered, and we were all seated in the shanty, Jake looked at 

 the floor, and soliloquized : '• Well, I'm a'most sorry I 

 killed old Club-Font. When I couldn't find any other, I 

 could always hunt him up, and hoof him around awhile." 



Fur Parent aiwl Stream. 

 SOME INCIDENTS ON A WHALER. 



YES," said or, 

 rough expe 

 saw some things I « 

 "A portion of th 



, Mr. B , "I have had some 



and when I was on the whaler I 



ship's crew were Portugees, and good 

 Si Uots, : it unprincipled men, and their company was any- 



me, and before I had been long on 



board 1 ; myself at home once more. 



1 id in my father's house, and had 



■ - but had been indulged even more 



aim i ildren. But home had become insipid to 



BO sad Idid B ■' ap .'■ciate my friends there. I fancied 

 they were very unlike the rest of the world— staid and, in 

 fact, queer: end I ran away at length, raid that is how I came 

 to be on the whaler. 



-' v men, I mean those that had never before sailed 

 Seas over, came on board dressed in their new uniforms, and 

 walked about the vessel with impi taut sir, and imagined 

 ■ i- its made them sailors, but before nmny days sea- 

 sickness overcame them, the shiny belts were lying here and 

 i ' and the becoming blue shirts were carelessly donned, 

 nances lost their important expression, and 

 we all eon .■ ad ! i al uniform did not make a ss .. I 



• 'A g 



•Self. 



nam 

 most 



r was, of all the 



ad 



n, the 



while in a state of intoxication, and had 

 fci i □ it whan he became sober, and BE oned to 



discontented and moody. 



"Our Captain. Capt. Cook, was quite an elderly man, and 

 was cross, impatient, and sometimes even violent. 



"After «•©] I bi d ou . t.-.v weeks, there was quite a 

 commotion in the ship one e.y. |,e-ir,, ivo pair of shoes 

 were found in an out of way p. a,. .. : ,-,,| i , Captain quickly 

 ri oj is I them as part of a box he had brought out with him, 

 "lie ordered the men's trunks searched, end in Carpenter's 

 was found another pair, and still another in the trunk of a 

 sailor we called Curly. 



lid this happen?' thundered the Captain, when we 

 I brought up before him. 

 ■• -I stoh those shoes, Captain Cook, and I gave the pair to 



- dd Carpenter, calmly. 

 ■'■Well, you will repent of it,' answered the Captain, 

 angrily. 



"Now Carpenter had done the deed, hoping he would be 

 put on shore at the first opportunity after it was discovered; 

 but he was sadly disappointed; lie was put in the hold and 

 kept there a month, and fed on bread and water, and when 

 he was brought out to the light what a sorry looking object 

 icioted and so weak he could scarcely stand. 

 "But his punishment was not yet ended; he was lied ap by 

 ', thumbs to the mast, and then Captain Cook, with a tarred 

 rope in hand, approached him. 'Now Carpenter, ' said the 

 Captain, 'I am going to make you dance in your blood,' and 

 then truly lie lashed the poor man till the blood ran from his 

 back. 



"We were now not far from a small island (our friend told 



l I- this island was, and what was its name; but we 



turn forgotten tins part of the story); Carpenter was then 



aadi to 3 ss in be worst suit ha owned; all his pockets 



. ■:■■ wntonts taken from them: among 



other trinkets was found a picture, and when Mr. Smith, the 

 first mate, took this in bis hand, Carpenter said, 'Mr. Smith, 

 that is my wife and child, do not take it from me; please give- 

 it back,' and the culprit spoke imploringly, and held out his 

 hand. But the fust mate put the picture 'in his own pocket. 

 Carpenter's clothes were all taken from him, with the ex- 

 ception of the one suit, and he was put into B boat and rowed 

 to the island referred to above. The first mate went with us 

 to the island, and when Carpenter Was put on shore, and we 

 were about, to shove off again, the latter said, 'Mr. Smith, if 

 you'll give me back that picture, I'll forgive all the rest of 

 the injur! 



"Biit Mr. Smith did not heed the request, and we rowed 

 back to the raesel, leaving -poor Carpenter in the lurch, 

 though this was not on uninhabited island. I was not Bur- 

 he Ci plain's acting as he did in the matter; but our 

 lirsl i ■ .. - . _ i [, : ludruan, and it seemed strange that 

 ha should . " old E Ihe poor man sosacred a remind* i oi 



! we ! the piotvrraso dear to him. 'Now,' said Mr. B , 



. great hero of Carpenter, but will not hide 



He , , s a rough, bad fellow, and perhaps deserved 



HlmbBl i the punishment he received, but it did not Beam to 



be i i sort to make him better.' 



years voyage was over, I saw Gas 



Mind, which proves that he got back to home and 

 friends. 



'eli id now! will tall you about the death of our poor 

 Captain, which accidentally occurred. As the months went by 

 Captain Cook hcoai i i , i . I Bd because we tool 

 slowly, more slowly, in fact, than some otbi So b : 



determin i > v. i >rk done ; and picked out the best 



. men to man two boats th a - ijni : el, of nil In 



one of these boats he tookhis place. I nd I 9 as one uf the men. 



ti hale ia this way, butwi were ordered, to go to work' 



and the. fish was soon' wounded. The Captain was al] thi- 

 ll !'U ! axeited and cross, and when one of the boys made a 

 nusstroke with his oar, he threatened to send a "boat cup 



through his head. Scarcely had Captain C spoke thus 



roughly, when the whale came up under the boat and went 

 flukes, as the sailors say, which threw us up in the aims 

 quickly M if we had been shot. If.und myself in th, wati { 

 going down, down, .town, so deep, so far, that it seemed to me 

 that t never would stop; yet! was not greatly frightened: 

 one shoe slipped off, and I wondered if I had not better 

 throw of the other, as an odd one would be of no use I was 

 a little afraid of sharks, though even then f believe I remem- 

 bered that it is thought the sharks never bite a man while the 

 water is bloody from a wounded whale; I was also fearful of 

 coming up under the capsized boat. After what, seemed a 

 much longer time than it actually was, I came up to the 

 surface, and found the men clinging to the broken boat; and 

 the seoond mate was hokling up the Captain, who apparently 

 was not able to take care of himself. We all roared, and 

 beckoned to those in the other boat to come and help us. 



"'Here,' said the mate. 'John, hold on to the old man, 

 don't let go of him,' and he entrusted the half-fainting Cap- 

 tain to one of the Portugee sailors. The men in the other 

 boat came to our assistance, and we were all soon picked up, 

 With the exception of the Captain, who was missing. 



" 'John, where is the old man? wdiat have you done with 

 him ?' asked the mate, sternly, looking hard at the Portugee 

 who had last hold of the unfortunate Captain. 



" 'A shark took him out of my hand,' said John. 



"No one at the time knew further than this; the poor, old 

 Captain was gone, and the sea tells no secrets: it hides well 

 and deep. Afterward the said 'John told a different story; 

 said the Captain's jaw was all knocked away, and he could 

 not understand what he said, and there was "a heavy sea and 

 he could not hold on to him. 



"Perhaps the Captain was injured when the boat was thrown 

 up so violently, but we could not know about the certainty 

 of that, and w< all suBpi oted that the Portugee did not try 

 hard to save him. The Captain was disliked, and John was 

 rascally, but all that we can say with certainty is, that the old 

 Captain will sleep in the deep till the sea gives up its dead. 

 We succeeded afterward in killing the whale that had caused 



fb« TmmAanl " A. D H 



the accident." 



For Forest and Stream. 

 NOTES FROM THE COAST RANGE. 



AFTER a dreary ride, of a day and a night, from Gil- 

 roy, then the terminus of the Southern Pacific. Bail- 

 road, south through the uninteresting Salinas Valley, we 

 dismounted from the stage in front of the Paso Robles Hotel, 

 and stretched our weary legs on the ample portico in front, 

 Twenty-four hours of continuous stage riding, behind six 

 unbroken mustangs, and over equally unbroken roads, ia 

 not conducive to good nature, and it was not, until we hud 

 put ourselves outside a liberal quantity of mine host's excel- 

 lent venison, that we felt thoroughly at ease, and like look- 

 ing around to see what manner of place we had dropped 

 down at. 



Some time before our arrival we had left the sterile Sa- 

 linas, and ted been clambering over hills and down canons, 

 and th ough beautiful parks o* moreover ad oak. totally de- 

 void of underbrush, unless for an occasional m/imdnita (1 ith 

 its Btrong, red branches, and green, juicy-looking leaves, 

 , : i ,i ,- I '.'. n la scarlet, These natural parks are many hundred 

 acres in area, but gradually narrowed down as we iieai , ,i the 

 hotel, until, half a mile beyond it, the river touched the 

 hills, and gave the place its name— Faso liuhlci—Pnss of the 

 Oak's. 



In front of the hotel, and its surrounding cottages, flanked 

 by an immense cation and masses of chaparral, bubbled a 

 hot sulphur spring, whose waters were considered, by the 

 proprietor, at least, a cure-all for mankind. Beyond this the 

 river ran between banks wooded with cotton-wood and heavy 

 underbrush; still beyond the country rolled in undulating 

 waves to the eastward, crossed here and there by calnm.-. . ail 

 dotted by little plains— favorite feeding-grounds for antelope. 

 The canon sides are almost invariably covered with oak, and 

 their bottoms with underbrush. Baek of the hotel and to- 

 ward the sea (distant four leagues), the hills rose abruptly 

 from the plains, their faces bare, or covered with brush knee- 

 high. 



In a canon, among these hills, I had the honor of "jump- 

 ing" my first grizzly. The day had been excessively warm, 

 and I was strolling' homeward, from a walk among them, 

 when I noticed a particularly heavy bunch of chnparrai 

 below me. Thinking it a good place to find a drove of wild 

 hogs, numbers of which roam the country, I got to leeward, 

 and carefully worked down— and here let luu say, that for 

 acute hearing and keen seent, a deer is nowhere," compared 

 with a wild hog, and when wounded, they are as ugly as a 

 bear, although, fortunately, far more easily killed; but to 

 return, the underbrush was so dense— three feet above the 

 ground— as to defy progress, but below that it was compara- 

 tively free; so I dropped down and worked forward on my 

 stomach. I had nearly reached the bottom, and was saying 

 to myself that, my labor was in vain, when something jumped 

 from'a busk, fifteen feet in front, and plunged into the thick 



,,,,,,, a,' above, without giving meaehauce for a shot, I 

 crawled to where he bad been 'lying, and see his tracks W 

 the moist earth, that ha had scraped Op to make a cool bed, 

 and bunches of his hair on the bush, against which he had 

 rubbed. I remember thinking that I had but th] 

 ridges in the magazine of niv Henry, and stories of grizzlies 

 making off with a dozen balls flitted through my mind. 

 However, I got out of that caiion, ami invited him out. but 

 he wouldn't come, and I didn't feel bke going in after him. 

 Nothing please, a heai more than to fall in with a dozen of 

 hogs; they are fleet, and make the best of it; but he is fleeter, 

 unci one of them is sure to make his lordship a meal. He 

 takes but one, and i.i , teal ns as neatly as « butcher would 

 do, leaving the hide in a compact roll, with the h. al a thi 

 centre. As an illustration of his strength. J wills,; ,:,' 1 



h , ' >■■ . . hidden 

 and of his agility, that when linn and in running order, he 

 will run down an ordin try horse. Apropos; is an adventure 

 a acquaintance of mine. Beer-hunting one day, his 

 steps leel him to the bottom of a gloomy canon, and there, 

 sunning himself, in a glade, lay a baby grizzly; he picked 

 it as, en i putting it, into the bosom of his shirt, made tracks 

 lor camp. It was a long way oft", and before he hud made 



half the distance, he heard the stones rolling down the hill- 

 side behind him. and the ry 



He didn't wait for returns from the bat k 



dr 



q.pn 



cub and rifle in his haul . 

 as The bear tore his rifle to pieces, • 

 ' Ci e p'lsLt, r ail, and did not leave him until the ' 

 rng. He says, he don't like grizzly cubs any rare' 

 like this was an accident that happened D., uyoum 



patents added. He was a fair shot and 



was a little off on large game. At last h, 



at an old prong-horned buck, and as he fell, siu-a 



to cut his throat, dropping his rifle hi i is a 



the first touch of the knife thi a ,, i ss, 



and when our hero came came to bis set. Li I 

 se]t' up a tree, his gfap, ,,n- I , a, ins =uii m s 

 condition, and the buck standing triumphant 1 

 finally went off, and D. shot, bim, finding that h 

 had grazed the skull. I will remember that I did the self- 

 same thing with my first deer, but, fortunately, my ball had 

 broken his neck. 



Antelope are not plenty, but roving bands are often met 

 with, and afford capital sport. I ouee had P curious en- 

 counter with one in the San Joaquin Valley. I suddenly 

 came upon a female, lying under a bank, who, instead of 

 running away as usual, made directly for myh, 

 around him, and gradually narrowing her c: 

 could almost touch her with" mv hats'. bh< 

 stamp, lower her head, and charge a few l'ootstc 

 not shoot her, knowing she had a young o 

 reached for my lasso, thinking to fa 

 but found the "tkiilnx" broken, and i 

 play some time, and then rode on, i 

 and join her fawn, hidden near by. 



While I am on the subject of the San Joaquin, let 

 how a representative of a prominent Now York pap 

 taken in by stage driver, from Modesto up to the val 

 was just after the completion of the Pacific Bailroad", 



iself into 

 d the 



Almost 



lent. At 



>n scene, 

 nd hiin- 

 apidated 



OW. He 



lirsl ball 



running 



i, until I 



ie would stop, 

 iepa. I would 



one near, but 

 to the ranehe. 

 I watched her 

 her gallop off 



i tell 



. It 



...-, and 

 hs was on a tour of observation through the State of Cali- 

 fornia. It was winter, and the geese wero flying thick; the 

 morning he left Modesto was very foggy, and, in conse- 

 quence, the birds flew low. He hail the'seafcof honor, be- 

 side the driver, who, holding the reins of his light mustangs 

 in his left hand, was playing with his long whip. One of his 

 leaders did not work to suit him. and, as he swung his whip 

 back, with a motion peculiar to the profession, to chastise 

 him, it 80 happened that the lash wound around the Book 

 of one of a flock of geese, and was pulled in. by John be- 

 fore it had time to slack, and thrust (the goose) beneath the 

 capacious boot. The young man stared, but the driver rode 

 on in silence. At last the sun rose from behind the Sierras, 

 driving the fog bonks back, until all was clear. John 

 wrapped the lash around his hand, and, with a pensive sigh, 

 remarked: "Shan't get no more this niornin'." "What!" 



said our friend, ' 

 purpose" I .sposl 



of a mornin'." Timer 

 a letter from "Our Sp 

 goose story as fact. 

 ~ thick bark of tlu 



n't r 



nh 



i yon did it t 

 i ketch a dozen 

 ,, i mo with 

 detailing the 



vithi 



e.d, is pert'ors', .1. I y thl 



nbe 



Pntaa 



and the blu 



the holes 

 houses of them, but I inclii 

 The coyote, that jackal 

 arc the tales told of his eu 

 which, however. I do not vo 

 night, master wolf, on his 

 in fancied security, in the 

 attract herattentio] . an i ! 



in the parks I have men- 

 iccker's in quest of insects, 

 the squirrels and gophers 

 " i that tinio 



:' making store- 



til I I,, eS 



ilifornia, abounds, i 



as , , i, wing are a couple. 



for: Some bright, moonlight 

 ads, spies a ' turkey roosting, 

 iches of a tree. He harks to 

 runs slowly around her; his 

 innocent victim, after the manner of her kind, foUrrwe his 

 movements with her eve. and also, unfortunately, with her 

 head. Soon dizziness overcomes her. and she falls from her 

 perch, and the coyote, over her bones, reflects on the fool- 

 ishness of turkeys. Again, he spies a rlockot -,!,, , ,,, guardi i 



bv shepherd o 



aid him, t 

 mid-day sr 



1,1 s' Calling up.i 

 wait until the keeper is drowsing' under the 

 ilow the flock to wander away from them; the 

 from all sides, and circle around the flock, 

 whose weaker members are soon stamped underfoot by their 

 terrified companions. They then allow them to disperse, 

 tear open the throats of the maimed, and lap their blood, 

 and, by the time the shepherd awakes, are off. 

 Wild cats are numerous, and, in time of famine, bold, 



Ereying upon the ntwlifros' sheep and sucking pigs; thej 

 aunt the borders of streams, feeding upon quail and 

 smaller birds, stranded fish, and offal, m ii , . : , r , t | 

 They r are hunted with dogs, treed, and shot, o 

 for the dogs to kill, I have also seen them lassoed tia 'in 

 trees, where they had taken refuge. Tie 

 brutes, as ail 'a,'ir Cqi „ii.s. t, r,.|,.,., ; , , V ., , ,, „ p,,i 

 identical with the Eastern panther, although, I think, a 



Utile larger. These, when very hun-ry, will attack B 



always from behind, or springing on him from b to i : n n ar, 

 as does tha J king " ; 

 I shot my first Oil 

 made a sua-, ahot al 

 trees, tend tumbled 

 hiil tops are favorite haunts for the:,.. 

 to catch the fllst iiivs of the sun. r, , , . a 



the, lavs, the nights - i al , ye chilly. mi partj as 



one of these h Us, is u rn ng, ,.. lerkil inga rattle- 



snake; som . tenheardfif, He 



was attracted by if tii .-d two does, who, 



unconscious of his presema , v ere intently watching some- 

 thing on the, ground before them. The buck was running 

 in short, circles, his hair on end, horns laid back, evidently 

 Suddenly he backed off, made a short run, 

 d f 



ie to face. 



it of the house — 



■en two 



m a sis at rage, 



sprang into th 



together. These actions hi 



my friend examined the gro 



large snake, its head literidlj 



sharp hoofs of its antagonist. 



Hogs wage a deadly war against these snakes in particular, 



the 



and all 

 bite, or its eff 

 by one, and J 

 for the expr 



for snake-bite, 



ral, an 



.pparently pay no attention to its 



. .■■■■■:■' ■■.!■ .l,i.i : 



>w that ranchmen often keep dotui 



I lie. the e . Usahood of 



pi -I -, By th i ay, let e . ■• ft receipt 

 . 'Inch I have used on animals without a 



i I ,, i known to cure men. Li isaa, 



consisting of pulverized .,, 



paste witt ,1. , , , , , , id gives weak solu- 



tion internally. If the fang as not at] 

 large vein, it will cure; if it has, I advisi 

 human, to make his peace with God, and drink all the 

 whiskey ho can hold. He mmj live, but it is extremely 



