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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Tok Law in Tenttessre.— The Nashville Rural Sun says : 

 Of all monstrosities aad absurdities tl _■ < InwofTennes- 



iee i irries off tlie palm. In the first place it makes no 

 provision for the enforcement of the law. It says that quail 

 shall not b« taken with trap or net, and then leaves if. optional 

 with the owner of the lahdto prosecute or not, and without 



in:- c msenl bo one elsecoti prosecute. This, of course, renders 

 iiii a pari Of the law almost a nullity, for the farmers as a gen- 

 eral thing do not wish to rush into lawsuits hy proseeutinrr 

 ,i in iv violate this law. The law has been violated 

 With impunity, for throughout Hie past season we could at 

 any time buy live quail here in our city market. No at 

 tempt was made,, either, to hide the fact that they had been 

 taken contrary to law. Even now, during, the close season, 

 iei live quail boldly offered on our streets for sale. This 

 is simply an outrage, but there is nO recourse under the law, 

 unless the planter himself will do the prosecuting. Again, the 

 close season for game birds is fixed from March 1st to Septem- 

 ber loth, and snipe im Indi '■ under this head. Oh, shades of 

 the immortal Frank rasn'l the frarner of (he bill a 



wise man in his own conceil '.' Shipe is a initiatory bird, and 

 does not arrive in our State until after the Oral ol March 

 Generally they are in our swamps from the loth of March to 

 tile 16th of April. To say that, they must not be shot after 

 the first of Marchis equivalent to savins they must not be shot 

 at all. This, too for a migratory bird that does not breed here 

 but simply stops with us for a few weeks, in the Bpring, while 

 on his march north to his breeding gl ad on hi -rent lakes. 

 We have yet to learn of but one prosecution under this law. 

 and this was in the case of an old negro in Maury county. 

 who shot a quail out of season. No law can be made ef- 

 fective unless some provision is made for its enforcement. We 

 say to the farmers that it, is now left with them to protect the 

 game or not, just as they please, and unless they arouse them- 

 selves from this don't-care state, we will soon have, no game in 

 this State. 



A VINDICATION. 



Philadelphia, Jane 0, 16T7. 

 Mr. Cluulmllolhck: 



Peak Sir— I have not, been lu the Adirondacks for ten years, lml T 

 nave corresponded witii an old friend there— Mitchell Sabav is -and do 



... i i i |,n -'■■■■ him accused in print of what I hardly think he would do, 



i !. I from what ho was when I last wan l< retl . n the 



, node ,..i . him. as to ins past record I know tins, that when I used 



id I 



to vis i |,nng [..ike, what lie told me 1 would Have Believed ; aad 



.1 had seen him shunt a deer, and he denied it, I i 



have pill thai deer down as " killed by a special dispensation 0] 

 HeWSe 5 ears ago, m Ye, '59 and thcroahnuts, a eerlaln llr.To. 



How England, used to goto that cotmtry to shoot and ttsh and re 



rate health. Mitch, to'd ine that the doctt* usee to kill a den- or i 

 anight, floating, or perhaps catch in a nay n arge mess of trout. 

 then, without any regard to what would become of the meal n ..- 

 would propose toonange catnptosonie Dthei apol where he EliOhg 

 could most easily repeat the killing >.r ..-nieinee. and so game . ■ - 

 ed. He told me one season taat I BiinK the year bfeiore— Dr. 



hurt employed aim, Loo Weatnersby and, I b« re, Caleb i has* 



with him, and that liefore starting, al three told him thai they i 



ii heinlendedto kill deer and catch trout to waste. IU 



claimed any stioli intention, and they carried a tub and salt wat 

 lake care nl tlie trout in. The result was not what limy hart exp 



thai being, one pisl -the Iftsl ireeK in the month— al Newuomb'B 



,,„.: a irhowae with me -Mr, A. A. Clay, whom you know— to walk 



, p otliechahl lakes and lie about for a few days. We tool; our guns 

 and rods and wenl there, a boy named Henry FarKer accompanying us. 

 While there for a week it rained every day but one, and the lakes were 

 so high that deer could not be floated. Br. Todd and his party were 

 camped on the lower pond, we on one of the extreme tipper ones. The 

 first day there we found a splendid deer lying in the water, Skinned, 

 but otherwise Qtterly untouched. It had been shot and not an ounce 



:,,, . fron it. A nav or two afterwards I met one of Br. Todd's piety 

 on the mam lake, and he complained that the wafer was 80 high that 

 they could get no venison. I expressed my astonishment at tins, as 



deei - 1 in be so plenty that people could kill them and let them 



lie. " We found a very fine one. whole, m lie • pond above." This cut 

 short conversation, anil we had no more vlstts from that, party, but the 

 Incident amply confirmed What Mitchell had told me, and I have never 

 had reason to doubt his word on any point before or since. The only 

 deer I ever knew him to Kill out of season was one killed in February, 

 1881. lie. Bill Wood, Ransom Calmer, Henry Parker and 1 went after 

 , .,,.. ,,., bd >w S tOes in the country south of Baquclte Lake. The 

 very day thai we hoped, judging by the signs, that we would kill a 



,,,,',. | tremendous thaw broke up Hie crust and compelled us to 

 strike out for Kaqnctl.e Lake. On our way we killed a three-year old 

 buck, and thai we were hungry enough to amply justify the killing, is, 

 I think, testified by the fact that the five of us, with fuur dogs, ate the 



who 



,; lisl 



[cure that we had— broken the law. 1 never thought that 

 nl ,.| .,., thai ..ii ii 'King tin 1 ears 6 1 grain on the Sabbath day. 



,-,,, ,,. -■-,., ,,i (hat :; raced your Hunter's Camp at the exhibition 



,.,-i ,,';', ,.,- u ,K from an animal hilled by .Mitchell SabaUis, and I have 

 the hide of the same animal iu a rug in my sitting room. 1 shall not be 

 reminded by it. of Mil ehell as anything but a splendid hunter, a warm 

 friend, and an honest, man. I hope you will not class as controversy 

 these reminiscences, which have only as their object to speak a word 

 for one who might not have tlie chance to do so lor himself. 



Truly yours, Cecil Cttv. 



DOCAIGNE BEADETH YE "TWO 

 AMERICAS"— HE IS REMINDED OF 

 A PREACHER'S ANECDOTE. 



CiNCfNNATi, May 18, 1877. 

 Editok Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun : 



Sir R. Price is a gallant sportsman, has at his command 

 every appliance and luxury that wealth could command, has 

 made a magnificent sporting tour, mid recorded his sport in a 

 hook, which, cousideretl from a literary standpoint, is mediocre 

 only. 1 stale the simple truth when I say that there are in our 

 own country dozens and dozens of gentlemen sportsmen, who, 

 given his opportunities, could and would have produced a 

 volume abundantly more readable and valuable. The 

 '•grizzly," e. g., he slurs most unmercifully, making it little 

 more of an honor to slay a grizzly titan to kill a calf. His ex- 



ploits in faking salmon in Northern California, were wonderful, 

 and Sir Rose tries to feel mortally "hurt" because California 

 sportsmen seemed to doubt his statements in that line. Sal- 

 mon are not grizzlies, however, and, having but. jn 

 from the region traversed by our author, I must, say that his 

 opinion of the ease and trilling character of the work of killing 

 grizzlies is not f tic opinion, by a long shot, of the Western 

 hunters whose experience on that subject, is leu— /e 

 titties as great, as that of Sir R. Price. The hardy front iersmen 

 who have had the most to do with grizzlies, invaria .1 ■■. speaj 

 of them Willi the greatest respect, I can show you in the 

 counties of Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino (Cal.) at least, six 

 men who have suffered dreadful lacerations of body in inter- 

 viewing tTrsus hm-ribibX and I do not doubt that the actual 

 number of hunters in northern California who have, received 

 injuries in like manner would reach jifty. Of hunters who 

 have been killed outright I make no mention. It is, I say, a 

 matter of regret that so good a sportsman as the author in 

 question is, should elect to speak so flippantly and disparag- 

 ingly of the grizzly. Green "gawks" Who liftve yet to Bring 

 down their first buck, talk iu exactly that way— old sports- 

 men seldom or never. There's Ma.j. Sylvester Scott, for in- 

 stance, with whom I hunted last October, perhaps the b'esl 

 bear hunter in California, and who lias killed more ben. twice 

 over than Sir Rose is years old— this is what, ted sty : ' ' Why, 

 d— the Britisher, I'll bet, be was never within a 

 grizzly!" 



The story in "The Two Americas".!!' the elk which jumped 

 up, ran full tilt with the hunter's horse tied to his leg, and, 

 when but a short way oil, turned broadside on in order to tie 

 shot by his pursuer, is good. As I read 1 itoughl thi n akei 



•was Rev. Adirondack M y, and this is what he was 



saying: 



"I laid hold of his left hind leg, just, above e fetl ol i, 

 and sprang to my feet. Did you ever seize a pig by the hind 

 leg? If so, multiply that pig by ten ; lash a big lantern toyotrr 

 head, fancy yourself standing alone on a swampy marsh iu a 

 dark, foggy night, with a rifle in your hand, and being 

 twitched about, in and out of the muskral boles until your 

 whole system seems an the point of a separation which shall 

 scud you in a thousand infinitesimal parts in all directions, like 

 fragments of an exploding buzz-wheel, and yon have my feel- 

 ings as 1 was jerked about amid the mire and marsh grass, as 

 I clung to the leg of that deer. Now, when I fasten to any- 

 thing, I always expect to bold on. * * * I shouted to 

 Martin to get out of that boat, for I shouldn't bold On to him 

 much longer. It took me about two minutes to deliver that 

 sentence. It was literally jerked out of me. * * Now, 

 every button was gone from my coat, tlie jack had been jerked 

 from my head and lay a rod off in the marsh grass. * * I 

 caught sight of Martin, paddle in hand and hunting-knife be- 

 tween bis teeth, loping toward me through the tall, rank 

 grass. * * My lingers one by one loosened their hold, and 

 the deer, gathering all his strength, with a terrific elevation of 

 bis bind feel, sent mo reeling backward, just as Martin, dou- 

 bled up into a heap, was about to alight upon his back. He 

 missed the back ; but, as good luck would have it, even while. 

 the buck was in the air— the deer going up tte Martin came 

 down — the fingers of the guide closed with a full and desperate 

 grip upon his tail. Quick as a flash ! I replaced the jack, 

 which had not been extinguished, upon my head, and it< o I 

 interested spectator. If the reader has ever seen a small boy 

 hanging to the tail-board of a wagon, when the horse was at. 

 full speed, he can form a faint idea of Martin's appearance as 

 the deer tore like a whirlwind through the tall grass. * * 

 No applause could have got another inch of jutnp out Of the 

 buck, or another jinch of horizontal position out of .Martin. 

 Whenever, at long intervals, his feet did touch the ground, it 

 was only to leave it for another higher aud more aerial plunge. 

 1 laughed until tears ran down my cheeks. 'Martiu!' I 

 shouted, 'hang on ; that's your doer. Hang on, T stay. Save 

 his tail, anyhow!' At last the knife was jerked from his teeth, 

 and his mouth was at last opened. He averaged about one 

 word to a jump. 'Jump— will— you — be-e—deuiuietl. I've-e 

 — SOI — you ! I'll— hold — on — till — your — ta-i-1 — comes— 

 off-f. Jump-p— be — d-d-damned — I've— got — you-ul' I saw 

 a pair of widely separated legs swing widely upward, and the 

 red face of Martin, head downward, and reversed by the som- 

 ersault ho was turning. * * * The deer jumped into the 

 lake, Martin, the whilo, standing on his head at tie ... me 

 tion of said deer's now perpendicular tail. The guide not 

 being at all out of breath by reason of these gymnastic per- 

 formances, pleasantly and without effort, held on to the tail 

 and, when in deep water, killed the deer." 



With more of the same sort the parson ends his pretty tale. 

 The decidedly accommodating elk referred to may have been 

 an exceedingly distant, relative of the preacher's quadruped. 

 "The Two Americas" contains a number of breezy sketches, 

 but his bow is usually not too "long" to bundle. L'pon the 

 whole, and as between the two, I think 8ii 1; archi . 



scarcely equals that exhibited by U Adirondack 



chronicler. R. i '■■■■. 



Notice to SpobtsxbN.— Having received so many communications 

 asking us tor Information in regard to Our nix-section iiambuo tronr, 



jrilsc and salmon rods, we Have in-e).ared u . ii 

 subject, which weshail take pleasure ill forwarding to any address. 



We keep on hand all grades, I he prices ol which range from S15 m Sl.w. 



We put our stamp only on the lies:, in or. I • ■ ■ 



and our reputation, for we are unwilling to sell a poor rod with a false 



enamel (made ■ I tng as I BSttn i..., I ariti ini 



(Vitaontlel ..' in ■■•-'■• uers know just what, tuey are getting. 



,...', iMEKUi, IS 31 a I' 



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SirHeKRT- HADFOJUj'S LiITT.BR. 



following letter from Sir Henry Hal ford will wind up th e ex 

 planation and counter explanation preliminary 1 1 

 seem necessary, judging from past experienoi . . ■ 



every miitelimusl.be followed by ever so mai", . 

 11 I ■■ ■■■ • ,.i '!■ ,ii.i , tiory correspond! . 



have had enough 1Mb season, and now thai, each one 

 understand every other, let all get at work pick in 

 best men for the I teams, and let all outsiders under- 

 stand, for short, that America and American riflemen tin I 

 rifles stand ready at any lime to "lick all creation " incj .i 

 rest of mankind. Sir Efenrj 



■ . ... ,, I.eicesO r, Jtroa IT,] ,7 

 Jlfjy Dear Sir— I was soinewliiii MirpriBCd jBHterda fi 



ing tlie Xew York fijurt: ■■■ ■■■■. ;,„.,., i n i..i,i 1 1, u i \ pi ., may's tel 



i ... l l.i.i. ',.- , ',:. ,.,, '., II 80 '1 M",| !■ ue, 

 . I ii" "— , ,-. i, ,, I , 



, Ol ■ ■ i , ■ , , , , ■ i , ■ I . . , , , I , I , . 



had hot, Indec I, Ii ill tl I i at ... for i match tail ,,i 



io. Nor do 1 bllUoi 



flood Ireland, will be found I 



uuld have any pretension to < 



le match this year, t 



'da- 



tive ti 



The National Hide Association took action this year so soon as I hey 

 were informed that neither Scotland nor Ireland intended to send 

 separate teams, n m H oowresta with your National i. , 

 elation, and IwiU ask yon to cable their deoisiau an i, to irtietli 



- -. i in. . i, ngdom team or not at as earl 



possible. I remain, your* truly, H. St. J. Jlu.i ... ... 



i i:iioi;k, .in., esq, 

 Ln response to this, Hon, N. P. Stanton, I'res. N. i; .v., 

 telegraphed over: "You are correct. We will receive 

 I Kingdom team for Centennial Trophy." 



The E.viiup.ii Team.— Sir Henry Halford, captain of Hie 

 coming team, in a recent communication, speaking of the 

 selection of his men, lays down what appears to be a simple 

 and easy mode of determining the best shots of Great 

 Britain. He says : 



The team will consist of ten men besides the captain. 

 The three eights from England, Scotland ami Ireland which 

 shoot for the Elcho Shield, Only 1!), will meet at Cambridge, 

 July 28, to compete on that, and the two following days- 

 Should any one be uietlue to go to America bis pi,, ■ , 

 be filled by nominations by the respective captains. I have 



re - ''. ■ I i | ell III right to nominate three men ,,,,,,, 



pete in addition to the above i.wciity-fonr. Tl.. Iiighi 



scores on two days out of the three will determine ,,, 



nine men. I reserve the. tcnlh place for uc 



The eight who shoot iu the match n i 

 chosen in America. From the promises of support ', i. i 

 -I .. im. will be very strong. 



Conlln's Snoonxo Sat/USBY: — The Amateur's Badges, 

 which have been shot for at this gallery \ eel . |e f.,r llic'hisl, 

 two months, have been finally won. The conditions under 

 which the badges were shot - I ov. - , Each com- 



petitor allowed to enter twice , 10 shots, rifle .25 caL, of£- 

 i,-i.-i i ranga 100 feet, Bt300-yards. Oreedmoor target re- 

 duced i .r the distance. Oreedmoor rules to govern. The 

 badges i" be won thtee times, not necessarily consecutively, 

 befon b icoraingthe property of the winner. In the ninth 



competition, P. Penning won the first ba.i r, u 



:ond, ' I,. C. Bruce tl,.. third, 4(1, making 



Penning and Biggs final winners of their bailees, ami 

 leaving" the tli ; rd badge tor further competition between its 

 winners, who were: L. (J. Bruce, M. Ii. Engel, Leon 

 Backer. Sherman Smith. Of these competitors Mr. Uugel 

 proved victorious, making a score of 47, closely foil 

 Leon Backer's score of 46. The following is a summary of 

 the winners of the badges and their scores: 

 rirsi Bm . 



J*, Tie— Bruce aoil RlggB IT 



....it! l-'red Alder .: ..'.it 



4o P Fanning , ...-m 



4S V lAiliUIUg ;;, 



HI L Biggs. 



fFetuiiug. 

 M L Kiggs 

 L C liruce. 



is 



None. . i 



BZeal r - i 



48 VI i 



W M Farrojtf 47 M L I 



(.1 H dotir 40 Won. 



Tiiiid Budge. 



None. ■ ii - nan Smltli .n 



Leon Hacker it M M Kegel «« 



Leon Backer IT LC Bruce n 



47 I. (' Bruce 411 



MB Engcl 41 M B Fugel 4 



(IvT.i.ERT, 207 Bowery.- The second weekly 



eompetitiou foi Ihe gold medal occurred on Friday, June 2!), 



. on by 1'. Penning, luihe first competition it. was 



won by M . P.' Letmon. This badge goes to tho best scon oi 



centres (40 points); to be won three times to become bis 

 property. This match is open to all every Friday- . . 



THE N. T. SOHtrJ'JfBKPEST.- The festival of the N. T. 

 Bchu 1 Hill, on Monday, Tui 



',',', .I, Wi , 1 , ■ .. , mgh. There 



were ticineh, fine weather, a liberal alt. n 



prize lists, and a general good time. Tin 

 ore ,,.,,■,, ■■ ii-.,., 1 wo of them 



1 ding to Oreedmoor rules. At the ring 

 target, in a (.nod: P. Fenninc, 



08; J. W. Schneider, B8; A.. Uergncr, OS ; W. Hay, 



.;.,!. Ti. bier, (17: 

 0. Hprney, 67; •!• Dutel, 06; P, Land.. It. 06; L. \ 

 P. Klein, 65 j P. Crnsius, 05; \V. Klein, 65; Johl 

 man, Oo; D. Miller, CM ; W. Lewis, 01 ; V, 

 Jlellrig. 01: T. Hi':, ' A. h'uhndabl. 61 



ler. B4; If. Fisher, 01 ; 1; 



' I , , ' ■ 1 I I ' 1 , 1 , , 1 1 LTJ , 1 I , ,.,,,,.,,,.,, 



W. Klein, 45; VV . I laves. 41: K. : ■ 

 P. Klein, 40: J. Blnmcnbu 



■ idj ,n ■ , . ; 3S ' ,. 



\. Zeigner, Oi ; 



Kllllbel, 



oil: M. Lewis, 36: J. W. ; ■■ ■ ■ ■ 



