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FOREST AND STREAM. 



to the work and its location. - 

 Will say mat I think the pointer a more tractable anima 

 by virtue of his short hair, more cleanly around your 



nit my dogs to Invade the interior of my habitation, and 

 eosero in Iheir society." 



I urn with you," he replied. "I have too much 



! lor the welfare of my dogs to keep them kennel 



I In order lo keep your dog in health he must have 



fresh air, plenty of exercise, and, above all, society. My 



dogs run through the house, office and yard at will, and they 



are never subject to disease." 



" Although we agree pretty evenly upon dogs," I continued, 

 I am not the enthusiast with the shot-gun thai yon are. 

 There was a time when I found no greater sport than empty- 

 ing B double dose of No. 8's into a bevy of quail, but that day 

 is past I begin to look upon the shot-gun, with the large 

 bores and enormous charges now universally used, as a means 

 of indiscriminate slaughter. When you make a distinction 

 between the man who shoots for gam and the man who fol- 

 lows hunting as a recreative sport, the discrimination in favor 

 ■if the gentleman is one of science and accuracy. It is not 

 true sport to send a handful of shot in thirty yards at a close 

 flying flock of birds; nor is it, by any means, scientific shoot- 

 ing to launch 500 pellets at short range upon a single bird, 

 ■where a difference of three feet in I he line of sight does not 

 diminish the chance of killing. 1 prefer my small calibre 

 Maynard, sending a single leaden sphere where you aim it, 

 with the chance of an alternate hit or miss. If I must use the 

 double barreled shot-weapon, then commend me to a small 

 calibre bored for close shooting, and increase the range and 

 decrease the charge. But here sits the Major disconsolately 

 toying with vacancy, and looking unutterable things at our 

 monopoly of the conversation. Will you not favor us with 

 an expression of your views ?" 



The gentleman appealed to shifted his feet to the window 

 ledge, buried his evenly cut incisors into a fresh cigar, de- 

 liberately lighted it, sent a cloud of smoke curling above his 

 head, and leisurely replied : 



" I do not cast my predilections upon shotgun or rifle, 

 although 1 may occasionally practice with either/ I am, sir. a 

 brother of the angle. I live in clear waters, down beneath 

 the sparkling waves, amoug the finny denizens of the deep- 

 in my mind. Believing that it is only the amount of intellec- 

 tual excitement we bring to bear in overcoming the inhabit- 

 ants of the air and water that distinguishes bur pursuit of 

 game from the herd who kill for gain, I rely upon art to over- 

 come superior force. I choose to exercise my skill with a 

 single hair and delicate lancewood accompaniment as a means 

 of enjoyment. " 



' ' Wei), gentlemen," said the Doctor, as he tossed away the 

 stump of a well-burned cigar, and noticing with admiring eyes 

 the graceful figures of three fair Jefferaonians walking up the 

 street, " I shall be pleased to accompany you the first of the 

 week upon a ducking expedition up "the Osage, where 1 

 promise you good sport at long or short range, and a plethoric 

 game-bag proportionately." 



Missouri is a rich Slate. Rich in mineral wealth, and in a 

 soil tilled with decomposing esculent productions that have 

 deteriorated in the lapse of ages. Thousands of acres are 

 silently waiting for the plow to come and bring forth rich 

 harvests. The country in the southern and western portions 

 of the State is really beautiful. Live, energetic men are 

 wanted, who are more intent upon developing wealth and 

 adding to the prosperity of a country, rather than the many 

 large land owners to be found throughout Missouri, who do 

 not cultivate their broad acres, but walk the streets with dig- 

 nified mien talking politics, imagining Qiemselves statesmen, 

 and boasting of a past greatness which a growing fossiiism 

 will forever debar from - ; ■,;._■ ■■.... rlvvcumeet With 

 a person of thrift, who is rarely " to the manor born," with 

 pluck and ambition enough to rub against the prevalent style. 

 When th,e miserly owners of rritory, rich in ores 



and fertile soil, shall have passed away beneath the grateful 

 touch or death! then may we I less in this coun- 



try. Here is the opportunity for thousands of men to make 

 for themselves beautiful homes without a large outlay oi cexn- 

 tal. All of lhe cereals can be grown. '< :r:>- ■ ,,. 



abundance, and the country is Well adapted ' 

 dairy purposes. In this climate, where Ihe tained blue grass 

 abounds, cattle can subsist, with but little care the ,-,,,.; L , -.,-. 

 The sporting is good, .and gam: , ,, ml in abundance. 



Missouri has taken the question of preserving the game into 

 consideration in season, and enacted laws for protection be- 

 fore the forests aud prairies have become depopulated. The 

 more intelligent citizens sec the wisdom of this procedure 

 and aid and support the statutes to their fullest extent. If 

 those who have grown rich from farming in the vicinity of 

 Rochester and Ithaca, or from dairying in Orange and Cort- 

 land counties, were located along the line of the Iron Moun- 

 tain Railroad, or the Mo. Kansas and Texas route, thev would 

 find their store of dollars on the increase. Or if the "laborer 

 (who finds a scarcity of work in the great cities of the East 

 and desires a breath of fresh, invigorating air and a taste of 

 pure water) would invest his savings here in a small farm, he 

 would soon find himself possessed of a comfortable home and 

 a life of out-door enjoyment. 



St. Louis is the metropolis of the West and South. The 

 compromise which gave the domain of the State to slavery 

 checked its growth materially until after it had passed 

 through the ordeal of the war. How then it sprung up with 

 new life all the world knows. It is now a great cosmopolitan 

 city, rich in wealth and social life, active in commerce, grow- 

 ing and healthy. Looking down upon the St. Louis of to-day 

 from the high roof of the superb new temple of commerce, 

 one can hardly believe that the vast city spread before bum 

 throbbing with energetic life, represents the growth of half a 

 century. The smoke-tinged buildings and varied architectu- 

 ral groupings, have the aged appearance of some transatlan- 

 tic city. From the bustling life on the levee, that fringes the 

 Mississippi for many miles, rise acres of stalely magazines of 

 commerce, and far away to the west stretch long avenues 

 oordered with elegant resiliences. A network of railways 

 meets the eye, and the hum of a myriad-tougued voice greets 

 the ear. The city, which stretches for thirteen miles along 

 the bluffs above the river, with a population of over half a 

 million, a banking capital of twenty millions, has bridged the 

 mighty Father of Waters, and talks of contracting the cotton 

 iron and cattle trade of the South- West. Aye J and more; 

 these " dare and do" people look forward to the day when a 

 line of ocean steamers shall lie moored beneath the eternal 

 arches of their great bridge. They have unlimited confidence 

 in that indomitable engineer, Can't. Fads, and his : 

 tem, and the possibility of restraining the giant river in this 

 giganticeuterpri.se. Think of it! An ocean harbor one thou- 

 sand miles from the sea ! 



The athletic clubs aud sportsman's associations are growing 

 Wealthy and strong. The St, Louisau is firmly impressed 



ing-Ii herein the brain is 

 employed, i ball need by a corresponding amount of 



p yskai •■- - care, in order 



life and preservi perfect] msiderable agHation. mani- 



fested itself in she, Mini' circles V,t, spring ever the new game 

 law of Illinois, winch prohibited non-residents of the State 

 from entering and taking game. The bottom lauds and lake 

 regionof Southern Illinois have hi-i-i., fore presi I - 

 and convenient shooting and. Calling groundf itlewe 



of the Mound City, and this Statute necessarily ci 

 commotion. Theore-is a, fair prosj E the St. Louis mmrods 



having t/i look for sport a few tniles further from home, 

 within the confines of their own State. I was told by Mr. C. 

 M. Iluson, an enthusiastic sportsman and member of the law 

 firm of Tarry, Blair & Huson, that the services of their firm 

 had been solicited to test the constitutionality of the bill. 



Early summer and the blistering rays of a June- sun were 

 upon lis before I thought of turning my steps eastward. The 

 doles far niente in the sombre Missouri forests was soon to be 

 exchanged for the cool waters and shady banks of Cayuga 

 Lake. The evening before my departure from St, Louis, 

 while the sun was yet some hours high, I set out on a farewell 

 ride in the environs of the city. Down through Carondelet 

 past the arsenal, and oot upon the bluffs beyond the Jtsffei 

 Barracks my good steed bore me. Onward I journeyed, nor 

 meditated a halt till the light of day was slowly disappearing 

 in the western sky. Away in the" distance l" beheld a dark 

 bluff towering upward, high above the silent river, and upon 

 its crest a solitary tree. Solitary and alone I Not so much as 

 a dwarf oak growing near. Thither I turned my horse's head. 

 Reclining upon the brow of this gigantic bluff, beneath the 

 lone sentinel, I turned my eyes toward the distant city to per- 

 ceive its walls no longer 'gleaming. Far in the distance the 

 flickering gaslights are seen, sparkling beneath the dull, lead- 

 en cloud of smoke that hovers over the Western metropolis. 

 Up and down the river the steamers' lights are dancing above 

 the rolling Hood. I hear the shriekingof the steam Whistles, 

 and mark the echoes far and near. Sitting in the deepening 

 twilight my thoughts ran upon the past and future of Missou- 

 ri. The past filled with discord; the broad fields, desolated 

 and brothers battling in unholy strife. The present, viewing 

 the ground over which a fierce storm had passed, picking up 

 the. fragments and adjusting them to a new regime. The fu- 

 ture prosperous ; old scars obliterated, new men new manners, 

 and industry and ambition erecting monuments of progress 

 and wealth upon every hill-top, in every vale. It is rank 

 heresy to prophecy anything short of greatness for 'his people- 

 That memorable phrase of one of Missouri's Governors in 

 the early days of the war, that "Missouri will hold to the Union 

 as tongas it' is worth the effort to preserve it. She cannot be 

 frightened by the past unfriendly legislation of the North, nor 

 dragooned into secession by the- restrictive legislation of the 

 South," is emblematical of the independence of the common- 

 wealth and typical of a bold, free spirit. Today the pMe- 

 Mlum feeling is rarely manifested. Progress is "the word. 

 and old enemies work side by side, burying the animosities of 

 the past in improving tkefasematinireippurtiuuticsof the pres- 

 ent. H. L. B- 



Caffuga Luke, JV. 7., July 2, 1877. 



from its mouth ; another about 

 Bd one in sight of the 

 always beer, in the 



briog 



ad 1 must i 



[ring, and 



SALMON FISHING ON THE RIVER 

 JACQUES CARTIER. 



BT CHAULES LANMAN. 



SOME of my friends, the wise of their generation, have oc- 

 casionally 'expressed surprise at my fondness for angling. 

 While the phantoms of their summer pursuit have been asso- 

 ciated wiih conventional life in pent-up cities, it has Been my 



choice, supplied with sketching materials and ftsbj 

 to breathe the pure air of the wilderness. I have no" desire to 

 combat the prejudices alluded to: but, by way of showing 

 how much may be seen and enjoyed during a 'single fishing 

 excursion, I propose to write a chapter about the Jacques 

 ('artier River, in Lower Canada, In lSoil I made a flying 

 visit to this stream, which resulted, first, in my tnrablingmtc 



its pure waters, and secondly, in my falli lo ■•• win, rme 



of the most beautiful rivers on the continent. On several de- 



fended ray descriptions of the Saguer.ay Hi ver and Lake Mcm- 

 p uremia sue, since it was not long ago that two distinguished 

 American authors, after traveling Tar over the world, first 

 visited them, aud expressed surprise at their grandeur and 

 beauty. I beg the favorite authors alluded to not lo rest sat- 

 isfied until they have followed me a little further in my 

 American wanderings, and have finally spent a summer on 

 the Jacques Cartier. 



This river derives its name from the famous discoverer of 

 Canada, who wintered at its mouth in 1536. It rises in a 

 mountain wilderness, bounded on the. north by Lake St. John 

 and the Saguenay River, and, after a winding course nj p. ■;■- 

 haps one hundred miles, empties into the St. Lawrence 

 twenty-five miles above or westward of Quebec. 



its waters are dark, but very pure, and its entire bed and 

 banks are extremely rocky. Slate, granite and limestone lend- 

 ing their strata to diversify the scenery. 



In the variety of its scenery, indeed, as well as in 

 is probably not" excelled by any other river, and from its Ei iun- 

 tain-head lo the St. Lawrence it is made up of a continued 

 succee fit m of small lakes and rapids, deep pools aud falls, with 

 high aud fantastic hanks, everywhere covered with luxuriant 

 vegetation, in a state of nature. The country out, of which it 

 runs is a vast forest, only intersected by the huutint' trails of 

 the Lorette Indians, who go there in' the winter 'to kill the 

 bear and the caribou. Just before emerging from this wild 

 region, it runs along the eastern ba.se of a mountain ca 

 Tsonnonlonan or Great Mountain, which, although 

 feet high, commands a view of about 100 miles of the St. 

 Lawrence valley, as well as the blue tops of the Vermont and 

 New Hampshire Mountains. The country lying south of the 

 Great Mountain is comparatively level and tolerably well cul- 

 tivated, the population being wholly composed of hahitans, 

 but the immediate banks and valley of the Jacques Cartier are 

 everywhere in their primeval condition. Indeed, OS account 

 of its ravine-like character, it was marked out more than 100 

 years ago by military men as a natural barrier that could be 

 made available for the protection of Quebec from a foe march- 

 ing upon it from the west ; and it is well known that in 175!>, 

 the French, after they were expelled from the citadel city, 

 found a safe retreat on the western side of the Jacques Car- 

 tier. Good fordi ng places are almost unknown, and the lo- 

 calities where bridges are practicable are few and far between. 

 the only bridges uovv spanning the stream being ont 



ailed Piety's 



tyof Liery's 



>w tell the a low this d' lightfnl !o- 



From Monlrea you have to take the 



nboat for , : i . • bit b will, provided 

 a proper telegram beforehand transfer 

 it off Itape Saute, about three o'clock in 

 that pleasant village you can obtain a 

 lat will take yon to Ilery's bridge in less than two 

 and that I think the better starting 

 pla, i , there arc two n rates, and either of them wilt repay the 

 tourist, or angler; but the best course to pursue Is to go by the 

 river route and return by the other, which is inland. Every 

 mile of the first-named road commands Some object of in- 

 terest, and While the first seven miles are as smooth as a floor, 

 and lined on cither :-n! .. t 



mansions, the balance of the way presents a continue 

 of the superb St. Lawrence, the cat Dotages and thatched 

 barns of the habitant yeomanry seeming to vie with each 

 other in making delightful impressions upon the mind hv their 

 rural and picturesque charms; green fields sloping down to 

 the margin of the great stream, giving place to pretty villages 

 on the hill-tops, and they, in their turn, when the tide is low, 

 looking away upon broad reaches of a barren ' 

 land route is equally interest in it, only tliat 

 and glimpses of a forest land take the plarf 

 Law-fence. At Quebec the most comfortable 

 be obtained, with accommodating drivers; 

 propose to make an extended visit to the 

 ought not to omit a quiet talk, respecting - 

 butler of Russell's Hotel, than whom no n 

 stands the art of satisfying the desires of the human appetite. 

 And now for the accommodations that are to be met with 

 on the Jacques Cartier River, There are two Cottages at the 

 ' 'tile bridge belonging to Louis Eery and Eazile Trepanier. 



rand. The in- 

 tnounlain views 

 of the grand St. 

 of vehicles may 

 and those who 

 Jacques Cartier 

 ipplies, with the 

 better uneler- 



The former 

 itv of the tn 



dge, a 



.ml adjoins the 



ilb its ron 



.looking the narrow valiey 

 nd about 300 yards from the 



he proprietor aud his famil 

 the hill, being haiiitans. An ace! 

 .se originally, and since then it has la 

 hen in that region. 



adfe 





of good land, ar. 

 mtial comforts 

 irs of Canada. 



rtuingahoul the doi 



•strem- 



e, around 



i, curious 



ibitarj i family, is 



ft to visit in their 



ands on an open 



rough whii 



stern extremity oj 



like their friends 



nt took me to this 



i my headquarters 



es Several hundred 



ois.ll the 



a i rosperous 



■ ler, and 



nts of the : 



me personally, his 



e I wo ladies who 



tppy as possible. 



supplied with W 



v bent upon making it 

 - raifxff table and 



i iQMagfcwas "tirely given up to'us, who 

 ts. and with clean beds, nice cooking, and 

 -ition, it was not difficult to enjoy 



placed upon the board, From" (be post. 



% Trembles, six miles distant, we were daiiy 

 Vashmgfon and iNew York papers. The 



;ngs and evenings were devoted to fishing by the de- 

 ponent, and the noon-fide hours, by all of the party, to scenery 

 hi Dl Ig and Sl I thus divided as '.vas om 



between matters pictorial ^v\ piscatorial, the weeks Hew rap- 

 idly away, and onr enjoyment of the bracing air. the fresh 

 scenery and the sparkling , . , ,,, become 



moreaoute the longer we remained. Bui now for tj 

 idea if tics disi 



As it, would be impossible lo sketch either withpen or peucD 

 all the more . on the Jacques; < 'artier River ) 



will confine myself to a space of perhaps three miles, near 'the 

 middle of ■ i ited Trjepaniefa cottage and l begin 



- i , through a 



1 lie width of 



"'■'''- ■ --"' bend and then Bows 



■"■ '' '■ ' ■ '- i;: '' ' •■■-'" ' "!■■■.-, , ,„ ; . .,,.. ,,f wnjeh 



when the water is low, forming tiny islands, us smooth and 



marble floor. If water sprites do ever haunt this 



no) I n ream ;ho« granite islands most be their midnight 



meeting put'.-, emptying into I 8 place is a 



■ _ ' - ■ l« ■ 



"'inch arc, very 



v,-, while 



to be equalled by 



est like seals on the 



igaated as the Red 



it ol that structure, 



another of 



1 



iristllng with cedars 



hushing itself into a 



". glides onward, 



trout, may be taken in 



wading fn 



he delight of lounging 

 sandy bars Of Labrador 

 Bridge, is not Worthy oi a< 

 which is common-place, bi 

 its graceful sweeps, frettin 

 it' angry at the boldness of 

 and trying to impede its » 

 repentant mood. . run 



nbeams. 



: the pleasure of Urn 



ock to ano(he 



A locality, d, 



He 



and fri 



pendo.,! 



idsniee. Onward still, and we com,., to a cluster of islands 

 nd which the water tumbles in every conceivable manner, 



:,"-■,,.. , 



Of 8 



ith 



vhioh sprir 



pines reel 



leuse fores', t 



ien the 



■y. The lie 



s "the BasJ 



self must 

 charactct 

 y the side 



•- nana a huge noUows 



ten or fifteen 



k.inlof breeding place. 



, ,,,,,, a as Bui m 



■king down ihe river, is 



Ct spot that has 

 ."lying directly 



tlatio 



have been in its inft 

 of its own 



of a pretty fs 



filial wiii', pure water to the depth of 



which the trout have monopolized M 



1 edana juai ii b Dfmagnffice 

 view Crom the margin of this basin 



from Ihe fact that the strata of the rock aud the 

 outline of the hills converge just a! the point where 

 jl and the ides , o funnel ii i 

 t we come to a. long, cm \ ' 

 tiver seems to have fallen into a profound 

 slumber— deep and peaceful, on one side the o 

 rising perpenoicnlarly from the water's edge to the height of 



feet, haunted by echoes and looking 

 like the inner walls in ruin of a stupendous amphitheatre, 

 ~ th of Alpine 

 Qg smoothly 

 t most sne- 

 And such 



i the oppc 

 is i f natui 



effort to please' I 



mammoth trout as have been, and may Bti 



whenthewi man will ever nun 



the capture ot a brace or two dJ three-].;,,,, 



he river is now beginning 



