Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, MAY 17, 1883. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Dos Shows and Dog Prices. 



Trap-shooting Pigeons. 



Burro and Brain. 



The Ride Match Trials. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Love of Nature. 



Nimrod in the North.— vi. 



Quiet Sport.— in. 

 Natural History. 



Bitfds of Northern Ohio. 



BnnttngAiiJfles. 



Jottings from Jersey. 

 Camp Fi&e Ki-u-kerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Georgia Fishing. 



Troutingin the Muskoka Distrk 



Kinderhook Lake. 



Does the, Mascalouge Leap? 



PenL. 



Somi 



.i Fishes 



Fish 



iglini 



United States Commission. 



Salmon in the Columbia. 

 The Kennel. 



The New York Dog Show. 



Great Dane Club. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



British Musketry Instruction. 



Creedmoor 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Y. ' 



The Death Trap Grayling. 



The Madge, Schemer and Wave 

 Cup. 



Silted of steam Yachts. 



Sloop vs. Cat-Rig. 



Duck Boat. 

 Canoeing. 



Tandem Canoes. 



Maps and Charts. 



The A. C. A. Meet. 



Canoeing Outfits. 



Types of Canoes. 



Races between Canoes and Sail- 

 ing Boats. 



From Vercennes to Lorna Island 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



Willi its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 

 of twenty-right pages this journal furnishes euuh week a large, 

 (mount of Jivst-alass matter relating to angling, shouting, th 

 kennel, and kindred subjects, than is contained in all othe, 

 American publications put together. 



DOa SHOWS AND DOG PRICES. 

 f \YAi esteemed correspondents who have been discussing 

 ^ ' Hie prices paid for dogs appear to have overlooked one 

 important factor in the growing appreciation of canine 

 propcrty, namely, the bench show. The direct result of 

 such an exhibition as that given in Ihe Madison Square 

 Garden, this city, last week, is to stimulate the public inte- 

 rest iu dogs, and stimulate the market for them. With the 

 improvement, in breeding has come a wider appreciation of 

 the several strains, and a correspondingly greater demand 

 for well-bred animals. 



An instance illustrative of this came to our notice the other 

 day. A gentleman, who took no special interest in dog.s, 

 and was rather inclined to ridicule, his friends who did, was 

 induced by one of those friends to visit the Westminster Bench 

 Show. lie entered the Garden indifferent at best; he came 

 out of it an enthusiast, a thoroughgoing one, too. His 

 suddenly acquired fancy was not confined to anyone breed; 

 it took in the whole show. This new "dog man" is to-day 

 the happy possessor of a bouncing St. Bernard infant and a 

 cocker spaniel. The spaniel, he maintains, is the only really 

 and truly cocker in America, and in defense of his claim he 

 is prepared at any moment to go off somewhere and establish 

 a new cocker club all by himself. 



Our correspondents aforesaid will understand that this 

 gentleman has a long purse; and he is only one of a multi- 

 tude of visitors to the bench show, who immediately or in 

 the future become buyers, and by keeping up the demand 

 keep up the prices. There are not enough St. Bernards bred 

 to-day to anywhere nearly supply the call for them. 



But while ^ celebrated prize winners, blue bloods, and 

 fashionable pets of the hour command prices virtually put- 

 ting them above the reach of men of moderate means, there 

 are thousands of better dogs which their owners perhaps 

 bought for a song, but would not sell for a fabulous sum, 



These are "the best dogs in the world," and their name is 

 legion ; we all know a man who owns one of litem, perhaps 

 we have an interest in one of these animals ourselves. 



This suggests another point which has been lost sight of 

 in the spicy correspondence referred to. The subject has 

 been treated as if a sportsman's dog were simply a machine 

 to facilitate the capture of game, whereas, much more than 

 this, he is an intelligent companion, upon whom is bestowed 

 a vast amount of affection which he reciprocates. This 

 accounts for the prohibitory price at Which he is held; it is 

 dictated not by cupidity, but by praiseworthy sentiment. 

 This feeling is as universal as the ownership and eompani- 

 onsuip of dogs. There is something radically wrong in the 

 soul of the small boy if he will for gain betray his four- 

 footed friend; we have a deep commiseration fur the indi- 

 vidual of maturer years who. prompted solely by sordid greed, 

 parts with the tried and true companion of his field excur- 



THE RIFLE MATCH TRIA IS. 

 \\J ITH the opening of the formal trial shoots between 



" ' competitors for places on the American team, the 

 outlook becomes more and more encouraging. Very well 

 sustained scores have been shown by many of the contest- 

 ants, and although the field is not a very large one to select 

 from, it is quite evident that the committee will have no 

 difficulty in drawing together a body of a dozen shooters 

 which the British team will have hard work to beat. AVc 

 hear of no complaints llms far, and it seems likely that the 

 men will go on the team because of their ability as shots. 

 With such a team, organization and discipline will be easy. 

 Riflemen respect a brother shot who can stand fairly and 

 squarely tip and beat them round for round on the record, 

 and they are willing to step down and out when the record 

 is against them; but no team can be brought into a good 

 working body when it is gathered up by a series of ap- 

 pointments. Rivalry is too large an element in the success 

 which has heretofore been met with by American riflemen 

 to permit it to be placed aside now. With a team picked 

 out as the team of 1883 seems likely to be, there will be no 

 long-continued chorus of grumbling in case of defeat, and 

 only the more hearty congratulations in cast! a victory 

 should reward the efforts of the visitors. 



It will be remembered that in the match of last September 

 the scores of the two teams stood 1,975 points for the British 

 and 1,805 for the Americaus, or averages respectively of 104 

 and 150 points per man, there being twelve men on each 

 team. It will be seen how much aliove this average the 

 scores are now running for the leading twelve. Bald com- 

 parisons of figures are, of course, very misleading, but in 

 the present instance the showing made by the men now 

 practicing at Creedmoor has behind it some real elements of 

 strength. A year ago the preliminary practice was marked 

 by some very unsatisfactory features, which we hoped tit the 

 time to sec eliminated when the organization of the team 

 was brought about. Instead, however, new elements of 

 discord were introduced, and incompetency at the head 

 produced a natural result in 3 scattered effort on the part of 

 the men. The lessons of that fiasco have been well learned, 

 and a suitable arm having been carefully prepared, the men 

 were required to use it, and thus make the trial now going 

 on one of men, rather than an exhibition of the experiments 

 which they might be induced to try. 



With the next issue of the Forfst and Stream it will be 

 pretty well known who are to be on the team, aud then some 

 calculations may be made as to their inherent strength as a 

 shooting body. The captain, too, will have been chosen in 

 all likelihood, and then the programme of effort will be 

 mapped out, and Ihe general plan of the campaign decided 

 upon. It, is to be a military team. The members will take 

 along only weapons of the military class, except perhaps in 

 a few cases, where some attention wi'l be paid to small-bore 

 practice with a view to entry in the several exacting indi- 

 vidual matches on the Wimbledon programme. It is cer- 

 tain that no other team match will be shot than 

 the one for which the men arc organized and 

 sent abroad. It will be an event of more than 

 usual importance, for it will be the first time that a 

 body of armed American soldiers have invaded the soil of 

 the mother country. It will be an oppoituuity worth the 

 seizing for an exchange of courtesies between the American 



militiaman and the English volunteer. Nearly a half mil- 

 lion of men are represented in these two squads who, in a 

 few weeks' time, will face the butts in the presence of 

 thousands at that well-known common which, for two de- 

 cades past, has been the central rallying point for all that 



was valuable in modern rifle practice. The match has 



already opened the eyes of many to the inefficiency of our 

 local rifles and military riflemen. The match will, at least, 

 act as a guide toward the better arming of troops, whether 

 regular or volunteer. How generally that guidance will 

 be I olio wed remains to be seen. 



THE BURRO AND THE BEAR, 

 Ileels and the jack 1 sing, who first on Mariposan hills, etc. 



—After Virgtt: 

 TO the layman the formalities of the law are mysterious 

 -"- and awful. The court and its satellites, the counsel 

 for the opposing pai ties, the spectators, and even the build- 

 ing itself seem all parts of a gigantic and insatiate monster, 

 which devours alike the substance of the well-to-do, the 

 hard-won earnings of the poor, and the scanty savings of 

 the widow and the orphan. It is never satisfied. It always 

 cries for more. Often it foments quarrels and disputes 

 which might well enough be adjusted in a pleasant and 

 friendly way, without recourse to its terrible process. 



It is in the older sections of our country that the law is 

 most to be feared. In newly settled regions and on the 

 frontier, the sense of justice innate in the human heart 

 makes speedy decision in criminal cases, and in those where 

 one individual has wronged another, the rifle or the six- 

 shooter is the sharp arbiter of quarrels. There are none of 

 the proverbial delays, no interminable cross-examinations, 

 no long-winded speeches or prosy charges, no locking up of 

 juries, no appeals or requests for a stay of proceedings; above 

 all, no fees to be paid the court, no retainers to counsel. 

 The settlement is short; there are a few sharp reports, a 

 little whizzing of balls, and the plaintiff or defendant cither 

 falls, or limps away, satisfied, or, at least, willing to wait 

 until such a time as he can get the drop on his opponent 

 and make his appeal with better chances of success. Iu 

 older countries there is a sadder state of things. It takes 

 years to try'a simple suit, and usually posts the parties more 

 than the amount in dispute. Besides the Wrath that one 

 naturally feels at being deprived of his money, there is the 

 It .. ' "'"kening suspense and anxiety of the delay — thathope 

 . :' ''■■th body and 



apple of his eye. i - L, 



would look fondly at them as they walked out, jrom s 

 corral to go down to water, and at evening after supper ho 

 would sit and smoke his pipe and coutcmplatc them, finding 

 each day a new beauty in some favorite heifer, steer or calf. 

 They were line cattle, and their owner was justly proud of 

 them, None were sick; none died. They increased, flour- 

 ished and grew fat. In the winter they fed upon the yellow 

 grass upou the hillside; in spring, when the gentle rains bad 

 caused the alfalfa and alfilleria to send up tender shoots, 

 they stood knee deep among the luxuriant and sweet-smell- 

 ing herbage. But all this was too pleasant to last. A ser- 

 pent entered Eden— and a grizzly bear Mr, Black's corral. 

 Night after night the fattest, and sleekest of the calves were 

 ruthlessly lorn from the sides of their helpless dams and 

 hurried away into the fastnesses of the mountains. Day after 

 day their ownei saw in the once mild and placid eyes of his 

 herd a startled, hunted look, an expression of appeal which 

 wrane ijisj heart. Mr. Black was in despair, and, determined 

 at any cost to be rid of this fiend of a bear, he published 

 an advertisement offering a reward of $50 to any person 

 who would kill it. 



On Bull Creek in Mariposa county resides a Mr. Opio, 

 who is the ] ossessor of a jackass, which is, no doubt, as deal- 

 to bis owner as Mr. Black's horned cattle were to him. This 

 burro, like most others, is fond of having his own way, and 

 when confined in stable or corral, and the idea occurs to him 

 that he would prefer to extend his wanderings beyond those 

 limits, he proceeds calmly to kick down the walls of tiic en* 

 closure and thoughtfully strolls away in search of dryer alga 

 brush or more thorny grcasewood. Now it happened onO 

 night that Mr. Opie's burro, having, as usual, demolished 

 the barriers between himself anil freedom, strayed in a 

 meditative frame of mind to the corral in which Mr. Black's 

 cattle were confined, On reaching it- he gazed mildly at its 

 occupants, and then gave himself up to a, contemplation of 

 the beauty of the scene. The clear stars looked down un- 

 winkiugly on the plain; high in the heavens rode the glori- 

 ous moon. In the distance rose the mountains, bare neat 

 their base, but higher up clothed with ehapparal and highef 



