FOREST AND STREAM. 



457 



FISHAND GAME. 



[From an Address Delivered be/ore tua Annual 

 Meeting ot (be PlBn and Game League, April l, 

 1 TEODORB Ltman, Bruokline, Mass.] 



Pish and game are known in two relations, 

 —lust, as objects of pursuit ; secondly, as 

 articles of food. 



ishing may first engage our 

 They are interesting alike from 

 their inliquily and their universality. 

 The studies of our day have followed man 



. all history or tradition, and have 

 found his traces among the remains of ani- 

 mals that no longer live, and that belong to 



ice called autcdiluvlan. When the 



roamed through the norlh of 

 Siberia and America ; when the broad-headed 

 elephant browsed in the rolling country of 

 France. ; when huge tigers, bears, and hyenas 



i ir prey in Central Europe, and 

 horses of species no longer known grazed o\ir 

 ino.'Jcru plums,— even in that remote anti- 

 quitv, man already existed, and, albeit a low 

 savage, began to assert his superiority. He 

 was. even then, a hunter ; one who, by craft 

 and address, destroyed animals immeasurably 

 stronger, and converted them to his uses. 



ie earliest atone implements (and all 

 early implements ate of stone) we find rude 

 flints, which may have been used as primitive 

 spear-heads, or were, perhaps, held in the 

 hand as a kind of dull ax. Very soon fol- 

 lowed objects which were unmistakably 

 arrow-beads ; and, deep in the peat-bogs of 

 Denmark, have been found boneB of extinct 

 animals m which still stuck bits of such flint 

 arrow-heads, shot at them ages upon ages 

 ago. These primitive wild men lived, like 

 our Indiana, by hunting and fishing. In 

 time, they came to make a variety of tools 

 from stones and from the horns and bones of 

 deer. Some ot them, in later days, owned 

 herds of horses, on which they feasted, like 

 the present tribes of South-eastern Russia ; 

 for we find, in their ancient camps, piles of 

 horse bones, calcined by fire, and split to ex- 

 tract the marrow. All such people, of what- 

 ever place or period, were hunters and 

 fishers. Both in Europe and America we 

 dig up, in their villages, abundant bones 

 of deer and of smaller animals, as well as of 

 fishes in great variety,— flounders, bass, 

 salmon, alewives, and oven unsavory scul- 

 pins and goose -fish. Nor can we deny the 

 certain evidence of cannibalism, showing 

 that many of the earliest inhabitants feasted 

 on their captive enemies, like the Polynesian 

 savages of modern times. Their hunting 

 must certainly have been of a primitive sort. 



they lurked near the watering- 

 places of deer, hoping, by a sudden blow, to 

 bringdown a heedless buck ; or, relying on 

 numbers and agility, the boldest ventured to 

 Surround a bear, and assail him with heavy 

 clubs and sharp stones. With them, per- 



, Mated the poacher's art of tickling 

 trout ; nor could they fail, at times, to cap- 

 ture abundantly of the migratory fishes that 

 crowded the shallow rivers, or that, in great 

 schools, were driven ashore by their finny 

 enemies. 

 Nobody can give any good natural reason 

 pro cess in man, It can be said that he 



ess, and that bare statement must 

 suffice. "And so, in course of time,— much 

 time, — the European primitive savages ceased 

 to eat their neighbors ; took to raising some 

 grain; had herds, and built rude houses. 

 With all this, they began to work metals, 

 and learned first to melt tin and copper to- 

 gether, and make instruments of bard bronze. 

 The chase was still foremost in their minds, 

 as witness the bronze arrow-heads, and 

 knives and fish-hooks, not to speak of 

 needles for sewing deer-hides, and fishing- 

 nets made of twisted vegetable fibers. They 

 were the unknown people sometimes called 

 Lakers. Along the margins of the Swiss 

 lakes they drove piles, on which were laid 

 platforms, which, in turn, supported cabins. 

 : :l only by a narrow causeway, 

 these lake hamlets furnished a good refuge 

 from enemies who lacked boats to attack 

 them . Their situation gave easy opportunity 

 for fishing ; the neighboring alluvia! ground 

 was suitable for such scanty crops as they 

 could cultivate ; and the vast woods and 

 mountains beyond never failed to furnish red 

 deer, bear, chamois, and mountain goat. 



In the age of bronze, mankind remained 

 certainly along time, before the art of smelt- 

 ing and working iron was discovered, as is 

 shown by the fine workmanship of many of 

 the ornaments and weapons — a workmanship 

 that could have come only from many centu- 

 ries of practice and improvement. The war 

 riors of Homer probably knew only bronze 

 for their weapons, and critics incline to the 

 belief that no word meaning steel can be 

 found hi the Iliad or the Odyssey. la the 

 chronicles of the earlier Jews, we see what a 

 place was held by " brass," or, more properly, 

 bronze, not only for sacred vessels and orna- 

 ments, but for weapons. That the working 

 of iron was a stupendous event is indicated 

 by the mythology ot the ancients, where we 

 find Vulcan among their deities, distinguished 



his skill as a smith. This metal, 

 capable of taking on all shapes and 

 many degrees of hardness and elas- 

 ticity, has made our present civilization possi- 

 ble. Nevertheless, it is, in some respects, 

 base ; or, more properly, it is in ever unsta- 

 uriam, seeking new combinations 

 with oxygin or acids, bo that it begins imme- 

 diately to change and deteriorate when left in 



neglect. Thus it happens that the iron age 

 has left us, for the greater part, only rusty 

 stains, to indicate where swords and battle- 

 axes once were buried beside their owners, 

 while bronze objects have come down through 

 thousands of years, fresh as from the hand of 

 the founder. 



With iron there come on the stage nations 

 who fall within the historic period— the 

 Egyptians and the Greeks, and, later, the 

 Carthaginians and Romans ; and at last, like 

 a specter host dimly seen through the mist, 

 our own ancestors, the northern Germans and 

 Scandinavians and Gauls. We, of the proud 

 English and American race, are, in written 

 history, a people of yesterday. Not a poor 

 Jew who peddles pencils or cravats in our 

 streets, but laughs at our barbaric origin, 

 as he thinks that his people were poets, 

 prophets and philosophers for thousands of 

 years, while our forefathers roamed half- 

 naked in the forests of Europe. It is even 

 so ! The familiar opening words of Owsat's 

 military commentaries, "All Gaul is divided 

 in three parts," are the first words of our 

 written history. He goes on to describe us, 

 just as Stanley to-day describes the negroes 

 ot Central Africa, or the Jesuits of the Seven- 

 teenth century told of the North American 

 Indians. Ctosar, and with him Tacitus, speak 

 of the great stature and strength of these 

 Northerners, who were astonished that such 

 undersized men as the Italian legionaries 

 should be able to conquer them. They were 

 all hunters, and many of them were clad in 

 the skins of wild animals brought down in 

 the chase, The great Roman— centre of the 

 most finely -centralized government the world 

 has ever seen — little thought that, within a 

 few generations, these terrible huntsmen 

 would pour in resistless torrents through the 

 Alpine passes, and carry by storm the very 

 walls of the Eternal City. So it happened, 

 and happened with reason ; because the prim- 

 itive, untutored hunter is a warrior by nature. 

 Other men are warriors only by discipline 

 and force of circumstances. This truth ob- 

 tains in all grades — among Scotch Highland- 

 ers and mountain Swiss as among the North 

 American Indians. There is no question 

 that the excellence of the rebel infantry in 

 our own day was in some measure due to the 

 considerable number of men in the South 

 whoso chief pleasure or occupation was shoot- 

 ing. In this trait a great difference is to be 

 observed'among nations. The old Hebrews 

 were conspicuously lacking in love of hunting, 

 albeit we are told that Nimrod was a mighty 

 hunter. They were a pastoral people, living 

 with their herds, in tents, and in a country 

 not well stocked with fish or game. So Da- 

 vid, when he slew a bear, won credit for sav- 

 ing his flock, and Samson, when he overcame 

 a lion, was extolled for courage and strength ; 

 but neither was praised as a hunter. The 

 Jews were, by choice, neither hunters nor 

 warriors. Albeit they showed an obstinate 

 courage when driven to the wall, they were 

 in constant dread of the surrounding tribes, 

 and fell an easy prey to Egypt and Babylon. 

 Indeed, we may say in general of the oriental' 

 people, that they had small interest in field 

 sports. It is true that we find the greyhound 

 represented on the Egyptian monuments, and 

 some hunting scenes, where game is carried 

 home by servants; but the grea'er part of 

 these stone histories relate to religion, diplo- 

 macy, or conquest. Fallen though they be 

 from their great estate, the Arabs and Egyp- 

 tians of to-day have the general mode of life 

 of their remote ancestry. The former glory 

 in their flocks and herds, their fine horses and 

 camels ; the latter are content to follow the 

 retreating Nile inundation with seed-corn, 

 and to catch the tasteless fishes of the river, 

 which the children of Israel longed for. , 



To find the fathers of true sportsmen, we 

 must come back again to our barbarous 

 Northmen. Just as Dr. Oliver Wendell 

 Holmes was the first discoverer of Myrtle 

 street, so the Roman generals, a little before 

 the Christian era, were the first discoverer of 

 the Transalpine hordes I Both had existed 

 long before, but nobody knew about them. 

 The political and domestic life of the Ger- 

 manic races, grew of course, from their own 

 special nature ; and we are not surprised, af- 

 ter the overthrow of the Roman power, and 

 the crumbling of an empire which only the 

 genius ot a Charlemagne could keep together, 

 to find the land divided among petty military 

 chiefs, each holding by weapon-right, and 

 getting what he could out of his neighbors 

 and subjects. Here was a hot-bed in which 

 to grow hunters ; and they grew and throve, 

 and have continued unto our own time! 

 These feudal princes and barons drank in 

 the love of the chase with their mothers- 

 milk. European forests and mountains 

 abounded then in large game, and the propri- 

 etors, excluded by caste-rules from trade or 

 agriculture, had no employment save religion, 

 or fighting or hunting. No wonder that 

 this last became not only an art, but a pas- 

 sion, which exhalted its object to highest im- 

 portance. Game became a thing to be ten- 

 derly protected ; to be slain only by rule and 

 by measure. Thus are explained the game 

 laws of England, — which exhibit the anoma- 

 ly of a cruel code among a people eminently 

 merciful. It might once have been said there, 

 that one might nearly as well kill a man as a 

 salmon. Indeed, from before the 

 Robin Hood to the present time, these severe 

 enactments kept in being a set of outlaws 

 and poachers, who slew the king's deer and 

 snared the squire's partridges. 



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FOR SALE BY LINCOLN & HBLLYAR, 



WARREN, MASS. 



Eight pointers, whelped Mav 23, by our champion 

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 1S77, and tweive other prizes. Out of our Gypsy, a 

 large, swung, healthy bitch (Cal-Psyche), 11. C, St. 

 Paul champion class and open class, 1S7S. Two 

 pointers, whelped March 21, by Rake LI., Sd Mew 

 York 18T8, our. of our Daisy. Eight red Irish setters 

 whelped May 13, by oar imported Dash, 1st, New 

 York '78, 2d Boston '78, out of our Imported Flora, 

 1st New York '7S, 1st Boston '79. As Dash is now 

 dead this is the last opportunity of securing this 

 stock. The above are mil brothers and sisters to 

 Phantom and Biz, both 1st New York '79. Eight red 

 Irish setters, whelped May 10, by our imported 

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 Cock Robin, by King Death, ran up to Master 

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FOR SALE— Four Llewellin setter pupi, by the 

 chamnioo Dash III, out of Starlight (Hake- 

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 Bangor, Me. je!9 It, 



ITiOR SALE.— Five Gorden setter bitch puns. 

 } Good pedigree. JAMES WIGHT, Rockland, 

 Mo- juul9 4t 



FOK SALE, when eight weeks old, 7 puppies out 

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&A_ K Wl " bn y a thoroughly broken IrlBh setter 

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GORDON SETTER PUPPIES FOR SALE. 



Two dogs and two bitch puppies out of Champion 

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s For sale two brace of grand red Irish dog puppies 

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FOR SALE.— A very line red Irish dog pun, 11 

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RATTLER-In the Stnd.-Blue belton, Lleweldn 

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pion Rob Roy, winner of live English held trills out 

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 was bred by John Davmson, and is litter brother to 

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FOR BALE OR EXCHANGE- -v maeniiici 

 English retriever, two 1 1 

 ducking; weighs a> pounds; beatiiiinf coat a 

 long silken hair en ears; a beauty ; was imnori 

 by Dr. H. i-inith, V. S. A.: cost *70 wilhout diii 

 will exchange for a light breech-loading shot m 

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