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FISH AND GAME. 



[From an Address Dell»etefl before the Annnai 

 Meeting of the Fill and Garni'- Leapue, April 1 

 1879, b> Col Tkodokr 1 tmaj<, Brookllne, Maea.J 



(Conducted.) 



Great nobles who were skilled sportsmen 

 were considered important personages. The 

 grand falconer of France attended the king 

 on all state occasions. He received a high 

 salary, and was allowed to keep Ihree hun- 

 dred bawkB— a fortune in itself ; for a cast, 

 or pair of hawks, were sometimes sold for a 

 thousand pounds sterling, and a single highly 

 trained bird was esteemed a proper gift to a 

 crowned head. Extravagant love of field 

 sports led to much tyranny on the part of the 

 nobles. John of Salisbury, who wrote seven 

 hundred years ago, says: "In our time, 

 hunting and hawking are esteemed the most 

 honorable employments and most excellent 

 virtues Ity our nobility ; and they thiuk it the 

 height of worldly felicity to spend the whole 

 of iheirtimein these diversions: according- 

 ly they prepare for them with more solicitude, 

 expense and parade than they do for war ; 

 and pursue the wild beasts with greater fury 

 than they do the enemies of their country. 

 HusbaDdmen with their harmless herds and 

 flocks are driven from their well-cultivated 

 fields, their meadows and their pastures, that 

 wild beasts may range in them without inter- 

 ruption." It was the desire to preserve game 

 that, led to the system of walled parks, of 

 Which that of Woodstock is said to be the 

 first, dating from the early Norman kings. 

 Their grand hunts were what we should call 

 " drives ;" that is to say, the sportsmen were 

 placed in stands near where the game was 

 wont to run, and then the foresters, with 

 horns and cur dogs, beat the woods and drove 

 the game into the open, where it was shot 

 with the long-bow or the cross-bow. 



Our rapid review has brought out this 

 anomaly, that the most civilized nations the 

 world has seen ; Americans, English, Ger- 

 man, Scandinavian and French, are the de- 

 scendants of men whose tastes were for vio- 

 lence and bloodshed, and who held the 

 gentler virtues in slight esteem. Here is no 

 anomaly, but the general law that the most 

 admirable things come from the growth, 

 the transformation, and the perfecting of 

 gross matter. The fruits and flowers of our 

 garden, good to eat and fair to see, are the 

 changed forms of foul manure heaps and 

 sewage. The pretty bird that sings among 

 the shrubs is built of slugs and noisome in- 

 sects. In like way it seems that great moral 

 qualities have a iurie beginning. What is so 

 divine as the mother's love of her 1 ittle child ? 

 Yet it, has its prototype in the ferocity of the 

 tigress, who tears in pieces every creature 

 that approaches her lair, aud ravages a dis- 

 trict that her cubs may be fed. What is so 

 admirable as the martyr's constancy, which 

 holds him up in presence of torture and the 

 stake ! Aud still it is only the infinitely per- 

 fected courage of the bull dog, whoso savage 

 jaws not death itself can loose. This law, 

 rightly seen, is not bad but beneficent. For 

 what is finer, what more full of hope, than 

 this inevitable progress toward something 

 higher, this gradual dropping off of evil 

 members, and the. persistence, growth, and 

 triumph of the good body? Let our study 

 be. then, to find out what is this good body 

 which is to be cherished. 



Plainly, the chase was a necessity of prim- 

 itive man, as a means to food, just as war 

 was a means to preservation. And the chase 

 still has this proper function, if thereby we 

 mean the. pursuit of all wild creatures that 

 may be useful to the human race. 



Bee what a vast matter here is at once. 

 For we thus include not fowling and shoot- 

 ing and trapping, but, what is more impor- 

 tant than all of them, the sea-fisheries. All 

 depend on the same taste. What impels the 

 cunning fly-fisher to seek the trout or salmon 

 is the same taste that decides the poor sea- 

 man of Gloucester to brave perils as great as 

 those of battle, in the hope of getting a fare 

 of cod and halibut. 



The aggregate of the world's fisheries is 

 stupendous; an important item in the nour- 

 ishment of the human race. Wherever we 

 turn, the abundant water-harvest greets us. 

 Some little alewil'e. streams on Cape Cod pro- 

 duce annually one hundred tons of animal 

 food. The yearly herring cure of Scotland 

 reaches 3,000,000 barrels. From the Norwe- 

 gian cod-fisheries come 19,000 tons in weight 

 each season ; and the amount of fresh fish 

 distributed from the great centre of London 

 readies over 80.000 tons in the twelvemonth. 

 And all these fishes, we must remember, ere 

 wild animals of the water— -just as deer, buf- 

 falo aud hare are wild animals of the land ; 

 or partridge, woodcock and duck are wild 

 animals of the air. 



Now, at last, we are ready to reply in a 

 reasonable way to the question, "What is a 

 hunter or fisherman good for?" a question 

 often asked In a sneering tone, aB if 

 expecting the emphatic answer, "Nothing!" 

 Tbere are not wanting people, and very 

 good people, who consider a sportsman an 

 anachronism -a sort of feeble mediaeval imi. 

 ta'ion, quite out of place among schools, law 

 offices and ingenious carpet-looms. They 

 have a horror of what they call "gunners," 

 and picture to themselves all the Rip Van 

 Winkles they have known — the loafers and 

 tipplers of their native village ; tattered he- 



roes of rusty double-barreled guns, with some 

 powder in a brown paper, a pound of shot in 

 an old stocking, and vagrant percussion caps 

 wandering about the lining of their waist- 

 coats. Sorry sportsmen are they indeed ; 

 and for the rest, of not much use when you 

 have five tons of hay down and a thunder- 

 shower is coming up ! Yet they have their 

 reason for being ; they are a sort of living 

 protest against, our over-anxious, overworked, 

 over-precise New England life. As they sit 

 by the hour, watching the floating cork in 

 some quiet pond, their round shoulders and 

 falling faces cry out louder than words, "Oh, 

 give us a rest ! Our fathers have toiled and 

 fretted and moiled, and have taken neither 

 pleasure nor peace, and we, their offspring, 

 are played out. So do give us a rest ! They 

 are a good lesson to us— something like the 

 " shocking example " of the temperance lec- 

 turer. Let us see exactly how to profit by it. 

 The chase, as we have seen, has two elements 

 —first, the pursuit : secondly, the capture of 

 wild animals. 



From the pursuit many advantages may 

 come — fresh air, a communion with ISature, 

 the exercise of skill, gymnastics of the body, 

 healthy excitement, and the like ; and then 

 from the capture, man derives wholesome 

 food. You see cruelty has no part here. 

 The real sportsman kills his game mercifully, 

 and makeB use of it, just as the butcher uses 

 the meat from his shambles. Here, then, we 

 have the tests of legitimate sporting : first, 

 the pursuit of useful game ; secondly, its use 

 as food for man. In proportion asfield-sports 

 fail to satisfy these two conditions, just in 

 that proportion are they illegitimate. We 

 may observe that such illegitimate sports 

 tend to extinction as civilization goes for- 

 ward. The horrid badger-drawing and bull- 

 baiting of Elizabeth's time have disappeared. 

 Eat-killing and cock-fighting are confined to 

 the lowest part of our population ; and even 

 now, a strong stand is taken against trap- 

 shooting. Fox-hunting in England still main- 

 tains its fashion, because it really is an al- 

 most purely gymnastic exercise, in which the 

 fox's personality is lost in the vast concourse 

 of men, women, dogs and horses. Con- 

 sidered as proper hunting, it deserves the 

 celebrated sarcasm of Andrew Fairservice : 

 "It's just amaist as sily as our auld daft laird 

 here and his gomerils o' sons, wi' his hunts- 

 men and his hounds, and his hunting cattle 

 and horns, riding haill days after a bit beast 

 that winna weigh sax punds when they hac 

 catched it !" 



But true hunting and fishing maintain their 

 rightful popularity ; and no men are so fit to 

 cope with great affairs as those, who, on fit- 

 ting occasions, can take dog and gun, and tramp 

 all day through the autumn covers, or wade a 

 brook of a June morning. Such are the Eng- 

 lish gentry who make laws in parliament; 

 such was Daniel Webster ; and such would 

 have been Horace Greeley ; if he had not 

 made the fatal mistake of " waiting forty 

 years to go fishing." One cannot do better 

 than end with the hearty words of old Sir 

 Thomas Moore : 

 Manhood I am ; therefore I me delight 



To hunt ana hawk ; io nourish up aud feed 

 The greyhound to the oonrae. the hawk to th' flight, 



And to bebtride » good and lusty steed. 



JBtw gnbUiiHUoti?. 



Hunt's Untvebbatj Yacht List.— Hunt & Co., 

 119 Church St., Edgware Road, London, 

 N. W. 

 Messrs,. Hunt <fc Co. have sent na a copy of 

 the latest iasne of their ' ' Universal Yacht List" 

 for the year 1879. It Is an excellent and handy 

 little work, and though we have no means of as- 

 certaining its correctness, all our English con- 

 temporariOB agree in vouching for it in this re- 

 spect. The book affords an exoellenfc index to 

 the present condition of yachting in England. 

 The burgees and ensigns of all the clubs of 

 Creat Britain and many private signals in colors 

 form a series of valuable collections and a regis- 

 try of private colors which cannot fail to be of 

 benefit in avoiding repetitions. A glance at 

 these charts shows that yellow, green and black 

 hunting is far more prevelant in England than 

 with oa, for we have oonfined ourselves almost 

 entirely to variations of red, white and blue, 

 Acker's and the Commercial Code are also given. 

 A list of over 600 subscribers preceeda the body 

 of I he work, and then follow the various yacht 

 olubB of Great Britain with their officerB for the 

 year, stations, entrance f ees, addresses of secre- 

 taries, etc. The main portion of the volume is 

 occupied by a fnll list of yachts, their tonnage, 

 builders, eailrnakers.distinguiahing flags, owners, 

 clubs and signal lettera, etc. Alphabetical in- 

 dices, foreigh clubs and a variety of useful mat- 

 ter completes a very handy little pocket volume, 

 always desirable to have near by. From it we 

 gather that there are 50 regular and fully reoog- 

 nized yacht olubB in Great Britain betides quite 

 a number of sailing clubs of various gradee. The 

 acceptation of the term yacht club is much more 

 strictly defined than with ub, for in England 

 only organizations oomposed of Beagoing deoked 

 vessels are designated yacht clubs, the open 

 boatB and half-decked Utile ones being more 

 properly oonsigned to the "sailins clubs." 

 Again the list of yachts belonging to eaoh olub 



and their average tonnage is much greater than 

 in clubs of corresponding rank in America. 

 Hunt haa enumerated 3.705 legitimate yachts, 

 and it ia quite certain therefore that the number 

 in Great Britain reaches fully 4,000 ! The Brit- 

 ish Colonies are all chips of the old block, for 

 wherever the Anglo-Saxon has planted hia civili- 

 zation yacht olubs are to be found. ThiiB we 

 find in Hunt's hat the Boyal Canadian of Toronto, 

 the Boyal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron of Hali- 

 fax, Boyal Malta of Malta, South Australian, 

 Koyal Sydney of Sydney, N. S. W„ Victoria 

 Yacht Club of Willi&inetown, and many others. 

 The leading foreign clubs are also enumerated, 

 in which, as usual. New York fares badly, being 

 represented by only one dub, while Boston baa 

 several. With few exceptions, oor Metropolitan 

 cluba are suffering badly from looaliam and want 

 of spirit, for they are being BurpaBsed on all 

 tacka by their Eastern brethren. The agent of 

 Hunt & Co, in New York is Mr. John G. Dale, 

 15 Broadway. The yacht list can be procured 

 either direot for 6s. sterling or through the book 

 stores generally for a somewhat larger price. 



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