Oct. 4, 1883.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



1S7 



skins, but bad not secured a beaver. Finally, while camped 

 on Mud i'mk, a small tributary of the tjpper Chemung, he 



discovered signs of his favorite animal. He set. :i. trap as 



described, a 

 rook from flic water ; 

 beaver. Ou the eightl 

 trap, bul on lulling it I 

 pari of the hind icgoi 



jftWS. The ne\i night 

 Son knew thai hi- tra] 



ii -.in days in succession, lie 



ilendid specimen ol (lie valued 

 ruing he found no beaver in his 

 thecreek discovered the lower 

 itv large one between ihe steel 

 hap was empty, and Ihen Patter- 

 had scnl a bachelor beaver to main 



about, the region, aml'lhat ho had caught all the others of 

 l in- colony. Dl&tOokoUl bis I rap and determined to keep a 

 sharp loukOul along Ihe streams for Hie bachelor, and add 



bis to bis pilo of puTteif possible, He discovered signs of 



the wanderer at duTeroutp'acea along tin- creek, bul the 

 beaver kept socuntiingls Written thai the trapper did uot 

 succeed in Snding its retreat, and Patterson linally gave up 

 the hunt fot i bal tiroa, resolving to return and follow 



the bachelor until he was u tplurcd, as soon as bis contract 

 with Sir William Pultney expired. This was a lew months 

 later, tuid Benjamin Patterson once more struck the frail of 

 the bachelor b'eaver Mapes himself discovered signs of it 

 more than onee. and started the old trapmr after it, 

 a point ol honor deterring him from 

 suit of tlie Ihr.e-leggcl wanderer, as 



legitimate game, and lie bad set hi- In 

 For live years Patterson tramped along I 

 tributaries, both in Pennsylvania and > 

 up sfjjns "i the bachelor. The v, bole i 

 eated in the chase, bul 110 one sougbl to 

 son the honor of finally being in at il 



ulei 



jObt 



w Yi 



miles tn inform tile Old tiuppei 

 in such a place, or signs of i 

 ai.iiiaei plaee. and kepi him h 

 valley from one year'.- end 1 



leggud 



again, but will 

 Ol iring I bat air 



will's, and. more strange still, could escape froi 

 be had "drawn bead'' on it a score of limes will 

 never failed before to bring down anything al 



ig into pur- 

 Patterson's 

 •apiuring it. 

 ami- and its 

 k, following 

 ■gion became iuter- 

 lispute wiili Patter- 

 lb. People traveled 

 that they had seen the beaver 

 were unmisiakablv visible in 

 irrving to and fro through the 

 i another, lie saw the three- 

 id Bred at u time and time 

 ,i 1767, de 

 years elude his 

 n after 



lie that 

 t was 



en wounding it. Fit 

 ial Inat could for ii v 



Cd Ibal In 



aimed, must surely be bewi 



clared himself beat, and would leave ti nose open to any 



■who chose to enter it. Robert Patterson, a brother of Beii- 

 jaroiu, and also a noted hunter-, took up the trail. As had 



Ueen the c.is'.' with bis brother, the beaver seemed to Ik. v. a 



Charmed life againal Bobeftt. lie would discover signs of it 

 on oiii' creek, when it would disappear; and in a day orso he 

 would hear ol it being on another stream miles away, This 

 continued for three years, until February, fSOO, when allsigu 

 of the bachelor disappeared No farther trace of him could 

 be found, and it was believed that he bad either been killed 

 by some one or had died of Did age and exposure. 

 '•in 1809, in the fall, some wood-xboppers on the head- 

 waters nf ihe Cbemung, discovered a singular looking ani- 

 mal running along the shore Qf the (stream one day. They 

 saw it several times, and finally Robert Patterson beard of 

 it. He concluded to see what the singular animal might be. 

 He did not see the animal, but discovered signsatf beaver, 

 and such signs as led him to know that they bad been made 

 b\ a bachelor. Patterson made Up bis unod that the ware 

 rierer of 1792 had appeared again, and begun to think with 

 his brother that, it was indeed bewitched. The bi 

 madi its way down si nam. and in -pie 



that it was bewitched, Patterson followe 



down HJ3 tni :i- Newtown IMdy. near 

 now stands. Then' its track 

 They led across the country I 



of hi 



belief 

 moved 



Kb, lira 



I tin 



all 



. That sat- 

 mnuiug old 

 a 17!)2, and 

 ilinated on ihe river 

 sign or the bachelor 

 ad followed it from 



Tin re were marks of only three feel in the snow 



islied Patterson thai tile animal * 



beaver that bad escaped from Beujaml 



be gave up the chase. The track ter 



bank seven miles below, mid no furthei 



was seen by ihe party of hunters who 



the Eddy. 



"Benjamin Patterson, the original hunter of the three- 

 legged beaver, had hunted very little since his failure to cap- 

 ture it. Fte spent most oE 'bis time fisMng. One day in 1812 

 he was flatting in .lack's Eddy, in the Tioga River, near 

 Painted Po-t. Near him. at ihe water's edge, wasa clump 

 of water-willows. Suddenly a movement in the willows at- 

 tracted bis attention. To his surprise a large beaver stepped 

 0"i. and, as its whole body appeared to view, he was aston- 

 ished to see that the animal bad only three legs. He atonce 

 made up his mind that Hie bewitched bachelor had come 

 once more to tantalize him, Patterson sprang toward a largo 

 club that, lav near, and the beaver dived into the stream 



Only a few rod: 

 ran thither, kuowi 

 house, seemed the 

 the stream. The 

 river not 100 } aid 

 opposite shore 

 The beaver dii 

 the beavei al I 

 find the bodv 

 when, loaning 

 from lie- wale; 

 entirely unm.j 

 tempi to in> 

 very ti-h 



for twenty years eluded Ihe rifles and traps of the most, skill- 

 raftsman. Mapes bought the interest, of bis companions in 

 the dead beaver for two dollars, and brought its pelt to 

 Uncle Billy Hoffman to have a cap made from it. There 

 is a tradition that the cap is still in the possession of the 

 Mapes family, somewhere down in Pennsylvania." — JS r t:w 

 York Times. 



I'CATUF.Ils IMl |'l K IN TIIK Ol.O B.\ Y S'I'A IT.. - WiiSl Slcr- 



Ii; ... Mass., Oct, 1. --Partridges are more plenty than they 

 have been since 187:1-74. Woodcock have been scarce, 



though some fair bags have been made ."several envies of 



I friend of I'alterson lived, and he 



mid procure a l'ille. I Ie ran to the 



id hastened back to the bank of 



vas in sight in the middle of the 



It was making leisurely for the 



ire. Patterson tool; deliberate aim and fired. 



disappeared, Patterson believed be bad killed 



I last, and jumped inlo a boat, to row out and 



dv. He bad scarcely pull-d away from shore, 



Ug over his-bouliler. lie ,aw Ihe bachelor emerge 

 tor, run up the bank and disappear, evidently 

 njiircil. Patterson BWOl'e In- would never at 

 .'I'ferc with the beaver again if it came up to his 

 ket alongside of hjuo and made n meal of the 

 illOW from which ii: was made. The beaver was not seen 

 again until the next fall, when a deer-hunter, standing on a 

 runway near the Big Eddy of the Chemung, saw it' in the 

 stream. It escaped again, and all the efforts of a crowd of 

 hunters 'o run it down were vain. 



'In the spring of 181-1 there was an unusually high freshet 

 In the Chemung River. M'apjes, Ihe iaflsmau.'wa.s working 

 on a raft, with three other raftsmen, up the stream, when it 

 broken from its m. idlings, and they were Curried with it 



down the 

 island uea 

 cold. Th 



an 



Eta 



Tbi 



!l 



.'.led i 

 early 



• mail wintered here 

 hopes of some sport afte 



complaint 



Suudavs to bun 

 their firearms. 

 here from Wore 

 feet fusilade nil 

 rattling down o 

 and some stray 

 •silting in a bain 

 and ids wife fr 

 when they \V 

 ridges 



iitelv 

 , and 

 (V fi 



have bi 

 the lot 

 so-callei 



,■ carelei 

 Sundays 



en seen lately, giving us 



Ma 



footc.i 



believed it bad app 



He said nothing to bis compantoi 



clubs, and lbc\ would h-y mid c.i 



it was. Picking up such slicks a 



Surrounded the eolli-sl.dbs :<nd pi 



liisianily a large ben er sprang oi 

 to the river. The men win too 



miking a lauding on an 

 i the morning and very 



dks standing' in a field 

 "or that to obtain what 

 rn a slight fall of SQOW, 

 • track leading from the 

 was marie by a three 

 helor beaver, and 

 , its back 

 n all to ge 

 1 whalevei 

 I, II 



d thai n 

 -. lie 



lav 

 i t'l 

 pellets fn 



There has been much 

 ling here 



Uley use 



two men 

 hunting woodcock, keeping up a pel- 



.. "One of the charges they fired came 



idows ol a bouse near the river, 



nolher came down on a man 



his v.ii-d; and lasi Sunday a man 



m Clinton were driving in this vicinity 



tired on by a man w ho was hunting part- 



\ so severely injured thai the services of a' physi 



cum were required to e\l racl Ihe shot. The hunter imme- 

 diately made oil', and no traces of him could be found. 

 although the woods were well scoured in the neighborhood. 

 The general opinion is that this will bean unhealthy place 

 for Sundav .shooting before, long. Foxes ureqnfte plenty, 

 anda.s s.am as we have a while frost the music of the 

 hounds will be heard "over the hills and far away " And 

 what sweeter music is there to the hunter's cars than the 

 deep bay of Ihe hounds :„ they come Over the ridge in full 

 cry after sly royiiarri? ilow his nerves quiver as the sound 

 comes nearer, and he hears the palter, palter of Ihe fox's 

 feet through the brush or up the old cart path, where be is 

 stationed What a thrill runs through him as be sees il 

 jump up and fall back again at the report of the I rusty 

 Parker. What, exultation, mingled with regret, as he picks 

 him up and smooths down the . g'ossy ■ lur. But all regrets 

 aie lo.si when al. the close of the day's hunt he is sealed 

 before the lire relating loan altciilive audience (be incidents 

 (>f the day's tun. Then wdio wouldn't be a fox hunter?— 

 \V.\( -iii sktt. [It ought not to be a difficult matter to 

 squelch those ruffian Sunday shooters.] 



Box Hunting and Fox 1 1 ex ii Nf,. — \V by I think the 

 Newpou method of lox killing more brutal 'than the New 

 England fashion is this: That the poor devil of a fox is 

 turned out terri lied half to death al the start, and with all 

 the earths stopped, no chance for his life, which, of course, 

 he does not know, and his death is a foregone conclusion. 

 English fox hunting nor Southern are of this fashion, though 

 they -eem to me rather savage, bul lb it likely enough is a 

 •' Vankee notion." In our fox hunting (no shooting) the fox 

 cares no more for the dog than Ik- does for the crows cawing 

 about him, such faith has he in his wiles: and for the man 

 with a gun he is alert, and if he chances in his way, reynard 

 is like enough to get by unscathed and leave th'' 



lie 



id at a pinel 

 holes lor his sanctuary, As l'o 

 methods, it lies between arkethora m 

 iug his neck for nothing or tiring hi 

 rather tire my legs than break 

 the line, for there 

 •lubbingad. 



gapping world full of 



nanltness of the two 



wish,- to risk break- 



gs for the sain. . I'd 



It is hard to draw 



ryiifal) field spoil-, but between 



death in the water, or shooting him on 



still-hunling him. if would not seem hard.— 



the runway, or 

 Awahsoose. 



Phoposed License for Mark-kt HuNiEns. — Massa- 

 chusetts. — Kditor Forent and Stream: The game laws of 

 this Stale should be so amended ihe coming winter that men 

 who shoot game to sell shall be compelled to take out a 

 license and pay a good sum (at least $:l~> per year) for the 

 privilege. One or two of the shiftless fellows who follow 

 the business because they are too lazy to work in shop or ou 

 tin? farm, but who will hunt seven days in (he week, will 

 kill more game than fifty men who get off a half day or two 

 every week from their business for health aud recreation 

 If a man wants to be a pot-hunter make him pay for the 

 privilege. I have never been in favor of a few men who 

 can afford it forming themselves into a club, preserving largi 

 tracts of hunting ground from the general public; this is too 

 much like aristocracy to soil me', but I think these fellows 

 referred to above should be held in check in some way, and 

 1 cannot now think of a better way than that suggested, as it 

 would be tearfully discouraging to those who follow the 

 business around here to raise the .sum named. Then 1 would 

 like to see a non-export law, and woodcock protected until 



I He 



the 

 they could 

 nded or il ' 

 and tried tl 



it, how 



Is rr a Misnomiorv- -Worcester, 

 Forest and Strcwfi,: In your iss 

 correspondent, Mr. E. Sprague Kt 



Mass., Sept. 25. — Editor 

 ie of the lyth hist., your 

 stales that "some 



Sen irckt.s ix l.insT \>; '.— "Monroe, La.. Sept.. g?. 1383. — 

 A party of six went squirrel hunting day before yesterday 

 out lo Lafourche Swamp, twelVG miles lioin here. Fliey 

 killed one hundred aud thirty three and a third .squirrels. 

 (N. B. — The one third was a young squirrel and they didn't 

 kill him quite dead.) But to be serious, i i i i - was a single 

 day',-, hunl, and Uvo members of tin- party killed ninety-six 

 of the squirrels— Dr. Briieev and Dr. Abv. Hie Iwo best 

 siioilsiiien in our club. These squirrels, Were marly all 

 black, bul there were a few red ones, .'quo rels and par- 

 tridges (Hob \\ biles) are much more abundant this season 

 than usual. I look oiil fifteen shells ycslenhu al t'l noon and 



brought back i birds. I could, of course, explain why I 



didn't kill the others, il any one would listen lo me. bill this 

 is a cold, uncharif.ilile world, so gooilhy. -Or .srillT.N . 



cry good men arc so consliluled that they cannot resist 

 temptation, and when they go out for woodcock ill August 

 and find none, and the dog points a biood of young par- 

 tridges, the result is that these gentlemen go home law- 

 breakers." Now, if -Mr. Knowles knows whereof he speaks, 

 and we presume he does, why not take the first step himself 

 toward having the present law enforced by "giving these 

 gentlemen away?" Would not that he more to the point 

 than advocating a repeal of the August law? We think the 

 term gentleman here a misnomer. It does not necessarily 

 follow because a man belongs to a sportsman's club, owns 

 an expensive breech-loader and a fancy setter, that he is 

 therefore a gentleman. If a man who is interested in these 

 noble field sports is without honor, all the laws in the statute 

 books of Massachusetts will uot make him honest, any more 

 than it will prevent one afflicted with kleptomania from re- 

 maining a thief. — Rex Maunus. 



Tin. 



GAME Laws or Nk\ 



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ORK 



— Anc 



otavo patnphlel of 



thirty 





:- 1 



,e p 



l.visio 



IS of Ihedilleivnl 



acts l'( 



r the protection of flu 



b a 





llllc ill 



iil.'Sl.lleof New 



York, 



has .just been comi 



ill-. 



. Mil 



der tin 



direction of Ihe 



Commissioners of Fisheries, 



I.v 



Sh, 



ill lid 



cock. Esq., 1 lie. 



N. Y. 



As Ihe eiilorccui.n 



of 



the. 



e law- 



L now among the 



duties 



or the Fish Commi»B 



on 



of 1 



e- Sta 



c we niav regard 



tpc pu 



ilicatiou as an offic 



al 



me 



allium 



gh printed outside 



by an 



iltoruev al law. !l 





use 



■■ill ant 



l h iiicv v- - of 



Ihe la 



vs. and shpuld have 



a 



wid 



1 ciret 



lalion. Although 



L r i\ im: 



onlv the gist of a law 



, It 



cite 



s the 



year, chapter and 



seetioi 



where ii ma\ be found 



in full by 



those wishing it. 



It is for sale to club's at $20 



pe 



hundred or single copies 25 



cents. 













New York (Jami-; Puoiiaroiis. -(Jlpversville, X. V., 

 Sept. 27. —(lame protector Thomas Bradley, of this dis- 

 hiouS Vigorously. His first prosecu- 

 lliam Hunter, of Ihe town of Caroga, 

 ■asou. An action was begun b\ the 

 r the provision of ihe Act of "1S8S, 

 case was effected by ihe payment of 

 action was bea^in on the ffjth inat., 



Ihe (list tiit attorney paid over the 

 •asiirci', according to' the provisions 

 Itors of lie' gami- law will do well lo 

 bile Mr. Bradley has charge of the 



trie), has 1 



egun ope 



lion was ag. 



in.-l on.- \ 



for killing c 1 



eer out or 



district atu 



rncv, un. 



and a set lie 



Il.'lll, of 11 



the sum o: 



$.-.0. Ti 



and on the 



84th iusi 



money lo tl 



e count v t 



of Ihe said 



ad. Vii 



postpone o 



icrations i 



district. 





Snaiies.— Danvcrs, Mass., Sept. 20— While walking out 

 with my dog and a friend we came across a place in the 



VOOI 



sonic 



1 destroyed thi 



David Thomas, of Middletc 

 a week ago last Friday, 

 When betakes the birds' fr 



ad io catch partridges. 

 nd told me the other day that. 

 , Ma.--., snared forty partridges 

 id sent them to Sai. in market. 

 i the snare he shoots them with 



pistol. Woodcock shooting has been very poor around 

 here, bul quail and partridge shooting is promising very 

 good for next month.— J. F. \). 



'Squire Horace Smith 

 jourii al Crumpion. Queen 

 the fishing aud shooting si. 

 Cruinpton as a cesorl lor 9 

 keeps the hotel there; the 

 charges moderate. 'Squire 

 lively as a lad of. seventeen. 



recently returned from a so- 

 me county, Md. He reports 

 •I. Mid speaks v:rv highly of 

 tsmen. Mr. Harry Gaisburg 

 e is said to be good, and Pie 

 nil ii came back as rosy and 



Toms Kiveii, "N". J., Sept 24.— The English snipe arc com- 

 ing along gradually. Have lulled one. and heard of two or 

 three more. Next week we e\pecl them in numbers. BtllO 

 and green-winged leal an- here in Ihe marshes and ponds. I 

 put up (plite a Hock of grouse 10 day. should saj there must 

 have been twenty, all apparently full-grown. — E. B. P. 



Ontauio — Cravenburst, Sept. 24.— Fishing has been 

 good. Grouse are plentiful and deer abundant. Deer sea- 

 son opeus Oct. 1. No exportation allowed, which in my 

 humble opinion is the best protective law we have. — C. 



Delaware County, N. Y. — In camp and am having a 

 fine time. Ruffed grouse are more plenty than for three 

 years back. Woodcock are scarce and scattering. — M. P. 

 McKoon. 



Ontario. — The vicinity of IVnlreville, Addington county, 

 is said to furnish excellent shooting and fishing. 



New Oiii.eans, Sept. 23. — Snipe have in the last few days 

 neu seen in large numbers, but owing to the extreme dry 

 round lliese birds have gone further south. After a heavy 



284,759. Animal Trap. \V. II. Keel, San I r.iii.i.s. :■ . I 'al. 

 2H5.346. Device for ALUcliin;; U.vls I. . losla,,- Rods.-W". B. 

 day, BiiiKlni'iii'ie. N. Y. 



235,'17-t. Firearm Siglil .1. HI. r'arriiicjon. C or.l, N. II. 



885,630. tisliiii),- Keel. II. ('. V Kas-eliail. Neu Vork. X. Y. 

 ass,.l,>i. Shot Case.— L. M. Rccdell, Chulopa, Kans. 



limn. 



ti tfipir toes, 



n twain 



received-, 



elies stout 

 ineit, 



Aud there they all 



varning the veterans of the late war agrainst exaggerat- 



hat they did and saw in it, ex-Governor Curtin at a 



Washington banquet related the following anecdote of a 



olut 

 comrades, and being 

 his experience thusw 

 although entitled to 



Stic 



taken at an undue advantage, ihe bachelor beaver thai had 

 Jul of hunlers, mel an ignominious death at Hie bauds of 



rain snipe shooting with us would be good. Quail are 

 abundant, and line shooting will be bad this season. Prairie. 

 chickens in Calcasieu Parish arc very scarce, wild turkeys 

 aro reported in large numbers, and ihe lovers of this game 



bird will have cm ,11. nl spoil. Deer aical.-o ill rough our 

 swamp section in goodly numbers. Mr. B. Waters will 

 reach our city to-morrow from the western part of the State 

 en route to Northern Mississippi with his string of dogs, to 

 prepare them on quail for the coining trials.— Edward 

 Odell. 



huge pile of heads 1 



ilunl that 

 touch up 

 behold but the ( 

 shall I forget tl 



slaughter ho 

 greeted this 

 point,— Detn 



ly ail his 



rehearsed 



e: "In that fearful dav at Monmouth, 



horse., I fought on loot. With each 



glisbinan'shead from his bodv, until a 



•around me, great pools of blood on 



hoes were so full of the same dreadful 



fee -lipped beneath me. Just then I felt a 



rav shoulder, and, looking up. who should I 



■eat. and good Washi 



ajestv 



ad dignity of his 



upon me, he -aid: '.My young friend, 

 and for heaven's sake do not make a 

 ! yourself. 1 The shouts of laughter that 

 showed that the Governor had made a 



