Oct 25, 1883.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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lit. 

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■oat. and 



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ralaneed 

 v heavy, 

 without 

 vilh thai 



it being not over a quarter of a mile long, and had now 

 another tow of half a Ulile down the river before coming to 

 our last carry. It was so dark Wfl knew wo would have hard 

 work to find It, find it proved only too t 

 over an hour for it and at last thought we 

 red started off with the boat on his bao 

 gone over ten rode before he fell down, N 

 ant to fall down with a boat on your back, Tl 

 carried hy having a yoke put in I lie center of 

 this yoke fits around your neck. Alter get fin 

 on your shoulders the bout does not seem lo b 

 and yon can carry a boat a great way in this ma 

 its tiring you, but when you fall Sown, you fl 

 yoke choking you and nighty-five pounds of bout to n i- . Is 

 "not so pleasant. Fred looked like a huge turtle when we 

 CUi 8 ligbtand found liiui, lie was trying hi- h,-- •.-•'• 

 up, butit was no gojaftei jjetl ag him on bis feel wt showed 



him the folly of going so fust, and he went slower, but soon 

 fell down again"; at last we found we had lost the path. 

 What to do we hardly knew, but did not care to stay there 

 all night, so we all started off to get some bark for lights. 

 We found some bark and at last gofa light. Which way lo 

 go now puzzled us. hut we thought it best to follow the 

 river, an' ! di [sofo tbout an hour, bui it was so rocky, and 

 bo many treeB were lying in our way, we knew we could 

 in ii', get out in lino manner, so, started back for the ti 

 After Teaming around we at last struck it about ten feet 

 from where we first started in. We bad at the start taken 

 an old path thai led off in another direction, aud winch had 

 not been traveled over purliapsfor years. It was nearly 11 

 o'clock when we got on Long Lake, and after 1;.' when we 

 arrived at the village of Long Lake. We found no one 

 awake at the hotel, aud had to nearly knock the doors down 

 to gel "old man Kellogg - ' up, the old gen ■ ' aotgoingto 

 let us in when he did open the door, but Fred, being oi Did 

 acquaintance, did not. stand on ceronmnYbut pushed the old 

 man one side aud we all walked in. Kellogg was glad to 

 see Fl'ed, and we soon were eating a good square m : ■ 

 pared by Mrs. K. We soon went lo bed, and were quickly in 

 ■i]i' arms of Morpheus. 

 The next day we were too tired to start on lie: return and 

 so helped Lyinan buy and rig his boat, bong Lake is six- 

 teen miles in length, and has some of the finest scenery in 

 the Adhondacks. It was formerly noted for its hunting 

 and fishing, but at present it is good for neither. The place 

 'labitants, that is. in tin: settlement "nfl 

 it the men do is fo guide and build boats. 

 als am noted as being the best-built boats 

 he deer, of course, are driven back in the 

 e lake abounds with pickerel. These hogs 

 it, and the once noted Long Lake at the 

 as none, f wem fishing lor pickerel one 

 d in less than one hour had caught twenty- 

 aot know how many huu- 

 1 irge li-ili bad not cut my 

 limseir the spoon. These 

 •aught with flannel 



said he came there to have a good time, and that having both 

 his friends leave him made him feel bad, but lie would stick 

 out his two weeks even if his guide left him. He was 

 anxious lo have us camp with hiin, and was soiry we would 

 not. The next morning we haled to leave him, but had to 

 doit 'i"i attend to duties in our own camp. This Mr. Luck 

 was unfortunate all the way through; he was 'gulled" at 



several places by the hotels, guides, carriages, etc., etc., and 



he laid onlv been there one week and it bad eosf him $150. 

 We had only $80, and expected to stay in camp six weeks, 

 but we knew how tomannge better than he. and were younger 

 and could rough it belter. 



We arrived back to our camp all right, and found every- 

 thing It perfect order, nothinghaving been disturbed during 



..,' 'i.-i)c-. While eotniie/neross the carry, betweeu the 

 Rrowi.'sTracl Inlet and the Eighth Lake, w e saw sealed in an 



i ii, an old man. and at his feel was an old tin portable 

 boat ! was surprised to see Fred drop his things and shake 

 hands with the man. and call him "Colored." The man was 

 ahOUt as dirty-looking a creature as I ever met; be was com- 

 pletely covered over with tar to keep the mosquitoes and 

 punkas off of him. The Colonel ,vas a man of about 45 

 years and talked like a gentleman, and I wondered how a 

 man of his sense could be so dirty. After a while thcColonel 

 Informed us he was going down the Raquette River as far 

 as Potsdam to see the country. He said be ktu-w it - . I ; 

 thing fo do. but he was going to do it now as long as he had 

 started, but wished he had never undertaken it, Said lie, 

 "One year ago to-day I was here, and had lo go over th; 



has a 



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towns 



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in tin 





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line 

 fish a 



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 srally h 



: them frequently jump up 

 id try to bin 



carry "twice/ I sat down and vowed fhi 

 on a'lbinglike this, but by thundei 

 fool, ami have to go over thisahom 

 Our four weeks were spent ' 



night, qua in ities of 



ivhieh I was fort una I. 



aid lasted us lour ib 



id i 



da 



ih< 



ckled be 

 y catch, t 



.visbed. 



:■ catch 



nils. 1 do 



. have taken if om 



ieces, keeping for 



' hogs. I have si 



on a hook for bait, and ha 



at pine chips when thrown at them and try 



Our. whan coming down Lake Champlain I had an- apple 



that I could not. eat. I threw apiece out of the boat and was 

 surprised to see a fish weighing, I should judge, twenty-hvo 

 pounds, jump for it. I amused myseli with that apple for 

 fifteen minutes, and nearly every time that i threw a piece in 

 the water one would jump for it and open his jaws like a 

 hog. After catching so many I naturally felt in a good 

 frame of mind, and lugged them to the hotel, a distac n 

 half a mile from the lake. I noticed thai I did not get com- 

 plimented much for doing so well, but thought it was tie; 

 custom of the country not to compliment; but 1 confess I 

 felt rather disappointed not to see any of my fish on the 

 (aide and very angry to find all of them laying in a heap 

 back of the barn the next day. The Long Lake people will 

 not eat these fish only when they get starved out, which is 

 every winter; then they live on them for two or three 

 months, and naturally get sick of them. This accounts, as 

 Kclloeg sa y S] ivn- their being so smart in winter. 



The next day it rained and we did not start. As the rain 

 continued lor two more days, and wo were paying our own 

 hills now, we concluded to go, even if it rained harder than 

 ever. So bidding Lyman good-bye, we left on Thursday at, 

 "live o'clock in the morning," promising Kellogg to come 

 and see him again before we left the woods. II rained hard 

 now, and by the time we had got back on the "Forked" we 

 were completely wet through. Having a letter to deliver 

 from a gentleman whom we met at the hotel to a gentleman 

 camping on the "Forked" at the, "Rich Camps" we drew, up 

 there, just as the "Great Austrian Party" with eighi guides 

 were leaving. Their party consisted of three princes and an 

 interpreter besides their guides. Whether they were verit- 

 able princes or not this deponent does not know, but judg- 

 ing by their dress, style, and the money they had, I should 

 think them to be all counts of Monte Christo. They were 

 very friendly to us, and offered us the hospitalities of the 

 camp. 



Mr. Buck, the gentleman we had the letter for. was out 

 watching for deer, so we concluded to await his return; we 

 were very hungry, and after looking aiouud, found out his 

 Camp WB8 well supplied with victuals. We considered that 

 if he was placed in similar circumstances lie would cook up 

 a square meal, so we went, at it. and in a short time was 

 feasting off of his venison, trout, etc. We were taken com 

 pletety by surprise, before We were half through, by Mr. 

 Buck 'coming out of the hushes saying, "Boys, you look as 

 though you enjoy your dinner." We both felt rather mean 

 to be caught, but explained to him our reason for so doing, 

 and gave him the letter. It happened that the gentleman 

 who sent the letter to Mm mentioned us as being good 

 whist, players; that was enough, for Buck said that any man 

 that could play a good game of whist he always liked to 

 meet, and he eonsideied that his friend knew win 

 a man that could plav. Of course Fred and I felt verv much 

 complimented, and concluded, on the strength of it, fo eat 

 another cour ?itl or. Buck, After eating, our new-found 

 friend brought out first c I as^ tobacco, and we bad a social 

 smoke aud chat. He insisted that we should slay all night 

 with him, and knowing we could not get into better quarters, 

 we consented without much entreaty 



y last time 

 like a ei 

 unable carry three limes." 



mp very plea$autly. We 



ities and ■ ine lake trout, 

 d it sveighed 114 pounds 



hi not do nearly as much 

 on account of our trenison 



rouhl go out in Cue morn- 

 nougbfvah to last us three 

 ing to waste such valuable fish, we 

 ng until we ate up all we bad. Any 

 ,\ a v either trout or venison ought to 

 should find it out he might wish he 

 maintain-. However, it was really 

 ie to catch brook fiout. f have been 

 ii mil - by hard work, where [ had 

 in catclf fifteen or twenty; but there 



_;ht seventeen without moving out of 



my tracks, and it is about as much sport to catch them there 

 as if is to go and catch red-fins in a mill pond. This is my 

 opinion, but perhaps there is no oue that will agree will' 

 me. 



W e met numerous parties going and coming through the 

 woods, a great many of them slopping with us overnight. 

 College students and graduates were in abundance, -.aid 1 

 heard no less than seven times how they, before examina 



wotdd hav 

 one that would 



be shot, and if 

 had stayed out 

 not much pleas 

 used to catch t 

 to work and fis 

 I have goi 



h. wl 

 her 



1 eia- 



tion, bad dreamed they 

 proposition 8 or 15, as tl 

 so that they would 

 oughly. Sure enoug 

 it!" A gentleman by 

 thai told me this won 

 I asked him, while ii 

 otber graduate. He 

 did wrong to tell the 

 me- that, and they W£ 

 and now" I have conn 

 must have peeul 



have in geometry 



? case might be. it impressed them 



that proposition and learn if thor- 



be examination came they had 



of Burrows was the last man 



lug. Aiterhehad got through 



! woods, if he had fold that to any 



he had. Said I, "My friend, you 



nit story, for six different men told 



the individuals that dreamed, etc. ; 



the conclusion that college Students 



He had a meal notion to get 



gry, 



in. , 



nolle e .:ociefy. 



It is singular he 

 probably are so a 

 proper things whe 

 before that so 



ded not to, as we both belonged to thes 



i who appear to be gentlei 



,-ill lie, drink 



md do other im- 



I never knew 



-:e, tired 

 1 three 



ng, aud 



the lake near where we were standing, but thought some of 

 us ought to go up to the island. Fred called me one side and 

 said, as they were our guests, we ought to let them stay and 

 we go up. * 1 agreed to do this, but it was like pulling "away 

 from home, country and friends to leave them there loshoot 

 the deer. Before we started they said, if the deer should 

 come to them they would shoot it, but if it came up tons 

 they would stay where they were and let me shoot it. The 

 clog came nearer aud nearer lo them, and Fred said il was no 

 use rowing fast as they would certainly shoot it, but I told 

 him il might possibly turn and come up lo us; so he rowed 

 up and we soon got near the island, but he thought by- 

 going to "Windmill Point" opposite, we could command a 

 better view of the lake. We had nearly got to the shore 

 when Ibedog turned, and it seemed the deer Would come to 

 us. aud as usual, I began fo tremble. The dog came nearer 

 and nearer, and then Fred says: "I see it! 1 see it on the 

 other shore opposite." Sure enough, if came runuicg along 

 looking grand. It ran along the shore for about live seconds 

 and then plunged in the lake. I wanted lo start off imme- 

 u.-ly. but he said. "Not until it gels into the center of (he 

 ie, "and then, 'Billy. ' it cannot get away, and the deer's 

 trre. ] it was the same a- i: I sat with "four kings." 

 We watched the deer closely, not taking our eyes off it for 

 second. Fred says, "book 'at your gun and see if it's all 

 jht, and we will go." We soon got off and he said' "Do 

 I ile your eyes off of il and I will row you to it and tell 

 you when lo shoot." We got within 500 yards of it, when 

 "happening to cast my eyes d.y.n the lake I saw the other 

 '" cuing I'nii speed for the deer at. about the same dis- 

 tance to it as w T e were. I soon notified Fred, and lie said lie 

 ■aid if the deer should turn they- would get it, and he 

 had no more than said so when it "did turn. The guide 

 could row nea Mi I WICC as fast as Fred, and before we got 

 within 200 yards of it the "Dominie" had shot. Fred 

 dropped his "oars, and I did not pray. My "four kings" 

 Ste not good, 'he "Dominie" bad "four aces." - * * * 

 When we came up to them the "Dominie" said: "The 

 deer is yours, all I want is the horns." Did we thank him 

 for being so generous? Not much! Apology after apology ho 

 gave, but be might as well have talked to a stone aslous." He 

 thought he had done a mean thing, and we let him think so. 

 We were all very solemn on our way back to camp, and 

 after dressing the deer and giving him tiie horns, he said he 



teen was the minion ■.. 1" e- tin-- man's grandmother, mother. 

 or grandfather's father had left in England, France or Ger- 

 many immense fortunes, but they would with a sigh say, 

 "Is it not provoking, it's ail gone back to the crown." On 

 our way "out" 1 must have been taken for a "big man," for 

 I was ii college graduate, aud had dreamed that, proposition 



9, etc, ami had a great-gjaudfalher who left eight or ten 

 millions in France which went buck lo the crown. 1 told 

 these stories so much that 1 believe it BOW to in- mi. My "ob- 

 ject" was in telling these to get even with Fred on his 

 '"Arabs," but, I soon gave it up, it was not appreciated. It 

 amused me very much at first lo bear Fred tell our guests 

 bis stories about his travels, but after 

 of: "You can imagine how hoi it w, 

 camels ami three Bedouin .Arabs," that 

 mid go away just as those stories I 

 thai I could tell five minutes before lb 

 then I prepared myself. 



In our hunting we were unfortunate, although we had 

 three deer in camp, but did no! shoot any of them Ourselves. 

 o,V ,ni t a party camping on the Raquet'te, and they said be- 

 fore they left the woods they were coming on flic Fulton 

 Chain for a day or two-, we invited them lo come and see us. 

 and they said i'f they came they would call. About a week 

 alter we met them. One night we saw coming down the lake 

 about dark, a boat with three in; we thought if was them 

 and so prepared a good supper, and soon had it ready. Bi- 



rd i 

 rial for i 



3; we thought 

 gooff. We came 



"our camp was 

 we tired off our 



We went down 



surprise to find the "Do 

 to look over on the island 

 Ie had paddled him up to 

 est deer in camp, and we 

 I had hot the shot. 



thoughl he would S i 

 us. The guide said it w 

 by fbem. and the "Dom 

 Wc gave that guide our 

 ;uid 



Ko 



id it i 



injected, and they soon left 

 is fault, for he was employed 

 ged him all the time to go. 



i of him, and told bin, there 

 it what would hear about it; 

 ay days before that guide 

 Jipected to see or hear of the 

 in, but was surprised one day on coming into 

 i ot e from him inviting us to come aud see 

 ig us a bushel of potatoes. He had noticed 

 potatoes when he left, and had thoto 

 would be rccom iled if we got them. We laughed for a long 

 the potatoes, and pictured the "Dominie" as he 



and the. 



hears the last 

 Dominie" a< 

 arnp to tied 



him. and lea 



We : 





W< 



We now bad two deer and only us two to cat 

 did not dare to, or want to. throw any away, so 

 and distributed it around to the other camps on 



bake, and at the Forge House. 



[TO 111-; OOXTINIED.J 



HOOKS ON A MINNOW GANG. 



<JK1TTEEING for pickerel, though it lacks the excite- 

 IO nieut of trout and bass re bin. 



much study and skill, i , 

 not to be had. It is much lb 

 of taking the fish, particularly 



the fish struck as soon as he tab 

 ous flights and minnow gangs t 

 and sold bv the dealers, adnple 

 but 1 have'bmnd oue serious ol 



fair size and are .trikmg ' 



ihe shellac and soon re 



ravelling-. Pretty soon y 



tbe gimp comes back in y 



with a lot of bait, and hooks stuck in 1 



food for reflection for some time. Now 



and does not. demand so 

 fair sport where these are 

 most sportsmanlike method 

 hen -nap-tackle is used and 

 i the bait. There are vari- 

 scribed in works on angling, 

 to this method of fishing, 

 '(•lion to them, and that is 

 rbs, as three hooks soldered 

 '.: -if ..ii to the gimp by silk 

 Kow when the fish run of 

 leir sharp teeth cut through 

 he. silk lashing to a mass of 

 ke a good fish; whishl and 

 and off flies Mr. Pickerel 

 jay. giving him 

 'e lost so many 



Our host was in the woods with two friends for a hunt, 

 audit was bis fust trip to the Adirondacks. He appeared ^. 



b ell , ruled with everything, and (be second day in, as , lady of a bouse must feel, wh 

 e getting all in g ' : ■ foiutd the camp! one en I not have to think what ' 



stead of' coming down they 

 this very strange, and just then 1 

 to the conclusion they did not' 

 situated, and had fired off a si; 

 guns, and presently wc saw U 

 To meet them, and were take 



miuie" bad shot a doe. Happe 

 he bad seeu it. feeding, and his 

 it. aud he shot it, This Was I 

 were glad to get it, but I was ( 



At table the "Dominie" said it was funny how luck would 

 run; they had been camping for four weeks, and bad hunted 

 a an ai ilea! and bad imf-eeii a deer before they came on our 

 lake and shot one from Undei OUr noses, Their party con- 

 sisted of the "Dominie" and son and Mr Ij. They were from 

 a certain city, and I wish they had never left it. We gave 

 them our bunks, and after chatting until quite late, we all 

 ■ i I p. In the morning wb OWOkeaml found their 

 guide had breakfast all ready; 1 thought then how nice a 

 oil vi.-iting, when she does 

 ins iu provide for the table 



his'lrienib'gm BO In aner -ii d;, that he. went back. .Mr. B. said I We were just finishing breakfast when iheguidesaid, "Hear 

 he did not mind that so much, but in two day- afterward ! that hound; he is running a deer, and it ,-ouuds a bougl R 

 his other friend, the gentleman whom we met, got Sick (home- Was coming directlj aere." We bH got our emu 



sick), and went to the hotel, and the letter we I, rought was order, and rail towherebur boats were. Their guide Hum 

 an entreaty for Mr, Buck to go out with him hoiueT Buck I spoke up, saving that the deer would run, he was sure, in 



good fish in this way*, and used up gangs so fast, that I have 

 finally adopted a gang which is very simple, does not wear 

 out, is easily made am! worth all the complicated gangs in 

 the world in ordinary pickerel fishing. It consists of simply 

 one lip hook and two triangles, all eyed, aud the eyes bent at 

 an angle of about forty-five degrees. The size of gimp is 

 such that il will just comfortably pass through the eyes. 

 The hook and triangles are placed iii their proper position on 

 the gimp and a knot lied in it below them lo keep them from 

 Slipping off. That is all. No lashings to wear out, and 

 ii.ii i : a frcedonl of movement about the triangles very eoii- 

 i : i. in I'ljii in| ihem oh abait. a strip of pickerel 



belly can !.: ii i I I v, ell as a minnow and makes an equally 

 cacti ■ c bait. I append a sketch, Pr:iicyvAi,. 



KewIUven, Conn, 



Tue, Wauuli. .vnd the F?eeKbt0. — JSKCuf Forest, itnd 



sty, n m : What a pity the law should allow the use of these 

 nets in this beautil'ul'sl ream. The bass are supposed fo fie 

 protected, but they .are far from it. There is not a person 

 living on this stream who uses Ihe tyke that was ever known 

 to put bad' to the water (lie numberless black and Oswego 



. dial are taken in these traps, and there is an instance 

 of a person living on this stream near Liberty villi-, who 

 within the last month was seen to scoop outnumbers of these 

 choice roh from his fyke and bed them' to bis bogs. It is a 

 ;-liame that this beautiful Stream should be polluted with II 

 f\ ke or any other net, but just so long as it is, it will be an 

 excuse lea ■'■''-[ irati - as mentioned above tu plunder it for 

 Sb bi fil of his swine. It is unfortunate there is no pro- 

 le 1 1 ■ i wi iety along these waters, bu! since this occurrenceit 

 has in en decided tomaki an i xample pf this fellow so soon 

 as a case can be i leas it him, Steps have already been 

 taken in that direction bj a i. ,s friends of 1 s rod who resort 

 to this particular locality dining the ha.-., season. — R. X. P. 

 [Our correspondent .should coinmuuieafe with the game 



itector for his district, Matthew Kennedy. Hudson, Kb YJ. 



Had A Bite.— The Hawthorn iFla.j OrawliK says that 

 while Mr. Posey was fishing in Lochloosa Lake the other 

 day an alligator took hold of his leg and piuehed him 

 severely enough to make him lame for a time. The 'gator 

 was killed and measured twelve feet in length 



