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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Xov. 22, 1883. 



A KaNSaB Side-Hunt. — The third annual side-limit of 

 the \Yhifiekl. Kan,, Suortsmen'B Club was held Nov. 1. The 

 game counted aa lOllOWS: Antelope 1,000, beaver 200, hit- 

 tern 30, crow 25, crane 100, curlew 10. deer 1,000. wild duck 

 10, eagle 500, wild goose 100, hawk 100. heron 50, loon 100, 

 mink 300. muskrat 50, mud-hen 10, otter 500, opossum 50, 

 owl 100, plover 25, panther 1,000, prairie chicken 65, pelican 

 100, prairie dog 40, quail 20, raccoon 50, jack rabbit 100, 

 small rabbit 05, snipe 20, ground squirrel 10, fox squirrel 40, 

 gray squirrel 50. black squirrel 100, prairie squirrel 20. 

 skunk 50, swan 500, wdd turkey 300, woodcock 100, wolf 

 1.000, wildcat 500. The following is the full score of Vance's 

 side: Jos. Vance, captain; 2 chickens. 22 quail, 9 rabbits. 

 2 hawks. 1 owl. 1 crow. 1 fox squirrel. Total 1520. F. 

 Clark; 11 quail, 3 (lucks. 3 rabbits, 2 hawks, 47 crows- V 

 910. J. S. Hunt; 23 rabbits. 3 hawks. 2 quail— 1,835 K. 

 McClung; 11 rabbits. 2 quail, 2 ducks, 1 owl.— 1,130. J. 

 Cochran;16 quail, 23 rabbits, 1 squiiTel— 1,855. W. P. Beau- 

 mont; 12 ducks, 2 opossums, 3 hawks, 2 rabbits— 1,010. F. 

 Lockwoodjl jack rabbit, 1 rabbit. 5 quail, 1 chicken, 1 duck — 

 870. A.T. Spotsw..od;7quail.l rabbit— 205. Geo. Ordway;8 

 squirrels, I hawk, 1 rabbit, 2 uuail— 585. A. S. Davis; 14 

 rabbits, 10 quail, 1 crow — 1,135. Total score of Vance's 

 side, ten men hunting— 11.195. On the other side the score 

 was as follows: Jas. McJLain,. captain; 1 duck, 13 rabbits, 

 1 crow, 1 hawk, 11 quail— 1,230. J. N. Harter; 4 hawks, 

 1 mud-hen, 10 ducks, 2 crows, 1 snipe — 1,120. C. C. Black; 

 7 rabbits. 4 squirrels, 5 quail— 715. G. W. Prater: 1 jack 

 rabbit, 8 rabbits, 1 skunk. 10 quail, 1 hawk— 970. F. Whit- 

 ing; 12 rabbits, 3 squirrels, 1 crane, 1 hawk, 3 quail — 1,245. 

 B, .M.wh; 1 mink, 1 skunk. 1 jack rabbit, 31 rabbits. 3 

 Dawks, 21 quail, 1 duck, 3 chickens— 3,420. E. S. Torrence, 

 13 rabbits, 1 quail— 865. Wilson Foster: 1 chicken, 1 duck. 

 2*9 crows, 1 muskrat. 7 quail. 1 hawk, 4 rabbits— 1,385. 

 Total score of MeLain's side, eight men hunting— 10,045. 

 This result gave the victory to Oftpt. Vance's side. Ezra 

 Meech won the gold medal, and A. T. Spolswood was the 

 "happy recipient" of the tin medal for the lowest score. The 

 total amount of game killed by both sides sums up as fol- 

 lows: 179 small rabbits, 3 jack rabbits, 135 quail. 21 hawks, 

 81 crows, 1 mink, 2 skunks. 37 ducks, 1 mud-hen, 1 snipe, 

 1 muskrat, 2 opossums, 17 squirrels, 1 crane, 7 prairie chick- 

 ens and 2 owls. It will be seen, says the W infield Tikjjraiit. 

 that the club is a benefit to the farmers in putting rabbits, 

 hawks, etc., out of the way. The count on quail is pur- 

 posely put down to 20, and rabbits up to 65, as an induce- 

 ment' for the members to hunt rabbits in preference. Those 

 members of the club who are farmers, as a general thing 

 hunted on their own land, or in the vicinity; but the rest 

 were under obligations to various farmers for the privilege 

 of hunting on their farms, and we are requested to take this 

 method of returning the thanks of one and all of the mem- 

 bers for the various courtesies extended to them. The an- 

 nual supper was had at the Brettun on Saturday evening. 

 A challenge was made by Capt. McLain, and accepted by 

 Capt. Vance, to hunt the same side over again, for the oys- 

 ters. The next hunt to take place Thursday, the 22d of 

 this month, upon tbe same terms as the annual hunt, except 

 that parties must bring in all game instead of only heads. 



SeootdtCt Grounds fou Bostoniaks. — Boston. Muss- 

 South Plymouth, or Manomet, is situated eight mile- south 

 from the' old town of Plymouth, reached by the O.C.B.R., 

 from Boston via Abington, or Duxhury. For those who 

 like sea fowl shooting 1 do not think that a better or cheaper 

 place can be found along our coast. The shooting begins 

 about the middle or end of September and lasts along into 

 November, according to the severity of the weather. Very 

 fair quail and partridge shooting 'can be had there also. 

 Parties going for the latter should take dogs along with them 

 as it is a farming country and few dogs that are good for 

 anything can be obtained. Good accommodations can be 

 found at Mr. Clark-Holmes's, who lives on the point, and 

 who keeps a number erf boats for gunners' use; or at the 

 Manomet House, kept by Mr. W. O. Arms. Persons who do 

 not like to get up before daylight to go off to secure their 

 berths for shooting can have them secured and go w T hen 

 they please. Plymouth is the terminus of the Old Colony 

 R. R., and parties going down in the forenoon or first train 

 in the afternoon can find a conveyance for the place any 

 day, or by writing to either of the above gentleman. A 

 carriage will be found waiting at the depot. Further par- 

 ticulars regarding board or railroad time, or fare, from Bos- 

 ton, can be had by addressing the above gentlemen. I hope 

 that this may not'be too late to be. of benefit to some of your 

 readers. 



Illinois.— Shawneetown, Nov. 11.— The Bod and Gun 

 Club of Shawneetown, 111., went into camp at Big Opening, 

 on Monday morning last, for a week's sport. Hon. R. "W. 

 Towuskend, M. M. Pool, Col. Wash. Calieott, John Winston, 

 Major Blueford Wilson and Ed. Reordon constituted the 

 vanguard. Ed. Eberweiu being in charge of the quarter- 

 master's department and commissariat, other members and 

 guests will take occasion to drop into camp during theweek. 

 The appearance of the wagon train indicated that all the 

 comfoits and pleasures of camp life were to be enjoyed, and 

 the cool, crisp atmosphere gives promise of good shooting. 

 The duck shooting in the Ohio Valley is just commencing. 

 Quail are very plentiful, and tbe sportsmen are enjoying the 

 beautiful fall weather and bringing in some very nice hags. 

 Dr. Fais and Al Lowe take the lead. Woodcock through 

 this section are scarce, and once in awhile a pheasant is seen. 

 Wild turkey are to be found in considerable numbers in the 

 bottoms, while a deer can yet be found at no great distance 

 from town. — T. 



Central LaivE, Mich., Nov. 12.— First tracking snow to- 

 day; hunters out in force. A number of deer have been 

 killed within a few miles of this place this season. Fur 

 hunters reasonably successful, mostly with muskrats, how- 

 ever. Joe Minnie didn't get any "herrings" They were 

 few in number. I do not look for a second visit from them 

 this season, though last year they appeared a little later than 

 this. If they come I will let you know. Ducks plenty but 

 wild— keep the open water. Eighteen inches of snow at 

 Charlevoi:-, eieht inches at Central Lake, and Round Lake 

 freezing up. The Queen makes her last trip on Torch Lake 

 to-morrow . — K.ELVLE. 



Sandusky Bav.— Cleveland, O., Nov. 9.— Om shooting 

 season at Weaver's Point, will soon be over. The canvas- 

 back, redheael and mallard shooting has been most remark- 

 ably good. In one day Judge E. B. Sadler, with only my 

 punter, Billy Pierson, 'to gather up the dead and wounded, 

 killed one hundred and four ducks, ninety-five of which 

 wore grand old canvus-backs.— X. 



Patina the Fiddleu.— Havre de Grace, Nov. 18.— Dur- 

 ing the past week Just ice Adams made the disposition of the 

 first batch of cases for violation of the ducking laws. The 

 arrests were all made the first day or two of the season, and 

 all the parties were charged with breaking that part of the 

 law which prohibits shooting of ducks on gunning davs 

 before three o'clock in the morning. Juo Bartol and Jno. 

 Poplar, both of this place, were acquitted, there being no 

 evidence to identify them as the offenders. The case of 

 Chas. B. Moore and George Chamberlain, also of Havre do 

 Grace, are to be tried, the first on Tuesday next, and the 

 other on Saturday, George R. Carver, of this place, after 

 his case had been several times postponed, was fined $25 and 

 costs yesterday by Justice Adams, who tries all offenders 

 against the ducking laws. L. A. Skinner, of Talbot county, 

 was fined $25 and costs at the same time. Madison Mitchell, 

 of Baltimore, was found guilty, but appealed to court. 

 Henry J, Poplar, having business in the South, gave bail 

 for his appearance Jan. 31. 



Pennsylvania— Meadville, Nov. 8.— Friday last was 

 great day for duck hunting at Conneaut Lake. Alarge nu 

 ber of local sportsmen were on hand besides many hunters 

 from different places in this vicinity. Long before sunrise 

 the sound of the shotgun was heard, and the cannonading 

 was kept up throughout the greater portion of the day. One 

 party from here comprised the following gentlemen, all well- 

 known sportsmen: T. A. Delamater. CTE. Richmond, V. 

 M. Delamater and Frank Sbryock. They banged away to 

 excellent effect, slaughtering 214 ducks during the day. "Dr. 

 Elliott and party 83, and Mr. Porter and party 75. Over 500 

 of the birds were brought to Meadville on the 7 o'clock train 

 last evening, and careful estimates place the number of ducks 

 killed at the lake yesterday as one thousand. At one time 28 

 boats were on the "lake. 



Plundeb prom Arkansas.— Charleston. Ill, Nov. IS. — 

 Yesterday five of our citizens, Capt. William A. Jeffries, 

 James Skidmore, Jonathan Lee, Richard Curd and Joel 

 Hutchason, returned home from Green county, Ark., where 

 they had been since the 30th ult, hunting. They brought 

 home seven deer— the turkeys, squirrels and ducks" were too 

 numerous to mention. They reported cjtiail and pheasants 

 (ruffod grouse) scarce. Capt. Jeffries killed four deer and 

 Richard Curd two. They are sportsmen hard to beat. — Fox 

 SqinitilEi.. 



A Woodcock is Boston.— Boston, Mass., Nov. 15.— I 

 picked up a lar<re woodcock at the corner of Dartmouth and 

 Boylston streets on Tuesday. We have been having very 

 heavy winds, and it waseviilently blown against the telegraph 

 wires and killed. A gentleman told me that he found a 

 sandpiper a few weeks ago, killed in the same waw— 

 T. D. B. 



Moscow, Ohio, Nov. 17. — The huntiug season has iust 

 fairly opened here, but the farmers object tohuntinsontneir 

 places, caused by their stock being injured by some careless 

 ones. Quail are plentiful and rabbits too numerous to men- 

 tion. Some hunters from Cincinnati made large bags here 

 last week.— G. G. J. 



Blooming Grove Park. — Messrs. Fayette S. Giles, P. M 

 Wilson and John Avery returned from Blooming Grove 

 Park, Pike county, Pa., on Monday, 19th inst They.brought 

 down two bucks and one doe. killed on the Park lands. 

 Weights, 170 pounds, 125 pounds and 120 pounds, dressed. 

 —A. 



Connecticut. — Canaan, Nov. 14. — Local hunnters report 

 game quite plenty this fall. Go to Hotchkissvillc for foxes. 



Snow Geese. — A large flock of snow geese is reported from 

 Delaware Bay, below Bombay Hook. 



§nm# Sire Sl ic k et l in 8 s > 



"That reminds me." 



THE story in "Camp-Fire Flickerings" of Nov. I reminds 

 me of a severe case of "buck ague." Five years ago a 

 friend and myself put up at a farmhouse on the banks of 

 the classic Jeems. While awaiting breakfast we took a 

 stroll through a bottom field, where I expected nothing but 

 quail. What was my surprise to see a large turkey, my first, 

 about sixty yards distant. I had a muzzle-loader with No. 8 

 shot for quail ; but shoot I must, and down dropped the 

 turkey. I got over the fence, and when about half way up 

 he jumped, and was out of sight before 1 recovered from my 

 surprise. After break last I carefully loaded one barrel with 

 buckshot to be held in reserve. AVe had some good spoi t on 

 squirrels, and concluded to cross the river and" hunt the bot- 

 tom on the other side. It was Thanksgiving day and very 

 cold, but we took off our boots, rolled up our pants, and 

 started over. When midway of the stream, which was one 

 hundred and fifty yards wide, I looked ahead, and on top of 

 the bank saw a very large deer, and coming down the bank 

 a half-grown fawn, We stopped to watch; the young one 

 discovered us just as its nose touched the water. After a 

 moment's deliberation it turned tail and both disappeared, 

 Not until then did it enter my head that 1 had a gun and 

 one barrel loaded with buck .-hot. But I do not think I could 

 be caught so again. R. 



Springfield, Missouri. 



The night birds are usually not alarmed by ihe "flicker- 

 iuss" of our camp-fire, but the effulgence of that electric light 

 which not long ago flashed out in this column has had a most 

 remarkable effect. The bats have squeaked anil the owls 

 hooted. One dazzled crilic. who appears to have swallowed 

 the storv, electric jack, mule, elect rician and all, has uttered 

 from his perch am'id the withered branches of a demi-sporting 

 publication, a most doleful whoop. Meanwhile, "Thorough 

 Sportsman" is snickering in his sleeve at 1 be gullibility of 

 mankind in general and some sportsmen in particular. 



Two sportsmen fire at the same bird which falls heavily, 

 haviuir received both charges. Tom to Jack: "That bird 

 came down much heavier than he ought, seeing that a 

 pair-u-shoot brought him." 



An instance of taking things as they come— Both barrels 

 into a flock of teal head on to the shooter. Reignolds. 

 Bouton, Mass. 



Jew j§itblic;itiott£. 



"SPORT WITH GUN AND ROD." 



i 'S P0RT with Gun an( l B o'l" is by far the most, beautiful book ef 

 *-' its kind that we have ever seen. 



As has already been remarked in a previous notice it cousins in the 

 main of the various artistes on shooting and fishing whichhave within 

 the past few years appeared in the Century Magazine, but. to make 

 it more nearly complete, a number of other chapters iiave been 

 added to these, and now- appear for the flrgl time. It is edited bv 

 Professor Alfred M. Mayer, who has also contributed a number of 

 articles containing a great deal of valunhb- material, which, to many 

 of the readers of the book, will be entirely new. Tbe volume is pro- 

 fusely illustrated, and by the best artistic talent of America. Itsnitn- 

 hundred pages treat more or less fully of almost all the principal 

 game mammals, birds, and fishes of this continent, and in most 

 instances the articles are from the pens of men who are thoroughly 

 familiar with their subjects. Occasionally, it is true, we see unmis- 

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 has naively given the public the benefit of bis experience, but as a 

 whole the work is as well done as is possible in a hook of this kind. 

 The voiume is not, nor does it claim to be, an encyclopedia of Ameri- 

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 and accurate pictures of one phase or another of out-door life. 

 Nearly all the names in the list of authors are familiar to our readers, 

 who have at one lime or another enjoyed in these columns contribu- 

 tions from the same pens. 



The hook is divided into four departmentej which have to do re- 

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 In the first of these arc Chapters ob "The Prehistoric Hunter," by 

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 England," by Rowland E. Robinson; "A Buffalo Hunt, in Northern 

 Mexico," by Lew Wallace; "The North American Cenrtifie," by 

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 Lnft'an; "Hunting the Mule Deer in Colorado." Oy .1. Harrison Mills; 

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 George Bird Grinnell. and "A Musk Ox Hunt," by Frederic 

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 Barnet Phillips; "Trout Fishing In the Rangeley Lakes," by Edward 

 Seymour; "Black Bass Fishing." I.y James A. Henshall; "In the 

 Haunts of Bream and Bass" (poem), by Maurice Thompson; 'Salmon 

 Fishing." by A. G. Wilkinson: "Sniped Bass," by Francis EndiCOtt; 

 "Porpoise Shouting," by Charles C. Ward: "The Michigan Grayling," 

 by Thaddeus Nona's; "Sea Trout Fishing," by A. B. Macdonough; 

 "The Halcyon in Canada," by John Burroughs; "Among the Thous- 

 and Islands," by Howard Pyle: "TBI SpfiMBamftoo Rod. 'by William 

 Mitchell and Lawrence D. Alexander; "On thelmeutiun ol the Reel," 

 by Alfred M. Mayer, and "Relation between the Weight and Length of 

 Brook Trout," by Win. Hodgson Ellis. Under the head of Feathered 

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 M. Ttleston: "North American Grouse," by Charles E. Whitehead; 

 "Bob White, the Game Bird of America," by Alfre:! M. Mayer; "The 

 American Woodcock." by George Bird Grinnell: "Snipe Shooting" 

 by George Bird Grinnell; "Field Sports in Minnesota," by Charles A 

 Zimmerman: "Canvas Back and Terrapin." by W. Maekay Laffan. 

 "A Bay With the Kails." by Alfred M. Mayer: "Wild Turkey Shoot 

 ing." by James Gordon Ithis paper is not mentioned in the table , I 

 contents); "The Shotgun.'' by Alfred M. Mayer. The concluding de- 

 partment of the hook contains a number of miscellaneous sketches 

 on out of door topics. They are: "Camps and Trumps about Ktaadn." 

 by Arbor Ilex; "How 1 Killed a Rear." by Charts Dudley tVarn.-r; 

 "A Fight with a Trout, ' t.v Qnacles Dudley Warner; 'Hot.- to Mount 

 a Bird," by Frederic A. Lucas: "Bow Shooting." by Matniee Thomp- 

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This enumeration or chapters will serve to indicate how wide, is the 

 range of subjects which the book covers. 



It must be understood that "Sport with Gun and Rod" will be sub- 

 jected to sharp criticism. Its readers will he men who are experts. 

 - ,.,iin - i-ame cr fish in the pursuit of which he is 



particularly successful, and on whose habits he i^. an authority, unci 

 readers of this class will not fail to see occasional errors of | one kind 

 and another in the book. There are. very many who would wish that 

 such a volume should contain full accounts of the habits of all our 

 forms of game and fish, because the more intimate one's knowledge 

 of the habits of tbe object of his pursuit, the greater the probability 

 of his success. To have produced such a work as this, lion ever, 

 would have been to increase its size beyond all bounds, and would 

 have made it so costly as to be out of the reach of very many people 

 of moderate means. At the same time it must be acknowledged that 

 some of the sketches are now altogether too short to be satisfactory. 



The first point on which the book is likely to be criticized fairs arrange 

 ment. The subjects succeed each other in a manner which is highly 

 unnatural, and has nothing to recommend it. If it had not, been tor the 

 division of the work under sub-leadings, ;1 Judicious mingling of the 

 sketches, an entire absence of order or arrangement, would have 

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 blow-gun, etc., or this order might have Oeen reversed. But even the 

 arrangement here adopted is ttol carried out, for we find in the deparrt- 

 nieut devoted to Fish, a chapter on "Porpoise Shooting," which is 

 thus strangely misplaced. It is scarcely necessary to say that the 

 porpoise Is not a fish, but a mammal, ami. while it can scarcely be 

 called game, the M leVoted to its capture, if it was to (ind a place 



in the book, should have been the last chapter of that portion of the 

 volume devoted to large game. 



As might be imagined from what wc have already said, the merit 

 and style of the articles runes greatly . There are some full of in- 

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 told incidents of travel, hunting and tis.ing, while one or two arc 

 mere narrations of personal adventure, in which sport is 90s ' 

 touched on. Those by Prof- Mayer, Col, Gordon, Mr. Ward and Mr. 

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 excellent aud attractive. Almost all the chapters beta' evidence, of 

 being written by men who are not only fully competent (o treat the 

 subject of which they write, but are tullof enlhusiasm lor it. There 

 fonder grace, about "Fox Hunting in New England" that Ls most 

 charming. The ske'en is eloquent of wittier woods, and OS we plod 

 along over the hill- by the writer's side we hear the rustle of the 

 dead leaves, the creaking of u,e dry branches, the crisp breaking of 

 the frozen snow under Coot. The keen air plays upon oar Cheek*, 

 and we see the forest with its winter inhabitants busy in the 1'rosty 

 airof a January morning, and hear, farofl on the bills, the mellow 

 baying of the grand old hound who looks out from one of the pages 

 of the book. 



But when Mr. Lallan tells us that ou the Au Sable the deer do not 

 turn aside from a fire ou a runway, and recommends the building 



