Muv, !J9, 1883.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



367 



THEIR LOSS.' • . , .iu correspondence or the SanFran- 



' ' '.,.,.,, i mi, -rest to New York: "By 



the wa\. '.VncuhoB has lately sir-! i. I 



o. the pa-Un ais yardsome of the 



i ••■■< ,i i who in - aow migrated, wltb-plaus, 



models .'iii.l nil co the United States, then- to pursue his avocation. 



i ,, i . ',„i . , , ,,, ,,n , , ,,, ii .,,i ,, , i i.o ii couldn't be m idfi o 



pay" 



NEW isi'HOIJNKlf. ',1 ■■ ,,.. 1... - m char", r Ii ii - 



.',,,... .,..-,.',., ,, ..-o.rus of A. 



Cary snut.li, lor lion. J. M. l.'orhrs. oi Boston Thi- new yacht will 

 heiwti. wnierih,, ri ,. ■■ ., -,.,.i iin. draff wiUloul board. Hull 



ii f iron, or on the composite plan >,.■-.,■- . ..:., -• l.uve also 



iu bund an order tor a sine!- u ,•,,.,, ...miser oi the modem I ■ | 



I) i yachtsman. 



LLOYD'S KEIIISI'KR. We have iveeivetl Ihfi second supplement 



i.j the l-O" ..I -' mi. ,.,;,,. i,,: i i, ., del nil- of yachts, eliui Iges 



ill name and umt i'-'.hlp Among the new subscribers to the Yacht 

 ,ie m Shipbuilding Company, of Fhfladet- 



,, ,, , 



THE I.AKF, VAi'i i m. received some photos ahowj 



m ,• iloopa radon in i] •■■_.. ..i ' ,.ii.-ii. n.i.-m.ii 



Bed' . I ,i, „ ,,,,; ,-,,- i,,i..rnati.,nal fane . and Wagp. 



I'HIl AGO V. i- - I- ,,,■■,,,■ - 



tog an annual dim laconiseof lectiin ulti 



'.oioiid Meettng and eh iv < ■ >■ ■-',. 

 SOT.U. .-'.. ■ , i ,, i ii! to Mr. Sherbii 



. , i ;,,■ :,..... Si ,, •; . ! i 'lie sloop Lo 



: .. 'I. ." ..... :,,-;,... ,- 



NEW MOUKL.— U. L. Win ... , . -,, - . i„,s SUInped a Ha 



some model of a smart twenty-ton cutter to Ml'. J. K. JlciTiereun. 

 tin--, oily. 



lliKBX,— This cutter sailed feu' Hampton Roads and South, 

 waters Tuesday. ':•■■ 



omits to take proper precaut 

 the ill consequences of those 

 lish law stands at present. I 

 one ffeiT 1 , without the owl 

 Car as can ha seen, if a man 

 them h 



dog 



.sfir 



biting. C 

 enough, h 

 whom nol 

 D. Johlis,.,] 



who assisted in the 

 argued that the notie 

 band es bo the dog' 



KEEPINC FEROCIOUS ANIMALS. 



AFONDKiEtJB for animals, and the almost invariable pos- 

 session of them, occasionally leads to a lawsuit at the 

 instance of a in -lghhor. whose person, property, or offspring 1 — 



we quote the fable of precedc'io - ■., >•,■:! ij.-.i. man; yeai igo 

 in a county court— is ■ I red To he fondled by* 



b ! i oi amateur acetitiiatizator, backed I 



another man's I Ed '■. I - bull, Or bitten by fcjs dog, 



i: m. l: : ■ ■: He mj., ... .,,„ ,,.,,„,.. ,.,,.,,.,-... - 



Sor, on the other ha ml,. -h, 

 that expose kirn to needles 

 who persist in patting ova 

 or who ne\ est missthe oppc 



lends 



For oni present purpose, animals may be divided into two 



l i- ■ . .■ natwra. ami mamuetce naHiros. Lioas, 



wolves, bears, a.iid what arc popularly lurowu as wild beasts. 



(dedinttu list of animals /'■ so mihiiw, and if a man 



Sep! my ol these he is liable lor any injury they may elo to 



person or property, no matter how tame they ni.'iv he. in U 



i ol ' Besozzi e. Harris" (1 Foster <fc Finlason.92j a man kept 



■I.'. ii ... mm , which worefre.p ' 



On one occasion, the bear embraced a female excursionist 

 with ungallant Loroe On action brought. Mr Justici I it 

 dfer told the- juiry that the defendant must betaken to hare 

 know. •:,. . nf a lieree nature, because it was 



■ ii i wkd.M thai such animals as lion-, and bears are 



of a -:c. I.. , ■ ■ "Pol tliono.li.' - said the fudge, '■such 

 nature 'any sleep for B time, this ease s.Ii.avs that it may wake 

 up at any moment. A pcr-on '■■. .■, ... -n,., ... animal is bound 



to keep it so that if shall do in ,)„■.<::■.-■: Ii il lie iusnuiciemly 

 kept, and so kept that. a. per.-, i pa--. 'a . i. , K ,i siiltieicntlv pro- 

 i ,. , , , i, allies If the |.Utii, till', with knowledge 

 that the bcni was there, put herself in a position to receive 

 such in j my, she could uot recover." Tins is only common 

 D, and nothing, said a learned judge, is law that is not 



Animals mirnsuritr unluvas are those popularly known as 



"domestic animals." or those that man has trainer! ro be sub- 

 .-ei vieir to Mm, and which are not possessed 01 the fierce 

 nature, of lion- and lieors. Uf such a kind are hoi's 

 eats, ''ic. With respect to 



the 

 bee 



edpa 



t the 



of 



kri M.'liial the 

 whereas, 1 



m hx-a'it I 



propensity. On thi: 

 instructive and intei 



Kep. 0. S. .">). It 

 Manor Orr had 1 1 

 two dogs, one of 

 Ion Min- to Cspta 

 walked by a farm, 



eumM:aucis. was al 



broug ri on aotioaft 



Fleeming'; The | 

 and. like most pap 

 ved to roaixi about.. 



;o deaii, 

 puppy 



") L.T. 

 Sing to 



■as ' being 



the Court of 

 tribunal the 



s the bimden 



of what liord Chief .Justice Hope said 

 "The dog was an iiiUmined foxhniiiid.; 

 to lock him up at night, even if tin 



he could be locked. H-' u'eil hmitin 



and broke through tthe liedge of the h. 



alieap were; hp injured t... 



Capt. Pleemfn-g lir,l,l. . I don«t know w 



burn rook the same view, 



pi i's ii manner. He wondi red at t 



could doiihl, (.'apt. J 



giye the r. ii ■ - j 



urged as : 



i i I. i icious prope 



civilly responsible, i 



done \j\ :in D :i . 



I think gi i. 



animal oannevei 

 the result of thfoarg 

 to have at ll sst i me 



ader i nd g 



two. Suppose wj 

 I have, fron I 



my- can']. ism oi BJ 

 never did ii le-roie.' . . . Ii isti LU1 ■ dency of such 

 dogs (foxhounds) to run after shei :atioii 



and training tli.it they are brought up to run aftei 6 on - mil 

 In its untrained state, no do.u ol this kino , i iteite 



orgies in running after a fox if it tqj .. go D( j jheep, for the 

 plain reason that a sheep is easily caught, and is better 



worth ..-atclunt;-. The tendency to worry sheep is, 

 tin rotoro. a natural tendency in SUOh dogs, anrj for 

 i ■-.- ii the owner is responsible. "In the 

 ■I..-, i m.i.mvmj- rln- jiulsmeiil was uiis.i, 



! peers holding that blame can only attack to the 



owner ota dog, when, after having ascertained that the) ani- 

 mal ha- propensities not generally belonging to his race, he 





ability bitt. 



it will be beet to 





p's own \\r 



rds: "ft has been 





I- t lis I f In 



owner s knowledge 







tisife to make him 





■ ■ nol ii.-.t'- 



e for the damage 







be proved, . . . 



ti rcl 



Tho vic.io 



is tendency of the 



u (ill some miscliiel is done: so that 



wo 



dd be that e- 



way dog is entitled 



ii r 



d every Vntll e 

 lei • It m.iv 



ne thrust, without 

 le that such is ike 



they have in that 

 -t offense. But in 



imal belonging to 



ng 



ii ininj-v lis- 



e four legs or only 



an 



a person m V 



. a nil care 



^<^- 



I .I,..!., 



, m. drives 



vill 



i 1 'i- any del 



Mine to me thai he 



protect the public against 

 hi- is. on ', Mor'Fng- 



ie - s dog may have at. least, 

 jv.is. .. -is - -I m damages, and so 

 man has fifty dogs they may each of 

 it)i impunity, 



when may the master be said to know 

 rmal proclivities for making attacks 

 uas vs.' Morgan" $ C. AI. & B 19 ai 



to biting; but in m earlier ease the 

 •dEUenborongb to be the law. 

 down any general rule as to what cun- 

 mer of a dog that the dog is given to 



e owner is himself told, there is notice 

 -a,; nil or servant is the paitv to 

 i . - jo, [ear; in "Ofladman 



1 ', v.:,, ' rap eared that Glad man was 

 - .si i July 1886. At the trial, one 

 was a Mr-. Gibson, who deposed that 

 id bitten her nephew. On t he happen- 

 nrs. i ol son went to Johnson's premises 

 Johnson w-a.s out, but sin- saw iiis wife, 

 isiness. and told her. It. was stoutly 

 :o the wife was not notice to the bus- 

 vicious propensities, and Lord Chief 

 irepared to assent to the contention of 

 Itioe to an ordinary servant, or even to 



es be sufficient to fix the defendant iu 

 i with knowledge of I he dog's vicious 

 irt, however, ultima, i. came bo the 

 hand was atlected by the notice to the 



husband's absence, and tli 



authority to receive notie* 

 have commtmicated it to 

 bee vs. Percv" (80 L. T. N 

 "It is admitted on nil 



in "Apple- 

 ,e said that 

 to a servant 



id t 



I . 



nagers, and that a, principal can only be 

 ■ lo such servants as have substantial 

 rster s absence. Were the rule otherwise, 



., dealing in 



connection with business transactions is uprooted, andit prac- 

 ticallv strikes out the scienter altogether iu actions of this kind. 

 by saying that the knowledge of the servant, irrespective of 

 his position and duties, is the. luiowlcdoc of the. master," In 

 the case of "Baldyyin es. Casella" 1:20 L. T. N. S. ioli, 

 a spotted coj'riage dog did the injury complained at; 



aowledge of the ser- 

 in deciding, there- 

 must be had to the 



mi the priuciple of 

 - a to the 



direction of Mary Lake, upon the shores of which Port Sydney 

 is built. This was the last we heard of the dog for severa'l 

 hours, and when we returned in the afternoon found that the 

 deer, which turned out to be a large buck fawn, had been 

 driven into Mary Pake, and there shot. 



It was not long, however, before, the other dog was heard 

 from, and almost before we were aware of his near approach, 

 the deer was iu the water. Tie entered at a point about three- 

 Muart-rs of a mile from the spot— at an angle of the lake— 

 where we were stationed, and made direct for the opposite 



, . j distance perhaps of 850 yards. We. were in the big, 

 lumbering, log canoe in a trice, and propelling it with all our 

 might ' Wei a surface which had now become seriously ruffled 

 by a rising wind. With every stroke from my companion's 

 paddle, assisted by my own in the bow, the distance between 

 our canoe and the game was lessened. But our work yvas cm 

 out, for we. had in such rough water ro get at least within 150 

 5 a ids of the deer to insure anything like a safe shot. The deer 

 did not notice our approach and kept its course straight ahead, 

 so that wo gained ou it more rapidly than wv had expected. 

 AV,- at length got within probably Kill yards, when my com- 

 panion ceased paddling, and calling on me also to stop, per- 

 mitted the deer to swim in the remaining tweut \ five or fcthrty 

 yards, and I eagerly awaited the shot as he rose out of the 

 wafer. .1 would myself have preferred getting a little closer, 

 being unaccustomed to lire with a rifle from a canoe which 

 was dancing like a cork in the rough, lumpy water, but my 

 companion would rather have, let the deer escape than paddle 

 up and kill it at close quarters. 



The deer bv this time was aware of our presence, and made 

 rapidly for the shore. As soou as Ids feet touched bottom he 

 made a hound out, but a well-directed shot from my com- 

 panion took him between the quarters in the back before I 

 had time to sight. This impeded his motion somewhat, and a 

 second shot from my Winchester pierced his neck, and he 

 dropped between a couple of logs scarcely vet out of the water. 

 AT hen we paddled up he was quite dead." a' prime twoyenr-old 

 buck in the very pink of condition. We. at once returned to 

 our former position, and after dressing our game av sited the 

 next eutry*. But that was enough for one day-, and the other 

 members of the party joining us about noon we returned 

 home. On three successive clays we were again at our post 

 ou one or other of the numerous little lakes in this region, and 

 each day bagged a deer. They are quite plentiful, and the 

 dogs had no difficulty in getting a fresh start in the morning. 



The Muskoka River drains Mary Lake, and there are many 

 s along the river, but a stranger needs 



isful legitimate 



: with hounds in the 



lying shot ahead of 



This, hoyvever, is a 



But. K hen the first 



to hue. other peop 

 vaut was the know 



lore, what is notice 



e. He- 

 edge c 



d, t 



t th 



eiremnstanees of ei 



oh pai 











in ten lo H it,. • 

 would prol.ablv de- 

 file complaint wer, 



the under-koeper, 



functionaries 



their master, so lar 



woali 



as the . 



b 



Oe, 



who r 



:ty. i 



uppos* 

 er's lodge, the hu 

 .wner had notice i 

 ie owner's lailndr 







- liaHeferi 



iVdn'ma 





Vicl a 80. that the 

 h. n ro sheep or 



ll .- 



s the, sciei 

 itlTeisln.n 

 d calf, slice 



ct'inc thepu 



led not b 



- in the 



pi-Mi 

 list 1 



o,a,es. In other 



when the human 



ii where the four- 



on. Then, by way 



ogs, the Dogs Act 



.;;,', 



,,1 of an\ p 



i "n'-'i- : 



imjSi 





suppose, to be sav- 

 aod not under the 



HUNTING IN MUSKOKA. 



.ijio,\|,,i,„/,.„"- m Toronto Ohibc.\ 



PORT SYDNEY. Muskoka, Oct. SI, -Whfte the stars were 

 yet shining brightly and half an hour before the morn- 

 ing sun had hegim to stiv.nk the eastern sky. we were har- 

 nessed and on the road for Clear Water Lake, which is 

 situated about four miles from this \nllage, and a tramp of a 



mile or more through the wood 



S has tO be mafic before rcach- 



Big it. The party ConsiSb d 1 



.' four, two leading — or rather 



restraining— the hounds with 



.hams, for they were whining 



iliiu eagerness for the chase. 



The air was sharp and frosty, 



last, night's mud crackled undei 



our feet on the road, and the 



little pools ot water bv the way 



.--. . . -.-s,.d with ice a third 



of mi inch in thickness When 



lalf : . |- traversed 



the hound leaders branched off 



in,, the woods t" give the dogs 



a start, while the other two. of 



which I was one. hastened on 



to the lake. My companion a 



,-as familiar with every deer 



runway. in the country about, 



and having launched the log 



um . , ■ directed my attoiiUoi 



to the points at which it was 



most probable the deer would emerge from the woods and 

 take ro the water. 



Clearwater Lake is an exceedingly pretty little body of 

 water, triangular in -,hape, arid present.- probably a mile and 

 a quarter or surface from its extreme angles. It takes its name 

 from the fact that its water is purer and clearer than that of 

 any of the other little lakes about. Situated in the midst of a 

 heavy, though by- no means dehse hardwood forest, the foliage 

 grows down to the shores which rii-c.asily and gradually from 

 the water's edge. That morning the siirfac- wa- lik. j ' ■_■ . "..url 

 mirror and reflected ob-jecrs on tln-bauk so intensely, that the 

 reflection seemed more clearto th re than theobject re- 

 flected. We kindled a fire tol 



,ud 



do 



had v 

 a degree above the 



scent, but. a conside 



•lo: 



A t 



.. Muskokai 



to 



■ly that oi ladies i -- 



"n.mthigli., lo'...-..]. but lOYj 

 His ruddy and wiry features 



the increasing volume of tong 

 visage aglow with eagerness i, 



tore of full and graceful manhi 

 hound a m, rrv chaso. He took 



time appeared to be up"U bhe * 

 tiu-iicd without entering the wa 

 of the hound began to die away 



ide awaiting the yelping of the 

 wait, for before the sun heal got 

 .»..• or th m was heard pn a hot 

 ■ in.- a o ay, He was giving an. 

 MC-1-. ind n. v iipnninn, in a 



here's mmucfey youl" My 



Jlitiv since boMiood. and is one 

 j ee--fu] hunters In the district. 



r-d. hospitable tO a fault, erect 

 - an athlete, and in company— 



shy and bashful as a kid. 



■■■ - lai ■ ii-u." 



bent in a listening attitude to 

 JU6 from the hound, Ms whole 



of f 



S the! 



if the year there « 



method of capturing deer save by huntii 

 lakes. It is sometimes possible to get a 

 flic dogs on some well-known runway 

 very precarious and uncertain chance 

 snows fall the best and most sportsmanlike method of hunt- 

 ing becomes practicable. When there is just snow enough to 

 permit of the tracks being easily followed, and not sufficient 

 to impede either hunter or game" in their progress, the royal 

 spoit begins, '-inugly but not heavily or clumsily clothed — 

 for it is not cold in the woods wdiere the wind is shut out, and 

 the vigorous exercise of pursuit sends the blood tingling to 

 every extremity— a man has all the enjoyment he can hope for 

 in hunting deer. The woods here are not dense', and with a 

 good paii uf moccasins a- man can usually travel rapidly and 

 noiseless] v enough to bag his game and get back again before 

 nightfall.* There is no diiliculty in getting the game out when 

 the snow is on the ground. By binding a stout rope around 

 the head and forefeet, and turning the deer over on his back, 

 he yvill slip along as easily r as a hand sled. For fine, vigorous, 

 maulv sport, commend me to still-hunting in the early winter 

 in Muskoka. 



In a former letter I spoke of the. tliinning out of the deer by 

 illegal slaughter both in winter and summer, but great as this 

 is, it must be many years before the deer becomes extinct in 

 this country. Everywhere there is an abundance of food. 

 Ground hemlock is one of the commonest of shrubs here, and 

 besides this there are plenty of saplings growing up every 

 year, which furnish the most nutritive browsing. And then 

 there are long, and in some cases almost inaccessible, tracts of 

 rocky country in which the deer can find safe retreat. But 

 notwithstanding all these natural advantages for the. preser- 

 vation of game, the residents should at the earliest moment 

 take steps for the enforcement of the law against all breakers. 

 Why could not this be done at once? There are real sports- 

 men enough in the country, if they were properly^ banded 

 together in a. society for the preservation of game, to promptly 

 put an end to the unlawful and unholy slaughter that goes on 

 every year 



POT LUCK FROM EXCHANGES. 



rife 



•abbil 



., hil, 



inning— hi, ho, Hddle de dee: 

 '? it was running— Ui, do, fiddle de dee. 

 ing for all Tommy's gunning— nudnei 



And sho 



But the rahijit kept 



bit stopped he: 

 Oh, Tominv felt sad. but the rabbit fell clad, and away i 



d:d Hee. 



i Tommy 



ir, and gradually the yelping 

 s he pursued the game in the 



Tommy said: "I'll leave of gunning— hi, ho, fiddle de dee; 



For all that I shot, I hey still kepi ,.,, running- hi. ho. fiddle de dee." 



Very soon he was running u way from his gunning, and never a hit 



stopped he: 

 II" came iiouie so gliul. though his gun was bad, that no one was 

 killed- do you see' Sacramento Bee 



Cold weather undoubtedly adds zest to th.- | ileasttre of hunt - 

 iug, but a great deal depends on wh-ther a breech or muzzle- 

 loadiug gun is used. Cold fingers and percussion caps never 

 did harmonize, and often fine opportunities are lost while 

 performing the difficult feat of loading iu the old way with 

 lingers as rigid as the ramrod,— Newark Call. 



"Yes, T remarked Fitznoodle. 'T used to take my dog out 

 wheal started on a promenade; but I don't do it 'now. It 

 wasn't pleasant, vou know, to have people inquire which was 

 Fitznoodle and which was the dog." it is the opinion of Fitz- 

 noodle's friends that it must have been fully as distasteful to 

 the dog as it was to Fitznoodle.— Boston Trarusc) ipi. 



The crews of these yachts are peculiar men. They are 

 mestly Swedes, Danes and Norwegians, and noted for their 

 soberness and steadiness. They are discharged at the end of 

 the season, and usually go coasting or to the West Indies until 

 the following spring, when they readily find berths again on 

 the same or other vaunts. Their pay is about .JSO a month, 

 and life before the mast on a yacht is not a very hard one. In 

 addition to the -Sot) a month an occasional dollar is earned 

 from the guests for rowing them ashore, and in a match for 

 money the owner generally gives a proportion to the crew in 

 case he. wins. For instance. Mr. AA". K. Travel's gave the isl, (It'll 

 he won in the Fannv-Uraeie race to the officers and men of his 

 yacht. There arc also racim: crews picked up along shore, 

 hired only for the race. These are generally paid *". a day, 

 oral -10 if the yacht wins, with plenty- of nianavalins thrown 

 in. The Captains or sailing masters of vaoht- arc also notice- 

 able men. They must be skilled in their pi i ifesslon to no ordi- 

 nary degree: careful, sober and trustworthy as regards finan- 

 cial matters, for the Captain pays all bills incurred as we.ll as 

 suggests numerous necessary expenses. Our yacht Captains 

 ■ E m i i ., .M.jricons. Some have risen from the forecastle, 

 but. most of them come from the oyster or fishing trade, 

 good schools for American seamen. Some of them, like old 

 Clock, young Clock. Hank PtaiT, Frank Baker. Neils Olseu, 

 Wicks "and others, have been brought up ou yachts. The. 

 schooiier Nokomis has a colored skipper. There are also two 

 skippers of skilled talent, imported rrom Europe to sail cutters. 

 The wages of a yacht Captain range from sl.OOO to *l,20o a 

 , . ■ a, .1 of mutes from $60 to --of, a month. .Many of the 

 yacht Captains are kept all the year round, and in such ease*, 

 they look after the yacht in the whiter mouths, — Suit. 



