26 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



lAuQUST 13, 1880. 



, A MORAL TALE TOR POACHERS. 



IT was fn the rlaya before there were any laws in oiu- 

 State for the inot.etjon of flsh and game, or any Slate 



Assooiation for the rrotec-non of Fish and (ianie, nr a 

 Sham T.al;.: Pl.uu flillr,, dilto. ditto, dilto. with ca)iitnl 

 letl.'ir ami c<i|.ital dinn^.,-; and— vvbat else i- Auv 



idd ^ihoot. tra 

 lo the olht-r will 

 aTid iio ti^h, laid 

 had anv fri.-iids 

 proachedand pn 



Intl.OM. hai,i,> 

 iiLd A ■ 



et aud sii 



lit ic, 



:■ h: 



end of tlie year 

 of lesislature, 

 u' nr ran wild, 

 lid anglers who 

 iito theniselves- 

 arket fishermen 

 zeroise of their 

 •lis of the United 

 with a. fyk(>. and 



rl...a^t tiiat swam. 



■ut llur few sponsme 



eticcd and wore a Uv 



tijiu-s tliei-e were Iwi 



id Joe, who, in the 

 rights as frue aud newly naturalized ei 

 States, saw lit to hedge Wonakakaluk 

 so prevent, to their own great profit, t)ie pa.ssage up 

 stream of all fish that yought to go thither in qiie.>jt of 

 food or spawuiii- srouuds. No one up stream could get 

 a lisli, Anglers in th'- iii)[iei- ^vateI■s sat like Patience on 

 a nieniuiiieiit, i!ii!y s-.\ esrin- iiiore tliau stniliiig, at grief 

 —and went down, wil-li not a bite to brag of but tl.ose of 

 laosquitos, wickedly cursing tiiese lionesl fishermen, who 

 hud only taken what belonged to them— lor were not all 

 the fishes of our waters created es]jecially lor Ganuck.s to 

 catch and sellV But some were naughty enough to rebel 

 agiiinat this heavenly decrei-, and took u]) the net of .An - 

 dre and Joe, who then ]irep:ired to defend their riglits. 



bb> 



id b, 



idi-e loaded hi^ 

 Bi;, and .»..!! 

 aud worse ICnyl 

 hees net, beM ,,i ii , . 

 and when be andjus 

 light, they lied, liieir 

 and sa.t smokini; and 



But even the tongi 

 his powers ol sireMu 

 never dies : but, wbe 

 to (Ji.dcliester Point ai 

 of night grew tliie]^. And: 

 aud knocked the a^les u. 

 of position stretched fbeii 

 craft. Tlie bull-lrogs bel 

 the \xliippourwin's iiuie 

 and tlie rnlles cliuclded i 

 bow of tlie sc,j,v ; swdi si 

 qxient breaks of spkisliing 

 watchers soon became sie 



Then the sp.jilers cam 

 trappmg skiif, puddling a 



of ihsii 

 Sed, with 



fSwh 



th a deadly charge of 

 lied oath in bad trench 

 :etch any Yankee 'round 

 a a nes' of bumbly-bee ! " 



tjuni. .n had set their net at twi- 

 to the bead stake of the fyke 

 -ring, alert for tlie foe. 

 a Canuck will tire in time, and 



II not endure ixirever-yet he 

 apjiointed tune hais come, goes 



-ins eternity— and a.s the shades 

 e and. .loe lapsed into silence 



III their pipes, aud for a change 

 selv.'s <,n the thwarts of thrir 

 owed in monotonous concert, 

 .readily lashed the lieavy air. 

 ;ontiuuoiisly under the "brLiad 

 ■epy sounds witli such infro- 

 fish or diving muskrat that the 



— Sed and Jack — iu a light 

 lently as the ghostly canoes 



the stake, ana sf 

 drifting with the s, 

 was a drst-class sir 

 met them, took tlie < 

 the creek, yel woiaL 

 headway and siiowe. 



lip. AS they came alongside the scow, 

 k-knife, cut the thong that held her to 



th her unconscious crew went slowly 

 th wind toward the lake. Andre 

 er ; and a ficlated fishermati who 

 .111 for a lug making her wav out of 

 ed gn^ath' ihat she made so little 

 no Jigiit, and at last concluded that 

 it was some new invention of Oapt. Baniuui and his 

 cousin Hen, and that the illustrious inventors were 

 making a trial trip by night preparatoiy to astonish- 

 ing the world. An liour later she grounded among 

 the willow.s of the sand bar, and her warlike crew, 

 ha\dug had their nap out, awoke to hud themselves 

 they knew not \\bere, till the growing daj^ outlined the 

 familiar liorizon and sileuced the marshdiordered readies 

 of the Vv'imakakatuif, and they saw the trees of Gar- 

 den Island looming darkly out of tlie mist)' bosom of 

 the Bay of the Vessels and ghminering beyond the star 

 of Spli't Kock light-house. Then, some say, the curses of 

 the " Bostoiiais " flew so thick aud hot that they blasted 

 the largest willow on the bar— but it is quite as likely 

 that, in the frenzy of his rage, Andre " played" the tree 

 was a Yankee, and riddled its body with his BB's. 

 Hours before tliis tiieii net had reluctlaatly sputtered 

 into aslies on toji of a blazing brush heap. 



AWAHSOOSK. 



ROUGH NOTES FROM THE WOODS. 



^ Moose Kivee, July 31 si. 



SHE'S all my fancy painted her, she's lovely, slie is 

 light. She waltzes on the waves by day, and rests 

 with Die at night. But I had notlimg to do with her 

 painting. The man who built her did that. And 1 eom- 

 meuce with the canoe, because that is about the first 

 thing you need on entering the Northern Wilderness. 

 Fi'oni the Forgo House, foot of the Fulton Chain, on the 

 west, to Paul Smilli's Lower St. Regis Lake, on the east, 

 is niuety-tsvo miles. About fi-.e miles of this distance is 

 coveredby carries ; the longest cany on this route isabout 

 one mile ; the shortest, a few rods. If you hire a guide 

 hewUlfuniish a boat and carry it himself. His boat 

 wdl weigli from sixty to one hundred pounds, and will 

 warry two hea\-y men, with all the dunnage you need. 

 Ho wiU "lake care" of you, as they express it here, and 

 will work faithfully to forward your desires, whether 

 you be artist, tourist, angler or hunter. His charges are 

 $a. 50 per day, and found. The tired, overworked man 

 of business, who gets away Iroai the hot, dusty city for 

 a few days or weeJis. cannot do better than come to this 

 land of lake, river aud inouiitain, and hire a guide. 



What the iniile oi- mustang is to the plainsman, the 

 boat or caiioe is to guide, hunter or totirist, who proposes 

 a so,joarn m the Adirondacks, And this is why 1 propose 

 to mention at some length this matter of canoeing and 

 boating. Being a light weight aud a good canoeman, 

 having the summer before me, designing to haunt the 

 namercsB lakes and streams not down on the maps, and 

 not caring to hire a gTiide, it stands to reason that my 

 canoe should be of the lightest, and she is. Perhaps she 

 is the lightest ceciar-built canoe in the United States, or 

 auywliere else. Her stems and keel are oak, her ribs red 

 elm, her gunwale spruce, and six pairs of strips, three- 

 sixteenths of an inch thick, with copper fastening from 

 stem to stem, leave her vveiglit, when sandpapered ready 

 for the paint, fifteen pounds nine and a lialf ounces. 

 The paint adds about two iiounds. She is ten feet long, 

 twenty-six incli beam, with eight inches rise at center, 

 and, propelled by a light double paddle, with a one fool 

 power in the middle, gets over the water like a scared 

 loon. I propose to take her a rather extended trip be- 



fore snow flies, if she does not drown me. I reckon her 

 carrying capacity, in ordinary weather, at 150 iwunds. 

 If she proses reasonably safe on the larger lakes of the 

 wilderness, she is an achievement in the boat-building Une. 

 She yvas built by J. H. Rushton, of Canton, N. Y., and is 

 by several pounds the lightest canoe ever made by him. I 

 will only add that she is too light and frail. 1 would rec- 

 ommend ten and a half feet in length, with thirty inch 

 beam, and ribs two inches apart instead of three. .Such a 

 caiioe would be stanch and safe for one, and need not 

 weigli more than twenty-two pounds. She can easily be 

 carried on the head, ui an inverted position, first placing 

 a, blanket or an old coat on the head liy \v:iy of cushion. 



Wlien I reached here, just one week' ago, tired with a 

 twelve mile ride on the corner of a trunk, whUe I hugged 

 that frail boat like a faithful lover, 1 only meant to stop 

 until I could get my traps carried tlirough to the Fulton 

 Chaui, which, in the case of the canoe, was not so easy. 

 I was in no huny— the hotel here is neat, well kept and 

 prices very reasonable. While waiting for the man to 

 turn up who wanted to carry the httle craft on his head 

 to the Forge House, it dawned on ine that I was well 

 enough where I was for a few days. Partie,s were con- 

 stantly coming and going, and all stop at Moose River, 

 which is the half-way house between Booneville and the 

 lakes. 



For interviewing guides and taJcing notes of the region 

 to the eastward, there could be no better point than this ; 

 and 1 needed practice with the canoe before taking her 

 over the larger lakes. Moreover, I came here for a su- 

 perior quality of water, air and angling, with a little 

 hunting thrown in at the proper season. 



What if these things « ere at tnv hand, right here, and 

 parties hurrying th lough post haste to the Brown Tract 

 or the Raquette \\ aters were running away from that 

 they sought '.' Those coming out of the woods do not, as 

 a rule, claim notable success with the tTOut. Many of 

 them would eat salt jujrk oftener than broiled trout were 

 it not for the gtrides, and one of the latter told me that 

 '■fronting" was poor on and arntmd Big Moose, while he 

 thought Little Moose and Panther lakes not worth a 

 visit. ■ 'I could catch all the trout I wanted right around 

 here, "he added. 



So I overhauled my fishing gear and went in for brook 

 trout, and, as I supposed, found all 1 wanted ; found 

 that 1 coil Id, by angling just enougli for recreation, catch 

 more speckled trout by far than I need, while there is 

 very jjretty lly-flshing at the spring holes in the river. 

 Many gentlemen who go far into the wilderness, at much 

 expense of guides, etc, would be well content with just 

 such fishing as I am enjoying at Moose River. Then 

 there are, within an easy' s\;ilk of the hotel, several 

 small lakes where deer ''water'' nightly, and may be 

 "floated" for with a fair prospect of success. 



But this is not camping out — not a genuine woods life. 

 We seek the forest for adventure, and a free, open air, 

 liunter's life, for a time at least. Well, it niav be a little 

 tame, but it is very pleasant and healthful, all the same. 

 As for camping for the benefit of open air, bright fires 

 and beds of browse, fresh picked from hemlock and bal- 

 sam, we have that right here. .Just under my eyes us I 

 write, there is an island in the river some t'welve rods 

 long by sbc wide. It is well timbered with spruce, bal- 

 sam, hemlock, cedar, pine, birch and maple. It is one of 

 the pleasant spots that nature makes and man neglects. 

 The island lies high, with roaring, rushing rapids on the 

 left, and a broad rock dam on the right, which at low 

 water becomes a cool, clean jiromeuade, KHI feet long by 

 forty feet broad. Near the center of this rock is a natu- 

 ral depression, fornung a basin into which the water 

 slowly filters from the river. In this little dock I let the 

 canoe rest at night ; against the largest spruce on the 

 island my hght tent of oiled factory is erected, and tliere 

 I rest o' nights — for a few days only, and then for 

 broader waters and deeper woods ; perhaps to go further 

 and fare yvorse. Ne-SSMUK. 



LONG POINT. 

 " THK HAPPY HUNTING GKOtTND." 



BY kind invitation of my good friend, Shei'iff Wood- 

 ruff, and with but a lew minutes to catch the txain, 

 1 hastilv bundled what few things were necessary into a 

 bag ami stalled to meet my host at the Hamilton Station. 

 On iny arrival I met Mr. R. A. Lucas and Mr. J, J. Mc- 

 Kenzie, buth gentlemeo from HauiUtou, who with my- 

 self made a party of four for that " paradise of hunters," 

 Long Point, We went to fish for green ba.ss and enjoy 

 the pleasant breezes and beautiful scenery at all times to 

 be found upon the island. 



We arrived at about 7 in the evening of the 21st of 

 May, after a pleasant trip on the Annie Craig from Port 

 Dover. Approaching the dock wo were greeted with 

 handerkerchiet salutations from friends on shore, ctm- 

 spicuously among whom was that dear old veteran Chris- 

 tian sportsman. Dr. Edgerton Ryerson, whose hale and 

 hearty figure at seventy-seven shows how careful living 

 and abundant exercise, mentally and physicidly, do to keep 

 age young. 



This charming island ia situated on the east end of 

 Lake Erie, ;ind contains an area of about 30,000 acres of 

 land, a laige portion of which is marsh, and which tif- 

 fords fine feeding and nesting ground for all the varieties 

 of ducks which breed in this neighborhood, such as mal- 

 lard, teal and woodduck. Fish of all descriptions abound. 

 The yvoodland is largely supplied with deer, wild tur- 

 keys, partridges, wooocock and snipe. Endless numbers 

 Of muskrats, when seasons are piopllioiis for breeding 

 and catclung. yield eiuite annciine to tlie company, ti'ap- 

 ping as they do irom 10,000 to 25.000 annually, wdiich 

 tends Lrisoiiic degree to lessen the expense of supporting 

 the four or five gamekeepers. The time of these keepers 

 is spent in watching and protecting the grounds from the 

 im-oads of poachers. The caretakers couoist of W'iUiam 

 Leary, steward ; Helmer, head gamekeeper, and Jack- 

 son, second gamekeeper, all of whom hve upon the main 

 island. Morris, Fitzmorris, or ■•Mouly." by which cog- 

 nomen he is better known, takes charge of the fifteen or 

 sixteen cottages, which belong to individual members of 

 the club, or are used by punters engaged during the 

 shooting season. In adcUtion to these is a club house, in 

 which ia the dining,-room, a large apartment, finished 

 in oiled chestnut and decorated with stutled animals, 

 maps aud paintings, with an autograph register or tablet 

 of celebriLioB who from time to tune have been guests of 



the club. These buildings are all constructed upon piles, 

 forming a. wdiarf. aud disttint about two and a half miles 



from the island propiei 

 CarryiiiSi Place Crec 

 for a summer resort ; 

 and noise, with senei 

 things pleas 



I upon a spot knovm as the 

 This is a most beautiful place 



the cla} 



crib"-i: 



at all times fi 

 a nfreshing b 



up, and „ 



111 s 

 n,l In 



-■o,j(l 



■ r 



nfo 



sort r 

 duriiii 

 to the 

 There 

 place. 



■ • ted il 

 seventy years: among them Lr. Ky 

 one of the oldest, has spent some' 

 good wife tJiis .sj 

 where in hisqniet 

 book on l_'anad;i 



dii.it. smoke 

 ■eeze to make 

 ,,li,itr room— a 

 lb. birds shot 

 - I . -ntributes 



pland : 



■I Hi- 1. 1 1 with this 

 > have shot in the 

 for from sixt/ to 

 rjn, who is perhaps 

 nths here with his 



, n his jolly little hunting box. 



, he told me, much of his admirable 

 has Ijeen yvritten. Then there are the 



lathi 



ger.t the: 



iselv 



whose 

 Vi s. old 



Is aliout, 



names at present do n..,t si 



Peter Price, iiearjv ninety 



and his .son. LiUPrice. :( sivfet-aeented old • 



and Bill Woodward, ton; and last, bnl not I 



the vs-orthyAvres, who has made the marsh 



and over again with old Westly-Richards, 



time she goes iff a tale of woe to anything that comes 



within his reach. There is a little history attached to aU 



connected witli the association. 



Our fishing party, which consisted of Sheriff Woodruff, 



■luin 

 lid le 



Mr. Lucas, Mr. McK 



were coupled oil together in cotraires, eacii 



■■ ■ " - nisiied with 



'aso of llic \ 



, (his party 



eeking rest 



rooms and asitting-i< 

 conduce to the ceimfort aiK 

 altera hard day's sport. No 

 a pleasure-bent organization, 

 from the toils and cares ol 

 brains, etc 



' lish 

 cle; 



lur arrival, 

 \i'illi two bed- 

 e\erything to 

 . earied hunter 

 va.^ essentially 

 jiid relaxatiou 

 I over-xvotked 

 hooking five- 

 bundani, and 

 should no doubt have 



tiy spent 



doubled the catch, wMch, 1 believe, would average one 

 every three minutes, and, in fi>ct, with two hooks, as 



ity 



r seventy an 1: 



r were taken. Of course 



I ••Isaac,' with delicate 

 iiseil, cinild not land as 



" with a still rod aud a. 

 may, the nah are most 

 exceeded in size by some 



I and mysielf when on a 

 irgianBay, in June, 1«78, 



manv 



the n 



tackle, i-iieb 111, Li-Ie,„l lliii 



quickU a-i when - ^;o,ke,l 



Stroiie liii,., l,nt. be tliat ai 



abundaiiL nnd t;amv. and e 



caught by :iir. (Teoriie Dav 



visit to French River, on Ibfc 



This, by the by, was one of the most pleasant tripsi can 



rccidl. The ba)- abounds in the largest bass and picketed 



on the eontininil; of iVmerica. 



On Sunday niorning quite a lUimher congregated in 



the dining-room for prayer (audi must here remark that, 

 es of resort, the Sabiiaih is most 

 1 preacheil amostbeau- 

 -egation were Mr. Ed- 

 C'larles Ryersou, pro- 

 , and their' wives, who 



nlike 





strictly < 





il, and Dr. R 



tiful ser 



mon . 



Among the 



ward Hi 



rris. ol 



London, ati 



fessional 



genti, 





came o^ 



'ir to s 



lenil .Sunday 



whicii the national anthem yvas 

 ubt as to the loyalty of the party 



d on 

 d re- 

 ong, 



sting 

 lome 

 ■faU 



The hearty way ii 

 sung left but little d. 

 present. 



As all pleasm-es have their end, .so had ours. 

 Tuesday morning, after a round of handshaking 

 grnts ai leaving, we turned our faces home v an I, e 

 I trust, to meet with similar .scenes of enjoy meiii 



No spring shooting is allowed at I.t'iig Poiiu. 

 birds have perfect quiet and find an undisturbe 

 during the summer season; conseqnenllv uijen 

 shooting commences birds are found in' an aliuiwlance 

 uneqiiaied any « here. By the laws of the club, no guns 

 are hrcd between sunset and sunrise ; the result is from 

 lOO to 300 birds a day to each shooter, and I ti'ust that ere 

 long the Mimroe Marsh, which is now being ruined by 

 pot hunters at all seasons, will fall into the hands of gen- 

 tlemen now negotiating for its purchase, and with whom 

 Long Point friends will be able to shake han.ls audio 

 congratulate each other upon having brought the protec- 

 tion of game to a success tul issue. 



N. B. — I quite forgot to mention tliat last suinuier Dr. 

 Ryerson, m his little skilf, rowed over to Port Ryerse, 

 seventeen mOes, preached two sermons and returned ; 

 and this spring, when goose shooting, \vas oven alien by 

 darkness and comiielled lo remain all nighl iii llie mar.sh. 

 RoUing himself in his blankets, he quietly «ent to 

 sleep in his boat, and when he returned the next morning 

 was rewarded by capturmg nine wild geese. 



,S«, Catherines, Out. J. Bbvans Giles. 



A MIDSUMMER FOX CHASK. 



Gaston, N, C 



HfJWEVKR unhunismanhko it may seem for a prac- 

 tical himtsniitn of full forty seasons to be engaged 

 in the sport during midsummer, 1 must nevertheless g'lve 

 you an account of a red fox chase I had July 33d, bSSO, 



For several days previous the weather had been cool 

 and damp, much like such spells in early autumn, and it 

 occuri-ed to me a good time to reconnoiter to ascertain if 

 the inform;iiion receiveila few weeks before was correct, 

 that a ih-n of red f. c-ies had been found on the Mt. Misery 

 plaiiiati.'ii on the Roanoke River, five miles above me, 

 The morning ^vas very damp, cool and cloudy, with 

 misly showers at intervals, but iu other renijecls exactly 

 suite'd for the purposes I had in view. The feuude red 

 fox invariably prowls on such days, and 1 calculated on 

 striking a trail or confronting one, if my infotination 

 was correct, .as soon as I entered the Mt. Misery plana- 

 tinn. 



After ordinary breakfast 1 mounted and moved up the 

 Itoanoke. keeping the Eaton Ferrj' road for several miles 

 and tinning south doyvn a cartway to the bills overlook- 

 ing the Ruanoke. with sojiie eight couple of hounds that 

 I had liberally iiutshed to take off their fire, soon came 

 upon a nioviiig fox, and some distHnce from the place I 

 h;td ex|.ected to do bo. The pack broke Ofl' in fvdl cry, 

 and so loud and furiously that I was startled. 1 was at a 

 loss to determine the character of the game. I could not 

 veulure to hark or encourage the hesitating pack, but 

 keeping mv silence and hastening to head the pack soon 

 discovered^ as in the dai-kening wood they passed me, 

 that the game was large and a race was before me. But 

 whether deer, red or gray fox, was not so evident. The 

 run w as directly up the Roanoke, over its hills for more 

 theu a mUe ; then due south through a large body ol" 



