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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Dbobmbbr 80, 1880- 



devised some way at field trials to show up the number 

 ol birdB passed by these air-splitters, it would rather astonish 

 more than one of the hill-side critics. It has hee.n well said 

 that field trials ai-o new In this country, and to judge from the 

 expressions uttered by "a large majority" of spectatora, ouc 

 would be led to believe that for the first time in their sport- 

 ing career they had positively witnessed a dog pointing out 

 of a book or a chromo. We cannot say it is quite as bad as 

 what Mr. Winkle said : 



"AVhat's the matter with the dog's legs?" whispered Mr. 

 Winkle. "How queer they're standing." 



" Hush, can't you?" replied Wardel, softly. " Don't you 

 see they're making a point ?" 



But it is something like this: "How grand," says one. 

 " Glance your eye on his tail, how stiff," says another. 

 " How staunchly he xmeUs them ; this is indeed a sight really 

 worth traveling a thousand miles to see," says number three. 

 And these encomiums are paid Master Mdo simply because 

 be has pinned some poor wretched, scared-to-death bird, 

 when going up wind, and simply pointed it as he shouki, 

 "because it's his nature to." It is now the skilled news- 

 paper man gets in his fine work, and shakes the hand of the 

 cheerful owner, whose feelings are way up in the seventli 

 heaven until he is informed that his dog has lost the heat I 

 It is pleasing incidents like this that help to interlard field 

 trials with interest and break in upon their monotony, but it 

 is dreadful humbug nevertheless. 



Now, if any one can detect our saying in the f oregoins 

 that we do not believe in fast dogs that have good noses, let 

 him write us down as but a sorry sportsman. But what we 

 contend is this : that first of all comes the nose, and that 

 speed is but a secondary conaideration. Therefore, is not 

 pace in the Eastern Field Trial rules rated too highly? We 

 advise breeders not to sacrifice nose and bottom to obtain the 

 qualities of a quarter-horse. 



"IDLE TIME NOT IDLT SPENT." 



IT was tantalizing enough to know that there were scores 

 of eyes surveying our well-placed deceits and winking 

 at each other with airs of superior intelligence, as much as to 

 say " Bless my boots '. but that fellow on shore is oppressively 

 fresh this morning, He had better get out in the sunshine 

 and evaporate a little." 



They are whimsical fellows ; to-'day they are inconceivably 

 ignorant, as confldingand verdant as aplowi.boyon his first 

 visit to town, becoming a victim to the most transparent 

 luxes ; to-morrow they have become regular sharjjers, detect- 

 ing immediately the game sought to be played upon them ; 

 and again, the following day they have relapsed into their 

 verdancy and the simplest fraud deceives. Ttiis was one of 

 their knowing mornings, for they evinced an obstinate de- 

 termination worthy of government mules not to take hoM, 

 but even a government mule can, with proper treatment, be 

 prevailed upon to dovolop decent qualities. Stroke him with 

 the hair and all that sort of thing before emphasizing your lan- 

 guage and actions. If thai does not sufllco put i\ rope around 

 his neck. The trout may avoid your flies, as impecunious 

 dead beats avoid then creditors, but they can be brought to 

 terms by having some luck, using a little diplomacy and 

 other things. At your first oast, all the care and caution of a 

 suppliant ; at your first strike, the manner and action of a dic- 

 tator. 



Like the miller fluttering about the flame did these beauties 

 coquette with the deceits we offered them. It was an ex- 

 hauster, almost an annihilator, of patience ; hnt at last we 

 heard an old trout saj' " Oh ! you wicked little fellows, stand 

 aside and let your poor old father show you how the thing is 

 done. Now watch that Grizzly King. Here goes." 



The youngsters, inexperienced and lioisterious, had been 

 threshing around like so many flails more intent on mischief- 

 making than the more serious and important business of pro- 

 viding for the inner fish ; but the old gentleman had a double 

 object in view. First, his idea of cunningness in capturing 

 the delicious looking fly : and second, the more selfish one of 

 pandering to liis appetite. Kumber one wag a grand success, 

 for coming up luider llif ily he quietly and quickly siickcd il 

 in and made no splash until the hook, rcspon.sivc to the iwi.sl 

 of the wrist, convinced him that liis second idea wus an I'pi- 

 Curean fizzle. Of course the youni,'sters stood one side and 

 said "Old Smarty, j'ou have got yourself in a fine pickle and 

 won't be bothering the boys any more. Gel out of it, if you 

 can. You are like many an older fellow ; think you know it 

 all, but now you have learned that the world moves and that 

 old fish like old fogies may sometimes get left behind. Egad! 

 it is cold to-day." 



The old gentleman makes no reply. He had exciting busi- 

 ness requiring his immediate attention. He seemed to have 

 pressing engagements everywhere and was trying to keep 

 them all, developing aa astonishing amount of energy in the 

 fractional part of a second. It was a regular game of Rimon 

 now up, now down, and then wig-wag. Merrily whistles 

 the line as away he goi-s like a courser at the prick of spur. 

 He displayed no appreciation of the esthetic quality of the 

 sport. His conduct evinced a leaning toward the practical. 

 He weuld condemn theories and escape, no matter how, to 

 the home that has slieltered him for many a year. 



"Confound you," he cries, "come over hero. I'd like 

 about three mmutes of your company and I'd drown you." 



" You egotistical old scoundrel, you want to get us over- 

 board and cut our throat with your first dorsal -fin, hut we 

 mean to fight it out here. When ze Frenchman hunts ze tigare, 



ah ! ze sport is grand, luagiuflqiio ! but when ze tigare himts 

 ze Frenchman — oui I zere is ze very devil to pay." 



Vainly he endeavored to outmanoeuvre us. Ail tjie expe- 

 dients of which he wari master were brought into play, but 

 humoring his eccentricities and scrupuloualy guarding against 

 any possibility o!' liis tscapiDg a firm, vol yielding, hand nul- 

 liiled all his rcsinirccs, nud then the fsUal net enveloped him. 

 Toss him on the green grasp. 'i'Li . ' ' : ;i bride ; 



the Dolly Vm-dcn fisl), lioiiiiiful i^ n , ^dur. Sil- 



ver holly, pink flus, yellow sides / crimson 



hail," all marvclonsly contrasted and blended, and shading 

 off into the deep rich brown of his back and glancing like 

 the rays of a prism. 



"Well, thisisworlhlivingfor!" you exclaim, and can well 

 believe with Sterne that "ilis better to do the idlest thing 

 in the world than to sit idle for half an hour." MitnAEU. 



Man differs from all oBier animals in that he smokes, and 



among men who smijkc they are distininished for their good 

 tasie Willi use ivimiir'H's Vanity Fair. This excellent brand 

 is growing in favor among those who arc capable of judging 

 what good tobacco really is. And for this increasing popu- 

 larity we need not look further than the inherent excellence 

 of the product. 



KIHD WORDS. 



SraAciusE, N. T., Dee. 27, 1880. 



aailiDt; of l.iht week's FoBESI AND 



I . ' in Uumk yon for it; 



: all your rcatlors m 



." L MEiducted, is a credit 



JSditoi' FoTBti and Stream ; 



I have just iinished the ; 

 Steeui, and 1 oarmoc ron-ii 

 and 1 umuiu-sihvll '.^uly v: - 

 expresRuig the opinion lliflt lii 

 to its editors and publiahora, and to American zeal, ability and ea 

 terprise. I am Bare it baa no equal either in this ccinuixy or i; 

 Kurope, and bo good and instructive a pnblicatioii riiii;li! «;ire 

 every household -srith advantago to the occiiii -- i 



eicellent, its cohimna are cloau, its matter is ii' : : u 



and its toachingd on TfiriouH subjects would n; - 1 



hook every month. You deserve the congro t u ii: 



agement of STory one of ynm- readers. Editoi :i 



knocks and but few complimentB, and I weh: -! 



among the number who liaVe only Mud. words of oiiprovai for you 

 eicellent work. D. B. Bbtioe. 



THE TILESTON MKMOBIAL FUND. 



New Yobk, Deoembei' 23. 



MdUor Forenl and Stream : 



I have to acknowledge the receipt of further siabscriptiana to 

 the " TUestou Memorial Fimd." as foUowB : 



I'revlonslyacloiowledgi'cl $t6S.0l) 



JolmHone,Jr S-OO 



Dr. IV. If. Holmes S-OO 



Ttr. K. Howe S.Oi) 



.1. V.'. BlytUp 6.01) 



" Blind Tom ■' 5.0(1 



J.. M. l.eoTlng- ,.,. 3.1") 



M, 'i; );fib;:rte 5.<"-> 



iTorptdj ur r. c. ohl's painting 01 "English snipe" tsi.w 



Less amount nald for Irame , , ..".... T.O't 



«.uo 



Total ., ,....,..., tsts.nii 



Less amount paid for postage -^.....-.. 30.0i) 



:N'ct amount ot Fimd $si5.on 



which was sent to Mrs. 'I'ilcston on the 2l8t inst., and for which 

 we havo her receipt. The committee wordd also give credit to Mr. 

 Willy Wallach for his contribution of printing and stationery, the 

 value being iS25. i om-a truly. Feed. N. HjVLI., Seo'y. 



Mrs. Tilcslon has recovered $5,000 from the Harlem Rail- 

 road Company, the owners of the Madison )Square Garden 

 where Mr Tileston lost hia life. For the injuries sustained 

 by himself at the Garden, Mr. Walter Webb has recovered 

 $4, .500 ; and this with a generosity worthy of the highest 

 praise ho has presented to Mrs. TUestou. 



PIROGUING ON THE SQUATOOK. 



Ti: ' ' M ; , ; i • ,^- and homely litlJe hamlet, scatteredabout 

 J of the noble river St. John with its trib- 

 utai ;, kii, is the portal to a region new, perhaps, 



toil:L., ,. ^., ,. sport^mnn, but v/ell worthy his attention. 

 The latitud!-- oi EaniundEt(jii, or Petit Saut, is about tliree 

 Imndred miles more nonlicrly ! ban that oi Paul .Smitli'a in 

 the Adirondacka. Kot more than .wven miles distani runs 

 the line which divides tlic Provinces of Quebec and New 

 Brunswick, while the neat farm-houses and rich lands wlueh 

 one sees on the opposite ahoro of the John bolong to the sov- 

 ereign State of Maine. 



Hero and for many scores of miles up and down the St. 

 John a narrow strip of cultivated land, for the most part rich 



I ban 



iji the 



id carefully tfiled for generations, bordeio 

 river, but back of that "for hundreds of n 

 the northward and northeastward, strcii 

 wilderness — a wilderness whose forests, lb:" 

 of their ancient gh-Ty, "> ' /. 



hi growth of firs n i i 



cariljou, while its el 



_>vil)i 111.. c-llhUMl ;uii. ,.i..' I.. 



Vr:'' • ivpioal Upper Is't.'. 



Evci .! limn day like this t 



is luj I ' J ^pitable, cold and clu'eii'-v.- 



about forly bihldings, including a court-bi:".! 

 But it has no village street, not a shade ; 

 foot of turf. Each house stands aloof from 

 thing indicates community among the bui 

 dwellings are in a line, but each seems to edt; 

 other and turn a cold clapboard shoulder to i.nc rest m me 

 village. Long-legged and long-eared pigs, a hideous Ijreed, 

 are the spechnons of animal life most frequently met witlion 

 the streets. To enjoy life in Edmundston one must get the 

 village out of sight, cither in the recesses of mine host Whit- 

 ney's comfortalilo inn. or looking out, with the town behind, 

 on the serene and steutl>- swoi p of the broad St. John or the 

 tumult and foam of the Madawa.ska as it leaps its i>etit saut. 



I lie moose and the 

 ; : h aristocratic fish 



FJrunswiek village. 

 ? asjii'ct of the place 



ithe 



The New Brunswickers up here, Frenchmen though tliey be> 

 relatives of Evangeline perchance, make no beautiful thing. 



But tins homely Edmundston is the threshold to a world 

 of rare natural lieanty. 



It is imposKible in this limited space to describe all the 

 trips that may be made froui here, trips rich in sport and 

 scenery. From here they start for the " Green River trip," 

 for the " Fish River trip," for the " Squatook" or "Round 

 the Lakes trip." Any of these excursions may be according 

 to the measure with which the tourist or sportsman is blessed 

 with time. It is proposed here to briefly describe the "Squa- 

 took trip," ex uno, etc. 



In this region the traveler has his choice between the flim- 

 sy and readily upset birch bark canoe and the invulnerable 

 but also as readily upset pirogue. Choose the latter. It con- 

 sists of a log twenty feet long or more, hollowed and mod- 

 elled into a .scimetar-shaped and most savsige looking double 

 bow. But it is a good servant when dexterously managed, 

 as ii invariably is by the French guides. 



These French guides arc the very flower of backwoodsmen. 

 They are mostly the descendants of those Acadians who, 

 after the cession of their homes by the peace of Utrecht, fled 

 from the new masters of the soil far into a more hospitable 

 wilderness. They can for the most part neither read nor 

 vyrite, and speak almost exclusively French with variations. 

 For instance, eer is " vart " with them, bien i,s "baug,"ict, 

 "icit," j>res "pret," //'ar's " fret," etc. Their artificial sur- 

 roundmgs are, as we see in Edmundston, excessively homely. 

 And yet — by what subile influence preserved ? — one finds in 

 them, in all its purity, the characteristic politeness and pol 

 islied manner of the French gentlemen. In sun,shinc or in 

 storm, dry or wet, fed or hungry, iliey are always deferen- 

 tial, gracious and einpri-ssee. Jt is delightful to hear the 

 courteous tone with which they emphasize ' 'Mrrci monnfiur." 

 Ah, their manners are difi'erent from those of the no less good 

 guides of Maine and the Adirondachs. Ikisides, these French 

 guides are scrupulously neat, and give you a clean and com- 

 fortable life in camp. They are good cooks .and very cheap, 

 costing only from one to two and a half dollars a day. At 

 the same time it must be admitted that they arc seldom good 

 tportsmen : that in fishing thej' have a censurable penchant 

 for the seine and spear and are strangers to the fly, and that 

 in Imnling the}' are decidedly inferior to the dirty and un- 

 utterably homely Micmac Indians, a few of whom stDl fur- 

 nish inspiration for nightmare in these regions. 



You start up the Madawaska, a guide apiece, luxuriously 

 reclining in the bov/'of your pirogue facing your course, and 

 behind you, deftly and swiftly poling you up the steady cur- 

 rent, your strong and graceful Frenchmiui. Amid-ihips are 

 packed the impedituonta— Z/?? J/n the guides call thera— a leut, 

 utensils and the usual food for a camping party. So you go 

 seventeen miles that day, oyer fair fishing grounds most of 

 the way, with no notable rapids to o!)3truct you, and now 

 and then the excitement of a shot at a stray' duck, wild (.r 

 domeistic; for along the river thus far a single line of farms 

 fringes Iha bank. That night you camp m\ the bank of tin- 

 stream at the beginning of a portage. 



Early the next morning you are awakened by the volubili- 

 ty of the French spoken by a Mr. Lynch, of Cork, who . 

 monopolizes the portage business, and who straightway fast- 

 ens his oxen to the bows of the pirogues and without cere- 

 mony hauls them over and tlu-ough rocks, roots and trees, 

 three miles to Beai-dsley Lake. Next morning the pirogues, 

 still intact, are launched in the lake, and .'!oon arc on the 

 bottom of its outlet, Eeard&lpy i!rool;— hu' ilio lirook is not 

 more .than tlurec inches deep. Then the guidt's taking Iho 

 place of the oxen of yr^Btcniay, drag tlio poiiUcrou.? craft foot 

 by foot, plowing a furrow between the bed rocks of the 

 stream. It is impossible sufficiently to admire or praise the 

 imdamageable qualities of the pirogue. The little brook is 

 beautiful enough, and you may catch a creel full of .small 

 trout if you choose to wade ahead of the tumult and debrk 

 caused by your flotilla ; but it is a hard and tedious day's 

 work, and every one is glad when the tent is pitched and you 

 are told that the worst three miles are over. 



On the morrow you resume the brook, which is now deep 

 enough to float the pirogues, but so narrow that the dense 

 alders, through which it flows, completely oveiiock it. For 

 several miles you crouch down and are pushed through a 

 greenwood tunnel. But all this time the stream is growing. 

 At last it suddenly widens, breaks away from the alders Ln a 

 gallant rift, and the Maurais Ohemin is ended. Thence to 

 the end of the trip is plenty of sea-room, and " twenty miles 

 a day," if you like. 



Presently, as you float on, with a great silent shoot over 

 yellow sand, the Squatook river springs upon the little brook 

 and devours it, and now you are on a noble trout stream, 

 none colder nor clearer in the world. It is abimdant in 

 water, clear, deep-pooled, well sifted and fed by scores of 

 icy little brooks— an ideal home for the Salmo fontinalu, 

 thence daj' by day you are paddled or poled over beautiful 

 lakes connected by superb water-conrsc.s. Your whole waj' 

 is down stream, aud there are more than a hundred miles of 

 it. Scarcely a wilderness in the world ctm furnish more e.x- 

 iquisite lake scenery than that of the Fourth Squaloak 

 and Yuladi, more varied and beautiful streams than 

 the Upper Squatook and Yuladi rivers. You pitch your 

 tent whenever and wherever you like. Yon are not confined 

 to one camp .spot as in most other wilderues.se8. You carry 

 yuur whole camp easily with you, you live in the entire re- 

 gion, aud wherever spot or scenery beckon to you, as you 

 glide along, you pauae, pitrh your tent, and arc at home. 



Memories of stationiuy r:iui(iT in the Adirondacks are 

 odious, after this voyamur ijf(>. You can paddle or pole, 

 you can hunt or fish, or, if you like, you can be an idler and 

 lounge in a good seat in nature's theatre, while the receding 

 banks for hours and hours shift their exquisite scenery for 

 you. Every now and then the excitement of a rapid will 

 rouse you. The rapids are not particularly dangerous, but 

 they look so. As the pirogue yields to the rush of the 

 water, and darts down the boiling and tossing incline, you 

 clasp the boat and cease to feel interested in scenery. But 

 the guides understand the rapids, and to see them stand erect 

 in the stern of the tossing boats, plying the pole with incon- 

 iftness; here dodging a sunken rock, there hold- 

 ^ue in the foam and roar, imtil a counter current 

 ; ; bow into the exact direction, and then boldly 

 i.ii.o.iiHi ,, iih all theii- foi-on lt,io ibc vcrj-- thick of the tumult 

 of waves, is not the I :■ sight of the trip. 



Finallj', j-ou step -yiie, back at Edmundston 



again. You have i : .a e.ver a hundred and 



fiftymiles of lake an.J livei , l i-from thirty toa 



few miles in lengtli, and tli _ i liree feet to three 



hundred yards in width. . ..c abound every- 



where, reaching as much asaeveu poumK- in weight — ^in iso-. 

 lated instances. There are quantities of lake trout — toguq 

 or tuladi, as they are here called. A few moose, some caii. 



