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[Fkbrtuky 26, 1880, 



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f Fish and Game in Quebec— The third annual dinner 

 - of the Fish and Game Protection Club of the Province of 

 Quebec was recently held in Quebec, the following mem- 

 bers and invited guests being present, Mr. Romeo 

 Stephens presiding and Mr. W. H. Kerr, Q. C., occupy- 

 ing the Vice Chair : Hon. Peter Mitchell, Andrew Rob- 

 ertson, S, B. Foote, Lieut.-Col. J. H. Isaacson, Dr. F. "W, 

 Campbell, Jas. Stewart, Euclide Roy, Louis Sutherland, 

 A. N. Shewan, J. H. Stearns, Hugh Beckett, W. S. 

 Walker, J. Try Daviies, F. Henshaw, A. Force, E. C. 

 Monk, A. F. Mclntyre, J. C. Wilson, F. Drummond, 

 James Johnson, Jr., L. R. Ord, G. U. Ahem, Dr. Alloway, 

 F. J. Brady, W. H. Rintoul, J. B. Robertson, A. Webster, 

 Cbas. Cassils, Arch. Cassils, Hugh Patton, C. Holland, 

 W. S. McFarlan, A. Davidson Ross, John Robinson, P, 

 E. Nonnandeau ; Mr. Reeves, representative of the Sher- 

 brooke Club ; Dr. Mayrand, representative of the St. 

 Andrew's Club ; Capt, Kane, Chas. Robinson, G. S. Wil- 

 son, Alfred Rudolf, G. H. Matthews, R. A. Alloway, W. 

 Crowthers, etc. The occasion was one of much good 

 feeling and mutual congratulation upon the success of 

 the Society's work. Special and well deserved compli- 

 ments were paid to Mr. Whitcher and his officers for their 

 efficient services in fish culture and protection, 



—London has had another six-days' walking match, Bos- 

 ton is threatened with a "female pedestrian" show, and 

 Weston and O'Leary are to go-as-you-please in San Fran- 

 cisco. With these wars and rumors of wars on all sides 

 of her, New York city ia certainly to be congratulated 

 upon her immunity and present freedom from this par- 

 ticular form of lunacy. Possibly a few more dog shows 

 at the Madison Square Garden may elevate the sporting 

 tastes of the populace to a higher form of amusement. 

 New Yorkers could well afford to give up these walking 

 matches, and, following the admirable example set them 

 by the Westminster Kennel Club, substitute a series of 

 annual horse and cattle fairs, pigeon shows, yes, and 

 even cat shows. 



—The man who brought his pigeon to pot by shooting 

 up the chimney, as detailed elsewhere injthe^ooounl; of a 

 shooting match, performed an unparalled feat in the 

 annals of pigeon shooting, and as he probably devoured 

 his bird, may reasonably lay claim to the discovery of a 

 new species of "chimney swallow.' , 



AN ADMIRABLE SCHEME. 



SOME two years ago we described and commended the 

 plan of the Jolly Club, a New England association of 

 men, women and children, who repair each year to one 

 of the beautiful headlands jutting out from the Vermont 

 shore into Lake Cha.mplair. Here the club has a minia- 

 ture wild-wood village of rough and rustic but comfort- 

 able cottages, with the forest aisles for streets and the 

 vast stretch of wood and water for corporation limits. 

 The members leave their homes in various Eastern cities 

 in the spring and gather at this delightful rendezvous 

 for the summer months. Shooting, fishing, boating, 

 archery, croquet, botanizing, sketching, dreaming in the 

 hammock, and a dozen other diversions and amusements, 

 make up the vacation life. The gentlemen come and go 

 as their business demands, while their families remain to 

 gain health and pleasure. We once fell in with a hard- 

 working New York physician, who in mid-siunmer was 

 hastening here and there among his patients and looking 

 longingly away from the noisome streets of the city to 

 the Testful camp of the Jolly Club up in Vermont. 



We referred to the club when wo wrote of it before as 

 a New England institution, and held it up as " a bright 

 and shining example to be known and imitated of all 

 good people, North, East, South and West, throughout 

 the land." It is with much gratification, then, that we 

 now note the probable adoption of the same plan by some 

 of our friends in Michigan. Granted that the western 

 projectors of the plan never heard of the Jolly Club, it 

 stili on the platform adopted by the Vermont institution 

 that the new club is to be founded, It is then a triumpl 

 for the Jolly Club party of American pleasure seekera 

 and we hail with much satisfaction the growth of such 

 sound and healthful ideas of summer recreation. For 

 the meaning is that men and women are coming to see in 

 the great world of nature, and outside of the town, fit 

 dwelling places for body and soul ; and this in turn pro- 

 mises increased participation in the health-giving recrea- 

 tion of the forest and stream. 



In his opening address to the members of the Michigan 

 Association, at Bay City, the other day, President Holmes 

 introduced the project of a summer or fall encampment 

 for the members of the Association and their families. 

 The meeting at Bay City, like all the conventions of the 

 Michigan Association, was so wholly devoted to the more 

 serious work demanding attention that there was not op- 

 portunity for much sport, nor did the season invite to the 

 field. The proposition therefore was to select a suitable 

 site on the bank of some lake or river, where, in the later 

 summer or fall, tents and lodges might he erected, and 

 where the members of the Association, with their fami- 

 lies, might gather for such a time as might be found con- 

 venient. 



Such a scheme in its main features is admirable. It 

 proposes, first of all, to gather sportsmen together where 

 thev belong — in the field. Save for a business meeting, 

 a convention of sportsmen in town is a manifest anomaly. 

 The practical instruction to be gained, the theories to be 

 advanced and tested, the mutual giving and receiving of 

 instruction in woodcraft and field work, all these things 

 are to be- accomplished out-of-doors. Two days of actual 

 field work; will accomplish more than two weeks of 

 theorizing in a hall. 



Again, the comprehensive plan proposed includes the 

 family. The views of the Forest and Stream on this 

 pointare so well known as to require no exposition here. 

 We have Bet before us as our mission the advancement of 

 fiddspcrts in their prOpar pUcea aula participation ir. 

 them not as the chief end of man but as conducive to 

 accomplishing that end. We have taught that the man 

 •who is engaged in commercial pursuits is a better busi- 

 ness man if he exchange for a tune his day-books and 

 ledgers for the fly book and tourist's guide, and that the 

 professional man will be most successful in the long run, 

 who breaks away from the routine of his work for a trip 

 into the woods. Some men become so nervous and 

 fidgety and out of sorts that their fellows are glad to 

 miss them for a time while they are battling the black 

 flies up in the Adirondacks. Society ought to ostracize such 

 of its members and send them off to become men again 

 in the wilds. We do not have room for the expansion of 

 our sotds in the city, The best natured men in the world 

 are those who come into the Forest and Stream office 

 on their return from a vacation trip after quail or trout. 

 One cannot help breathing in good nature with the ozone 

 of the pine woods ; one's jarring spirits must come into 

 tune again in harmony with the strains of the forest trees 

 swept by the night winds, and the metallic music of the 

 woodland rivulets. There is no such soothing melody of 

 man's handicraft as these harmonies of nature's chords. 

 And if this dwelling in tents or sleeping beneath the sky 

 be good for one man. it is good, too, for a score or a hun- 

 dred, and for old and young, men and women. It is that 

 we may instill into our children something of our own 

 tastes that such schemes as this of a woodland encamp- 

 ment deserve to bo put into execution. The plan offers 

 an excollent supplement to the sportsman's regular field 



days. 



Michigan and Wisconsin and Minnesota are rich in 

 beautiful sites for such enterprises. Within their borde rs 



are scores and scores of inland lakes, surrounded by dense 

 forests, where fish and game abound, and -will abound 

 for a century to come. The railroad faculties are such 

 that easy access may be had to the chosen camp, and 

 men or families may come or go as they choose. 



The plan just in the form proposed by the President of 

 the Michigan Association may, however, prove imprac- 

 ticable. Hail fellows well met, who are the best com- 

 panions in the the world for a genuine roughing turn, will 

 not stand the ordeal of a family encampment. What 

 means quiet enjoyment to one man is an insufferable 

 bore to another. A miscellaneous gathering of spoils- 

 men— admitted to the hospitalities of the grounds on the 

 strength of their sporting proclivities alone — might not 

 prove the congenial company anticipated by the pro- 

 jectors of the scheme. Indeed, the demands of such com- 

 panionship are exacting in the extreme. To make a suc- 

 cess of a woodland camp the membership must be deter- 

 mined by the same rigid rules which obtain in society — 

 those who make up the controlling element must have 

 the privilege of excluding uncongenial factors, and for 

 thisreason it strikes us the plan of President Holmes may 

 to great advantage be so modified a6 to provide for a 

 careful selection of the guests. 



This is something which time will try. Let the experi- 

 ment, in some shape or another, be put to the lest not 

 only in Michigan, but in every State in the Union. If it 

 has already been introduced and successfully accom- 

 plished, let the fact be known through the Forest and 

 Stream, for the instruction and benefit of others. 



NAirvE and Transplanted Fish.— Our angling friend, 

 " Dexter," of Albany, commenting upon the gradual dis- 

 appearance of our strictly indigenous fish, agrees with us 

 that the artificially grown fish lacfc the pluck and gami- 

 ness of their predecessors. He says : — 



Ten years ago, when first I commenced fishing in the Mohawk 

 River, the black bass, small mouthed, were there in abundance; 

 and noble follows they were, too-strong, heavy biters and sav- 

 age vigorous fighters: iheir flesh hard, flaky and delicious, la 



afewyeare they commenced to grow Bcavcennda fresh simply 



was added. The past few years we have been catching plenty of 

 them, a trifle under Size. When they bite there is not the slight- 

 ed resemblance to the actions of their predecessors, but Just the 

 opposite; they arc not as strong lighters when hooked. Neither 

 do I consider them as good eating. 



Making all due allowance for the lapse of years, during 

 which the fishing of tiie past, in common with other 

 pleasures, takes on the excellencies of a backward vision, 

 there are very patent reasons why the artificially bred 

 progeny should afford comparatively tame sport. In their 

 natural state the fish are all subject to the law of the sur- 

 vival of the fittest. It is then only the strongest, most 

 vigorous, and best fighters that live to take the fly. Give 

 us°the dwellers in the swiftly rushing streams, whose 

 months of battling with the turbid waters have devel- 

 oped their full game qualities ; they are worthy of araan's 

 best skill ; to drive them quivering and palpitating from 

 their watery home is no child's play ; they alone are fit 

 objects of costly tackle, railroad fares and long tramps. 

 One lordly monarch of the wdd wood pool, lying on the 

 grass while your own heart beats with exultation, will 

 make the beam descend, though there be a dozen liver- 

 fed sluggards in the opposite settle. 



Good Quail Shooting. — A gentleman who has just re- 

 turned from Cleveland County, N. C, reports the quail 

 shooting there the best he ever found anywhere. He 

 stopped at Kin g"s Mountain, which is on the Piedmont 

 Air Lino, thirty-three miles from Charlotte, N. C. The 

 route from New York is to Washington, thence Rich- 

 mond and Danville Railroad to Charlotte; fare, $16.50, 

 which includes tickets only. King's Mountain has two 

 hotels, terms moderate. The country is rough and the 

 shooting grounds close at hand. The birds are abund- 

 ant, bevy after bevy flushed in succession, and large bags 

 the rule. Visitors should take then- dogs with them, as 

 the local supply is limited, If this information is not 

 specific enough, a letter may be sent to Capt. Bell, at 

 King's Mountain, who is one of the two sportsmen in the 

 place. 



BTJKROWING Quail.— The same gentleman relates a 

 novel incident which transpired during his stay at King's 

 Mountain. With his companions one morning he was 

 approaching a little ravine, where from appearances lie 

 judged there were birds, when sure enough Iris dog came 

 to a stanch point. Coming up, they found a dead quail a 

 few feet from the dog, which evidently had just been 

 killed by shot, presumably from their own guns, and 

 then mangled by some animal or bird of prey, But this 

 was not the object of the dog's attention ; he w?.s point- 

 ing to a hole in the ground, a discarded burrow perhaps, 

 6ome few feet away. Wondering at this, our friend's 

 guide stooped down, put his arm into the hole as far as 

 he could reach, and pulled out a live quail. They took 

 some sticks and dug away the mouth of the hole ; the arm 

 was again inserted, and out came another quail ; a third 

 bird was added to the novel capture, and then they 

 stopped, not because there were no more quail in that 

 hole, but because they could not reach any more. The 

 presumption is that the birds, frightened, had taken 



