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FOREST AND STREAM. 



L&EPT, 7, 1883. 



the thermometer below zero. You may be gone as long as 

 you will. and in- is there when von come bach Sfou pdfcfe 

 your bear] over tile crept of tbe hill and looli sharp for vnur 

 deer, and the chances are that you see the trail Inking a 

 straight course Over the next ridge, and the same i.ci-t<.r 

 mance will follow over again. Or it may be with your 

 glasses you -will Bee the deer lying down ill the tall grots. 

 Then you take & general view Of the. countrj near Mm and 

 you will see Mum' ridge by Which ftu can approach near 

 enough tor a Shot; and ii you are down the wind, you want 

 to work your way around till you. Bap come up against the 

 Wind, and, ii ra iv be, von will have to take a Long distance 

 to do it, bul it will pay you in the end, tor if you undertake 

 to workdown the wind your deer will bo going over the near- 

 est -mi. ho hint! before von gel a shot; but if von arc oaifcful 

 and work up tbe wind you will hardly ever miss getting n 

 shot, and p good quick shot will get from two to lour deer 

 ■ 'in of a band of hve or six before they gel away, but you 

 don't want your single-shot rifle to do it with. 



l have seen four deer killed and another shot through twice 

 hy myfriend li. W. Bpalrllng, in a baud of sis deer, and 

 the furthest one away nor more than80yds. from where they 

 atari d. Winr.- would your single-loading rille be ill 1 li.fr 

 easel Before you bad fl red nun.- than two shots the deer 

 would be out of sight over the nest bluff. 



The next thing hi yourbUtfil is you. dress. I will tell you 



wh.u mine is, I 1 think 1 have as good an ouliit as I have 



seen in this part of the eountry, 1 baveoneof William Read 



dog-skin shooting jackets that 1 had them make to 



order, ft is lined with white flannel, and mad.- reversible, 



so that I can woaril leather Bid itfwhieh is dead grass 



color) or the while side, so it works either with snow or with- 

 out snow. Corduroy paul , reinforced with buckskin, nit 

 short just below the k ins-, a ml Inn -kskin leggi unmade tighl to 



tie- leg and won. under .-. pair of Thomson & Son's hunting 

 boot-s, with .-. cordurc-j vest, good heavy underclothes, and u 

 flanue] shirt complete the rig. On mvh.adl wears little 

 tanned buckskin cap with a largo shad'.- visor, and over thai 

 when there is snow on tin- ground I wear awhile flannel 

 huotf that buttons across my chin and leaves only my eyes 

 and mouth exposed. 



Wiib this dress 1 can stand most any weather, though ii 

 the woather is extremely cold 1 wear buffalo leggings and 

 arotic overshoes. I carry my buffalo coal strapped to the 

 back of in) saddle, as after a day's hunt one may find hiin- 

 .-i If a long di8tani e from camp, and may not set in till after 

 dark, an, 1 then the I. raw coal conies halldv: but during 

 ■■i will tin. I iIko the dog-skiu coat will be warm 

 enough. I have bunted with it when the thermometer was 



below /.en., and wet and cold have no effect. I have been 

 out all day in a rain with snow, ami came in and taken no 

 oilier e.-neoi it than to aangil on the back ol a chair and 

 let it dry, and in the morning il was as limber as ever. (In 

 a eoid morning 1 have sat ina cornfield, myback lip againsl 

 a corn shook, shooting geese, also ail day in my cam..- ,,„ ■., 



lake, shooting duck's, and be warm enough, 1 cannot praise 

 ii to,, much: only in brush it is worthies-, not worth more 

 than a kid glove would be, as the brush and thorn-, tear Hu- 

 sh rf a re. 



Hunting on the yellow Medicine is very hard when there 

 is no snow on the ground, as tin re is so much country foi 



deer to hide in that il i-= more by chance thai vou In., I a deer. 



1 made a short trip there a while ago, but had very poor 

 luck, as the snow all went off b fore Igot ready to gfl, and 

 as we had an extremely hot day the day we started and the 



next, and lie- snow was all gone before we got a chance to 

 hum any. 1 only saw two bands of deer, three mule deer 

 and live whit-.-'ailed, 1 had a half-l.reed Indian with me 

 who is a good on.- ,.n a trail and a eood shoi. We trailed 

 ll.ein Iwo or three miles across .Medicine Creek, into a deep. 



three deer a.-, he said, and before I could see them he lino at 

 them and missed them. I gol a -h„l ai a l.uek running. 



missed him tiieftrat time and killed him the second time. 

 The hull-breed shot at the -aim- lime and brought down the 

 second buck. I hit : rln-r one hard a- thev w,-re going up 



tin- -idol a bluff a short distance off. 



We bunted all the next day and did not. see a Single deer. 

 though wc saw lots of sign and followed the trail of four 

 for three or four mile- till wc h„i il in the high grass. The 

 n...\l day I had promised to come home, and BO we only gol 



the two bucks. Another time we might have seen a dozen 

 bands, as we probably saw tracks of more than fifty deer: 

 i.ui. a.- 1 said before, it w .-. greal deal of chance if you lind 

 deer iii the country without snow. 



We had had luck in our camp. A lew years ago the Red 



cloud Indian agency was located at the ml. >■;' the 



Yellow .Medicine, and 1hc military buill there a root house, 

 and a tine camp il has been to many a party. 1 spent a week 

 in it a year ago and the thermometer was below zero all Hie 

 li:m thai we stayed I here, and wc were comfortable ;1 , in a 



bouse. Ii was dug Into the side oi a hill, was aboul 2>.< feel 

 wide and ID long, mad,- ol hewn loirs and covered with earth 

 and was erv warm; the greatest troni.le was with the smoke. 

 We built our tire inside lo cook, and the -.moke »a-. sup- 



posed to pass out of the ventilator, but il did anything bui 



thai at times. Still with l hat dillieull v ii was agood camp 1 

 started for ila-aii. last onthi, trip, and'when I got t h-iv I Ion. id 

 thai the whole center 01 the roof had lallen in, din and all, 

 and the doors were gonej SO we had rather an open camp for 

 winter. But we found both ends standing and made our 

 camp in one end. and found il quite a camp after all, though 



rather lucky for us that il was not as cold as the winter 

 before, My experience this last winteorwas rather hard in 

 that respect 



As this Was the second Miplhal I haw been cheat, -d , nit ,.l 

 what I supposed I would find— a good camp— I mad.- .-, trip 

 to Beaver creek, and atthe mouth of it there was a log house 

 that had been used by wood-choppers « pear ago, ana in tbe 

 fall it was standing all right But when 1 got thereon this 



winter trip I lound thai the Indian-, had ion. il down, 90 v.,- 



bad i" sleep entirely ool of door-. VYc made a -. oral Are out 

 of i he he/- and lav down beside it. and : was as "warm as 



tOaat." ' have .-iept under the -id.- ol a I,./- -lack with 

 the thermometer below zero in this -country on a hunting 

 trip, and slepl warm, too. with a pair of blankets, l.iittulo 

 CObe and buffalo coat, But still, as the man .-aid about the 

 crow, "I don'i banker after it. ' 



l have , ; ,i,i nothing aboul the ••chuck." which here means 

 eatables. There is such a variety now of canned goods (hat 

 a party must si.i1 themselves, bul I would ad ' 



bac 



taim along plenty of coffeaj sugar, hard 



Thai will conn- in if von yet snowed iu in a ouzzam. alter 

 yon have eaten up allyour canned goods-, and you can save 

 your venison (if you haw auy) lo bring home. I have sub- 

 sisted a week on it, With your saddle for a pillow you cm 

 sleep warm out of doors iu a veiy cold night before a good 



fire, and sleep sound too, if you have followed deer over this" 



country twenty or twenty-five mile.-; particularly if the 

 ground is muddy or the '-now is <i.-.-p. i strrrodse many 

 people would say n man is .-. too] thai wo.dd Riiiepoutol 



I have sp.nt several winters in warm climates; two years 

 ftgo in Havana, I 'ul.a. and like a warm place as well as the 

 next man, but I can tell vou that the excitement of a deer 

 hunl in this country will p.-n lor the tliscomfort of a cold 

 camp, hard-lack and haeou. if you don't believe il come 

 OUt here sometime ami 1 will give you a trip to try it. On. 



Low Kit BllUl.B. 



A TEXAS TURKEY HUNT. 

 \\' r. were located in Comanche county, Texas, that being 



1» then a tronlier eounlv. To gg l..\,.nd it was In 

 risk losing one's sealp. to adorn Ihe licit of a Comanche 

 wairior. (lame wa- very plenty, -uch as dc. r. antelope and 

 turkeys, with wolves, ami all sorts of small claw ic i. The 

 habits of the turkeys were uniform in that country and 

 this made hunting them a systematic work. They frequented 



Ihe waler courses, which in the I, ,!e summer and fall were 

 verv scarce. Wild turkeys must have water; He- ( oraanche 

 eounlv birds n-orted lo the brOoEs at about !■ n o'clock 

 even- morning. Prom thai tone they would sit in flic shad, 

 until late in ihe dav. and then would Iced until their CQOStinfi 

 time, which was just before dark, when thev all -tail for the 



trees, The hunter could easily tei] the roost by examining 



the huge trees along the margin of the s| reams and pond 



boles, and noticing ihe large quantity of manure that had 

 accumulated under the trees. I have known the entire Hock 

 io be killed while roosting on the same tree. 

 My companion Ezra and myself ventured oul onq dav to 



see the sights and lind a roost. Our prospects for a big bag 

 of turkeys were verv good. We found Iwo large pecan 

 trees w it Ii the unmistakable signs under them. We .selected 

 a spot some distance from tin- roosi. in a di -n— the k,l of live 

 oak brush, and soon had OUT little OBUip pitched, hor-e 

 picketed out on grass and tie hounds Becured, Supper being 

 soon ready, and all things in proper shape, We started for 

 the roosts. K/ra using a heavy double-barreled muzzle-loader, 

 and I a hreechlo.-.dcr. 10-hore. I gave K/ra hi- choice oi 

 the trees, with tie- understanding thatwc n..i.-t shoot tin 

 turkeys flying to ihe tree or immediately after they had 

 alighted on Ihe limb, lull under no consideration wa- either 

 of lis to leave our hlmd lo brim; in wounded or dead turkevs 

 un.il dark or until the lurkeys'had ceased coming. 



Long before dark we silcntlv repaired to our stations, and 



just about sundown we could hear all sorts of sounds coming 



from over the I. lulT on the opposite -ide of the creek. Wc 

 knew al one. th.-.i. the turkeys were coming, and none 



silence wc sat with our Iruslv gun in position ready to 

 send forth its deadly contents. Bui Ezra grew uneasy: bo 

 feared they had from some bidden no. .k or corner, discovered 

 us; but a motion from me kept him quiet, and soon an old 

 gobbler Stepped up on the bluff lo reconnoitre, and after 

 standing a moment, he moved Ici.-.urelv hack Out Of sight. 

 We could see al once thai all was well', and the only thing 

 for us was to he quiet Until nearer dark. As llu- shades of 

 evening drew near (lie noise made hy flic turkeys increased, 

 and one unaccustomed with their gobble would suppose 

 that a turkey powwow was , ing on. So,,,, all was quiet. 

 Occasionally a puUpill could bC heard. The lime hail come 

 thai they must seek ihe night shades of a roost. Lzra wSe 

 slill impatient; l.nu in a moment the whirring of wings was 

 heard, anil over the rooky blufr e me an old gobbler the 

 leader of the gang. He>steered for Em's tree, and "in an 



inslaul the old muz/l.-loail.-r was brought to hear on him. 

 and hcfoii he reached the tree a deafyaing sound rent the 

 air. ami a SplaSb in the water showed first blood for Kzra. 

 Then the fun commenced, Those who an- unaccustomed 



to wild luikev -I tin- might suppose thai after the Orel 



shot all the I. i. kiss would leave, hut it isnotso. Thev will 

 start far the roost, but a shot will sometimes (urn the turkey 

 following oil from hi- bourse and nutof range of a shotgun ; 

 but they all Start for Ihe roo-l Irom Hi.- ground. Turkeys 

 followed in quick succession, and 9 constant roar of guns 

 could be heard, mingled with llu- fall of turkiys. Some of 

 them would sail over and disappear in the darkness of the 



After thev had all llown over wc came together to com- 

 pare noles and found thai 1 h ,d Drought down eight and 

 Ezra live. .My advantage he laid to my breech-loader; he said 

 lie would never I. •-,.-., .,; a tiirkcv "roost B ga| n witbouta 

 breech-loader, which promise 1 think he al'wavs kept. In 

 looking about for turkeys we louudeighl more, three that he 

 had -hoi am! live that 1 had killed. We then returned to 

 camp and had for supper turkey breast steak cooked in but- 

 ler, which was not al all unaceepl.-h.le lo I wo such hungry 

 hunters. 



Tlie programme for the morning's hum was then talked 

 over. We'ileeided to get up at daybreak and go to the roost 

 and call up nil the turkeys we could and shoot what wc 

 could, gather our dead tnrk-.-Vs .-hoi in the evening, then 

 come hack to camp, -d our hieakr.-isl.ai.il Mien turn the 

 di loos Ears deer hum. We retired to rest to dream of 

 our coming sport on lite following day. I awoke at day 

 break and found K/ra -one 1 fell lor the little bottle on liis 

 ftideof 'be blanket, and that, was gone too. I saw his point 

 inaraomenl and gathered my gun and started for the 

 roost, and on reaching it I found Kzra hunting busily in 

 the weeds, lie had live turkeys piled up under :,. 

 claimed that he had shot Iheniall I . .- i-v.-niiiv before "But," 



said l. ■-oiionlv Hairnet five in all. ami you found three last 

 evening.'*' ••<). well, " .-.lid h, . 'I must have killed two to 

 iwo shots:" I was compelled lo give it up. lie had 

 me. Said I. •Where is the bottle V" "Well, I just set il. 

 back iu the weeds to make vou hunt for it." "Well, Ezra, 

 ibis is all too thin: 1 see through ii all. So vou have beaten 

 my breech loader after all. But I'll be even somehow." Re- 

 turned to camp, l-J/.ra found thehottle, and honors were easv. 

 Breakfast over we laid aside the shotguns and shouldered 

 our rifles, turned the dog, loose, and wen: off nowfora 

 ■ leer chase. Deer were plenty, The old lead dog soon 

 opened on a cold trail, and at the sound of the dogs, Ezra, 

 who was on foot, made quick time for the point ol limber 

 n- ar the sand rough, Every dog is now eager for llu- start, 

 but old Dime cauno; be hurried; he will take his time, and 



all the dogs mUSl come hack to assist h'uu in his windings 

 for ihe trail. There thev all go, poll moll. The deer i B 

 u]. yonder in ihe bush. I see his while Hag as he 

 leaps over the oak bush.-.-. Now he has struck tile open 

 ground, and the dogs are in .sight, every one of them doing 

 his best. Some of the roar dogs cut "cross-lots," while others 

 run Ihe trail, Here < ,,incs (he horseman al. full speed with 



his oft-repeated "hurrah, pups." Now they circle. Ezra is at 

 I., posl hut the old buck won't leave the grove: he circles 

 '" He- left and conies around to the starling point, and is 

 lie i.; -i off by me on horseback. 



Hark! Listen! Thedogs arc coming directlv toward me up 

 the bluff. Here he eonie.,. with every dog in* full erv. One 

 glimpse of his horns shows th;,t h, is coming close. The 

 rille is brought to hear at .-m open space; hut the buck is too 

 sharp, he has dodged into the bush.and gives the horseman a 

 wide berth. But my companion may get him, for heis going 

 straight for the point where Ezra stands. Every minute the 

 sound of his rifle is expec ted, but the dogs pass on away out 

 oi' hearing into the leu-mile -and rough. Kzra comes up. 

 "Why dioii I vou shoot V "Shoot!" said he. "How can a 



n SuOol a deer when he is living :t() rods a second? Those 



dogs run like Ibj-litning." The dogs came in about noon. 



The next morning K/.ra tried the old buck on the still 

 hunl. I!.- wore his breeches out crawling, and finally run on 

 ton small deer, bul would not shoot it. lie wanted bigger 

 game: inn it ran and seared the buck so Kzra didn't get him 

 after all. 



The next night il rained and Ezra would not leave camp- 

 I killed 'ive. turkeys on the roost, and in the morning Ezra 

 tried (he old buck again. This time he crawled into'a gang 

 of turkeys, and they Hew and frightened the buck. Kzra 

 would not allow me to put the iIol's on him; he wished lo 

 "Indian him. " he said, and kill l.im or let him go. So we 

 got no deer, and left for home. i'. M S. 



;, Missouri. 



ADIRONDACK GAME RESORTS. 



XiyE took the New York Central and Hudson Riv.-r Kail- 

 * T mad to Albany, and from there lo Saratoga, then lo 

 North Creek: from l his place we went to and Stopped at 

 Indian Lake, which i- aboul seventeen miles from the depot. 

 My cousin being very fortunate, happened to meet an old 

 guide by the name of Elijah Camp, whom he hud had 

 guiding for him four -.ears ago. He had a commodious log- 

 house on Little Moose Lake, twenty-two miles further on in 

 the interior, where we could tin.l the best of hunting and 

 fishing. "We Immediately Bel forth and ware conveyed by a 

 i.nckl.oard io his house. After a few days we started for 

 Slj Pond, Some five miles distant. The name of this body of 

 vert appropriate for wc had to climb a mountain 

 two miles high in order to <;,-! io ii. the. ii was with much 

 difficulty we found it, it is so very secluded; bul wc were 

 fully repaid tor our trouble. The first night while hunting 

 we had four shots, getting three deer. "We came back to our 

 guide's house and waited till the venison was consumed. 



About a week after 1 started with mv guide Elijah and 

 his son Sam. for the Cedar Lakes. Arriving there we 

 camped over night and hunted on Beaver Pond, some eighty 

 rods distance from our camp, a very pretty little body of 

 water, surrounded by deer grass and lily pads— I had ' two 

 shots at deer thai evening. Tin- m-xt ilay started lor 1'ills 

 bnrv Lake. Only two miles distant; on that lake I saw .s.-ven 

 deer in the lake all a1 once, and shot two. From there we 

 went to Little Hock Pond, Whitney Lake. Sampson Lake. 

 I.itih Mud Pond, and the Alder Lakes. There is line trout 

 Bshingin these lakes, especially in Whitney Lak' . From 

 Ihere'we went to Big West Canada Lake. Mud Pond, and 

 South West Canada Lake. The is also tine lake trout fish- 

 ing here with good deer hunting in Mud Pond. W, wen; 

 from there back to the house, rested a couple of day- and 1 

 started with another guide by the name of Philander Shaw. 

 to try our luck trout fishing on Cedar River, which is only 

 two miles distant from Camp's house. 1 caught fort\ -eight 

 inside of an hour, they being all a good size, some weighing 

 a pound apiece. The average distance from Mr. Camp's to 

 the lakes and points I have mentioned will not exceed seven 

 miles. Mr. Camp has good waterproof bark camps at all 

 these places. This saves much trouble for a party. He 

 also has plenty of good deer hounds mid boats, am', every- 

 thing comfortable and handy; his carries are well cut and 



Mv nexl trip was down lo the Moose River region, or Big 

 Indian Clearing. Mv Laiide. Wallace Thayer and I. -lopped 



at Mr. Brown's, which is nine miles from Camp's.caMn, I 



visited the following lakes, which afforded goodtioul fishing 

 and deer hunting — [first went to House Pond, which is only 

 ninety rods from Mr. Brown's, and saw and beard three deer 

 in the water This ponilall'ords excellent shooting when the 

 weal ICT has I"'-. i warm and dr\. 



I next earnped on Beaver Lake. This iake is the one Unit. 

 Mr. Colviu, the surveyor, camped at. and while he was out 

 fishing a hear came into his camp and knocked (low n e\ ei \ - 

 thing. This lake is one of the he-t deer ponds in the coun- 

 try— a party counted twenty deer all in at. once- on.- after 

 noon. The surrounding country abounds in bear-, lox,-.-. 

 hedge-hogs, ducks, loons, and occasionally a panther. There 

 are also the three Mitchell Ponds, being full of good sized 



trout: then Hear P 1. which is g good r.-sori for deer. 



Mr. Brown has two salt lakes near his house affording fine 

 deer shooting. After visiting Squaw Lake aid il,,- |v,o 

 Bhantj Ponds, 1 tried my luck trout Ashing on Otter lin.ok. 

 Moose River and Sumner Brook; Tcaught four trout out of 

 tbe last, brook mentioned, in .-. cozy little hole: they tasted 

 my guide and self two day.s, eating them at each consecu- 

 tive meal. 



To parties going to the Adirondack-. I freely endorse the 

 places 1 hav,- I,,-.-,, t,,; ih.y will ti/.d M. -.->.-. ('mm;, and 



Hiown very entertaining, and willing to do everything in 

 their power lo promote the pleasure of a trip, Here is a list 

 of guides; parties will find Ihem verv obliging and willing 

 to do everything that can he asked, thev are: Klijab tamp. 

 Philander Shaw. Wah.r Hutchinson, Josiah E, Browa, 0. 



( ro--. an,. Wallace Th-iy.-r. lie ir P. O. address is Indian 

 Lake, Hamilton (ouniy, ,\\ Y. \ name these guides as being 

 responsible, knowing 'from my own experience during my 

 trip there, they are well wortliy of any one's confidence. 'I 

 hail a shot at a panther, and 1 shot seven deer while in ihe 

 mountains, which is very remarkable. C. II. R, 



New Voiik. \ iisust 2'>. 



Ti::xM.s-i:i-:. —Nashville. Aug. 28. — Deer are, reported as 

 verv numerous among the. Cumberland mountains. .V party of 

 hunters went out from MeMirmville last week and killed 

 eleven. This is in violation of the law. bul most of the hun- 

 ters about here have none of the true sportman's regard for 

 op,n and close seasons. Doves are unusually abundant, and 

 huge numbers are being bagged every day.— J. 1>. II 



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