FOREST AND STREAM. 



fSsp'r 7, 1882, 



What is It?— Omaha, 'Neb.— In the % lib of iugust 

 number of Pobbst and Stream "Homo" gives us an inter- 

 esting account of plover shooting at Long Branch, at »onu' 

 period of time autedatlng the erection of the Stetson JJuuse, 



whenever that, enterpris 

 interesting to read the sti 

 " "Hon* 



ken place. It is always 

 I i ro it iel i sports, and 



- irtjdels that he wrote at all. 

 sporting lii'c is worth remembering 

 ithers, If every sportsman would 

 ay the most noteworthy incidents 

 ■ ! 'id publish I hem, he would 

 if his sporting brother- 

 o emulate "Homo" in 

 ate thing, however, de- 

 ling story, lie fails to 

 jar species of the birds 

 te old-time Long Branch 



to! be 



the best point of 

 For whatever in a 

 is also worth Iclli 

 ■ rite down Lit his 

 in his experiences 

 "add immeasurably 

 hood, although he 



perspieuilv anil force of dictic 

 tracts from "Homo's" otherwis 

 give am' adequate idea of Ihei: 

 he so skillfully brought to bag's 

 potato patches, lie calls them "grass plover" to be m 



But what is a "grass plover"? Wefihdsei 

 plover out here on the great Western prairies, where tic re is 

 more grass in the county tiian in ally other COUntF "I- I'm' 

 globe. But Ibnvenever heard that any' of these specie's of plo- 

 ver subsist on grass. Possibly the steal prevalence of lids agra- 

 rian product, or the eiuaimstaiiec of a Vermont birth, may 

 lend a tinge to ray greenness, and vet in my limited nn- , 

 of standard orrJtheJQgica] works I'fail to find any reference 

 to any spi-rii-. .,l birds by the name of grass plover. It is 

 not of so much importance to sportsmen whether Widiack, 

 Adams or Booth ever hunted these birds at Long Branch or 

 elsewhere, as whetllgr they wen- golden, black bellied, lull- 

 deer, ringed, ruddy, Bandevling oi Wilson's plover, era new 

 species that the keen eye of the ornithologist has failed to 

 discover.— Tii ib WtntE. 



New Hami'shire.— Dover. N. II., Aug. 31.— Ruffed 

 grouse arc exceedingly scarce, unless vou go back in the 

 country several miles, and lucky is he that get.', flrsl shot 

 before the llocks are scattered. ' The scarcity of our ruffed 

 grouse can lie aceoaetcil for by the fact that persons calling 

 themselves sportsmen go out for woodcock and who shoot 

 the young bird- almost before being leathered, lb-re every 

 urchin large enough to carry a gnu out of the city goes to 

 the woods and fields and shoots everything in sight, thus 

 bringing to all sportsmen of honorable intentions the dislike 

 and almost hatred of our farmers who are very accommodat- 

 ing and willing to allow all honorable persons 7 the right to 

 gun their premises. This class of gunnel's who depredate 

 upon our farmers in this manner, break down fences, leave 

 pasture liars down, so that finally their victims have been 

 compelled to seek in redress the protection which our State 

 laws accord to them, thereby excluding the real sportsman 

 from the pleasures of a day's sport with tin md and gun. 

 Even '.' iiil" I ;i:ii -, riting this the farmer around our neigh- 

 boring land- are gel a tdy to post, then- premises, ov, iag 

 to the severe drought which has erased the woods and timber 

 hinds to hi very dry. OrJ-J 1(1 ■ ■■ i ■■ ■!- I pareles 1001 



probably using p. 'per for wadding, set -fire to thi -. : I 



Dover Point, a noted summer icsort, compelling a force of 

 twenty men to fight it 1 wo or three clays in onki to stay the 

 tire.— CtRangi-.rs' Rights. 



nd those who de- 

 full cry after sly 



"SUMMEB Beak Yaiivs " Wellsburo. Pa., Ang. 85, 1882. 

 —Editor Vbrest and Stream; Yours Enclosing slip from 



Biiton L[,i;,t,l just received. And so the II, ,-.,/,/ ivprim.s. 

 without credit,, our bear talk, nndrr Hie head ,.| "Summer 

 Bear Yarns." Bismillah! It is well, It would be better 

 were the name of the author or the paper from which il was 

 —selected, appended to the sketch. Now, I like the Herald. 

 T do not agree with people who edl il a •'literal-, \hu i-in. " 

 1 thiak it a spicy, well made paper, conducted with aliilitv 

 —especially the scissors department. But if. in the near 

 future, the editor should happen to strike anything from mv 

 pen in Forest and Stream which he thinks worth repeat- 

 ing in bis journal, will he kindly remember not to forget 

 that journalistic comity demands quotation marks, a men- 

 tion Of the paper from "Which it is — borrowed, or the name 

 of the author. 



Which 1 rise to remark that, it s 

 When you quote from an autho 

 And not to go stealing the Miuu 

 Win haven't, got thunder enouf 

 Let alone having any to spare. - 



s only fair, 



& same to declare 



Massachusetts Bat Birds.— Boston, Aug. 30.— For the 

 last ten days I have been enjoying bay bird shooting in the 

 vicinity of Plymouth, Muss. The 'first lew days black- 

 breasted plover, winter and summer yellow-legs were quite 

 plenty, but towards the hitter part of" mv visit they seemed 

 less abundant. Now and then a fewwillejs. chicken and 

 piping plover were shot, but the main flight has not yet put 

 m an appearance. Old residents say after a good easterly 

 storm one can get rnore curlew and golden plover, etc., than 

 could be comfortably carried. I need not mentiou the large 

 flocks of sauderlings and ring-neck plover we came across, 

 i » i tuners consider them, beneath their notice, but were 

 they to see in what fine condition we found them, I do not 

 hesitate to say that thev would shoot quite a mess of them. 

 One may find good shooting from Sciiuate to almost anv part 

 of the Cape. Those who wish to try the shooting grounds 

 take Old Colony R, B.— Fred I i, , 



this fall, as thev are quite plenty 

 light to hear the music of the hbu 

 revnard on a. still frosty morning, 



home a fine brush alter Hn din's -, t, can have their wish 



gratified. We have no regularly organized club here, but 

 we know' what the laws are and 'mean I hat thev should be 



kepl.-O. 



Pn.wniE Cm, kbn Grounds, — The following points are 

 recommended to prairie chit ken shooters — all reached via 



the Chicago and iN.a't hwestern Railway : Iowa.— He Witt. 

 Cedar Rapids (hotels: Grand Hole]. Northwestern Hotel, 

 Coleman House I, Tama. Nevada, Ames, Boone. Ogden 

 iMaishalllowm. New Jefferson, Denison, Dunlap, Wall Lake, 

 Sac City. Battle Creek, Mapleton. Minnesota.— Rochester 

 (hotels: Cook House. Pierce House), Owatonna (hotels; 

 Arnold House. Park Hotel). Waseca. Maaka'.- 

 (hotel: Railroad Hotel). St. Peter (hotels: Nicollet House, 

 Commercial House, Norihv, stern), Ked>ood Falls (hotels; 

 Commercial Hotel, Exchange Hott i; Traej Marshall, Lake 

 Beutou. Dakota.— Wali-rlown, Brookings. Volga, Desihot. 

 Huron. 



New York.— Medina, Sept. 4.— Woodcock shooting has 

 been very good in this locality. I hear of bags of from 

 twenty to thirty-two birds being made in a day, to two guns. 

 A few quail have been seen this season, the first in s. 'Vera! 



years," none have been killed that I have h -a rd of; fifteen 

 years ago lb" wen quite plenty, A pair of blue herons 

 were shot up the creek, three miles south of this place a few 

 days since. It was considered cfuite a lucky strike by the 



successful hunter, as he has been trying for three years past 



,i good specimen to have mounted.— Sai, Niter. 



Pennsylvania.— Boiling Springs. An- 38.— There is a 

 prospecl of an abundant crop of quail. "Bob White" may 

 be heard every morning and evening. Pheasants (ruffed 

 grouse) are going to be very plenty on our mountains near 

 here. We advise any person wishing to have good quad and 

 pheasant shooting to visii Cumberland Valley, There are 

 four raih'dads running through the val] j Irj w dch am 

 point may be easily reach 1 1, Boarding may be la I al any 

 place for three dollars a week. Pine Grove, anftlmosl inac- 

 cessible mountain., is full of deer.— E. S. S. 



Thotupsontown, Juniata Co., Pa.— Quail are fairly plenty; 

 ruffed grouse on the increase; about the usual limited num- 

 ber of wild turkeys.— Juntata, 



MASsACTinsETTS.— West Sterling, Sept. -1.— The law on 

 partridges was "off" last Friday, and our local sportsmen 

 are after them. But there are no reports of any large bags 

 as yet — all complain of the scarcity of the king of game birds 

 as in other section-: of the country The indications are 

 good for some quail shooting next mouth; several fine 

 having been Bushed in this vicinity so far. Gray 

 squirrels are also quite plenty this fall, so it is probable 

 that the new breech-loaders have not been purchased in \ ain. 

 The prospecl s are that we shall have some tine fox-hunting 



There's Many a Snir, as some Chico. Cal.. deer hunters 

 found the other day. One of the party bad brought dowm a 

 big buck, and the other sportsmen coming up "they gathered 

 around the deer as it lay on the ground, and one of the boys 

 was probing the wound .and another drawing his hunting 

 knife plunged it through the deer's throat, but his knife 

 bring li i, dull to sever tlie head be asked for another one, 

 when, to the surprise of all pri -cut. the deer jumped up anil 

 escaped They followed his blood for along way. but found 

 ' 'I-', i ' 



Massachusetts. — North Andover. Mass., Sept. 1.— The 

 season opens to-day for ruffed grouse. The prospect for 

 good sport, was grand earlier, but now everything has dried 

 up and the birds have taken to the swamps or other inac- 

 cessible places, and we do not look for tiny shooting until 

 rain comes. We have had no storms, not even showers 

 worth mentioning since July 5. Wells and springs are fast 

 drying up, and fields and pastures are as brown as' a berry; 

 even the, forest leaves are scorched and withered, — & 



Fork, AllQ-. 31.— 



arms ot Delaware 



tot very alum- hi, 

 tg by what I hear, 

 'deock. but 



Ne 



MEKEDITI3 Hollow, Del. Co 



I am rusticating on one of the dairy f 

 county. The gam- ol this region I I 

 There toe some raff ed grouse, bu judgin 



less than in former years, f have found 

 this is not strange, the laud hereabouts being very high and 

 on Quail appear to be like the snakes in Ireland. '" Squir- 

 rels an- plenty, and make a very good pie when properly 

 compounded. — Picket. 



Kotati.ANn Cocntv. — New York, Sept. 1.— Ill Rockland 

 county, this Stale, where I have been for a few days, I 

 found that there has been quite some woodcock shot, 'and 

 are still being shot, with indifferent success. The outlook 

 for quail seems to be very good throughout the county, and 

 any quantity of rabbits and squirrel .—R. B. S. 



I! vii. Shooting. — Bristol, Pa,, Sept. 2. — Rail-bird season 

 opened poorly. Reeds not yet ripe. Thirty-eight birds to 

 high boat on Stewarts' Bats. High boat on* Bristoland Bur- 

 lington marshes scarcely a dozen birds. Few reed birds 

 flying. Rail in very poor condition. Likely to be another 

 flight of rail by middle of month.— C. E. S. 



Omaha. Neb.. Aug. 27. — Prairie chickens are said to be 

 scarce along the line of the C. B. & Q, R. R. No other game 

 to be seen at present,— Yo. 



Ortio.— Tiffin, Aug. 26.— Quail plenty this fallmore so than 

 usual. No woodcock to be found in a, day's tramp, or squir- 

 Tels.— F. M, H. 



Virginia Deer. — Deer are reported by a correspondent 

 to be very abundant this year in Sussex' county, Virginia, 



■■ That reminds me." 



WE were out for woodcock, and as we were crossing the 

 open I etween two covers our dogs surrounded a wood 

 chuck, and encouraged by us we were making considerable 

 noise, which attracted the attention of the ofd farmer and 

 his sou, and they left their work and came over to see the 

 fun. Asthiswas uew game to the dogs, they were rather 

 awkward in handling ilu-ril. Fred, wishing to help them, 



aimed a vicious kid al thi rodent, which missed its object, 



and striking poor Dan under the chin fairly lifted bim off 

 the ground. When the howls and laughter had subsided, 

 the farmers hoy remarked: ''That reminds me of how dad 

 did for old Bos'e. He was the goll dnrndest, woodchttck dog 

 that you ever see. One day lie got a chuck in a stone, heap, 

 and dad and I took a crow jar and went to help him. We 

 pried Out one or two stone.-,, when the chuck stuck up bis 

 head and dad let drive at him with the crowbar full chisel. 

 Just then old Bose spied him and made a dive, and the crow- 

 bar struck him between the ears ami killed him dader than 



Julius ! '' - U\° "Yes," added the old man. '-and the funny 

 part of it i.-, old Bose don't know to this day but what the 

 woo 1.1, tick killed him!" 



When I was a young steamboatman on the raging Missis- 

 sippi, running from St. Louis in the Keokuk trade, the good 

 steamer Di Vernon with Capt. Mat-son commanding, was 

 one of the finest and largest ,„ide-wheelers in the river.' 



The male at that lime was "Old Ilughev," a large, broad- 

 shouldered, fat Irishman, who had the reputation of being 

 ibe terror of the roustabouts, for when he opened his broad* 

 mouth the}' had to "get up and dust around." 



One day while thr-steamer lay 'Tied up" at the levee land- 



ing, some of the men were at work in the hold, and Hughey 

 just then needed more help on deck; so striding to the for- 

 ward hatch he looked down and bellowed oui 



"Hello, down thar." 



"Aye, aye. sir." answered the men lirom below. 



"How many of vees is thar down thar?" 



"Three of us, sir." 



"Well, the half of yees come up here." Dorsal Fin. 



Chicago. 



We were all seated about a, roaring log tire, Wothittg had 



been said foi several minutes, when ibe solemn .stillness was 

 i-i,, i,,i i,, the lonesome hoot of an OWl near us. "That' 



reminds me. ,ai 'rofessor. "You know that family 



of Surds? well, one time the old man went; out. to the, 

 swamp to cut cedar, ami not returning at night, his wife 

 became worried, and, accompanied by her twd daughters, 

 started to And him. They got well into the wodds, and all 

 at once were brought to a standstill by 'To who-o-o!' 

 'Hark, girls" says the old lady 'That's an owl/ says one 

 of the girls, 'An owl! No it hain't, neither. Don't you 

 suppose I know your father's voice'; To wbo-o-o. Mr. 

 Ilurd!'" I-'. 0. P. 



Lincoln, Maine. 



A friend of the writer lately asked a genuine Florida 

 "cracker" "if he ever went a fishing," and received the Eol- 

 lowingcharacteristie and pointed reply . "Sometimi I 

 a lisMn' and sometimes I doesn't!" C. If. C 



;, Florida. 



jf#j mul fiiver fishing* 



Opek Seasons. — Sre tab!: of -v-',,' .-■■ . ■-■■■.'; ■ i and.fisi 



in issue qf My 20. 



FISH IN SEASON IN SEPTEMBER. 



Lake front, <'),:,■'',',",,,', ,.,-r,i,,i.,, -I'll,, , "- n -i.,-,' - ,,. ',,,,,, 



OUsft. ^ _ _ ;'„ ,■!'■ i. :'. ,„,_■ lu , ,,;,, 



I,-", t-loi red ,-iininii, var. sebago. 

 Quinnftt salmon, OnciirhynrlniR 



Black bass, Micropterus, two spe- 



Maslaaoa^e, F^ns tmbitioi: 



ROCli bass J,,e'j(, r .',, s, ..'■ I" 

 Win -innutla CluvuvhrijItUK u„lm 



" C'll,,i,^'iJ:„l.va, , 0U.\i;H- 



",!•::,' iii-uha- 

 .,,,,\vovu;: ne- 



Qliraps. \ KiusMsh ot- 



t'ain.uL o-' I.I- l -I / ,, ' ,',',., ,,, 



lis. Suae) ill ,,,!■'',,,., ,,,,.,, 



, i,„ ,,,,,, ,,, ,, 



ikflsh or squetague, Bgntt Ltl 



.-,„,.- "Lqafcs 



I 





s-.e moeellutug. 



ITS^ This table is general. F 



ir special la 



is in the Sewctsl 



States sec table of Open 



Season 



in issue of 



July 80. 



m.v purpose vvus to >, r i\'e ., 



Oil some 



lilve'.ime. eoi, 



penning ,i,,:n-ii bu 



dace, and some oth il tnfi r 



or lisli. xs 



,;,-!' mat -: [[ 



- 1 1: l' 1 ,,,>:eelleut 



sport: for you !i,i.,., i 1 61 ••• 







ting the- tare tian 



in kUling her: but 1 wiU foi 







■::■, i-eie, because 



you see yonder coin" our l> 







Coi-idoiithut 1 will 



promise you. that as you . 





i iiud walk- t 



o-moi'i-ow towards 



Loudon, if t have now tors 





thing that I e 



in then remember. 



I will not keep it from yon. 





"e/01,1. 





SHRIMP-CATCHING IN 3WATOW, CHINA. 



SWATOW, China, is in the Kwang Tung province, about 

 ,_. two hundred miles from Canton (the capital of the 

 province). The harbor is very spacious and thoroughly 

 sheltered. The Haw River, carrying a considerable volume 

 of water, empties into it at its upper end, and two or three 

 smaller streams discharge into it at different, points. As all 

 these streams carry more or less detritus, they help to main- 

 tain, and even extend, the enormous mud flats that spread 

 out from the shore a distance, varying from a few yards to a 

 mile or more, at- low water. 



A large proportion of the inhabitants of the villages 

 around the Bay of Swatow are fishermen, amoug whom,"as 

 with most of the poorer classes of Chinese, the struggle for 

 existence is so horribly sharp that every possible chance of 

 earning a few cash or securing a mouthful of food must be 

 seized instantly. Hence it is that even the "nasty blue mud" 

 is carefully searched for any stray shrimp, mud-worm, or 

 other living thing it may hold. 



There is a good deal of amusement to be derived from 

 watching a Swatow shrimp-catcher skimming over the sur- 

 face of the mud on his "mud-toboggin" (I coin the word, 

 since none that I think of so nearly describes the imple- 

 ment); and not a little excitement,' too, as the slightest 

 movement seems sufficient to plunge hint headlong into thi 

 soft black mud. 



The shrimper strips to a simple tin 

 queue in a tight knot on top of his he 

 wooden bodkin. If the day is very 

 usually tierce, he wears a huge bat 1 

 thin bamboo strips, filled with dried 1: 

 curely under his chin. Round bis waif 

 bottle of about half a gallon capacity, t 

 drain the water off from the contents, at 

 rather long neck to prevent any parte 

 lumping out. His hands are thus kit quite fr 

 ''toboggan," and to capture any of the small 



h 

 afte 



The craft 

 ten inchi 



1 clout, and ties his 

 Eas .nil'., m wiili a 

 rin and the sun ma- 

 le with a frame of 

 boo leaves:,, tied te- 

 st he ties a wicker 

 frith small mesh to 

 nd having a small, 

 larly lively shrimp 

 manage 

 ie he is 



tie of a thin board about six feet long by 

 slightly curled up at, the forward end. 

 About two feet from the bow is a slight "gallows Erame," 

 just high enough for the shrimper to lean on. Be stands on 

 one foot, balancing bimsel I by the frame, and with his other 

 foot pushes himself over the surface of the mud, by an 

 adroit turn of the foot (something like the slight turn of the 

 paddle-blade of a skilful canoeist), propelling" himself nearly 

 in a straight line. He win skim rapidly over mud so deep 

 ear, were he to at tempt to walk, he would sink to ids m , ; ,- - k 

 and probably be nuite smothered, changing from one foot 

 i,, .1, ' ,-,:! ,1 while under ivay. turning sharp corners, stop- 

 ping and backing, his fed and bauds all the time slippery 

 with mud, yet I never saw a misstep or fall. It requires 

 long training and constant practice to enable one to use this 



