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FOREST AND STREAM. 



168 



ran-;.- in Hie after results we find no "slips' 1 — the drauehi was 

 refreshing and health-giving, 



Famy otu family Iwhich includes two bright, eager boys of 

 IS* and 13 years}, located ina charming "cottage by tflesea." 

 We warn you to picture for yourself all the surrouddinj - 

 the- house standing undca tbi shade of friendlyfoHage— green 



' plug down to the shore, half a pistol shot away — 



xomanlic rocks find "cold gray stones" against which 'the 

 restless -sea purls its gentle ripple, or dashes its ponderous 

 swell and savage billow, at pleasure — the little -'row'' with 

 its sandy beach, where Uttje folks may learn, and older 



'boys'' are eager to swim — the boats at moorings drawn ur. 



on shore— the old windls 

 car- and lobster pots — 

 line of shore parapl 



out of -and — the fish- 

 ,• reels— and the whole 



nhiowate 



• and level 



all'.' Am 



this pi -.<., 



or two a.v 





soul- will 



are Ion mi 



cubr "pi 





Here is 





nitv — yot 



do not n< 



pater-Ian 



ilias and 



our lie Is 



into the sn 



i- enough to cluster around this parii- 



rciuoiii. health I Here is the opportu- 

 ne programme. You can see us. 

 uug fry — all young together digging 

 I— Tying on backs or taking running 

 jump- al the very edge of the blue wttter on the hard beach— 

 fishing from rocks or boat — in iking miniature piers and es- 

 tablishing miniature navy-yards — anchoring buuys and light 

 ships— tying the whole list Of "sailor knots" 



The sun shines bright, but the breeze is cool. The face 

 j*rows brown and red. but it is not with --lever' or "bilious- 

 ness." Sleep is sound aHd appetite hearty, and vigor is in- 

 stilled into the v- in- with every hour's enjoyment, 



We must call your notice. Iiowev. r.' to an old friend of 

 yours and ours tfint arrived early one morning, ami as she let 

 go her anchor and. her cable luerrilv ran awav, tired her nun 

 of salutation— lo that good old boat the Nahtna. Bfee lfcs 

 the;,, just within the "cove," riding easily and waiting to 

 Contribute her part to the prevention of any "slip" of ennui 

 or weariness. Later, as "Capt. Bill" pulled off in the yawl, 

 we all rose up and "called him blessed." The same old. 

 honest fiicno, the same old trustworthy grip! 



We do not now mean lo outline more than the skeleton of 

 this vacation, because you are to suggest to our worker that 

 it is a frame worth draping in his own u ay and according to 

 his own fancy. 



One day a merry party of children, among whom "the 

 Commodore'' renewed his youth., sailed out and joined the 

 yacht race of the ft'. Y. Y. C, exchanging salutes with the 

 commodore of that fleet. 



Another day. scudding along under a breeze that carried 

 away balloon-jibs and forctopuiasls as we ran out by "Watch 

 Hill." 



Another day, cruising to and fro in "The Race" with 

 twenty other sail, all after the first bluelish. 



Another day, ashore on Gull island, startling myriads of 

 gulls, and careful a- we stepped along the shore. 'to avoid 

 crushing either eggs or little gulls to untimely end. 



And every day full of anticipation and gain. The moder- 

 ate pipe, nothing stronger than "claret, cup," and earlv 

 hours all contributing to the increasing fund of stood. Do 

 you see any "slip 'twixl the oup and the lip" here? 



If we could together, dear FOREST and Stkkam. prevent 

 some of our royal brotherhood from making: a bad "slip," 

 which wastes his opportunity, if not worse; if we could ex- 

 tend a hand to pull up from their knees those only partially 

 down through ignorant "slips" in this matter of putting a 

 vacation where it will do the most good, we should be happy 

 together, would we not? 



If then you find any of Ibis class, just give them these 

 hints, which have made happy thus and happier aftcrdays, 

 for you and lor in.'. B. 



MAINE NOTES. 



FTVEJE article, "A .Swallows' Roost," in your issue of the 

 1 Mfh in.-t. . call.- to mind the movements of a flight of 

 swallows here, nightly observed by quite an audience 

 of villagers, during the months of June and July. Gn 

 the side of the stream near the village stands an unoccu- 

 pied tannery, the brick chimney of which is about forty feet 

 nigh, the opening at the top being a toot square. 



At -unset the swallow.- are obscr ' 

 dii.eiion. and circle about the chin 

 aggregates hundreds. They circle 

 for several minutes, following all ;! 



id coming from every 

 aey until their number 

 about in one direction 

 a curves and angles of 



one leader, and then 1 



the view of ascertaining if they ,1, ail preseiit, 



general inspection by the ciders. When the; 



they circle at considerable hcighth. gradua 



lower with a spiral motion which is clearly o'ns, 



occasional attempts to enter until they "read 



angle, when they drop Into the chimney in on 



column, not from the center, as observed in t 



ferred to. but from one end. It take- several 



them all 10 get in. and the rapidity with which 



that narrow opening makes one think I hat tho: 



torn must be considerably disarranged in ic 



they can get out of the way. I am unablt 



technical name of this swallow. 1 am of the 



thev use the chimney only a- a roosting place, 



breed in some other totality, as they are tir.-i observed h< 



about till 90th of April, but do mil oeenpv the chimn 



uuiil six 01 eight weeks later, and migrate earlier tha,n t 

 other varieties of swallows, 



Mr. E. M. Stilhvell, who takes so much interest in preset 

 ing our game and stocking our lakes with fish, very kimll 



nth 



';' I;, fci a 



llv dropping 



r\x(i, making 



the desired 



• solid black 



linion that 



caught and delivered to 



lib: -rated iu Crooked Pond. Iw< 



black bass, which! 

 idles from town, of easy 

 is quite .-mall, admirably 

 many of them were of a 

 ia!.h e.vpeei line sport wiih 



he professor rmught one of 



• pui in", the pond, but 

 Iter having his usually 



access by water. As the pond 

 adapted to their propagation, and 

 pouud weight each, wemay reaso 

 this gamy fish in a short time. 1 

 them a few days after they wei 

 liberated him as soon as lauded 

 placid demeanor considerably shaken up. 



Our ruffed grouse are scarce. Woodcock, so far as 1 hnvr 

 observed, are fairly plenty. I shol four within sight of flu: 

 office yesterday, gone less than a half hour frol 1 1 

 The dog flushed seven mure rei muing. iiul as partie-e.,i„. ; h. n 

 from abroad here to shoot woodcock, I 1 

 to leave them unmolested. In this locality Iincntio 

 never succeeded iu flushing more Ilia 

 former years. It may be tlnit the seven 

 mer months has driven them nearer die -1 

 higher grouud may not have its usual quota 

 abundant, and apparently 



I have 



three or four In 



outli ot the sum 



ms. and I hat 



Deer are quite 



I h; 



Sight oi the Tillage Mai 



spi 



iwoook hake isipiitea resorl for 

 lack, wood, and blue-wing teal. 



neals. Wilson snipe, ring-neck prove 

 and yellow legs are numerous just now ami very fat. 



F. ( ■ I'. 

 Lincoln, Me., September 90. 



IN CAMP. 



/ 1 Kni-a.K I eonld live forever thus, 

 *- Away from noisy din of town. 

 Ami with you Native's beauties shave, 

 tint In thai case repaid not wear 

 My hnnnet. George, nor my new hrown 

 Silk sown. 



Hi,., guileless are tliese simple folk, 



Compared with dwellers in the hum 

 Of city lit'.-. lim, ohastfel LTpw pure : 

 Bnt George, that horrid guide, I'm sure. 



Smelted very strong of gin, or rum 

 And gum. 



Mum- -wet to hear the katydids 



Replying 10 the cricket's chant. 

 Of Nature's music there's no lack. 



S down my back !- 



Oh. George, ilea 

 l-e.'l here, love 



An aur. 



No dainties here tempt 11s to death, 



f.ui f<>., I enough to satiate 

 h. plain, Uealth-givina hearty fam.- 

 Il.erie.vcc. me. tfcough, tosoe MeNair. 



1*0 test its heat, on griddle-plate 

 Kxpectorato. 



What soothing music's in the fall 



Of raindrops, beating light as dew- 

 On e;.nvas rent a lullaby.— 

 Good gracious ! Such * leak ! Oh my ! 

 My waist is very near soaked through ! 

 Ker-chew ! 



BELOW QUEBEC. 



SECOND PAPEH. 



THE picturesque town of Gaspe is situated. 011 the fortv- 

 seventb parallel and nearly 100 miles east of Quebec, 

 which eilv is at present one ot the chief terminal points for all 



merchandise and passengers from England to the Canadas. 

 Its harbor, however, like: that of Montreal, is blocked up bv 

 Lee during a largo portion of the war. and transatlantic com- 

 iiiunie.-ition, therefor.:, virtually ceases from the middle of 

 November to the middle of May. The , xpei.se and perils 

 also arising from navigating the St. Lawrence River to such 

 .1 long -distance from the seaboard, are an additional draw- 

 back to free intercourse, since the cost of towage and pilot- 

 age on this land-locked highway swell the bill to a high fig. 

 tire, not counting the accidents' and wreck-, which are only 

 too common at any time of the year on the St. Lawrence. 

 It is for the.se reasons that Halifax is preferred as port of 

 entry, and has grown in size and extent of commerce. The 

 Intercolonial Railroad, built by the ( an.adian government, 

 unit's that cuv wiih Quebec, and by its rapid transit greatly 

 facilitates commercial traffic. It 'is an inexplicable over- 

 sight, however, thai a branch road after the p.-.u.-n of the 

 American narrow gauge-, such as are in operation all over 

 Pennsylvania, ha- not been long ago constructed, whereby 

 Gaspe, only about ISO miles distant from the intercolonial 

 station of Oampbclllon, could have been brought into direi 1 

 railroad communication. The advantages of such an enter- 

 prise are too many and too obvious to be neglected. Gaspe 

 basin is in the tirsl place a natural harbor, unsurpassed iu 

 point of safety, depth, extent, and absence of all obslueting 

 reefs and shoals, by any other along the whole coast line of 

 the Dominion. No pilot is ever needed, day or night, in all 

 kinds of weather, and the Great Eastern, once inside, could 

 float safely everywhere in it. By reason of its proximity to 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the not far off never frozen 

 ocean beyond it, Gaspe has at least sis Weeks longer of 

 Spring and tali navigation than Quebec, which is blocked up 

 by tcC When navigation eastward near I he ocean is fully 

 opened. !>v employment of proper machinery the harbor of 

 Gaspe, which is only -fifteen miles from the open basin oi 

 the Gulf, could, with but small expense, bo kepi open still 

 longer. This is aatualh clone elsewhere, as at Detroit River 



ami the harbors of Milwaukee ami Grand Haven, wide!, 

 though continuallv in danger of beingc!o-ed by a -olid -hen 

 of ice during severe winters, are yet kept open with ease, as 

 they are mar the large hr.-siu- of Lakes Michigan and Huron. 

 It is almost needless to point out iu addition how 1 lasilj dur 



suspended, large consignments of freight could tie for- 

 warded to Gaspe by -ucll means as the above referred to 

 11 now gauge road. Large cargoes could be tbu.- readily 

 Shipped off under favorable circiiiu.-tanees as early as April, 

 not canning lower rates of shipment by reason of shorter 

 distance, expense of pilotage and towage. Swift ocean 





- I': 



observed their tracks all about the shores of the lake, wit hi 



geis suffer yirough prolonged Atlantic travel, They could 

 in short be landed quicker and transferred, and 88V8 at lea-l 

 one day in their passage from land to land, in eight months 

 out of 'twelve. 



These incidental facts, though somewhat out of the line 

 I have chosen to pursue in our present vacation trip, natur- 

 ally tore.- themselves udou our attention. As we take a 

 passing glamv nl the map on the cabin tabic of lb. Si. 

 Lawrence, where the prominence of the peninsula ojf Quebec, 

 jutting out far Into the spacious basin of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, is too conspicuous to be overlooked, Gaspe maj 

 surely bone, in view of its favorable geographical position, 

 tor an early revival of her former good mnes, when it- 

 -paciou- bay wa- wbiieneii. not fifty years ago, bv hundreds 

 of coming and going fishing crafts, and when the cheer) 



yo heave ho ol llieir -l.irdv crew.- was echoed bj the lower- 

 ing hills, which rise abruptly from the base of this beautiful 

 fiord. All around it death-like silenpo reigns now supreme. 

 A Rip Van Winkle trance seems to have come over its 

 dreams of a brighter future, and we may look from ihe 

 veranda of Mons. I.e lioulilMer'.- stately residence, al most 

 any time ol the day. over its de-- ri, .1 waters, on which only 

 a few small crafts are mirrored Never a sound here inter- 

 rupts the tillm-s of the morning and evening hours; the 



..:, oars of the clumsy old-fashioned forryboal si cm io be 

 muffled, and we could almost fancy ourselves for . monv n 



fullv a centurv behind our still i._ time, i: it were no' for 

 the 'graceful "relief f n„, s |,, lMl er ].■: Caonadienne lying 

 almost directly under our feet at an anchor. She is one of 

 the three government vessels which patrol, in Hie in" : . - 1 



of fisheries and maintenance of ordei and law, theBa •'! 

 lant shores where such an official as a constable 1 Si; 

 by proxy The -firms of Le lloutillier and Colla-. however, 

 carry on still quite a healthy trade abroad, ami liom lime to 

 time send their ships with' full cargoes of <iii. I codl ■!-.. 

 which are said to be of better quality here than elsewhere, 

 as far as ihe southern port- of Europe and Brazil, 



There are also three beautiful rivers- -Ihe Vork. Dart 

 mouth and St. Johna— which empty their cold crystal Hoods 



ii he winding estuary of Gasne basin Mine all of th.-.-e 



\ have attracted 



lor 1 



■ar.- 



to the 



yet faiie making great catch s. The 



FOrk rivers have been fgralong time the favorite fishing 

 quarters of Messrs. Curtis and Barnes, of Boston, and some 

 of the catches made In Lord Dufferin upon the York River 

 have equalled those on the Cassapediac, which bus :ii.\ : ns 

 had the repute ot being the most prorhictivt of all ( ana.liau 

 salmon streams in poim of both number and size. The 

 lease of the York River has Of late been transferred to Mr. 

 Thos. Mur.lock. of Chicago, who has enjoyed the last and 

 present summer's fishing in bis commodious log-house camp, 

 erected al ihe v. ry edge of one of the best salmon pools. 

 The Dartmouth had thus far never yielded much sport, but 

 unexpectedly proved to be the best of the three during the 

 past summer, when young Mr. EyartSi a son of the ex Sec 

 retary of State, obtained a gratifying score ol marly sixty 

 salmon iu less than twcnl) days' of fishing. Tin- -in I. ed 

 may be termed gratifying results for one. who modestly 

 ranked himself still as a novice in the art of casting a tly for 

 this royal game. 



We "had the pleasure of passing a day at his encampment, 

 where he assiduously indulged in this seductive pastime, with 

 the aid of two trusty canoe men. whose help is indispensable 

 in all of these rapid rivers. From a comfortable seal 

 fashioned by nature's hand from a curving loot jutting out 

 horizontally from the high and steep cliff near the' great' fails 

 of the Dartmouth, we could survey at leisure the full extent 

 of the Opera! ion and even see in full sight the great dark 

 looking .-hoals of salmon lying in unbroken phalanx on 111:- 

 bottom of the pool. They hardly betrayed any signs of ani- 

 mation and appeared much more likca broken ledgeof rocks 



aJUiough tho casting was good enough lo do credit to any 

 expert, I had not the pleasure ol seeing a salmon hooked and 

 landed, as it was midday before a start was made. Morning 

 and evening are here as elsewhere the best hours. Salmon 

 averaged tliis^ear about sixteen pounds on the Dartmouth., 

 which is considered n very small si/ce. and it is strange that 

 this same happened t'..is year in mosl Of Ihe rivers which had 

 pre\ ioiisly yielded on the average large-sized salmon. 



Gaspe is admirably suited to idle awny a few weeks, and 

 affords a. recreation from the toil and weariness which the, 

 close confinement to business in our large cities entails. The 

 bracing air, fresh from the ocean, and tempered to suit even 

 delicate constitutions by the heat radiated from the land, is 

 pure ami invigorating, and ihe few visitors who spend their 

 summer here rt porl greal improvement of their health. Tic 

 dul-, fiat and uninteresting surroundings of such Can 



adian watering places as Caeouna. Metis amloth: r- area -, rj 

 ous drawback to (hi se commons, while here in every respect 



But there mu-i be society, balls, picnics, orchestras, 

 dresses and fashions to satisfy the crowd. Without these 

 attractions theeharmof their summer seaside paradise would 

 vanish, as the follies and vaniii. s of the, fashionable world 

 must follow its train. There is an excellen! boarding house 

 kept at Gaspe by Mrs. Dumaresque, where a few boarders 

 can be accommodated, who inav enjov there, along with a 

 well-set table, all of the pleasures which seclusion and free- 

 dom from the restraints of artificial life confers. 



Our own time, howev< r. IS too short to permit even a tem- 

 porary rest, The mall schooner Kale, anchored in lull view 

 from our window is ready to sail on her next nip to the 

 north. snore, and wo have to hum-to complete our necessary 

 preparations. She rivets the last and only link of communi- 

 cation between this outpost of civilization with the fo\V 

 settlers along the northern shoreaof ila-Guli of st Lawrence 

 and Auiieo-n [shindlis a lather comfortable craft of about 



8Q ton-, and ha- fine accommodations tor about half a dozen 

 passengers. She is uot a very fast sailer, but make- two 



h month during the summer, and runsunlil the be- 

 ginning of November. We have known her master, honest, 

 obliging Riehuid Miller, fur years past when w. travelled 

 pari of the time along her sailing route, and a- he calls on 

 this, present tripat St'. Johns River, oncof ihe highesl tribu 

 taries running into the Gulf.weare glad to avail ourselves of 

 her opportune departure, as we have a cordial invitation to 

 join two English sportsmen, Messrs. Garland and Bland, who 

 are again (his year the lessees of the salmon fishery of the 

 St. Johns. 



A brisk laud breeze, which prevails night and morning at 

 Gaspe during sunnm r \\ ith as much regularity a- in the 

 trollies, soon carries us pa.-l ihe frowning headland- of Snip's 



Head, uier.ih. high, -c| ks face the sea abruptly and 



rise up vertically to a height of over -Kit) feet, affording hj 



their stem and bold froj ■ of the mo-t picturesque hi ail 



lands alone- this coasi. Beyond them, to seaward, are visible 

 the blue outlines of Anticosti, the nearest land: of Which e 

 only about thirty-five miles distant Here, oi the Southwest 

 Point lighthouse, jutting nui from the otherwise ev.en trend 

 of ihe island, the isate makes her tirst stop to deliver her 



This cape has for sundry reasons a rather hard reputation 

 in point of safe anchorage and landing, and most 01 the 

 V.-.—.-I- running along hen take good care to give it a wide 

 berth. There i- a sufficient led for southeast wind-, but 



when the br, -. >'f changes around to the northwest a livun n 



doussea dashes agaiusi the solid rocksuporj which the light- 

 is built, and justifies the fears in respect lo danger 

 V( --. Is are exposed to when loo mar inshore. 



As 1 expected to revisit yet this summer this interesting 

 spot, 1 merely contented uiysolfwith a view of the round 

 White lower standing out in bold relief from the low reef and 

 lores! clad bills back of it. The lighthouse is maikid con- 

 spicuously with two broad, red horizontal bands, to enable 

 the navigator lo recognize ii quickly at first Kigld. There is 

 thus no reason to confound it with that of the west end oi 



