Oct. 13, 1882.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



207 



ytmrself 'nit on Mi' ra. haven't seen a bigger flight for years, 

 oil, and 1 calculate they will stay uutil they're 

 •Hffigc nut." 



"Been anv ducks, Henry ? How is Floss's lame leg; 

 think -le- is lii for work v" 



"Oli. yos, she'll do. she'll go on one leg if you'd show her 

 agllll and look as il von menill business." 



'«;ii's 1 enough," said I. delighted with the 



' ' dog "We will gel 

 'a all Hie. folks?" 



iu there, or, in fact, anywhere 



Xjlectll 



ryrj 



say they will bring us our hint 

 so'vve will have a son of a pie 



MJhurining! Now see hero, 



J rorh to the city or I will he 



sirap- lipped ell' and bugled oi 



. d mj permission 



••11,..". are you. Mr. Barnard 



■,..ii. ( 'onie in. come in." 



Nick (the cocker) and Duke, ; 



. dug of tails and sh 



Hie folk- and greetings from th 



niel lis a- we ved toward th< 



tie toilet [sat down with the fa 



To some renders all thisintn 

 SSealluuuS, bul to in v mind III 

 eome. the good folks' mid gen 

 im-ir-lv to make up the plea>:i 



Thursday inorniiiir, short!' 

 flur- WMV to the covers, Flo's* 

 -pint- ' We worked i.rettv the 

 ilill'ia. ,,i . ,v 

 ton cock i 

 joyed the society f t 

 on our face-- and in our h< 

 The hulk of life Might < 

 However. I had one more 

 UWlonglvlls are, and a r, 

 frosts were reported north 



Saddling George', hcrse 

 laiiidlc of light steel spri 

 llenrv. wi rode some eight iuil 



. the 



id al tvv 



tB pin some things in 

 . • i to he" a gh 

 duck* On Saturday moi 

 U. old .Mr. All 



had kill d a few that m 

 mfdltirds, and thought 

 fgW shots. We turned home, 

 if hilts were not handv and t! 



•der, look' 



l of a ehan 



n li.r. How 



Cale. Molh and Miss Coelir 



i. I ie o'clock to 



iic and then drive hone 

 toys, I must take it few brace 

 ■asiiiercd, have my shoulder- 

 t of camp." I then explained 



get away. 



" and 'Aunt Polly, how are 

 '•Holloa. Floss, and lure is 

 Is.. Ginger, all to greci ma." 

 nt harks, exclaniaiious from 

 i girls, who by this time had 

 porch. A tier making a Ut- 

 ility to a late dinner, 

 lurtrovy ta a. aboot may seort 



" Itiw I "ol iberc." thewel- 

 ral notes on same, help irn- 



heforc sunrise, we were on 

 Singer and Nick in high 

 roughly all the good and i'n- 

 I'olock COuld BllOW bill -even- 

 We had our lunch and en- 

 mt there was disappointment 



1 had killed only lour birds, 

 bad found must have left. 



on! remembering how erratic 

 n'c might come in now that 

 , I took courage. 

 "iiitul saddle animal, like a 

 nder von. accompanied by 

 ' m to ft 



■ lo lake 



duck blind 

 iQls, ami il 

 shot at the 



He 



•n. who IftrBS near the 



i ning— half a dozen ical and thr. . 



t highly probable we might, get a 



iding across the eouniry. and 

 fences not too Mill' we look 



lliriil in. si, 



mull 1 



a th 



sy came. A fin 



e country For fox 



Bunting. Ma 



u v a 



I mi 



' have 1 hea 



d the music, of 



llle hounds 



and 



a 



dozen or so 



of us in the 



-mlilli . foil,)' 



ving. 



wild 



with cxeilem,., 



t. is there any 



Imwic thai ea 



1 comp 







II i rained pack of 



hounds, eight 









even together on 





1 far ei 







listener to mellow 



the .sound'. 1 



like to 



h:,\ 



■ the wind hlowl 



Lg just enough to 



iii.iki.' the deb 



rbl till 



llll-l 



' sound taint, i; 



inter, almosl lost ; 



llicn, IIS 111' vv 



ind eai 





t back to llle eat 



. it will com, with 



donlili' force : 



ud inel 



Hlv. 



thrilling the lis 



euer through and 



through, tn 



1 agai 



! '.Vi 



en the olil red 



is running in the 



Opon. in plain sight of the pack, every dog unite, pu 

 lite best work, then too the besl horses are to the fori 

 *H$ictJ and suppressed excitement; the old icil's I 

 ttwling; his tongue hangs out ; the pack assume th 

 Ota very elongated V; now we see the best ones in th 



civ 



0D..O1I they go. the 

 ing surely and cerli 

 Ufflbked, and the old 

 effort to mount, falls 

 IH'u'.siii-rs; they arc on him: 

 gohfu-ed heap of dogs and 



shap, 



• pack 







I With s, 



n fox and dogsd, 

 and nearer; a fence i 

 •in strength makes o 

 md faces Ids relentle.- 

 . . UapJ .smothered growls, 

 y little fox. until the hunter 



tvholilkes the brush holds the dead fox up and whacks bis 

 brush off. 



Jbry experience in shooting, as a rule. I have found that 

 Where! make reckoning and feel sure of having plenty of 

 gQOTl shooting, lam usually disappointed. Time and expe- 

 rience has not taught me better. lamas enthusiastic now 

 a&cver tit the start "out. and only realize after the disappoint- 

 ment thai it might have been better for my feelings if 1 had 

 not been so sanguine. Going to the field next morning feel- 

 ing as if 1 would not have sport, 1 was disappointed in the 

 right way. 



( 'Now, Dick," said George, '-you take the outside, on the 

 left. I'll go to the right with Ginger, and you work Floss. 

 Men will work ISiek right down between us. We will just 

 work this big (dace for all it's worth." This was said as we 

 tumbled out the wagon and getting fixed. A walk of 200 

 feet— Hi'c. ;c \iek. The cock;- iiisfuitlv bounded away 

 Km immediately gave tongue. Bang, bang, went Henry's 

 «un. -Mark cock':" Well, I should smile; yos, grin; then 

 IMI. The air was full of them— big, strong fellows; not 

 July cock, unworthy of a sportsman's notice." "Gefunden," 

 what a flight there is here. 



1 I must here remark, brethren, I was kept pretty busy on 

 ffip&Kle. The first bird I killed came whistling through the 

 ■BEbps, accompanied by seven or eight more. I will al- 

 Hrotremember that particular cock, and how I threw up 

 'tny gnu, covered him, and <:t the crack he. collapsed in mid 



. birdd 

 . out 



Oil 



Flo 



bead, COIIlil 



ESffiy dodged. The r 

 ijWnt there and killed > 



number. 

 lWo this introductory s..... 



WKlBin style. We kepi ligb 

 l*Q!M diilieull. but mostly fa 



OOBp.,iut.„Hl back 

 .Wed „s thirteen 

 «tl|'ly can ridges -il, 

 Weulv-two '1'.. tb 

 COck m about iwoh 

 Congratulations we , 

 luninuniiion and trv 

 w did, Mr Uarn-.i-i 



'fipot to tour gun'; u 

 l'ir,|. \| 



ill I had bil 



cool, old hi 



.thp, 



pie more 

 3 lime, in front, 

 •flops. The ex - 

 led within two 

 1 believe 1 :„- 

 idown. istood 

 ind would have 

 whole time and 

 she [etched my 



TV lew yard;. 

 y 'had tlie'worsl 

 imself, working 

 ■ oil' in tile open, 

 -, and bad some 

 in watching the 

 ig. This work 

 if I remember, 

 , and I had killed 

 ■ I. ■ ! eeenty-four 

 A I 



ivil h. 



lion: 



of the ,, 



I'eple, 



irly.hn 

 alt ing 



will 

 Tin. 



guns part of the time, one hundred and eleven 

 Han oi said ii was the largesl bunch of Migln 



birds be ever knew t, 

 in thai pan of the eo 



I liav, had good woodcock shooting since, but never saw 

 so nian.v birds together at one time. I understand, though, 



that in the vicinity of Charleston, S. ('.. w bock are very 



abundant at the proper season, 1 have beard of a crack -hot 

 there, handling a Wesltey Richards 12-bore, killing a hun- 

 dred in a mOrniug's shoot, and of his killing slraighi lliiitv- 

 six cock. Well, geullcmen Sportsmen and' friends, that is 

 -hoi. ung- it tism Since 1 have really known better, I 

 bav.BfiOl -hot for l he bag: bin in shooting llighl birds, of 

 course il is gem rally held even now to get all you can. 

 though I very much doubt if this is right, and 1 would not 

 want to set a bad example lo the voting spoilsman by killing 

 any of the varieties of our game birds for the sake of the 

 bag. The practice is unworthy of a sportsman 'and gl nil,- 

 mam and partakes very little ( jf Christian charity. 



Being asked for my opinion as to the proper loads for 

 breech-loaders, best adapted to 10, l^and Ki-bores for dif- 

 ferent game. J can only sn that il is ijuilc impossible to 

 make any set rnk — a rule that will hea guide for all ^\\ivi'>. 

 Tables are sometimes useful; the criterion to go by is ex- 

 periment, and only by this can vou find the best orthe pro- 

 portionate charge ior a gun. For woodcek shooting the 

 gun should be a li' — '2S-(i:; to 711^ , test pattern saj loO of 

 loz. No. S, bill even; 2J to 3 drams good powder. .No. 8 

 grain; loz. No. Ill or 11 shot. Heavy guns are used, of 



flourse Some gentlemen usea IG^bore-and ffndgreal pleas 

 me therein, but the 12-bore I think is the golden mean. The 

 woodcock dies cavity, a slight shock such a- in a ouail 

 would noi be noticeable, will often kill these delicate and 

 beautiful gamehiriK A. quirji-bwaingpowderis neccBsary, 

 ! most of the work, and la Bome places all, is snap shoot- 



idgiiniii ought to bo. I nder such circumstances a good 

 >;a v,, if absolutely necessary, r senl twenty brace of 



ids i,i the eity. and followed from Baltimore. ' I picked 

 II live brae- alter getting home, and sell! them to Mr. F., 



id did u oi lose hi- friendship either. Oh! no. I don't 

 irget ibe : ox of segars he sent me. and how wc chaps en- 

 joyed thorn al the office. 



CAMP COOKING. 

 / VTJTR friend Dr. Eaton's experience iu cooking without a 

 \ / caulp slove is probably very like that of many others, 

 who, having never been thrown long enough upon ihcir 

 own resources in the wilderness, are apt to ueglecl the old 

 adage thai "necessity is the mother of invention," and to 

 apply it in prcaring a -avorv meal without the. appliances 

 of a modi in kitchen, or the skill ofa libit m their manipu- 

 lation. 



While not making any claims to being a mmtn ,', cwgiiw, 



I has always been mv custom lo prepare sonic little morsel 



fler my own fashion while in camp, even when supplied 



with a regular cook, few of whom ever pay attention to the 



-tie-, oi-e;isoiiing or browning to a turn, which adds so 



much to the enjoyment and relish of an epicure. 



Camp stoves, as a rule, are a nuisance save when u<ed 

 nside the lem for the double purpose of warmth ami cook- 

 ng during cold, damp weather. For myself, 1 would not 

 have the best one made, if compelled to "tote il." around on 

 my fishing and hunting trips. When a man goes lo the. 

 oods to hunt or fish, if an experienced band, who enjoys 

 il because the very opposite of the ci'v, he flon'1 wani to 

 lake his pi: no. Saratoga trunk, and spring bed. that arc 

 .11 necessary at home It, goes there m enjoy and study 

 iiilure in her own domain, with only natural surroundings, 

 phere, "he gat! ers knowledge from every leaf finds inslriic- 

 ive sermon- in stones, secrefs in bubbling brooks, and poet- 

 ical lessons of wisdom in everything. 



Being one who relishes all good things to cat, especially- 

 all game birds and fishes, lei rue suggest to the. Doctor and 

 his friends, the way in which they may secure with a little 

 care or effort, a meal which, when seasoned with the appetite 

 if a day's pleasure iu the wilderness, would prove ii,,„t uel- 

 :ometo a hungry palate, If you will take an "old stager's" 

 advise, carry along just as few cooking traps as possible, 

 .less for a long Btay with plenty of help and little change 

 of camp. 1 go long trips every year, often alone, and neve, 



carried a camp stove in my life; and all my kit for cooking 



vou can put in a goou haversack. 1 generally live pretty 

 well, too, for 1 have a decided failing that wav. 



First, of all, you cannot cook without plenty of coals aad 

 hot ashes. A fire of good hard wood that has burned 

 several hours, or better still, all night, is the best. 



If ducks are the game and not too large, pluck them, clean 

 and draw them and cut off heads and feel. Broil a piece of 

 salt pork by sticking it on a forked stick (birch if to be had) 

 and put it inside the birds, then rub a little salt ori-the outside, 

 grease a piece of paper with butter, lard or the fat from the 

 pork, and wrap the greased side next the flesh. Then en- 

 velope in at least three thicknesses of wet paper or lar^e 

 green leaves. Now make a hole near the center of vour bed 

 of coals, dig it out with a good stick as deep as you' can. size 

 etc., depending upon number of birds to be cooked. Then 

 push in a. eood thick layer of live coals and cover slightly 

 with hot ashes. Lay in your game several inches apart, 

 after having secured their wrappings with twine or strips of 

 bark,..and cover them with a thin layer of ashes, then "rake 

 on a good bed of hot coals at least six inches thick on the 

 lop and sides, and on top of (his throw a few light sticks of 

 wood lo burn and keep tin- air liom cooling oil' i be bed below, 

 an 1 leave it to bake about forty-live miuufc- to one hour 

 while you get the rest ready. If vou have potatoes to bake 

 cm the end- off slightly and put them in abedthesame wax 

 onlv use more ashes ami noi so thick a layer , f coals and 

 place where they can be raked out before the dueka are done 

 ir they will be burned tea crisp-, about thirty or Ihirl v-live 

 ninule.s for medium sized potatoes and good 'coals. Fisl, of 

 rood size, especially bass, are very line cooked in this way, 

 lie only difference, do not dress in any wav except to wash 

 themoff clean, and wrap them in ihiee or four layer- of 

 wit paper or leave-, the buttered or greased paper being 

 omitted as being onlv intended for gam- whose llch comes 

 in co,, lad wiih |>ap.r and would otl.eiua-e-ahkioii. When 

 Ihelish arc do,,,- run a knife along the back and the -ki„ 

 With He -,-,,k- will peal off, taking the olfal along with il. 

 leaving I be ticsb u bile and beautiful, A little butter and 

 salt while smoking hot. aiuU deliciou- di-i, i- llle rcsull. 



on,- outer husk, stripping oil the silk and breaking off die silk 

 end about an inch. Then iwi-i. down the husk inditly over 

 the broken end. When all is ready vour coffee will be 

 needed, and thi water should be all ready boiling hot. A 

 few minutes before ready to serve up put into a clean coffee 

 pot a table-pooiiliil of ground coffee lor every cup wanted, 



one for the pot,' and -. i il near the tire to get thoroughly 

 warm. Then see thai your water is boiling a' gallop, when it 

 IB pour iu Hie number of cups wanted inlotbe pot, cover over 

 tight and set where it will keep hot. but not boil, for fifteen 

 minutes, when you will have a cup of eoll'ee that will do vou 

 good. II 'jam, is large -plit il down the back and make two 

 parcels in wrapping lor the lire. Small game, such a- wood 

 cock or snip,-, pluck, but do noi draw, as Mich birds bilVOIIO 

 crop-, or entrails lo speak of. The trail can be removed after 

 llicy aie looked by Iho-.cu bo do „„| bike i( ; l„,r il adds 

 greatly to Iheganiv Mayor to let it remain while cooking eitlu r 

 this way or any other. 



I have heard' persons say il Was a good wav to put birds in 

 thesamcHii-li, undrc.--ed.but anyone whohas tried it and got 

 a whiff of burnt feathers will not be apt to try it a second 



lime. The meal will not cook properly unless plucked and 



drawn and the smell of harm feathers "would drive a hungry 

 horse away from his oats, much sooner a hungry sportsman 

 from bis suj, per. Lob me remind tbe Dootor thai this way 

 of cooking requires time and lhat perfect BUCCCSfl depends 

 '" plenty of good live coals and a warm bed of 



iiusi have a good bed 



r method more speedy 

 ■ features when one i's 

 my taste will produce 

 (vii Don-v;, Fi.nn. 



ashes. To insure the best result: 

 Of live coals under as well as on top. 

 In my next. I will describe aiioihc 

 and requiring less fire— two dcsirabl 

 hungry and wood scare, — bul lo 

 equally good results. 



t'llicuie, III. 



NOTES FROM SANDUSKY BAY. 



V^ATIVF ducks are not found in as large numbers as 

 i> usual ibis seasonal Ibe marshes al the head of San- 

 dusky Hay. The law i- oil' Srpi . 1. |, u t the Ottawa, for- 

 merly Hone's Point, ( lull, do not commence -hooting until 



the 15th, Ten members were present ai the opining this 



As there arc one or two .-land- that are very much heller 

 than other-, wc casl lot- for choice of positions Thi- pre- 

 vents any scrambling for Ihe best places and liability of 



The shooting is ( 

 hour- after, and th 

 teal, although Iher, 

 wings. 



daybreak, and for two or three 

 insi'-ls almo.-t wholly of oluewing 

 few mallard, pintail and grcen- 



I'hc shooters are all back to the club hou-c by ten or eleven 

 o'clock. 



Be-t bags were fifty-one. twenty-eight, sixteen, etc, 



Wc wc ri out again on the morning of thelGto, and scarcely 

 fired agim. whieh -I, ow- how ,a -ah the ducks are "whip- 

 ped out" at thi- sea--,,,,. 



Since the loth, shooting has been very poor, although one 

 member got into a mallard hole and killed forty or fifty 

 mallards in one day. 



Well",, uoialer if the • ,,„,L." thai |i„- Fa^rn gunners 

 work so hard to get. with boats sluing along the b-aeh in 

 the surf, are the -am,- a- our mud hen-, that are a nuisance 

 and an abomination, covering our marshes bv the acre, 

 swimming ahead of „ jr boals in droves, and ' only Hying 

 when closely pressed; Thee lie ju.-t out of gunshot, or 

 even closer, and decoy ducks— to our disgust -th, i" gieal 

 numbers making ihein more attractive than our painted 

 symbols. 11" these arc coot-, tniisi sav you are liard up Tor 

 shooting. Il is a problem with ir- how lo get rid of them 

 I think we should offer a valuable prize to Hie man who 

 kills thcgn-ak'si number of mud hens during the fall on our 

 marshes, for the reason that tlnv are great caters, audi, list, 

 of course, lessen the duck feed.' 



Everything Is hackwardihis season, and we ,],, noi ex- 

 pect the "heavy weather" duck until later than usual, al- 

 though pinlailand widgeon will soon be in. .M. 11. Anus. 



QUAIL INTRODUCED INTO VERMONT. 



"non wni i ■::-" *\n mio!;.\tok\." 



YOU will perhaps remember dial 1 wrote vou in Hie. 

 spring of the present year, giving vou ibe result of our 

 ■IToi't to plain the American quail (Boh Whilei in this 

 State. 1 am happv lo -av 111. I thai e\ oeria, col WH3 CTOWned 

 will, great, success. We procured from Texas I vvelv e do/en 

 birds, about one hundred and thirty-five of which we suc- 

 'ded in iiiining down in good health on the fifteenth day 

 of April. They appeared to have male,! between the fif- 

 teenth of Mfcv and. the first of June and very gnnfirally to 

 have nested and batched their young. Thirteen nest- ware 

 broken up by mowing machines and oilier cause-, which was 

 about twenty per cent, of the whole numberoi possible nests; 

 this was a h'.aw loss and quite discouraged u-. These dis- 

 turbed birds, however, made other nests, or else some birds 

 raised two broods, for we find no w, at this late date, some 

 broods not yet able to fly. 



1 have been out twice and killed in all sixteen well grown 

 ind strong birds. I know that it was earlier ihan the laws 

 dlow in States where there is a law, but there is no law "n 

 quail in this State and these birds are ours, so the judge and 

 I are a law unto ourselves, so far as quail are concerned. 

 "We brought them here simply to see whether wo could get 

 them to breed so as to give us one season's shooting, intend- 

 ing to lay in another breeding stock next season, if this one 

 proved successful, We shall" try. however, to cam -one of 



this stock over winter by feeding and cafe, Quail used to 

 be moderately plentiful in some pontons of ibis State, so al 



least the oldest inhabitants tell us. and Iher;! is lei reason lo 



doubt n. on the contrary, every reason to believe it; 



bul in Ibo-e il-ys small grains were more eominonlv raised 

 'ban n. .w and food was more plenty. Now food Will have 

 besupphul for I hem and 1 sec ao reason why. with plenty 

 >t lood. they cannot withstand tbe rigors of a Vermont 



vintcr as well as ever they, -ould. We shall try il at any 



■ale. but shall provide tor a fresh importation afl the same. 



I think thai Here Is some reason to be!;, vc thai quail are 



vorking their way into this State again in a natural man- 



icr. Some three or four years ago there wa- a small coy, v 



ai-ed in the town ,,f Manchester about fortj miles south of 

 this town. During the early winter of 1 881 '82 there was a 



l-ge covey in the adjoining t,,u u of Mind- liand. but 

 lietberlhey wintered ,,,- not lam not informed Sonic 



three years ago there was n quail .-hot in Granville, X V 

 ie iweiity-live miles -oiilbwe.-i of Kullaiid-nll this 



points b, a northward movement of the bird- for some \ ( -.ii- 

 ■ior to our plant of lliisy, ar. 



Then- have been quail seen and tli,v are known to have 

 •sled and bred in several places in the Slalc this Season. 



There is good reason to believe lhat they have b, . D 

 heard at least in Feri1$burgh, fifty miles north of this, mid 

 this at a time SO nearly following the liberation of our quail, 

 a.- i n, lo preclude the pos,.il,ii;i v „f ih,ir being a-nav 



