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FOREST AND STREAM. 



fNov. 23, 1882. 



time we have done a cood float of hunting in sections not 



very remote from the Ottawa district, we can call to mind 

 very few rears in which the weather was suitable tor liunt- 

 ing 60 CKjOy OS the first Of September. But what surprises 

 11s most in tlie letter we are alluding to is the statement that 

 the 1st, of October is ton hue 111 the season for a parly to 

 enter t/tW Ontario woods for pleasure, it would be difficult 

 for B. G. A.,' to make any of his Canaoian friends believe 

 such a yara, and it would 'make gunners smile to be told 

 thai October was loo laic to shoulder their guns, and hie to 

 the woods. 



\\ n net, that our Connecticut friend should have ad- 

 vanced any such statement. Previous to it we had mentally 

 pronounced him B good sort, but after such a declaration we 

 are in doubt about the soundness of our judgment. W* are 

 almost inclined to pronounce him a feather-bed spoilsman, 

 one who demands hot water to shave with, and au umbrella 

 in his kit, for fear of a little soft water. 



"The nirin who pronounces October too late in the ycaJC 



[IT fori ■-■is must have been seized with ague in 



childhood's (lays and had shaken all the nerve out of his 

 system. Our glorious, bright October days to he thus con- 

 demned! Why. many a lime, with dog at 'heel, and our old 

 1 loader in hand, we have roamed the Canadian for- 



ests, and felt at every breath that we were inhaling a tonic 

 before Whose recuperative power all medicines were as 

 nothing. 



"The trees, robed in their autumnal glory, feasted the eye 

 with a thousand forms of beauty, while the bright blue sky 

 nvorlii "i formed a atting oanc-py to the beauty of nature's 

 irk. It is the one month in the year in whieli the 

 pot .-man delights; the one to which, during the year, 

 lie looks forward to, and to be told, wheu it does come, that 

 ii is too late in the year to cuter the woods, [a something 

 no fellow hereabouts can understand. 



. . ivhile we are satisfied that 'B. G. A.' and his 

 party were but on pleasure bent, we regret that the great 

 of Ilia countrymen who leave! this way. ,'_uii in 

 hand, have no such sentiment in their soul. The' almighty 

 oil: i ,' ith them the first, consideration; and the deer o"f 

 hi i!i 11 woods is by them valued, not for the pleasures 

 of the chase, but for the cash value of the venison in the 

 muikel to which they ship their game. 



tportsmen of Ontario delight to welcome a member 

 Lb b othoi'hood, hall from where he may, hut they have 



had -u<-h a sickener in the gang of pot-Hunters that have 

 invaded our forests for the past few years that they earnestly 

 abate the nuisance, The latter word is'almost (00 

 mild a tern) to use. Tbfl pot-hunter is the bilt.er enemy of 

 the true spoil -man. lie is invariably a selfish fellow, who 

 01 nobody's welfare but, his own, a chap that is quick 

 to throw d">\ I! a farmer's feue.e or open his gate, but terri- 

 bly careless about putting Up the one or closing the other. 

 Game is with him the one great consideration ; and if he kill 

 two deer to day he will damn his luck that it, wasn't three 

 or Tour, lie will start a camp fire, and when it, has 

 served his put DOSa, 1 ares very Utile what damage it might 

 cause by being left burning. In fact, his presence in such 

 numbers has become a nuisance that must he stamped out, 

 and we hope to see. our gun clubs take aciiou. and at the 



■ii,. - essioi of ft Legislature see to ii that a law be 

 nil 1 in, in, n the evil. We doubt much if the mere en- 

 ■■ oi ■ License fee would meet the ease, but it is 

 tjtiin possible in stop the exportation, and by other legisla- 

 tive euai-tiiH" Is put a stop to the present, trouble. If such 

 a step is not SOOU Ulteo, a deer in the Ontario woods will 

 ere many years be as rare a sight as a ruffed grouse on King 

 , 



[Our correspondent "B. G. A." is compelled hy an un- 

 avoidable interruption to postpone for a time the closing 

 papers of the •'Ntitmeggers on the Ottawa" series.] 



AMERICAN WILD ANIMALS IN BRONZE. 



OF Mr. Edward Kemeys's ■'Still-Hunt," which is now 

 on exhibition at Tiffany's, in this city, Jlr. Julian 

 1 ■,- ne writes to the Y'/'/iWs.- 



it, is a work of which Americans have especial reason to 

 he proud, being, as it is, the production of a native-born 

 American artist, choosing for his subject a wild animal 

 peculiar to our Gauntry, and treating it in a manner which 

 betrays no indebtedness to foreign schools and methods, but 

 which, none the less, iudieates a, vigor of conception, a truth 

 o| observation, and a mastery of techniiiue thai would do 

 ( icdil to any seh ... I whatever. 



Tie- ii.ur.. which is nf < olossnl size, ea-l in bronze, has 

 been purchased and presented to the City of New York by 

 a number of gentlemen, who have thereby avouched a 

 public-spirited librralit; and an artistic appreciation which 

 are worthy of praise and imitation, It represents the female 

 American' panther crouching before her spriili'. The neck 

 is outstretched, the head and. eyes fixed in a terrible intent- 



n 1 gaze; the hindquarters arc drawn up ivadv to launch 



thi holy forward; the fore legs are gathered far in under 

 the breast, and the right paw "lias just been half lifted from 

 the ground with that peculiar ''churmng" motion character- 

 istic of en- when in the Icc-li, OS it were of a leap. The 



combination ol intense life and latent action, with muscular 

 restraint and immobility, could not be more powerfully 

 portrayed, Tin- whole body of the great animal writhes « ith 



|,.:; CO .Lolled strength; the icwl inslaiil. it -e, [DSShe must 



hurl ii. - 1---. if forward. The angry play of the tail enhances 

 the fierce sug| stivenessof thepose; and. indeed, the entire 

 composition, down to its least .part says one thing; we feel 

 inevit ibly tii.it nothing iii it could be- otherwise. ana b< right; 

 and 1 he culminating impression produced upon the specta- 

 tor is forcible to the degree of. being appalling. The. rigid. 



Stealthy stare of the beast laseinale- the eye; and Ihc longer 



we contemplate the composition the more strongly docs its 



Stpell hold US. The savage presence of the huge cat not only 

 lill Messrs. Tiffany's window, but makes itself fell ns lamp 

 ihe square as the eye can reach it, 



Ii i< a pleasure to know thai this superb, production has 



t i ■ ■ 1 - : uncd permanent form, and will for many years to 

 Come adl lo tha attractiveness of our beauiiful park. In 

 view Of the rapid destruction of our native wild animals- -a 

 destruction that bids fair, in the course of a few years, a, 



At his studio in Wesl l-'itiy-thinl -tied are to be seen 

 lie. Ifels in 'day or plaster, of most of the animals in question, 

 Wrought in a style no1 inferior to the "Still-Hum." but not, 

 unf .iiiuii.-tely. iii the same imperishable material. Will none 

 of OUT wealtby and ai I-!u\ !iij cili/.eu, arouse themselves lo 



sculptors can afford them anything more truly artistic, more 

 unique- in design and motif, 01 more certain to increase in 



value with time. It is none too soon for those who have the 

 discernment to do so, to recognize and encourage the pres- 

 ence of genius in our own midst, instead of going in dubious 

 quest, of it to the other side of the Atlantic. 



Jtll.IAK llAW'THOKNE. 



A Steamboat Load of Ducks. — As the steamer Knima 

 C. Elliott was coming up the river last night the .-,d m ;,.- 

 sengers and Ihe crew were startled by a siin/id- r •• iii , lie-- 

 sound in the airall above the boat. No one 'could ttccnnnl 

 for the noise, and the more they tried the more unaccount- 

 able if seemed, dipt. Postal went to the electrical machine 

 and turned on the light, 800 candle-power. In a uKJment 

 Ihe whole foggy river was flooded with light. It was seen 

 that the noise proceeded from an innumerable colony of 

 wild ducks on their way southward. The blinding glare 

 startled the fowls, and rising in great crowds they began 

 Hying straight at the lamp. For 20 minutes the boat was 

 literally lull of ducks. Some of them would hit heavily 

 against Ihe irlass around the light, and fall stunned to the 

 deck. Others fell into the faces of the men, and were 

 knocked down with sticks and enncs. In all. several bun 

 dred were secured. Thirty-six were found concealed in 

 different parts of the cabin this morning when the boat came 

 into the wharf at St. Louis. Others were found ahout the 

 boilers and in the engine room, and a great number were 

 killed by the wheels' The ducks were, mostly in the water 

 when the boat ran into the immense Hock, and when the 

 electric light was turned on them they seemed to go crazy 

 With fear. They rose in great droves and whirled around 

 in the air before dashing themselves against the lamp, The 

 men on the Elliott say that never on the river has there been 

 so many ducks and geese as at present. Every slough Lnd 

 creek along the river between here and Cairo' had several 

 hundred ducks floating on it this morning, A great many 

 of the ducks killed fell bach into the water and were lost— 

 <SK, Louis Dispatch to the Chicago Tivms, 



Philadelphia Notes— The flight of woodcock from the 

 North appeared to come all at once this year. Certainly the 

 bulk of them came together. This was'doubtless caused by 

 the sudden far northerly cold snap we have read of as hav- 

 ing laken place. Springfield. Mass., friends write me there 

 were nc- "(light birds" around there this season, although 

 they were expected between October 16 and Ihe 1st of No- 

 vember. Would it not appear, then, the flight of woodcock 

 this fall was as [ have stated. Birds are oowbeimj silled 

 in Maryland and Delaware, where in summer cock breed. 

 We are" now having good quail shooting weather. Birds 

 are not so plentiful in some, localities where it was expel ted 

 thev would be -bund fairly numerous this season. Some 

 that have returned state they have found no quail at, all 

 where it was known they were freely bred. I imagine thai 

 just as soon as the food in the woods (where these birds are 

 'now. and for this reason hard to And) is covered with fallen 

 foliage or consumed, the quail will resort to the smblihs 

 more and he discovered more readily. If the shooter can't 

 find coveys in the stubbles in early morning and toward 

 eveniug in sections where he is positive birds breed and 

 abound, hC maybe sure he will find them in the woods, 

 especially if lie 'is making his trip during the first two weeks 

 of November I am referring now to shooting in Delaware 

 and Maryland, where most of our people choose their stamp- 

 ing grounds. Brant are now plentiful at Barnegat and Tuck- 

 erton bays. The weather thus far has been so fair but, few 

 have been killed. Wait until the next easterly weather 

 comes and a, few will be killed. — Homo. 



Is an "Am Space" Danoekois'.' —Philadelphia, Nov. 

 18, 1882.— Editor Tftrmt and Stream: A Western correspond- 

 ent lately wrote me this question; "Will my rifle burst if 1 

 fail to ram the bullet quite home?" To which 1 answered 

 "No." 1 am aware that the current opinion, 111 many parts 

 of ihe world, is that, if any great space exists between the 

 powder and li.eball, the barrel will bulge or burst; and Ihe 

 late fearful explosion of the thirty-eight ton title on LI. M. 

 S. Thunderer, some officers thought, was due to a Slipping 

 forward of the great projectile. But these "bursting" ideas; 

 1 think, are erroneous. This "dangerous" doctrine 1 have 

 had no faith in since 1804, when certain ai uis which, ac- 

 eordinglovenerableandmodern hooks, should have burs ted, 

 sent their bullets out much as usual. Two friends here, 

 one a gun dealer and the other a gun maker, stoutly assert 

 ihai my position is "utterly ridiculous"— thai "the further 

 away fronj the powder the bull is put Ihe severer i> lie- 

 strain on the ban. 1. ' Bui Ihey are in eiror. I claim that 

 the further away the (normal) hall lies, the less is the strain 

 on the barrel. 1 do not speak of -wedged" or ••fa--t' ' bul- 

 lets, but of ordinary bullets, such as a man can run iuto a 

 jiih with the ramrod in the usual manner, if the bullet he 

 left in the middle of the barrel, even, Ihe rillc Avill not be 

 harin.-d. — W. M< K. Heath. 



Tknnessek Game Not es.— Nashville. Nov. 11. — Avery 

 handsome deer, killed on the Belle Meade farm fiom Gen. 

 Harding's famous drove, was presented to Ihe ladies of the 

 .Mission Hon..: 10 serve ai iheir kitchen this week. These 

 good ladies opened (his kitchen for a few days tor the pur- 

 pose of rai-ina money sufficient to pay a debt due upon their 

 worthy institution, and 1 am glad to say that through lib- 

 eral patronage and donations of dainties by Ihe citizens, 

 : .■ srere enabled to accomplish their pvjfpose. A lurtjber 

 of. quail wereoll'ered in market thi- morning al iwenly -live 

 cents each. Squirrels and 'possums are particularly abund- 

 ant Ibis fall, though the weather continues too warm to 

 warrant killing them. Col. Akers's hunting party have 

 been dela.ed in their sporting undertaking from the same 



down in Trj'gg county awaiting I'm- iii-i decided ErOSl for ihe 

 "bosses'' lo join them.— .1. D. 11. 



Ti:\\s tiAMi. Notes.— Kl Paso, Tesas. Nov. 10,188:2.— 

 Between Big Springs and Pecos, on theTexas and Pacific 

 Railroad, one. nan have .the very finest sport at ibis lime, 

 Parties should hire a caboose or a box car and til themselves 

 in. for housekeeping. as no hotels can be had in ibis won- 

 derfully interesting game country. Sand Hills, Met/., Pytite, 

 .Midway and other slat ions are good places to BtOp. PartitS 

 will find "a world of antelopes." and enough ducks and 

 quail to answer any demand. A huut of a few days in Ibis 

 section will satisfy the most ambitions hunter. I saw a 

 small herd of buffaloes a Half mile from the loada few days 

 ago, but 1 understand that there are very few to be found 

 in all ihe plains country, Near Qrelton tiler,- are a few 

 chickens 10 be found. All kinds of game in the 

 In excellent condition, and tin- antelopes are fat as buttei -- 



Ol.o. VV. B A INKS, .]IS. 



Tekkessee SpoKTsvrF.N on the Wrxo.— Oapt. Thos. F. 

 Perkins, Dr. Clill'e and sons, of Williamson county, and 

 Major Carpenter, of Nashville, fully equipped for hunting 

 and fishing, left yesterday for Reclfobt, Lake, where they will 

 eo into camp for two weeks orloneer. Jim Palmer and 

 Hermann Buckholz will start for the same famous hunting 

 grounds in a few days. Burt Bray and his Bowling Green 

 Club will he off to the same place soon, and wheu thev get 

 ihere .lucks, geese and swan will have to keep their weather 

 m 1 ■ opt a- il or be gobbled up by the expert shooters. Andy 

 Menders is organizing a party for a few days' shooting in 

 the low counties ofAVtst Tennessee, They will conhue 

 themselves to turkey, deer and quail shooting. Andy may 

 take a run to the hike, as he handles the most of the lish 

 taken from its waters, which come to this city. The weather 

 has at last turned cold and our local sportsmen will be after 

 the large quantities of quail in our surrounding country. 

 Several gentlemen from different, parts of the State have 

 been out deer stalking in the mountainous parts of the State 

 and report cAi-ellenl sport. Oame plenty and in superb con- 

 d (ion. Col. Geo. F. Alters has at last succeeded in collect- 

 ing his pack of dogs, and will soon be off to the coaling 

 grounds in Trigs- county, Ky. This will be the grandest 

 party of the season from all that 1 can learn. They have 

 had log huts constructed in the forests where they expect to 

 hunt, and had them fitted up with every comfort, A. num- 

 ber of ladies, the Colonel informs me, will accompany their 

 ■ 'lords" and prove to the natives that the Dianas of to-day 

 are as brave and expert as the goddess of old was herself. 

 In case an occasional bear may be found iu these primitive 

 regions. Col. Alters has ptu-chased an immense bulldog from 

 "Pat Solan" with which to bring him to bay. — J. D. H. 

 (Nashville, Nov. ill. 1882). 



Texas Fligut Shooting.— Galveston, Nov. 16, 1882.— 

 Our second "norther" has artived, bringing with it, an im- 

 mense flight of wildfowl of every variety. They are now 

 to be seen sitting out in the bay iu masses that closely resemble 

 floating islands; they are. very wary, and he who would 

 float down upon them must indeed be skillful in disguising 

 his skiff so as not to excite their suspicion. The reward 

 would well repay one for his trouble, however, as I am con- 

 fident he could fill his skiff in two shots. This style of 

 shooting is not in vogue here, not even the market hunters 

 practicing it. Our flight shooting, which lasts from dav- 

 lighl until about nine A. M., and again inthe evening, is by 

 far the mast desirable aud prettiest we have, and lo give an 

 idea how mercilessly Ihe poor ducks are pursued, 1 will tell 

 of a flock of eleven redheads, only one of which lived to tell 

 the tale of how his friends were slaughtered in trying to 

 make the pass. My friend and self took stands a few moru- 

 '"where ducks were known to be 

 hour we shot our guns were cin- 

 ch an extent that upon quitting 

 a' counting thirty five sleek ducks 

 ads and hluebills. — Nemo. 



plentiful, and durii 

 ployed incessantly, 



we had the satUai 

 at our J'ett, mostly 



redh 



PENXSVT.VANTA. — Wi'ightsville, Nov. 15. — Ducks on the 

 Susquehanna are abundant, a goodly number of which are 

 black ducks, bhicbillsand readheads, although the majority 

 are cools. One sportsman killed eighty -eight, cools in a few 

 hours, which gives you an idea of their vast numbers. 

 Squirrel hunting has been nothing exlra around here, but 

 have been reported plenty down the canal further. Rabbits 

 are plenty tins season, but birds are very scarce. Very few 

 'coons and 'possums have been killed so far. Quite a num- 

 ber of foxes have been seen, but only t\\ o or three of them 

 were killed. — Razor. 



\\ t ti.t> Rice —From the answers to inquiries made by us 

 some time ago, il appears that the sowing of wild rice has 

 not been in general attended with he hoped for result. In 

 another column a correspondent reports that, the rice which 

 did not do well the first year improved the second. We 

 think it very desirable to know something of the general 

 success or want of success by those who have sought by 

 means of the rice 10 improve their ducking grounds, and 

 .should be pleased to hear from such parties. 



TrtEy Had Game nut Thanksgiving.— In his Thanks- 

 giving Diy proclamation Gov. Long, of Massachusetts, 

 says: "In 1G31, our harvest being gotten in, our Governor 

 sent font men on fowling, so that we might, after a special 

 manner, rejoice together afterwe had gathered the fruit of 

 our labor.' Thus the Pilgrim Governor Bradford insti- 

 tuted the harvest festival of the New England Thanksgiving." 



Wyoming —Elk Mountain, Nov. 11. — lluuting this sea- 

 son 1 think fully :,s good as it ever was. Moie deer than 

 usual, but noi so in my elk. A party killed three bears a 

 few days since. — J 



Soi 111 Cauoi.ina. — Kock Hill, Nov. 9.— Birds will be 

 plenty here when it gets a little cooler, which will be soon. 

 1 think. -W. T. 



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