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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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[optecfud i« it is no 



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.' to find them, 



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their flight i l open i i quite differi n1 fro i b ii 



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were lie to 

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capable of standing any amount of chaff; and he got plenty | 

 .lit For the first wile or so we were too excited to make ; 

 nny fun, but when we reached the hard wood hill, fur which 

 mi was making, and did not find our game, we were 

 in .i bo particular, and Ihe ''fimgrew fast and "furious." At 

 this season {;'. c, March) n,, ,n. _. ■,. ml v "yarded"upin 

 hills where He. soil maple fjrows plentifully .it's that is their 

 chief food iii ihe winter. When this hard' wood hill was 

 reached and passed, and still do signs of the moose excepl 



i n ii nad (rack, S , Newlon unci myself, who were in the 



i . ' nine-need our little games, and the Indians were usu- 

 ally M mie distance ahead. Newton did not know much about 

 snow shoeing, so he was continually upsetting himself into 

 the snow, and we, of court e, were continually exploding into 

 roars of laughter. You rausl remember Unit at this time it 

 was raining 'hard enough to damp the spirits of almost any- 



. and besides tlxit. we were forcing nui selves through a 



alt am clump.— and of all the things for upsetting t he 



imeauiious snow-snoer give me si thick balsam bush, How- 

 ever, notwithstanding the rain, bad snow-shoeing and the 

 .'! i. bushes, we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. Someone 

 of the three was sure to be down pretty often, and whoever 

 it w.e- ho was sure loget iaughetl at. ' When a fellow gets 

 tiow-shoes he is never sympathized with , i is loo 

 comical a sight not to laugh at. Toward twelve we began 

 to feel a little tired and began to wish the leaders would 

 stop for dinner, and at, last when we came to a tremendous 

 cropper over a hidden branch we voted for a rest. After 

 aped on and soon overhauled the vanguard 

 sin preparing oui dinner over a roaring fire. 

 .Viler wc had stowed away a considerable amount of pork 

 and bread, wc started again! All that afternoon we walked 

 Steadily on, and at last we found fresh tracks made a short 

 time before. Our chaffing was hushed "instant er,'' and 

 silently we followed the dark form of the Indian, dimly 



canmtt-say, as in those days he knewofbut one "bird dog" 

 within a radius of twelve miles. 



The foregoing is preliminary to the suggestion that some 

 one who has tae opportunity turn out in suitable cover a 

 few pairs of these birds next spring, and then in the autumn 

 seek them in proper fashion with setter or pointer. The 

 experiment Will not cost much, and i1 may succeed in giving 

 us a semi-game bird, equal for sporting pin i 

 domesticated pheasant that our English cousins delight to 

 slaughter. • Who will try and tell us this time nest year 

 what they know of guinea shooting? Br.rxDLE. 



.-SHOEING FOR MOOSE. 



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aim For about fifteen minutes we kept 



id by the increased length of the Stride 



he deeper tracks he plowed that he had 



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pretty well used up after. 

 We had not walked over 



was so bad, especially a 

 on the way home. The ' 



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visible through 

 on. and then we foi 



of tie mouse and 



heard us and was nj 



devil knows where. 



would follow On or re 



tired and it was getting late. The moose, too,' ha 



traveling in a circle and was now on his old track, soil; 



would have the pull on us there. We reached home that 



about the worst tramp 1 ever ._. 

 16 or 18 miles, but then the walking 



"tcb on a lake of a mile or two 



1 and rain were iu our faces and 

 ...j heavy thai our snow-shoes seemed weighted 



With lead, 



.. .1 .I.e., v.e rested, and that night it froze and 



formed a crust strong enough to impede materially the pro 



oi lb moose We starred...: . ,'.ut to the 



ie miles, foi breakfast Leaving there about half 



: i ii rwo or three miles before we saw 



We soon started two moose, find started after 



them with the intention of following them until we or they 



dropped. 



The moose soon became separated, and <v t all followed 

 one which made tor some hills close by, up which he went 

 like ;. mot, we altar him like wasps after an adventurous 

 The country the moose made for seemed to be 

 all hills and valleys, and as the moose kept a course right 

 aen ss high hills and deep valleys We W8*e forced to follow, 

 ■ . iii.'iiily found it pretty hard work . It's awfully 

 telling. woifc going up l ;teep hill on snow-shoes. Going 

 ,-y enough, tor a chap has to take tremendous long 

 strides to keep J c D : jing on bis head We had our usual 

 muni . i j ikes, - halting, bumbles, ste., etc., and altogether 

 were as "lneny as a marriage bell,'' it was three o'clock intbe 

 afternoon when we ran the moose down in a balsam 

 and S — — dropped him with a bullet through the brain. 

 ii v. as after dark when we reached the shanty; wc took sup- 

 per there and drove homt afterwallring rather more than 

 twenlydive miles. Our guests left as the next c,., 



reather has not- been favorable wc have not been out 

 since. That is the extent of my moose hunting in iln be I. 

 .. . .hi' .it lanada. 



There are plenty of partridges in the bush, and 1 expect 

 some ducks iu a tew davs, wh'-ii the river opens. Fishing 



through the i iii i considerable part of my time. 1 



,, i [ ■.!■. . u you a pietty long account of my adven- 



tures, and as I suppose you arc pietty well bored with the 

 his letter, i will cut it as short as possible Some 

 men coming in from the shanty to-nighi brought the news 

 that riie bears are out, in force around a deserted shanty. 

 This week 1 intend having a lick at them. Yours, 



.(. M. i;. 



GUINEA FOWL AS GAME BIRDS. 



YEAKS ago, when a boy. the writer resided oil a large 

 farm in Western New York. Ai that time his father 

 considerable interest in the breeding .and raising ol 

 "guinea**" Thej were ftarefitlly tended during the. win- 

 ter, but when turned out in the 'spring would in. i ;i . ..; , 

 wuh the domestic foul or !a\ their eggs in orderly fashion 

 in the henhouse or barns, but invariably sought some oul-of- 

 ibe way and secludi -i pla.-> for laying, .setting ard hatching. 

 When hatched, the good mother hen would beguile her brood 

 to a neighboring patch of woods. Here they passed the 

 summer taking; care of themselves, and seldom appearing in 

 .. uyard. 

 When needed for the table it became the tvriier's dui\- to 



Ily did with the aid ol 



lid -k. i .iin ..i ritlc. When hurriedly pressed for meat 



■ ' frith ihe dog. and simply stalked and potted 



them, shooting them "on the wing or on the head, or on the 



i, oi . i .... .. i re he could, "as the old nigger said about the 



quail. I'a'terf'amilas, however, was rather careful of his 

 ii ..;.- and il was seldom that the writer received parmi$- 

 sion to go out and hunt them "for fun.' When thjs per- 

 mission was obtained, the "yaller" dog (most bul 

 the rest unceii ii . win asl ed to assist 



This dog wmild run anything, whether on four or two 

 legs, incline i 'coons, wQodchueks, skunks, stray 



call ' parti ges, guineas or tramps. When given to 

 understand that we were after guineas, he would, on sight- 

 lie didn't appear to use his nose on feather,', give 

 iu . chase, and either Hush them or tree them. In the latter 

 case they were an easy prey; in the former they were fre- 

 quently flushed beyond gunshot, and on a second approach 

 a more quickly and take a longer flight. At the 

 beginning. I - -..i ill as usually satisfied 



with the bug, tut, after they had been shot at for a few 

 weeks they became. quite wild and difficult of approach. 

 How these birds would lie to a setter or pointer the writer 



PENNSYVANIA DEER SHOOTING. 



ON Wednesday, the eight, day of November, which, by 

 the way. was the daj after the election of State officers, 

 two of my brother sportsmen and myself concluded we better 

 pack tip and go up Bait River or to the wilds of Forest County 

 on a deer limit? We chose the • latter, and accordingly 

 packed our traps, cleaned up our rifles, and with a supply of 

 provision enough to last a month, and our good dogUdfasa 

 catcher, we started, taking the canv moraine tiain on the 



.i 'i e .i. Bradford and" Buffalo I., i I rii nville 



Station, about forty miles from our town. There we hired 

 i team to take us to the old Buffalo fin in. about five miles 

 from the station. This was our old rendezvous, and here 

 we have hunted together for a number of seasons, 



We fount! deer plentiful and in good condition. Every- 

 thing was in favor of the hunter, and up to the 14th of 

 December we killed twenty-six deer. Thiukiug this enough 

 for cue s, : .f,son, and the snow being oea I ly tw o tee 

 came out. The writer clain s having killed the largest deer 



of all that were killed in .Forest County ; i: , i ". 



Weighed, with the entrails out, 210 pounds. Air. G B 

 limit, of New York, was with us a week, and he killed a 

 buck weighing about two hundred pounds, and all hunters 

 who saw the deer agree that, it had the largest and fines! 

 antlers of any ever shipped out of thesfe wood 



Never before were there as many hinders on there as this 

 season; they came from every quarter; hunters' with their 

 suits of duck, with many pociiets (oh, what a noise the 

 tripshin would make whipping on those suits), and rifles and 

 guns of every description; the native with his long shooting 

 rifle and the big-balled gun; the single hieech-ioadu" and 

 the repeater. 



The hunting, or open season, for deer, I think, is too long, 

 running from October 1 to December 8i, Two or three 

 years of such slaughtering of deer as has been going on this 

 season, will leave very few. it any. If I wire to make an 

 estimate of the number killed in this hue county, i should 

 put it at least at one thousand. 1 hope that the law makers 

 of Pennsylvania will change this particular game law. and 

 make the open season for deer commence November 1, and 

 expire December loth, thus giving ua six weeks; anil it's 

 enough for any honest hunter. Lauohixg Owl. 



Els Vin, P.i . December to, 1982. 



NOTES FROM WORCESTER, 

 'jj"'rii. bird shooting season just closed by law wi 

 X practically the last ^yoek in No yeaioer 

 ftp] ointment to some to 6b obliged to stop so suddenly; as 



were quite plenty, and quail more abundant 

 for many years. But now that the season is over, 

 that it was a good thing that the snow came and 

 month oi the open sesSfln Dert in it is that — e Lave -i 

 good supply o i p: ii i i .' lail lef I over, and it tbey 



winter well, ana a gooJ are nVi iportsmei 



can look confidently forward "to good sin oiil. 

 ie -■ spring it was n oi tin n ■ : that thei - « 

 woodcock here than hi ■ u For a longi w 



were here in June wit ir youaj broods, 'lnencarae'tut 



long drouth, and Hie birds nearly ; .11 uisappiBitd; lhat, 

 iin...,...-]' did not trouble us much, for most oi the 

 men here care little for summer dhooting, audit was . 

 erally believed teat ihe birds h al inOVGU ..... pth, and would 

 give us a call in the flight :v:.\<.a 



The experience oi several of our ciilb'wcntftrii 

 this belief. One tenth iii an .. iii i spent h 

 Canada in order to avoid the "hay fever," hud 

 picnic with the woodcock. Several others, who .; 

 short trips in ihe month of Augusl, lotiud most escelleut 

 cock shooting. We, therefore, looked lor a good rlnhl. 

 The fall rains came and tiie covers < at COO 



ditiou, bul somehow the frosty nights failed to mmg the 

 bird,. a»d day alter day we lieai over our best COVurS 111 

 vain. The birds didn't pass this way, and we have m v. r 

 ...'. able to learn what route thej sveut, VYe lio 

 will come sin! see us nes 



A good many of our club keep records of their shooting, 

 and, as far as 1 have,been able to gei them, tnc ligui 

 fully double the number of partridges as compaied to last, 



year, while in the v . . ■■ dCO I an there is quite as great 



a i.iiii'ii ■ . . ie, ... .!., how that it has been an un 

 usually goodt j ear for quail. 



.i :.. ...n-'otis cigar and tobacco store Of 



YJ. E. Shatt'uck, Esq., has bee, the rendezvous of the 

 Worcester Eos hunters, or rather the "Fur Company," as it. 

 is commonly called. Nearly every evening dmc 

 hunting season several of the comfortable arm ehi.hs may 

 be found tilled with members of the ••futiei nny." A guuo. 

 many of the laid shoolei s also dl op in h< i e lot thai tim- 

 ing smoke, and linger a little just to hear bow ' tnc old dog 

 took him away to tnc east'aro out o' hearin', and then alter 

 a while brought him back over that tuiob, and l sftiot at him 

 j. a ' iveiit behind a. tussocK and missed him,'' etc., etc. 



i he present fov huutiug season has been f.J unus 

 est, owing to the fact teat'two black foxes have beeu k.l.ed 

 in this vicinity. The first one was killed about two months 

 ago by Alvin "Fisher of Rutland, 



young fox, and was coal black except flfew long nairsw hich 

 were tipped with -White. It, was haiid.-oa.eJy mounted by 

 Mr, Forbush, a local taxidermist, and sola to the Boston 

 Society of Natural History lor forty dollars. 



The last one was killed on Christmas Day by Henry Locke, 

 about three miles from the city hall on the road to boylstnrj, 

 and was indeed a beautiful animal. While the ... 

 precisely the same as ihe tirst one, it was much tors. 

 being killed later in the season, the fur was much Letter. 

 There was some .b- ■..- ... tu tit 

 Locke acknowledged that his dog did not start the fox 

 Some five or six men and about L.esame numbet 

 were in Um chase. All the dogs, iucludiug Mi 

 came upon the dead fox. Bul as lo oaa else nad shot at t tic- 

 fox iheie could be no question about Mr. Locke's being the 

 rightful owner under the rules which have governed the 

 party for the past fifteen years. He has sold his p.-izs to 



