XXV111 



RECREATION. 



NEAR BY LANOKA. 



I had just said goodbye to my friends, 

 Will L. and Al. H. and young son Davy, 

 who were more lucky than I was, and who 

 were going to tarry a while longer on the 

 bay and enjoy the good fishing and shooting, 

 and as I settled down in the smoker and 

 pulled out the August number of Recre- 

 ation I heaved a sigh to see the little 

 station glide quickly by while the scrub-oaks 

 and pines began chasing one another rapidly 

 to the southward. All this reminded me 

 that after a pleasant and profitable week, as 

 evidenced by the well filled basket of weak- 

 fish and pickerel, on ice and moss, I 

 should soon be back to hear the rattle of 

 wheels and scuffle of hurrying heels rise 

 to the office windows. 



I reflectively pulled on one of Host Hun- 

 gerford's two-for-a-quarter's, having just 

 enjoyed a breakfast of berries, omelet, blue- 

 fish, fried potatoes, steak, oatmeal and coffee 

 with a fisherman's appetite, and I concluded 

 that this was not a trip on which a large 

 amount of disgust and cash had to be 

 " charged to experience, " as the best and 

 most generous shooting companion Lever 

 knew, would sometimes put it. 



With Recreation before me, it also oc- 

 curred that a brief report was the proper 

 thing, inasmuch as it was through the kind- 

 ness of one of its subscriber^ that I took the 

 trip, and that may be a word or two would 

 enable some one else to do as well. 



Except that the surrounding country is 

 more of nature and less of man, Lanoka is 

 pretty much like the rest of the towns in 

 Ocean county, N. J., along the Central rail- 

 road, only the station is not far from the 

 the hotel, and the hotel is not far from the 

 pine-bordered creek where the boats land. 

 This creek shortly widens out into Barnegat 

 Bay. One of the principal attractions, how- 

 ever, was our host. He is a jolly good fel- 

 low, a thorough sportsman, and knowing 

 just what is required, will always provide it 

 or bust. For instance, if he says breakfast 

 will be ready at 5, we sit down at just 60 

 minutes past four, exactly. It seems that 

 our boniface went down there not long ago 

 on a shooting trip, and liked the place so 

 well that he cut lose from the city, and then 

 and there opened a hotel. 



I will have to finish as briefly as possi- 

 ble, Mr. Coquina, or you will think I have 

 an axe to grind ; but allow me to recount 

 that we took fine strings of weakfish, blue- 

 fish and kingfish. Young Davy was "high- 

 hook," and within a few yards of the hotel, 

 just before train-time, we took a nice mess 

 of from one to two pound pickerel to take 

 home. There is a pond a mile or two from 

 the hotel that the boys fished after I left, 

 and they reported great luck with the last 

 named. We kicked up quite a few quail 

 near the hotel, and from its porch heard the 

 ruffed grouse thumping himself with his 

 wings to keep the mosquitoes away ; though 

 some of the knowing ones insisted that the 



bird was whistling through his teeth. The 

 weather was not propitious, but we did 

 fairly well with the yellow legs, and if I get 

 down next month for bay-birds, you may 

 hear from 



Phil. O'Hela. 



Reports from this section are badly mixed. 

 We have not seen an Indian for two weeks. 

 I think it is true that several hundred war- 

 riors were out to do us up. We know of 

 their scouts having passed through the Hole 

 at night, but we had 90 good men in a body 

 and there is no telling what was averted by 

 being ready for them. The last reports say 

 the Indians are going back to their reserva- 

 tions. That is what we are afraid of. When 

 things are settled what is to prevent their 

 leaving again, quietly, and catching us un- 

 prepared. There are four companies of 

 troops here in the Hole, several companies 

 in the Teton basin and more coming up 

 Green river ; and no Indians to be found. 

 I have just returned from a seven days' 

 scout in the country east of Jackson's Lake. 

 Saw no Indians nor any fresh sign. Found 

 plenty of game and it was very tame, show- 

 ing that it has not been molested so much as 

 usual this summer. In the country just 

 southeast of here, where in June there were 

 many Indians and dead elk lying all around, 

 with not a live one to be seen, a week ago 

 some of the scouts saw 200 elk in one day. 

 S. N. Leek, Marysvale, Wyo. 



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