


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 
traversing the Adirondacks. The roads 
were good, but steep and long. We were 
in the saddle at one stretch for 12 hours 
and that at night, riding from 8 p. m. to 8 
ay iil 
We were several hours crossing Chapel 
Pond pass. We walked our horses the en- 
tire distance, as we traveled it during 
the darkest hours of the night and did not 
care to step over one of the many preci- 
pices nor have our horses lose their foot- 
ing in a landslide. 
We did not see nor hear any of the large 
animals which infest this region, such as 
lynx, bears and panthers, but saw dozens 
of rabbitsinthe roadway. Game is reported 
plentiful at all the points we passed, deer 
and ruffed grouse being seen in the fields, 
almost daily. Bear trappers are not hav- 
ing great success in Essex county this 
year. 
Larger trotit’.were caught in the 
Schroon river, above Schroon lake this 
year than for many years before. 
Two weeks ago I killed a woodchuck 
by throwing my dirk at him, striking him 
in the head and bringing him down. Next 
day I tasted woodchuck stew and found it 
passable. 
During the spring of last year a she- 
wolf was killed on Nigger lake. This was a 
great surprise, it being generally believed 
for years that wolves were extinct in this 
region. 
I wish RECREATION would interest itself 
in having that portion of the wilderness 
lying North and East of Chapel Pond 
pass included in the Adirondack park. 
It is wonderful, beautiful, picturesque, 
well forested and a natural game country. 
Have been through Nova Scotia, New 
Brunswick, New England, and the Adi- 
rondacks this summer and found REc- 
REATION for sale everywhere. 
The L. A. S. is doing well. I am proud 
to have been one of its members since the 
day it was organized. 
H. V. Radford, North Hudson, N. Y. 

It is true antelope may be flagged in 
the way described by R. V. Schuyler. 
In ’97 I was camped with a party of 4 
at the bridge 4o miles North of Laramie, 
on the Laramie river. East of our camp 
and about 800 yards away was the mesa, 
sloping back to the Laramie range. 
Taking a .45-75 Winchester I walked ta 
the top of the mesa, and saw, about a mile 
away, a moving object apparently the size 
of a jack rabbit. At last I perceived it 
-was an antelope and that, as I stood on 
the ridge between it and the setting sun I 
was flagging the animal without a flag. 
He would prance about, sometimes com- 
ing toward and sometimes going from me; 
but on the whole gradually drawing nearer. 
I moved back on the ridge so as to excite 
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the buck’s curiosity, and at the same tima 
lure him toward a big rock behind which 
I would hide and get a close shot. My 
scheme was successful. The buck came 
within 40 yards of me and was easily 
killed. 
A few days later I saw another buck and 
flagged him with a red handkerchief. 
H. M. Coulter, Nevada, Mo. 

A man recently met his death at Wick- 
ham, 2 miles from Drummondville, under 
circumstances which call for an investiga- 
tion. It is the habit of certain men to 
set guns between 2 trees which deer are 
in the habit of passing. The gun is heavily 
loaded and a cord is attached to it and 
carried across the path used by the deer. 
This practice is against the law of Canada, 
but nevertheless is indulged in by those 
who feel secure of the indifference of 
officials. This man was going through 
the wood and came in contact with the 
cord, when found he was in line with 
the discharged gun. A charge of shot 
had entered his body. When found he 
was unconscious and died before medical 
assistance could be obtained. An investi- 
gation is to be made, and it will not be 
hard to identify the owner of the gun. A 
person who will set a gun in this way 
should be punished by being hitched to 
the end of about 10 feet of hemp. 
M. P. Edy, Clarenceville, P. Q. 

At Floodwood, in the heart of the Adi- 
rondacks, within 10 hours’ ride by rail 
from New York is one of the wildest lake 
regions of our northern woods. It is mid- 
way between Tupper lake on the South 
and Saranac Inn to the North, and until a 
year ago belonged to the Upper Saranac 
Inn Association. Recently, however, it 
was bought by the state and is now open 
to all. »The hunting at Floodwood is 
unexcelled in the Adirondacks and the 
fishing is good. 
Three of us spent the first week in No- 
vemper at the camp of Alford Bros. at 
Long pond, and in 7 days of unalloyed 
pleasure and sport killed 3 fine bucks. 
Rufe and George Alford are good guides 
and hunters, and sportsmen at their camp 
during the past season secured 25 or 30 
deer, mostly bucks. 
R. A. Briggs, Malone, N. Y. 

At 9 o’clock on the morning of the 6th 
the people of this village were astonished 
to see, on a hill-a. quarter -of (a mile. from 
town a magnificent buffalo bull. This is 
the first time since the last of the great 
Northern herd were killed, some I5 years 
ago, that a buffalo has been seen in this 
vicinity, and it is supposed the animal 

