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RECREATION. 



MOOSE MEAT SOLD IN BOSTON. 



I notice an article by Mr. Geo. H. Nicol 

 on quail shooting. He states that he 

 killed 13 dozen quails in 2 months. Sup- 

 pose all the sportsmen in this country 

 should kill half as many each. Then the 

 land that knew the cheery voice of Bob 

 White would know it no more. I haven't 

 killed that many game birds in 10 years. 

 The fact that Brother Nicol did not sell 

 his birds does not excuse him any more 

 than the fact that I secured mine with a 

 rifle excuses me. If we sportsmen are to 

 reform the feather wearing woman, 

 which one of us is to cast the first stone? 

 Now, friend Nicol, in your next season's 

 shooting just lop off a few dozen from 

 y,our score, and if you find that the lop- 

 ping process interferes in any way with 

 your enjoyment let us hear from you. 



Moose meat was exposed for sale in 

 Quincy market, Boston, this month. Is 

 this according to Hoyle? 



W. L. Skinner, Cambridge, Mass. 



ANSWER. 



I doubt if Massachusetts has any close 

 season on moose or any law prohibiting 

 the sale of it. I know it has no law pro- 

 hibiting the sale of venison, and probably 

 moose can be sold without hindrance. It 

 is, of course, an unfortunate condition and 

 you should amend the law at the next ses- 

 sion of your Legislature, so as to stop the 

 sale of all game at all times, but at least 

 during the close season for shooting these 

 animals in Maine and Canada. Probably the 

 law of Maine or some Canadian Province 

 was violated in shipping out the moose, 

 and if we could get that information we 

 would certainly get after both the dealer 

 and the shipper. — Editor. 



TWO GOOD OREGON MEN. 



Deputy Game Warden Henry Prettyman a short 

 time ago arrested 4 persons who were hunting 

 deer with hounds on Silver creek, 16 miles 

 from Silverton, and took them to that town, 

 where 3 of them pleaded guilty and were fined 

 $25 each. Yesterday he received a note from R. 

 C. Ramsby, the Silverton Justice, informing him 

 that the fourth man, Matt Burnett, had entered 

 a plea of guilty and been fined $25. These 4 

 violators of the game laws are said to have been 

 the most persistent hunters of deer with hounds 

 in Marion county, and it is hoped the rough jolt 

 they have received will break up the gang. 



There is some question as to whether Mr. 

 Prettyman has not laid himself liable to punish- 

 ment in connection with this affair. It is clear 

 that he participated in the chasing of a deer, be- 

 ing near when it was killed and^ arresting 2 of 

 the men while in the act of skinning it. The 

 fact that he was not seen by the other hunters 

 may clear him. Two of the men eluded arrest 

 at the time by slipping away into the brush, but 

 as a boy went for them next day Mr. Prettyman 

 went up the creek a few miles and lay in wait 

 for them as they were coming back to town, and 

 nabbed them. One was inclined to be ugly, but 

 Mr. Prettyman was armed and said he meant 

 business, so the fellow gave in. The wagon 

 driven by the boy came along behind them arid 

 was found to contain the carcases of 4 deer. — 



That was a splendid piece of work on 

 the part ol the game warden, and both he 

 and the justice are entitled to a free pass 

 up the golden stairs. The talk about the 

 game warden having been a party to the 

 killing of the deer is pure bluff. Many a 

 thief makes such threats when apprehended 

 in his crookedness, but no upright judge 

 ever considers such for a moment. I am 

 sorry the editor of the Oregonian did not 

 give the names and addresses of the law- 

 breakers in order that I might have had the 

 pleasure of putting them on record. Can 

 any reader of Recreation in that vicinity 

 supply this information? — Editor. 



FOUR MOOSE AT CLOSE RANGE. 



Game was exceedingly abundant here 

 last season. Deer were seen daily by 

 everybody, and in some places the animals 

 did serious damage to crops. While Mr. 

 F. D. Asche and Mr. F. D. Van Nostrand, 

 of New York, were here on a 2 weeks' 

 fishing trip, I paddled them within easy 

 range of 10 deer in one day. Of course, 

 no shooting was done, as it was during the 

 closed season. 



While paddling with the boys around the 

 lake one evening, we turned the point of a 

 small island near Beaver brook, and found 

 ourselves within 50 yards of 4 moose. The 

 largest, a bull, did not see us until we were 

 within 100 feet of him. Then he put for 

 the shore and, reaching it, stopped and 

 looked at us. In the meantime I had run 

 the canoe in ahead of the other moose, a 

 cow and 2 calves. When the bull saw 

 what was going on, he plunged, bellowing, 

 into the water and came rapidly toward 

 us. I backed the canoe as he came on, not 

 daring to turn until we reached deep water. 

 Then we drifted away, leaving the bull 

 snorting defiance and the other moose 

 holding their places with serene confidence 

 in the prowess of their champion. 



Three times during the following week 

 we attempted to go up Beaver brook to 

 fish, and each time were faced and chal- 

 lenged by the old bull. The boys and I 

 agreed that we had no business there, and 

 gave it up. 



James Harlow, 

 Dead River, Me. 



I wrote Messrs. Asche and Van Nos- 

 trand to inquire as to the truth of this 

 story, and they both replied that it was 

 absolutely true in every detail. — Editor. 



POT HUNTERS IN MINNESOTA. 



Executive Agent Fullerton, of the State Fish 

 and Game Commission, returned to-day from 

 Walker, where he succeeded in convicting 4 

 pot hunters of killing deer. The party had gone 

 seventy miles into the woods from Little Falls, 



