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RECREATION. 



The expenses of such an investigation must 

 be met by the League, and a fund should 

 be set apart for that purpose. If some 

 member living in or near Albany would 

 take up this work we might expect results 

 that would give satisfaction to all. Having 

 read the articles on the subject in August 

 and November Recreation, I am sure that 

 only such a course will overthrow the com- 

 bine, which is as corrupt as the police force 

 of New York City; and it will take energy 

 and positive conviction of the right of the 

 matter to do it. 



We shall soon see reports from the com- 

 mission telling how many deer have been 

 shot during the open season, and how num- 

 erous they are ; but if there is such a re- 

 markable increase as they report, why do 

 they advocate shortening the hunting sea- 

 son? There seems to be a studied effort 

 to deceive the public in regard to the work 

 of the commission, and if any man can get 

 any information from their reports I should 

 like to hear from him. There is no at- 

 tempt to show who has been complained of, 

 who has been fined, the places where vio- 

 lations are most common, or many other 

 things that an honest report should show. 

 Men often outlive 'their usefulness, and 

 there seem to be some of that class in our 

 game commission. Let the League take 

 hold of the matter with spirit and we will 

 have a commission that is a credit to our 

 State. 



A. D. K, North Granville, N. Y. 



AN EXPENSIVE QUAIL HUNT. 



One Sunday morning Sid and I called 

 our dogs and, shouldering our guns, started 

 for an old millet field where we knew we 

 could find quails in plenty. We spent sev- 

 eral hours walking around behind the dogs, 

 but they could find no trace of birds. 

 Finally Sid's pointer stopped almost under 

 my feet and made one of the prettiest points 

 I ever saw. The other dogs were not far 

 behind and backed him up like veterans. I 

 walked in and kicked the birds up. A 

 covey of at least 50 scattered in all direc- 

 tions. I turned loose with my double gun 

 and got 2 with my first barrel and one with 

 the second. Sid did a Little better. He had 

 a pump gun and being a good shot knocked 

 out 5. The birds scattered so we could 

 find only 2 more. Those we got and being 

 tired we started for home. 



On the way a big farmer walked up, 

 grabbed my arm and said, "Gimme yer 

 gun." I could not see it that way and 

 took pains to tell him so, whereupon he 

 pulled out an old horse pistol and stuck it 

 in my face. I realized then that to argue 

 would make matters worse, so handed over 

 my beloved gun. He then went through 

 my pockets and took possession of my 4 

 birds, explaining that he was a county po- 



liceman and as we had been hunting on 

 Sunday we must take the consequences. 

 Then he gathered in Sid, who submitted 

 gracefully. We were taken to Louisville 

 and put in the county jail. We soon got 

 some one to go our bond and had the case 

 set for Monday. Early Monday morning 

 we were sitting in the court room and 

 County Judge Jas. Gregory was looking 

 down on jis, over his glasses. After asking 

 us a few questions he imposed the small 

 fine of $5 and costs for each offense, and 

 each bird we had was a separate offense. 

 I got off with $25, but poor Sid had to 

 give $35 for knowing how to shoot a little 

 better than I. It was the first intimation 

 we had had that Kentucky has a law against 

 Sunday hunting. You can bet we'll hunt 

 on week days after this. 



R, L. Lukenbile, Louisville, Ky. 



CARATUNK NOTES. 



October 15 I went to Moxy pond with 

 W. Bodwell, C. Bodwell and L. Wilcox, 

 of Sanford, Me. They killed 2 bull moose 

 and 5 deer. I went, October 27, to my 

 camp on Squaretown, with R. Jarman, of 

 Brooklyn. He killed 2 bucks. One dressed 

 180 pounds, the other 270, A few days later 

 he got a bull moose which dressed 800 

 pounds. 



On these 2 trips we started 30 moose; 

 they never were so numerous in this sec- 

 tion before. 



C. Bodwell and his son, Verna, of San- 

 ford, Me., went into my camp on Square- 

 town, November 12. The next day Verna, 

 who is only 14 years old, killed a large 

 bull moose within 2 miles of camp. He 

 also got a buck. A few days later 2 

 friends of Mr. Bodwell, from Boston, 

 joined us at camp. They got 3 deer, one 

 a buck that dressed 216 pounds. 



The 20th W. Davis, of Manchester, 

 N. H., and E. Goodwin and B. Paige, of 

 Antrim, N. H., came to camp. The third 

 day after his arrival Mr. Davis killed a 

 bull moose within 3 miles of camp. He 

 also shot a deer. Mr, Goodwin secured a 

 buck and Mr. Paige 2 bucks. 



The last 3 days of the season I spent 

 trying to show A. Donigan, of Bingham. 

 Me., a moose. We saw nothing but small 

 bulls and cows and calves until late on 

 the afternoon of November 30. Then we 

 found a yard of large moose but did not 

 have time to hunt them. I went to Pierce 



I ond, 13 miles from Caratunk, December 



II with N. McQuillan and F. Pooler, of 

 Skowhegan, Me. They shot 4 bucks in 

 one day. 



During the hunting season of 1900, 9 

 sportsmen whom I guided, killed, in the 

 vicinity of Caratunk, between October 8 

 and November 27, 16 deer and 3 moose. 

 Deer and moose are every year becoming 



