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last June, which is called Queen. Isabelle. The beautiful 

 creature combines the stock of Ranger, Kufus and Plunket, 

 and we are informed that her litter is the only one ever 

 dropped in this country or any other which combines the 

 blood of the three champions. He hopes to raise another 

 litter from Nellie and Ranger soon. Besides those named, 

 Mr. Fowler is the fortunate possessor of Frank, a native set- 

 ter, and one of his pups, named Yankee, who had two quail 

 killed over him before he was one year old ; also Sis, a 

 pointer bitch, out of imported stock and Nellie, and a Tom- 

 and-Rufus bitch. There are many other good dogs in Fort 

 ■Wayne, but there are few besides the above-named which 

 have pedigrees, though they are fine field performers. 



CURE FOR DISTEMPER. 



The following receipt, is considered by the correspondent 

 who sends it to be never-failing, with only this comment, 

 that it can certainly do no harm, which is a great deal more 

 than we can say of many other empirical formula : 



Huntingdon, Tennessee, November 20th, 1872. 



In Forest and Stream of the isth inst. a correspondent, asks for a 

 remedy for distemper in young dogs. 



I believe that I can give a surer and simpler remedy than any or al 

 the remedies ever tried. I know whereof I speak by actual experience. 1 

 It will not fail more thau one time in ten, and I have never known it to 

 fail a single time, though I have heard of one or two failures In perhaps 

 twenty-five cases, and I think them the fault of the doctor and not the 

 medicine. 



All there 13 to do Is to take a woolen string, half the size of one's 

 little linger and saturate well in spirits of turpentine, and tie It aronnd 

 the dog's neck. See that it is not rubbed off, and repeat two or three 

 times in as many days, and the dog will be well. H. 



GAME IN SEASON IN NOVEMBER. 



Moos Alceae, machlis. 



Elk or wapiti, Cervut canadensis. 



Hares, brown and gray. 



Wild turkey, Nelea'gris gallopave. 



Woodcock, Philohela Minor. 



Buffed grouse, Sonasa umbfliui. 



plover, Charauriinoe. 



QOdwit. 



ya.11?, Jialliis virginianui. 



grl ipe and Bay Birds. 



(jgTiboo, Tarandut rangifer. 



Red Deer, Cariacus virginianui. , 

 Squirrels, red, black and gray. 

 Quail, Optyx virginianue. 



Pinnated C-irouse, Cupido Cupidonia 



Curlew, Nmncnius arquaria. 



Sandpipers, Tringanas, 



Willets. 



Beed or Bice Birds, Dolichonyx oriz- 



WildVuck. 



"Bay birds" generally, including various species of plover, sand 

 piper, snipe, curlew, oyster- catcher, surf birds, phalaropes, avocets 

 etc., coming under the group Limacolce or Shore Birds. 



Massachusetts — Sale??i, Nov. 26. — Since last shot (at you) 

 there have been some quail and partridges shot. A flock of 

 geese went over Wenham Lake, Saturday a. m. Some foxes 

 are now found in this neighborhood. We have some as good 

 hounds in Salem and vicinity as are usually seen. Our friend 



B m has some fine ones. I shot 11 gray squirrels in 35 



minutes last Friday a. m. near here, and our friend Scott, 

 who loves to shoot a squirrel better than he loves to eat, has 

 been laid up ever since on account of it. He says I always 

 was afraid to tell where there was any game. I won the oys- 

 ters on him, but he won't come down. The trouble is thar's 

 more on 'em, and I may ge^another "hack" at them. 



Mack Proctor and son are doing well on the coots ; his boy 

 shot 2 canvas backs two weeks ago — something unusual. 

 There is sport ahead for Thanksgiving, and I hope to take a 

 hand and tell you about it some future time. Teal. 



Conn — Winsted, Nov. 23. — Woodcock have been numerous 

 through October, and the last one tbat I can hear of was shot 

 last Saturday, Nov. 17. Quail are always scarce in this sec- 

 tion, but I hear of a- number of flocks about this season. 

 Buffed grouse were quite plenty early in the season, but they 

 are now getting scarce. The continual snaring is- ruinous to 

 our grouse. I have been shooting but a few times, and in 

 company with a friend. Our bags have run from 8 to 13. 

 which we consider very good for Connect icut shooting. 



Olifion. 



New Jebset— Arlington, Nov. 26.— The boys are having 

 great fun shooting Cat) dipper ducks on the Passaic River. 

 Both boys and ducks enjoy the sport hugely, and so far 

 no serious damage has been sustained by either party. 



Pennsylvania — Clearfield; JTov. 21.— Small parties are out 

 on hunting excursions to the mountains. 



Viksinia— Norfolk, Nov. 11th — Weather very warm ; have 

 had only three heavy white frosts, and they have not yet 

 killed off the weeds. Quail abundant, but they keep very close 

 to the woods, and a good bag is hard to get. Some wild 

 turkies in market to-day. Ducks coming in freely from Curri- 

 tuck. Wednesday there were several loads of canvas backs. 

 Some deer and two small black bears from Dismal Swamp 

 brought in this week. ' g. 



Vikginia — Twyman's Store, Spottsyhania, Nov. 23.— Quail 

 and turkeys are abundant throughout this section. 



R. M. C. 



Fort Defiance, Nov. 25.— E. S. Wanmaker and party have 

 gone to the mountains in Augusta on a deer hunt. Turkeys 

 are very abundant there. There are plenty of quail in the 

 vicinity. Yiotok. 



Alexandria, Nov. 26.— Ducks, geese, snipe and other birds 

 plenty. From the abundance of venison in market should 

 infer good deer shooting in the vicinity. 



Ohio — Sandusky, Nov. 20. — Quail shooting is good near 

 here, and parties of five and ten bring in good bags. Had 

 fine sport last week in the next county. Bagged 10 par- 

 tridges, 3 rabbits, and 6 woodcock. One woodcock weighed 

 8 ounces. They are scarce; partridges plenty; ducks not 

 very plenty, as it is too fine weather and still water ; very few 

 geese as yet ; snipe about all gone South. 



There were never so many hunters about here as this fall. 



Sam. 



Ohio — Cincinnati, Nov. 19.— Farms hereabouts are nearly 

 all posted, and the farmers are enforcing the trespass laws. 

 The case of two well known gentlemen jportsmen of this city 

 soon to come to trial will be made a test case. Shooting is 

 good about Boone and Alexandria, Ey. Will.— 



Michigan— Detroit, Nov. 34.— Please find the following 

 L. H. Smith, of Strathroy, Ont., passed through this city on 

 the 21st inst., on his way home from the Tennessee field trials. 

 He paid us a short visit. M. K. Cristy and W. J. Mason, of 

 this city, returned, Nov. S2d, from a ten days' quail shoot in 

 Ohio ; they had fine 9port, bringing home «J87 quail. Hugh 

 Dyar returned from the same place on the 20th instant with 

 134, being his bag after a three days' shoot, -A. J. Rogers 

 and George H. Pnricer raturnad from the same vicinity on the 

 17th inst:, from a four days' shoot ; they made a fine ban-, viz., 

 178 quail and 22 partridge. On the 21st inst, Messrs! Wit- 

 mer, Pool and Pierce, of Niagara Falls, N. T., arrived in 

 this city from St. Clair Flats, after a week's shoot, with 528 

 ducks. The same party, which was increased by the addition 

 of our jolly sport, Ed. Gillman, left the next' evening for a 

 week's shooting in the vicinity of Glencoe, Ontario: 



Red Ruftjs. 



Kalamazoo, Nov. 23.— George Foegel, an unmarried man, 

 about twenty-five years of age, accidentally shot and killed 

 himself while hunting to-day. A companion reached the gun 

 to him across a brook, muzzle.first. Be caught it by the bar- 

 rel, and the stock dropped against a log upon which he was 

 standing. As he drew the gun up to him the trigger caught 

 upon a knot, and discharged the weapon, shooting him 

 through the heart and Wiling him instantly. 



Kansas— Girard, Nov. 19.— Last Monday, the 12th, myself, 

 Dr. McKay, Hiram Adsil and Asa Beam started out for a hunt. 

 Took tent, cooking utensds and team, and were gone four 

 days. Had a splendid time, but did not get much game on 

 account; of travelling around so much. First day— 28 quail, 1 

 jack rabbit, 1 cotton tail, 5 chickens, 2 ducks ; second day— 

 18 quail, 3 ducks ; third day— 19 quail, 5 rabbits, 1 chicken, 

 1 squirrel; fourth day— 27 quail, 5 chickens, 3 rabbits, 1 duck. 

 These were all killed while we were travelling along the 

 roads. g. q. 



Iowa, Pomeroy, Nov. 21. — Season drawing to a close, and 

 shooting almost over. Bad weather for the past four weeks 

 has made shooting anything but desirable, although the few 

 having courage to get out have made immense bags of ducks, 

 geese, cranes, &c. One party that stopped at Manson for a 

 week with four guns took in a wagon load of game at the 

 close of their stay. In fact, they had such an immense lot 

 that was considered a task too large to count them, so they 

 took them home without any official count, and an immense 

 stock of game it was too; said to have been the largest 

 amount of game ever seen at one time in the town of Mason. 

 Game reported at Twin Lakes, five miles south, and good 

 bags can be made there until winter. That is the place the 

 game is last to leave here, as the lakes are last to freeae up. 

 Deer killed in considerable numbers this fall. One party 

 killed three one day about thirty miles north of the railroad ; 

 but they are often killed within five miles of town. 



"Abe Daootah." 

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DUCKING ON ST. CLAIR FLATS. 



Chicago, Nov. it, istt. 

 Editor Forest and Stream and Bod and Gun: 



By invitation from my friend E. C. Waller, of this city, I made a trip 

 to the St. Clair Flats last month to get some duck shooting and bass 

 fishing. He, together with H. H. Hawkins and W. C. Colburn, of De- 

 troit, and Capt. W. H. Mott, of St. Clair Flats, own a scow-schooner 

 called the "Hunter's Favorite," used by them and their friends for 

 shooting and fishing excursions. She is forty-four feet long, twelve 

 feet beam and fitted up in splendid style for the purpose she is intended 

 for, the cabin running nearly her whole length, except room for the 

 culinary department off at one end. They had two expert sailors and 

 guides— Alsaint Fortan, a Frenchman, and Stephen A. Warner, both of 

 Algonac, St. Clair Co., Michigan. Better guideB cannot be found in any 

 country. The young man Willie Gregory also was always on hand with 

 all the good things the inner man required when we returned at even- 

 ing. We never had to wait for him. The ducks and fish were always 

 done to a turn. 



The beauty of duck shooting on the Flats is that yon get mostly large 

 ducks, canvaa-back red-head and mallard, of which there are millions. 

 Some days when I heard them rise in Baltimore Bay the Bound waa like 

 distant thuDder I never saw more ducks at any place in my life, or a 

 more extended place for them ; it being some thirty miles lODg by from 

 six to eight miles wide. There were plenty of shooters there. Some 

 eight or ten at the St. Clair Shooting and Fishing Club House, twenty - 

 eight at one time at the North Channel Club House and as many or more 

 on the Canadian side, hesides those at Clinton Elver and at the Mount 

 Clemens Club House. Many thanks to Edgar Weeks, Vice-President of 

 the Mt. Clemens Club, for the kind invitation to me to visit their club 

 before leaving the Flats. Only in very rough weather is the shooting 

 superb. Then they are killed by the hundreds. As the guides would 

 say. " If it would only whoope her up from the northwest then we would 

 show you duck shooting to yonr heart's content." It was not our for- 

 tune to getsnch a day while on the Fiat*. But nevertheless we had 

 some fine shooting. Mr. E. C. Waller and Abner Price, of Chicago 

 killed lie in a half a day, and I got 48 at another time in a half day, of 

 which forty-two were red-heads, Hawkins and myself being indisposed 

 on the day of Waller and Price's beet day. 



Speaking of fishing, I do not think there is any place like the Flats for 

 bass, especially in October. Hawkins and myself caught 72 bass in a 

 half day, none weighing less than » pounds and many i pounds. I 

 never saw such a fine lot of bass in my life. We kept them alive in onr 

 fish car until we returned to the St. Clair Club Bouse for our friends 

 Waller and Price who joined ns a few days later. Then they, with 

 Capt. Mott, put In a part of a day for bass and caught 54 very tine ones, 

 the day being a cool raw one, with a north wind which one would ca). 

 anything but a good one for fishing. We sailed over to the Sorth Chan, 

 nel Club House, and there met Wm. M. Murray, of Niagara Falls and 

 two friends who had been out perch fishing for three hours. I saw the 

 result of their labors counted ont of their boat, which was "401 perch, 

 many of which would weigh a pound each or over. I was told by a 

 gentleman at the St. Clair Club House, who was one of a party of 

 twelve— six on a side, that fished for the suppers a few years ago on 

 the Flats— that they twelve caught over 1,500 ponnds of bass in one day. 

 And it was not a No, 1 day forbass either. How is that for high? 

 On e of our guides told me he had caught bass there weighing T.lf ponnds. 

 A gentleman from Indianapolis caught twenty there this summer in 

 two hours weighing seventy-five pounds. So much for the fishing on 

 the Flats, and I know I have not told the half of it. 



As to our friend H. H. Hawkins, all who know him know he Is a good 

 shot. When the Detroit Gun Club shot the Chicago Gun Cinb at Dex- 

 ter Park, Chicago, 111,, he shot with 6he Chicago Gun Club and did most 

 nobly, killing twenty-four birds out of twenty-five ; missed his last bird. 

 Only two members of either club beatlng.his score on that day, tenmen 

 to each club. I was on board the " Hunter's Favorite" (and rightly 

 named she is) for two weeks. Part of she time there were only two of 

 us, and one week four of us. The result of the expedition is as follows: 

 507 dncka, mostly red-head and oanvas-baoks ; B50 snipe, 1T5 basa and e 



pickerel. I never enjoyed niyseif better In my life.thanks t > the owners 

 of the " Favorite" and to Mr. Gregory, the Superintendent of tho St, 

 Clair Hunting and Fishing Club Hiuse; also to my guide, Stephen A. 

 Warner— I want no better. The next week after I left the Fiats I under- 

 stand Capt. W. H. Mott killed in one dav 75 red-head duck from his pier, 

 which he bagged, and 12 which he didn't, on account of bis retriever 

 breaking an oar and naving to go for another. Tnla is no unusual' feat 

 for him, as he Uvea on the ground, or pier asl should say, and takes Hie 

 advantage of the weather and ducks. And he does all this with one 

 hand, the left one at that, having had the right one shot off by a care- 

 less shooter some few years ago in the same boat with him 



S. H. TURKILL. 

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THE MUSIC OF THE HOUNDS. 



Editor Fobest and Stream : 



" Vou, Wrangler, what are you doing 7" "Father, you had better 

 come ont here to Wrangler, he's awaking up old Blue and Brave, licking 

 their mouths and kissing them, and the last one of them will be gone 

 before you get done tying those shoes." "Mab's gone, and they'll al 

 be gone presently." "What! ain't done breakfast yet? I never saw! 

 such a man as father in my life. I couldn't eat a monthf ul now to 

 save my life." " There, the last one of 'em is trying to tear his toe 

 nails off ; I told you so— hoop star." 



The above is a genuine sample of a running fire of words kept up 

 upon the head of the writer by two young Virginia gentlemen, aged 

 eight and ten, whose mother had just informed them that they were 

 "not to try and follow the hounds that morning, as it was too cold and 

 frosty for them." Too manly to whimper and cry out their disappoint, 

 ment, as children who are fed on sugar and candy would have done, their 

 extra steam escaped, and was allowed to escape, in the shape of a- 

 sound berating of then- father upon his tardiness in following the eager 

 pack. 



It is not my design to describe a fox hunt ; the person who con do 

 justice to the subject with his pen has yet, I think, to be born. Albeit 

 I had that day as fine a run after as good an old bitch ("red") for tares 

 hours and twenty-three minutes, and at the end of that time despoiled 

 her of as nice a brush as ever graced a saddle-horn. She, an old wench, 

 waa one of those out out and made just right to run. But it is not of 

 hunting I wish to write, although chock foil of it ; yet I can't refrain 

 from telling how old Brave " struck it off," gallantly seconded by Blue 

 and Wrangler, with all the old dogs and puppies well up. And who can 

 describe Mab, glorious old Mab ! who led the pack through the entire 

 chase ? How like a raw-hide siring she was stretched out, linking to It 

 with all her might, throwing at every jump that beautiful bugle-note 

 of her's upon the frosty air, which should have put to shame, could he 

 have heard it, the man at the Centennial who played upon the Frenos 

 horn, or whatever it was. Mab's music had nothing about it to disgust— 

 ■jhe person who played upon the horn at the Centennial stopped ever 

 and anon to stream from his instrument, with artistic grace, a gill or so 

 of clear saliva. Fie upon ns I shall a dog teach us maimers and inuslc? 

 It is not, however, of hunting, as I have said, of which I wish to write 

 but to say a word to the married ladies (I remember a hint you once 

 gave me, Mr. Editor, not to say teamen ,■ but, with all deference to yon 

 let me say I used it because I thought it, nowadays, more genteel) and 

 urge them to take an interest in the sports of their sons, when they 

 are able to run about. Let them point to their darlings the stream and 

 rod, hound and horn, gun and field— so shall vou fetch to man's estate 

 those who will be tender and true, those whose bodies shall be full of 

 rich, red, manly blood; those who have, never been taught to be wicked, 

 having pure hearts, cool heads, clean hands ; those who are every inoh 

 men. If upon the other hand boya are fed upon sweets, coddled by 

 fires and flannels, allowed at all times to have their own way, never 

 taoght to bear pain or restraint, the youngster may uwape, but my word 

 for It, I know of no better receipt to manufacture a bar-room 'loafer, 

 whose hectic cheek at twenty Bhali light up hts degiadation and 

 shame. Bes pectfully, Bird Shot. 



iftar Z<UH/man'* Stars, SpotUylvania Co., F«., Vou. 12, 1877. 

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"NkdBtjntltne " on rus Travels. — We append the follow- 

 ing letter from Mr. Judson, who is on a winter's tour through 

 the South. No doubt our readers will here frequently from 

 him before spring comes around : 



t Getttsbtjkg, Pa, , Nov. 22, 1877. 

 Editor Forest and Stkkam and Eod and Gun : 



Here I am — at the Eagle Hotel, a true sportman's home — 

 on my way to the gunny South, with a pair of fine Hamble- 

 tohians to draw me, and all my sporting tackle along. My 

 trip through Southern New York, New Jersey— the western 

 part thereof and to this place in Pennsylvania was rapid and 

 merely prospective. Pheasants and quail were frequently on 

 the hotel tables, and I met many sportsmen— some of them 

 your subscribers and had more fine hunting dogs than I ever 

 saw before in a trip of the same length. , 



Breech-loaders, sporting chroniclers like yourselves and 

 game laws are making sport a noble recreation, and mere 

 " pot-hunting " has gone, or is fast going to the wall. I am 

 now Beading for the hunting grounds of Virginia, and in my 

 next communication hope to enlighten your readers on the 

 country as I find it. 



The weather down this way is as bland as a Chinaman's 

 face. I shall look it over more carefully in the " tront 

 season " next spring, as I drive North, for this is an " all the 

 winter" trip for me. But if I get time before next week I'll 

 give you a sketch of a bear hunt I had in the Dismal Swamp 

 when I was in the United States service in 18&3. 



I find " Haliock's Gazetteer " a sure and reliable guide and 

 the very best hook of its kind that a ever saw. I say this in 

 all candor and not as a puff. I would not he with out the 

 book on a trip of this kind, and every sportsman in the land 

 should be the owner of it. 



H. G. Geyer, of Gettysburg, is a true sportsman. He owns 

 two finely-bred and well-broken American setters and a Blue 

 Belton Gyp. 



His game for this season over these dogs has been 150 

 quail, 70 woodcock, and 13 ruffed grouse, besides some snipe 

 and wild turkies which he didn't keep count of. He take* 

 your paper and enjoys its contents, he says, hugely. Long 

 may he wave — a hater of pot-hunting and a true lover of 

 genuine sport. 



To-morrow I leave here for a point described in the 

 "Gazetteer," Jeffersonton, Ya., from whence you shall hear 

 from me. 



Yours truly, " Ned Buntline." 



PIGEON MATCHES. 



Chicago, Nov. 20. — Pigeon match between Green Smith and 



Thomas Stagg. Tame pigeons ; 100 birds each, English i ines; 



30 yards rise. The birds were good flyers and had "the wind : 



Greene Smith.— 11111 OHIO lolOo 1 1 1 1 till* 



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11111 00110 11111 00111 11101 11101 10 Oil 

 10 1 1—73, 



Thomps Stagg.— 1001 11111 10111 oim mil 



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