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and did’nt laff any, so I knowed lie warn’t joking this 
time. X took tlie gun home and showed it to Harry, he’s 
the feller I borrowed the Forrest and Streeme of you 
know. How do you like her? sez I. Oh! I dont know, 
sez lie; what did she cost you? Fifty, sez I. How what 
are you laffin at? sez I, for he wus laffin tit to split. Just 
to think what a fool that stoar keeper were, sez he. I 
cheated him, did I? sez I. Perhaps, sed he. Less go 
huntin Harry, sez I. Can’t to-day, but I’ll let you take 
Dash (that’s Harry’s bird dog) if you want to go. So I 
took the dog and went out into a big stubbel felde, where 
Harry said there wus lots of quale. Dash hunted bully for 
about fifteen minits, an’ then stopped plum still, and 
wood’nt budge a peg. I kailed him, an’ coaxed him, and 
sicked him till I got mad, and then walked up and kicked 
him when up got a whole flock of quale. You tarned cuss 
sez I I’ll show you how to scare birds up before I see ’em, 
so I out with my ram rod and feched him one over the hed, 
and broke the rod, I tell you I wer mad then, but I wasn’t 
going to be fuled out of nrg hunt, I had too lodes in the 
gun any how. Jist then I see a crow light on the fence, 
at tother side of the feeld, I thought I’d sliute him, and 
then go home. The crick bank wer about ten feet high, 
and there were just room fur me to walk between the bank 
and the water, so 1 got down there and walked along till I 
o-ot to a bend in the crick, where I was just even with the 
cro. I stratened-up as hi as I cood, but I cood’nt see the 
cro. Then I climbed up the bank, which was nearly rite 
strate up, and about ten fete hi. I streched up hi as I cood 
on my nees, and then I see him. He was about forty rods 
from me but I had bin readin about some awful long shots 
in other sporting papers, and now thinks I, my fifty dollar 
gun shall beet ’em all, and I’ll have Harry to send it to the 
paper. I stretched up jist as high as I cood on mi nees and 
cut loose.’ The gun did’nt go off, a-w, a-w, sed the 
crow, but he did’nt fli. Then I tried tother barl, I guess 
you’d a thoght it went off if you’d bin behind it. It knocked 
nje off the bank rite into the water; there were a little ice 
on the water, but that did’nt stop me enny, for I fel ten 
fete. When I cum to the top I liurd somebody laflin agin, 
and there on top of the bank was Harry and that cuss that 
maid me trete at the gun stoar. They hed wached me, and 
follered me, when I went down the crick bank, and they 
wus laying in the grass right behind me on tother side of 
the crick when I shot. I wus mad enuff to whip both of 
’em, but they sed they w r ould keep mum and help get the 
gun out if I would’nL so we went to fishing for it, I made 
beleve it was all right till I got a good chance and then 
pushed the other feller in. He come up laffin, and me and 
Harry was laffin too. Comin up to me, sez he, its all right, 
but I’ll tell you what, you’ll never get that gun till you 
dive for it, so here goes, and before I knowed what he was 
doin, he tuk me by the cote coller and back of my britches 
and piched me in head foremost. I were so mad, I tried 
to git a rock off’n the bottom and got hold of the gun! 
Thar, I tolde you so, said the other feller. Well the tube 
and hammer were gone from the barl I shot, and tother one 
would’nt stand cocked. What do you spose has gone with 
that hammer and tube? Turtles eat e’m off said Harry. Is 
that so? sez I. Coarse it is, sed tother feller. Les see if 
tother barl’s loaded, sez Harry. Coarse it is, sed I. Ho 
taint, sed Harry, you put both loads in one barl. It kost 
fore dpllers to git the gun fixed. Hext time Twill tell you 
how I got so I kould sliute birds a fly in, and how I trained 
sum puppeys. Jehiel Stab. 
P. S.—I did’t kil that cro. 
For Fore-si and Stream. 
GRAND MANAN. 
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T HE Island of Grand Manan is situated in the Bay of 
Fundy, about thirty miles south-east of Eastpprt, 
Maine. It is thirty miles long and about nine miles wide, 
and lies in nearly a north and south direction. There are 
two small villages on the island and habitations are scatter¬ 
ed over its greater part. There are a few saw mills in the 
timber sections which furnish a comparatively small 
amount of lumber for building purposes, as they are chiefly 
used in preparing material for herring boxes, which are sold 
to the fishermen at two and two and a half dollars per hun¬ 
dred. Hearly every man on the island owns one or more 
smoke houses which are used for curing herring. In 1872 
herring were bringing but nine and fourteen cents per box, 
and the fishermen were complaining bitterly at the low 
prices for their fish. Salt cod-fish was worth but four and 
five dollars per one hundred and twelve pounds, and pollock 
and hake were worth but three and one-lialf cents per pound 
by the hundred weight. 
There are several small streams on Grand Manan which 
contain trout. The largest one I ever caught there did not 
weigh but eight ounces, but small as they were they 
were not rejected by us hungry collectors. Agricul¬ 
ture is sadly neglected by the inhabitants of Grand Manan 
and adjacent islands. A few potatoes, oats and lettuce, are 
all that are raised. The season is late, the summer short 
and the fogs, which are of long duration, prove detrimental 
to vegetable productions. The south, west and north 
coasts of the island are rocky and abrupt. At its northern 
end a perpendicular rock rises six hundred feet from the 
water's edge and is called the North Head. A little to the 
east of that is a large cove called Whale Cove, because the 
whales used to resort there to feed in the tide streaks. In 
fact they often make their appearance there at the present 
time. 
In Whale Cove, near the main island, is a high perpen¬ 
dicular rock, with four vertical sides which stands like a 
lone sentinal under the dark cliffs. It is called the Bishop’s 
Head, and is well-known by all craft that navigate the Bay 
o£ Fundy. Several years ago a large vessel was wrecked 
one cold winter’s night, during a heavy snow, on the rocky 
shore of Whale Cove. All the crew were drowned or 
frozen except one negro who had both his legs frozen off, 
and is now walking on their stumps in the village at Swal¬ 
lowtail Light, near the place where the unfortunate wreck 
occurred. On the north-east corner of the island is a large 
kigh rocky point which is cleft in the shape of the forked 
tail of the swallow, and has long been known as ilie Swal¬ 
lowtail Rock. On the top of the rock is a light house, and 
a little to the south of the light, is a large cove where all 
vessels find a snug harbor. 
On the western side of the island the coast is rocky and 
precipitous. There are two large overhanging clifts which 
are known as the Old Maids, which are given a wide berth 
by coasters. The southern end of the island very much 
resembles its northern end or North Head, and is 
called South Head. It is a favorite breeding ground ol the 
herring gulls, {Larux argentatus,) and their eggs are sought 
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and used as food. The Passamaquoddy and Mickmack 
Indians live near South Head and hunt the porpoise and 
seal for their oil. They often go to Eastport, (Passamaquod¬ 
dy,) in their small canoes, a distance of thirty miles over 
an open sea. The eastern coast of Grand Manan is low 
compared with its other shores, and it is that side of the 
island that is mostly inhabited. It is covered principally 
with spruce and birch timber, and it has the peculiar mossy 
spruce swamps which are common to northern Maine. 
Several years ago deer were common on the island, but the 
Indians and whites combined, have nearly exterminated 
them. There are a few ruffed grouse, woodcock, thrushes, 
(Hermit, olive backed and golden crowned,) robins, 
swallows,(barn, white-bellied, and bank swallows,)warblers, 
flycatchers, &c., &c., that are found on the island, also the 
hare, gray rabbit and red squirrel. To the south-east, and 
east of Grand Manan are many beautiful islands which are 
full of interest to the Naturalist. They are as follows: Two 
Islands, Three Islands, White Head, Eastern.and Western 
Green Islands, Sheep, Pumpkin, Low Duck, Little Duck, 
Big Duck, Long, Ross, Cheney’s Head, and Nantucket 
Islands. To the south-east are the Black Ox, Seal, Eastern, 
Western and Yellow Merle ledges, which are favorite breed¬ 
ing grounds of the seals. There is also one small island 
called the White Horse, which is a general “headquarters” 
and breeding ground of the Leach’s Petrels. They burrow 
into the rich loam and deposit one egg in each hole. When 
caught in the hand they disgorge a brownish oil which is 
not very sweet scented. The eider duck and black guille¬ 
mot breeds on the rocky shores of the numerous islands, 
and an occasional pair of arctic puffins, (parrot bill murre,) 
are found breeding in the same localities. The razor-billed 
auk breeds in considerable numbers on the Yellow Merle 
ledges, and twelve years ago it was common to nearly all 
the islands of the Bay of Fundy. The island of Grand 
Manan is a good collecting ground for the naturalist at any 
season. In the autumn the ornithologist can collect the 
following birds in the Bay of Fundy:—Loon, red-tliroated 
diver, foolish guillemot, little auk, eider duck, pomarine 
skua, (gull chaser,) herring gull, Wilson’s tern, black guille¬ 
mot, puffin, great black-backed gull, purple sandpipers, red 
phalarope, &c., &c. 
Those who enjoy fishing can gaff lobsters, spear flounders, 
catch cod, hake, pollock, and an occasional halibut. The 
waters of the bay offer great facilities for making skel¬ 
etons, which is of great value to the naturalist. One 
has only to sink his specimen in a net in the water and the 
sea fleas, sea urchins, and marine insects, will clean a large 
skeleton beautifully in a single night. I would say in con¬ 
clusion, that Grand Manan can be reached by any of the 
following routes from Boston. The quickest route is by 
rail, by the Boston and Maine Raihoad, to Milltown, Me., 
and from there by boat to Eastport, thence by some fisher¬ 
man’s boat or the British mail packet to Grand Manan. 
The boats of the International Steamship Company ply 
between Boston, Portland and Eastport, and any person can 
go by boat the entire distance from New York, if they 
wish to, by connecting with the Boston steamers for St. 
John. 
If any of the readers of the Forest and Stream wish 
to visit Grand Manan, they would do well to “put up” at 
the house of Simeon F. Cheney, Nautucket Island, where 
they can have the best of accommodations, boats, &c. Mr. 
Cheney can tell you what Audfibon did when in his locality, 
how certain birds have ceased to breed in certain localities, 
and what he does not know about the Bay of Fundy and 
its tides, rocks, islands, fish, and birds, after studying them 
for fifty years, is not worth knowing. I can testify to the 
above facts as Mr. Cheney showecHme every thing of note 
to the ornithologist within forty miles of Grand Manan, 
during nine weeks steady researches for natural informa¬ 
tion. J. II. Batty. 
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—The harbor of Halifax being of the utmost importance 
to the whole commercial world, wo take particular notice 
of the efforts now made by the Royal Halifax Yacht club 
to prevent the injury caused by the throwing of ballast in 
the harbor. Exactly as legislation in regard to the close 
seasons is getting to be influenced more and more.by the 
practical knowledge of the sportsman, in the same way 
- yachtsmen in their cruising become perfectly familiar with 
their harbors and have a right to be heard in regard to any 
impediments put in the way of navigation. We take, then, 
great pleasure in publishing the following:— 
At the regular quarterly meeting of the “Royal Halifax 
Yacht Club,” held at the Club House, on Monday, the 13th 
day of April, 1874, inter alia, on motion of Alex. W. Scott, 
Esq., Rear Commodore, seconded by C. A. Hutchins, Esq., 
the following resolution was unimously adopted: 
Whereas, The “Royal Halifax Yacht Club,” through the report of 
their Special Committee, dated 26th May, 1871, brought to the notice of 
the Dominion Government the vital necessity of stopping the practice 
(which had for years existed) of throwing ballast and rubbish into Hali¬ 
fax Harbor, to the great detriment of the anchorage; 
And, Whereas, The Dominion Government, through such representa 
tions, created the office of Harbor Master, and appointed an incumbent 
principally with a view to check said practices; 
And Whereas, It has been brought to the notice of the said club that 
notwithstanding the stringent regulations made for the"government of 
the harbor., the practice is still permitted to continue, and that thousands 
of tons of dock dredgings have recently been emptied into the harbor to 
the great injury of the holding ground; 
Therefore, Resolved, That the “Royal Halifax Yacht Club” view with 
apprehension, and alarm the serious consequences that must inevitably 
arise from a continuance of such violation of the law, and beg to call the 
attention of the Minister of Marine to this most important subject, with 
a hope that it will receive at his hands the full consideration it undoubt¬ 
edly deserves. 
Also , Resolved, That the Chamber of Commerce be earnestly solicited 
to unite with the “Royal Halifax Yacht Club 1 in their efforts to preven ^ 
the total ruin of the anchorage of Halifax Harbor, and as Imperial in. 
terests would necessarily be materially affected thereby, that the attention 
of the Vice-Admiral Commanding on the Station, be also called to the 
subject. George M. Greer, Secretary. 
—At last a cure is found for cold in tlie liead. Dr. Poil- 
lon, a French physician, says it can he cured by inhaling 
hartshorn. The inhalation by the nose should be seven or 
eight times in five minutes, 
—--- 
How to tell a Freshly Caijght Shad.— First decide 
what you want to tell him, then whisper it in his ear. 
M cw Unbliatfivwj. 
Popular Science Monthly. April. D. Appleton & Co. 
With this number is closed the second year and the fourth volume of 
this valuable contribution to scientific literature. How well appreciated 
this work has been for the last year the testimonials of many readers can 
and do daily verify. It comes to us this month with very interesting re - 
search into the hidden mysteries of many things, theories only before, 
but now revealed and canvassed as facts, stripped of illusion and fancy. 
1. “The Age of Ice,” with illustrations, will be found full of new ideas, 
and very readable. One rises from its perusal with many corrected sup¬ 
positions, and is the first one to confess to many errors of conception. 
“The Pathology of the Passions” will be found a paper of great value, 
and the illustrations on page 601—the force orcontagion of good or bad 
example—will readily commend itself to everyone at all acquainted with 
the passionate nature of man. “The Mantis, or tlie Praying Insect,” is a 
curious history of a curious insect, which must be read from the work 
itself to be understood. A complete and full number, fully equal to any 
of the same'yet published. 
History oe North American Birds. ByS. F. Baird, T. 
M. Brewer and R. Ridgway. Illustrated with 64 colored plates and 593 
woodcuts. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1874. Vol. Ill, pp. 560, 
xxviii. 
Our thanks are due for a copy of the third volume of this great work, 
of which we might say all that need be said in the statement that it fully 
sustains the reputation of the first two volumes. We trust that the con¬ 
cluding portion of the work may not be long delayed in reaching us, as 
then we shall be provided with a complete treatise upon the subject from 
the highest living authority. 
This volume comprises the large and important groups of the Raptores 
or Birds of Prey, the Columbidoe., or Pigeons and Doves, and the Galli- 
nce, including the Grouse, Partridges, or Quail, Ptarmigan, and their al- 
li es _ a ll birds of the highest interest to sportsmen. About half the vol¬ 
ume is occupied with the raptorial families of the hawks, owls and vul¬ 
tures. This elaborate monograph is entirely from the pen of Mr. Ridg¬ 
way, as far as the technicalities are concerned, Dr. Brewer, as usual, pre¬ 
paring the biographical portions. Mr. Ridgway, as ornithologists are 
aware, has for several years devoted special attention to this group, with 
wha- great success need not be here enlarged upon. From time to time 
various scientific papers have appeared from him on particular genera, 
informing us of the progress of his studies; and in the present work we 
have his crowning results, as far as North American species are con¬ 
cerned. May we not hope soon to see his monograph upon the Raptores 
at large? The same admirable conservatism which has guided the au¬ 
thors throughout the work is here apparent in the large reduction of 
nominal species to varieties or mere synonyms; the good species with 
their geographical varieties are treated in exhaustive detail, the whole 
subject being placed upon a far more satisfactory footing than it has be¬ 
fore rested upon. Several novelties appear, especially the curious 
Onychotes gruberi; several new generic names are established, as Ante¬ 
rior, Pseudogryphus, and Rhinogiypirns but, by the way, is not “Para- 
buteo” a mistake? We are pleased, on the whole, that the authors have, 
m the case of the Raptores, departed from their custom of giving colored 
heads. These heads of the Birds of Prey would not have been charac¬ 
teristic, for these birds do not carry their likeness on their face, but on 
their tail, which latter affords in most cases the reliable guide. This 
omission of colored heads—as some uninformed persons might consider 
it—is more than condoned by the number and beauty of the full-length 
wood cuts, one of which is given for every species (instead, as hereto¬ 
fore, of only one species of each genus), in addition to the profuse out¬ 
line illustrations of details, which, in this family, embrace a number of 
sketches of osteological characters derived from the skull and breast¬ 
bone. The curious asymmetry of Nyctale and other strigine genera is 
finely given. 
Sportsmen will be more pleased perhaps with this volume than with 
the preceding ones, as it includes their favorite game birds. It is an 
earnest of what they may expect in the subsequent volumes, when the 
woodcock, snipe, bay-birds and waterfowl come to be treated. There 
need subsist no longer the slightest doubt or uncertainty respecting the 
proper names and classification of grouse, partridges and quail, while 
their physical characters are given with the minutest detail, enabling a 
specimen in any plumage to be at once referred to its proper genus and 
species. With Dr. Brewer's excellent and thorough biographies this por¬ 
tion of the work represents the best treatise extant upon the interesting 
and valuable birds in question. 
The volume closes with an appendix, giving numerous late miscellane¬ 
ous particulars upon all the birds treated in the first three volumes, with 
full indices, and with a very copious glossary of technical terms, the lat¬ 
ter prepared—evidently with great care—by Dr. Cones. 
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ANNOUNCEMENT. 
George W. Carleton & Co., will shortly publish the fa¬ 
mous novel “Dr. Antonia.” It made quite a stir in the literary world 
some years ago. We are glad to announce the re-issue of the same in 
Carleton & Co.’s good style. 
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Extensive Art Galhery.— Next to the Bible, no book is more use¬ 
ful than Webster’s Dictionary. The Unabridged is an extensive art 
gallery , containing over three thousand engravings, representing every 
animal, insect, reptile, implement, plant, &c., which we know any¬ 
thing about. It is a vast library, giving information on almost every 
mentionable subject. It indeed has been well remarked that it is the 
most remarkable compendium of human knowledge in our language.— 
Household Advocate. 
—There was something both peculiar an I particular in 
regard to the deer we are writing about. In the first place 
he was snow white and of shapely form; and secondly, his 
albinosliip had for the last three mortal years bothered 
every huntsman in Pike County, Pennsylvania. Those 
famous woodsmen, the Westbrooks, had spent many a 
weary day in pursuit of him. Uncle Ira Chrissman, with 
his wonderful Kentucky swivel breechloader, an antiquated 
but cunning heir loom, a piece of ordnance known all 
through the Keystone State, had often covered that white 
deer, and though the celebrated gun hacl “pinted plumb,” 
that white buck had never come in. ^ld man Bart and the 
Quicks, all had wasted shoe leather over the snow white 
deer, but were never able to get him. In time, in Pike 
County, mysterious stories were rife about him and over 
camp fires, silver bullets and the incantations necessary, in 
order to fetch that deer were darkly hinted at. Somehow 
or other, though lie had escapes innumerable, he never had 
been fotched. It seems that a family of white deer must 
have taken up quarters in that section of country, as a pond 
has long gone by the name of White Deer Pond. We had 
half a hope that after, all the white deer would have 
lived on to perpetuate his race, but this weekTYm had a visit 
from Mr. Sliimer, mine host of the Exchange Hotel, Wilks- 
barre. Mr. Shimer is an example of patience and of hunts¬ 
man’s skill. Suffice to sajr Mr. Sliimer last winter went for 
that deer, and no other deer, and got him. He was a white 
buck and weighed over 125 pounds, and his snow white 
buckskin, with the hair on, nicely tanned, is to-day one of 
Mr. Shimer’s trophies. Some fifteen years ago a white doe 
was caught in this same neighborhood and was bought by 
some gentlemen and placed in one of the Philadelphia 
parks. 
