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tliey have taken their “coign of vantage.” The bell-like 
note of the hounds is heard as they find the scent, and 
shortly after the bugle sounds the joyful cry “gone away.” 
There is at first a dangerous rush of horsemen, following 
in the wake of the hounds, but after the first half mile they 
tail off, and only the real riders are “in it.” There are few 
physical joys in this life like a glorious burst across coun¬ 
try. Little by little to find you are creeping to the front, 
till at last none are left before you, and you are riding neck 
and neck with the master, or some other staunch man and 
true; the hounds in front, running well together, seeming 
as if they could be all covered with a table cloth. To be 
one of the few in at the “check” or “the death,” seems to 
the true fox hunter about tlie only thing worth living for. 
And the- there is the ride home through country lanes, the 
glass of home brewed ale at village inn, the soothing'cigar 
passing away the time till you reach Leamington, when the 
warm bath refreshes you for dinner, and you eat as only 
fox hunters can. The next day, if you are too tired to re¬ 
peat the sport, you walk around, and find yourself in about 
the cleanest and handsomest town in England. The pub¬ 
lic gardens, in fine weather, will bo crowded with the gol¬ 
den haired daughters of England. There are maidens fair 
to see at Leamington, as well as at Neimar. “Beware!” 
In unfavorable weather there are promenade concerts in 
the Jump Rooms, a handsome and spacious building where 
the visitors assemble to drink the waters and retail gossip. 
At night, if you wish it, you may attend a ball at the As¬ 
sembly Rooms. Alike to the sportsman, or the health or 
pleasure seeker, this place has attractions, and no American 
should recross the Atlantic without making a sojourn here. 
S. J. 
Crown Hotel, Leamington , Eng., March, 1874. 
For Forest and Stream. 
THE QU EBEC CO UNTRY. 
I N a recent series of articles, descriptive of wild sporting 
life in Canada, published in Forest and Stream, I 
have endeavored to draw our sportmen’s attention to a 
grand though undeveloped sporting country that rivals our 
Adirondacks and Maine woods, and which in point of ac¬ 
cessibility is but a few hours behind. For the benefit of 
those unfamiliar with this region I have designated it as the 
Quebec country. It embraces an extent of some hundred 
miles north of that famous and antiquated city. I say 
hundreds of miles in extent, for the sportsmen, however 
much of an ambitious or exploring turn of mind, would 
scarcely undertake the journey through to Hudson Bay or 
Labrador, though these are its boundaries proper. Within 
the distance I have prescribed there is still a vast unex¬ 
plored mountanous tract, among which are numberless 
lakes, rivers and streams affording each and all such fishing 
and pleasant enjoyment in the wild camp life as are not to be 
had elsewhere short of the Rocky Mountains; I do not even 
except Newfoundland. 
The Jacque Cartier is the first river of any importance 
which you strike after leaving Quebec. It is twenty miles 
distant from that city and is the boundary of the settle¬ 
ments to the north. The river is extremely picturesque in 
its meanderings among the numerous islands with which it 
is dotted and affords some excellent trout fishing. Salmon 
fishing is still to be had lower down, though it is almost 
depleted of that fish. It is navigable for canoes for fifty or 
sixty miles from its mouth, with but few portages. For 
fuller information of this river see “Hallock’s Fishing 
Tourist,” which devotes considerable space to a description 
of a memorable week spent upon it. 
Two day’s tramp from the Jacque Cartier is the St. Ann’s, 
a shallow rapid river flowing between high precipitous 
mountains expanding at intervals into large deep pools, in 
which lurk some of the finest fish I have ever had the 
good fortune to take. One of the largest of these pools is 
called the Peche a Maleolm, an account of which I have 
given to the readers of Forest and Stream. Bet ween the 
two rivers are many large lakes, deep among the mountains. 
To atari Grande Lac and the lakes of the river Aux Pin's, 
afford the finest fishing. It has been no unusual thing for 
me to take in one day’s fishing some twelve dozen fish with 
a fly in the Tontari Lake and not one wasted. What we 
could not use were salted and brought out when we re¬ 
turned. _ 
Two Indians only, hunt and trap over this section, and 
large game is therefore very abundant. Caribou and moose 
can be successfully pursued here in fall and winter. Spring 
and summer being the close season, they are not molested. 
The lakes abound in ducks which breed on the Islands. 
Outfits must be of the lightest, for everything lias to be 
carried on the back of the guide over high mountains. 
Leave this matter to the guide and let him procure under 
your supervision whatever is needful and nothing more. 
You must expect to carry your own little traps. No tent is 
requisite,as a bark camp can be soon constructed with little 
labor. 
For guides, we can refer to but few. George Neil, 
Robert Douglas and young Fat. Cassin, all of Valcartier, are 
good men. "'Indian guides, if preferred, and I prefer them 
myself, can be obtained at the Indian village of Lorette, on 
the road to Valcartier. Cliarlo Gros-Louis, Francis and 
Etienne are good reliable men. I know them personally 
and can confidently recommend them. There are others 
doubtless equally as good. All speak enough English to 
get along with. 
Charles Wolff of Valcartier will accord all sportsmen a 
cordial welcome and put them on the road to good sport. 
He dispenses his hospitality in true Canadian style. The 
cost of a trip of two to three weeks duration, including fare 
to and return, will not exceed $60. Quebec is reached from 
New York by Hudson River and Lake Champlain to 
Montreal and thence to Quebec by boat. The return trip 
by Lake Memphremagog and Green Mountains and Connecti¬ 
cut Valley, is one of the most charming of rides. 
G. M. Fairchild, Jr. 
For Forest and Stream. 
HOW TO SHOOT AT LONG RANGE. 
NUMBER SEVEN. 
r l my letter No. 5 I described a slight change in the 
present system of marking, merely consisting of divid¬ 
ing the iron targets into foot squares. Many targets, in¬ 
deed, are now so divided. The squares would then be in¬ 
dicated by the simple means shown on the diagram given 
hereafter, which it will be seen aids the memory so much 
that persons using it would soon be able to remember the 
number and letter, even if not marked on the target. 
In match shooting it is difficult to see how the process 
can be properly conducted by less than three persons—he 
who fires, he who marks the hit on ihe target and scores 
the bullet mark, and he who at the firing-stand records the 
hit. 
Suppose we are firing at a full sizelarget. The first hit 
is on the square A. The marker puts his disk on A, and 
the recorder lias no difficulty in deciding from its position 
wliat square it is, aided by the signal flag. He enters A, 
and 2 for an outer. The next is B 3, also an outer. E is a 
bull’s eye, counting 4, and so on. At the larger ranges it 
would probably be necessary sometimes to aid the record¬ 
er’s sight by the use of a telescope. In a short time all 
parties would have a picture of the target in their minds, 
so they would know the position of such squares when 
they heard its name called. If a rifleman hears A called 
he knows that lie must aim lower, and to the right; if B 5, 
higher and to the right; if F 2, a trifle lower, etc. His 
rifle register would look something like the following:— 
Date— June 6 th, 1874. 
Range —Creedmoor; target 20 . 
Distance —Nine hundred yards. 
Rifle —Remington target; 44 calibre. 
Cartridge —Eighty-five grs.; Hazard; musket size; ball, 
560 grs.. patched and greased. 
Angle of Elevation —Two degrees, thirty minutes. 
Day —Clear and bright; cloudy after one P. M.; three 
minutes more elevation required. 
Hi Wind —Riglit; brisk. 
Diagram. 
A 
• 
B 
C 
D 
E 
F 
G 
H 
) 
K 
L 
M 
1 
e 
1 
• 
2 
• 
• 
3 
• 
A 
9 
*V 
5 
• 
No. of Shot. 
Name of Square. 
Points. 
A 
2 
B 3 
2 
B 5 
2 
I 2 
3 
E 4 
4 
F 2 
4 
M 1 
2 
Total. 
.... 19 
Average... 
.... 2-?l 
The system of marking now used at Creedmoor, with 
this addition, would, it seems to me, be preferable to the 
new method proposed to be introduced at Wimbledon. 
The simpler any system of marking is the better. 
If the telegraph wires were to be used in conjunction 
with this system they would be arranged just like a hotel 
indicator. The marker at tlie but would press the knob 
lettered B 8 , etc., and indicate this at the firing station. 
This would, however, be an expensive system, as there 
would have to be an indicator at each firing point, unless 
the indicator was attached to a cable like a military tele¬ 
graph, and coiled up or uncoiled as the point was changed. 
It is easy to see how this proposed system might be made 
to almost do away with shooting off ties, for although sev¬ 
eral of the squares have an equal relative distance from the 
centre, yet artificial values might be given to them, and then 
ties would happen very seldom. T.C.C. 
—The following ancedote of a dog “faithful unto death,” 
we believe to be perfectly true. When the Dutch were 
endeavoring to quell the Belgian Revolt in September 1830, 
a young officer followed by a rough terrier dog, was killed 
in Brussels, on the 21st of September. The dog sat beside 
his master’s dead body, licking his face. At length tlie 
body was removed for burial, the dog following it, and the 
terrier remained for three days beside tlie grave. It then 
went back to the spot where its master had fallen, laydown 
on the stone pavement, and would attack any one who 
tried to remove it. Some cruel people beat it with sticks, 
and at last chased it, away, but a day or so afterwards it 
came back, but was at last driven off by the carriages. 
When the dog returned once more to the public square 
where his master had died, he was worn to a skeleton, 
from hunger and grief, but never left again the narrow 
place where he had seen his master last alive. A director 
of the Brussels Museum, a kind hearted man, saw the poor 
dog, surrounded by a rabble of street urchins, who were 
pelting him with stones. He dispersed them, and on en¬ 
quiring into the animal’s history, had a kennel built for 
him, and gave some money to the guardian of the public 
square, to expend in food for the faithful creature. Tlie 
dog soon recovered strength. The children in time soon 
knew his story and pitted him. He was gentle, up to a 
certain degree, yet not one of them dared walk over the 
spot his master had fallen, without his flying at them. In 
fact he raiely moved off more than ten yards from a partic¬ 
ular flag stone. The dog lived for eight or ten years, and 
in 1838, the dog and his kennel were seen by a gentleman, 
who has told us the facts. We have seen this story stated 
before pretty much as above, but we were somewhat skep¬ 
tical about it, until reassured on the best authority, that it 
was true in every detail. 
How to Keep Fuus. —Make a bag (we use feather-bed 
ticking) large enough to hold your furs. Be sure they aie 
free from moths or eggs; put them in the bag, tie them 
tight as you would a bag of wheat, and they will be safe as 
long as you wish. 
—In Barnesville, New Brunswick, is a domestic cat, 
whose five kittens having been drowned, she adopted a 
litter of foxes which she discovered in the course of her 
disconsolate wanderings in the neighboring woods. A St. 
John gentleman has offered $100 for the lot. 
—Thousands of sportsmen use Knnball & Co.’s tobacco because it is 
the best. 
—Ask your dealer for Kimball & Co.’s tobacco, or send to them for a 
supply. 
JP^ i§oir*e mjcl the (jjjiourfie. 
Chinese Horses. —“Two or three times a year,” writes 
a correspondent of the Journal Ofliciel du Trot , “troops of 
horses come to Pekin from Mongolia. By the aid of 
Chinese horse-jockies Europeans make their selections. 
Not one of the horses have ever been groomed or mounted, 
and it is by no means easy for even an expert in horse flesh 
to know what kind of animal it is he buys, covered as the 
horse is with a thick coat. Having purchased your horse 
then commences the real work. Usually the beast is five- 
year-old, a gelding, and gashed all over with scars where he 
has been cut during his travels. His mane falls clean down 
to his knees, you can’t see his head for his fore top, and 
his tail sweeps the ground. It takes no end of care to dress 
him up in order to get at the real shape of the beast. It 
requires some management to take him all of a sudden 
from a life in the plains to the stifled atmosphere of a 
Chinese stable. The Chinese horse has got wonderful 
straight sinewy legs and a pretty game head, though not 
generally elegantly built about the body. One thing about 
These horses which gives no end of bother is, their dislike 
for Europeans. They are as gentle as can be with the 
Chinese, but when an European approaches them, they 
curl back their ears, squeal with temper and do their best 
to kick you. It has happened to me more than once on my 
travels, to have been worded by them. I remember one 
winter day—when at some distance from tlie city, just about 
niglit fall, when it was bitter cold—to have tied my horse 
up by tlie bridle to a tree. The wretched beast kept me 
busy for a full hour before I could mount him. The 
blessed Chinese, who might have helped me, seemed to 
enjoy the sport. Fortunately, after a while, lie wound 
himself up by the bridle, and at the risk of having my 
brains knocked out, I at last got on his back. Vicious little 
brutes as they may be, they have nevertheless no end of go 
in them. Usually they are pony built, hut with a weight 
of 150 pounds, I have known a little fellow to run his mile 
in two minutes and eight seconds, and the two miles in 
four minutes and thirty-five seconds. Where, however 
the Chinese horse excels is for long journeys. They will 
go all day without feeding, and at night, if they get a spare 
handful of hay or straw, sprinkled with a little bran or 
meal, they are all right for a long journey next clay.” 
—The Kentucky Association of Lexington, Kentucky, 
commenced the spring meeting on May 11th. There were 
sixteen entries for the first race, the Plienix Hotel Stakes, 
for three year olds, one and one-eiglith mile dash. Six 
started. The race was closely contested, McGrath’s Aaron 
Pennington winning by two lengths, Excel and Big Fellow 
making a dead heat for the second place. The others were 
not placed. Time—1:57£. The second race was mile heats 
for a purse of $300. There were seven entries, all of whom 
started. Jerry won in two straight heats. Time—1:44£; 
1:46. 
—The Chickasaw Jockey Club, at Memphis, Tenn., ter¬ 
minated on May 8 th the most successful meeting which has 
ever taken place over this course. The first race was a 
hurdle race, over six hurdles, distance about a mile and a 
half, for a purse of $ 200 . Captain Hutchinson and Chief 
Engineer made the running from the start, the Chief lead¬ 
ing for one mile, when Captain Hutchinson came to the 
front and won by one length, Limestone coming second 
with a rush, and Chris. Doyle third. The next race was 
the Chickasaw stake for three-year olds, two miles; $50 
entrance, club adding $400. Wm. Jenning’s Ballankeel 
beat Pine & Scott’s King Pin, after a pretty race, runniug 
neck and neck for one mile and three-quarters. Ballankeel 
then drew away, coming home the winner by two lengths 
in 3:47. The last race of the meeting was a Handicap for 
beaten horses, mile heats, purse $200, won by Emir in three 
heats. B. F. Carver won the first heat, and Emir the 
others. Time—1:47±, 1:47£, 1:49£. 
—At the Newmarket first spring meeting, held May 8 th, 
Apology won the 1,000 guineas stake. La Coureuse took 
the second money, and Blanchefleur came in third. The 
betting just previous to the commencement of the race was 
3 to 1 against the winner, 3 to 1 against La Coureuse, and 
10 to 1 against Blanchefleur. There were nine starters. 
The summary is as follows:—The 1,000 Guineas stake, a 
subscription of 100 sovs. each, half forfeit, for tliree-year- 
old fillies, 8 st. 10 lbs. each, the owner of the second filly to 
receive 200 sovs. out of the slakes, and the third to save 
liis stake; R. M. (59 subscribers): 
Mr. Launde’s ch. f. Apology, by Adventurer, out of 
Mandragora. i 
Mr. Lefevre’s b. f. La Coureuse, by Stockwell, out of 
Weatherbound. 2 
Lord Falmouth’s b. f. Blanchefleur, by Saunterer, out of 
Queen Bertha. 3 
—Fowlers speak of a sege of herons and bitterns, a herd 
of swans, cranes, or curlfews, a depping of sheldrakes, a 
spring of teals, a covert of coots, a gaggle of geese, a bade- 
lynge of ducks, a surd or sute of mallards, a muster of 
peacocks, a nye of pheasants, a bevy of quails, a congrega¬ 
tion of plovers, a walk of snipes, a fall of woodcocks, a 
brood of liens, a building of rooks, a murmuration of star¬ 
lings, an exaltation of larks, a flight of swallows, a host of 
sparrows, a watch of nightingales, and a charm of gold¬ 
finches. 
—John P. Moore’s Sons, the celebrated gun importers and 
jobbers of all kinds of articles suitable for the field sports¬ 
man, have removed from their old stand to a more com¬ 
modious and central location. Sportsmen visiting the city 
will find all the goods at their new store necessary for the 
gun, rifle and dog. Their address is 300 Broadway, N. Y. 
—Tlie old established house of C. Field <& Co., importers 
and manufacturers of kid and buckskin gloves, have re¬ 
moved to 739 Broadway, N. Y. This house makes a 
specialty of leather leggings, buckskin shooting coats 
and in fact will make any tiling necessary for tli “sports¬ 
man’s wardrobe. 
For Forest and Stream. 
THE BITTER END. 
T O die, with the crown cf victory 
In the soldiers’ fainting grasp, 
Is sad as the death of a fated groom 
Who a widowed bride shall clasp! 
Bat the bitterest end that Fate can send, 
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