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never saw him gct quite so excited, however, as he did 
yesterday, when # friend who was fishing with me hooked a 
pickerel which weighed 102 pounds; from the first leap of 
the fish ont of the water the dog was all excitement and 
watched intently every move of fish and fisherman, and 
twice, 28 the fish broke water, Pard started in to retrieve it; 
he felt yery much hurt to think he could not take a hand in, 
but when the fish was landed safely he was content to lay 
down and wait for another bite. I have seen dogs that 
would hunt frogs, but never saw one take the interest in 
fishing that he does. ‘‘You can know a man by the dog he 
Keeps,” RASELASTONE, 
NOTES FROM BOSTON. 
GOOD number of the boys have “been a guaning,” 
and the reports thus far are quite satisfactory, From 
Maine comes fhe news, carefully mouthed around among 
friends, that partridges are plenty—more plenty than for 
_ several seasons in that State, Two Boston merchants went 
p up to the ‘‘old haunts” to try guns and rods last week, They 
Went up as far as Bethel, Oxford county, Me., by Eastern 
Grand Trunk Railroads, and then by team some sixteen 
- miles ‘‘up into the mountains.” They met a brother-in-law 
with team all ready to start next morning af 4 o’clock. One 
of them with the brother-in-law tried the trout stream, eatch- 
ing twenty, as hot as was Friday. He says the trout are 
actually larger than when he fished the stream as a boy, and 
such is the fact in many of the mountain streams where fish- 
ing has not been overdone, The other brother strolled over 
the hills with shotgun in hand. His score was six grouse 
before sundown and two were shot on the way home; the 
brother-in-law’s horse submitting quietly to firing over his 
head at a partridge rising from the road, ‘The party came 
home well pleased with one day’s outing, and they need not 
have been more than three days from Boston. The what 
some are pleased to call excessive ame protection in Maine 
is likely to be felt most agreeably by the gunners even this 
the second season. 
The hunting parties which will go to Maine this fall are 
more numerous than eyer. A party of four will leave Bos- 
ton on the evening of the 15th per steamer for Machias, 
where they hope to arrive the next day at noon. <A lumber- 
man is engaged to meet them at the steamer with a two- 
horse team, and their luggage will be loaded while the boys 
are at dinner. By 1 o’clock they hope to be on their way 
into the woods. They are going back sixty miles from 
Machias, the last half day of the route by logeing road—to 
some Jumber camps—which they hope to reach by night of 
the second day. But the hunting begins earlier, for the 
route ig through the woods and much of the distance will 
be tramped ahead of the team. Reports have it that the 
deer are standing in rows beside the road waiting to be shot; 
but, alas! the open season does not begin till Oct. 1. For 
this reason the boys are to stay over that date. Sprmcran, 
Woopernucks my New Hampsutre.—State Treasurer 
Carter, of New Hampshire, has received and placed on file 
the bills for bounties on wild animals from forty-three towns, 
most of which include only the animals killed prior to July 
1. These bills amount to $1,782.90, of which sum $1,251.70 
is on woodehucks alone, $301.20 on crows and $230 on 
bears. It is a singular fact that the towns along the Con- 
necticut Riyer haye remarkably large woodchuck bills, 
Lyme leads the list with a total bill of $183.90 for 1,729 
woodchucks, 1 bear and 10 crows; Lebanon Claims $164 for 
1,640 woodchucks; Hanover $158.80 for 1,229 woodchucks, 
359 crows; Charlestown, $96.70 for 7385 woodchucks, 222 
crows; Haverhill, $68.60, all crows; Milan, $31,50 for 3 
bears, 5 crows, 10 woodchucks; Littleton, #86,80, all wood- 
chucks; Cornish, $69.20, all woodchucks; Sullivan, $8.60, 
12 crows, 74 woodchucks; Washington received $25 40, all 
woodchucks; Croyden, $17.10, all woodchucks; Goffstown, 
- $10.80, all woodchucks; Whitefield, $29.60, all woodchucks; 
South Newmarket, $3.50; Litchfield, $4.10, all woodchucks; 
Randolph, $10.20, 1 bear, 2 woodchucks; Troy, $8.40, 6 
crows, 78 woodchucks; Fitzwilliam, $18.90, all woodchucks; 
Shelburne, $2,60, all woodchucks; Westmoreland, $82.30, 
74 crows, 749 woodchucks; Meredith, $44.30, 54.crows, 389 
woodchucks; Belmont, $12.60, 24 crows, 102 woodchucks: 
Gilsum, $20.20, 2. crows, 200 woodchucks; Alstead, $51.40, 
all woodchucks; Salern, $5.40, all woodchucks; Dummer, 
$57.80, 5 bears, 78 woodchucks; Waterville, $40, 4 bears; 
Lee, $20.40, 198 crows, 11 woodchucks; Derry, $5.60, all 
crows; Dorciester, $9.10, 29 crows, 62 woodchucks; Camp- 
ton, $39.80, 123 crows, 175 woodchucks; Pittsburgh, $20, 2 
bears; Langdon, $26.20, 57 crows, 205 woodchucks; Sea- 
brook, $11.50, 63 crows, 50 woodchucks; New Ipswich, 
$11.80, 52 crows, 66 woodchucks; Madison, $15, all wood- 
chucks; Canaan, $96.90, 116 crows, 853 woodchucks: Tuf- 
tonborough, $38, 828 crows, 2 woodchucks; Rindge, $19.20, 
all crows; Thornton, $18, 80 crows, i bear; Wentworth, 
$50.70, 4 bears, 55 crows, 52 woodchucks; Unity, $35.70, 
166 crows, 191 Woodchucks; Marlow, $33.70, all wood- 
chucks; Stratford, $28.80, 88 crows, 2 bears. 
RAL SHoormG.—A very unexpected run of good 
morning tides favored the rail shooters of our city during 
the past week, which was the opening one of the season. 
This was caused by the approach of the full moon, although 
the winds have been unfavorable for much water. Birds 
have not been plentiful, and the boats ran from twelye up 
to thirly toa tide. During the coming week it is expected 
there will be larger tides, and if the weather changes many 
birds will be killed. Most of our Philadelphia sportsmen 
who are fond of rail shooting go further down the river 
than the old grounds atthe Lazaretto and Chester. Alloways 
Creek on the Jersey shore, Port Penn on the Delaware side, 
and Morris River ure now the favorite resorts of the wise 
ones, At any of these places good accommodations can be 
secured, and it will repay New York sportsmen who have 
never had rail shooting to run over and try it for a few days. 
The crop of reed is good, and later on in September teal 
duck shooting can be taken on the same grounds and at the 
same time. Some snipe have already arrived, but the 
meadows are so rank with vegetation that they are difficult 
to find.—Homo. 
GAME IN QUEBEC AND YuRMONT.—Montreal, Quebec, 
Sept. 4, 1884.—The season opened up here and in Northern 
Vermont but fairly, Some good bags of black and wood 
ducks have been made but no snipe and but few woodcock 
haye been killed. Cause, too much killing during the past 
years, too little protection during the close season, the cold 
backward spring followed by the dry hot weather in July 
_ and August, each of the above causes have helped to make 
the birds scarce in this yicinity,—SvANsTmap, 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
GAmp my New York Marxnrs.— Venison is from Mich- 
igan, Minnesota and the Adirondacks, It brings by the 
whole deer 15 cents a pound, or 25 cents a pound if sold in 
small pieces. Antelope is 25 cents and bear meat 20 cents a 
pound. Wild pigeons cost $2.50 a dozen; stall-fed pigeons 
are $3.50 a dozen. Partridges cost $1.75 a pair. Grouse 
are 75 cents each. Spruce grouse, that feed im spruce forests 
and whose flesh has a flavor of the spruce, are 75 cents a 
pair, Woodcock are from Rhode Island, Connecticut and 
this State; they bring $1.75 a pair. Willet snipe cost. 15 
cents each, curlew snipe 25 cents, dee birds 50 cents and 
English snipe 20 cents each. Jersey snipe are 25 cents, 
plover 25 cents and grass plover 40 cents each. Corn plover 
and small yellow legs are $1.50 adozen, Large yellow legs 
cost $3, doewitch are $1,50, robin snipe $1.50, brant snipe 
$1.50 and bay plover $3 a dozen. Small snipe bring 25 cents 
adozen. Reed birds are 7 cents a dozen. Rabbits are 50 
cents A pair and American hares $1 each, Duck fillets are 
20 cents each. Guinea fowl are $1 and wild geese are $1 
each, Swans are $1.50 each. Canyasback ducks cost $3 a 
brace. Redhead and brant ducks are $1.50 brace. Mal- 
lard ducks cost $1 a brace, as do black ducks. Teal ducks 
cost 76 cents, teal greenwing 874 cents, and gray, wood, 
broadbill, blackhead and widgeons 75 cents a brace. 
CATCHING A Rurrep GRousE ON THE Winec.—Years 
ago, when Iwasa boy, I lived on a farm in the town of Salem, 
N. Y. Our farmhonse was situated in a pleasant valley, 
between two ranges of wooded hills, which in those days 
abounded in partridges, Near the close of one summer’s 
day, haying finished my work in an adjoining field, I had 
driven home to the well (infront of the house) to water 
the horses. They had drank and started for the barn, As 
1 was walking along behind I chanced to look toward the 
hills and saw something come sailing along; at first I could 
not tell what, but as it came nearer I saw it was a partridge. 
I followed its flight with my eye, thinking if it should alight 
I would get my gun and shoot it. After flying part way 
across the meadow, it circled around and fiew straight as an 
arrow to where I was standing, and would undoubtedly 
have hit me in the face had I not put up my hand and 
caught it firmly, 1t came with such force as to nearly upset 
me. Fora tmoment I was too astonished to think or act, 
but recovering my senses found I had in my hand a full- 
grown partridge; and so far as I could see if was without a 
scratch, I carried it to the house, and after showing it to 
the folks put it in a barrel. On going to look at it next 
morning J found it dead,—D. L. I. (Albany, N. Y.). 
TowA.—Decorah, Sept. 6.—Last Saturday (Aug. 30) three 
men living in Decorah, were arrested for violating the game 
law by shooting prairie chickens before Sept. 1, they each 
plead guilty to shooting one bird a piece and were convicted 
and fined in all $88.45, each man, or thirty days in county 
jal. ‘Chis is the first time that the game laws have been put 
into force in this county and I think it will be a lesson to a 
good many other law breakers in this section of country. I 
wish we could get some one into the Legislature who would 
try and urge the appointment of game wardens, as the way 
the law is now it makes it too personal a matter to prosecute. 
—F arr PLAY. 
A Proyincran Agssoorarron.—At the last monthly meet- 
ing of the Toronto Gun Olub, held in their rooms, 120 King 
street, East, Toronto, Ont., the following resolution was 
passed: Resolved, That the secretary send a communication 
to the city papers calling upon the secretaries of all organ- 
ized shooting clubs in the Province of Ontario to send to 
him their addresses and name of such clubs, for the purpose 
of forming a Provincial Association for the better protection 
of game.—J, W. Mriuar (Hon. Sec’y, 99 King street, East). 
QuaIL SHooTmne AT Capp Cop, Mass.—A few weeks ago 
I wrote to a gunner at Harwich, Mass., who keeps well 
posted on quail, to find out what the prospect for quail shoot- 
ing is this fall. The man states that he can’t bear of any 
young ones being seen by any one, and is afraid that the 
heavy rains which we have had this season during the Jast 
two months has drowned many of the young birds.— 
CHESTER. 
A. Sraren Isnanp WARNING.—A gunner on Staten Island 
bagged three robins and a highholder last Friday. Justice 
Casey at West Brighton sentenced him to the county jail 
for five days for each bird found in his gamebag. 
Marye ComPpanton WANTED.—Ldiior Forest and Stream: 
I wish to find a Forest AND STREAM reader who would like 
to spend a week or two in October at some of the lakes in 
Maine.—C. (P. O. Box 1547, Philadelphia). 
Camp Lire Hlicherings. 
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“That reminds me.” 
136. 
MONG the many quaint characters on the Buffalo range 
along about 1876, John H. was one of the drollest. 
Being a little near-sighted, he used a telescope on his gun, 
and also wore spectacles. The boys never tired of playing 
pranks on him. One morning, while John was reloading 
some shells, one of the boys availed himself of the oppor- 
tunity to paint a miniature buffalo on the front glass of the 
telescope of John’s gun. This done it was laid carefully 
near John, and the cry of ‘‘buff!” raised. John made a rush 
for his gun, and hastily throwing in a cartridge looked 
through the telescope in the direction indicated, saw it sure 
enough. He fired, but the buffalo still stood there. Then 
he became terribly excited, and when one or two of the 
‘boys fired a random shot, he went to shooting as fast as he 
could reload, and only stopped when he had fired ten or 
twelye shots, and looked around for his wiping stick to clean 
his gun. The boys, conyulsed with laughter, were rolling 
on the ground in vain endeavors to conceal their mirth. 
“Dummit, what on yarth aré you all laughing at?” asked 
John, and then suddenly recognized the sell, Although this 
was severul years ago, 1f you want to “hack” John just ask 
him to tell of the time he shot out all of his ammunition and 
let that buifalo get away. Ino, 
CLARENDON, Texas. 
137. 
It was some thirty-five years ago. A party of us, given 
to hunting and fishing, were sitting around the fire ata 
country store in Northern Louisiana, when in came Dr. C., 
a Inan about sixty years of age, regarded as one of the best 
~— —————— 
physician in that section, well informed, observant and a 
great reader of natural history, but impatient of contradic- 
tion, and at times exceedingly irritable at the least expres- 
sion of a difference of opinion. On this occasion he sat 
down; smoking his pipe as usual, and getting the drift of the 
conversation, said: “I saw something a few days ago that 
was strange, and I'll tell you, boys, about it, I hada call in 
the country to see a patient last week. I was riding along 4 
road that ran through a canebrake; it was a warm day— 
about 9 o'clock in the morning—when J heard a ratiling 
noise in the cane, and on looking in that direction saw two 
snakes, each about three feet long; one was a brown color, 
the other green, with white spots. They were twirling 
around, over and over each other. The brown snake soon 
killed the spotted one, and began to swallow it. LI rode on 
to see my patient. Her illness detained me until the next 
day. In the afternoon, as I returned througl the cane- 
brake, it occurred to me to look after the snakes. They 
were in the same place, and one had swallowed the other 
about half of iis length. Iwatched them awhile, but neither 
of them moving, I came home.” 
One of his auditors asked, ‘‘Doctor, how long was it from 
the time you saw the snake begin to swallow the other until 
you came back?” 
_After a moment the Doctor replied, ‘About thirty hours, 
sir,” 
“Well,” said the questioner, ‘it took a long time to swal- 
low only half the other snake,” 
The Doctor glared at him and roared out, ‘Time! time! 
What’s time to a snake!” 
That broke up the meeting. i 
Norra MippLetTown, Ky. 
138. 
A. true story is told at the expense of an acquaintance of 
mine, who is now living in a certain town in Wisconsin. 
He had never handled a gun much, and one day went out 
rabbit hunting for the first time. Not meeting with any of 
the little cotton tails, he was on his way home when suddenly 
an old white jackass bounded across the path in front of 
him, Being an excitable man, and not knowing exactly 
what he saw, he blazed away and killed the donkey on the 
spot, the shot taking effect behind one of his ears. “Hurry- 
ing home, the man told a lot of the university boys that he 
“had killed the father of all rabbits.” They asked why he 
had not brought it home with him, and he replied that it was 
too heavy. Wondering what kind of a rabbit it was, the 
boys followed him to the woods and found that he had actu- 
ally shot an old jackass. Our bunter had to “erin and bear 
it;” in fact, he never heard the last of it. The boys used to 
say that he was the originator of ‘‘jack rabbits.” 
Rep Wine. 
GLENCOE, Fla, 
Sea and River Sishing. 
TIM AND SEVEN PONDS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
My vacation has ended. Ji was a pleasant one, and I did 
as [have done for many years—yvisited Maine, my native 
State. Her shores, her inland waters and her mountains are 
a blessing to thousands whose homes are in a more southern 
latitude. Her opportunities for comfort and the gratitica- 
tion of the desires in the breast of real sportsmen are a mine 
ot wealth to her. The crowds that go there each season for 
happiness, health and game are simply innumerable. 
After a brief visit to the old homestead in Fayetiv, where 
the ponds, streams and forests awoke hundreds of associa- 
tions connected with boyhood days, and dropping a line for 
some one of the myriads of pickerel in the Mount Vernon 
ponds and black bass in Long Pond, I set out with my old 
cheery friend Simon and a lad for the hunting and fishing 
grounds of the northwestern part of Franklin county; Simon 
furnished an excellent team forthe purpose. The air was 
clear and refreshing, and the drive through Vienna, Farm- 
ington, New Vineyard, Kingfield and Jerusalem to Smith’s 
farm, in Eustis, gave usa grand, natural and continuons 
panorama of waving grain fields, beautiful villages, plains, 
mountains, vast forests and foaming streams. Seven times 
have | traversed the way and feasted on the loveliness spread 
out for the gaze of those that pilgrimage on this route to 
Tim Pond and the Seven Ponds. At this now famous re- 
treat we found several old friends and some new faces. 
August is not the best month to catch for count, but here 
the sport was good and we could have easily caught more 
than was needed for the table. One morning, Simon and I, 
as the result of an hour’s fishing before breakfast, brought in 
a string of fifteen beautifully marked trout, weighing nearly 
six pounds. This may be taken asa fair sample. Others 
had larger and some smaller results. Deer, I think, were 
more numerous than any previous year | haye known. We 
saw five in one flock come down to a distant shore of an 
afternoon onarainy day. Large broods of ruffed grouse 
were seen, and there were positive indications that they will 
be yery plenty this autumn. 
The number of visiting spertsmen at these resorts has been 
very large this season—both at Tim and the Seyen Ponds, 
Some of the best guides of the Rangeley region who go to 
the Seven Ponds from Rangeley by the old trail, return via 
Smith’s buckboard road to Tim Pond and the Farmhouse, 
then on to Copeland town, and across to Greenvale. You 
will recollect this is as I foretold two or three years since it 
would be. In August and September these ponds are much 
sought, while the trout do not rise well to the fly inthe lakes 
and most ponds, 
Aug. 18 we reluctantly turned our faces homeward, In- 
stead of returning via Jerusalem and Kingfield, we drove 
through Flagstaff, Dead River, over the ‘‘Horseback,” 
through the gate of Mount Bigelow, Lexington Plantation to 
New Portland, thence to Mount Vernon by the route we 
came. We had a grand trip and the best of sport, and hope 
to repeat next year. We do not boast of so great doings as 
some, but we were satisfied. And this reminds me of a fish 
story I recently read somewhere, telling of a party of four 
or five who took some 2,200 trout in a short time, ‘‘just for 
the sport,” and returned them to the water. Does this ex-_ 
hibit the highest qualities of a true sportsman? 
Aug. 25 Simon and 1 went to Long Pond for our farewell 
fishing for 1884. It was a glorious day, and the finny tribe 
seemed to appreciate the situation, for they yielded to our 
wishes right heartily. In a few hours we took forty-nine 
black bass and white perch about an equal number of each. 
Some of the perch, weighed by actual weight more than a 
pound and a half, the largest of the bass about two aud a 
half pounds; the aggregate of bass and perch was nearly 
