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the State would have appeared a regular ‘‘Monarch of the 
Glen” in my eyes at that moment, 
’ | fired, and the way that animal leaped was something to 
wonder at. He sprang from the center of the stream up the 
bank some ten feet, and then back again, where he fell dead. 
How he managed to make such a jump after my bullet 
reached his heart is more than I can explain, However, he 
was mine, and although he probably would have liked to live 
a while longer, his time had come. 
When I returned to camp the cthers were all there, and of 
course had big stories to tell of the number and size of the 
deer they had seen, but been unable to kill, except Dutch, 
who had given it up after a couple of hours and taken to his 
rod and fly. 
We had venison often after this, for I was not the only 
one who got adeer that year. In fact, Charley was the most 
successful deer-slayer of the crowd, and succeeded in getting 
the largest, of whose capture he tells wonderful stories to 
this day. That night, after a refreshing plunge in the cool 
waters of the lake, we turned in, and I, at least, was well 
satisfied with the day’s work. 0. F. M. G. 
PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 
LTHOUGH there have been plenty of fowl at Barnegat 
since I last wrote you, but few ducks have been killed, 
owing to the low state of the tides, which made bare the 
grounds which are used by the gunners, and rendered the 
approach of these points in sneak-boxes impossible. Several 
Philadelphia sportsmen have returned much disappointed 
and with but meagre showings, when, as they say, “the bay 
was full of redheads.” No brant had arrived, and but one 
or two flocks of geese were seen. It was news to me to hear 
that Long Beach, N. J., in the neighborhood of Harry 
Cedars, grows a yearly crop of rabbits, and thet much fun 
can be had hunting them. The landlord at Harry Cedars 
does not own hounds, but has one or two curs that will run 
a cotton tail. It would pay for the sportsman who visits 
this place to enjoy duck shooting, to take with him a beagle 
or two in order to vary bis amusement and stretch his 
limbs in the chase of the rabbit, a large number of which, | 
am told on good authority, can be readily found a short dis- 
tance from the hotel, Duck shooting at Tuckerton last week 
appears to have been better than at Barnegat. There was 
much shooting heard by my friends who were at the latter 
place last week, and it looked as if the Manahawkin duckers 
were having a good time of it, when we take it for granted 
that when a big gun goes off it is generally pointed at some 
object, : 
Sutiontaw will not take many sportsmen to Delaware or 
Maryland, the opeping of the quail shooting season, as Tues- 
day’s election will prevent, but Wednesday, we may be sure, 
will find carloads of dogs and guns stubble bound. Nov. 1 
opens the ball at Havre de Grace, but that date coming on 
Saturday, and Sunday intervening, no work will be done 
there until next week. 1 learn there are a great many red- 
heads and blackheads at this fayorite shooting ground await- 
ing slaughter. Not many canvas-backs have come; more 
cold weather is needed for them, 
Quail shooting in a part of the Cumberland Valley, Pa., 
visited by my informant last week, was pvor. This was not 
what was expected from reports early in the oi 
oMoO, 
ADIRONDACK GAME PROTECTION. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have just returned from my annual hunting trip in the 
Adirondacks. When we reached Sageville, Hamilton county, 
we found court in session, and Silas Coll’s new hotel well 
filled with guides and woodsmen, called there as jurors, etc. 
Mr. Bradley, yame constable for this district, welcomed our 
arrival, as, being members of the game protective association 
that had already successfully prosecuted the poachers, we 
could help him in getting his indictments through with the 
Grand Jury, The members of this Grand Jury live where 
hardly a day passes without their being tempted to break 
the game laws; and if an oath were administered before they 
took their seats, hardly one of them could swear that he had 
never broken the law, It takes strong arguments to get 
indictments brought in against game law offenders. Mr. 
Bradley was successful in getting the worst cases indicted, 
and may summon some others before court here on supreme 
writ, 
Gen, R. U. Sherman, State Fish Commissioner, after 
earnest letters from myself and the committee from North- 
ville, visited the Lake Pleasant region in his tour to locate 
the new State Hatchery. However he may decide, we have 
the consciousness that we did all we could to gét our 
section’s claim well before him. Noone can deny that our 
waters were the first visited by sportsmen; and forty years 
ago Dr. Bethune and others made Piseco section famous, 
aud now that the State is to start a hatchery, how natural it 
is for us to think the first depleted waters should haye first 
attention. 
We found gray squirrels and partridges fairly plenty on 
the way into the woods; but around Sageville, sportsmen 
who had summered there and had bird dogs, had cleaned 
them well out. Some duck shooting on the Jake and a few 
snipe amused us fora day or so; and then we organized a 
camping out party for the river a few miles in toward 
Cedar Lakes, We gota deer for each day’s hunt, besides 
seeing four that our green man scared, but did not hit. 
How the reminiscences of old hunters abound with the 
surety of the untried sportsman being put on the supposed 
poorest runways; and how sure the deer are to go to them, 
Lhave hunted deer in many ways, but one day’s watching 
on a goo! river runway is worth more to me than a week’s 
watching alake. Thereis a tingle to your nerves as you hear 
the dog in the distance, and as you sve the deer bound into 
the river, as your eye sinks in the sights covering his shoul- 
der, you fire with a feeling that the meat is yuwurs. 
And here let. me speak against the fallucy of the buckshot 
talk, Advise every hnuoter to stick to the rifle, He will 
soon learn to have perfect confidence in himself and know 
that up to 200 yards he is sure. Neither of the two deer 
that I killed would Lhave got with buckshot, as one was 
killed at 125 and the other at 175 yards. 
Jam pleased to say that our stoppage of winter killing 
when the deer were yarded has caused considerable increase 
and I have never seen them so numerous as this fall, Mr. 
Sherman’s letter and ‘‘L.’s’ answer on the subject of viola- 
tions of the game law are valuable in go far as they attract 
sporismen’s attention to their, duty as good citizens to 
privately notify the nearest game constable of the violations, 
so he can know whém to watth, If yeu nextspring would 
publish o list of game constubles and their P/O, address, 
and editorially advise each sportsmen visiting the woods to 
cut it out and write of the violations he may hear of, it would 
do much good, M. §. NoRtsROUP, 
Jounstown, N. Y., Oct. 24. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
While hunting recently in the Adirondacks, my guide had 
occasion to visit the camp of three so-called sportsmen from 
your city. They, with their four guides, began to hunt on 
Oct. 8, and between this date and the 15th, when my guide 
saw them, had killed seven full-crown deer, and five fawns, 
nine of which were hanging whole in camp at the time, 
One of their guides (who had protested against such brutal 
slaughter) told us that they had killed three more a few days 
afterward, and it was their intention to hunt each day till 
the 25th, when they would break camp. If it had been 
possible for them either to eat the venison, or to save it to 
carry out, their conduct might be excused, but such was not 
the case, and it could only spoil. Cannot something be done 
to prevent such unjustifiable slaughter? True sportsmen 
will agree that active measures should be taken to keep such 
fellows (who call themselves sportmen, but are a disgrace to 
the name) out of the woods if the game is to be preserved 
there beyond the immediate future. If your paper will 
formulate some plan, and agitate it, you certainly will not 
lack the assistance necessary to accomplish it, 
; INDIGNANT. 
OCTOBER 29. 
[Will “‘Indignant” further tell us how the deer were 
killed ?] 
BULLET VERSUS BUCKSHOT. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I heartily agree with the ‘‘Devil’s Ramrod” when he says 
that a man who would ‘‘stand on a runway and blow a 
deer’s head off with grapeshot” is no hunter; but neverthe- 
less, I think an animal minus the head would be more likely 
to die on the spot than one with only a rifle ball in some non- 
yital part. Mind you, I do by no means advocate this style 
of Killing, I simply offer this opinion to those who think a 
rifle ball more fatal than a charge of buckshot. Ifa man is 
going to pepper away at every deer he sees or hears, why 
then, of course, a goud many will run off with some of the 
lead; but a person old enough to handle a shotgun ought 
also 10 have come to those years of discretion which would 
teach him to get at least within easy range of his gun. 
“Ramrod” says that before anybody attempts to hunt large 
game, he should learn to shoot. Agreed, and if he uses the 
scatter guh, let him learn to crawl up on his game until he 
can be tolerably sure that the shot will do its work, I be- 
lieve I said before that 1 preferred the ritle, and as ‘‘His 
Satanic Majesty’s Ramrod” surmises, I am only takiog up 
the cudgel in the interest of game. A rifle in the hands of a 
crack shot is by all means the proper weapon, and if he used 
it on all game from the rabbit up, he would get more sport, 
according to my ideas of that ambiguous aE ite 
MAINE LARGE GAME. 
[ae prospect for game the present season never looked 
better, The Kennebago region is roaded out in deep 
paths by moose, caribou, deer and bear. There is also good 
signs of fur game; beaver are building houses within two 
miles as the crow flies of Camp Kennebago, and fresh otter 
signs are conspicuous; mink are also abundant, and the re- 
leased Rangeley guides are getting in their traps preparatory 
for the fall and winter hunt. : 
The State Fish and Game Commissioners, Stillwell and 
Stanley, have finished up their labors on the Kennebago and 
Rangeley streams, and placed in the hatching house at this 
place over 300,000 brook trout spawn, which will, when 
turned into these lakes, largely replenish these waters with 
the speckled beauties. 
As soon as the ponds freeze over the caribou will make his 
appearance, and then the fun begins. They are easily ap- 
proached by hunters who understand their habits, and the 
woods are full of them, 
Deer abound on every hill, and bears are on the rampage 
in all the frontier towns, destroying sheep and finishing up 
their year’s raid on the acorns and other nuts and berries 
preparatory to denning up for their long sleep. 
These are glorious days for lovers of sport and wood life 
in this wild region, and the venison eaters are jubilant. 
The Kennelago River rises among the Canada mountains 
and the Kennebago Lake runs into it through another out- 
let. The Seven Ponds are approached from Tim Pond, as 
well as through the Kennebago region, and the whole north- 
ern forest is one vast breeding and'feeding ground for all the 
wild beasts occurring in these latitudes, 
Camping on the Kennebago River the past month alone, 
we could hear every night the various cry and call and 
tramping of the wid inhabitants, and it was our usual cus- 
tom to spend an hour or more each evening, soon as dark, 
in sitting on a Jog in front of our camp and listening to these 
various sounds and enjoy the loneliness of our situation. 
And eyen at this moment we long for ‘‘a lodge in some vast 
wilderness,” away from all the turmoil of life and business; 
where civilization never enters; where the spirit is free from 
conventionalities, and the soul can worship and enjoy the 
true God of nature in nature’s home. J. GR. 
Betuen, Me. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The hunting days for Maine are well under way, and 
everything is in full blast. The hoot of the 12-bore in com- 
pany with the sharp crack of the rifle, may be heard on all 
sides and about every day. Parties have gone and are con- 
tinually leaying for their up river cruises of a few days or 
weeks, all anxious to bring home their three deer each, which 
the Maine law allows them, But I fear many idle shots will 
be fired. Deer are quite plenty this fall, and several have 
already been brought in. Last week two friends of mine 
went out for a short hunt of two or three days, and the third 
day came home bringing with them a fine buck weighing 
(with the entrails luken out) 263 pounds, A good shot tnat. 
One may go out from here and 1m less than one hour’s walk 
arrive on the grounds where deer signs may be found with- 
out any trouble, and often the chap that made them. 
Grouse are plenty this fall but quite wild, and whenstarted 
up itis hard to find them the second time, Wild ducks 
have been flocking into our back lakes very plenty for four 
weeks past, and some good shots have been made. I just 
learn from a neighbor of three deer having heen killed to-day 
within a few miles of home, A Tonner Lover, 
Macys, Me., Oct, 24, ‘4 ” 
MARYLAND GAME LAW. 
npee Maryland State Jaw for ducks probibits shooting at 
wildfowl bedded in flocks upon their roosting or feed- 
ing grounds or, elsewhere from boat of any kind; shooting 
wildfowl flying about their feeding grounds from amy boat, 
except citizens of the counties bordering the waters and 
those to whom they may extend the privilege, who can shoot 
when the birds are thus flying from any boat except a sink- 
boat or sneak-boat, and prohibits shooting from a booby, 
blind or artificial point more than 100 yards from natural 
shore. Fine, $10 to $100 and forfeiture of guns, boats, ete. 
See Article 98, General Laws, Sections 1 to 12. 
The State law also prohibits shooting over the waters of 
the Chesapeake with any big or swivel gun from any boat or 
craft. Fine, $100 to $500. ° 
The State law allows shooting upon obtaining a license from 
the Circuit Court of Harford or Cecil counties, from sink- 
box, sneak-boat, etc., not less than a quarter of a mile from 
shore, northward of a line beginning at Turkey Point Light- 
house, in Cecil county, and drawn westward to a point half 
a mile north of the most northern part of Spesutia Island, 
thence westward half a mile north of the adjacent mainland 
to the shores of Harford county, at or near Oakington, and 
south of a line drawn east from Concord Point Lighthouse, 
in Harford county, to Carpenter’s Point, Cecil county, be- 
tween Noy. 1 and March 31, and probibits shooting at any 
other time except from shore. Penalty, $50 to $100, 
The law prohibits shooting at night time over the waters 
northward of the line drawn from Turkey Point. Fine 
$100 to $500. 
Shooting days until January 1, between lines above 
described, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. After January 
1, shooting allowed on Saturday also. Penalty, $50 to $100, 
The law prohibits anchoring of boats on any but gunning 
days, or going oyer the waters on gunning days before 5 
o'clock A. M. Fine $25 to $50. See Chapter 459, Acts 1884. 
POLICE. 
That eyery two years the Government shall appoint two 
citizens of Harford and two of Cecil to carry out provisions 
of above laws. See Chapter 106, Acts 1880; Chapter 180, 
Acts 1882. 
The sneak-boat allowed is a flat-bottomed hatteau or other 
boat with push or canvas blinds, and shall be engaged bona 
fide in shooting over decoys. No skiff, sailing boat or other 
boat engaged in hunting or shooting crippled ducks, or in 
purloining ducks killed by other persons having a license to 
shoot shall forfeit their license if they have one, be fined not 
less than $20, and forfeit boat, guns etc. Possession of 
ducks and gun by any offending boat prima facie evidence 
to conyict. 
LOCAL DUCKING LAWS. 
Anne Arundel County.—Prohibits shooting at night time 
except from land. 
Shooting with gun, both day and night, that cannot be 
conveniently discharged from shoulder. Fine $50. 
ee use of sink-boats, sneak-boats, etc. Fine $5 
to 50. 
Allows shooting from sink-box upon obtaining license. 
Prohibits shooting on South River from booby or bush 
blinds, except on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; requires 
license to erect such blinds, and they must be 800 yards 
apart. 
Bultimore and Harford Counties.—Prohibits the possession 
of big or swivel guns, sink-boats or sneak-boats, for the pur- 
pose of killing water fowl in Baltimore and Harford coun- 
ties, and Chesapeake Bay adjacent to middle of bay. Pos- 
session of above named articles prima facie evidence of un- 
lawful purpose. Fine $50 to $100. 
Shooting at night time prohibited from water or shore. 
Fine $50 to $100. F 
Frightening wildfowl from their roosting or feeling 
Bo prohibited. Fine $50 to $200. Chapter 287, Acts 
1882. 
Erection of booby blind or artificial point more than 100 
yards from shore prohibited. Fine $50 to $200, subject to 
penalty once a week until removed. 
That these laws shall not interfere with the general laws 
within the limits as above given, beginning at Turkey Point. 
Prohibits shooting from Hastern avenue bridge across Back 
River, in Baltimore county. Fine $25 to$50. Chapter 198, 
Acts 1882, ’ 
Charles County.—Any bona fide citizen of this county or 
of St. Mary’s may shoot out of any boat or craft of any kind 
at wildfowl in the Wicomico River and its tributaries. 
Ceci! County.—Prohibits lashing of waters or otherwise 
scaring fish into nets within half a mile of ducking points on 
Elk River, Bohemia River or Heron’s Island when same are 
occupied by guuners after wildfowl, or within half a mile of 
bridge over Bohemia River when occupied by gunners, Fine 
$10 to $25, Chapter 27, 1880. 
Cectl and Kent Counties.—Any bona fida citizen may shoot 
from sink-boxes in Sassafras River, upon obtaining a 
license, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 
between Nov. 1 and March 31. Sink-boxes to he not less 
than 100 yards from shore on Cecil side of river. Cost of 
license $10. Fine for shootiny on any day but those speci- 
fied $10 to $20, Shooting without oy $50 to $100. 
Chapter 204, Acts 1882. 
Dorchester County.—Allows shooting from sink boats at 
water fowl! in Choptank River and its tributaries from day- 
break until dark, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. 
Allows citizens from Hooper’s Island to shoot from sink- 
boats or otherwise for home consumption, within the waters 
around the island, not more than one mile from shore. 
Unlawful to kill from boats or sink-boats within two miles 
from Lower Hooper’s Island ferry. 
Kent County.—Prohibits shooting at night from any boat, 
and daytime with any gun require a rest to shoot. 
Prohibits shooting in Sassafras, EJk or Bohemia rivers and 
age to from any vessel less than ten tons burthen. Fine 
50. 
Prohibits use of sink-boxes, sneak-boats, e¢tc., in any of 
the waters of Chester River and the Chesapeake Bay. Fine 
$0 to $50, and forfeiture of gun, etc. Code L. L., Article 14. 
Allows shooting over decoys from shore. 
Prince Georges Oounty.—Prohibits any but citizens of 
Anne Arundel, Charles, Calvert and St. Mary’s from shooting 
or trapping water fowl on the Patuxent River or its tribu- 
taries. Fine $1() to $50. ) 
Queen Anné’s Cownty.—Permits bona fide citizens to shoot 
from sink-boxes, upon obtaining a license, upon waters whose 
mouth is 400 yards wide. License $10. Fine $20 to $100. 
Chapter 370, 1880. 
Somerset Oounty.—Prohibits any open boat carrying any 
gun or pibe) Bape ee Base Hy fay og for 
the purpose of shooting owl, Fine si0. L. Li, Axti, 
cle 19, Beetion 208, , 
