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the Coot rpaclied tide v,ater once more to the infinite reJief of her 

 skipper. The "port," beyond the Jock was crowded with boats anxi- 

 ous to pass through before frost should block thetn in for the winter 

 away from their home ports. Afresh tow of a dozen or more had 

 just come in with the side wheeler Ool. Thomas A. Scott, an old 

 steamer whieh has been doing duty on the line from Philadelphia up 

 for this many a year. After a wtiile an opening was made through 

 ihecrowd, and taking advantage of the chance the Coot was forced 

 through with the boat honk, glad enough to shake the near company 

 of such cumbersome friends. 



Open water ahead ! The wind was a nice sailing breeze from the 

 northward. The peak of the mainsail was set, after getting the 

 Orange Blo-soni off the cabin house into her proper element A few 

 minutes sufficed to lift the Coot away from ihe town a mile down to 

 White's Hill, when she was steered across river to the flats of the 

 western shore, where anchor was let go in four feet of water, the boat 

 bem? beyond the navigable channel and free from risk of collision. 

 The bottom was soft mud and if she grounded no harm would come. 

 There was a strong inducement to continue sailing down river, as 

 both wind and tide served well. But the yacht was in such a dirty 

 condition, her decks being scarcely visible beneath a layer of red 

 mud, and the cabin so damp and »tuffy that the temptation to clear 

 up and air could not be resisted. This proved a fatal mistake, though 

 I could not be charged with the consequences. The air was balmy 

 and nothing suggested the near approach of a cold wave of great in- 

 tensity. Ithad just turned December and we were sixty miles south of 

 New York. Yet this delay was the direct cause of being imprisoned 

 in winter's fii^t embrace/the loss of much time, much hardship, and 

 imminent peril to the boat. That she was not cut down and sunk by 

 the ice before being liberated by a thaw from her sore strait I cannot 

 understand to this day. Had we proceeded on the voyage, the broader 

 and saltier waters of Philadelphia would have been reached, and 

 there the freeze never closed up the river. But in the fresh and shel- 

 tered waters of Boiveutown no amount of traffic sufficed to keep the 

 river from freezing up solid. After the thaw set in the short bends 

 and projecting flats formed choking obstructions, which prevented 

 the ice loosening above from finding a ready vent by which to escape 

 and leave the Coot to navigate a clear channel. 



The afternoon was passed in scrubbing decks and airing bedding 

 and clothing. I turned in light of heart, thinking the early morn 

 would see me well away on the seventy-mile stretch down river to 

 Delaware Citv. the entrance to the canal leading into the Chesapeake. 



C. P. K. 



THE PHILADELPHIA TUCK-UP. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



I have searched in vain in your columns for a description of the 

 Philadelphia tuck-up, which has many points of superiority for 

 cruising over either the canoe, sneakbox or sharpie of its siza; and it 

 is already used in such numbers, and its builders have already ac 

 quired Such reputations in their own locality, that it is strange no 

 one has been found to extol it. Friend Wilkins has never been in- 

 terested in boats of its size, else I should have expected to have 

 heard from him. 



We did hear, not long since, of the Philadelphia hiker: but the 

 description was of the old timer, and evidently written by an old 

 timer, and was misleading as to the boats of to day. 



Philadelphia is the only great city in the country whose citizens 

 are greatly interested in yachting and that is at the same time on 

 inland waters; it is natural," therefore, that its boats should be of a 

 distinct class. I am acquainted with all the yachting cities on the 

 continent, and while I have seen many boats that resemble in form 

 the tuck-up, there are none that have all its advantages for a 

 cruiser. 



There arc l.SOO of these boats in the boathou^es on the Delaware 

 River, about 800 being enrolled on the books of various boat clubs, 

 between whom there is a great rivalry, numerous races being held 

 every year for the emblems of championship, and scrub races occur 

 every week. 



During the summer a Sunday view on the river is a sight once seen 

 never to" be forgotten. Three to four hundred of these midgets 

 leave the docks at the same hour, all to sail in the same direction 

 with the tide— one Sunday up the river to Five-Mile Point, Brides- 

 burg and Tacony, a few keeping on to Plum Point and Rancocas, 

 ahout ten miles: the next Sunday they all go down river to Glouces- 

 ter, seven miles, a few reachiug Red Bank, ten miles, ali returning 

 about the same hour. 



The crew usually consists of two or three, four being the maxi- 

 mum. A grub chest is considered necessary, supplemented occa- 

 sionally with a case of fluids, lunch being eaten on th? sands. 



The boats are housed iu two-story buildings, built in a row along 

 the slip, thirty to forty houses to the row. The ground floor contains 

 racks for two boat--, oars, sails, etc., while the upper floor is the club 

 house, the club usually containing four members, two from each 

 boat. Many of their rooms are very h indsomely decorated. This 

 system of boat houses is one mat can be copied to advantage in every 

 yachting center. The houses are usually owned by one man, who 

 rents a berth, i. e., naif the honse for $-20 to §30 a year; and these 

 bouses are one of the best paying investments to be met with. 



But now to the boat. She is called iu the Club Register a fourth- 

 class tuck- up, is 15ft long, 40 to 4Sin. beam, and 11 to 12in. deep, and 

 must not exceed these limits to race in her class. She is clinker built 

 with square stern, decked forward for about 4ft. to the forward part 

 of the well, and on the sides to the stern 8 to Pin. wide. No deck at 

 stern. Keel is a tin. plank 14ft. long and 4in. wide amidships. Tim - 

 bers forward of the well are of oak, nearly straight, and heavy for 

 the size of boat; from there to the stern are Of elm one-half to three- 

 quarters bent to shape, and spaced 9in. apart. Sides of J£in. cedar. 

 Two hard-wood runners are usually screwed to the keel to prevent 

 chafing on the sands. She is distinct from the dead wood boat in that 

 she is framed very lightly aft without any deadwood at all, the gar- 

 boards extending to the transom, and being almost horizontal from 

 the well to the steru. The coaming, usually of walnut, is pointed at 

 the bo x, and rises 4 to Gin., gradually lowering to the stern, when it 

 is l\j> to 2in. high. The sternsbeet runs the entire width of the hoat 

 and 30 to Stiin. long, giving the most comfortable seat to be fount) on 

 any boat of its size. One tnwart extends across the boat at th3 rear 

 of the well; no other obstruction on the floor. The well is of wood 

 and the board of the dagger type, of wood, with an exposure below 

 the bottom of 3 sq. ft. Running free the board is taken out and 

 shoved tinder the forward deck, its space being taken by a stop 

 water. Oars are carried under the side deck and when the wind 

 tails, the hardy mariner ties up his sail, and hauling on the peak 

 halliard raises the boom, with sail aid gaff tied together, up beside 

 the mast, where all is made fast, then out oars and a pull to destina- 

 tion. Bailer and sponge are kept under sterusheets, and provisions, 

 etc , under forward deck. Frequently when camping out a large 

 "A" tent is carried along, and there is plenty of room left. 



The hull, sails and rigging altogether will' weigh about lvolbs. and 

 one man can handle it on the landing and into the house. A public 

 two wheeled truck is usually used to roll the boat from the stage to 

 the house. The sail is 26yds. (loGsq. ft)., cat-rigged, usually long on 

 the boom, short on the gaff and peaky, and reefs to 80 and lAL-q. ft. 

 A short bowsprit is carried from which a stay leads to the mast 

 head, this bowsprit is always removed before housing Spars are 

 light and great care is taken to keep them lookihg bright, the sails 

 white and the fittings which are of brass, always bright ana clean. 

 The hull is painted, usually black with red and blue stripes, the deck 

 white, or tinted to cream or pink. The mast is stepped about 12iu. 

 from the stem and the sail overhangs the stern 3 to 4 feet. 



The form in i he later boats is a plumb stern, tine entrance and easy 

 run. the square stern is only 3 to bin. deep so that she drags no dead 

 water. She will go to windward of any craft in the world of her size, 

 and will go three feet to two of the sneakbox or canoe, carrying 

 same sail. She does it every Sunday. She is a good sea boat.'fre-' 

 quently running down the bay to Bombay Hook and is usually quite 

 stiff, although some of the later boats are built deeper with quite 

 sharp floor, which their owners claim increase their seaworthiness. 

 These boats are crank uutil they reaeh their bearings, which they do 

 whenever the leeward deck touches the water, when it is difficult to 

 force them any further. 



The helmsman does all the work except raising sails and "hiking,' - 

 which is sitting on the windward deck for ballast, and holds the 

 sheet iu one hand and the tiller in the other: and two average men 

 will carry this 156ft. siil with one reef in, in the heaviest blows of the 

 season. Chas. L. Work. 



OUR BOYS AND WHAT TO DO WITH THEM. — As long as the 

 winds blow and ships sail there wilt be found boys who want to go to 

 sea. With most of them it will be much better if they can be per- 

 suaded to remain ashore; but when this is not possible the next best- 

 thing is to ease as much as possible the very hard life they must find 

 afloat and to guard them as far as possible against its many clangers 

 and evils. What a sea life really is and how it may be followed is 

 well told in a lit'le book entitled -'Our Boys, and What To Do With 

 Them: ihe Merchant Service, the Prospect it Offers, and How to 

 Enter It," by O. Stansfeid Hicks. The book contains a good de- 

 scription of real ship life, together with much practical instruction 

 how to enter it, the chances of promotion and advice to beginners. 

 There is also a great deal of practical information as to ships and 

 rigs, marine law, signing articles, outfitting and similar matters 

 pertaining to sea life.~ The data given relate to the English merchant 

 marine, and vary from those of this country; but in spite of this the 

 book will prove very interesting to every embryo Dana and Russell, 

 as well as a valuable aid to the unfortunate parents and guardians of 

 these nautical youngsters. It is published by Q. Wilson, 156 Miuories, 

 Louden, 



A HOMTLY ON BIGNESS.— It is announced that Mr.W. K.Vanderbilt 

 is going to build the biggest steam yacht in the world. As the merit 

 implied in that characterization has heretofore been the chief dis- 

 tinction of Mr. W. Astor's yacnt. the latter construction will now be 

 obviously n. g.. anathema marauatha, Ichabod— the glory is departed. 

 The origin and evolution of this seeking for the biggest object in 

 every category are easily ttaced, and have been publicly exempliftVd 

 in trie erection to Washington of the biggest monument on this 

 planet, and in the formation of a committee to erect a still bigger 

 one to Grant. The tendency is undeniable, its working inexorable. 

 It remaius for the scientific observer to suggest means to utilize the 

 expenditure of effort for the best advantage of mankind. Now, if 

 princely yacht owners, in the pursuit of the biggest on record, at- 

 tempt successively to surpass each others' yachts solely in dimen- 

 sions and avoirdupois, they will soon ;flnd their labor but vanity 

 and a striving after wind or steam, as the case may be. Given the 

 money, any one can make a bigger yacht than the biggest in exist- 

 ence, and while the process is going on, a factitious impulse may be 

 given to shipbuilding, but no good end will be served. The half 

 dozen or more men who by common consent are fairly entitled to 

 claim the biggest yacht on eatth, ought to combine and appoint 

 commissioners and a pooling agent These functionaries, duly em- 

 powered aud with secrecy enjoined, could investigate and decide 

 upon the claims of each, and decide upon the exact dimensions 

 suitable to a fortune of eight digits. To those whose possessions 

 pass into nine figures, a common unit of size should be assigned, so 

 that each might have the biggest on earth without interfering ;with 

 the others or causing unnecessary waste. These valuable sugges- 

 tions are made gratuitously, and in the interest of economy, and 

 with the hope that, when adopted in yachting, they shall gradually 

 find their way into other departments of human activity, and thus we 

 shall come to have in view objects that are pretty big, but yet not 

 too big, only just big enough.— 'Flic Com mercial Advertiser. 



ICE YACHTING. — The Shrewsbury boat Scud has been at Pough- 

 keepsie for some time, waiting for the championship race for the pen- 

 nant, but the weather has not been suitable for racing, so her sail has 

 been stored and her crew have gone home for the present. AH the 

 large yachts are ready and their owners are waiting anxiously for 

 suitable ice and wind. On Thursday last a race was sailed at New 

 Hamburg for a cup and a pair of Arctic boots offered by Com. Grin- 

 nell as prizes. The course was two and a half miles up the river and 

 return, with a very strong wind blowing down. Two boats, the Puff 

 and Teaser, started at 11:43. Puff turned first and came in at 18:01, 

 the Teaser being dismasted by a squall. In the afternoon the Puff 

 raced with the San Juan and beat her, the time being 14 minutes. A 

 race was also sailed at Carthage on Tuesday, the course being la miles, 

 one hour time limit. The Mischief sailed the course in lh. 13m., and 

 the race was postponed to be sailed again. On Saturday the Pough- 

 keepsle and Hudson River clubs went "down to sail a race over the 

 New Hamburg course. In crossing the ferry track the Reindeer broke 

 through, and some time was lost in getting her out. Mr. Sandford's 

 lateen Avalanche also caused some excitement by throwing him out 

 and running away, sailing down the river at a high speed and jibing 

 as though some one was steering her. Finally she struck a snow 

 hummock which caused her to luff up and stop. Two races for 

 non-active members and for second class boats were sailed in the 

 morning, the Puff beating the Teaser in the first, and the Mischief 

 winning the second. Owing to a lack of wind the big race could not be 

 sailed. 



THE NEW YORK Y. O— The differences which have existed for 

 some time in the New York Y. C, culminated last week in an actively 

 contested election, in which, contrary to usage, there was an opposi- 

 tion ticket in the field, which ticket was finally elected. The younger 

 and more active element of the club favored a change of officers 

 and put forward the following successful ticket: Commodore, 

 Eloridge T. Gerry; Vice-Commodore, C. C. Haight; Rear-Commodore, 

 John C. Barron; Secretary, John H. Bird; Treasurer, F. W. J. Hur^st; 

 Fleet Suigeon, Morris J. Asch, M. D. ; Measurer, John M. Wilson; Re- 

 gatta Committee, Edward E. Chase, Frank T. Robinson and E. A. 

 Willard; Committee on Admissions, James D. Smith. John S. Dicker- 

 son, Henry ('. Ward, Edward M. Brown and Chester Griswold; House 

 Committee, Thomas B. Asten, E. A. Houghton, B. C. Cleeman and S. 

 T. Lippincott. The large steam yacht Efeetra now becomes the flag- 

 ship of the club, while the Vice- Commodore owns tbe schooner Cru- 

 sader, and the Rear-Commodore the sloop Athlon. The new Regatta 

 Committee is composed of active yachtsmen and experienced sailors. 

 Nineteen new members were elected and thedate of June 17 was fixed 

 for the annual regatta. The non-yacht owners have heretofore been 

 denied any voice in the elections and they have lately demanded 

 greater privileges. In answer to this movement, a committee of five, 

 Messrs. Diekerson, Smith, Morgan, Minton and Bird, were appointed 

 to consider an amendment to the constitution, allowing non-o-,vners 

 to vote for some or all of the officers. Mr. Ogden Goelet again offered 

 for the fifth time, cups of 31.090 for schooners aud $500 for sloops, to 

 be raced for at Newport during the cruise. 



YACHTING NOTES. -The schooner Coronilla of Boston has been 

 sold to Mr. Clarence Putnam of New York, aud will be taken to the 



latter port as soon as possible At Cambridgeport, Mass., Mr. 



Diusruore is building a 21ft. cutter from Mi*. Burgess's designs and 

 also an open boat similar to the Cruiser, from a model by E. A. Wil- 

 lis..... The keel sloop Breeze will come out with a new keel, an iron 

 shoe of 3 tons, and new rail and bowsprit. The steam yacht Emu 



has been sold by A. Barney to J. E. Fletcher of Providence, R. I 



The s'eam yacht C. C. Green, ashore on Pingleton shoal, Pamlico 

 Sound, has not been hauled off yet. but is in little danger at present. 



Mr Burnham of the schooner Mohican will be absent for several 

 months in Europe, and the yacht will not be fitted out until his 



return E.A.Willis is building a sloop for Chas. Armstrong of 



Cambridge, Mass., to be 27ft. overall, 24ft. waterline, and 10ft. beam; 

 to have both sloop and cat rig. Willis has also an order for a catboat 

 for F. L. Dunne of Boston, owner of the cats Tartar and Niobe, for a 

 eatbo.it 19ft. llin. long. Another boat which the same builder has in 



hand is an open sloop for Mr. W, S. Alley of the Larchmont Y. C 



air. E. A. Stevens, N, J. Y. O. has sold the cutter Petrel to Mr. Hall 

 of New York, and will build a 45ft. yacht. 



THE DEATH OF MR. GEORGE LORILLARD. -The news came by 

 cable last week of the death of Mr. George Lorillard at Nice, France, 

 on Feb. 3, Mr, Lorillard was for many years one of the best known 

 of American yachtsmen, and the owner of many celebrated yachts. 

 In 1863 he joined the New York Y. C. and for a number of yea rs 

 took an active part in yachting. His first yacht was the sloop Eva, 

 built iu 1865. In 1867 he owned the schooner Magic, aud in the latter 

 year he sold her and built the Challenge schooner, afterwards lost off 

 the Bahamas. In 1869 he built the schooner Meteor, from a model by 

 Captain Bob Pish, and cruised to the Mediterranean iu her, where 

 she was lost. Next year he built the Enchantress and after cruising 

 abroad in her he sold her in 1872 to Mr. J. F. Loubat aud withdrew 

 from .yachting. Mr. Lorillard was also knowu as a patron of other 

 sports, a good shot and the owner of many famous horses His 

 death was due to rheumatic gout from whieh he had long been a 

 suffeier. 



CHESAPEAKE BUCKEYES. -Mr. W. H. Weed is at Hampton in the 

 COft. buckeye Waters, which now hails from New York. She is 

 bound further south for general cruising aud will leave for Albe- 

 marle Sound with the return of warm weather. His brother, Doctor 

 Weed, wdl probably accompany him. The Walters is a genuine 

 Maryland buckeye, built in Ohrisfleld. She is a very smart boat, es- 

 pecially in heavy weather and the light seas of the lower Chesapeake 

 Her beam is 14ft. and draft -3ft. without board. Carries 7 tons rock 

 ballast. Mr. Weed and a small boy sailed her with ease at all times. 

 Her rig consists of two trysails and narrow jib, the foretrysail 

 being much the largest sail. 



OFF FOR THFi WEST INDIES. -On Monday last the schooner 

 Ambassadress sailed from Boston for a cruise to the West Indies, her 

 first port being Bermuda. Her owner, Mr. Nathaniel Thayer, has ex 

 pended nearly $15,000 on her since she was purchased from Mr, As- 

 tor, in refitting and furnishing. AVith Mr. Thayer as his guests are k his 

 brother, Mr. Bayard Thayer, and Messrs. Bradlee and Ogden Cod- 

 man. Captain John Taylor commands the yacht. On Saturday the 

 schooner Nokomis, Mr. Royal Phelps Carroll, sailed from New York 

 for the West Indies. The steam yacht Vedette will also leave this 

 v>eek tor the South, and the Nooya will soon follow. 



SNFAKBOXES.— Mr. Tryon of tbe Soldiers' Home at Hampton, 

 Va., bought a sneakbox from the captain of a schooner who had 

 picked her up as a derelict off the eoa-t. She is 13ft, long, with the 

 shovel nose run out fine into a stern and a raking counter and is 

 rigged as a cat with small board, 18iu. long just abaft the mast. Her 

 owner speaks highly of her performance and general utility. She is 

 smart and handy, practically uucapsizable and will go through very 

 rough weather. He sails her in the open roads, up the James River 

 and to Norfolk, which speaks well for her powers. She also pulls 

 easily and is quite a sightly craft. 



AN ICE YACHT IN VIRGINIA. — During the recent cold wave 

 the first ice yacht was launched upon Virginia's frozen waters. She 

 was built by Mr, E. Diestel of Fortress Monroe and sailed on Mill 

 Creek to the rear of the fort. Built on the u^uil plan of a backbone 

 aud runner plank with two runners and one shoe for steering at 

 after end. She is rigged with leg of mut ton and jib aud proved her- 

 self a success. The ice is now all melted and no chance for more 

 spore this year with the new boat. 



SAN FRANCISCO.— Yaebtiug is still very quiet on the Pacific coast. 

 Aggie will have her bottom coppered before fitting out, Lurline is 

 still laid up at Antioch, and Halcyon has come down from the latter 

 place to Benicia, 



GEN. PATNE'S NEW YACHT.— The new Boston yacht is well under 

 way at Lawley's, the keel being ou the stocks and the stem and stern- 

 post in place. Beneath the keel, which is a very wide piece of oak 

 with a slot 23ft. long and 6in. wide, one piece of lead is already in 

 "1<T(» and the two others will soon be ready The frames of oak and 

 hacknatack will be sided 5ins., moulded 8in. at heels and 5in. at heads, 

 a ue yacht is to be completed by her builders by June 1. 



PHOTOS OF ICE YACHTS. -We have received from Mr. N.'-G. 

 Stebbins, of Boston, some very fine photos of the Hudson River ice 

 yachts. — 



^mwrnf to (^orvmyondmtL 



BP" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



J. B. R., Springfield, Mass.— It would make no difference with a 

 good judge of the breed. 



E W T.. Bridgeport, Conn.— Morford's Don was bv Shipman's Joe 

 (Bob II.— Nelly) and out of Gypsey (Frank— Dell). 



E. B. E., Raleigh , N. O— 1 Consult Fixtures at the head of kennel 

 department. 2. We can send you points for judging. Price fifty 

 cents. 



J. V. S., New Haven, Conn.— Wishing to stock some streams in my 

 vicinity with young trout, to whom may I apply for same. Aus. 

 Apply' to your Fish Commissioners. They are: Dr. W. M. Hudson, 

 Hartford; R. G. Pike, Middletown, and James A. Bill, Luae. 



O. H.. East Greenwich, R. I.— Three prizes are shot for; two men 

 tie and make the highest score. Must they shoot off for the first or 

 can one take first ank the other second ? Ans. If you were shooting 

 under class-shooting rules ihe two who tied on highest should have 

 shot off and the winner taken first, the other nothing. The second 

 piize should have gone to the man whose score was next to the two 

 who tied ou highest. If it was not class shooting the two should shoot 

 off for first and second. 



A. G. McK., Connecticut.— The black bass laws of New. York are 

 very good, as a rule, and may serve as a mode). Iu the waters of 

 Lake Mahopac or of Columbia county, Schroon lake or river, or 

 Paradox Lake in Essex or Warren counties, or in Friend's Lake in 

 Warren county, they may be taken from July 1 to Dec. 31. In Lake 

 George and in Brant Lake, in Warren county, the season opens on 

 July 20. In other waters of the State the lawful season is from June 

 1 to Dec. 31. None may be caught uuder )^lb. weight They may not 

 be netted in any waters except Lake Ontario, the Hudson River 

 below the dam at Troy, and the Walkill Kiver in Ulster county. A 

 movement is on foot to chauge the date for waters where the season 

 opens June 1 to one day earlier so as to include Decoration Day. 



DEER HUNTING IN THE FOREST OF NASSAU. 



AH ! here's a spot where the forester has given us a rendez- 

 vous. A tall, sinewy man, his face is frank and weather- 

 beaten; he is dressed in a tunie of green turned up with gray, 

 and he carries a short double-barreled gun slung across his 

 arm. With a long free step he leads the way through the 

 thickets of firs, up the steep side of a hilly wood. Presently 

 he tells us to dismount, the servants take charge of the horses, 

 and now he begins to steal along on foot almost on all fours, 

 all eyes and ears, and with the least possible noise. The ex- 

 ample he sets is not easy to follow; a withered branch on 

 which I step snaps, and then he throws back at me a glance 

 which says, as plainly as can be, that if I dared do anything 

 of that sort again, he'll murder me. He slips forward on tip- 

 toe, and We men follow, closely sheltering ourselves from tree 

 stern t to tree stem until in a few minutes we came up to the 

 edge of an opening, where stand a roe and a doe feeding on 

 the grass. It is my right to fire first — the favor had been 

 awarded me beforehand— but to save rny lif e I cannot. ' 'Shoot 

 at the roe," are the words breathed into' my ears by the baron, 

 who is crouching at my elbow with his own piece at aim to 

 fire in case I failed to hit. My eyes are wide open, and I see 

 that the. sun has thrown bright colors over the spot. Beech 

 trees and pines on the further edge of the opening are gilded 

 in charming tones. The light ah' breathing in our faces is no 

 longer a nipping one. There, their patches of red hide show- 

 ing against the russet brown of the bank of fallen leaves, 

 stands the couple at point-blank range, and still I cannot 

 fire. But the matter must be quickly decided, for the doe 

 may at any moment step between us and her lord, or some of 

 us may make audible sound that is sure to frighten them 

 away. I cannot shoot; if I do, lam sure to miss, and, so 

 thinking, I whisper, "You shoot" — remember I have not had 

 a gun at shoulder these dozen years or more, and never before 

 had I one aimed at a splendid buck— and shoot he did, to 

 kdl. too, and then we all breathed again. 



After this we rode about in search of wild boar, but all iu 

 vain. It is next to impossible to count over on ever finding one. 

 He gets over great distances in a single night. One or two of 

 them ravaged a croft hard by the night I came, and it was 

 hoped they would still be loafing around waiting to favor 

 another unfortunate peasant, but if they were we could not find 

 them. At one place a magnificent doe stood a short dozen 

 yards from us trembling like a leaf with the excitement of a 

 sudden shock to her nerves. Her sex saved her— shooting doe 

 is strictly forbidden— and she suddenly disappeared in the 

 thicket. Then the forester put us in ainbush and commenced 

 to ''call." His object was to call up the deer by imitating the 

 cry of their mate, Sometimes the imitation is done with a 

 leaf, but our forester did it with a sort of flageolet, and on 

 which he gave a short, half-complaining cry. Two or three 

 were called up this way and killed, not however, until after 

 hours of prolonged expectation and eager excitement had 

 passed. Once two graceful little fawns came up in all their 

 lovely innocence and gazed about in puzzled amazement. The 

 shades of evening were beginning to fall when our horses 

 were in the road again. We galloped back to the chateau, 

 with as hearty an appetite as ever mortal longed for. The 

 dinner was good, the wines delicious, the music and the talk 

 afterward was excellent and interesting, and that night I 

 slept as quietly as if in my own virtuous bed at Paris. — Cor- 

 respondence Boston Herald. 



POT LUCK FROM EXCHANGES. 



Schuylkill Co. Pa,— Now aud then hunters in the woods 

 of this and adjoining counties of Pennsylvania come across 

 wild, wolfish looking dogs iu isolated mountain regions, but 

 the brutes have always managed to disappear so quickly among 

 the rocks, on being discovered, that none have ever been killed. 

 They are supposed, with good reason, to be descendants of a 

 wolf and a mongrel dog, which were bred together in 1S25. 

 Wolves were becoming scarce in the region sixty years ago, but 

 a few lingered in the woods, and were a great nuisance to the 

 farmers, making frequent raids on their sheep pastures. In 

 1832 one wolf in particular made great inroads on the farmers' 

 sheep, and defied all efforts to catch it. There was a super- 

 stition among the pioneers of the region that there were such 

 things as "were-wolves," wolves that bore charmed lives, and 

 possessed the power of roaming about without leaving any 

 trail by which they could be followed. Tom Ballard was a 

 famous hunter of tne day. He was entreated bv the farmers 

 who had been losers by the raids of the mysterious wolf, to 

 hunt it down if the thing was possible, although many be- 

 lieved it was a were-wolf . Ballard started out in the spring of 

 1822 with his dogs and gun for the purpose of killing the wolf. 

 He roamed the wildest part of the woods for several days, but 

 could find no trace of the animal. At the end of the fifth day 

 he came to a crevice in the rocks on the southern edge of a 

 hill known as Mount Pisgah. There was no outward evidence 

 that it was a wolf's den, but he resolved to enter the cave and 

 find out. He crawled on his hands and knees and found two 

 wolf whelps a week or two old. He wrapped them up in his 

 blanket and quickly withdrew from the cave. He did not 

 meet the old wolf and started for home with the two young 

 ones. He placed them in his wood house. Three nights later 

 he heard a great noise in the yard. Looking out he saw an 

 old wolf trying to get into the wood house. It was the mother 



