Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 26, 1888. 



j VOL. XXX.-No. 14. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 One Hundreth Editiou of 



Walton. 

 Crust, and Snowshoes. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Rock-Climbers.— xvn. 

 The Sportsman Touuist. 



Sam Lovel's Camps.— vin. 



Is Mistassini Mysterious? 

 Natural History. 



The "Cranesback." 



Post-Nuptial Migration. 



Bird Notes from Canada. 



Col. Pickett's English Snipe. 



A Rainbow by Moonlight. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Maine Large Game. 



Yellowstone Park Petition. 



The Press on the Park. 



Schultze Powder Experiments 



Days at Caddo Lake. 



The Grouse and the Squirrels. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Tackle. 



From the Cumberland Valley. 

 Maine Fishing Waters. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Where is the Remedy? 

 Fishculttjre. 



The Menhaden Question. 

 The Kennel. 



New Haven Dog Show. 



Colonel Blood in Mastiffs. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Bullard Match No. 4. 



State National Shoot. 



The Trap. 



The Trophy Shooting. 



Philadelphia Tournament. 



Canadian Trap Notes. 

 Yachting. 



Winter Cruise in the South.-v 



The Reign of Lead. 



Eastern Y. C. 

 Canoeing. 



Atlantic Division Meet. 



Malay Canoes. 



A Cruising Meet. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



PROTECT THE PARK. 

 All Readers who are interested in the protection of the 

 Yellowstone National Park are invited to co-operat e with 

 this journal in the endeavor to secure needed legislation. 

 Petitions will be sent to all who will undertake to have 

 them signed and forwarded to Washington. 



CRUST AND SNOWSHOES. 

 nPHERE is not a doubt that the Maine Commissioners 

 J- are actually "making it hot" for the crust-hunters 

 in that State. These hunters have had their fun, sup- 

 posing that the Commission was crippled for means, and 

 that they could slaughter all the moose and deer they 

 could find without danger of punishment. They have 

 been allowed to go on thinking so, till now the work of 

 the wardens is rattling rather unpleasantly around their 

 ears. The Maine papers have it, though we have not had 

 time to confirm the report, that Warden French has just 

 returned from a raid up the East Branch of the Penob- 

 scot. He found that the crust-hunters had been at work 

 as though it was their last chance. He captured a large 

 number of moose and deer skins, and found that much of 

 the meat had been left in the woods, to be used as bear 

 bait later in the season. He is reported to hare secured 

 evidence to convict some twenty men crusting moose and 

 deer, and that they will all be brought into court. Other 

 wardens are at work in other parts of the State, and it is 

 proving that what our correspondent "Special" suggested 

 last week is true; that the Maine Commissioners are 

 really very busy after the breakers of the law, and that 

 the season is likely to prove one of the most successful, 

 so far as bringing poachers to justice is concerned. But 

 the curious tame-deer notion is still being worked. The 

 veteran trapper and hunter, J. G. Rich, writes that some 

 farm dogs got after a deer the other day in the vicinity 

 of Bethel, Me., and that the owners of the dogs captured 

 the deer alive and that they keep hini in a barn. The 

 Commissioners will be likely to take this case in hand. 

 It is stated that a test case of this tame-deer business is 

 to be tried at Farmington this season. The next Maine 

 Legislature will have to settle the question beyond a 

 doubt, as to whether it is lawful to take deer alive. If 



the tame-deer business was allowed to continue, it would 

 soon amount to an absolute destruction of hundreds of 

 these animals every winter. In that State the snows are 

 so deep that it is an easy matter to run down a deer with 

 snowshoes, and the same is true of the lordly moose. 



THE ONE HUNDREDTH EDITION OF WALTON. 

 OOME time during the coming spring there will be 

 ^ issued by Samson Low, Marston, Searle & Riving- 

 ton, London, the one hundredth edition of Walton and 

 Cotton's "Complete Angler," edited by Mr. R. B. Marston, 

 editor of the London Fishing Gazette, and Hon, Treas. 

 Fly-Fisher's Club. 



With the example before him of ninety and nine pre- 

 vious editions, Mr. Marston proposes to make the forth- 

 coming edition one that will be in every way worthy to 

 round out the hundred and do honor to its predecessors. 



What an imposing array of decendants the "diminutive 

 octavo, clad in a modest overcoat of brown calf," which 

 had its birth one May morning at Master Richard Marriot's 

 in Fleet street two hundred and thirty-five years ago, has 

 raised up, and how fond the godfathers have been of the 

 progeny. 



Moses Browne, Hawkins, Ellis, Thomson, Major, Ren- 

 nie, Nicolas, Bethune, "Ephemera" and Jessie are respon- 

 sible for sixty-four editions of Walton, as Mr. Thomas 

 Westwood, England's poet-angler, who is imbued with 

 the same reverence, gentleness, tenderness and kindness 

 of heart that characterized Walton, expresses it, "in all 

 shapes and presentments, the simple and the sumptuous, 

 the microscopic and monumental." It certainly is not 

 because of its angling instructions that the "Complete 

 Angler" is now more in demand than when first it saw 

 the light, and we can recall no more fitting testimony 

 regarding its worth than the words of Charles Lamb in a 

 letter to Coleridge; "Walton's 'Complete Angler' would 

 sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it; it would 

 christianize every discordant, angry passion; pray make 

 yourself acquainted with it." 



The Rev. Dr. Bethune, editor of the first American 

 edition of Walton, gave testimony of another such when 

 he said that a friend told him that it was reading the 

 "Complete Angler" which awakened the love of God in 

 his breast. 



The simplicity, purity, tenderness and innocence that 

 Walton expresses will always appeal to that which is best 

 in mankind, for "it is essentially a book to be loved and 

 to be discoursed of lovingly." We shall not, however, 

 attempt to "add another hue to the rainbow," for we 

 could not if we would; and, furthermore, a detailed de- 

 scription of Mr. Marston's forthcoming "sumptuous" vol- 

 ume will be more appropriate than a feeble panegyric 

 upon the angler's patron saint. 



As the first edition of Walton's "Complete Angler" was 

 issued from Fleet street, so also will be the one hundredth; 

 and we notice that the name of one of the publishers of 

 the edition of 1888 is similar to that of the publisher of 

 the tenth edition in 1766. Mr. Marston's edition will be 

 called "The Lea and Dove Illustrated Edition," and it will 

 contain a reprint of "The Chronicle of the Complete 

 Angler," by Thomas Westwood and the late Thomas 

 Satchell; also twenty-seven photogravures of views on the 

 Lea, from pictures by P. H. Emerson, B.A., and twenty- 

 five photogravures of views on the Dove and Weye, from 

 pictures by Mr. George Bankart. There will be nearly 

 one hundred small wood engravings by F. Alphonse 

 Stankowski, from drawings by F. Careless, scattered 

 throughout the text, and photogravure portraits of Wal- 

 ton and Cotton. The pictures have been specially done 

 for this edition, which will be issued in two styles, both 

 being numbered and signed. 



Of the first, an edition de luxe, royal quarto, in two 

 volumes, it is announced that there will be two hundred 

 copies; fifty for America. Of the second, demy quarto, 

 there will be five hundred copies; one hundred and fifty 

 for America. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 fT^HE New Jersey game bill recently signed by the 

 Governor and now a law is an ill-digested meas- 

 ure. It has many good points, chief of which are the 

 abolition of summer shooting and the protection, in the 

 north game section, of the English snipe, but there seems 

 to be no special reason why the quail shooting should end 

 Dec. 1 and the grouse shooting Dec. 25. It is possible 

 that these two seasons were introduced to protect quail 



from tracking pot-hunters who might follow them when 

 snow is on the ground, but so long as it is lawful for a 

 man to be out shooting for ruffed grouse up to Christmas 

 time just so long will the ruffed grouse shooter kill quail 

 if he gets the chance. The division of the State into two 

 sections is an unnecessary piece of special legislation 

 greatly to be deprecated. It was probably done to satisfy 

 conflicting local interests. It may be said, however, 

 that the good points of the bill overbalance the bad ones, 

 and that on the whole the measure is a step in the right 

 direction. How long will it be, we wonder, before at- 

 tempts are made to tear this bill to pieces and to replace 

 it with something else, which, whether better or worse, 

 will be no longer-lived than its predecessor. Nowadays 

 a game law scarcely exists long enough to have a fair 

 trial, even if it were enforced, which it scarcely ever is. 



The press and the people are for the Vest Yellowstone 

 Park bill. All that was needed to show the attitude of 

 the public was to make known the condition of things and 

 to call for a showing of hands. This the Forest and 

 Stream has done. The response has been a manifesta- 

 tion of interest beyond all anticipation. Petitions have 

 poured in upon the members at Washington from every 

 scattered district in the land. The names attached to 

 these petitions are those which command respect. They 

 are representative of the best classes of the community. 

 They already number thousands, and they stand for 

 many thousands more. A Denver correspondent, "W. 

 N. B.," tells us, "Not a man I showed it to declined to 

 sign it. In fact they were eager to sign. All Colorado 

 would sign. The people are unanimous. Can get thouF- 

 ands of names if wanted." This has been the experience 

 of others. The passage of the Vest bill by the House 

 will only be carrying out the very clearly expressed wish 

 of the American people. 



Col. Thos. Goode Tucker, whose name is familiar to 

 readers of our kennel columns, died at his home in Gas- 

 ton, N. C, April 7, aged eighty -two years. Col. Tucker 

 was an enthusiastic follower of the hounds, and the re- 

 markable spirit with which he pursued his favorite sport, 

 in his advanced age, has been a subject of comment in 

 these columns. Over the initials of T. G. T., Col. Tucker 

 contributed many accounts of his exciting runs, and he 

 wrote much in praise of his favorite hounds of the "Byron 

 strain." Not many years ago Col. Tucker attempted to 

 carry out a pet project, which was to convert his plan, 

 tation into a headquarters for a club of fox hunters, where 

 men from different localities might gather to hunt "old 

 reds" and entertain one another with talk of dogs and 

 foxes and horses; but the scheme fell through because of 

 lack of support. 



A number of correspondents have expressed natural 

 and perfectly excusable impatience at the unreasonable 

 length of time, now two months, during which Sam 

 Lovel and Pelatiah have been abandoned on "Gardin 

 Islan'." The delay in extricating the two unfortunates 

 from their predicament has been wholly unpremeditated 

 and unavoidable. Every reader of Mr. Robinson's papers 

 will regret to learn that their interruption has been 

 caused by a very serious affection of the eyes, which has 

 made writing a physical not less than mental impossi- 

 bility. Though the manuscript of the chapter printed 

 to-day has come to us in an unfamiliar hand, the reader 

 will miss in the printed text none of the charm which 

 has pervaded the series. 



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Between fifty and sixty good, bad and worse bills re- 

 lating to game protection have been introduced at Albany. 

 The Legislature will adjourn on May 11, and there is 

 danger that some of the worse measures may be rushed 

 through by the usual system of trickery, trade and 

 dicker. 



