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was concerned, this was to be a pleasure excursion, and myself a 

 mere passenger, but I consented to holp hoist the anchor. I pulled 

 at the cable with much energy, and sat down with the regulation 

 thud when the anchor finally consented to let go the bottom. If 

 it had been a cork it couldn't have bobbed to the surface any 

 quicker than it did when it hart once marie up its mi ad to rise. 

 Just as I struck the deck Smith yanked the cannon lanyard and 

 let o IT the cannon with a bang; Ollick hoisted the jib, and the 

 Editor hauled the main boom close aboard. The wind came from 

 the side, and the hoat suddenly careened half over. With the 

 noise of the gun and the tipping of the boat I concluded that my 

 sudden sitting down had started every timber in the craft, but as 

 the others showed no excitement I concealed my surprise and got 

 to a safe place by the sprawling method I have mentioned. The 

 Editor was holding the tiller and looking aloft with a prof essional 

 and critical eve, and Ollick and Smith were calmly coiling down 

 ropes. I afterward learned that the gun was fired as a parting 

 sa lute to Echo Bay, and 1 found out before the cruise was over 

 that the G. B. never sailed on an even keel. In order to do herself 

 justice she must have her lee rail about 6in. under water. 



We headed for Oyster Bay, an arm of the Sound that indents 

 the north shore of Long Island some twenty miles from New 

 Roohelle. The sail was without incident, but not without interest, 

 especially to the passenger. The loose ends of ropes had a way of 

 tying themselves up into bowlines and lassoing his feet, and the 

 boom lay in wait for his head and gave it a good thump whenever 

 it got a chance. The greater part of tho the time the deck sloped 

 to leeward at about the pitch of an ordinary shingled roof, but 

 lacked its stability, having a compound motion impossible to fol- 

 low. A seat beside the rudder post offered the best advantages as 

 to permanence, but those advantages were somewhat lessened by 

 the slack of the sheet coiling itself about the passenger's legs, the 

 tiller sti iking him in the stomach, and the boom getting a crack 

 at his head whenever the boat went off on a fresh tack. 



About dark the G. B. was off the bluff that guards the entrance 

 of Oyster Bay. It was known that there were in the vicinity cer- 

 tain buoys to be rounded, and certain shoals and reefs to be 

 avoided, but exactly where they were located nobody aboard was 

 prepared to say. Smith, therefore, went below, and proceeded to 

 overhaul the chart , the result of his endeavors going to prove tbat 

 while those hydrographic objects were readily located on parch- 

 ment, it is quite another thing to pick them up in a waste of 

 water whose surface had a monotonous and uninteresting same- 

 ness as far as the oye could reach. In anticipation of having to 

 sail by chart, the binnacle containing the compass was roused 

 out by Ollick, and placed where the Editor, who was steering, 

 could keep his eye on it; but it is worthy of note that no buoys 

 were sighted, and that if there were shoals in the way of the G.B. 

 she sailed over them without touching. 



We dropped anchor in Oyster Bay at 10 o'clock that night, and 

 the deck came once more to a level. Ollick inserted hi mself into 

 various lockers and boxes, and brought forth potatoes and meat, 

 and bread and butter and coffee, put an iron chimney on the stove 

 in the forecastle, started a lire, and directly set forth a toothsome 

 meal on the table in the cabin. The passenger, who had hitherto 

 been inactive, now cisplayed a renewed interest in the proceed- 

 ings, and his achievements at that little table were duly entered 

 on the log of the G. B. 



Before going to bed the passenger mounted to the roof of the 

 cabin and toon a confident header into Oyster Bay, as a prelimin- 

 ary to a contemplated swim. Owing to the shallowness of the 

 water lie was enabled to make the. valuable scientific discovery 

 that the bottom there was formed chiefly of alumina! deposits and 

 other ingredients which go to make up an unusually bard kind 

 of clay. These mineralogical specimens were afterward removed 

 from his hair by means of a comb, and examined at leisure. 



The passenger slept that night on one end of the port transom, 

 the Editor occupying the other end. As the transom is Ott. long 

 and the combined length of the occupants sometbiug over eleven, 

 there Was a tangled up mass of feet in the center. However, the 

 sleep of the passenger must have been uncommonly deep and sat- 

 isfying, as he got enough of it by i o'clock the next morning, and 

 at that hour he went on deck. The water looked cool and invit- 

 ing, so, slipping off bis night clothes, he dropped over the side. 

 After swimming about for a while, and satisfying himself that his 

 natatorial powers were still retained, he concluded to go back on 

 board. Then he made the. discovery that it was somewhat easier 

 to get into the water from the G. B. than to get into the G. B. from 

 the water. Her rail was above his reach, and after jumping for it 

 and catching it just as he had exhausted the. strength which he 

 had need 01 to pull himself aboard, he hung on the side of the boat 

 like the fender of a tug, and called vociferously to the Editor to 

 come and pull him abotrd. The literary man was aroused at 

 length, but not until the occupants of neighboring yachts, some of 

 whom were females, had come on deck and leveled their glasses 

 at the victim. Observing this, the mau overboard swam to the 

 other side, where the Editor reached down a friendly hand and 

 took him in. Smith protruded his head through the cabin hatch 

 long enough to inquire why the passenger hadn't climbed up the 

 bobstay, as he might easily have done, and then went back to 

 sleep. The passenger then got a field glass, and, sitting down in 

 the cockpit, proceeded very collectedly to familiarize himself with 

 his audience on the other yachts. 



After a breakfast as hearty as the supper bad been, we got out 

 of Oyster Bay, and started for New York, with a fair wind and 

 sun right behind us. Perhaps it wasn't hot and perhaps the pas- 

 senger didn't get his hands and his face burnt, and his neck gir- 

 dled, but appearances were otherwise. There was shade on one 

 side, but there was spray there also, and the water squirted 

 through the scuppers m a moist, disagreeable way. Ollick, dressed 

 in simply undershirt and trousers, was everywhere with bucket, 

 and sponge, sloshing and swabbing right and left. Then followed 

 a scouring process that left every piece of brass on the boat so 

 bright that it shot back the rays of the sun in dazzling little 

 streak; and, the angle of reflection being equal to the angle of in- 

 cidence, one of these streaks mot the passenger in the eye, no 

 matter which way he looked. When Ollick had driven every one 

 three or four times around the yacht with his scrubbing things he 

 disappeared in the forecastle, and when he again emerged he was 

 very gorgeous in a white shirt with navy blue collar, cuffs, and 

 bosom, duck trousers, white as snow, and sailor cap. He took a 

 seat forward, and was for some time an object of deep admiration 

 to the passenger. 



Smith is something of a vocalist. He has a strong bass voice 

 that issues from his elongated larynx with the vibrating effect of 

 a whistling buoy and shakes him like a reed whenever ho exer- 

 cises it. He got himself in the proper frame of mind by a close 

 perusal, at frequent intervals, of a temperance journal, and then, 

 grasping the mast to steady himself, he beguiled the tedium of 

 the day by singing a series of cheerful verses, ending thus: 

 Now all take warning by this 'ere song! 



Yo! ho, ho! and a bottle of rum! 

 Never drink whisky so terribly strong! 

 Yo! ho, ho! and a bottle of rum! 

 Having rounded the bluff and pointed toward home, we had the 

 wind and tide dead against us, and all day long we cut the waters 

 of Long Island Sound into saw-teeth beating down toward that 

 estuary called the East River. A lubberly schooner tried to ac- 

 company us, the captain of which was the most diabolically mean 

 man I ever saw. He blanketed us with his patched and slovenly 



sails whenever be bad a chance, and he would hoavo to and wait 

 for us in order that the chance might occur often. Finally we 

 left him astern, and he went on his evil and malicious way. Later 

 on a big-sailed catboat came down toward us wit h the breeze and 

 rounded up to windward of us, where he lay back stiff for a race. 

 It would have been more polite of him, according to marine 

 etiquette, to go to leeward, and Smith reminded him of the fact 

 in rather plain language. He. didn't appear to be a gentleman, 

 though, and held on. The weather was squally and Smith had 

 ordered our topsail in, but this fellow's breach of good manners 

 awoke the yachtsmen's instinct in htm, and in a moment Ollick 

 had monkeyed up the mast and reset the sail. The G. P.., feeling 

 the increased pressure, dipped a little more of her rail under, gave 

 her head a jaunty toss, and kicking up her heels began to forge 

 through the water with a pleasing rustle. The. fellow had the 

 windward position of us, and his boat was a racing box, but in 

 spite of all that we out-footed him. As we crossed his bows and 

 he dropped astern, Smith gave vent to some derisive language, 

 pointed out, small and insignificant craft which he might tackle 

 for a race with a reasonable prospect of success, and otherwise so 

 harrowed up the man's feelings that he went about and put olT in 

 another direction. 



After the squalls were over the wind died out entirely, and we 

 had to anchor to keep the G. B. from going backward. While 

 we lay there Ollick got supper; then a little breeze ruffled the 

 water, and, taking advantage of it, we bore down upon the anchor- 

 age of the Knickerbocker Y. 0,, of which the Editor and Smith 

 and the G. B. are members. It was dark when we got there: the 

 tide was running like a mill race, and the G. B.'s buoy, to which 

 she was in the habit of tying up, was surrounded by so many other 

 yachts that she had to be warped in by passing a line from one 

 boat to another, and finally to the buoy. During this procoss I 

 found that I had done Ollick injustice in supposing that he had 

 exhausted his powers of objurgation on the previous occasions 

 that had drawn upon them. For, added to the perplexities of 

 darkness, a stilling atmosphere, and a rushing tide bearing us 

 toward some black rocks that looked like the discolored teeth of 

 dragons, a swarm of mosquitoes settled down upon the devoted 

 tar, and made life a burden: I may simply say that Ollick's 

 profanity did the subject simple justice, and whenever he paused 

 tor breath the Editor took up the strain and enriched the air with 

 his ornamental blasphemy. Smith is a member of the Congrega- 

 tional church, but he showed sigus of satisfaction at hearing his 

 sentiments expressed in so much better, terms than he could com- 

 mand. I never saw so many mosquitoes before in my life. The 

 air was thick with them, and their voracity was unbounded. To 

 protect myself from them 1 lay flat upon the floor of the cabin, 

 covering myself, head and heels, with a. blanket, under which I 

 sWeltered until morning broke, and then Ollick, his face and arms 

 swollen from the bites of the pests, took us ashore, and we came 

 to the city. All that day my chair in the office rocked and tipped 

 with a compound motion, as though at sea, and I had only to Close 

 my eyes to find myself back upon the waters of Long island Sound, 

 tossing and dipping among its restless waves. The click of the 

 type as it went into the compositors' sticks answered to the lap, 

 lap of the water against the sides of the yacht, and upon opening 

 mv eyes the delusion was not the more readily dispelled when I 

 observed that in the office and aboard the G. B. the same editor 

 sat at the helm. G. E. M. 



THE DEED OF GIFT.— A well-known barrister and yachtsman 

 has written to us saying he has carefully gone into the deeds of 

 gift and conditions of the America challenge cup, and he is of 

 opinion that any deed subsequent to the original is illegal; also 

 the new deeds and conditions might be held to be as bad. as they 

 create a "perpetuity" in possession, and such a condition is at 

 variance with the meaning of a challenge cup. That is, the con- 

 ditions are such as to make it impossible for any foreign yacht to 

 win the Cup. and the New York Y. 0. will therefore hold it in 

 perpetuity. Perhaps this is exactly what the Americans desire. 

 At any rate, the conditions have always enabled the American 

 yachts to figure as much superior to those of this country, and 

 the new conditions (should any one challenge for the Cup again) 

 will enable them to exhibit this superiority to a much greater ex- 

 tent. This, after all, is a very cheap kind of notoriety, and we can 

 console ourselves with a not irrational belief that our yachts are 

 not so bad as they appear to be when in competition in New York 

 Bay. Some of the American papers are professing to admire the 

 new conditions on account of their wonderful elasticity, and 

 point with a line air of triumph to the clause which allows the 

 parties concerued in the challenge to make any arrangements 

 they like for a match, even to the waiving of the ten months' 

 notice. We quite remember that the club waived the six months' 

 notice in the case of the Li vonia challenge; but then they were 

 quite safe in doing so, as with such vessels as Columbia, Sappho 

 and Palmer, the suddenly altered measurement rule and time 

 scale, and the choice of a vessel on the morning of a race, they 

 had about a 100 to 1 chance. Would they waive the notice in the 

 case of a Thistle? We think not: neither would we. So far as we 

 can see, this wonderful clause is simply a tour de vassfi-jMsse, 

 which could never be used except for the advantage of the Cup 

 holders. So far as the present regime of the New York Y .C. is con- 

 cerned, there is no fear that they would not make a fair match 

 so far as course and such like things are concerned, but they dare 

 not throw away such a chance as ten months' notice if they had 

 the least doubt as to the capability of their best yacht for defend- 

 in^ the Cup.— London Fielrl, Nov. 26. That in which we can agree 

 with the English journals is, that it is to be feared that we will be 

 deprived of the interesting spectacle to which we have been ac- 

 customed for three years, the struggle for the Cup; a struggle of 

 which the final issue should proclaim the superiority of American 

 or English construction. This is specially to be regretted by us, 

 who have so much to gain from the lessons which accompany the 

 contest.— Le Yacht, Nov. %B. 



NO BOTTOM TO IT.— The discovery has been lately made that 

 from a utilitarian standpoint tho famed America's Cup is but a 

 hollow sham, that it has no bottom and cannot be utilized for con- 

 vivial purposes. Whether it will be less highly prized by the 

 present holders on this account remains to be seen, but now that 

 the club has knocked the bottom out of international racing, it 

 cannot complain because the Oup exhibits a similar deficiency. It 

 has long been acknowledged that from an aesthetic point of view 

 the Cup was not a remarkable production, the new deed of gift 

 has entirely destroyed its symbolic value, and now, after this last 

 sad disclosure, it may be asked what is it good for any way? 



SEAWANHAKA C. Y. C— On Saturday last a musicale was 

 given by members of the club at the clubhouse. The attendance 

 was good and the affair was quite successful. The next lecture, 

 ou the history and general theory of navigation, will be delivered 

 on Dec. 10, by Lieut. T. C. McLean, U. S. N., navigating officer of 

 the Dolphin. The lecture will begin promptly at 8:80, and at its 

 close a special meeting will be held to act upon the recommenda- 

 tion of the classification committee. The class in navigation 

 under Capt. Howard Patterson, will begin on Dec. 17, at 8:80, 

 meeting once a week thereafter. An upper room in the club- 

 house has been fitted as a class room. 



GRAYLING.— On Friday last Grayling was lowered from Law- 

 ley's ways, the alterations being completed. 



A NEW DESIGN FOR LAKE ONTARIO.-A yachtsman of 

 Hamilton has lately received a design for a wide cutter from Mr. 

 O. P. Clayton, of Southampton, the designer of the best of the 

 lichen length racers. The design is both deep and wide, with a 

 midship section somewhat like Pappoose. Her dimensions are: 



Length, over all COft. 



l.w.1 42ft. 



Beam 13ft. 5in. 



Draft »ft. 



Least freeboard 2ft. 7in. 



Displacement 30.3 tons. 



Area midship section 48.3sq.ft. 



Sail area-L. Y. R. A. rule aS60sq.ft. 



Sailing length — L. Y. K. A. rule 10.95ft. 



The design shows a clipper stem and long counter, a stern post 

 wit h the rake of tho average cutter, and a rocker to keel, the 

 depth being amidships, rather than aft, with forefoot rounded 

 well away, but not to such an extent as in Thistle. The yacht 

 may be built, this winter. 



HERRESHOFF VS. NAVY LAUNCHES.-Some complaint has 

 been made by naval officers against the Herreshoff launches as 

 compared with the old navy launches built and being in use by 

 (lie Department, and in a recent discussion of the subject Com- 

 mander W. B. Hoff, of the sloop of war Ossippee, compared the 

 former to race horses and the latter to draft horses. A couple of 

 weeks since Captain Bruce, of the Atlanta, senior officer of the 

 North Atlantic Squadron, while at Newport, ordered tho launch 

 of the Ossipee, one of the navy boats, to be tried against the Her- 

 reshoff launch of the Atlanta. The two were joined stern to stern 

 by a heavy hawser, and then both started ahead slowly, increas- 

 ing until they were turning at full speed, the Herreshoff boat first 

 stopping and then towing astern her opponent until the latterwas 

 entirely helpless. Commander Hoff, who followed the race in 

 another launch, was unable to keep up with the Atlanta and her 

 tow, and discovered that the racer was more than a match in all 

 wavs for bis draft horse. 



BOAT BUDDING NOTES.-R. J. Douglas & Co. have partly 

 repaired the damage done by fire in September, by which their 

 shops were destroyed, and now have a large new building erected, 

 containing the boat shop, office, plaining mill, one machine shop 

 and engine and boiler house. They expect to have 20 to 24 stocks 

 busy by Christmas. The firm have been successful with small 

 racing catboats, 15ft. (Sin. X 7ft. 4in., having sold 17 within the past 



six weeks Mr. Rush ton has his entire shop employed on an 



order for 100 Douglas folding boats, prior to beginning to build 

 up stock. He has now at work a builder from Saranac Lake and 

 will add the Saranac boats to his stock In answer to an in- 

 quiry Mr. Clapham informs us that he has built three of the "Fly- 

 ing Pontoons," the largest. 18x4J^ft., and that thev have proved 

 very fast under sail and row easily. They are best in smooth 

 water, but still will stand considerable sea. 



A BRITISH STEAM YACHT FOR AMERICA.-Thc steam 

 yacht Lady Torfrida has been sold by Sir William Pearce to Mr. 

 Bayard Brown, an American, who will start at once on a long 

 ocean cruise. The Lady Torfrida is of steel, about 300ft. l.w.l. and 

 25ft. beam, by 13ft. draft and was built by J. Elder & Co. from 

 their own designs in 1883. She is rated 100 Al at Lloyds. 



THE BURDEN SCHOONER.— Mr. Burgess- has completed the 

 design and Lawley has made a model of the yacht, which will be 

 80ft. 1. w. 1. She resembles Volunteer in sheer plan, but is still 

 deeper, though retaining the centerboard. Lawley & Son will 

 build her, of wood. 



VOLUNTEER. -Captain Haff was in Boston last week to look 

 after the hauling out of Volunteer, and ou Saturday she went on 

 the ways vacated by Grayling, where, she will remain until spring. 

 She will be scraped and painted at once. 



CARRIE E. PHILLIPS.— The new Burgess fisherman sailed last 

 week on her first trip to the Banks. 



GITANA.— Capt. Sherlock is at work fitting out Gitana for a 

 cruise to the West Indies. 



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West Branch, Williamsport, Pa.— The A.K.R. number of your 

 dog is 4080. 



A. F. S., Brooklyn.— The charge you now use is not excessive, if 

 there is no flaw in the barrel. 



E. V., Mount Vernon.— Read "Gibson's Complete Art of Trap- 

 ping," whero the process of tanning sis ins is fully described. 



W. A. W., Cedar Bluffs, Iowa.— We have not access to the Scotch 

 Register. Your dogs are eligible, provided you are sure of the 

 pedigree. 



John, New Lisbon.— For beagles write to some one of our ad> 

 vertisers; and the blanket can be procured from any dealer in 

 sportsmen's goods. 



W. C. K., Columbia, Ala.— To join the Audubon Society it is 

 necessary only to subscribe to the pledges, blank forms of which 

 will be furnished on application by the secretary, P. O. Box 2 832 

 New York. 



I. S. & S., Fayette Court House, Ala.— Will you please refer me 

 to some one breeding St. Bernard and Newfoundland dogs, one 

 whom 1 can fully rely on for fairness. Ans. Consult our advertis- 

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Beagle, Baltimore, Md.— Caul keep successfully through the 

 winter ten or fifteen wild rabbits in a coop 15ft. long, 3ft wide 

 and 3ft. high, sides, top, bottom and endscloselyboarded up' front 

 of wire? Ans. Yes, but it may he necessary to keep the males 

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