Lake Umbagog.
1907.
August 7
Sable
  Sables are very nearly locally extinct. Two or three were
trapped in the winter of 1905-1906 about five miles from the
lake in the township of Cambridge, New Hampshire. There are
perhaps a few there at the present time but certainly none
anywhere nearer the lake. They are still found not so very
uncommonly about Lake Parmachenee. They live and hunt
chiefly on the ground (Alva was positive as to this) but when
chasing Red Squirrels they often climb trees. They haunt, by
preference, mountain sides and crests heavily wooded with
spruces but also to some extent dense overgrown forests
covering level or even swampy country. Alva has never
known one to occur on the shores of the lake but he
can remember when they were common on Hampshire Hill.
When hunting in Aroostook County, Maine, some twelve
or fifteen years ago, he saw a Sable following the trail of
a Rabbit in the snow. Intercepting the Sable he repeatedly 
drove it up a tree. On each occasion it leaped down
to the ground from a height of twelve or fifteen feet,
as soon as he left it, and at once, resumed its pursuit
of the Rabbit which Alva thinks it finally overtook
and killed.