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F^O:^fiSt^ AND STREAM. 



THE WHITE SHOSHONE* 



THIS 19 the title of a poem by our correspoTident, Mr. Charles 

 L. Paige, wh'ch gives, in remarkablv smooth verse, an ancient 

 tradition current among that tribe of the appearance among 

 them of the tirst white man that they had seen. The story is 

 divided into six chapters, which tell of the condition of things in 

 the earlv days after the Indians had obtained horses, yet before 

 they knew the whites or firearms. This chapter closes with the 

 appearance of the white man. The second chapter tells of his 

 reception by the tribe and of the Indians' speculations and futile 

 efforts to learn whence the strange being had com". They learned 

 nothing of this, vet the man, whom they named Malo, lived with 

 them, proved himself skUlful and helpful to all and was loved. 

 At the close of the third and opening of the fourth chapter, a 

 party of warriors come to the Shoshone camp, and report meet- 

 ing with white men far to the south and east. They had had a 

 battle with them, had lost some of their own people and had 

 killed all the white men and one woman. A second woman they 

 had taken alive. Malo, with a party of Snakes, starts out to 

 rescue the woman, does so and brings her back to the Shoshone 

 camp. He comes to love her, but she feels herself a captive, re- 

 fuses to listen to him, wishes to return to her people, and at 

 length, when it is learned that other white men are near, Malo 

 gives her his great horse Kosah, and she rides away, and does not 

 return. The horse returns, and soon after this Malo himself 

 departs and the Shoshones see him no more. All this was many, 

 many years ago. Yet they believe that now he often rides over 

 the d'esolate sage plain, followed by a thousand braves, and that 

 some day they will s«e him again. Ho will appear mounted as of 

 old on his great black horse, and with a wave of his hand will 

 call up from the grave the warriors who knew and loved him in 

 tlie past. 



The poetn is full of deep, tender feeling. All through it runs 



* The White Shoshone, by Charles L. Paigf. Author's Edition. 

 San Francisco: The Bancroft Company. 1890. 



the sad plaint of regret over the change that the years have 

 wrought in the life of the aborigines. The hopelessness of it all 

 is pitiful. 



"With Flt-Rod axd Camera."— This is a book which 

 makes one wish that he could have been the hero of the story, 

 but failing in having that wish gratifled, the angler and 

 lover of nature is well satisfied to have the narrative at 

 second hand. What makes this a remarkable book is not 

 only the excellence of the text and the beauty of the typo- 

 graphy, but it is the wonderful illustrations which the book 

 contains. When we state that there are 150 full-page plates, 

 reproduced from photographs of fishing scenes, etc., in the 

 land of the salmon, one can realize what a treat the book 

 contains. The text of the volume is conversational in style, 

 and while free from technical terms it conveys a vast fund 

 of information, suitable even for beginners, relative to fly- 

 fishing for salmon, sea trout, bass, etc. The author of the 

 volume, E. A. Samixels, is president of the; Massachusetts 

 Fish and Game Association, and an ardent sportsman, as 

 the pages of his book attest. In closing his delighttul vol- 

 ume Mr. Samuels says: "Reader, my story is told. I have 

 endeavored to describe to you the charm of an angler's life. 

 I have succeeded poorly, I am certain, but I have shown how 

 and where you may enjoy them. To appreciate them in the 

 highest degree you must go to them. Do so; take fly-rod 

 and camera, caiup outfit, and canoe, and seek the beautiful, 

 the graceful, the gamy denizens of the rivers and lakes; 

 follow them in their wildest haunts, and, my word for it, 

 you will never, never regret it." Ah! if we could enly follow 

 the advice.— St. Loim 0-rocer. 



Engineer Faust has been making a few trips of late on the 

 southern end of the division, and while flying down the road 

 on his steam horse be noticed on every trip what appeared 

 to be three monstrous crows at a point near the bayou. They 

 were such gigantic ravens that he longed to get one for a 

 curiosity, so he drove down in bis buggy, loaded for crow. 



Sure enough, there they were, and Staking his horse he crept 

 up and blazed away, downing one of them nicely. To his 

 surprise, however, tlie two remaining, instead of flying away 

 as he expected, came for him with a rush. He braced him- 

 self, and as they got near he dropped another one, but the 

 third swooped down on the back of his neck. He drove it ofl: 

 in a moment or two and picked up his dead birds, which 

 proved to be eagles. He brought them to town, and, after 

 ail, feels as highly elated as though they had been crows.— 

 Tvlare (Cal.) ReqUter. 



Antelope and Deer of America. By J. D. Caton. 

 Price $2.50. Wing and Glass Ball Shooting tvith the 

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 Uthogi-aphic plates. Price $1. Contains full historij of the great 

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