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back coyly at me, flirted his tail in adieu and disappeared in 
the wood. 
In going doW^n the road one evening just before sunset I 
saw an exemplification of Mr. Hough's astral body. _ I was 
wheeling along a portion of the road cut out of the side hill 
and open to the lake The sun was nearly down, its slant- 
ing b3atns flooding the water with glory. GHancing to my 
tight, I saw clearly defined on uhe steep bank two shadowy 
Wheel mtn, one above the other, pedaling along beside me. 
1 called to my wifej and being . assured that she saw the 
same phenomena, I thought of E. Hough and theosophy, and 
— bosh i 
We have been very fortunate this year in having for 
neighbors in a deserted cottage but a gunshot away, a gen- 
tleman and his two sons, Who are fishermen "from way 
back.'' They bring us daily, pickerel, pike-perch and bass 
until we are surfeited, and we send home fine fellows, and 
get the reputation of being what we are not. One lovely 
day just after dinner we shut the doors and mounting our 
Wheels struck out into the country, over roads we had never 
traveled. It seemed like spinning through fairyland. Nor 
was the idea dispelled when we came to the great, comfort- 
able farmhouse of a cousin, where a warm welcome and a 
splendid supper awaited us. Here we tarried all night, and 
in the morning wheeled over to another cousin's, a veritable 
Sir Roger de Coverly, eighty two years of age, of whom I 
hope to write some time — whose yards, although thronged 
with picturesque hop-pickers and the whole household busy 
as bees, still had time to sit down with his hospitable wife 
and bid us welcome. We were at the cottage again at 4 
p. M., vowing this little side issue the pleasanlest of all. 
The Bochester Water-Works people have acquired a large 
amount of shore rights at Hemlock tiake, but a great many 
cottages still remain. So long as visitors to these cottages 
comply with the simple requirements of the water works 
people, none of which are beyond the pale of decency and 
cleanliness, no one will be interfered with. The company 
have broken up the excursion, hotel and picnic business, and 
that seems to be all they desire. So for Vquiet outing your 
correspondent sincerely hopes tbat Hemlock Lake may be 
Ms Mecca for many years. H W. D. L. 
CoMpoET Cove CoTTAriB, Hemlock Lake, N. T , Sept., 1897. 
MEMORIES OF THE MERRIM AC VALLEY. 
Chaelebtowst, ]Sr. H., Sept. 27 — Editor Forest and 
Stream: One of your correspondenis, a few wetks since, 
speaks of catching some fine trout in a brook long since 
supposed to be depopulated, within fifteen or twenty miles 
of Boston, and it has recalled to me memories of some such 
brooks, not quite so near, perhaps, which had good trout in 
them fifty years ago, but which were known only to a few, 
and the secret of which was jealously guarded. They were 
in the towns of Tewksbury, Billerica and Wilmington, and 
were atUuents of the Merrimac River, in former days one of 
the most fertile s'reams of any in New England for all the 
varieties of the Salmonidm. These brooks wrre known to a 
few old anglers in Lowell, when I went there in 1841, fresh 
from the New Hampshire trout streams, but I never could 
find out just where they were. 
Robert Butcher, a skilled English angler, who has charge 
of the finishing department of the Merrimac Print Works; 
Chas. Leighton, the overseer of the packing room, and Gros- 
venor Bultrick, commonly called Grove, one of the master 
mechanics in the Lowell machine shop, knew them and 
used to get some good trout out of them every season, but the 
3'oungsters were i ever let into the secret of the locality. 
1 remember Leighton bringing home a 31b. trout one day, 
which he said he caught in a brook in Ptpperell, Mass., 
which emptied into the Nashua River, and that into the 
Merrimac, and this biings me back to my statement of the 
w^onderful fertility of the Merrimac River and all its tribu- 
t iries, in all the varieties of the trout and salmon family. 
All these streams come direct from the granite hills of New 
Hampshire, and are usually as limpid and clear as crystal, 
and while within my recollection the salmon went free.}' up 
the river until they came to the dam at Lowell, for I have 
eaten salmon at Lowell caught in the Merrimac the eame 
morning — all the tributaries and feeders were full of trout, 
which were lo be taken at the very mouths of the brooks 
where they discharged into the river, Here on the Con- 
necticut the case is oifferent. The long, broad stretches of 
"intervale ' or meadow land next the river make the brooks 
still and sluggish when they are reached, and I have never 
found it worth while io fish a brook clean down, but on the 
Meirimac the last few rods are often a set of rapids, and I 
have taken the biggest trout of the day in such a rapid the 
very last thing. 
As I said, "we youngsters" were never initiated into the 
homes of "the big fellows'"; but duiing my sis years' resi- 
dence in Lowell, I found a few small brooks quite near at 
hand, where 1 could get small trout every spring, though I 
usually reserved my fun for my_ annual fortnight's vacation, 
the last of May or the first of June, when I came up home 
and spent most of my time on my old tramping grounds. 
In 1848 1 went down to help build the new city of Law- 
rence, and I found one brook "right in the limits" (where it 
is all built over now), and still another down on the Haver- 
hill road, the north side of the river. I remember one day's 
outing Irom Lowell up into the town of Litchfield, N H., 
just over the Slate line, lo what has always been celebrated 
as "the Brickyard brook." 
In a sketch of "A Day on Bear Brook," a few weeks since, 
I spoke of some of my Lowell friends coming up to Hook- 
set, N. H., and having great succes?, and as it happened 
the chances and changes of life planted me for a few years 
in Manchester, N. H.. in 1858, and it was not long before I 
made the acquainiaL,ce of a number of good brooks in the 
immediate vicinity of that growing and thriving city. My 
first visit lo one of Ihem, ttie Bowman Brook, not three 
miles from the city, I well remember. It was a warm 
Saturday afternoon in early May, and after hitching our 
horse to the woodshed of an outlying dis rict schoolhouse, 
my companion and guide and 1 struck the brook, which 
dove under the road within a few yards. My first cast was 
into the, fall which the brook made into a culvert under the 
road, and was instantly rewarded by a trout a foot long, 
greatly to the astonishment of my companion, who was used 
to fishing in deep holes and quiet waters. "We followed up 
the brook through an overflo wed meadow, where we could 
sometimes only trace the channel by the little bushes which 
grew on the proper banks, and before nightfall 1 had a very 
nice basket. 1 afterward fished the same brook down from 
the same point with good success, and found three or four 
more good brooks in the immediate vicinity of the city, one 
of which, the Daw ah, I often visited a dozen years later in 
company with your correspondent, Mr. W. W. Oolbuni, of 
Springfield, Mass., then the principal of the High School at 
Manchester. 
Then came the troublous times of the war, and 1 did not 
have much cance for angling; but there was a time when 
there was a coal famine in New England, and the large 
manufacturing concern of which I was manager had to burn 
wood under their boilers, and I was obliged to go out into 
the country every spring to inspect lots of wood whicJ had 
been cut the previous winter and piled where it lay. These 
trips took me up the valley of the Piscataquog, a tributary 
which falls into the Merrimac at West Manchester, through 
the toWns of Goflfstown, Weare, Dearing and New Boston, 
as far as Erancestown and Lyndeborough, and I always 
started early and took my fishing tackle and a lunch along, 
so as to get in a full day's work of some kind. I found 
plenty of irout streams and plenty of trout in them, and I 
think the Hon. John M. Parker, of Goffstown, ex-State 
Senator, member of the Council, etc., etc , jvill recall one 
memorable day on the headwaters of the Piscataquog, when 
he took the main stream up into Weare, while I followed up 
a branch into Lyndeborough, and both of us filled our 
baskets. We had several other good days together on other 
branches of the stream. 
In '65 I left Manchester for some years, returning ia 71, 
and then Mr. Colburn and I "toak to water" together, and 
still later my youngest san, Rob, came in as a pupil, and he 
afterward j jined me in several trips up to Plymouth and 
Waterville. 1 will not take up time in further enumeratioa. 
Whittier made "Babboosac Brook," not far west of Man- 
chester, famous in the "Bridal of Penacook," and I will 
only say that the Valley of the Merrimac, as I have known 
it, and as it may be again by careful stocking, is one of the 
finest natural trout regions in New England. Von W. 
'he Mmnet 
FLORIDIAN AND TURTLE. 
FoKEST AND Streah reasous well when it declares that 
our wholesale destruction of turtle eggs must cease or the 
"ocean hen" will soon be unknown along the Florida coast. 
But it mistakes the name of the beast. The green tuitle is 
only found in Florida waters during the winter, and does 
not" habitually trust its eggs to our sand. The loggerhead 
and hawksbill or turnback are our familiar varieties. And 
the slaughter is not confined to their eggs. The layers them- 
The Turtle: "please table mb in, too. 
From the 'Flortda Times-Umon and CiUsien. 
selves are butchered for a dish of soup, and the greater part 
of the huge carcass is wasted. What can be done? 
The private owners of Cumberland Island, on the Georgia 
coast, forbid the slaughter of the turtle, and leave a reason- 
able percentage of the eggs to hatch. If so much should be 
done on the Government reservations along the coast, great 
good might be accomplished. And the State could easily 
supplement the work if more should be needed. For two 
months the turtle is helpless, and the butcher exerts neither 
labor nor skill. The flesh is not so delicate as that of its 
smaller brother, the green turtle, but as the latter disappears 
the sauces make up the difference between the two. 
Our Florida turtles are of great value as a food supply, 
but if man joins the bear and the hog to destroy their nests, 
their day is not long in the earth or on the aea,.— Florida 
Times- Union and Citizen. 
The Furlough Lake Trespass Case. 
The case against Hiram and Aaron Graham for fishing 
trespass on Furlough Lake, on Mr George J. Gould's pre- 
serve in the Catskills, was decided last week. The defense 
made the claim that as Furlough Lake had been stocked by 
the State, it was open to the public for fishing, but the 
plaintiff showed in rebuttal that the waters could not be 
reached except by trespass upon Mr. Gould's lards surround- 
ing the lake. The jury found for the plaintiff in 6 cents 
damages. 
CHAINED 
to Business? * 
Can't go Shootirtgr? 
Do the next b«st thing* 
Read Ihe 
Forest AAA Streaffk 
FIXTURES. 
BfeNCH SHOWS. 
iiby. 93 — MetropolUau Eennel Club's second anhaal show, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Oct. 25,— Brunswick Fur CLub's ninth annual trials, iBarre, Mass. 
Nov. 1.— Dixie Red Fox Club's third annual meet. Waverly, Miss. 
Nov. 1.— NewEngland Beagle Club's trials, Oxford, Mass. 
Nov. 2.— Monongahela Valley Game and Fish iTotective ASscffci- 
ation's trials, Greene county. Pa. 
Nov. 2.— Hooaier Beadle Club's inausuraltrials, Indiana. 
Nov. 8.— Union Field Trials Club's trials-, Carlisle, Ipd. 
Nov. O.^Central Beagrle Club's trials, Sbarpaburg, Pa. 
Nov. 9.— Peninsular Field Trial Club's trials, Leamington, Ont. 
Nov. 15.— E F. T. Club's trials, Newton, N. C. 
Nov, ] 6.— International Field Trials Club's eighth annual, trials, 
Chatham, Ont. 
Nov. sa.-LT. S. F. T. Club's autumn trials, Newton, N. C. 
1898, 
Jan. 10.— U. S. F. T Club's winter trials, West Point, Miss. 
.Ian 17 — (Continental F. T. Club's trials, New Albany, Miss. 
.Jan. 24 —Pacific Coast Field Trial Club s trials, Bakersfleld, Cal. 
SCHOOLING THE DOG.-XIV. 
To the novice, the manner in which a dog conducted Ms 
ranging would seem to be a simple matter, one which was 
deserving of but little consideration. It would seem that a 
dog would only need to gallop out and search for birds and, 
so that he kept on galloping, nothing more was required. 
In practice he will find that a dog may be a good galloper 
and, even in a section of country containing an abundance 
of birds, he may succeed in finding but few. Heels require 
brains and no.se to supplement them. 
The best ranger is the one which beats out the ground on 
both sides of the shooter, crossing from right to left and 
from left to right with intelligent regularity, governing his 
course by the nature of the -ground. Let us assume that he 
is seeking quail. Bare or unpromising ground, such as 
plowed ground, closely grazed pasture land, etc., he skirts 
or avoids. In a favorable section of country the dog beats 
out the ground on the right and left of his handler, but with 
no strict observance of a regular range. He governs his 
efforts by the circumstances of the bird's habitat. He ranges 
from one likely place to another, and he skirts along at all 
times the stretches which in his judgment are the most 
promising for concealment;, to the birds. If birds are plenti- 
ful, he beats out a much less area than when they are scarce. 
He knows what is good feeding ground and the best time for 
finding them on it. 
In the chicken country, that is, on the broad prairie, where 
there is but little difiference of surface apparent to the un- 
trained eye, the dog may not need to exercise so much good 
judgment in beating out his ground as he needs in seeking 
quail, but it is a mistake to assume that he does not need to 
range with good judgment nevertheless. The prairie has its 
undulations, its little watersheds, with their irregular net- 
work of coarser grasses, much coarser and of ranker growth 
than the grasses of the higher ijround, and these places are 
the favorite haunts of the birds during the warm hours of 
the day. In the morning and evening, the favorite times of 
food seeking, they are to be found on the higher ground, 
where the growth is shorter and insect life more abundant, 
and in season on the grain fields. 
Of two chicken dogs of equal ability in everything but 
knowledge of the bird's habits and habitat and judgment in 
ranging, both running together and each covering as wide a 
range as the other, the one with the better knowledge and 
judgment will find many more birds than his fellow. 
The successful finder notes all the difiierent conditions 
which are favorable or unfavorable to his seeking, and takes 
every advantage which may be of use in making a find; the 
other runs as fast and as wide, but over all parts of the 
prairie alike. The wise dog ranges much wider where birds 
are scarce than where they are plentiful. 
Some chicken dogs, naturally intelligent and wise from 
long experience, rarely beat out a wheat stubble across and 
back; they skirt along the edge, going clear around it, using 
their noses carefully every moment of the time. If birds 
have gone in to feed, or, having fed, have run out into the 
grass, the dog is sure to cross the trail. Catching scent, it is 
but the work of a moment for him to follow it up and locate 
the birds. A skillful dog, after catching scent, will go to his 
birds with a quickness and directness which seem marvel- 
ous to those who have been accustomed to shoot over dpgs 
of mediocre ability. Yet it has been shown in a prior p^per 
that a dog may range well and still find but few birds; and 
this may be the result of functional dullness of the nose as 
an organ of scent, or from inattention to the practical use of 
it, though the dog may seem to beat out his ground with an 
earnest purpose to find. 
To sum up as to what constitutes ideal ranging, the dog 
must possess a high order of intelligence. Before he fcan 
range in the best manner he must have had sufficient experi- 
ence to learn what sections the birds prefer for a habitat, 
their habits and the peculiar devices they exercise to evide 
pxirsuit. Without such knowledge he may, apparently, 
range well, but he simply runs till he comes across birds. 
In a way, It is precisely the same knowledge that the shooter 
must also possess. Of two shooters, the one knowing what 
babitat the birds would seek and also knowing their habits, 
the other not knowing anything of these, no explanation is 
needed as to which would be the most successful. The in- 
telligence which the shooter must exercise to make the gun 
a success, the dog must similarly exercise in behalf of his 
nose. The range should be bounded by the peculiarities of 
the section worked, and also, as to its width, should not be 
too wide with reference to the gun. The ground should be 
worked out with reasonable thoroughness; and as to that, 
what might be a thorough working of the ground by one 
dog might not be at all so when done by another, thus a dog 
with a very keen nose, which would command a wide scope, 
would thoroughly beat out a certain section in a manner 
which would be impossible for a dog with a dull nose to 
copy and do thoroughly. Whether the dog's range be wide 
or narrow, he should always adjust it with reference to the 
whereabouts and purposes of the gun. 
In a close country he should not range so as to be out of 
sight any appreciable length of time, nor should he range 
too far on the prairie. If the dog is out of sight the shooter 
cannot know what he is doing, and if he points he is diffi- 
.cult to find; if he points a mile away on the prairie it is more 
of labor than of pleasure to go so far for a shot. In ranging 
at his best, the dog should take an e^sy, ranging gallop, one 
that he can maintain several hours in succession, or all day 
if he have the endurance. A dog which trots all day a few 
yards away from the shooter is but little better than no dog 
so far as quail and chicken shooting is concerned, and the 
one which runs furiously, extended to his utmost, for thirty 
minutes or an hour, then quits from exhaustion or from 
having enough, is no better, and^in fact is not so good. When 
a dog is going at his utmost. It rai-ely happens that he is 
using his nose, and still rarer is it that he can use it if he 
tries, for from the great exertion and labored breathing 
which follows, the scenting powers are impaired for the time 
being and the dog is then said to be "off his nose." The 
same phenomena are exhibited by some dogs when they are 
greatly fatigued. They make many flashes and false-point 
frequently. 
The general circumstances of good ranging now being 
