Oct. i, 1898-] 
owned my mammy an' me, an' de Cunnel he's so neah 
my age I can' tell who is de oldes', but we boys went a- 
fishin' an' coon huntin' togedde', an' w'en Ise old nuff 
to wuk in de fiel's young Massa George, we called him, 
got me off fo' a hunt many a day, an' w'en I got a 
wife in de nex' parish he jess bought her so she lib awn 
de plantation." 
"As I had only formed the Colonel's acquaintance by 
accident on the steamer,' I am glad to know something 
of him before I meet him. Tell me all about him." 
"De ole Cunnel died w'en de wah come on fust, an' 
den Mas. George was de Cunnel, an' he — " 
"Did he go to the war and become a colonel?" 
"No, hees wife die, an' he ain' got no time to go to 
wah, wid his trubbles, but hees two boys, young Mas. 
George an' Mas. Tearl,* dey went. Young Mas. George 
was a cap'n and got killed at some place in de State ob 
Atlanta, an' Mas. Tearl he come up fum Po't Hudson 
wid a shot in de lungs, an' he pine away an' die. De ole 
Cunnel he los' hees boys an' he los' hees plan- 
tation fo' a time, an' we black boys, who was 
'mancipated by Linkum, went back to wuk fo' de Cun- 
nel, who had been good to us, an' raised him craps dat 
put him awn his feet ag'in; an' one day, w'en I fotched 
in a whole deer, he said to me: 'Sam, yo' is free, go 
wuk fo' yo'se'f an' don' min' me'; I cried. 
"I took my wife an' chillun away, an' felt as if de whole 
war!' had dropped out undah me; somehow it seem 
wrong to see de Cunnel look so an' wuk so. an' one day I 
went up an' said dat I was comin' back, an' he said: 
'No, Sam, fo' two yahs deys been good crops an' I HP 
de mawgage in two more. yo' is ma kin' a good libin' fo' 
yo' fambly, an' I'se jess as much obleege', an' I'll 
'membe' it.' I do' zackly know w'at he meant by liffin 
a mawgage, but took it dat he was gettin' along, dat's 
how it was; he's up awn hees feet ag'in, an' stid ob 
sendin' him deer, tu'keys an' bear fo' Chris'mas, he dun 
'sen's 'em to us." 
Over the Log Again* 
The same old log was met and passed in the same way 
as before, only the freight had to be piled on it more 
carefully. The turtles had to be evenly balanced as they 
were piled up on it, and we required more room. At the 
landing we found the same boy and mule. As the old 
man piled the turtles into the wagon young Sam said 
"golly" several times, and seemed to anticipate a feast. 
A shave, a general cleaning up, a stroll by the river 
and Sunda)' was passed; I was ready for a few days' 
shooting with the elderly planter, Col. B. 
[to be continued.] 
* That's the way the name looks on my note book, taken 
phonetically from the old darky; possibly the name was Terrill. 
Surf Fishing at Harvey Cedars. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The following is the result of eight days' fishing at 
Harvey Cedars and Barnegat City, N. Y., by C. A. 
Atkins, A. C. Atkins, Peter Both, and Victor de Wy- 
socki, of Asbury Park: H. K. Boyer, of Philadelphia, 
and L. P. Streeter, of Morristown, N. J. The fish were 
all caught in the surf with rod and reel: 
Chas. Atkins — Sept. 20, a channel bass of iolbs.; 21st, 
one of 2ilbs.; 22d, two of 22^2 and iolbs. 
V. de Wysocki — Sept. 14, one striped bass of iolbs.; 
16th, a channel bass of 24lbs. ; 18th, one of 3olbs. ; 20th, 
one of 24"ibs.; 22d, one of iolbs. 
H. K. Boyer— Sept. 18th, a channel bass of 26.j4ll)s-. 
Peter Both — Sept. 21, a channel bass of iolbs.; Sept. 
22, three of 28, 19 and 17-lbs. 
L. P. Streeter — Sept. 17, a channel bass of 2olbs.: 
19th, one of 3olbs.; 20th, one of 2i]/ 2 \bs.; 21st, three of 
19, 19 and i61bs.; 22d, one of iolbs. 
Mr. A. C. Atkins also took a I2lb. sheepshead and a 
r 2lb. black drum. There were in all 426Hlbs. of chan- 
nel bass; and the total catch was 24 fish, weighing 
46o^lbs. L.. P. Streeter. 
Another Veteran Fisherman. 
Congratulations to Mr. Eastman, of Rutland, Vt. 
Please tell him that Mr. R. C. Allen, of Jersey City 
(also a Vermonter by birth and sixty years' residence), 
now in his eighty-second year, on the last Saturday in 
August rode five miles in an Adirondack guide boat 
and then tramped a mile and a half of rough trail 
to fish an accustomed trout stream. Result: Twenty- 
five beauties, mostly 7 to gin. in length (a dozen were 
taken from one place), and a day of pleasure akin to 
that enjoyed in old Vermont by Eastman and Allen 
and Rowland E. Robinson in the long ago of their 
boyhood days. The woods help one to keep young as 
well as strong. Juvenal. 
Snapper Fishing on Long Island, 
Sayville, Long Island, Sept. 24. — Good catches of 
large snappers (young bluefish) are now the rule. The 
dock is full of fishermen, who, as one enthusiast puts it, 
have "more fun than a barrel of monkeys," for the fish 
are fast biters, lively fighters and beauties when brought 
to hand Many are taken too at the mouth of the Gnat 
River. The Deacon. 
The National Beagle Club. 
New York, Sept. 22.— Editor Forest and Stream: A 
field trial meeting of the National Beagle Club was held 
Monday, Sept. 19, at 15 Broad street. Members pres- 
ent included Messrs. Kernochan, Bateman. Purinton, 
Appleton, Schellhass, Wright, Post and Wharton. 
The committee on grounds made a most favorable 
report in regard to holding the trials beginning Mon- 
day, Oct. 24, at Hillsdale, N, J., on the New York & 
New Jersey Railroad, about one hour from Jersey City. 
They said that they had been over the grounds and ha'd 
found them full of rabbits and in every way suitable, the 
country being hilly, but open, with large weed patches. 
Permission to hunt over one farm of 300 acres was 
promised-, and the best of sport can be looked for. 
After an informal discussion of the matter the meeting 
was adjourned. G. Mifflin Wharton, Sec'y. 
he Mmneh 
Fixtures. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Oct. 14-15.— Braintree. Mass. — N. E. K. C. open air show. Ad- 
dress Secretary Open Air Show, Braintree, Mass. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Nov, 7.— Indiana Field Trials Club's trials, Bickncll, Ind. S. 
H. Socwell, Sec'y. 
Nov. 11.— Eastern F.eld Trials Club's trials, Newton, N. C. 
S. C. Bradlev, Sec'y. 
Nov. 15.— International Field Trial Club's trials, Chatham, Ont, 
W. B. Wells, Sec'y. 
Nov. 15-17. — Central Beagle Club's annual trials. L. O. Seidel, 
Sec'y. 
Nov. 22. — Fourth annua! field trials of the Monongahela Valley 
Game and Fish Protective Association, Greene county, Pa. A. 
C. Peterson, Sec'y, Homesdale, Pa. 
Dec. 5-6.— Missouri Valley Field Trial Club's trials. C. H. 
Werner, Sec'y. v 
Dec. 5. — Continental Field Trial Club's trials, Lexington, N. 
C. W. B. Meares, Sec'y.. 
The New Era of Field Trials. 
In a very pleasant letter of recent date, the well-known 
sportsman, Mr. Thomas Johnson, writes concerning 
field trials as follows: 
"As you know, we have tried to raise their prestige 
by using every legitimate, honorable meafns we know. 
Our first work was to eliminate the kickers and those 
who thought only of the dollars and cents. I give 
most credit to our amateur organization, the Western 
Canada Kennel Club. They first held strictly amateur 
trials. The sweets of victory encourage them to bigger 
efforts, and in consequence the winners usually go to 
the open trials. The result is that Manitoba can hold 
successful trials without outside entries, but with these 
coming in also it is doubly interesting. 
"This year we held our championship stake near the 
city, and I can safely say that we had the best attendance 
ever known. Of course, our flat, open prairies, where 
you can drive everywhere, give us unusual advantages. 
These were recognized by a concourse of visitors in every 
kind of vehicle, from the family brougham to ladies on 
bicycles. A conception previously held by lots- of people 
of a field trial was that a race opened the proceedings, 
the dogs chasing after birds, and when one of the dogs 
caught the bird it wound up with a dog fight for its pos- 
session. This fallacy has now been removed in Mani- 
toba, and next year our best people will encourage their 
sons to interest themselves in field trials as one of 
the cleanest and healthiest sports we have. We always 
lacked in Manitoba the interest of the press. Now, how- 
ever, as you will note from the editorial clipping I en- 
close from our leading paper, the Manitoba Free Press, 
we are getting every encouragement in that direction. 
Manitoba, as you know, is 100 per cent, In every kind of 
legitimate sport, and it is very pleasing to me, to note 
that one in which I have been identified through all kinds 
of weather is now recognized as equal to any, and as I 
have always contended superior to most. The clipping 
mentioned is as follows; 
" 'The field trials of '98 have been run, and brought 
to a satisfactory termination, and the sportsmen of 
Manitoba extend a hearty invitation to their visiting 
brothers from Jess favored regions to come another 
year and bring the best their kennels hold. For nothing 
tends more to the advancement of true sport with the 
gun than the co-operation of man's best friend, the dog. 
Wildfowl shooting 'tis true is most glorious sport, and 
the man who can drop unerringly his couple of mallard 
by a neat right and left, or pull down a full-grown honker 
by a well-directed shot, is no mean disciple of the trig- 
ger, but take it all in all the acme of sport is reached 
when a clean kill results from a staunch point. 
" 'He who has a well-broken pointer or setter is hard- 
ly likely to sink to the level of a mere pot-hunter. He 
knows there is a deeper, truer joy in following the 
almost human indications of his humble companion, and 
the weight of the bag then becomes but .a poor index of 
the pleasures of a day in the field- The more broken 
dogs we have, and the more the younger generation see 
of their marvelous intelligence, the better for'tKe^ifSffe 
of the feathered game of the prairie.' " 
Thos. Johnson, 
A. K. C. Meeting, 
A meeting of the American Kennel Club was held 
on Sept. 22, at the club rooms, 55 Liberty street. Mr. 
H. H. Hunnewell presided. The treasurer reported that 
the receipts since Jan. 1 were $5,773.21, and the expenses 
$5,681.08, with a total balance on hand of $4,368.62, as 
compared with a balance of $3,729.75 in September, 
1897. 
The principal business before the meeting was amend- 
ments to the rules for the benefit of Pacific Coast shows. 
Apparently the members on the coast had agreed upon 
certain requests submitted a month ago. The main 
one was indorsed by the Kennel Club rules committee, 
but owing to the receipt of a telegram from the San 
Francisco Kennel Club secretary, as to the meaning of 
which there was some doubt, the subject was laid over 
until the December meeting. The only adopted amend- 
ments of importance were regarding the winners' 
classes, which must now be specified in the premium 
list, and from that there can be no subsequent deviation. 
It is optional with the club to announce such winners' 
classes as they see fit, and three wins therein entitle 
a dog to the title of champion and an American Kennel 
Club medal. 
The resignation of James Watson as secretary of the 
Stud Book committee, a position he had held for many 
years, was accepted, and Marcel A. Viti, of Philadelphia 
was elected to fill the vacancv. 
Champion Count Gladstone IV. 
We publish this week a portrait of champion Count 
Gladstone IV., famous as a competitor in many field 
trial contests. He is now owned by the Verona Ken- 
nels, of San Francisco, Cal. 
PRIZES FOR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS. 
The Forest -and Stream offers prizes for meritorious 
work with the camera, under conditions which follow: 
The prizes will be divided into three series: (1) for 
live wild game; (2) for game in parks; (3) for other sub- 
jects relating to shooting and fishing. 
(1) For live game photographs three prizes are of- 
fered, the first of $50, the second of $25, and the third of 
$10. 
(2) For live game in parks, for the best picture, a 
prize of $10. 
(3) For the best pictures relating to Forest and 
Stream's field-— shooting and fishing, the camp, camp- 
ers and camp life, sportsman travel by land and water, 
incidents of field and stream— a first prize of $20, a sec- 
ond of $15, a third of $10, and for fourth place two prizes 
of $5 each. 
There is no restriction as fed the time nor as to where 
the pictures have been made or may be made. 
Pictures will be received uo to Dec. 31 this year. 
All work must be original; that is to say, it must not 
have been submitted to any other competition or have 
been published. 
There are no restrictions as to the make or style of 
camera, nor as to size of plate. 
A competitor need not be a subscriber to the Forest 
and Stream. 
All work must be that of amateurs. 
The photographs will be submitted to a committee, 
"dio, in making their award, will be instructed to take 
into consideration the technical meiijs of the work as 
a photograph, its artistic qualities, and other things be- 
ing equal, the unique and difficult nat ure of the subject. 
Photographs should be marked for identification with 
initials or a pseudonym only, and villi each photograph 
should be given, answering^ to the initials, the name of 
sender,, title of view, loealitft date and narne-s of camera 
and plate or film. 
