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pigeon requires some little care, not so much from the 
very vigorous manner in which these little birds scratch 
and bite as from the unpleasant habit they possess, in 
common with many sea birds, of ejecting upon their 
captor the oily, ill-smelling contents of theif stomachs, 
In fact, the cape pigeon, like the Mother Carey's chicken, 
must not be examined too closely, for these bifds have 
a strong, musty smell, that endures in (nil vi'gor ftor 
years; but seen fi-om a little distance, skimming oVer 
the water, rising and falling with the waves, they are very 
prettjf to look upon. Other sea birds thefe are, circling 
far and near in search of food; the gull-like fulmar, whose 
dainty plumage seems almost snow-white against the 
storm clouds, and, in striking- contrast, his Sooty relative, 
the big, black, aAvkward-looking giant fulmar, called 
cape hen by sailormen. This last is the wisest of all sea 
birds, and is rarely to be lured into taking a hook. He 
will pick up loose bits of pork fast enough, but yoilr 
most tempting bait has no charms for him, and as he 
sails contemptuously by, he turns his big, yellow beak 
toward you and solemnly winks one eye. The molly- 
mawk, own cousin to the albatross, is on hand, too, and 
last and biggest of all, the albatross himself, the king 
of sea fowl. 
Wliile this great bird could be easily takfert in days 
gone by, it seems to haA'e gained wisdom b)'- expei^ience, 
and nowada3's, unless pressed by hunger, shows a wh'ol'e- 
some distrust for any present with a string tied 'to it. 
Even -when hungry, it is no easy matter to coax an old 
•alibatross into taking a hook, and it is ilsually the young 
ifdlows, 'birds a year or two old, which fall victims to 
their appetites. The younger birds are easily recognized 
iby fheix dark brown plumage; the old birds are white, 
witih black wings, and those of intermediate ages are 
more or les-s gra^i xm tlie back. 
To catch an albatross requires in the first place a 
goodly stock >of patience, and in the secoiTd, 200 feet of 
Tine. This mucli is needed in order that the bait may be 
well away from the ship, and the last 50 feet should be as 
iigM as possible, not only that 'it may not 'be noticed 'by 
the albatross, hnt that its weight will not pull the bait 
under. And, even with the Hghe'$t line, a float "must be 
attached near the liook or the bait will sink so deep as 
tiQ be literally beneath notice. 
Being of goodly size and portly presence, the -allbafroSs 
seems fully aware of his own importance, and at times 
his movements are painfully deliberate. Thus, while he 
may plump himself down beside the bait quickly enough, 
this is mei-ely to claim possession, and does not inipl^- 
that he is in any hurry to take it. While he sit^i there 
a friend arrives, or possibly two, and the. first tpriier has 
to explain that the piece of fat pork Is his and that he 
intends to eat it at his leisure. Now even in a .^ale 'a 
ship forges ahead at the rate of a mile or two ■an.'io'in", 
and by the time the bait question has been settled, and 
the albatross is ready to take it, you h-ave ^ohie to the end 
of 250 feet of line, and just as the bird bends forward 
the pork is jerked from under his nose and disappears 
beneath the water. This may happen several times in 
succession, and each time the bird takes several minutes 
to reflect upon the uncertainty of things, so that tl'ie 
need of a supply of patience is evident. But JierhapS 
after casting a reproachful look at a passing capt 
pigeon the albatross spreads his wings, itiakes 'a half 
circle, comes upon your bait again, and this time takes 
it in earnest. Now comes the tug of wfit. Your fingers 
are cold, stiff and greasy; the bird sttong and heavy; the 
line wet and slippery, and if you slacken it for half a min- 
ute the albatross is off. Stil! i! lie pursues his usual tactics 
and does not resort to the strategy of flying toward yOU 
all will doubtless go well. The usual tactics afe lo sit 
up, back water vigorously with both feet, and flat hi-S 
wings, or for a change hold them out, to act as drags. 
Wlien you remember that each foot is nearly as big as 
one's hand, and that the wings are lO feet across, it is 
-e^asy to see that pulling in a lo-pound bird is sometkiUj^ 
■of a task. Once on board, however, he i,s Secure; folr, 
\v'hile the albatross can breast the fiercest gale, an^ veie.y 
likely keep on the wing for days at a stretch, he is quite 
unable to rise from the deck, and waddles Ungracefully 
about, snapping at any one who ttlay Come near. 
This great bird's powers of flight ate indeed remarkable. 
Sailors sometimes fasten a tag, duly inscribed With th'e 
ship's name, the date, latitude and longitude, tO the fteek 
or leg of a captured albatross, and then turn him loose. 
In the museum of Brown University is a specimen thus 
tagged which was again taken aJter an interval of twelve ' 
days, during which time he had flown over 3,000 miles. 
How much over we cannot even guess, but as an 
albatross circles over the water as a well-trained dog 
quarters the ground in pursuit of game, it must have been 
considerable. 
It really seems a pity to kill so fine a bird, and if yon 
are mercifully inclined you will turn the captive loose 
after an hour or so in durance vile, and not deliver him 
up to the sailors, who will make pipe stems of his wing 
bones and tobacco pouches of the feet and scrape the 
skull to preserve the powerful beak as a "curio." But 
while we have been fishing for birds the morning has 
sped. "Eight bells" sounds, and we wind up our lines 
to prepare for dinner. F. A. Lucas. 
A Votaciotjs Pike* 
When trolling for pike in Loch Coultre I hooked on a 
blue phantom, a pike, of 7% pounds. On my gillie taking 
the fish into the boat, he exclaimed, "This rascal has been 
hooked before," and sure enough I saw a piece of gimp 
18 mches long sticking out of his mouth. We killed the 
fish, and then, taking hold of the gimp, I hauled on it 
Avithout effect. Taking a knife, the gillie opened up the 
fish and cut from its inside a trolling tackle, carrying no 
less than ten hooks, to which was attach'ed as a sinker the 
hind leg of a toy lead stag about 3 inches in length. I 
may say that the tackle bore a very home-made look about 
It, but the bait was entirely gone, showing it must have 
been in the fish's stomach for a considerable time. Can 
any other angler say with truth that he has killed a pike 
with a haunch of venison in its stomach ?— London Field 
The Forest and Stkeau is put to press each week on Tuesday. 
Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the 
lit«f t Monday and as niiicfi e«rU«r as practicable. 
Some Bosten Fishermen.^ 
BosTON^, Aug. 24.— Messrs. W. J. Follett an'd Georgle 
W-. Brown, with Mrs. Follett and Mrs. Brown, have just 
returned from a very enjoyable summer fiihirig trip. 
These Boston gentlemen, with several of their friends, 
are owners of a camp in the neighborhood of Sourde 
hunk Stream, some thirty miles up the Penobscot waters 
above Norcross, Me. They make a trip every spring- 
to their camp, and haye great fishing in waters that are 
luidisturbed by the rabble, l^or some time Mr. Follett 
has had a summer trip in mind, and to take his wife 
with him, siie being a great lover tof the Avoods and fish- 
ing. It was not difficult to .induce Mr. and Mrs, BroWb 
to accompany them, since there is a bond of friendship 
between them such as only camping and liviiig in cloSe 
communion with nature can develop. But the question 
was. Could the ladies stand a canoe and carry trip of 
about thirty miles up Twin Lakes and through the car- 
ries? The thing has been done, however, and the laaies 
went from Norcross through f;o cahip in one day; a trip 
that men have i^sually beeii two days about. They had 
five guides, so that everything was transported in the 
easiest manner possible. They reached camp at 7 o'clock 
in the evening, soon after which a tremendous rain set 
in. The fishing during their stay was all that could be 
asked toward nightfall, but nothing in the middle of the 
day, and not up to expectations in the morning. They 
fished a number of streams in the woods that are fished 
but very little, if at. all;, and their success was great-. 
The ladies greatly enjoyed the trip, and ate reaay to go 
again at the first opportunity. Only the artificial fly 
is permitted at that Camp, except when Mr. Follett at- 
tempts to U.se his finger lor bait. The hook had to 
be broken over a rock, by the guide, and the point 
'turned out in a forward direction, since it was in so far 
over the barb. The guide u?ed his partly closed jack- 
knife for tweezers. Mr. FolMt alVay's carries a nice 
pair in. his kit.. for just such pur'i^oses, but they were at 
camp, four or five mile's awhy. 
Alvin R. Flanders, Jr.. of Newton, wVite'S his fath'e'r 
here, from Stanstead, Quebec, that he is having a great 
time fishing. VVith a couple of young, (rietids. Gardnei" 
Stevens and Wilder Pierce, he has been to 'A trout 
stream in the woods, some eVghl br ten tuiles. and m.ade 
a day of It. Thev ifished Up the streaUi,' and. secured fifty 
beautiful trout. Judging by young Flanders' description, 
the brook trq'Ut of th^it part of the country amount to 
something. The Vrooks are not fished, to death. The 
string was pronounced a fine one for boys scarcely in 
theii- tfe'enis. SpfeciAt, 
A Salmon in a Thunderstormv 
Worn iki LdfeOin P'MA 
HooKt^^t; a salViiWi ift 2i t\lunderstorm is so unusual 
an oceurr^fentje nm. au experience which I had during 
one of th"^^ lire storms may be of interest. Consequent 
on A tnVmderstorm there had been a small flood the pre- 
y5o'u's day, just sufficient to malte it barely possible for 
iresh fish to come up from the sea; but, owifif to the 
dryness o[ the ground, so rapidiy had the water rtm off 
during the night that tlie next mornhig 1 fcuud the river 
low, although still a good eobr. tt was sultry and bp- 
pressive; there was ub wiud, and the sky was eohipleteV 
overcast with dark, lowering cloUdS; Wliieh rolled ai3.out 
in such ominous fashion tiiat oH^ eo.uld oiily speeUlat^ 
as to when .and Where thfe . first i^xjjiosioii woUld take 
plaee. The ligkl oh, jbt. fathef iH, the Water was sUeh 
as i had never .s€en Befofe., tt sfeemed to come froiti 
below histead of above, .and, although the. Wtttel- wafe 
more than u.sually stained for sizfe, tlifc bottom was 
glaringly dislihct even bt depths where in the lowest 
and cleiarfei^t \Va.tfei- i.t would be .irivisible. Most aptly 
my jgillit' described the watei- as being "full of fire." I 
wandered on from stream to stream, making a cast or 
two here and there, but only. in a half-hearted manner, 
and one could not but think "of the Tweed fisherman'.s 
saying that ther^ are tiiues in salmon fi,ibina' when even 
if one were to "bait the heiik. .Wi' the Lairdf pf Coekpeil 
and hife li&t and feathers they'd no look at him." Pres- 
ently we came to a pool tail which narrows toward a 
long, rocky rapid. It has to be fished from a bank 
some twelve feet above the water, and over dense bushes, 
which form an excellent screen. Here we smoked and 
watched the fast-gathering .storm for some little time, 
till suddenly it broke with a tremendous crash overhead. 
An unpleasantly vivid flash, and then down came the 
rain in such torrents that the surface of the river, now 
looking as black as ink, fairly hissed. 
Immediately T began to fish, the while half deafened 
one moment," half blinded the next, we were as effect- 
ually drenched as by a shower bath. The fly was a 
Childers, and wo were consulting as to whether it w»uld 
be worth while to give the place a second run over with 
something with a silver body, when just above a rock, in 
midstream, on the very turn of the water above the 
rapids, there was a strong "rug" under water, and up 
went the point. A lively fi.sh, but in one sense much 
too lively, for he performed all those antics which so 
surely indicate, that a fish is lightly hooked. Frequent 
jumps, interspersed with turning over, kicks on the sur- 
face, and short, sharp jags under water, but never a sat- 
isfactory run to give one the chance of applymg a pun- 
ishing pres.'iure, and every moment we expected to see 
the la.st of him. Fight fair he would not. and that he 
v/as Ughrly hooked we soon had evidence, for, as he lay 
on his side for a moment the whole of the fly was visible 
holding by a mere shred outside the lower jaw. A few 
minutes of this spluttering contest, and then something 
had to be done, so he was worked toward the usual gaf- 
fing spot. The gillie had dropped down through the 
bushes, and stood ready under bank, but owing to the 
bushes and bank he was quite invisible to me.^ The situ- 
aition. however, was not novel to either of us. as we had 
d*alt with many fish before at the same spot and in the 
sjime manner, ,so I had no difficulty in ulacing the fish 
\within his reach without seeing him. At that moment 
(there was an awful clap of thunder, followed by flashes 
xwhich made one wish to be anywhere except under trees, 
and then I experienced a painful shock, caused by a sud- 
den .slackening o| /the line. I reeled up, and had been 
bemoaning my bad luck for some minUtes before the 
.gillie appeared, and then was my grief turned to joy, 
for he carried the salinon, a fresh-run 12-pounder. Hfe 
had struck the fish actually at the moment that the fly 
tore out. . 
I have ban t.'^ put up with a gbod dfeal of chaff from 
sundry riverside neighbors about what they are good 
enough to speak of as "that thunder and lightning sal- 
mon," and" T have even been asked rude questions as 
lo whether it was the thunder or lightning' that killed 
him, and so on. To these scoffers I reply that if they 
had been fishing instead of sheltering in the midst of' 
the downpour mine might not have been the_^ ottly ^al^ 
nion ealight In that thUhderstorlii. A. G, D; 6; 
A. N* Cheney* 
Quebec, CAv\.-—Hdit'dr, Forest and Stream: Nohe but 
those who have enjoyed the friendship, the compaHion- 
ship and the iiitiniate pei^sotial corfespondehce of such 3 
man as Albert Nelson Cheney can realize tlie shock caused 
a day or two ago, when I opened one of the familiar 
envelopes from the. office of the New York State Fish 
Culturist. bearing the well-known Glens Falls post mark, 
and found within a clipping from one of the local papers 
telling of his sudden death. Of Mr. Cheney I wrote in 
1896 in all si.ncerity. immediately after the title pjt^c.of 
one of my books: "Because he is an accorripHshed angld' 
and aU authority df fepUte Ujiott all \Mt pertains to fi§h 
alid fishiiig; . - ; . 
"Because of the instruction I have derived -from his 
writings aftd of the pleasure afforded iue by his private 
correspondence and his entertaining companionship in 
the Canadian environment of the ouananiche ; 
"Because of the counsel, aid and encouragement which 
he has so generously extended to me in the preparation 
of the present work — ■- 
"Above all. because he is tuy friend and the friehd of 
the ouananiche, I dedicate this book t0 A. N'elsofi Gheilei^ 
Esq-" . , , . . , , . f 
Need I say that both, the %rat"ui-e ahH thfe m.Sf 
angling ihd 't.he scieli\ce of fishculture arc etiornlou.sly. tlie 
poorer for the death . of rny lamented f rieiifi, whoSe 
".A.ngling Notes", in Forest and Stre.a.m , made hitri p 
many friends as the jiaper has readers? May I also e^- 
pres^ the hope that means tuay. be found to preserve iil 
book form \ coilecti.oii of the best things from his peii 
that have adorned the piages o,f this paper and dmitsed 
and instructed its arniy of feadersl ... < 
g. Ti CiiAJ^agii^^ 
f:^' ' ■ , ' ■ r- . „ 
Bf AtE. BEl^.^jii Ment uf Fisheries a^jd Game, Boston, 
M'ass., Aug. 24. — Editor Forest amd Stream: _ The an- 
nouncement of Mr. Cheney's death was to me like a thun- 
'derbolt out of a clear sky, for I had not the remotest .sus- 
picion of anything of the kind, and only a short time 
previous htid' read of his acting as one of the jurors at 
the Buffalo Expositioti, 
I quite agree with you that it will be difficult to fill Mr, 
Chetiev's place, ahd ifi vieW Of the good work he has 
dofte in the Vetirs ^iliee he has been the Fish Culturist of 
voui^ State. It is a gratification tiow to m_e te recall the 
fact that 1 may have had some jufluetice in securing 
appohitmeUt. 1 have a per sotial . regret whett fflett like 
Cliehey drop out of the Work in Which they hSve flot only 
disthiguished theiiiSelVes, but have added mtieh to tfle 
pbblie wellafe: it is pdssibie that dtH^f^s mm iomM k/ 
fill the broken ra^ks, and to fill tHeni acceptabl.t, tRotfgfl 
we cannot be without a sefise of anxiety lest thi.s sh'oifla 
hot be .so iii niaiiy cages, and particularly where . fh'e 
standard --.set fflmost defies approach- That he will be 
missed I know, iiot alofife ifi New Ypf;!?,- bijt Ml oVer tlie 
world where there is an interest ifi fish sin^ fl^tltfylfurej 
J. W. Collins, Chairnijifi. 
The Maine Woods at St. Louis. 
Boston, Aug. . 26! — Late Bangor, Me., reports say that 
the case of the two men who fished Green Lake, not far 
from that city, last spring before the ice was all out, has 
been nol prossed by order of Commissioner Carleton. It 
will be remembered that the two .sportsmen hauled a boat 
over the ice to where there was a little open water and 
went to fishing. Some of the residents about the pond 
were indignant, since the law reads, "When the ice is 
out," etc. They claimed that the meaning of the law Js 
that the ice must be all out of the waters fished— that. is. 
clear of ice. The fishermen were arrested and brought 
before a trial justice, who found cause and bound them 
over to the higher court. Now it seems that Mr. Carleton 
has decided to construe the law otherwise. At least, he 
has not seen fit to proceed with the case. Doubtless the 
next Legislature will he asked to make the law plain on 
that point. 
A commission was appointed last winter in Maine, under 
an act of the Legislature, providing for the same, to ar- 
range for a Maine exhibit at the World's Fair, to be held 
in St. Louis in 1903. On this commission are a railroadi 
general manager, a manufacturer, etc. The manufacturer 
T have seen, and he says that he is most thoroughly in.' 
favor of letting the manufacturing interests in Maine take 
a back seat at that exhibit, and devoting about the whole 
attention of the commission, together with all the funds 
at their command and all they can raise, to showing the 
world what Maine has in the shape of fishing and shoot- 
ing facilities — in fact, to show up Maine as a pleasure 
resort. He is aware that Maine has over 20,000 square 
miles of forest, getting to be well stocked with game, and 
within this vast forest over 2,000 lakes and ponds, con- 
nected with great waterways, all well stocked with game 
fish. In the upper Penobscot region, for instance, and 
including the Allaguash upper region, there are nearly 
T,ooo of these lakes and ponds, some of them almost un- 
known to sportsmen, and virgin trout waters. He would 
make this vast interest of the State known to the sports- 
men of the world through an exhibit that could not fail of 
being a great attraction. He is sure that the other mem- 
bers of the commission, especially the railroad manager, 
are with him, and that it will be better to make the 
sporting facilities of Maine the leading feature. The rest 
of the country, he believes, does not know what Maine has 
to offer tQ the lover of J^Qd and reek rifle and shotg,un^ 
