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and fishing privileges. The elder brother, Tom Speedie, 
is a naturalist, author of two books, one of which is en- 
titled, 'The Game in the Highlands and Lowlands of 
Scotland," written several years ago, which he said is 
the most interesting book he had ever read on game and 
recreation by a European author. 
He knows all kinds of game in their habits, both 
large and small game, from one end of Scotland to the 
other, and probably rents more moors and game pre- 
serves than any other four men in Scotland. 
Mr. Kinney put himself in communication with Tom 
Speedie as soon as he arrived in London. When Mr. 
Kinney arrived in Edinburgh Mr. Speedie had laid out 
for his American visitors a programme of what he was 
going to do in the way of shooting grouse, and along 
with a couple of gentlemen he was invited to have some 
shooting, which they did for a couple of days with 
great success. In addition to Mr. Kinney and Mr. 
Speedie there were in the party Lieut. A. C. Stewart 
of H. M. S. Venerable, C. Hunt, of London, and D. 
H. Cox, of Cambridge. 
These men were royal good sportsmen, Mr. Kin- 
ney said, and they all had a great time. The party 
went out twenty-five miles from Edinburgh to a little 
town called Stowe, then drove eight miles in a dogcart 
and walked about two miles to shooting ground. They 
were in the highlands of that part of the country and the 
party had three grouse drives that day with lots of 
sport. The first day was foggy and there was rain, but 
the party shot a good bag of grouse. The second day 
they were favored with better weather. 
"Personally," said Mr. Kinney, "I feel under great 
obligation for the great privileges and courtesy these 
men showed me while I was in Scotland, and especially 
when I was an entire stranger to them. 
"Then I had a great day's sport in grouse driving 
on a moor controlled by Charles Stewart, a prosperous 
and wealthy merchant of Edinburgh. This moor was 
, only twelve miles from the city and there were eight in 
the party, and they were driven to the shooting grounds 
in traps from the city. Everything Mr. Stewart had to do 
with, so far as our pleasure was concerned, was of the 
most royal order, and I enjoyed one of the grandest 
days of .shooting with that party I ever had in my life. 
Mr. Speedie did much for me, to the neglect of his own 
business, and he accompanied me CA'crywhere I went 
dur'ng those days of shooting. 
"There is no shooting on the American continent but 
what I have had, but I have had nothing compared 
with the fine sport of these days in bringing down the 
elusive grouse of Scotland. These grouse can beat for 
swiftness on the wing any kind of a bird I ever saw. 
"You may say, Mr. Reporter, that I have in my day met 
with several nationalities, but there are none who have 
hearts as near my standard of what men should be as 
those fellows I have met in little Scotland. The people 
there are very few clannish and hang together like brothers, 
and if they were not so much so, it would be a" good 
thing if more of them came out to this country to, 
show the people here their enterprise and thrift. By the 
exercise of these same traits of character they could 
be independent in. .this Gountry witin'n a reasonably short 
time. 
"These people ought to be encouraged to come to the 
United States. We cannot have'too many of them. here. 
It is a well-known fact that there is no prejudice against 
the nationality of Scotland on the American continent. 
"When I was in Inverness. Sept. 14, 15 and 16, there 
was snow on the highlands, so much of it that it drove 
the deer down to the village and into the woods near 
the towns. 
"On our return trip we stayed off at the great walled 
city of Chester, the wall having been built by the Ro- 
mans, and we looked out o{ the tower window from 
which Prince Charlie saw his army defeated on the 
moor near by. The walls around this city arc nine feet 
wide. 
"My trip was made more for- the purpose of finding 
out what kind of shooting they had ui Scotland, and I 
am very much gratified at the result <jf my journey. I 
was also very much surprised at the enormous build- 
ing owned by The Scotsman uf Edinburgh, probably 
the leading daily in Scotland, which cost $5,ooo,ocK)." 
In Nessmufc's Haunts. 
Wellsboro, Pa. — Editor Forest and Stream. ■ Some 
time since I saw an inquiry iti Forest and Stream for a 
recipe for "fly dope." For the bejiefit of your readers I 
will give the formula of one which I have used for years 
and have found very effective, never having met a winged 
"varmint" wh.ch cared to take the second whiff of it: 
Oil of tar. 2 ounces 
Oil castor i ounce 
Oil pennyroyal ounce 
Gum camphor 54 ounce 
Warm and dissolve together. Apply lightly and re- 
peat as required. Olive oil is more aesthetic, but castor 
wears longer. 
Perhaps some of Nessmuk's former readers would like 
tc hear a word from the camp ground of the tribe of 
Nessmuk. Small animal life is fairly abundant about the 
" 'baga patch," so named by Nessmuk, from the fact that 
when first cleared it was sown to rutabagas. The rabbits 
whittled my beans and peas and the red squirrels played 
havoc with the apple crop; they seem to know that they 
are immune. One of them, a female, whom I have har- 
bored for three winters, as I was hoeing the garden the 
other day, was chewing up my winter sweets and spitting 
the chankings on me; meanwhile barking and growling, 
evident?!ij' in "ghoulish glee." 
The deer are virtually extinct in this section; some 
few are left in the newer and wilder counties, but they 
are fast following in the footsteps of the elk and the 
buffalo. . . 
There is one uncultivated and all but uncivilized lout in 
this neighborhood who ranges early and , late, in season 
and out, with rod or with dog and blunderbuss, especially 
on Sunday, who spares neither fur, fin or feather from 
infancy to. old age. . ' 
While deer are a'boirt exterminated in Pennsylvania, -the 
jj't^f seem to" be increasing, the "slashings'' of the Itimber- 
men affording them shelter and food in the form of black- 
berries and raspberries, and the treacherous brush being a 
pretty effectual guard against sneak hunting them. Some 
few men trap for bear in a desultory way, and occasion- 
ally take one, but I know of no one who owns a pack of 
bear dogs, and as to overtaking a bear on foot, a man on 
crutches might as well undertake to overhaul a tornado. 
The ground within a half-day's travel of Wellsboro is 
fairly covered with bear sign, and I know where one has 
riLhged for the past three years, which, according to his 
track and his "bite" on the body of a tree must be a giant. 
Three years ago next Thanksgiving we almost had him. 
We struck his fresh trail with the wind strong in our 
favor and a heavy wet snow falling, the most noiseless 
time I ever saw in the woods, and Wallace M., of Galeton, 
took his track into the slashing while wc two skirted the 
same. The circumstances were ideal for bear meat, but 
alas and alas ! the man with me persisted in traveling too 
fast and too noisily, in spite of all I could say, and finally 
to my utter confounding gave a shrill whistle, trying to 
locate "Wal," and of course away went Bruin. He claimed 
to be a Rocky Mountain hunter, but lacked several de- 
grees of being a Pennsylvania hunter. However, if the 
bear maintains his present range until fur gets good this 
fall, I shall strive to cultivate his further acquaintance, 
and should I succeed in getting him into the sights of a 
.45 Sharps, it won't be my fault if I fail to give good 
account. Young Nessmuk. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
From Minnesota. 
Chicago, III., Oct. 14.— Mr. S. F. Fullerton, the hustling 
State Game Warden of Minnesota, in a personal letter 
v/rites entertainingly regarding affairs in the busy North- 
west, as below: 
"I have had a little quail hunt since I wrote yoit. Joe 
Whitney, son of our expert printer, Mr. C. C. Whitney, 
here in the Capitol, and myself, went up the H. & D. divi- 
sion of the Milwaukee road, two hours' run from St. 
Paul, and got sixty in two days' hunt. They are thicker 
than sparrows up there this year, and my talk to you 
v.dien here that there was no necessity for any Minnesotan 
to go south to get quail hunting, I think is fully verified. 
"I .suppose you saw in the papers about the invitation 
that has. been sent to the President to come for a moose 
hunt, but I don't believe he will be able to come, because 
the accident that has happened to him would make it 
pretty hard for him to walk. All arrangements have been 
made, so that he would get a moose. I will try to get 
you a birch bark copy of the invitation that was sent him ; 
I have one,^ and I think a great deal of it — it is a work 
of art, done on birch bark with a pen, a splendid portrait 
of a moose head in the corner, with oak branches and 
acorns, then the names of the invited guests. Of course I 
had nothing to do with it any more than signing the 
license, which I am glad to say the people are going to 
pay for in case he comes, and put Iiini on the same foot- 
ing as any non-resident." 
The Charges Against Minnesota Varcfeos. 
The sportsmen's world has rarely had opportunity to see 
action so senseless, groundless and wholly cruel, as the 
charges made by a local sporting paper here against the 
game wardens of Minnesota, who in the opinion of the 
local paper have been acting as a fence for "tons of illegal 
game." I have learned in an indirect manner this week 
that the State Game and Fish Commission of Minnesota 
do not propose to rest under these charges. They express 
themselves as willing to listen to any proper public 
criticism of themselves and their methods, but do not in- 
tend to submit to direct charges of dishonesty. The paper 
which is concerned in the affair, is stated not to have 
printed in full the earlier letter sent it by Warden Fuller- 
ton. The option is offered this newspaper of making pub- 
lic reparation for the injury done or of proving the 
charges in court. The matter is a very unusual one, and 
it is indeed difiicult to understand why a newspaper claim- 
ing to support the principles of game ])rotection should 
seek to besmirch the reputation of the most efficient set 
of game wardens in the entire West. 
Western Men in the East. 
1 take from the Fredericton, New Brunswick, Herald 
the following information regarding Western men who 
have made big-game lumts in New Brunswick this fall ; 
"Messrs. C. B. Zabriskie, of New York, and S. M. 
Mather, of Chicago, who with F. M. Smith, of San 
Francisco, and E. L. Ransome, of New York, have been 
hunting in the vicinity of Trout Lake, with William Grif- 
fen, of Stanley, as guide, returned to the city yesterday, 
and left by the evening train for home. Messrs. Smith 
and Ransome, who came out of the woods on Saturday, 
each secured a fine moose, but the other members of the 
party failed to get any big game other than a lucifee, which 
succumbed to a bullet from Mr. Zabriskie's rifle. It 
nieasured 5 feet 6 inches in length, and he is taking the 
pelt home with him as a trophj'. 
"Messrs. Mather and Zabriskie were only out in the 
woods twelve days altogether, and are not in the least 
discouraged over the failure to score in that short time. 
Both gentlemen, as well as Messrs. Smith and Ransome, 
hunted in the same territory last year, and will likely 
return next season, when they hope to be able to make 
a longer stay. 
"N. T. Depauw, a wealthy sportsman of New Albany, 
Indiana, who has been out with the veteran Henry 
Braithwaite on the Little Southwest Miramichi since the 
middle of September, shot an enormous moose last weelc. 
It had a magnificent pair of antlers, with twenty prongs 
on one side, eleven on the other and a spread of 62^^ 
inches. This is undoubtedly one of the largest moose ever 
shot in New Brunswick, and naturally Mr. Depauw .is 
very proud of his success. He is expected out next week 
with his prize." 
The same paper adds : 
"A dispatch from. New York states that the Messrs. 
Carnegie Will- start for New Brunswick this evening, on a 
ipoose hunting expedition, and have arranged to stay a 
fortnight; They will; hunt in the Taxis. River country 
under the guidance of Williatti Griffen, of Stanley. 
"Messrs. C. W. Feigenspan, of Newark, N. J.; Josepfi 
Omeise and George Eelchel, of New York, returned to the 
city to-day after a most successful and enjoyable hunting 
expedition to the Little Southwest Miramichi. They 
hunted on Henry Braithwaite's territory, and had the 
.services of his right-hand man, Thomas Pringle, as guide. 
Each member of the party secured a fine moose. They 
load dinner at the Barker and leave for home by this even- 
ing's train." 
The Squirrel and its Young. 
A little domestic drama was enacted thi-s summer up in 
the little trouting lodge of Mr. B. K. Miller, Jr., of Mil- 
waukee, which lodge is located upon that gentleman's 
trouting preserve on the Pine River. One of the decora- 
tions of this log camp is a large papier mache mask, some- 
times known as "Folly" or "Pierrot," the face and bead 
being surrounded with a large ruff or border of orna- 
mental nature. The face is hollow, the big plaque meas- 
uring perhaps three feet across and lying flat to the wall 
above the fireplace. An enterprising little red squirrel 
early in the summer began a tour of investigation upon 
the obverse side of this smiling image of gaiety. It found 
the face quite hollow, and conceived this to be an excellent 
place for a squirrel's nest. Mother squirrel therefore ap- 
propriated this locality and during the summer raised 
two broods of little squirrels in the dining room of the 
lodge, within fire feet of the dining table. She got alon^ 
all right with the first litter, which became very tame, run- 
ning all over the place, sometimes climbing into a ham- 
mock where one lay reading, running over the chairs, 
tables, hat racks and everything else. With the last litter 
all went well until sotne one built a fire in the fireplace, 
which seemed to make things a little too warm for mother 
squirrel. One morning as the occupants of the lodge sat 
at breakfast, the fond mamma concluded it was about: 
time for her to move. She carried off her little ones to a 
hidden spot in another <K3rner of the house, running down 
the edge of the mask, over the mantelpiece and on the log 
walls with a baby held by the back of the neck, as a dog 
carries a piippy. She made several trips in this way, 
carrying one little squirrel at a time, until finally she 
had moved the entire fainily, seven, I believe, in all. 
These noisy little chatterers still live about Mr. Miller's 
lodge, and make themselves perfectly at home, although 
there seems to be no disposition to go back into the mask 
of Pierrot. 
Soipe. 
There was a little jacksnipe flight early during the pres- 
ent week, but the birds seem to have passed by in a couple 
of days, and for the last four days there has been no 
shooting worth mentioning. Several gentlemen are going 
out to try the marshes around Fox Lake to-day. It 
nmst be rernembered that we do not hear so much now 
as we did formerly from the better Indiana snipe marshes, 
because comparatively few of our Chicago shooters go 
there in these non-resident license days. 
Docks. 
Several Milwaukee shooters got on the Chicago & 
Northwestern Railroad train this morning at Princeton. 
They had been over on the Puckaway marshes and put 
about 100 ducks in the baggage car. They had some big 
ducks, although- 1 saw also some bunches of mudhens. 
Our duck shooting is nowhere as good as it was formerly, 
but it is only of late years that any hunter would have 
thought of taking home the blue bird with the queer 
feet. 
I was within twelve miles of Lake Poygan and heard 
considerable shooting yesterday and the day before. To- 
day on arriving in Chicago I hear that there has been 
good sport on Poygan Lake, the big ducks having ap- 
parently shown up in good numbers. 
Eddie Bingham, of the Du Pont Powder Co., this city, 
is back from a trip to the old home place on Koshkonong 
Lake, in Wisconsin. He says that the canvasbacks were 
just- beginning to appear at the time he came away, and 
he thinks there will be a little shooting there within the 
next week or ten days. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, III. E. HouGH. 
It Pays to Abolish Spring; Shooting. 
La Fargeville, N. Y., Oct i.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: A word in regard to spring shooting of ducks. 
Two years ago Jefferson county was given a law prohibit- 
ing spring shooting of ducks. I have lived here twenty- 
eight years, and up to that time had never known of ducks 
nesting on the stream that runs, through our town; but 
for the last two years they have nested here. And why? 
Simply because they have not been frightened away in 
the spring. 
This has convinced me and ought to convince every 
sportsman that spring shooting is unwise. Northern New 
York has a natural breedmg ground for w-ildfowl, and if 
unmolested in the spring they will stay here and breed. 
Wild animals and fowls quickly know where they are 
protected, for those in adjoining counties where spring 
shooting is allowed fly in here and make this their breed- 
ing ground. 
Ducks are growing more scarce every year, and unless 
we do something right away to protect them, they will 
follow our wild pigeons ; so let all true sportsmen try and 
pass a law to prohibit spring shooting in the whole State 
and nation. Frank L. Jerome. 
Mr. Jasper Miller Sunday night took a look for the 
cause of a terrible commotion in his yard, and discov- 
ered a four-legged animal w th something in front of him 
like an elephant's trunk. He seized his rifle to shoot 
the horrible thing, but on second thought concluded 
to leave the animal to his sports until davHght should 
reveal what it was. At last day dawned, and there 
was a dog with his head fastened in a joint of a stove 
pipe, which could not be removed by ordinary means. 
As a last resort Mr. Miller seized the pipe and started 
up-town, with the dog trotting along behind, and by the 
time he reached Gen. Palmer's store the procession 
had largely increased. The tinner's tools were brought 
into requisitiion to release the dog. And now other 
people are looking up joints of stove pipe to put in 
their yards, with a piece of beef fastened h^li way jq 
them~Cpluinbiji (S. C.) Eegister, 
