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strong enough to allow the sleds to break through some- 
times and slue around in the little hollows of the swamps. 
The two big toboggans were too heavily loaded, for we 
had left one toboggan at Henry's camp and pulled our 
stuff down on two sleds. My pack was on Adam's 
toboggan, and I wished that I had not allowed him to 
take it, for I could soon see that his load was more than 
any fellow ought to try to pull. We were all pretty 
tired when we struck Henry's camp on Logan Lake, 
and, in fact, this was the hardest work that we had had 
at anj' time on the trip. We had covered six miles in 
getting to this first camp, and it was noon by the time 
we had our kettle boiled. Then I took my_ pack off of 
Adam's sled and did not allow him to have it any more. 
We found the next six miles of the trail much easier, 
and toward the close of the afternoon we struck .a mile 
and a- half of nice going on the ice, which came to us as 
a godsend. This was Gover Lake, as Henry calls it. 
We were trying our best to make it out to Henry's home 
Camp for Christmas, but we saw that it was an impossi- 
bility, and that twelve miles was to be the limit ®f our 
travel for that day. We found this camp near Gover 
Lake a very nice one. We now had plenty of meat, 
having picked up a quarter of caribou which Henry had 
said ne would leave for us. We got a good rest that 
night and plenty to eat, which was, perhaps, about as 
u.6eful a thing as any under the circumstances. A man 
can go for three or four days on light fare and hard 
work, but after that he begins to get weak very fast. 
So we spent Christmas day of 1901, all of us working 
like .slaves on the trail. Adam said this was the hardest 
day's work he ever put in on the hunting trail, and he 
told me that he had never been on any expedition which 
Avas quite as tough as this one which we were now under- 
going. We all felt perfectly hopeful now, however, for 
we were on a plain trail, and knew that we were safe 
and sure to get out without delay. We could not help 
noticing the change in the country. Around us we 
caught a glimpse now and then of hillside and lake 
surface, and could see that the hills were lower, although 
covered with the same dense black forest growth in 
which we had been ever since we left the railroad and 
started up the Tobique waters. Game sign we continued 
to find just as we had all the way from Nictau Lake. 
I have never been in any game country in all my life 
where there was so much sign of game as we saw made 
by moose and caribou all over this country' from Nictau 
Lake south as fa ras the Crooked Dead Water and In- 
dian Lake, 
Good Going. 
We left Gover Lake at half-past eight in the morn- 
ing and soon struck a big lake known as Birch Lake, 
where we got a lift of a mile and a quarter. Then we 
came into a level rolling region. We found splendid 
poing this morning, for it had come off much colder 
in the night. The toboggan trail broken out by Henry 
and Albert would carry us up without snowshoes part 
of the way. I went on ahead with my pack and was able 
to travel much of the time without my snowshoes, so 
that I made Henry's Birch Lake camp, about four miles, 
in an hour and ten minutes. I rested here for some time 
and was about to start on, when the toboggans came in, 
Adam having stopped to follow up a moose trail at a 
' little distance not far from the camp. We all of us con- 
cluded to "boil the kettle" here and have a bite to eat. 
We each drank- a quart or so of good strong tea, and 
at 10:57 by the watch left for the south, continuing the 
trail over rolling lowlands, which had been crossed at 
an earlier time by a lumber road. I was by this time 
feeling pretty good, and was quite a different man from 
vvhat I was when I first went in with Uncle Adam far 
to the north. I had lost about twelve pounds of flesh 
and Was beginning to round to in good shape. I could 
surely say that snowshoeing was no longer any hard- 
ship. So I just thought I would spring a joke on Adam 
and Charlie, and would go away and leave them on that 
next four miles which la}^ between us and Henry's home 
camp, I hit the trail good and hard, hard enough to 
throw me into a most profuse perspiration. I supposed 
that I had a start of about a mile on the other bo3^s, and 
thought I would go in and get dinner ready for them. 
At last, in just an hour and eighteen minutes, I sighted 
?i group of low log buildings, in front of which was a 
man carrying a log of firewood. Him I hailed, and 
learned that he was- Albert, Henry's son-in-law, and that 
this was indeed the home camp which we had anxiously 
sought and now reached, albeit a day later than sched- 
ule. Albert invited me to come into the house and throw 
off my pack. 
"Where are the other boys?" said he. 
"Oh, they're back about a mile on the trail, I reckon," 
said I. 
Just then I looked out of the window and there, com- 
ing along under full steam, were Charlie and Adam, fresh 
as paint and only a couple of hundred yards back of 
me on the trail! How they did it I am sure I could not 
tell. My actual walking time for the estimated eight 
miles was two hours and twenty-eight minutes, and they 
had done it in pretty much the same time. We weighed 
the toboggans at the camp and found that one weighed 
120 pounds and the other 125 pounds. My pack was a 
mere trifle, weighing only 25 pounds — a weight that is 
regarded by the New Brunswick man with absolute 
contempt. 
At the camp we found Charlie Cameron cooking, and 
we set him to work mighty soon after we got under 
cover. Henry was out with his "sport" — in New Bruns- 
wick any sportsman is always called a "sport" — on a 
last attempt to get a head of game. His customer was 
Mr. Arthur S. Phillips, of Fall River, Mass., who had 
been with him for a month, going in the same day we 
left Fredericton. Mr. Phillips had seen a great many 
caribou and had crippled one, but had not yet killed a 
head of game. The boys said that the caribou were 
seen almost daily on the big expanse of the Little 
Southwest Lake, so after lunch Adam and I started out 
and took a trip of six or eight miles on a caribou linnt 
of our own in a strange country. We saw a great deal 
of caribou sign, but the recent thaw and freezing had 
left the ice so slippery that the caribou seemed for the 
lime to have left ihe lake. Henry and Mr. Phillips came 
in that night and reported that they had kilted one 
caribou, with a very indifferent head. 
Home of'thelBig Bores. 
Mr. Phillips took me to one side and besought me to 
advocate in Forest and Stream the abolishment of 
all small bore rifles. He was shooting a small bore and 
bemoaning his fate in having lost a caribou which he 
had shot through the lungs. . Flere at the camp I saw 
Henry's famous battery of big bore guns, which Mr. 
Ireland described not long- ago in these columns. 
Henry's favorite gun, the one given him by Mr. De 
Pauw, of Indiana, was indeed a corker. It weighed 
something over eight pounds and had a bore down 
which a cat might crawl with ease. We accused Henry 
of loading it with a can of frozen beans when he had 
nothing better by way of projectile. Now, here we 
were in the very heart of the big bore people, Adam and 
I exponents of the .small bore, with all kinds of stories 
of what we had done and could do with the .30-40, and 
Henry meeting its with an incredulous smile. 
"My moose are different down here," said he. 
Whereat Adam and I openly hoped that we would run 
across one of his moose and be able to destroy it ut- 
terly with a .30-40. As to which more anon, as they 
say in the story papers. We did feel a little like apolo- 
gizing" to Henry, however, for here I was carrying a 
small bore rifle, which is a horrible thing in licnry's 
view; wearing a pair of long-bowed snowshoes, which 
were anathema in the eyes of both Henry and Adam; 
and, moreover, with my feet encased in a pair of rub- 
bers instead of moccasins! Henry thinks no snowshoc 
man ought to wear anything in the woods except a 
moccasin if he can help it. Adam says that for all kinds 
of weather the snowshoe pack is better, and I am will- 
ing to admit that we would have had wet feet for many 
a day had we stuck to moccasins. And so we had it 
around the big stove in Henry's camp; though, I must 
say, that a more cheerful and better natured set of 
wranglers never sat together on the same bench or ate 
out of the same pan of beans with a greater vmanimity 
of action. We had Chri-stnias dinner all -over again. 
Mofe Cariboo Sign. 
Time was slipping away and still I had not had my 
shot. We decided to go out on the following day, which 
was December 27, for a caribou; so Henry and Adam 
and I went out for a social little hunt, I carrying the 
gun and sincerely hoping that we would run across one 
of the caribou which had been making all the tracks 
around the country. We saw what seemed to be sign 
of simply hundreds of caribou along the shores of the 
Little Southwest Lake and Jack's Lake, over to which 
we crossed in the morning. The caribou had been 
tearing up the snow in their pawing operations all over 
the country, and had we been there a couple of days 
earlier we certainly should have done business with them. 
As it was, the freezing up of the lakes had sent them 
back into the hills for the time— another instance of the 
bad luck which had followed me in my shooting oper- 
ations for the past month. We walked eight or ten 
miles that morning and went back to camp for lunch, 
not having seen a caribou, though we had seen more 
tracks than you could shake a stick at. I accused 
Henry and Adam of each having a trained caribou, 
which was chartered for the express purpose of chasing 
around and making all sorts of tracks. All Adam and 
Henry could do was to grin and ask me to wait a while. 
At the Crooked Dea Wat t. 
On that morning Mr. Phillips had gone w^ith Albert 
over to the next camp southward, where they expected to 
catch a tote team for Mr. Phillips to take out to the rail- 
road. The latter gentleman had the misfortune to hurt an 
ankle, so that he found the five or six miles of snowshoe- 
ing very much of a hardship. Adam, Henry and I fol- 
lowed across the same trail that afternoon, and made it 
comfortably in time for an early supper. This camp we 
found not so spacious and comfortable as Henry's home 
camp, but more like the smaller trapping shacks on the 
north end of his trail. This camp Henry calls his Crooked 
Dead Water camp, and it is located in a famous moose 
country. At present there are two lumber camps close in 
together in that region, but this winter ends the lumbering 
operations, and Henry says that they have helped the 
country and not hurt it. 
Mr. Phillips and Charlie Cameron having taken a team 
down the Miramichi countrj% there were left Albert and 
Henry, Adam and Charlie and myself in the little camp. 
It was big enough to hold us comfortably. We had lots 
of blankets, all the meat we could eat and plenty of every 
other kind of supplies. Henry told me that he stocked 
his camps about a year ahead, tobogganing the supplies 
cut to the further camps from the end of lumbering team 
transportation. As near as I could discover, Henry's 
province was much like Adam's, and while Adam is king 
of the Tobique. Henry is king of the Miramichi. I don't 
know of any better kingdom, or, for that matter, of any 
better kings. They are much to be envied, and so is 
he who can have a trip Avith either of them. As to a 
m.an having a trip Avith both of these guides, admittedly 
the head of their craft, I don't knoAv of anybody Avho 
ever did that except myself, thanks to the generosity of 
Adam and to the no less generosity of Henry, Avho per- 
mitted small-bore, long-shoed, rubber-shod people to come 
down into his country and chase his pet caribou and moose 
around. 
At Indian Lake. 
After our rest at the Crooked Dead Water, we pushed 
on six miles to Indian Lake, crossing seA'eral of the sinu- 
ous channels of the big back Avater made by the lumber 
dams. The Aveather Avas nOAv brilliant, but cold, and the 
snowshoeing Avas not bad. Henry said that if we could 
get to this Indian Lake camp, Ave Avould be out of the 
sphere of influence of the lumbermen, so to speak, and 
right in the heart of a very good moose range. He said 
he had hopes to get me a shot at a moose before I left, 
although we had noAv only a short time left of the legal 
season. I kncAv perfectly Avell that I Avas not going to 
kill a moose, but also knew that I Avas going to keep on 
trying until the last minute. As to business and home, I 
had forgotten that there Avas such things. I Avanted to be 
a king myself, and OAvn a principality in New BrunsAvick. 
In short, I was seized of a SAvift rebellion, running 
back to the_ ancient Western days, and I Avanted to run 
Avild again, just for a year or so. As to the moose, Henry 
said he could show; me one, or at least shoAV me the 
tracks. Then he looked at my small-bore rifle and sighed. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, III, 
An Old-Time Game Law. 
From the "Laws of Her Majesties Colony of New York,'* 
I69J to 1709. 
An Act for the more effectual Preservation of Deer & 
other Game, and the Destruction of Wolves, Wild 
CatSj and other Vermine. 
Be it Enacted by the Governour, Council and General 
Assembly, and by the Authority of the same. That from 
and after the Publication hereof, Whatsoever person or 
persons. Free-man or Slave, Christian or Indian, shall 
destroy or kill any Wolf or Wolves, or their Whelp or 
Whelps, any Wild Cat or Wild Cats, their Catling or 
Catlings, any Fox or Foxes, their Puppy or Puppies, any 
Squerrils, CroAvs and Black-birds, or their Young ones, 
in the Counties of Suffolk, Qxieens County and Kings 
County, shall have and receive as a ReAvard for each Wolf 
so destroyed and killed, the Sum of Five Pounds current 
Money of this Colony; and for every such Whelp under a 
year old, so destroyed and killed, the Sum of Fifty Shill- 
ings current Money aforc-said. And for each Wild Cat 
and Fox, the Sum of Three Shillings ; and for each their 
Catlings, Puppies or Cubs, Eighteen Pence; and for each 
Squerril Three Pence, and for each CroAV, Three Pence ; 
and for every their Young Ones, Two Pence; and for 
Black-birds after the rate of Four Pence half Penny the 
dozen, and their young ones, three Pence the Dozen. And 
that in the County of Richmond, for killing Wild Cats, 
Foxes, CroAvs and Black-birds and their young Ones, the 
like Price and RcAvard above-mentioned. 
And for the more effectual payment of the said Re- 
Avards, Be it Enacted &c. That the same Rules, Courses 
and Methods, Forfeitures and Penalties be and be used 
in all and every respect, as are enacted, mentioned and 
ex^rest in an A'ct made in the first year of her Majesty's 
Reign, entit. An Act for destroying of Wolves within this 
Colony. 
And for the Preservation of Deer, and other Game, 
Avithin the Counties of Suffolk, Queens County and Kings 
County aforesaid. Be it Enacted by the Authority afore- 
said. That AvhosocA^er Avithin the Counties last above men- 
tioned. Christian or Indian, Free-man or Slave, after the 
Publication hereof, shall kill or destroy any Buck, Doe 
or FaAvn, or any sort of Deer Whatsoever, any Wild 
Turkeys, Heath-Hens, Partridges or Quails, their Eggs 
or young Ones, at any time of the year, except the times 
& seasons herein after mentioned and exprest, that is to 
say, for Deer, betAveen the first Day of August and the 
first Day of January; and for Turkeys, Heath-hens, Par- 
tridges and Quails, betAveen the first day of Aiigtist & 
the first day of April, shall forfeit and pay for every such 
Buck, Doe, FaAvn or other Deer so killed or destroyed, 
as aforesaid, the Sum of Thirty Shillings laAvful Money 
of NcAv-York, or in default thereof suffer Imprisonment 
for the term and space of Thirty Days, Avithout Bail or 
Mainprize, unless within that time he or they pay the 
Forfeiture aforesaid; and for every Wild Turkey, 
Chicken, or Eggs, killed or destroyed, as aforesaid, the 
Sum of Five Shillings, like current Money aforesaid, or 
in default thereof suffer Imprisonment for the space of 
Five Days, as Above-said: And for every Heath-Hen. 
Partridge or Quail, their Eggs or young Ones so Idlled 
or destroyed, as above-said, the Sum of Tavo Shillings and 
six Pence, or Iavo Days and one half Imprisonment, , as 
aforesaid: One half of all which Forfeitures shall be to 
him Avho shall prosecute and sue for the same before any 
one of her Majestys Justices of the Peace Avhere such 
Offence shall be committed, AA'ho is hereb5'_ Authorised, 
impoAvered and required to hear and determine the same, 
and the other half to the Poor of the respective County 
Avhere any person or persons shall be of such Offence 
convicted. . ^rr , 
And for the better Convicting of the Offenders m all 
or any the cases above-said. Be it Enacted, &c. That what- 
soever person or persons Avith whom shall be found, or 
shall expose to sale any green Deer Skins, fresh Venison 
or Deers Flesh, Wild Turkeys, Heath-hens, Partridges or 
Quails, their Eggs or young Ones, at any other time of the 
year then Avhat "is before excepted, shall be held, deemed 
& judged guilty of the said Offence, and be thereof Con- 
vict unless he or they shall prosecute and convict some 
other person to have done the same ; and that the same 
o-reen Deer Skins, Fresh Venison or Deers Flesh, W^^ 
Turkeys, Heath-hens, Partridges or Quails, their Eggs 
and young Ones, so found as aforesaid, or any other 
probable Circumstances, at the Discretion of the Justice 
before Avhom such Offence shall be tryed, shall be held to 
bo o-ood Evidence of the Offences afore-said. 
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, 
That if any Justice of the Peace shall neglect or refuse 
to hear and determine any of the cases aforesaid, accord- 
ing to the Rules and Directions before-mentioned, every 
such Justice of the Peace so neglecting or refusing, as 
above-said, shall forfeit for every such Neglect or Refusal 
the Sum of Three Pounds laAvful Money of NcAV-York 
aforesaid, to be recovered in any Court of Record, or 
other of her Majesties Courts Avithin the same County 
Avhere such Justice of the Peace doth belong, the one half 
Avhereof to him Avho shall prosecute and sue for the same, 
and the other half to the Treasurer of the County Avhere 
the said Offence shall be committed, and prosecution 
m.ade, to and for the use of the same County. Prov:ded, 
That nothing herein contained is intended, or shall be 
construed to 'Repeal or alter one certain Act of Assembly 
made for the Preservation of Deer, in the year of our 
Lord 1705.* saving the Forfeiture for Destroying of deer; 
but the same Act in everv other part thereof is hereby 
confirmed. Provided ahvays. That the Avhole RcAvard for 
destroying of Wolves and their Whelps is declared and 
intended to be only Five Pounds for a groAvn Avolf, and 
Fifty Shillings for each Whelp in the Avhole, the said 
Act made in the first year of her Majestys Reign for 
destroying of Wolves tiotAvithstanding. 
* Below is a clause from the Act mentioned: 
And be it also Enacted. &<:., That Whatsoever Dog or Dogs 
shall be found hunting or chafing any Buck, Deer or ta\vn or 
an}' sort of Deer whatsoever, between the .said first Day of Jan- 
uary and the first Day of August yearly, .shall aud,_ may be. and 
hereby are required to be shot and kill'd or otherwise destroyed, 
any Law to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. 
