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away down at the foot of the mountain, fat and well 
contented. We caught them and were leading them up 
the side of the mountain when a deer ran out of a small 
patch of timber and Avent out of sight over a ridge. 
Leaving Andrew in charge of our stock, I took a sneak 
up to the top of the ridge to look for the deer- I could 
see nothing of it, but while looking carefully over the 
vast open mountain side of ridges and ravines^ I saw, 
away near the top of the mountain, several animals mov- 
ing about, but as they were fully half a mile away I 
could not be sure what they were; anyhow it was game, 
and I knew it was deer, antelope or sheep, and I in- 
structed Andrew to keep well into the ravines and make 
his way with our saddle animals to the top of the moun- 
tain and there wait for me. I went straight up the moun- 
tain over the top, then keeping just over the top, fol- 
lowed up to a point opposite where I had seen the game, 
then crawled down until I could look over, where I saw 
a small bunch of antelope just where I had first seen 
them. They were all lying down, and I began one of the 
most difficult stalks ever I tackled. It was all open ex- 
cept for a few scattering sage-brush and an occasional 
rock, with a fallen tree as the objective point to. be 
reached, which would bring me within good range. The 
most of the distance had to be, covered by crawling flat 
on my belly, which is a slow and by no means easy mode 
of locomotion, but serves a good purpose when no other 
will bring the required results. I did not raise my head 
to investigate from start to finish, and when I finally slid 
up to my position and peeped under the log, they were 
all standing up looking intently in my direction, having 
probably seen some northeast corner^ of my anatornjr as 
it may have risen above the prescribed line of vision, 
while of course my head was crowding the earth. 
I poked my rifle over the log and shot at the nearest 
one to me, which started on the run with the rest of the 
Lunch, but fell dead after running a few rods. The 
others ran within a few rods of Andrew, who was on top 
of the mountain nearly a mile away. 
Some years later while spending some months with my 
friend, James H. Cook, a famous hunter and ex-chief of 
scouts during the Indian wars in the West, on his ranch 
in Nebraska, he told me a story of his own experience 
which brought to mind this particular stalking of ante- 
lope. He was guiding a party of four Englishmen on an 
elk hunt ; they were without any hunting experience 
whatever, and were veiy raw. He sighted some elk, but 
had a diiflcult stalk to get near enough for sure shoot- 
ing. The only way to come up with them was to go on 
hands and knees, and keep very low at that. He started 
to lead the way, and told his Englishmen to do just as 
he did. When he had crawled some distance, squatted 
a<: close to the ground as was possible, he stopped and 
looked back to see how England was coming on. He 
.'^aid: "They were coming, all four of them, strung out 
in single file, and crawling, not on their hands and knees, 
but on their hands and feet, with their heads so low that 
iheir ears were trailing on the ground, and their rumps 
t<s high in the air as they could possibly get them, look- 
ing as if they wcro trying to stand on their heads, and 
the sight was so ridiculous and comic that to suppress an 
outburst of laughter was the severest strain of the day." 
Of course he accompanied the description by getting 
down and showing hov/ they were coming, and_ afforded 
fucd for such laughter as adds years to a lifetime. 
A few evenings later I went for a final hunt with old 
Jrc'v. and on the old familiar grounds, as I intended 
lea\i:^g the next day. After following the top of the 
moui.tain a distance of nearly two miles from camp, I 
started to go dov/n the side, w^hen I saw about a dozen 
deer away below me, scattered in and around a quaking 
•a^p thicket, and they saw me. They were so far away 
that they did not take alarm, but I knew it was useless 
to try to get closer, as there was no way of doing so 
only to walk down the bare open side of the mountain 
in plain sight; so I decided the only thing to do was to 
try a long shot. I sat down on the ground and took a 
shot at the one nearest to me, and none of them seemed 
in ihe least alarmed, and I kept shooting away at dif- 
ferent ones until I had fired about a half dozen shots, and 
still they kept browsing around without any concern, and 
1 gave it up as a bad job, as they were beyond my range. 
T went on down then toward them, and they soon disap- 
peared in the thicket. I went on through the thicket and 
came into more open woods by the side of a small ravine, 
and saw the glimpse of a deer as it went up out of the 
ravine into the woods above. It did not belong to the 
bimch I had seen, and had not seen me, so I crawled 
carefully down into the ravine and followed it up a short 
distance, then came up so I could see up into the woods. 
There I saw my deer, a splendid buck, standing broad- 
tMde to me, about fifty yards away, and, fortunately for 
mc, his head was entirely hid by a bunch of leaves, while 
the whole body was exposed, thus allowing me to see 
him while he could not see me. , 
1 laid my rifle across a rock right in front of me and 
shct him through the shoulders, when he fell, but 
see:ned to be trying to get up. Old Jack had been sitting 
close behind me all this time, and he looked so eager for 
a share in the fun that I couldn't deprive him. and said 
"Go get him !" He had him by the throat before I got 
half a dozen steps toward him, and how he did enjoy the 
tussle. It was one of the fattest deer I ever killed, and 
^\■as a valuable addition to my larder for the coming win- 
ter. There I learned something new again. It had al- 
ways been my belief, as it is of many others, that deer 
slways add additional numbers of points to their antlers 
for each year of their age, and I always believed that a 
two-point buck (two points on each side) was always 
two years old. I have killed quite a number of bucks 
which had the small two points, where the size and ap- 
pearance of the deer would indicate that they were two 
years old, but this one, though having but the two points 
on each side, had much larger horns with wider spread, 
and the size and appearance of the deer indicated an 
older animal. Being certain it was more than two years 
old, I was puzzled, and called a Mexican, who was work- 
ing in our camp, and who was an experienced hunter, to 
explain what I believed to be an uncommon freak. He 
opened its mouth, and as soon as he saw its teeth he told 
me, by signs, that it was four years old, and that the 
points on the horns had nothing to do with deterrnin- 
ing the a^e. __ _ _ 
So far as I have been able to observe, all two-year-old 
bucks have the two points on each side, but all two-point 
bucks are not two-year-olds. Like the old adage on 
lawyers, "All lawyers are liars, but all liars are not 
lawyers." Emerson Carney. 
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. 
A True Bear Story. 
South Chatham, N. H. — I had shot at two bears 
before the one about which I am going to tell you. 
The first one I saw last year, and Dr. E. A. Chase, of 
Brockton, Mass., who was spending the summer at my 
place, was with me. We were out fishing, and the bear 
came quite close to us. Having brought my shotgun 
along, I fired at him, but as my gun was loaded with 
fine shot, it could not have injured him much. 
The other bear I saw up in the woods, where I was 
hunting small game. At sight of the bear I drew my 
charges of fine shot and put buck shot in their places. 
By that time the bear was nearly out of sight. I 
fired at him, but it did not take effect, and he got away. 
But now to return and begin my story. One Sep- 
tember afternoon I went up in the woods to hunt small 
game. I had been away from home only a little while, 
and had just entered a beautiful grove of oak trees 
when, about a hundred yards away, I saAv a large black 
bear. 
He was down on his haunches eating acorns. The 
next instant, however, he had raised himself on his 
hind legs, as tall as a man. I decided that it would 
be impossible to kill him with my shotgun at so long 
a distance, and I had almost made up my mind to go 
home for my rifle, when bruin started away, and mak- 
ing a circle to the left, disappeared from view. Fear- 
ing- that I should be unable to find him again if I went 
home for the rifle, I decided that I would do the best 
I could with the shotgun, which was loaded with buck- 
shot. 
So crossing a ravine to my left, I crawled up the hill 
on my hands and knees to head the bear off. In a 
moment I caught sight of him standing on a large, 
flat rock about eighty yards away. The distance was 
so great I thought it best not to fire. The bear stood 
■ watching some cattle that were a short distance away, 
for a few moments, and then started off again. I fol- 
lowed until I lost sight of him. In a few moments, 
however, I saw him again, this time coming toward 
me. I dropped behind a large boulder close by, and 
waited. He kept on coming, and when he was within 
thirty yards of my hiding place, his side being turned 
toward me, I fired. I only wounded him, however, 
and he started off again. I followed a little way, and 
fired a second time. I hit him back of the fore shoul- 
der. He started to walk away, nevertheless, but he 
had only gone a short distance when he fell, and in a 
few moments he was dead. 
I then got a team and sonic men to .liclp me, and we 
got the bear home. He measured six feet and three 
inches long, weighed j6o pounds, and was one of the 
largest bears ever shot in this vicinity, which is in 
the edge of the White Moimtains, near North Conway. 
A. B. F. Stilus. 
The Maine Season. 
^ Bangor, Maine, Oct. 3.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
The game season is on in Maine, but the usual rush of 
sportsmen that usually marks the beginning of the season 
;s conspicuous by its contrast with preceding years. 
Those who advocate the license idea and believe that it 
was a good thing for the State at large, now say that 
the great majority of non-resident sportsmen, having 
to pay fifteen dollars for their privilege, are waiting until 
their outing will permit them to kill both moose and 
deer, and so will not visit this State until later. The 
camp and hotel owners, transportation companies, and 
others interested are sincereli^ hoping that this may be 
so, and look forward to the middle of next week to see 
the promised influx of sportsmen from other States. 
One dreamy representative of the game interests is re- 
ported as saying to a reporter that the way sportsmen 
were pouring into the camps is beating all records — and 
so it may be, but just the opposite of what he may have 
meant to be understood as saying. One year ago the 
night Pullman from Boston to this city brought twenty 
sportsmen, and the same night this season it brought 
six. That night a year ago there were as many more 
who sought sleeper tickets that could not secure berths ; 
this year those six were practically all the hunters 
a1>oard the train. "In ten years," said one of the party, 
"I never saw the Boston station so lacking in evidences 
of outgoing sportsmen as it was last night.'' Still, the 
crowd may come later, and there are many who are trust- 
ing sincerely that it may be so. Those guides whose old 
established parties have cancelled their dates don't hope 
for anything but a chance to kill a couple of deer and a 
m.oose and sell them to the markets, thus earning a few 
dollars at least in the spare time they expect to have this 
fall. 
This, by the way, is a great year for bears. A promi- 
nent taxidermist of this city told the writer to-day that 
he had received upward of twenty bears in the last three 
weeks, which beats all records in Bangor. Some of these 
ha\'e come from New Brunswick and some from Bangor, 
but they have all been bears, and the sportsman who 
wants to hunt b'ar needs no license, this year or next, in 
Maine. 
But if there are few sportsmen coming into Maine 
just now, her neighbor "across the line" is having an 
abundance of business in the way of moose hunters, 
while some are coming out from Newfoundland with 
their gracefully horned caribou. A large number of 
these Canadian-killed heads find their way to this city 
for mounting, and the first to be received here this season 
was killed by Dr. J. C. Wilson, of Philadelphia, who 
hunted in the country reached via Bathurst, N. B. The 
largest head from that country measured 60 inches, and 
was sighted by C Carnegie, of New York city. The 
antlers spread 60 inches. A. B. and T. W. Roberts, of 
Bala, Pa., and Joseph G. Rosengarten. Jr., and A. L. 
Wheeler, of Philadelphia, Pa., have been on to the New- 
foundland barrens, sen<5inf out thr^ fine caribou heads 
apiece. Amos P. Webber, M.D., of Boston, has one of 
the handsomest heads seen here in a long time, the 
antlers being very massive and spreading 58 inches. 
Other trophies received from the Provinces include one 
moose and bear, H, G. Rowe, Medina, O. ; a moose^ 
Thos. G. Rowe, Bucyrus, O. ; a bear, C. E. Warren, 
Cleveland, O. ; one moose, Dr. Benj. Pennebaker, Phila- 
delphia, Pa.; two moose, R. H. Stevenson, Boston; one 
caribou, H. Cummings, Jr., Boston; one very nice moose, 
B. L. Longenecker, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; a caribou (from 
Quebec), E. L. Pollock, Bridgeport, Conn.; moose (head 
spread 58 inches), George F. Norton, New York city; 
an entire family of five bears, Joseph Adamowski, the 
widely-known Boston musician. Perhaps the most 
astonishing story of the game season in New Brunswick 
this season is that of the experience of George Wilcox, 
of Meriden, Conn., who was accompanied by his little 
son, eleven years old, in a trip to Newcastle. The boy 
shot his moose with a .22 caliber rifle. Judge H. J. 
Cookinham, of Utica, N. Y., had a fine trip into New- 
foundland, and sent two caribou heads here to be set up. 
Benson Mann and son, of Philadelphia, secured four m 
the same barrens, and Rev. Harold Patttson, of Hart- 
ford, who left his summer camp at Moosehead Lake a 
month ago or less to try the same sport, succeeded in 
shooting three caribou. Charles W. Keycs, of East Pep- 
perell, and Heniy W. Keyes, of North Haverhill, Mass., 
secured three caribou apiece, and E. Otz, of New York 
city, made a double trip, getting three caribou in New- 
foundland and then coming over to New Brunswick, 
where he secured two moose. Herbert W. Rowe. 
Massachusetts Fish and Game. 
Boston, Oct. 3— Editor Forest and Stream: The 
readers of Boston dailies last Thursday were given a 
genuine surprise by the report of a buck perambulatmg 
the streets of Chelsea, a city comprised in greater Bos- 
ton, and within the limits of Suffolk county. _ The deer, 
by good fortune, turned into a street where is a stable, 
and, by intuition, I suppose, considered that the proper 
place of abode. At any rate he took possession and was 
secured. The owner was nonplussed and not knowing 
just what to do, telephoned in various directions for in- 
formation, the result of which was the advent of Deputy 
Warden Bent, who was sent by Capt. Collins to take pos- 
session of the deer, as the property of the State. 1 he 
deputy secured needed assistance and succeeded ua trans- 
porting the deer to a remote forest several miles from 
the city limits, where he was set free, and it is quite 
probable that he will have full enjoyment of his liberty 
till the expiration of the close time five years hence. 
It is also reported that the people of Gloucester are 
greatly exasperated by the killing of a deer m the out- 
skirts of that city. The Commissioners have been in- 
formed that several owners of dogs have allowed them, 
or enconraged them, to chase deer, and have sent warn- 
inggs to those persons, and have instructed their deputies 
to see that the law is enforced to the letter Yom 
readers may rest assured if the deer are not saved it will 
not be the fault of the State Commissioners and their 
deputies. . „ ^ , 1 e ^ 
Deputy Bent had a case against a Boston dealer for 
shipping short lobsters which came before the court on 
Wednesday last. I am informed that the dealer ad- 
mitted to Mr. Bent that he shipped them, and the depu^ 
asked the judge whether his own statement would be 
sufficient, and was told that his testimony would be ot no 
account—that he had no standing with the court. At hrst 
the judge objected to having witnesses come from t<aU 
River, where the lobsters were delivered, on the ground 
that it would involve too much expense. However, 
several witnesses were brought from that city and gave 
their testimony, and it would seem the case against the 
dealer was clearlv proven, but for all that he was ac- 
Quitted The source of my information is such as to 
preclude the possibility of doubt as to the facts above 
stated, and the case should, it seems to me, be carried 
to a higher court. As President Reed, of the State Asso- 
ciation, said at the conference of commissioners, the 
lO^/.-inch law is a very difficult one to enforce, and when 
a c^se is brought before a judge who is prejudiced 
against the law, a conviction is impossible. ^ . „ 
It is too early yet to learn how our hunters hnd the 
partridges, but that the quail shooting will be good is 
certain, the reports from various parts of the State indi- 
cating that they are abundant, many having been seen m 
sections where they are not usually found at all. 
Commissioner Wentworth writes that the gunners 
who have sought the covers in New Hampshire have 
not as yet secured large bags, but he anticipates better 
results later. . ,^ ■■. 
A party of Boston sportsmen are arranging to visit 
Sandwich, N. H., in a few days for deer hunting, and it 
is quite certain that a considerable number who have 
been accustomed to hunt big game m Maine will go to 
the northern section of the Granite State this year in- 
stead. For the man who can spare but two or three 
weeks from business, this furnishes an inviting field, not 
only on account of accessibility, but for the abundance of 
<^arne as well The great host of hunters who can only 
|o out for a day or=' half a day will welcome the time 
when they can get now and then a deer near home. 
Our Commissioners tell me they have of late been 
called on to appoint three of four unpaid deputies every 
week, and now almost every town wants one or more 
fish and game wardens. This is unmistakable proof of 
The increasing interest on the part of .the comaiunity. 
Capt. Collins has not only kept his deputies on the move 
but savs he has made a caretul examination o about 
thirtv ponds, and has notified a number of sawmill own- 
ers to keen sawdust out of the streams. . 
Your correspondent received a pleasant call recently 
from the well-known Springfield sport.^^man Mr. Charles 
Clark Munn, author of "Uncle Terry and other inter- 
esting stories. His latest book, "The Hermit, A Story of 
the Wilderness." which I have just read with much 
pleasure, appeals especially to those who enjoy woods 
life Mr Munn was one of the leaders in the convention 
of clubs in November, 1899. which resulted in the forma- 
tion of the Central Committee and the consequent im- 
provement m the bird laws of our State. 
Dr. Bishop's party returned this week from New 
Brunswick with two hull moose and a caribou, Iqlled m 
