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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 8, 1906. 
No. 6" 
of 
Parish of 
GUN LICENCE, 10s. Od. 
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in the 
within the 
Administrative County 
is hereby authorized by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to CARRY AND USE 
A GUN from the date hereof until and including the Thirty-first day of July next following; 
the sum of TEN SHILLINGS having been paid for this Licence. 
Granted at 
o’clock this 
hours Jti. minutes Cf .tn. 
190 (j, 
day of 
t>y_ 
N. B. This Licence is of no avail in a proclaimed district in Ireland unless the bearer be 
duly authorized to carry Arms. 
This Licence will not authorize any person under the age of eighteen years to carry or use 
in England or Scotland a pistol as defined by the Pistols Act, 1903 . 
♦If the residence is within an Administrative County Borough insert “Borough”. 
Washington Sportsmen Successful. 
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 22. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Inland duck shooters gained what the 
marsh shooters lost last week. The floods in 
western Washington had a tendency to scatter 
the birds, and the lack of strong winds worked 
to the disadvantage of those who have blinds 
where the birds drive over in time of stormy 
weather. 
There is a general belief that rain makes good 
duck shooting, but where this idea had its 
birth is difficult to imagine. A day that com¬ 
bines rain and wind is good, because the ducks 
may stir around between showers, but if the 
water simply pours from a still sky, there is 
little doing. An exception may be noted in 
respect to sheltered nooks. If the ducks are 
in the open when the rain commences to fall 
they will seek shelter, and if a hunter is lucky 
enough to locate the hole into which they are 
dropping, he may get good shooting. 
High water always increases the difficulty of 
getting good blinds on grounds other than those 
where due allowance is made for changes in the 
weather. The high water of the past week, 
however, has been just what the owners of 
preserves along inland sloughs wanted. Fields 
hitherto dry have been covered just deep enough 
for the ducks to paddle around and still get 
food. 
Squak slough will be good from now on to 
the close of the season, but there is no use of 
anybody going there unless he has the privilege 
of a preserve. Practically speaking, the entire 
distance from Lake Sammamish to York is 
guarded, not only by trespass signs, but by 
keepers as well. 
Charlie Holcomb had good luck last week at 
Fir. It was not easy work, but he managed to 
bag twenty mallards and sprigs. Dave Williams 
was also one of the lucky ones. William Cruse 
has found La Conner good ground this fall, his 
last hunt yielding between 30 and 40 big ducks. 
Lou Smith, Walter Cole and Charlie Becking- 
ham were among those who got in a good hunt 
for snipe and teal in the White River valley 
before the flood came to spoil it all. Billy 
Tarrant also caught the snipe right and came 
home with a full sack. 
Charlie Beckingham came down from the 
court house one afternoon to find himself 
famous as a big-game hunter. At first Charlie 
did not understand the congratulations, but when 
he saw a large cougar in the window of Joe 
JSchlumpf’s cigar store with a placard telling 
’how he had killed it after an exciting battle, Tie 
caught on to the fact that Schlumpf had been 
having his little joke. As a matter of fact, the 
cougar was killed by Riley McCoy, a well-known 
politician, near Dungeness. 
Goose shooting has never been better than it 
is at present. Miller brothers, of Tacoma, re¬ 
cently killed sixty in the Horse Heaven coun¬ 
try. Johnny Wheeler, Herman Boltz and 
Charles Stumer were also there but did not get 
the right wind. Twenty was all they brought 
home, but they weighed 200 pounds. 
Portus Baxter. 
The Baskatong Country. 
Quebec, Canada, Nov. 30 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I am continually in receipt of letters 
from sportsmen in different parts of the United 
States asking for information as to various new 
sporting territories, and am therefore very glad 
when any of my acquaintances forward me a 
description of their own experiences in prac¬ 
tically unknown portions of the country; just 
as I always print such of my own as I believe 
likely to be of value to readers. 
A brother of mine has sent me an account of 
an expedition made by him with a party of 
friends, in the latter part of. September, through 
the almost unknown interior of the northern 
parts of Ottawa and Montcalm counties, in the 
Province of Quebec, which may determine some 
sportsmen to follow their tracks next year, for 
there are sportsmen who prize the opportunity 
of getting as far as possible from civilization. 
My brother writes: 
“We had a very charming trip to the Baskatong 
and the Baskatosing, but on account of the inacces¬ 
sibility of Lac Rouge and Lac Travers, we have 
given up all idea of applying for a lease, which was 
our original idea in undertaking the trip. From 
Maniwaki, the head of the Gatineau line, we had 
to drive forty-two miles to Baskatong bridge, 
the last frontier post. Thence canoes were taken 
up the Baskatong River, four miles; through 
Baskatong Lake, which is often impassable, 
owing to high winds, for five miles; portage 
three-quarters of a mile; Baskatosing River 
thirty miles, including three hard portages; 
Baskatosing Lake some three miles to the last 
portage, which leads through a bad bush for 
four miles to Lac Travers. This lake is three 
and a half miles long by one and a half wide, 
and is connected by a creek, on which there is 
an inhabited beaver dam, with Lac Rouge, a 
beautiful body of water, four miles long by one 
and a half wide.” 
From all accounts these last mentioned lakes 
are among the best trout waters in the coun¬ 
try. The fish run large and are very gamy, the 
big red fellows rising freely to artificial lures, 
which is more than can be ■ said of all the 
lakes which contain big specimens of the Ameri¬ 
can red trout. 
The writer and those who accompanied him 
are not of those who care to give up too much 
of their time to canoe trips through the coun¬ 
try to reach their fishing and hunting grounds, 
but he admits that lakes Travers and Rouge 
are very desirable bodies of water, if they did 
not take five and a half days to reach, and were 
they not infested by Indian hunters and trappers, 
who kill great quantities of game. On the 
authority of an Indian who saw the skins, the 
party was told that no deer were killed on 
Sable Bay, Baskatong Lake, during the sum¬ 
mer. This lake is included in a fishing and 
hunting territory under lease to a club, whose 
duty it is to protect it against poachers, and the 
failure to do so may result in a cancellation of 
the lease. At any rate, either the club or the 
Government will have to see to it that the fish 
and game laws are properly enforced. Public 
attention having been directed to the matter, a 
few of the Algonquin gentlemen who have been 
setting the law at defiance will no doubt be 
brought to book when another season comes 
around. 
Many evidences of wolves were seen by the 
party, and in the drive from Maniwaki to Baska¬ 
tong bridge. The few scattered settlers and the 
Indians had not heard before of the increased 
bounty on wolves. 
Splendid hunting was had on the territory of 
the Wright County Club at Bear Lake, of which 
my brother is a member. He killed his two 
deer on the second day. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
Rabbit Shooting in England. 
A correspondent living in Lawrence, Mass., 
has sent us a picture of an American sportsman 
and the bag of rabbits he and a friend secured 
in one’ afternoon while shooting at his old home 
in England. Of the twenty-seven rabbits 
and the shooting on the other side of the water, 
he says: 
“This bag was taken by two men, one dog and 
two guns (not repeaters) in one afternoon. At 
first thought, it would seem that the gentlemen 
had taken more than their share; the fact is, 
however, that the hares and rabbits are so thick 
that if not shot in this way there would soon be 
nothing for them to eat, or the inhabitants 
either, unless they lived on themselves. As it 
is, they both provide good, cheap food for the 
people. None of them are wasted and left to 
rot on the ground, as some of our game is said 
to be. Every hare or rabbit finds its way to the 
pot. The skins are sold for from two cents to 
six. Every hunter must take out a license to 
carry a gun. This costs $2.50, and he must have 
it with him. It will not go that he has one at 
home, or anywhere else. Now this gun license 
(one of which I .send you) only allows a person 
to carry a gun and kill vermin. Rabbits and 
hares come under that head. The license to 
shoot what they call game calls for the sum of 
£3, a copy of which I will send later. Mr. Wm. 
S. Pedler holds an important position in the 
Pacific Mills of Lawrence, Mass. He is an 
Englishman born and bred, so every chance he 
gets he slips over to the old country for the 
fall rabbit and hare shooting. On his return, 
we are beguiled by stories that are as good as 
moving pictures.” 
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