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FOREST AND STREAM 
Aug. 23, 1913. 
The Sportsman Tourist. 
Nova Scotia. 
KEDGEMAKOOGE LAKE 
In the Wilderness 
A vast virgin forest. 90 miles long'. Club House 
easily accessible by automobile. 
A net-work of beautiful streams. Splendid canoe¬ 
ing. Trout abundant, large and gamy. 
Non-members cordially welcomed at the Club House, 
$12.00 a week. Cabins for families. Special provision 
for ladies. 
Modern conveniences: Electric lights, telephone, 
daily mail. Experienced guides and full equipment 
for long or short trips. For interesting illustrated 
booklet write J. W. THOMPSON, Mgr., Kedgema- 
kooge Rod and Gun Club, New Grafton, Nova Scotia. 
Newfoundland. 
NEWFOUNDLAND. 
A land teeming with SALMON, TROUT and 
CARIBOU, besides other game. I provide outfits 
and guides. For narticulars apply to 
J. R. WHITAKER, "The Bungalow,” 
Grand Lake, Newfoundland. 
New Brunswick. 
BIG GAME IN NORTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK 
Sportsmen, send for our free illustrated booklet, 
which fully describes our six hunting camps for 
moose, caribou, bear and deer in northern New 
Brunswick. Imhoff Brothers’ Hunting Camps, 
Imhoff, Gloucester County, N. B., Canada. 
New York. 
THE OAKS, 
COSSAYUNA, N. Y. 
John Liddle. Prop. 
The Best Black Bass Fishing in New York State, on 
COSSAYUNA LAKE, 
with trout streams practically virgin. A charming 
spot to take your family for the summer. Con¬ 
venient and inexpensive for week ends. June 24, 
7%lb. Oswego bass was caught here. June 5, 4%lb. 
brown trout was taken from one of our streams. 
Map and booklet sent on application. Editor of 
Forest and Stream has fished here—ask him. 
Virginia. 
MODERN HOTEL 
Cottages, rent or sale on fishing grounds. Guides 
and power boat, 1 man, $3; 2 men, $4 day. Channel 
Bass, Kings, Trout, Hogfish galore. Send for book¬ 
let. A. H. G. MEARS, \\ achapreague, Eastern 
Shore, Virginia. 
North Carolina. 
Best Mixed Shooting’ in America. 
Ducks, Geese, Swans, Quail, Shore Birds—White’s Pre¬ 
serve, Waterlilv, Currituck Sound, North Carolina. 
WOODCRAFT 
By “NESSMUK ” 
Cloth, 16o pages. Illustrated. Price, $1.00. 
A book written for the instruction and guidance 
of those who go for pleasure to the woods. Its 
author, having had a great deal of experience 
in camp life, has succeeded admirably in putting 
the wisdom so acquired into plain and intelli¬ 
gible English. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
“Come, Fred, we’re out of meat and must have 
an antelope.” Together we mounted, and off 
through the river bluffs to the mesas. 
It was not long - before I had one 
antelope, which we laid by for more. I had 
wounded another, which ran for the bordering 
sandhills (which hills are underbored by gophers 
and moles, making it unsafe for horseback rid¬ 
ing), stopping at their base. My horse paid 
no attention to the use of a gun, but for 
some reason would not stand for a revolver. 
Keeping to the lee side of the standing ante¬ 
lope, I approached within revolver distance, 
when, forgetting my horse’s objection to it, I 
dropped the rein to his neck, my rifle in my 
left hand, I raised my gun, and immediately my 
horse jumped. With my finger on the trigger, 
I reached for the rein, discharging the load, 
the antelope putting further away. Where had 
gone the heavy ball I had sent, I failed to dis¬ 
cover. My horse giving no sign, I turned to 
join my “companion,” then at some distance. 
Reaching him, I dismounted and discovered 
blood upon my horse’s neck. Upon examina¬ 
tion, I discovered that my discharged ball had 
entered under the top of the main, coursed 
down through the muscles of the neck and 
rested under the skin below. “Poor old fellow,” 
was all I could say in my sorrow and sympathy. 
“Come, Fred, we’ll go home. The one we 
have will do. We’ll put that on your horse and 
ride slowly.” 
At the ranch I took my razor, and draw¬ 
ing the skin tightly, I very surgically removed 
the ball, and under warm water treatment, all 
became well again. In this “affray” my horse 
was more fortunate than was General Sheri¬ 
dan’s, which, while chasing and shooting at a 
buffalo, the General sent one ball into the top 
of its head between the ears, and “the subse¬ 
quent proceeding interested him (the horse) no 
more.” 
My noble bay horse’s leg was afterward 
broken while chasing wild horses by my men in 
my absence (and against my instructions) and 
had to be shot. I think of him yet. 
Speaking of antelope hunting and shooting, 
an antelope may be shot through the body, fall 
from the shock, and later get up and wander 
away to become food for coyotes. 
On the river a distance away, one day I 
saw several go down the bank for a drink. 
Taking a Winchester and mounting a pony, I 
was upon them, when they broke for the sage 
brush. When out of sight, I followed to dis¬ 
cover them again. Tying my pony to a sage 
bush, I followed afoot to within range, and 
resting my gun upon my knee, I “dropped” one, 
the other taking off. Mounting, I again fol¬ 
lowed, passing the one I had dropped, dead, as 
I thought, and again I “got” another. I tried 
my hand in the same manner the third time, but 
only to wound the third, which ran behind a 
“butte.” Mounting again, I rode to discover, if 
I could, “where he went,” and there lie lay only 
wounded. Tying down my pony and laying- 
down my gun. I approached with my hunting 
knife, when, lo! and behold! up he jumped and 
up the rise he went, leaving a trail of blood. 
Again I followed him, but lie had disappeared. 
I gave him up and rode back for my second one, 
but only to find him non cst inventus. No sign 
of him anywhere. 
Becoming a little hot by this time, I went 
for my first “killing,” when he, too, arose with 
a broken shoulder and turned away a little 
space. Taking a sure aim, I caught him be¬ 
tween the horns and carried him in. 
Small bunches of them were seen very 
often running along not far from a train and 
often shot at. Passing over the plains upon one 
occasion (in 1872), I saw a number running 
along within range, and taking out my Win¬ 
chester, I dropped one, then another and a 
third. 
The train stopped and backed, and by the 
time it was again to the point, two of the ante¬ 
lope had gotten up and gone over a small rise, 
the other lying apparently done for. Passen¬ 
gers alighted, the darkey porter in the lead, 
running to the dead antelope and sitting down 
upon it, calling for a knife, which was just 
handed him, when the buck gave him a hoist 
that sent him sprawling and away went the ante¬ 
lope. It was a most laughable scene, over 
which much fun was made by the tourists. 
The .28-Bore. 
Red Bank, N. J., July 18 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: Several years ago Squires, the gun 
man, of Cortlandt street, New York city, asked 
the writer if he had ever used a 28-bore, and 
upon receiving a negative reply, stated that there 
Property for Sale. 
DUCKING PRESERVE 
The ducking preserve known as Seal Island, located 
in the River St. Lawrence, about forty miles below 
Quebec, owned by the undersigned for many years, 
is offered for sale. For further particulars address 
I. W. ADAMS, care The Linen Thread Co., 
, Boston, Mass. 
An Exceptional Buy 
EXTERIOR VIEW OF HOTEL. 
Sixty-three room Hotel in Asburv Park, with established 
trade. Has been open summer and winter for fifteen 
years, without change of ownership or management. Now 
open. In perfect repair. Completely furnished and 
equipped. Location second to none at Asbury Park, di¬ 
rectly opposite Sunset Lake, where one may have the 
quiet of the country, and yet be but three blocks from 
the gayety of the Boardwalk. Will sell as it stands complete 
—furniture, fixtures, linen, silver, etc., and make liberal 
mortgage arrangements. For further particulars, t.idress 
"B,” care of Forest and Stream. 
