FOREST AND STREAM. 
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April 20 , 1907.] 
THE GRAVE OF NED BUNTLINE’S WIFE AND CHILD. 
An Afternoon Jaunt. 
Full many a lovely flower is found, 
For April is now here; 
The sun is warming up thie ground, 
The warbler’s notes are clear. 
With sweetest sounds the babbling rills 
Are dancing down the vales; 
The woods upon the neighboring hills 
Bend with the soft spring gales. 
The meadows brown will soon be green, 
The sun shines brighter now; 
The lake takes on a silvery sheen 
As its clear wavelets flow; 
So let’s cheer up and happy be; 
Let troubles disappear, 
And like the singing birds be free, 
For spring’s bright days are here. 
Saturday, March 30, being with me a day off, 
started early in the morning for a tramp to 
Observe what I could of both animal and plant 
, fe; in other words, to just have a good old-fash- 
aned loafing time. So I headed toward a large 
ract of woodland through which a clear and 
ively brook babbled along over a sandy bed. It 
( vas cpiite a long distance, but several years ago 
had found out that it was the most likely place 
0 find the earliest spring growth and flowers. 
As I strolled along by the brookside I was sur¬ 
mised to find so much vegetable life already well 
tarted. There was the skunk cabbage, lots of 
t, with the spathes and green leaves well de- 
eloped. and lots of white hellebore ( Veratrum 
’’Ibuni ), one of our most poisonous native plants 
i f taken internally, but withal a most beautiful 
!>ne, much of it at least a foot in height. 
! The woods rang with the warblings of the 
• lirds, mostly robins, red-wing and crow black- 
>irds and song sparrows, and the day was bright 
J tnd clear and just about warm enough. Seat- 
} ng myself at the foot of a large gum tree close 
joy a little waterfall I enjoyed myself commun- 
| ng with nature. And what a grand mother she 
f s! 
After being seated for awhile/ I saw a garter 
nake some three feet in length lying on the dry 
eaves in the sun. It was not more than six 
feet from where I sat and in plain sight, and 
jvhy I had not noticed it before seemed strange, 
i lut did one ever take note how much protective 
j oloration has to do in preventing many animate 
hines from being quickly recognized by one as 
ie strolls along? I watched the snake for awhile. 
, ts head was some three inches from the ground 
md it lay perfectly still. It had a very rusty 
00k, as it had not yet shed its skin. 
Along the brook I found many cowslips or 
' narsh marigolds well leaved out and in full 
j doom; beautiful flowers, large and the richest 
r »f yellow set in a mass of the brightest of green 
eaves. Later on, in strolling through the woods, 
gathered a large full bloom bouquet of trail- 
ng arbutus. How pretty it was, and what a 
ovely delicate scent it had! I have never be- 
ore found arbutus blooming so fully and so 
;arly in this part of the State. 
Toward noon I came across seven or eight 
! Griped water snakes lying in the sun on the 
j iank. They were all about the same length, 
: ome two feet or more. They soon plunged into 
I he stream. A den of them near there, probably. 
I As for game. I ran across a small flock of 
j ]uail, one rabbit, and saw two fine large gray 
I squirrels merrily chasing each other up, down 
| md around the trunk of a big tulip tree near 
i he brook. I also heard that call so dear to one 
j vho loves the companionship of the dog and 
l tun. Bob White, thus showing that the birds 
vintered all right in this vicinity, 
i In the afternoon I went down to the lake and 
-craped and cleaned my little catboat Bab, both 
! nside and outside, preparatory to putting on a 
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coat of paint; and later on taking the single¬ 
shot rifle, with two congenial spirits I went 
down a valley and put in a couple of hours 
shooting off-hand on a hundred-yard range. It 
beats all how quickly one will get out of prac¬ 
tice at both the trap and the range if one dis¬ 
continues shooting for even a short period. 
A. L. L. 
An Adirondack Memorial. 
Approaching the cemetery from the village of 
Blue Mountain Lake, the visitor sees a large 
boulder on the knoll. It attracts little attention 
till the other side reveals its true character. 
With the bronze tablet set in its eastern face 
it constitutes an unique memorial. The inscrip¬ 
tion tells the story. Tt is as follows: 
£70 round trip. In some ways I am rather 
sorry 1 am not taking the White Nile trip. They 
say it is quite interesting and very wild, but it 
was not possible to get a room on the boat as 
they are all taken. Quite a number of English 
came down on the train, who were going big 
game shooting, very expensive sport, as the gov¬ 
ernment license costs £40. An army officer on 
the train said it was a big undertaking; had to 
get up an outfit, camp, etc., and took about two 
months. I have only used my gun once. Went 
out after quail and wild pigeons at Luxor, got 
nine quail and five pigeons; very funny hunt¬ 
ing. Had five Arab beaters walking on each 
side of me and whenever a bird got up they 
would let out an awful shout, and when I dropped 
a bird there was a small sized riot. 
“ITere lie the remains of 
EVA GARDINER 
Wife of E. C Z. Judson (Ned Buntline) 
together with her infant. 
She died at Eagles’ Nest, Mch. 4, 1860, 
In the 19th year of her age, & was buried where 
a constant desecration of her grave was inevitable, 
to avoid which the bodies were removed to this place 
& this monument erected in 1891 
By William West Durant.” 
Cairo, Egypt, March 4 .—I saw lots of ducks 
and snipe on the White Nile at Khartoum, but 
did not go out, as it costs £5 to get a license 
from the Sudan Government. The Arabs at 
Luxor, with whom I went shooting when on my 
way up, told me that there was fine quail shoot¬ 
ing now, but as Cook & Son would not promise 
me a room on any boat for two weeks I did not 
care to stop off. 
The Eagle’s Nest was on the north side of 
Eagle Lake on the site now occupied by a fine 
club house with many outlying buildings and an 
extended and well kept golf course. A corner 
section of Ned Buntline’s old log house, where 
he lived and loved, hunted, fished and wrote, is 
preserved under permanent shelter. 
Quail Shooting in Egypt. 
Catskill. N. Y., April 5.- — Editor Forest and 
Stream: My brother (Slocum Howland) has 
sent me a line or two about his shooting quail 
in Egypt and I am inclosing a few extracts from 
his last three letters, thinking perhaps you might 
care to use same among your shooting notes. 
Clarence Howland. 
Grand Hotel, Khartoum, Feb. 15.—It was a 
pretty dusty ride down here on the train from 
Wady Haifa; after a time one looked like an ash 
man. Quite a number are leaving by steamers 
to-day for the trip up the White Nile, 1,200 miles, 
Cairo, Egypt, March 20 .— Day before yester¬ 
day I went out quail shooting near the Pyramids 
and had pretty good luck; got forty-five. 
S. H. 
New Indiana Laws. 
The new Indiana game and fish law prohibits 
the possession of quail from Jan. 1 to Nov. 10, 
by storage companies or individuals; makes a 
bag limit of 15 quail or ducks per day, or 45 
of either, killed during three days of hunting; 
waterfowl open season from Sept. 1 to April 1; 
prohibits dove shooting; squirrel open season 
July I-Oct. 1; woodcock, July i-Oct. 1 and Nov. 
10-Jan. 1. Residents may hunt on their own 
land, otherwise a license fee of $1 is required. 
There are no restrictions on fishing, save that 
ice fishing on Bass Lake is prohibited, but old 
laws relative to fishing through the ice are still 
in force; sale of game fish prohibited. Fish from 
private ponds may be sold on presentation of 
proper proof. 
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