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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 20, 1907. 
The Sportsman, the Mother Quail and 
the Pointer Dog. 
The jurors in the Thaw trial were examined 
as to most things under the sun, but no reference 
appears to have been made to their ability to 
qualify as sportsmen. If among them there was 
any man who knew anything about quail shoot¬ 
ing, he must have been deeply impressed by this 
oratorical flight of Mr. Delmas for the defense: 
“I have seen a poor little quail when I was 
out hunting—a poor little bird not as big as 
your fist, with a callow brood of young ones in 
the dust of the road, and I have seen a pointer 
come running upon them and I have seen the 
little bird, her feathers bristled until she ap¬ 
peared bigger than he nearly, flying at him who 
placed her young in danger, until he stood 
abashed and respectful in the sanctity of her 
motherhood.” 
Wyoming’s Needs. 
Louisville, Ky., April 6.— Editor Forest arid 
Stream: I have just received a letter from Wyo¬ 
ming saying that the Legislature had limited the 
killing of elk and antelope to one each. Here¬ 
tofore the game license would permit _ the tak¬ 
ing of two of each species. To outsiders the 
news that the State authorities had taken proper 
measures for suppressing the unlawful slaughter 
of the game would have been more welcome. 
The market hunters, especially the tusk hunters, 
are the people who need looking after. It is the 
general experience that game flourishes and mul¬ 
tiplies under reasonable protection. That deer, 
elk and antelope are rapidly disappearing in 
Wyoming is due to law breakers within that 
State and not to licensed sportsmen. 
It is said that the authorities of another State 
seized and confiscated one consignment of 
trophies worth $10,000, illegally taken in Wyo¬ 
ming. Unless this business is ended Wyoming 
will cease to be a mecca for sportsmen. The 
numerous outfitters and guides who profit from 
the visitors should use their influence to have 
the laws enforced and to save the remaining 
trophies for licensed hunters only. It is a notor¬ 
ious fact that the native law breakers are deci¬ 
mating the remnants of the great herds of elk 
and antelope which once existed in Wyoming. 
Brent Altsheler. 
An Association Needed. 
Manchester, N. H., April 10 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: A sportsman’s association is what 
is wanted in New Hampshire. There seems to 
be a lack of interest in the sporting circle of 
New Hampshire, the game is becoming scarcer 
every year, and no attention is paid to preserva¬ 
tion or stocking it, which is a serious matter. 
A lot of the game in New Hampshire falls 
victim to the youth who goes afield ignorant of 
the game law. If we had an association we 
could do something toward getting a law passed 
to restrict the age of those carrying a gun into 
the field which would save our smaller game 
from the hands of the youth. To a certain ex¬ 
tent there are good enough men in New Hamp¬ 
shire to push it ahead and with a capable man 
in front there is nothing surer than prosperity. 
Desirous. 
New Publications. 
“Fishing and Shooting Sketches” is a little 
volume every sportsman should have in his 
library, not alone for the reason that it contains 
the best philosophy and logic of Grover Cleve¬ 
land, but for its pleasing illustrations, the work 
of that other good sportsman, Henry S. Wat¬ 
son. Seldom is the best work of two masters 
like these contained in so small a volume, and 
although it is not usual in reviewing a book to 
mention its illustrator first, we cannot help 
breaking the rule in this case, for Mr. Watson’s 
pen-and-ink sketches are so numerous and so 
pleasing while trite that one finds himself run¬ 
ning ahead of the text to admire and commend 
the pictures. The “sketches” have appeared in 
print in various periodicals and have been com¬ 
mented on favorably and unfavorably by the 
press of the country, but while some sportsmen 
will not agree with Mr. Cleveland on some 
points raised, they will find much in the book 
to commend and endorse. In his “Mission of 
Sport and Outdoor Life” the author wisely 
says that although the delightful and passionate 
love for outdoor sport and recreation is be¬ 
stowed upon everyone as a natural gift, they 
are so palpably related to health and vigor, and 
so inseparably connected with the work of life 
and comfort of existence, that it is happily 
ordained that a desire or a willingness for this 
enjoyment may be cultivated to an extent suf¬ 
ficient to meet the requirements of health and 
self-care. Men, he continues, may accumulate 
wealth in neglect of the law of recreation; but 
how infinitely much they will forfeit in the de¬ 
privation of wholesome vigor, in the loss of the 
from mr. Cleveland’s book. 
Courtesy Outing Pub. Co. 
placid fitness for the quiet joys and comforts 
of advancing years, and in the displacement of 
contented age by the demon of querulous and 
premature decrepitude. While anglers as a rule 
will agree with Mr. Cleveland that it is some¬ 
times rather foolish for the fly-casting purist 
to insist that he will not use live bait when the 
trout will not rise to the fly, we cannot but 
smile at his confident assertion that “every one 
of these super-refined fly-casting dictators, when 
he fails to allure trout by his most scientific 
casts, will chase grasshoppers to the point of 
profuse perspiration, and turn over logs and 
stones with feverish anxiety in quest of worms 
and grubs, if haply he can with these save him¬ 
self from empty-handedness.” Every one? In 
this the author is inconsistent while unkind, for 
he tries to teach the shooter and angler to en¬ 
joy the empty day with the successful one. We 
are a little bit surprised that Mr. Cleveland 
does not defend spring shooting, for which 
practice he has frequently been severely criti¬ 
cised by our best sportsmen. Published by The 
Outing Publishing Company, New York. 
The Death of Dr. Drummond. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The death of Dr. W. H. Drummond on the 
6th of April will bring a sharp pang of regret 
to many hearts, not only to those who knew him 
well, but to that wider circle who had read his 
inimitable, simple folk-lore stories and poems, 
redolent as they are of the fresh breath of the 
pines and balsams and full of human interest 
and action of the men who inhabit the great out- 
of-doors. Dr. Drummond was a man of culture 
and refinement, but first of all a man of nature. 
Even when a youth his tastes and inclination 
took him to the woods and the streams, and the 
charms of the camp under the wide canopy of 
heaven. Dr. Drummond began the practice of 
his profession in Montreal, where he also be¬ 
came identified with the fishing clubs of the St. 
Maurice River, a stream of which he was very 
fond and which gave more or less inspiration 
for his work. Dr. Drummond was the author of 
many verses written in the patois of the Cana¬ 
dian fisherman and it is through these that the 
American public has more generally known of 
him. Frank Heywood. 
Game in Vermont. 
Northfield, Vt., April 12,— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Now that the Vermont sugar maker 
is busy and the early summer birds have ar¬ 
rived, we may conclude that the backbone of a 
long and severe winter has been broken and 
that spring is at hand, though to-day the ground 
here is white with newly fallen snow. 
Deer are reported as being seen all over the 
northern part of the State in droves of five to 
twenty-five, but they are mostly does and many 
of them will be dry does, as they are being daily 
run by foxhounds, which will cause them to pre¬ 
maturely drop their young. In many localities 
the wardens are trying to stop this work, but 
in the vicinity of the granite quarries, where the 
Italian workmen keep hounds, it is very hard 
to find the owners of these dogs. 
The fox hunters report that they see many 
signs of ruffed grouse, so if we are favored with 
a warm, dry spring we may expect good sport 
another season with these game birds. 
Stanstead. 
Snowshoes for Load Carrying. 
Little Falls, N. Y., April 8.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: In my article on trapping, April 
6, the sentence in regard to the weather rang¬ 
ing “to more than sixty degrees below zero” 
should have read “below freezing.” The tem¬ 
perature deep in the woods goes much lower than 
at the forest edge, and doubtless sometimes the 
mountains are cut by sixty below zero. Still, on 
my trio, the coldest night was probably not more 
than forty below zero. 
I should acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. 
Charles Moody, and to “Skis and Ski Running.” I 
wore snowshoes on my trip. Of course, a snow- 
shoer and a skier would be a most ill-matched 
couple in the woods, owing to the difficulties of 
trail-breaking. Had skis been much superior to 
snowshoes I should nevertheless have been 
obliged to wear the latter. The firm grip of 
the web snowshoe on its footing makes it far 
and away superior for the man under a pack, but 
the “life” and glide of the ski makes it ideal for 
walking on snow without a load, in clearings 
or along old roads. Raymond S. Spears. 
Legislative News. 
No amendments to the game and fish laws 
had been passed by the Illinois Legislature up to 
April 11. 
The same thing can be said of the Wisconsin 
Legislature. 
In Michigan local measures only have so far 
been passed. 
The New Brunswick Legislature has not as 
yet passed any game or fish laws. 
The Ontario Legislature has revised the game 
and fish laws, and the new act was passed April 
9, but the details are not available at this time. 
