Oct. 31, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
697 
Tailing a Wild One. 
1 Byron, Ill., Oct. 24.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
Recent articles in Forest and Stream call up 
old memories and induce me to give the follow¬ 
ing extract from my notebook of a dozen years 
ago: 
May 13, 1896.—Breakfast was hardly over be¬ 
fore one of the boys rushed in to tell me that 
Mike Lynch was about to “tail a wild one.” 
This was an opportunity not to be neglected. It 
was the last shot, as out of the hundreds of dry 
plates that I had brought into the West, there 
! was but one remaining unexposed. Hastening 
to the corral—a circular inclosure of the long, 
tough, springy Rocky Mountain pine—there stood 
the calm, smiling puncher, six feet and better in 
his tracks, with lariat coiled and ready for a 
throw, watching the baker’s dozen of unbroken 
horses that the Padlock foreman had given to 
Lynch to use on the spring round-up. They 
were running wildly about the corral, in the 
center of which was Lynch. Ever turning with 
the bunch, when his victim thought himself the 
I safest, Lynch threw the noose over the shapely 
head. 
Presto! Right and left the terrified bunch 
divided and crowded cowering in the furthest 
corner of the corral, while the puncher, after 
a desperate struggle, choked his terrified catch 
and threw him. The horse lay on the ground 
trembling. A smart twitch of the rope caused 
him to scramble upon his feet and go pitching 
,'and bucking through the band of snorting- 
horses, each member of which instinctively 
avoided the rope. This was but a short dash 
and Lynch soon drew the horse, snorting with 
terror, up to him. The animal smelt of him 
land then became quiet. Mike breathed into his 
I lostrils and slipped a hoodwink over his eyes. 
At a signal a helper brought his bed—tarpau- 
in, the punchers call it—into the corral, laid it 
I carefully upon the trembling horse and fastened 
t with a sort of half diamond hitch. The lariat 
| .vas then loosened and it and the hoodwink re- 
j noved. Then, indeed, there were high jinks in 
hat corral, and both puncher and helper swung 
hemselves up among the appreciative audience 
I hat had gathered upon the top rail of the corral 
f £nce. 
Flesh and blood has a limit set to its endur- 
j mce, and finally the wild horse was a wild horse 
no longer. Plis proud spirit was broken and he 
1 u'bmitted to carry the ignoble burden which he 
rvas unable to throw off. Mike again entered 
1 he corral and roped the horse. In a jiffy he 
j iad him hoodwinked and “tailed to the old bell 
Itiare.” When the hoodwink was removed the 
| orse resented the indignity, but soon submitted 
| 0 the inevitable. The puncher waved his gaunt- 
eted hand to the little audience on the corral 
ence and said: 
“There, gentlemen, after to-day you may call 
f iat horse a packhorse.” Lynch then left the 
j orral, and coming up to me said, as he ex¬ 
uded his brawny right hand, in the wilderness 
f which mine was completely lost: 
1 “Well, Doc, I must hid you good-bye. May 
| ood luck attend you on your ride down the 
; Id trail. I will just take your black rubber 
i “>at and leave you my pommel slicker. This 
; ill give you a dry seat in the saddle though 
[ rain all day, while your coat will pack better 
[ id excite the ire of these half-wild horses less 
than the other. When I was young I loved a 
pitching horse, but I have long since learned 
to appreciate one that is thoroughly broken.” 
The iron grip on my right hand relaxed, the 
puncher swung himself into the saddle and 
Mike soon had his bunch of wild ones strung 
out on the trail of the spring round-up, and at 
a lively gait was “fogging” them down the val¬ 
ley. A. J. W. 
• National Beagle Club Meet. 
Chase City, Va., Oct. 24. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The beautiful autumn weather has 
been a good forerunner for the National Beagle 
Club of America, which is holding its meet here. 
Extensive preparations have been made for the 
welfare and comfort of the guests. A large 
number of horses have been provided for those 
who do not care to bring their own mounts. 
New kennels have been built for the accommo¬ 
dation of the - visiting beagles. Chetwood Smith, 
of Worcester, Mass., arrived on Monday, with 
the first installment of dogs. There is already 
a large and representative attendance here, in¬ 
cluding J. W. Appleton, G. W. Post, Ramsey 
TAILING A WILD ONE. 
1 urnbull, G. M. Wharton, A. S. Burden, Grant 
B. Schley, Jr., all of New York; Dr. Ernest 
Lester Jones, Virginia; Jas. P. Van Dyke, Sun- 
bury, Pa.; T. Dudley Riggs, Hartford, Conn. ; 
Dr. Henry Dixon Bruns, New Orleans, La.; 
Elliott C. Cowdin, 2d, Paterson, N. J.; Chas. 
R. Stevenson, secretary of the club, and Geo. 
F. Reed, of Barton, Vt., with a party of ten 
with a large number of dogs. 
At the close of the meet will be the annual 
fox hunt of the Virginia-Carolina Fox Hunters’ 
Association, beginning Nov. 4, lasting one week. 
Daily fox hunts, free-for-all, will be introduced 
besides the Derby and all-age stakes which are 
permanent features of the meet. A large and 
congenial crowd is expected for these occasions 
and many social pleasures will be among the 
features. A. L. J, Boswell. 
Sparrow and Starling Shoots. 
In a report which the Royal Society for the 
Protection of Birds has recently issued, some in¬ 
teresting information is given respecting the 
trade in wild birds which is carried on by in¬ 
dividuals in country villages, particularly in Bed¬ 
fordshire and Cambridgeshire, says the British 
Sportsman. For starlings and sparrows there 
is a ready sale'at twopence per head for Sunday 
shoots, which are carried on at public houses, 
especially in the East-end. 
Adirondack Game. 
The report of Chief Game Protector Burn¬ 
ham for the year ending Sept. 30, 1907, shows a 
recovery in fines and penalties for violation of 
the fish and game laws of $44,492.10, an increase 
of nearly twenty per cent, over the previous year. 
Of this sum the regular protectors are entitled 
to credit for the recovery of $41,497.01, the bal¬ 
ance, nearly $2,900, being recovered as a result 
of all actions brought by others than the regular 
protectors. Ihere are 600 special protectors as 
well as game and fish protective associations. 
Many of these special protectors do little or no 
work and might well be dropped from the rolls. 
It is time that the men on the list of special pro¬ 
tectors should be efficient men. The hunting 
license law is perhaps the most important pro¬ 
vision in this codification of the game laws which 
went into effect April 14, 1908. This tends to 
strengthen the hands of the protector, to pre¬ 
serve song and insectivorous birds and to limit 
the depredations or lawless persons generally. 
1 heir moieties have been taken from the regular 
protectors and their salaries increased from $600 
a year to $900. The change in the hounding 
law, forbidding the taking of dogs into the Adi¬ 
rondack Park or to any hunting or lumber camp 
in the forest preserve, may interfere with the 
comfort of some people, but is for the general 
good. The reduction of a legal bag of par¬ 
tridges to four for one day and of woodcock and 
quail to six each for one day would have made 
the gunners of a generation ago open their eyes. 
While many convictions have been secured in 
minor stream pollution cases, and upward of 600 
sawmills and manufacturing plants have been in¬ 
duced to care for their waste, yet the control 
of stream pollution is one of such magnitude 
that in Mr. Burnham s opinion it should be cared 
for by the health department of the State. The 
winter of 1907 and 1908 was a very hard one for 
deer and many perished; chiefly old deer and ill- 
nourished fawns. Deer are especially likely to 
suffer in a section which has been lumbered over 
the year before, when the tops are dry and use¬ 
less for food, and no new growth has started. 
Frequent reports of the presence of wolves have 
been received from certain regions in the Adiron¬ 
dack's and Protector David G. Helms, of Deer- 
land, thinks that there is no doubt that there are 
wolves on Moose River. 
Elk seem to be doing pretty well, though oc¬ 
casionally one is killed by some law breaker. 
Beaver are breeding freely and peopling new sec¬ 
tions of the woods each year. 
Mr. Burnham notes a change in the feeling 
among the people of the State in regard to the 
fish and game laws. The public, he says, is wak¬ 
ing up to a realization that the fish and game 
belong to them and are worth protection. The 
increased force of protectors is being organized 
and the men are working together more effi 
ciently than ever. 
IN THE WOODS 
or in the mountains, no matter how far from 
civilization, fresh milk can always be had if 
foresight is used in packing the outfits. Bor¬ 
den’s Peerless Brand Evaporated Milk in cans 
keeps indefinitely until opened, and answers 
every purpose. It is pure, rich milk, condensed 
to the consistency of cream, put up without 
sugar and preserved by sterilization only.— Adv. 
