FOREST AND STREAM 
[Oct. 9, 1909. 
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of good size and through this I readily made 
my way—with ear alert to catch Hector s chid¬ 
ing and looking anxiously to find some tracks 
to indicate where the hare had gone up in 
his flight, for there 1 intended to take my stand 
and await his approach if I could get there 
ahead of him in time to do so. 
I went along as quickly and silently as possible 
until I found where both dog and hare had 
passed, and directly beside a large cedar I 
stood, gun in hand, awaiting the momentarily 
expected appearance of the fugitive hare. Ihe 
dog drove steadily, not too fast, but so as to 
keep the hare moving. I heard nothing, saw 
nothing, for some moments; and yet the dog 
was approaching. Surely I ought to see the 
hare very soon if he kept to the path he pur¬ 
sued before. And as I was about thinking he 
had got by out of sight he suddenly appeared 
before me, coming very nearly in the same 
course he had pursued in going up. I took aim 
and fired between two trees and the smoke 
hung in the air for some seconds so that I 
could see nothing. Had I missed him? But, 
as the smoke cleared away, I saw him lying 
just at the spot where I fired. 
H. D. Atwood. 
The Partridge Season in Newfoundland. 
St. John’s, N. F., Oct. 1 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Sept. 20 was a great day for the local 
devotees of dog and gun. The partridge sea¬ 
son opened and the weather was glorious. 
The local papers reported the bags made by 
sportsmen belonging to St. John’s. All these 
birds were shot on the peninsula of Avalon, a 
very small portion of the island. None of the 
gunners outside St. John’s were reported, though 
there must have been good sport elsewhere. I 
give you. some clippings from the local papers 
in order to give American sportsmen an idea 
of the number of birds that make an average 
bag. Some of the sportsmen complained that 
the birds are not so numerous as other years. 
Here are the accounts of the opening days as 
reported in the local papers: 
M. and N. Healey went over the Blackhead 
grounds Monday and yesterday and reported 
for eighteen birds. F. MacNamarra shot over 
the Petty Hr. grounds and reports for fourteen 
birds for the two days. J. Mulcahey spent the 
two days at Holyrood grounds and got fourteen 
birds. W. IT. Donnelly and W. H. Rennie at 
the Blackhead grounds brought down seven par¬ 
tridges and one curlew. Flon. John Harvey se¬ 
cured the best bag, getting fifty-nine partridges 
for two days. He shot over Shoal Hr. barrens. 
Mr. J. Simms, who used his ammunition in Hor- 
wood’s marsh, brought down three partridges 
and thirty-two snipe. M. F. Murphy and H. J. 
Brownrigg, who spent two days at Cape Spear 
grounds, reduced the covey by thirty birds. Of 
these Mr. Murphy secured seventeen. Allan 
Ruby, shooting over the Petty Harbor grounds, 
secured ten brace of partridges. The birds were 
of a large size. N. Healy, who shot over Black¬ 
head grounds, killed twenty-nine partridges in 
one day and a half. W. J. Carroll. 
Minnesota Season Open. 
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 2. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: With the warm weather, which 
spoils all prospects of good hunting -still con¬ 
tinuing, the quail and partridge season opened 
to-day. The only hope for good results from 
the sportsmen’s prospective trips lies in a 
lowering of the temperature. All game birds 
may be shot except the various Asiatic pheasants 
which, under the protection of the law, are 
rapidly increasing in Minnesota. 
To procure a hunting license in Minnesota the 
applicant must be twenty-one years of age. This 
is a phase of the law not generally understood 
and there are many unconscious violations of 
the same. Applications must be made in the 
county of residence, but the licenses are good 
in all parts of the State. The permits cost $1 
for residents and $35 for non-residents. For 
people outside of the State limits the license is 
in two parts, one section for small game cost¬ 
ing $10 and another which commands $25 for 
large game. Non-resident licenses expire on the 
first day of the year, while the end of the local 
permits comes fifteen days earlier. 
Non-resident trappers must pay a license ot 
$10. This is a recent provision made by the 
Legislature. 
Section 27 of the game laws provides that no 
person shall at any time hunt with or shoot from 
any boat or contrivance or device whatever on 
any of the waters in the State between dark and 
daylight, and no person shall at any time hunt 
with or from any motor boat, launch or sailboat, 
floating battery, sink boat, sunken barrels, boxes, 
tubs, floating blinds or any similar device what¬ 
ever on any of the waters of the State. 
Robert Page Lincoln. 
Game in Nebraska. 
Woodlake, Neb., Sept. 24.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: There is a good crop of grouse in 
the sandhills this season and lots of native ducks 
on the lakes. C. B. H. 
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Mark Twain at Conneaut Lake. 
Conneaut Lake, Pa., Sept. 25. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: The much advertised attempt to 
free Conneaut Lake from gars recently ended 
quite humorously. As these fish have proved a 
severe menace to the game fish, it Was resolved 
to seine the lake near Wolf Island and thus rid 
it of a nuisance. Under the direction of Com¬ 
missioner Meehan a 300-foot seine was to be 
used, and all anglers invited to be present and 
assist in the work. 
At the appointed time the shores were lined 
with spectators and the waters of the lake were 
thickly covered with boats. But perhaps the 
girl who talked too much was in the crowd. 
Certainly it was not such a scene as would be 
chosen by a lone fisherman when in quest of a 
huge muscalonge. When the net was drawn it 
contained one lone ’longe. 
Meanwhile the State is doing her best to show 
the public what real fish are through her ex¬ 
hibit of fresh water fish at the Conneaut Lake 
Fair. There are admirable facilities at this 
point for an aquarium, and the display com¬ 
pares favorably with those of greater exposi¬ 
tions. Its mission is more than to entertain, 
and visitors who have never before felt in¬ 
terested in fishes, save as food, leave the ex¬ 
hibit with a mental glimpse of a most interest¬ 
ing phase in natural history, while to the scienced 
fisherman comes a pleasure of a distinctly dif¬ 
ferent nature as he sees the beautiful reflections 
of the rainbow trout or sunfish sporting in its 
natural element. 
Among the numerous varieties included are 
the large and small-mouth bass, rock bass, white 
bass, speckled bass, calico bass, rainbow trout, 
brown trout, brook trout, bluegill sunfish, red¬ 
breasted sunfish, yellow perch, silver carp, leather 
carp, goldfish, silver catfish, yellow catfish, chan¬ 
nel catfish and Lake Erie catfish, the two latter 
being very large. A great dogfish attracted much 
attention, its massive form and clumsy move¬ 
ments being accentuated by the swift darts of 
the shining trout in a tank nearby. There is the 
sturgeon, constantly wiggling, as though ill a 
ease in its contracted limits. There are tw 
fine specimens of muscalonge, though dwarf 
beside the 41-pounder taken from Lake Con 
neaut two years ago, and several of the slende 
gar pikes rest calmly in their tank, quite un 
disturbed by the unsuccessful attempt to banis 
their kind from the favored retreat near Wol 
Island. _ , 
This “island” by the way, reduced to a penile 
sula by the lowering of the lake at the time th 
Lake Erie and Pittsburg canal was abandonee 
has had quite as much of romance as of beaut 
connected with it since the records of white ma 
were commenced. 
Years ago an eccentric genius, “Phil ’ Mille 
lived an isolated life on its shores, his libra: 
the wonder of the inhabitants, his mode of lif 
equally surprising. Once a friend, whom b 
had known in the old days on the Mississipp 
spent a week there and accompanied him to tl 
evening debating society in the village of Hai 
monsburg, and as they were short on reguh 
