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there and then started on our way rejoicing. 
By the way, I want to mention right here a 
small addition to our party in the shape of a 
cocker spaniel dog which we took with us— 
Mrs. A.’s dog—and such a dog. He has traveled 
with us wherever we have gone in the machine 
this summer, and although he does not yet catch 
fish, he does catch a scolding now and then as 
all dogs do. Do you keep a dog? No! Then 
get one. 
We found real country roads part of the way, 
and at the rate of twenty to twenty-five miles 
an hour we got a shaking occasionally, dog and 
all. Did you ever get into ruts with road just 
wide enough for your carriage? Well, that is 
where I found myself when I stopped to in¬ 
quire the way to Moody’s Camp, at Pleasant 
Lake. “Back about a mile and a sharp turn 
to the left, but yer can’t get in there with your 
car,” I was told. After considerable backing 
and filling, I 
right - about - faced 
and started back to 
the place I could 
not “get in with 
my car.” I knew 
if I could not ne¬ 
gotiate the place no 
car could, so after 
examining it and 
tying a cow where 
she would not be 
in my way should 
she decide to do as 
hens do—cross the 
street when there 
is no need of it—I 
once more opened 
the throttle and es¬ 
sayed the rise in 
the ordinary wood 
road. Of course I took it on the low speed, but 
I took it all right and in due time went over 
the hill to the spot we were looking for, and 
I went over the same road several times later 
and never once did my little car balk at the 
pitch, although it was very steep. 
It did not take long to pitch tent and get 
ready for lunch, for we were both hungry and 
so was the dog, but a vapor stove soon gave us 
some good hot coffee and we fed like the 
nobility on just what we liked best. 
We were only about one hundred feet from 
the lake, so after lunch we went down to the 
landing and looked at the water. From the high 
bluff just above the lake I thought I saw a bass, 
so with a rod, reel and artificial bait I made a 
cast and the second one brought me a good 2Im¬ 
pound bass. I made several other casts, but 
got no more bass. We had a regal time there, 
stopping as long as we wished and made some 
good friends, too, for there were several cot¬ 
tages already occupied, at one of which we spent 
an exceedingly pleasant evening. It was cold 
enough to have a fire in the fireplace, which was 
more than enjoyable. At our. tent we had only 
the little vapor stove. Have you got one? No! 
Then get one. It burns kerosene, gas and air. 
Air is exceedingly cheap, you know, and kero¬ 
sene is not very expensive. A spoonful of 
alchohol to start it going, and it goes, too. 
The water was full of fish and it was no trick 
to get all we wanted to eat and more, too. 
Strawberries had not gone, so we fared well, 
jas I said before. We stayed just as long as we 
[wanted to, then started for home, arriving O. K., 
'dog and all. Yes, we have been to Province- 
town on the end of the cape, making Wellfleet 
(Mrs. LinviHe) our headquarters. If you think 
the cape is level, as I did, you are mistaken, for 
there are some of the roughest old hills imagin¬ 
able there, but Wellfleet is a very pretty place 
to spend a week or more with or without a 
machine. Of course, we could not stay there 
all summer. So home again. No accidents of 
any kind. 
We make all our journeys with the car, I 
doing all the work and wife doing all the other 
things. The other day we took a trip of sev¬ 
eral hours and included the maid this time, for 
we did not take the tent, a friend having gener¬ 
ously offered me the use of his camp on Long 
Pond, Lakeville. He knew my fondness for 
fishing. We had a great time and did not get 
wet once, either. Among other kinds I got 
fifty-three pickerel, besides quite a number that 
I did not land in the boat. Fishing galore! I 
got enough for once and quit, satisfied. Throw 
them away? Not much, but gave them to ne : gh- 
bors who enjoyed them quite as much as though 
they had caught them themselves. 
We had good weather all the time we were 
away. It rained occasionally during the night, 
but I am not a night fisherman, so it did not 
wet me. Oh, but I do enjoy fishing and so 
would others if they did not make too hard 
work of it. Costly? No, not at all. Of course 
a tent, collapsible boat and an outfit such as I 
have costs something when bought, but get one 
thing at a time and eventually one has them 
all and is absolutely independent of hotels and 
boarding houses and can lead the simple life 
to heart’s content, rising from a bed on the 
ground, or a folding cot, just when one pleases, 
or not at all for a day or so. It is great fun, I 
assure you. Do you ask what we do with the 
dog when out in the boat? Take him with me, 
to be sure. He is a good fisherdog and stays 
perfectly quiet most of the time, apparently 
sound asleep. If you are tired of the usual 
rounds of life, try it. I will gladly give you 
all the information I have as to where and how 
we go. O. W. Allen. 
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supply you regularly. 
Gulf Coast Resorts. 
New Orleans, La., Dec. 4. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The season for catching striped bass 
or bar fish, white perch or crappie and all other 
kinds of fresh water fish, except black bass, cat¬ 
fish and buffalo fish, closed Dec. 1. It will not 
be lawful to catch these fish mentioned until 
March 1. There is an open season the year 
round for salt water fish and many of them are 
caught with both seines and hook and line all 
through the year. The eat and buffalo fish of 
the fresh waters in this State are quite a source 
of revenue to a large class of people. The roe 
of the catfish and buffalo is shipped to the north¬ 
ern cities and brings fancy prices. The rivers 
of this State produce a great many fish, and 
under proper protection can be made to yield 
more. The wardens are rigidly enforcing the 
laws and those violating the closed season statutes 
will be vigorously 
pros ecute d. The 
commission is still 
at work on its plans 
to establish fish 
hatcheries in vari¬ 
ous sections, and 
when these are 
placed in operation 
tens of thousands 
of the finny tribe 
will be raised and 
placed in the 
streams i n every 
parish. The loca¬ 
tions for several of 
the hatcheries have 
been selected and it 
only remains t o 
build the places and 
fill them with fish 
furnished by the United States Government and 
the naming of keepers to care for them. 
The fishing at the several places on the line 
of the Louisville and Nashville road continues 
fairly good, especially for this season of the year. 
Several varied fish were caught at the Rigolets. 
The names of those who spent the day at Abad- 
die’s Little Cottage and their catches are: L. 
Loeb, 3. reds, 8 large sheepshead and 18 trout; 
Robert L. Crager, 1 red, 6 sheepshead and 28 
croakers; Ben Sparando, 2 reds, 7 sheepshead 
and 25 trout; H. Zambelli, 3 reds, 9 flounders, 
28 trout and 9 sheepshead; F. Lewis, 11 sheeps¬ 
head, 27 trout, 8 channel fish, and J. Peniston, 
18 trout, 12 channel fish. 
R. F. Spangenberg, Bob Marks, Arthur Bat- 
tistela, Achille LeBlanc, Dr. Lucien Landry, L. 
J. Magner, Joe Bryan, Geo. Langhoff, Louis 
Gagnet, Chas. Brown and several others were 
the 1 guests of Harry Farwell on his houseboat 
in Bayou Barataria. They reported that the 
ducks were not flying high and only killed twenty. 
F. G. G. 
From the Gulf Stream. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 2.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: Thinking that you or some of the 
readers of Forest and Stream may be interested 
I am sending you a photograph of a sailfish 
which I caught this year on the edge of the Gulf 
Stream off Palm Beach, Fla. The fish measures 
from tip to tip six feet eleven inches. I cannot 
tell you the weight. Wikoff Smith. 
MR. SMITH’S SAILFISH. 
