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FISHING AND HUNTING 
PRESIDENTS 
(Continued from page 29) 
great Americans, told of the manuscript 
of Mr. Lincoln’s bear hunt as follows: 
“But though Lincoln’s masterpiece 
(the Gettysburg Address) did not be¬ 
come part of the Morgan collection, 
many other important items figure there, 
some of them acquired in ways which 
illustrate Mr. Morgan’s character. 
There is, for instance, The Bear Hunt. 
This long poem of over twenty stanzas 
—one of the only two pieces of verse 
extant or perhaps ever written by Lin¬ 
coln—recounts an adventure in Ken¬ 
tucky, when Lincoln, a young back¬ 
woodsman about twenty-one years of 
age, took part in the chase of a bear. 
“When the animal was finally brought 
down, and the hunting dogs, some of 
them torn and bleeding, were panting 
around their prey, a little cur that had 
hitherto kept in the background took, 
as it were, the centre of the stage and 
yelped proudly, as if the victory were 
due to him. 
“The wit wherewith Lincoln com¬ 
ments on this episode and suggests its 
parallel in the words of human action is 
worthy of the genius of Alexander 
Pope, an author whose writings Lincoln 
so greatly enjoyed. Though, of course, 
Lincoln’s poem is not fine verse, its 
swing and humor would justify its pub¬ 
lication, quite apart from its autobio¬ 
graphical interest 
“The manuscript was offered to Mr. 
Morgan at two prices: the acceptance 
of the first would have placed him in 
possession of the manuscript itself, with 
the rights of publication reserved; the 
second and higher price left the manu¬ 
script entirely at Mr. Morgan’s disposal. 
He was willing to pay considerably more 
to have it on the latter terms, and 
though numerous efforts were later made 
to have Mr. Morgan permit the maga¬ 
zine publication of Lincoln’s poem, or 
to have him print it for private dis¬ 
tribution and for possible presentation 
to public libraries, the poem still remains 
practically unknown save to those few 
friends to whom the Morgan family have 
shown it.” 
Like Lincoln, Buchanan was a good 
shot. When Buchanan, as a youth, 
roamed the Pennsylvania woods, he 
considered it a disgrace to go home with 
squirrels or similar game unless the ball 
had been sent directly through the head. 
Johnson was very fond of fishing; 
Grant fished only occasionally, whereas, 
to Hayes, fishing was his chief amuse¬ 
ment in the outdoors, being a capital 
shot also with the rifle. 
O F Theodore Roosevelt, he, himself, 
has written much, having hunted 
big game throughout the United States 
and told about it in many of his books. 
His “African Game Trails” was one of 
the best sellers of the year after it was 
put between covers and the American 
people followed him with interest, while 
his story of African game hunting was 
running in installments in Scribner’s 
Magazine. But of his fishing, not much 
is known. He did not get interested in 
big game fishing until nearly the close 
of his life. 
His biggest stunt angling was har¬ 
pooning devilfish in the waters of south- 
(Continued on page 42) 
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TRAPPING THE THREE 
RIVER ZONE 
(Continued from page 27) 
help but read the bitterness and sorrow 
between the lines. Every man who fares 
forth into the wilderness has a mother, 
wife, sweetheart or sister to weep for 
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goes to war there are always means of 
communication whereby one knows how 
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have spent months in the wilderness, 
during which time I have neither sent 
nor received messages. Why will a man 
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