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Last day in camp we shot nine hare, and after we had all | a second flock of ten coming towards our friends at the | But he should not forget that it was the very existence ee 

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our traps and guns packed up a very fine big buck «an by | “bunches,” but they would not stool to them and appeared | this free and easy custom that tended to reduce the rivers 
P § P i y — 7 J PPO to the fishless condition they were in previous to 1868, an 
the camp within thirty yards of us, but we were satisfied etermined to take the line of the beach; and it was then that the Government cannot be expected to watch, protect 
with what we had, so we did not slaughter for the sake of | that I saw the best specimen of “talking to geese” if has been 
: and restock rivers for nothing. e cannot, unfortunately, 
slaughter. ° my lot to witness. ‘ combine the freedom of savage life with the comforts of 
Our total game for ten days was three bucks, two does, “Dad” seemed determined to have those geese come to civilization ; one surely destroys the other sooner or later. 
two buck fawns, twelve partridges and nine hares. us; and as he threw up his bead and opened his mouth to | Still it is a great comfort to know that the fisheries are be- 
: y : ; ing so much improved, for we have always taken much in- 
a bejlow his honk! honk! e-honk! one c almost imagine | 175 8°] I Apne MAAN 
Toronto GuN Cius. ) R See comm e)mod} Amagine terest in these splendid rivers. j 
his box contained a human goose, feathers and all. The 

Sikes Ae ee ee ‘ ee Mr. Hallock often speaks feelingly of the dreadful draw- 
WILD FOWL SHOOTING AT LITTLE EGG | fock replied, and “Dad” talked them within long gun shot, back to the comforts of fishing on the Canadian rivers ex- 
. HARBOR. when an unlucky thumping of my boat shied them. We | perienced in the swarms of mosquitoes and black fiies. 
SERRE ay gaye them a volley nevertheless—but they passed on seem- | Midges are troublesome on some Scotch moors, but they are 
Eprror Forest anp StREAM:— ingly untouched. When they had flown quite a mile one | ® en 4 br aes ats i by apes Py the mose 
It was my pleasure to enjoy a glorious two days’ shoots | of their number suddenly dropped into the Bay, which we a ficult if nol impossible + aged do ern of sete 
ing the 27th and 28th of the past November. Our | recovered and found dead. tion, Ammonia may bring a little Pdasiation but thin- 
men engaged by letter were Hayes Jones, (in my es- Brant now paid frequent visits to the bar, leaving each | skinned people will do well to think twice before they go 
timation the best honker of geese at Tuckerton), and Joe | time some of their company; and towards afternoon broad | out to Canada for the salmon fishing. é . 
Shords, almost his equal. bill, black duck, widgeon, and red heads again darted to | _ We may here take occaston to say that writers on Ameri- 
can angling appear to be very active and assiduous just 
: é ‘ Spiny Bia i yi Cen ‘ F Jay Sune 4 ( 
A tedious journey via Pemberton and Heightstown, New | OUT decoys, as they passed up and down the Bay. | now: pooks throng from the press in rapid succession, and 
Jersey Southern & Tuckerton Railroads, from Philadelphia, | Satisfied with cur day’s sport we took up our traps at sun | American angling literature grows apace. We must look 
landed us at Tuckerton at 4 p. m., where we had arranged | down and pulled to the landing to find P——o and W——4d | to our laurels in British angling literature wheh such writers 
with Captain Burton to sail us to Long Beach with our bay- | quite as successful as ourselves. as Mr. Hallock come to the front. No doubt there is much 
men. Getting under way at the landing two miles up Tucker- We repeated our sport the second day and fared quite as unte Bey Te Write Abo ee mimeronkAsmiug, while our 
: : airy ; own does not leave many hannels unexplored. Weare 
‘reek. we dri i : ir - 2 well— s oe bag eT 5 viladelphi 2 aie el : 
ton Creek, we drifted with our sneak boxes astern, as far ell—making a large bag of fowl—returning to Philadelphia very glad to welcome so well written and useful a book as 
as the cove at the mouth, and found not a breath of air benefitted by our trip and thankful we had the pleasure,of | Mr? Hallock’s, and look upon it as decidedly the best work 
steering and a poorer prospect of any before morning. | Mecting so genial gentlemen as Messrs. P——o and W-——d. | of its class which has come from the Atlantic; it is one that 


A council of war was held, and it was decided if we ‘‘ Homo.” every Englishman, contemplating a visit to America for the 
wished to reach Captain Bond’s on the beach that night, we yitiaw a ay" see ‘Ke Pasco? hee : ba eae eevee IM fay yer aon 
should have to row our sneak boxes over. It was along THE FISHING TOURIST IN AMERICA. page, which ecina: to us rather an oversight. The book, 
pull of seven miles, and on a cold still night with the ice rE PTE however, can be got by order through either Messrs. Triib- 
making on the coves, it proved no child’s play. Our row HE following notice of the Fishing Tourist, by Charles | ner or Sampson, Low & Co. 
was enlivened now and then by the quack! quack! of the Hallock, Editor of the Forrest AnD STREAM, appears Pa ee 
black ducks feeding on the meadows, and the coarse gabble | in the last issue of the London Field, and is undoubtedly CRABS—A ROMANCE. 

of brant as they winged their way overhead unseen by us. | written by Sir Francis Francis, the editor and proprietor 
As it always is, the lasf half of a journey so wearisome as | of that most excellent journal. “Approbation from so dis- 
the present one was, proved the longest by far, and it was | tinguished an authority as the London /%eld is indeed most 
not unti ‘ she fai i ight in Captai at — - e ae 
3 2 il we saw the faint peer, of the light in Captain ig AN WEDD tad that o cunnt ductea ay | than my friend Jones, and his paper on the Oirrhipeds, or 
ond’s window that we knew rest was near at hand. A few weeks back, we suggested that a great desire ex- armaciesend bhi betore the A. ‘ati fidcientise 
The north-west winds of the two previous days had so isted for a guide-book to American fishing localities, little Mea aE y Sevier ee eB OM AOD OF SCLeR Hees 
blown the water out of the Bay. we found our boats had to | ‘inking that our wishes were so near being gratified, and has, no doubt, been fully appreciated by the readers of the 
be anchored a full hundred ap fr Keates te ; that our suggestions had been anticipated. Hereisthe very | Forrsr AND Srream. Jones’ peculiar line of investigation 
ie ws lundred yards trom the shore, and guns, | hook we wanted. Mr. Hallock has devoted a large portion | is the study of the crustacea, and some intricate questions 
asgage, ammunition, including ourselves, to be carried to | of his life, from boyhood up, to wandering about America } jp yeoard to the development of the Podophathalama have 
the main land, our baymen taking each of us “pick a back,” | and Canada from fishing place to fishing place, and he gives | 3 rl ail Hie attention for) thetkis fi ony “All } i 
as we had not as yet donned our shooting boots. us the benefit of the information he has obtained. Begin- | 2?80TPeC Als attention for t 185 pag JSAEE. ee 
At Bond's we found: two ventlemen *Mokirs Lp » | Bing with the best known American waters, viz., those of formation I have on these subjects are derived second-hand 
and AE W- qe eae ee ran Long Island, Mr. Hallock rambles onwards to the Adiron- | from my friend. Fromhim I have discovered there re- 
Aaa Oy with their duckers, Sam Shords and Sam | gacj wilderness, tracking along from stream to stream and | ally is a Fast Crab—a Racing Crab, which has to be run 
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Smith busy at old sledge. They were at,the beach trying | lake to lake, thence to the Alleghanies, and away to New | gown on horseback and shoventhe 4 Tit telone 
eoanna 5 : Raa Un at nn Goisnndidiloins de cokean Ae tice seback and s she jump, like an antelope, 
the brant—and we felt disappointed enough when we were | England and the Schoodic lakes in search of the famous | ¢.. Tonesowent 10" Cevignetor je maya a 
told that they had not, as yet, in the two days they had been land-locked salmon, and so to Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, paler 3 hae Some ie BE Mipiae ce 
on the Bay, gotten a shot the north-west wind interfering | New Brunswick, the Bay of Chaleurs—touching upon river | Study the Oeypode Cursor on his native heath. 
15 wy ek eer 5 
HAT follows is rigorously exact in every detail, as 
it comes almost directly from Jones, who was the 
hero. I donot think there ever was a keener naturalist 
ith the fli f ss : : © | after river and lake after lake, dwelling on some, skimming 3altimore is famous for its erabs, and there having ap- 
we ibhthie ight of the fowl, and driving them in thejr mi- | over others—thence reaching the Lower St. Lawrence, the peared there this summer quite a new variety, Jones 
grations outside the beach’ on their way south. Saguenay, and Newfoundland, and even to savage Anticosti : 
: : Pe : traveled two hundred mil:s after them, and was fortunate 
Proposing a game,we all drew our chairs around the table | and far Labrador—Mr. Hallock contriving to give us some CNOUTH etORECCHTeMOUiiCIe Ff hieale i saver With hi 
and a jolly good time was indulged in. It must. have been | information about each. Turning back again, he touches haquntaetaies hee 3 pore CCUlO Reg 1 eae 
: he Ott district, the reat Lake Superior revion, with | novel specimens safely secured in a basket well lined with 
twelve o'clock when we bundled to bed to dream of brant | On the Ottawa istrict, the gre Gerad ae, tenipe utuetal |e : 
Britons the -viideeould anew aot / aie) __._ | Minnesota thronged with lakes, which in turn are thronged fresh sea weed, Jones delighted, proceeded homewards. 
: Pp yuld open in the morning any way with black bass; ‘‘The Big woods,” and parcel of “the | Driving to the depot he took his place in an omnibus along 
but from the north-west. Pacific slope;” winding up with an account of the Blooming | giqe a very pretty lady, the two being the only occupants 
. + a Wontd q 5) € > faets ji € . 9 ns ) bai ty ‘ , _ “ ; 2 
We were up béfore daylight and taking such a breakfast | Grove Park scheme, and a few facts in the matter of natural | |. ibelnebiclacd he two pasdenneselt ‘a Se 
¢ : : ich and artificial propagation. e she vehicle. The two passengers had not gone far before 
as only Captain Bond can give, we found it had been agreed a : ; is ATO aad the lady commenced looking daggers at Jones, who is the 
upon by our baymen and those of P——o and W——d that This 1s a wide platform, but Mr. Hallock covers it fairly; |. 5st hioh-minded rea sci gene “ieone tar 
we should decoy from ‘Goose Bar” the first dav. they | 2¢ is never wearisome on the one hand, nor rhapsodical on | 9° & pe Tey be eee an, Oe Ouy 
| bs y, = ‘ ear vs Y {the other. He sets himself a pretty long task, and | Somewhat astonished at her scornful glances—nay, even 
taking the bunches, and vice versa the second day, the | endeavors to fulfill it as pleasantly as the subject will allow, | abashed at her fiery mein, Jones humbly demanded of the 
two best locations in the line of flight of fowl going south, | and time and space admit of. Here and there, when Mr. | lady the cause of her anger. 
a preference being given to the bunches a mile to the north | Hallock does aon and char a fy, it is plain to see that he is “You are an insolent puppy, sir!” cried the lady, ina 
Ba i : iti i a thorough and accomplished sportsman, and a warm wor- shee ee eae 
ae a, Citar th ies a cieraae eben: shipper of nature, hei a heb pa fot the picturesque. Tf | Tage, and accentuated her remark by the application of a 
o © = ‘ " ave : : 7 ] "4 acy ¢ 
' 1 ane ADS ARON 2 Aad ia ake ad 2 | in describing his experiences he now and then employsthat | Sounding box on Jones’ ear. YY sf 
peeey aborious and rather dangerous undertaking 41} quaint method of expression which appears tc be insepar- Jones, driven to desperation, still asked for further ex- 
our little sneak boxes loaded with decoys. Our | able from a thoroughbred American, he never descends to | planations. 
crafts rode the sea beautifully, and it was not long! | vulgarity; but his book is eminently that of a gentleman as “To-to-have-had the impertinence to-to-have pinched 
before we were making our hide and arranging our stools. well as a sportsman—qualifications not always combined, nacaiteiodnhuumures Pa lek ie! 
Goons Mart sis merely an island | with sedge two or | @ither here or in America;’and though his feats of fishing | ME: Sue the lady, Dursting into. a torrent of passionate 
ara seine pie x . Paine i tea a ea frequently make one’s mouth water, it is plainly to be seen | tears. ; 
: gh, leh we pulled Our boxes and covered’ | that there is little or no exaggeration in them, and no at- Poor Jones hung down his head abashed. Just then his 
them with such trash as was near at hand. tempt at boasting. There is no throwing of impossible | eyes happened to light on the basket, which to his horror, 
Filters Smecnes é Ca aa 
. . s ng impossible feats—1 asting o 5 : site 
As the tide rose higher we began to see black head ducks, eT aoe Om Sor La } 30 Gein Me Hallock Koons he found was wide open, and on examining the matter 
widgeon, black ducks, and sprigtails shifting their feeding | yather at the other end of the scale, and speaks of having | ™°re critically he discovered quite a cavalcade of crusta- 
grounds to more shallow water; and as they passed us they | seen twenty-five yards cast from a 17ft. bamboo rod, as | ceans careering along the cushions of the ’bus. The lady 
invariably darted to our decoys, making capital shooting; | though it were rather a feat; whereas we expect greenheart | looked too, then smileda smile of forgiveness—but Jones? 
but we had come for larger fowl, and eagerly awaited the | t© do that much habitually, though a 17ft. rod is rather | It was along time before he got over it. Evidently the 
; shorter than the generality of experts employ with us. Al- + See S ae 
coming of geese and brant. together Mr. Pallaok’s isa very useful book. _| lady was distressed at her mistake, and at first timidly, 
We were sitting upright in our boxes when Dad quietly, | Near home, and in the more approachabile places, he gives | then with great dignity and sweetness murmured a most 
but excitedly whispered, “Down! down!” and looking to my | the cost and the routes also, with the best hotels, and much | formal apology. Then Jones was utterly wretched, and 
left saw six geese heading in the direction of our stools; other useful information. The American lakes and rivers | wanted to throw every crab ont of the window, which the 
they were inclined to be sociable, aie they answered “Dad’s” appear to be thrown open so far that big hotels are built on lady declared she could net allow, for as she prettily re- 
; plete: the most favorable spots, and they are converted into water- Je tari hae hes ” 2 : 
honk! e-honk! and lowered their flight; but the leader of | ine places, where the gentle sex as well as the sterner one marked, ‘‘she doted on crabs—boiled.” It was a charming 
the flock, a venerable old gander, and tough, as he proved | all turn piscators alike, and a continuous picnic under can- | Sight to see how dexterously the lady, with her umbrella, 
to be, ‘‘had been there before,” and led his followers three | vas with a fair allowance of muslin appears to be the would corner a crab, and how merrily she laughed when 
hundred yards from us, where they settled and began feed- | Method in which much of the trout fishing is practised. | Jones, with all the skill of a naturalist, would pick up a 
ing—the same old gentleman acting as sentinel, never put- This may be all very well; but we confess that we do not peculiarly vicious erab and plump it back in the basket. 
: : é look upon it, taken thus, as a contemplative man’s recrea- aT eane : Eat é ; 
ting his head under water while they fed. Our,hope now tion—unless, like Tommy Moore, one is prepared to admit Need we say that Jones left the lady, blessing the crabs, 
was that they would feed towards us, but as the tide was | that which had been the happy accident of causing him to make 
setting the other way they appeared to be drifting the op- ay 2 Agee ars so charming an acquaintance? But why waste words? 
: : ‘ ; Tey 7 8s is, 5 ; j ta Tare G ] 
posite direction. We had almost determined to start them And folly all they taught me. Of course they met again, and they were married a month 
“P, trusting meee, would go to the ““bunches’ and thus afford There is excellent trouting to be had, but the salmon fish- Nod Vaal : a poe ad ae Paar fee - 
shooting for our friends, when they began boldly to swim | ing in America Iras been so cut up by commerce that Nova | PTCUY iS. Jones a mayonnaise OF Crads, 1 saw her glance 
towards us. As they drew nearer, swimming, ‘‘company | Scotia, New Brunswick, and the lower St. Lawrence are | @ her husband and blush redder than a boiled crustacean. 
front,” the old gander on the right, still suspicious but un- | the chief refuge of the New York salmon fisher. Of T was on sufficiently intimate terms with Jones to have asked 
wiiling to leave his younger company, I had a splendid the splendid rivers which thread the wildernesses im all di- | for an explanation, and the above was what was told to 
: ; shi rectipns Mr. Hallock speaks in the warmest terms of admi- Ss - 
a 4 : F 1 i : Z SHREWSBU 
view of them, patiently waiting for the word to shoot, ration. Many of these rivers have been’ damaged by in- : SBURY. 
. ‘ . Fe ate ees 
Hayes’ judgment of distance and knowledge of the shy- | considerate treatment; but since 1868 the Canadian Govern- —A Western paper tells the story of a country-woman 
ness of the wild goose, was perfect; for as they neared the | ment have taken them in hand, and the stock of salmon, | who made her first attempt to get in the Court house yard 
outer decoys, they discovered the cheat and the word was | reduced to almost nothing in many of them, is being large- through the patent back-action gate. She opened the gate 
So closely mn was the flock as they rose, five were occurs, the rivers are leased’ out by the Government to va- | ®™e side seven times; then, ejaculatating ‘merciful 
shot down; the gander, with his thigh broken and leg hang- | rious persons, many of them being let to, American gentle- | sakes,” climbed over the fence. 
ing, going fifty yards before a spare gun could knock him | men, Mr. Hallock regrets the old time when any one could BEAT POAC RESO LS. 
over, Ten minutes after we had gathered our geese, we saw: | Cast line and catch a salmon where and when he liked, —Leatier, chemically considered, is the ox-hide of beef 
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