Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-25
a Hunting Exnerience.

Last SUNDAY party OF eight persons,
principally State Printing Office employees,
drove down to Beach's lake to have a picnic
and hunt. Among them were George B.,
SIM Ed" and Joe K. While the
larger portion of the party were in camp,
Ed and Joe went down to the lake, and
Joe knocked over a hare. As they were
not going to the camp for a while, the ami
NAL was placed in the crotch. of a tree,
about eight feet from the ground to be
called for later. 1t happened that George
came along presently, and the artful Ed
attracted his attention to the game. 'Say,
George, don't that look like hare in that
tree? Give me your gun !" Georges eagle
eye convinced him in q second that ii was a
true enough hare, and, wanting to do the
killing himself, he refused to let Ed take
iie shooting iron, but put it to his Shout
der banged away, and "puss tumbled to
\ the ground. George did not give the ami
rmal time to get up and crawl of, but was
upon it with whoop before Ed. could get
half way. 1t was with considerable pride
that he carried his game into camp but he
endeavored to dissemble and when in
quired of as to his luck, answered off-hand-
edly " Oh, got dove and hare" The
rest of the party congratulated him, among
the number being Sim g 1t is rather
strange" said George, a but / shot that hare
out of tree. | didn't know that they hid
in trees Sim ISM much of hunter and
he could only respond that he hadn't heard
of their doing SO very often, and it was a
mighty good thing for George that he
caught this one mapping Ed. and Joe had
broad grin on their faces during the re-
mainder of the day. though rejecting how
cruel it would be TO spoil Georges pleasure
nv a statement of cold faotc II happapad
however, that the truth leaked out on the
road home, when Sim overheard Ed. telling
another member of the party about it. He
listened closely to the narrative, and at its
close astonished all by calculating, oh,
that was only a joke, eh +" and laughed
until his sides ached. George, however,
failed to see much of a Joke in it; and as
for shooting why, he had killed hun
dreds of hares before these boys were bornn
SAcRAMENTANs ABROAD. = " Vigilant,"
of the New York Spirit Of the Times, firing
of discussing Tyrant and other California
horses, pays his respects to some of the Sac
ramentans who are with Tyrant, as follows:
In their first visit among US the Califor-
mans have made hosts of friends. A better
managed stable we never saw, and III this
particular it is worthy of imitation. Every
thing moves like clockwork; there is the
same order and discipline of well-man-
! AGED mercantile house Everything was in
lis place and instead of sitting about in
BLACKBOARD revelrv the stable lads were
always busy or decorously quiet. They
never went far from the stable, and did not
mix with everybody. Claypole. the trainer,
| will never be popular man, but he has
an admirable faculty of minding his own
| business and won everyoneS respect and
for that matter their admiration bv the
clever rusc by timing from a bush and
throwing everybody of. Patsy Duffy, the
jockey. is real diamond. He never OBJ
| trudes himself anywhere, but has always
pleasant answer, is highly intelligent, and
was never seen hobnobbing with book
makers or touts. Young Mr.. Haggin the
owner, is rather too reserved ever to be-
come popular, but John Mackey, the man
ager, Is tremendously clever fellow, big,
| bluff, hearty and very direct in his manner
Mackey is native of Monmouth county,
\. j., and went TO California IN 1891. lie