Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-08
EXPERIENCES OF THE HUNTER.
How the New Yorker Seeks Game On
Mountain and River.

How the New Yorker Seeks Game On
Mountain and River.
Charles NJ Beattic, In Nature, New York.
The predicament Of the sportsman who
n.o e SsSg y sysssss1s the o MSa
can get along and see their game without
unnatural accretions on their optics. The
gold trimmed eyeglasses that may or may
not, according 10 The individual, look 10
becoming while ogling the fair danes along
forest or course. u you want TO look
"professor-lilxe and wear spectacles you
are better fixed, but the usual eye
glasses are not shed without regret.
Mayhap You see q pair Of woodduck;
you fire at one, the rebound knocks off
your glasses, and you are In doubt as TO
which of thousand cluster Of leaves is the
other duck. You shoot away In the general
direction and have no idea a. to whether
you hit tho other one or not. Perhaps you
are uncertain about the first one and have
To skirmish about TO look for the bundle of
feathers In the dry leaves. You hear
rustling as Of quail flushed, but a cat brier
has caught in tho string OF your glasses
aud they're off, but you have to
fire at that moving shadow you i'm
perfectly see and are only told subsc-
quently by your friend that you have shot
at hawk half a mile high. Perhaps your
glasses. with tho perspiration from an ex.
hilerating walk have dropped obliQdely on
your nose, and looking through the edge you
SEQ three rabbits starting out In different
directions. But the rustling Of the grass
aud leaves helps you and you fire after the
real rabbit but you have been unable to
calculate the distance, and asecond shot Is
out of the question, as your glasses are
dangling. You go home and swear off the
gold trimmed Eyeglasses and appear next
time with base ball mask as frame sup
porting two bulls eyes. Tho game results
are all right, but tho effect has been alto
gether unsatisfactory on the forest damssls
at the woodland inns where you had got
ten your meals.
They say that there are grouse In the
Ramapo mountains, and occasionally YOU
meet man who has heard that quarry
going off like rocket through leaves.
You seldom meet man who will aver
that he has seen ono there. I ran out ON
the northern road to Sparkill and took a
conveyance for five miles inland, and then
footed it for several miles more with a
Rainapo sportsman. In going over those
internlinable bills l occasionally heard q
distant whir, and was informed part
ridge" had got up. Did you see him ?'
and he replied No, Of course you never
sec them here; they are too wild"
sionally my friend discharged his piece.
",Wbat did you shoot at" I asked. AT
the noise" he replied. II was strange
hunting for me, but AFTER half dozen shots
had been fired l found, TO my surprise, a
dead grouse In path over the hills We
got several other kinds of game but never
fired my gun at the "noisc." My friend
was shooting, AZ he informed me, philo-
sophically. He said the partridges,"
when they heard any one approaching,
took to the paths In order To run quicker.
Tho moment he heard one get up he shot
using the path to direct his shot. lie kept
in the mind that these birds fly, when
flushed, on the top of the mountain down
toward the foot, and. when started below,
ny up. He was not very successful, but
he was able occasionally to kill game, when,
with all my years of experience, was
unable to fire a gun with purpose.
Itook run down the North Shrews-
bury river the other day, in small yacht
for ducks. Those who think il unsports-
manlike to approach duck by sail as they
usually allow one to approach too near
owing to the apparent want of movement,
would have their conscience qualms set at
rest in that river. There are so many
boats that tho duck are kept on the go and
II L. NOT "it"n you can get any too near
them hut it happened this day that
nearly ran into three of them before I saw
them. IL was evident that they had
no intention of getting up, so with
the three heads on line and not hun
dred feet away, l fired. Only one got up
and gave him tho other barrel and he
dropped almost Immediately. l sailed up
to yet the game and found the water clear.
Soon after duck got up two hundred
yards before the bow. Another followed
about the same distance Off the starboard,
and a third emerged away off the port
side. They got together and flew out OF
reach and l have been wondering what
Kind of ducks they We're, and IL / shot the
first three and If they were so loaded with
shot that they sunk and If the three subse-
qnently appearing were the sprites or
names of tho others