The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-30
pleasure trips.

After viewing all the excellent ar
rangements for fishing and hearing
the host express his regrets for the
hudredth time that the season was
over for that kind of sport and had
. not begun for duck shooting, the next
} hest sport, pheasant shooting. was
taken up. Clad In thick clothes and
leggins. armed with a twelve. guage
gun and two dozen shells each. Mr..
Delawder and the reporter started
for the mountain. The former began
to tell his companion that the noun.
tain opposite was called Niger
mountain because a legend ran to the
effect that negro and an Indian had
fought a hand.to-hand battle until
both were killed. Then MIR. DeIaw.
der's dog made point. and minute
later fine cock pheasant went over
the bushes like shot. After that
Mr.. Delawder told no more stories.
"DS7." % 22Sss%e--5s*teE which Mr.. De.
lawder had purchased in Anne Arun.
: del county. settled down to business
and did some of the finest work ever
witnessed, trailing pheasants from 20
to 100 yards. He started altogether
about IS birds during the afternoon,
and as many shells were shot at
them.
The hunters returned home less the
weight of the shells and without
feather to show that they had hit
bird. Pheasant shooting resembles
partridge shooting in many respects;
that is, when they are hunted by true
sportsmen like Mr.. Delawder. Who
could not be persuaded to hunt them
with fee dogs that flush them, and
then by barking make them take TO
the trees, where the gunners shoot
them. or to 60 out at night with
light and slaughter them while on
their roosts. The birds are trickier
than cartridges. and usually make
run if the cover permits, and when
they do fly they dart behind bush
or other cover that will shield them
from their pursuers. Their flight
when flushed is about equal to that
of the partridge. The sport is more
difficult than partridge shooting. as
the birds rise further from the dog.
and the shooting is mostly in thick
cover. There are enough pheasants
a around the vicinity of Lake Cleye-
land to afford splendid shooting at
this time of the year. The birds are
, now aocking, and when they are able
f to fly fast enough to make man
feel proud of every bird he bags.
, Mountain limiting is laborious. I'M
. less one understands it or goes with
, sportsman like Mr.. Delawder, who
I could not be persuaded to hurry by
anything short OF a bear. His COM
, pany makes one forget the fatigue.
n In the three days shooting which
r the party enjoyed they met with var
a led success, bagging enough game to
furnish the larder and distribute a
, few of the delicacies among friends.
2 The hunting furnished sauce for
I the delicious meals TINT are served
at the lodge. On reaching home in
r the afternoon visit to Mr.. Delaw-
, der's room is the first event on the
I programme. About four feet from
q his he'd barrel of old whiskey, dis
titled in the neighborhood, always
rests on a trestle. A rubber tube
runs from the bunghole. and the first
impression one gains is that it is so
:. arranged as to allow mine host to lie
-, in bed and connect himself with the
:, barrel by the tube. but Mr.. Delawder
# IL temperate man, and if 1t were
=. not for the fact that elections come
:, about occasionally and visitors stop
. at the lodge our barrel would lose
o more by evaporation than by fur
:, uishing cheer to the residents.
h Among the hundreds Of people who
It have enjoyed sport on Cleveland lake
l. besides ex.President Cleveland were
n the late T. Harrison Garrett, Robert
!, Garrett, John L. Lurman, Dome
r. Swan, Captain Evans. light house
:, inspector; Captain Bronson. G
|. Ridgely Goodwin, w. II. H. Kings
!. bury, D. s. Lamont. Gov. Jackson
IS Hon. H. g. Davis, George DashielI
!. Judge Richard H. Alvey, A. X
e Seyster. G. s. Hamill. D. E. Offutt
g and others. Mr.. Dclawder, like al
!, true sportsmen. takes great Interest
g in the propagation and perpetuatior
r. of fish and game. He Is now arrang
,e ing for the purchase Of several hun
le dred thousand trout eggs, which will
{. be Matched at Druid Hill Park hatch
n cry and later distributed to Maryland
% waters. He Is one of the best posted
N men on piseiculture in America.