St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-15

to Pleasant lake, about twenty-three-
miles south. Here we find abundant
rice and grass cover for our boats, which
we are plying to good effect.
The diary for our five days ut Island
lake. which accounts the pit and stubble
shooting of the party, sums up bag of
562 geese and ducks, besides about 100
pinnatcd grouse which we killed in
travelling to and from pits and passes.
This attests only in an abridged meas
ure the resources of this district to the
man who knows how to handle gun i'll
wild country where knowledge of
the habits of the game Is as essential as
the shells in his gun.
| say only after reflection that there
was not time of night during our hunt
in this country when one could not
hear the geese III their flight, aud no
time of day when thousands could not
be seen tor miles around. The task OF
the hunter is TO bring the game within
his. range. and this is task. indeed. be-
times. One Of our party is always as
signed to ''locate" geese. His duty 1t is
to ride over the country during the day
and mark the fields where geese are
feeding. His reports to us at night are
discussed ana acted on az 4 O'Clock the
following morning, when we are off i'll a
wagon TO dig our pits in the marked
fields. But no mans cunning was ever
or always Il match for that Of wild
goose. Experience proves that one may
dig pits lifetime and never have them
located just right.
To successfully hunt this Northern
game here in its own hamlet. one must
be interchangeable from daybreak till
dark, so hardy in the sport as 10 over
come severe hardship and violent eX-
ercise, and he must be fine shot.
Breeding here where food is abundant,
with nothing but wild wastes to fly over,
the game natures earlier and is stronger
on the wing. Besides having to deal
with the gamiest of game birds the guns
cucumber the most violent winds. The
man who can wing a duck on a still
wood-sleltered lake couldn't hit a
feather bed in some of these toy lorna
does of North Dakota.
Our party is still here, and it means to
stay until late in the present month.
Aside from hunting. eating the delecta-
bles of GEORGE" the black prince. and
sleeping beneath canvas, moon and
stars. our camp life has been punctuat-
ed with incidents and accidents more
or less interesting. An incident was
evidenced yesterday, when our cook,
contrary to the mute expectations of his
two unsig htly yellow bodies hanging in
the glare of the moonlight on our return
10 camp that night, instead of the beau
tiful white winged birds we had shot
that morning, we assaulted the chef er
masse for his inartistic sense of the
beautiful. ''Well, sub, Marsa Bickel
lSe dun pick dose swan kase l knOw'C
how good dey WuZ TO eat. Deyll be
cook tomorrer, subj" We all expressed
such dangerous mieu George became
thoroughly frightened. One of us Their
mentioned, TO further rebuke him
why, George, don't you know Swar
lives to be 200 years old, and that thi:
bird will be as tough as Duryea's rub
Der boots? Why, you couldn't get saw
through the bird, I'll bet a shirt-pas!
the waffles!' Yes L KIM" was the
retort, as buttered duck fell into {
gallon of milk; Use Spects to boil I'm
three days, den roast 'lm one, and eat
i'm de neX'."
1t was The same night, though, that
we discovered Georges real motive
The party was one pillow short, anC
George had been sleeping Oh that non
est pillow. 70 ease his distress he de
liberately plucked the swan during Oul
absence, and made for himself a very
comfortable pillow.
When we finally did get the swan ant
sweet potatoes, nothing quite SO deli
| cious had tickled our allmentaries for
| long time. The meat is of close
small, loose fiber. and not unlike {
! piece of juicy moose thigh. AS pen
atty for Georges originality he wa
stripped OF MS base ball shirt and other
apparel and photographed with tit
huge swans wings affixed and spread
i,,y oil, CHI lanr
biologists had better apply early for {
chance to examine this new bird.
What may be accounted common
| accident is that of losing your way OF
| the prairie. Having ridden a long
while the other night one of our party
consulted his compass to ascertain hi
! direction, when, to his amaZement, tn,
team was moving away from camp at
great rate.
Those intending jaunt to this.para
disc of ii e chase should make ampl
| preparations to be warmly clothed ant
| we'll stocked with ammunition. Tit
| alkali water and the atmosphere whel
freighted with it have an interesting
though distressing effect upon the eye.
of man and of beast. L observed that a
one is aroused at O'Clock in the morn
ing. the eyelids are bound by grea
mass of hardened mucus, and the effor
! 10 clear the sight is not at all slight. 81
it is with the dogs, who wake up almos
blind. A good eye lotion is essential,
useful in camp.
Camp Arson was organized in st
Paul, where, after the base ball season
is over. its members rendezvous for tn,
annual hunt. The party is usually GU
four weeks. and when it returns from
5000 to 1900 birds have passed from
further activity into delicious potation
in hundred different homes. Occa
sionally the boys invite guest to &C
company them. but to inspire such al
| invitation he must have shown that h,
is game for the sport and that he will
enjoy sharing with them work whicl
to the tenderfoot would be death in tw,
days. In the winter the party hunt:
deer for a fortnight. 1t is fortunat,
circumstance that the best shooting dis
! tricts seem to lie along the Great North
ern road. This year good reports come
from Alexandria, Ashby and Lake
Christine and Halock. The grouse ar,
so plentiful at Hailock one finds dog
| superfuous. Our party will visit Hal
| lock and Lake Christine Oh the return
trip. w.
J.