The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-17
YARNS THE GUIDES SPIN.
some stories Told Around an Adri-
ondack Campfire.


out into the lake. a cord of wood was
roaring in a ire that lit up the water
from Bog River Falls TO Slim Bay Blan-
kets were spread on the big rock near
the fire and there the whole party gath
cred TO smoke. guides and ''sportsmen,"
as the professionals call the amateurs
together. There the guides told these
tales. Frank johnson started.
The smallest-souled men 1 ever saw"
he said, Were three fellows who came
up here one summer a long time ago TO
FISH. / was a young lad then, and they
hired ne TO go in and cook for them.
1t was my first party They took ten
pounds OF meal ana a pound OF pork
and went into Little Symonds. / saw
mighty quick that they We're fishing for
market. They fshed all the time ana
salted down everything they got, little
and big, and we lived on corn bread and
pork. In three days had to
pork and some more meal and one of
EN- asked me if l had deer dog. L told
him / had the best deer dog in the woods.
lie said to fetch him back and we'd get
pork and meal l went to my rather
barn and got his old spotted coach dog
that was so thin he'd have TO stand twice
TO make a shadow. When / got him TO
camp the fishermen said he was the nnest
deer dog they ever saw. That was so, Tor
they'd never seen a deer dog. The next
day l put 'em all out on watch grounds
and started up in the mountains with the
coach dog. / hadn't any more than got
started before they began 10 hsh. l took
the old dog up on the mountain and cut
d big CAD ana began TO whale him. He
howled good and l kept it up for about
an hour j took him over most of the
mountain and then | went down TO camp.
where's yOnr deer?' l said.
Each one of EN- said no deer had come
by him, and then / began to swear.
told en- from where l was ON the noun
tam / could see big buck 50 into the
lake and swim out. Then every fellow
began TO cUss the others Tor letting the
buck get aN ay, and thought there was
going to be a fight but they got 10 pea
without it that night, and the noNt DAY
we tried il again. The Old dog was sny
about going with me, but dragged .nllh
along and pertty soon began TO whale
him. He howed like q band of music. 1
never heard dog zap like ne dlq. lie got
so he'd howl without my whaling him.
All | had TO do was to rails the CAD. Then
he howled because j dragged him around
That was hard work. but every time !
came to a clear place could see the llsh-
ermen. They We're watching pretty good,
but they hadn't stopped fishin', 50 ] went
down by and by and told EN- I'd chased
in another buck. You'd ought { see EN-.
One of 'em was q scrapper. ana he lit
into the other two and thrashed EN-
good. They was all brothers, too. The
scrapper swOre he'd get a deer the next
day or drown the others. But he didn't,
for the next day when / went to get the
dog he ran away as soon as / unfastened
L
never went back. They were small-soul-
ed, them fellows was, and mean
That's mean, sure, admitted George
Pettinger, hut what a. we think of thar
hires so many guides to watch one pond
that nobody else can get in. Him an
that Philadelphia lawyer does the same
thing. Don't you know how Dan Hinck-
son got even with him last year up to
Kitchens? Dan was watchin' for him,
an big buck came in. But Dan couldn't
IriN n lQf
il get away The doctor was so mad
he wouldn't pay Dan for that day. So
Dan got around and gave the starter
a dollar, put the buck in his own boat
"Where you goin' with that DEER? the
doctor shouted.
:" None o yer damn business said
az want that deer myself the doctor
said. He's mine. You leave him here
" oh guess not Dan said. I'm in
on this hunt, and / helped pay .he start
er an / shot this deer, an now 1 guess
want him.
"The doctor wanted the head so bad
he offered Dan 50 for it, but Dan told him
to so to thunder and it served him right
for he's hog.
well" said old Col. Ludlow 'mavbe he
| IS a hog, but for a first-class all-round
hog, one with bristlos and tusks all ready
for market. ] tell you that fellow that's
fenced in BIG Jim Pond over there takes
the cake. BY George, sir it's against JUS
tice and it's against nature. and / tell you
it's against law. I've hunted all over
Arope 1rope Trope, Orope, and Europe,
an IN be damned II l ever saw the ike
of that"
Yes" drawled old John Turner softly
| to Frank Johnson, col. Ludlow's done a
the lynn he's done.
IT'S curious" he went on. addressing
the fire and apparently oblivious Of the
smokers lying around, the things that
happen to you in the woods. Now the
other day | was out with a man, near
Saranac, and there was a red squirrel set
tin by a knot on an old dead pine log
The man l was guidn' wanted to know if
l could hit the squirrel 1t was about six
teen rod, | guess, an :. was shooting O.
1870 but / cut the squirrel In two. Now
| the curious part OF it was that that bullet
was lying on the log right at the base Of
the Knot. That puzzled US a good bit and
we finally figured it out that the knot had
turned the bullet square up in the air and
1t had fallen BACK to the log"
Yes it did, % said Pettinger, like Nc
SOFTER hit that buck up In Bog river.
in the dead wood and stopped the bull
let. Bullets don't fall straight down /
was camping right here on this point
last year with a party from New York,
and when we broke camp they shot a
lot of bullets straight up into the air
II was perfectly still and the water was
just like glass, but there wasn't a ripple
nor mark nor sound where one Of
them bullets hit. They didn't come down,
"Oh yes. they did come down" declared
Col. Ludlow, but they hit the land If
you fellows had ever been to sea you
would know that sometimes It blows ike
the devil up in the air always, but is
perfectly still down below. I've seen the
skysail blown right out of the bolt ropes
on a clipper ship while it was dead calm
= on deck"
That's easy" put in Pettinger. but
how do you cipher out this? / was hunt
ing cartridges the other day, and going
up a steep hill, il saw a rabbit right in
front of me, not more than twenty feet
away. l shot for his head, and when the
smoke cleared away there was no rab-
bit, and no fur. and no mark where the
shot hit the ground. Now / might "a
missed the rabbit, but if / did l must "a
hit the ground"
Easy enough" answered the colonel.
1.-THE wad had dropped out of pour shell
and the shot had rolled out of the gun.
The report of the powder scared the rab-
bit. and there was nothing to hit, either
beast or ground
George said McSofter, dye remem-
Der the first time George Dukelow start
ed out to guide a man? They were watch
ing on the river and a damnation fine
buck came in. DukelOw grabbed the
sportsman by the leg and yelled:
(" There he comes, there he comes, there
he comes Just then the buck heard him
and turned for the shore. There he goes .
shouted Dukelow. giving the man an
awful pinch, there he goes, there he
goes By that time the buck reached the