Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-07-29
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y,,.on In the Adirondaoss.

p,.oadvvav restaurant the ouher hiS.'
ZINC in n balf-hearted way 70 %
;,,stice To the elaborate dishes sprea'
before them. -, .os.,
"IJow different this meal would tas's
10 us after a single day in the woouS'
sighed one of the party.
ayou bet it would" said the fsheT-
on aI went down on Long Island the
first day of the trout season. anu
though l didn't get many hsh' l ae
onired a pnawing hunger that enabled
me 10 pet away with two-pound peer
,tool, and all the accessories when go'
home. Why, 1 have seen a party OF lour
oet away with all the best part OF good
sized voung buck inside of "a hours
The strangest part of it was that we
.l,opo-ht nothing of il at the time al
though now even the story seems almost
| too much" -,
ssNot for a man who has follo"eu
! fine yenison steak all day Without
thing TO eat" said the hunter. re-
,oember once up in the North WOODS
we were looking for deer along one OF
The mountain lakes. There were three
Of ms and the guide. We had rowed up
the lake in a couple of boats, and near
its head the guide and left the Doa's
and tramped along an old trail that led
IN natural lick on one of the niue
creeks while the others were 10 bring
the boats around to the place where we
had decided to camp. The boat thar con
tanned our few provisions ran on
submerged log. and our beef and bis
,.,its went to the bottom, so we had 10
settle down in camp and satisfy OUT
: stomachs by Tightening our belts.
81 woke IN about three in the morn.
ing and with the guide slipped out OF
comn and down 10 deer run, where
: ,ye shot a lusty buck, two-year-old-
We didn't wait for it 10 cure, but just as
soon "a we could get : saddle we had
breakfast. \ little later we had an
I ether. and when we broke camp 70 go
y bacl, after supper there wasn't a scrap
= 80 eotable meat left on the bones OF uhat
n hpcl, Tn convinced we ate above ten
I mounds of deer meat each that day
: ~ don't know much about eating
! vepison." said the fisherman, put
Z, remember that last summer three OF US
d wore on Buck island, in the middle oil
d Cranberry lake, up in the Adirondaeks
n The fishing was 50 good that we oe'l''i''
d 10 remain one day after everything eN
Z cent a little bread and q few potatoes
g had been eaten. When we came bacf
+. - can,p that night we had 1875 fine trout
le There were n lot of two-pounders, an'
u not one of the mess was below lega
e. si7a we had rough weather on the FOL
le lowing day and couldn't get back 10 IN
as foot OF the lake, and the only thlng TO
re ne 70 do was to breakfast, lunch an
IL dine on trout. In those two days WIT
IN the aid Of our two guides, we made ava
e with every one Of those l55 trout an
al I wouldn't dare tell the number @
a hounds. | can prove the truth OF IN
he story bv an elder of the Presbytera
he church. who was one of the party
to Mai Burke. who passed 30 year
1T amorg the Indians in q western TOR
ee laid down his cigar with a smile
MS Won follows had ever seen AN ndla
lin eat" said he. ''you wouldn't think tilo'
- stories worth telling. When first wei
ont 10 Fort Lincoln there wasn't muc
he oane 10 be had about the fort, but aiou
srp the Canadian river u WIZ NHi NY
rse he shot once in awhile. There was oil
-dy old gobbler that l tried for a doA'
~. times before l brought it into cam
h. Than found that had caught Ia
IT. tar. That turkey weighed 10 Pouno
he and after we bad cooked it for two ga
TX II was still so tough that neither KIN
vas nor tooth could make on impression
.iet II. So we threw him into a brush ne
-tle outside of the stockade. That DAY
he hand of Comanches came around loo
,ed ing for chuck. AS couldn't think
49,, ANYTHING else to offer fished up the
,oo turkey and turned it over to Them L
~, chief looked it over carefully. Then
49, wont back to where the bucks We
70 standing. My children said he, u
n is the flesh of the wild turkey. II
Ia eat IL il will make towards of you
|, 20 l have seen many winters. am an
man and have endured many DANCE
- Therefore 1t is fitting that l should
- the one to run the risk don't KIN
~. whether the bucks appreciated this
- soning, but at any rate they said no
- ing. The old man sat down behind
I stockade and tackled the leather bl
IinS When I came back an hour later to
III. LIE what had happened to him, found
'1 there. asleep. BY his side lay a u
bean of bones picked clean. y.
tion Caprfces of Fashion.