Evening journal., 1897-06-21
sPoRrsMEws FEArs AT EATING
Big Records Made with Trout aud
vcnison In the Adirondaels.

bfoaNW1N IcHluNidnb tue tlucI uibub
trying in a half-hearted way TO do
Justice to the elaborate dishes spread
before them.
"How different this meal would taste
70 us after a single day in the woods"
sighed one Of the party.
"You bet il would" said the fisher
man. 81 went down on Long Island the
first day of the trout season, and,
though / didn't get many fish, ac-
quired gnawing hunger that enabled
me to get away with a two-pound beef
steak and all the accessories when i got
home. Why, have seen a party of four
get away withall the best partof a good
sized young buck inside of "a hours.
The strangest part of it was that we
thought nothing Of it at the time, al
though now even the story seems almost
too much"
Not for a man who has followed
fine renison steak all day without
thing 10 eat" said the hunter. 81 re-
member once up in the North Woods
we were looking for deer along one of
the mountain lakes. There were three
of us and the guide. We had rowed up
the lake in couple of boats, and near
its head the guide and / left the boats
and trampcd along an old trail that led
to natural lick on one Of the little
creeks, while the others were TO bring
the boats around to the place where we
had decided TO camp. The boat that con-
tanned oar few provisions ran on a
submerged log and our beef and bis
cults went to the bottom, so we had 60
settle down in camp and satisfy our
siomachs by tightening our belts.
81 woke up about three in the morn
ing and with the guide slipped out of
camp and down 10 deer run, where
we shot lusty buck, two-year-old.
We didn't wait for IL to cure, but just as
soon as we could get q saddle we had
breakfast. A little later we had an
other, and when we broke camp to go
back after supper there wasn't scrap
OF eatable meat left ON the bones Of that
buck. I'm convinced we ate above ten
pounds of deer meat each that day"
81 don't know much about eating
venison," said the fisherman, 'but /
remember that last summer three OF us
were on Buck island, in the middle Of
Cranberry lake, up in the Adirondacks.
The fishing was so good that we decided
to remain ono day after everything eN-
cept n little bread and n few potatoes
had been eaten. When we came back
10 camp that night we had 135 fine trout.
There were n lot of two-pounders, and
not one of the mess was below legal
size. We had rough weather on the fol-
lowing day and couldn't get back to the
foot of the lake, and the only thing for
us to do was 20 breakfast, lunch and
dine on trout. In those two days, with
the aid Of our two guides, we made away
with every one Of those 135 trout, and
I wouldn't dare tell the number OF
pounds. / can prove the truth Of tbs
story by an elder Of the Presbyterian
church, who was one of the party"
Mai Burke, who passed 30 years
among the Indians in a western fort
laid down his cigar with smile 'Ii
: you fellows had ever seen an Indian
eat" said he, you wouldn't think those
stories worth telling. When | FIRST went
out to Fort Lincoln there wasn't mucl
game TO be had about the fort, but along
I | the AWINnltll AANiI u vi ilh ANAhtf NhhiA
lie shot once in awhile. There was one
CID gobber that l tried for dozen
times before / brought il into camp
Then I found that 1 had caught Tar
tar. That turkey weighed 16 pounds
and after we had cooked it for two day!
it was still so tough that neither lnif'
nor tooth could make au impression OF
! it. So we threw him into brush heal
outside of the stockade. That day .
band of Comanches came around look
ing for chuck As 1 couldn't think oi
anything else to offer fshed up the olt
, turkey and turned It over TO them. The
chief looked it over carefully. Then h
went back TO where the bucks wer
standing My children said he. 'thi.
is the flesh Of the wild turkey. If yoi
eat it it will make towards Of you. Blu
I have seen many winters. lam an ole
man and have endured many dangers
Therefore it is fitting that 1 should b
the one to run the risk I don't know
( whether the bucks appreciated this rea
! soning. but at any rate they said moth
ing. The old man sat down behind th'
4 stocl1adc and tackled the leather bird
When came back an hour later to Sc
. what had happened 10 him, found hin
there, asleep. BY his side lay littl
heap Of bones picked clean. IN. y. Sun