The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11
SPoRTsMEN,S FEATs At EATING.
Mig Records Made with Trout and vonison in
the Adirondncks.

big Records mado with Trout and Vonfpon In
the Adirondacks.
Four men sat about a table in a Broadway
restaurant the other night trying in q half
hearted way to do justice to the elaborate dishes
spread before them.
How different this meal would taste to us
after q single day In the woods" sighed one Of
the party.
You bet It would" said the fisherman. "I
went down ON Long Island the first day Of tho
trout season, and, though l didn't get many 1sh,
acquired a gnawing hunger that enabled ne to
get away with a two-pound beefstoak and oil tho
accessories when I got home. Why. / have seen
a party Of four get away with all tho best part of
a good-sized young buck inside Of twonty.four
hours. Tho strangest part of it was that we
thought nothing Of 1t at the time, although now
even the story seems almost too much"
Not for q man who has followed o fine veni-
son steak all day without a thing to eat" said
the hunter. II ememb once up in the North
Woods we were looking for door along ono of the
mountain lakes. There were three of us and the
guide. We had rowed up the lake In o couple of
boats, and near its head the guide and I loft the
boats and tramped along an old trail that led
to q natural lick on ono OF the little creeks,
while the others woro to bring, the boats around
boat that contained our few provisions ran on
a submerged log. and our corned beef and bis
dow T ia camp az aa' aD DS'' Satisfy y o %G s StSm 10 ss'i bS
tightening our bolts.
tho Ot r TSss sIpp ssSpe os . in Of the same, morn a1S d Snd With y b
year-old. We didn't wait for It to cure. but
had breakfast. A little later We had another,
and when We broke camp to go back after sup.
tRS es S s1HsS %"i That b sSsrp I'm s" eonvin @sd' we .s,' at. Gs
above ten pounds Of deer meat each that day,
II don't know much about eating venison,'
mid the fisherman. hut i rememher that laRt
1 %iddIo e 49, o6Ss .pisG Lake 3 up up 4 nj the A As1,Sss
IL bread ani a =" low StI potatoes had seenpt eaten.
1875 fne trout. There were a lot Of two.pound:
ers, and not ono Of the mess was below legal
day and couldn't get back to the foot Of the lake.
and the only thing for us to do was TO breakfast,
l MisS th Sn siS Si IN our ON s sTS Guides de those No made sTe ssnS
f {4,;;n tel q e. 1hs nun! aomS q q q pounds e.. !, 4; ~ Zen a. prove ths
o1 M%5o: Saft va" SS Ss' p % ssS r nifty years among
seen an Indian d eat" said he. You Wouidn't
West out to Fort, Lincoln there, WASH much
game to be had about the fort, but along the
ones IN w hixsr I rh %r,s w 1ur oss old Sag Robb Se s sSos
] tried for a dozen times before brought It into
ss%D: Than Than I Iu fGsRd u .h : I . hss sI Ssana, :
and after we had cooked 1t for two days
It was still 80 tough that neither knife nor tooth
gould make an impression on IT So we threw
That day a band Of Comanches came around
looking for chuck. AS ! couldn't think of any
thing else to offer | tished up the old turkey and
turned It over to them. The chief looked 1t over
carefully. Then he went back TO where tho
this Is the flesh of the wild turkey. II you eat
It 1t will mako towards of you. But I
and have endured many dangers. Therefore
II 10 fitting that l should be the one to run the
risk ! don't know whether the bucks appre.
ciated this reasoning. but at any rate they said
nothing. The old man sat down behind tho
stockade and tackled the leather bird. Whom
camo back an hour later TO see what had hap
pened to him, i found him there. asleep. BY his
side lay o little heap Of bones picked clean"