The Portland daily press., 1897-11-26
THE LADY AND THE MOOSE.
One Of the New York SUMS Maine
Yarns.

Ahe Woman Began by Catching Most of
the Trout. Next Came Near Capturing
Bear, and Wound Up by Killing
Moose and Nearly Getting the whole
Party in Jail.
Two bachelors and benedict in Har-
lem apartment house were planning a
hunting trip to Maine, when the woman
broke in with NOW, Harry, am going,
and that settles 1t. If you go, go. Don't
~ she added, appealing to the helpless
oachelors. You know can shoot pretty
well and am In good condition, and am
going
Inc three men had been doing a little
oesultory camping out during the sum-
mer with cabin catboat and a tent, and
once or twice the woman had gone along
when they had been able to get an empty
cottage for week or two at stretch; ;
ou5 OF camping proper she knew nothing.
she was temporized with in the hope that
She would weaken; but despite cleyerly
told tales of bears and deer, she only grew
more determined. So the men set them
selves at work and bough5 three pounds
OF baking powder, dozen cans of con-
densed milk. three dozen Japanese paper
napkins, coffee pot with spirit lamp
| attachment and q wrought izon PEDESTAL,
pan for making biscuits, several boxes
of disinfectant, which the woman said
would take off the stuffy smell Of the
place, presumably the wilderness; cigar
cites, cigars, tobacco, forty pounds of
bacon, ten pounds of coffee, and three
hundred cartridges. The woman carried
her traps in big Saratoga trunk.
Without adventure the party reached
Ashland, in Maine, and from the rail
road station drove thirty miles into the
virgin woods and brush. The faces of
the guides when they met the party with
Mrs. Harry in tailor made travelling
dress were picture, and their thoughts
have not yet been issued for publication.
The camp was a log hut, well made,
sixteen feet by twelve. provided with
twenty or thirty blankets and abig stack
of balsam boughs. Jumping out of the
wagon, delighted TO stretch her limbs,
Mrs. Harry said it was perfectly delight
full, poked her head into the hut, looked
over the fire in the lean-to outside, and
asked her husband:
Where is the hut for the others?'
She WAS gently informed that the hut
before her was the only human habita-
tion within ten miles, and that it must
accommodate five men and herself. The
big trunk WAS dragged into the hut, and
| cord being stretched across one end, the
place was divided into two rooms by
means of blankets. The first night passed
without incident.
The next morning, with no table
linen, few forks, and tin cups instead of
china and glass, the hunters meal YVES
despatched by the men without muir
woman, who appeared in all the glory of
an extra warm bicycle suit bought forEthe
occasion, with extra strong boots. The
party turning out, one guide took the
| trail to the small lake with MIR. and Mre.
Harry. Mrs. Harry proved an apt pupil
with the fly. At the third cast che hooked
the first fish, to the amaZement of her
companions. Then she started to stand
up in5the boat to reel in the trout. Being
pushed back into her seat, she didn t lose
the fish, but landed it, and 1t weighed
nearly three pounds. 1t was the largest
OF the. day. From that time on silence
was at a discount. The woman stroked
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others, while the men caught four be-
tween them. proving the truth of the cid
adage, II you speak, youth catch no
fish" And SO back to camp they went.
to find the other fellows returning with
a deer.
Mrs. Harry made biscuits that evening
for supper. The next day she went fish
ing again, and Tom went with her. while
Harry went into the forest. Again she
caught fish, and refused to start for home
until late. When they struck the trail
for the camp dusk was fast settling down.
She had her bamboo rod in her hand.
Tom was just behind with mis- rods, his
rifle, and Mrs. Harrys wraps. The guide
stayed at the landing to fix the boat.
Going up the trail in the dusk Mrs
Harry saw big stump in the centre of
the path which she did not remember,
and she said:
"Tom, are we right? don't remember
that stump"
..Oh, go long," said he, man like.
Pm loaded down and want to get to
camp" and at that she moved on along
the trail. Then the stump dropped II, the
ground on all fours and went scuff1ing
nm the trail