The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-01-27
MAINE GUIDE VISITS
GOTHAM; is SURPRISED

| 1t was as hard for one to keep thest
sportsmen on the subject of New Yorl
as it was for them to catch salmon.
Il went on top of the McAlpin hote
and looked down on Broadway. W.
could not look over for more than ;
glance, but Line leaned over the rail
| ing as long as we would permit hin
to. You may wonder where l come in
but I'll tell you the truth. They are
hiring ME at S. a day to guide Line
around New York. At first / had tt
start in at Z o'clock in the morning
but I notice it gets little later every
day."
Il get up at 4 o'clock at home, ant
in the shooting season of November
when We track deer en- the fresh snow
we never sleep at ALL I never heard
of any one sleeping in November Sc
l can stand this for little while"
Il reckon l need some one to guide
me here" he SAID, "but l can show
them a thing or two in the summer
Some fresh city fellows came up there
once and started out with a bateau-
canoe, and they had it loaded down
with provisions and traps. l was pad
ding around and SO was a friend of
mine. We were after buck deer, but
when l saw the city fellows I said to
myself oh, what's the use. They'll
get it, and | started back.
Fail to Capture Deer.
"NIy friend motioned to me to follow
Come on he said, there's going to be
some fun. They're going to take it
alive So We padded along near by,
and the buck deer was swimming then
The one in the middle is going to
lasso him. said my friend. And sure
enough, he tied rope around the
bucks horns and started to lead Off
"The whole place, water, air and all,
was full of men, traps, pieces of the
canoe and clothes. Two of the men
were drowning and we pulled them in,
while the deer swan on. l said,
Young Teller, when you want to take
a deer alive don't tackle that end of
him."
"By the way, can you cook?"
Certainly 1 can cook. The best
thing in the world is planked salmon
done before an open fire-not the imi-
Eation, as in most hotels"
How do you like the New York
HE likes the cooking, but he won't
stand for bottled sauces." said his New
York guide. 81 say he is perfectly
right. 1t is an insult to good chef
% pour sauce on a well-cooked piece
If meat or fish,
BAH" exclaimed Daniels, shrug-
cling his shoulders. I'D rather have a
piece of deer meat on a stick than any
hing with sauce. The Oftener it falls
n the ashes the better it is. That's
sauce enough for me-"
Have you had any exciting adven-
ures in New York;"
"The most exciting was losing my
lat. The wind carried it off. l started
o run for it, forgetting the danger
These two men pinned me down, one
IN either side, and in a second a dozen
men were running for my hat l never
vas SO surprised in my life. In my
every man runs for his own
lat"
Not Necessary to Run.
cts the other way around here"
aid Mr.. Murphy. II told Line Never
un for your hat here. 1t is not only |
angerous, but 25 men will risk their
ives under trolley cars and around |
automobiles for it and return it to you
nth SMILES"
That's so. You beat US on that. But
We had an experience few men in this
own can say they've had. I was in
he woods whole year, once, without
eeing single human being other
ian two Indians. l was with another
uide, of course, and we had a camp i
nd then a sort of station miles away.
Je spent the whole year trapping, and
man was not safe in the woods in
1850 days.
After we had been there several
I.