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"In the first seven months he puttered around the little fumers, with an
occasional excursion up to the main crater. It was my duty to follow on
and drag him away when he fell unconscious. Sometimes I would try to get
him before he was quite gone. Then he would become indignant, and fight
me. Perhaps that helped to lo... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
"'Oh, yes, armed. So are they.'
"'We are armed,' he repeated obstinately. 'Such as no man was ever armed,
are we armed.'
"He checked himself abruptly and walked away. Well, I've since wondered
what would have happened had the men attacked us. It would have been worth
seeing, and--and surprising. Yes: I'm quite certain... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
"Then the chest went wrong. Whether it had rusted a bit, or whether the
chemicals had got in their work on the hinges, I don't know; but one day
the Professor, of his own initiative, recognised my existence by lugging
his box out in the open and asking me to fix it. Previously he had emptied
it. It was rather a compli... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
"'I do not understand. It is a not-to-be-comprehended accident.' It
appears that he didn't quite know why he had taken to the water. Or if he
did, he didn't want to tell.
"Next day he was as good as new. Just as silent as before, but it was a
smiling, satisfied silence. So it went for weeks, for months, with the
acces... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
"We played. With the greatest secret of science resting at our elbows, we
played. The doctor won; my mind was not strictly on the game. In the
morning the doctor sang once more.... I shall never hear its like again.
Was it a week, or a month, after that?... I cannot remember. I fancy I was
excited. Then, too, there wa... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
Feeling in his upper waistcoat pocket, Darrow brought out a phial, so tiny
that it rolled in the palm of his hand. He contemplated it, lost in
thought.
"Radium?" queried Barnett, with the keen interest of the scientist.
"God knows what it is," said Darrow, rousing himself. "Not the perfected
product; the doctor said t... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
"In the morning he insisted on my leaving him alone and going down to give
the orders. I took the ledger, intending to send it aboard. It saved my
life possibly: Solomon's bullet deflected slightly, I think, in passing
through the heavy paper. Slade has told you about my flight. I ought to
have gone straight up the ar... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
"Not an easy problem, even with all the data at hand. You, of course, had
none. On Slade's showing, Handy Solomon and his worthy associates thought
they had a chest full of riches when they got the doctor's treasure;
believed they owned the machinery for making diamonds or gold or what-not
of ready-to-hand wealth. It'... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
"He did," said Slade. "I heard the clang. But I saw the radiance on the
clouds. And the whole thickness of a solid oak deck was in between the sky
and the chest."
"Oh, a little thing like an oak deck wouldn't interrupt the kind of rays
the doctor used. He had his own method of screening, you understand.
However, this ... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
"Thank you, Mr. Darrow," returned the captain quietly.
"We found the chest closed again when the empty ship came back," observed
Barnett.
"Being masterless, the schooner began to yaw," continued Darrow. "The
first time she came about would have heeled her enough to shut the chest.
Now came the turn of your other men."... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
His voice sank. With a shaking hand he fumbled amid his cigarette papers.
"It came on. A human figure, glowing like a diamond ablaze, leaped out
from it; another shot down from the foremast. I don't know how many I saw
go. It was like a theatric effect, unreal, unconvincing, incredible. The
end fitted it."
Darrow's ey... | The Mystery | Adams, Samuel Hopkins | 1871 | 1958 | ['en'] | 27 | {'Science fiction'} | PG10008 | |
[Illustration: He smashed down upon me again, and made that hole in my
leg above the knee. I handled my knife in a hurry, and made more than
one hole in his skin, while he stuck a prong through my arm.]
WILD NORTHERN SCENES.
OR
SPORTING ADVENTURES
WITH
THE RIFLE AND THE ROD.
BY S. H. HAMMOND.
1857
TO JOHN H. REYNOLD... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
It is a high region, from which numerous rivers take their rise to
wander away through gorges and narrow valleys, sometimes rushing down
rapids, plunging over precipices, or moving in deep sluggish currents,
some to Ontario, some to the St. Lawrence, some to Champlain, and some
to seek the ocean, through the valley of... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
The scenery I have attempted to describe--the lakes, rivers,
mountains, islands, rocks, valleys and streams, will be found as
recorded in this volume. The game will be found as I have asserted,
unless perchance an army of sportsmen may have thinned it somewhat on
the borders, or driven it deeper into the broad wildern... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
A Great Institution
CHAPTER II.
Hurrah! for the Country
CHAPTER III.
The Departure--The Stag Hounds--The Chase--Round Lake
CHAPTER IV.
The Doctor's Story--A Slippery Fish--A Lawsuit and a
Compromise
CHAPTER V.
A Frightened Animal--Trolling for Trout--The Boatman'... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
CHAPTER XXI.
The Doctor and his Wife on a Fishing Excursion--The Law of
the Case--Strong-minded Women
CHAPTER XXII.
A Beautiful Flower--A New Lake--A Moose--His Capture--A
Sumptuous Dinner
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Cricket in the Wall--The Minister's Illustration--Old
Memories
CHA... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"A great institution," I repeated, half in soliloquy and half to my
wife.
"What in the world are you talking about?" said Mrs. H----, as she
took a pin from her mouth, and fastened the band that encircled the
waist of the baby. The nurse was looking quietly on, quite willing
that her work should be thus taken off her ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
I had made up my mind that morning, all at once, to go into the
country. It was a sudden resolve, but I acted upon it. Going into the
country is a very different thing from what it used to be. There is no
packing of trunks, or taking leave of friends. You take your satchel
or travelling bag, kiss your wife in a hurry ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Yes," I replied, "I've felt it coming on for a week, and I've got it
bad."
"Very well," said my wife, "if the fit is on you, there's no use in
remonstrating; your valise will be ready by the morning train." And so
the matter was settled.
But I must have a companion, somebody to talk to and with, somebody
who could ap... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
Spalding, as everybody within a hundred leagues of the capitol knows,
is a lawyer of eminence, full of good-nature, always cheerful, always
instructive; a troublesome opponent at the bar; a man of genial
sympathies and a big heart. If I have given him, as well as Smith, a
_nom de plume_, it is out of regard for their ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
But go a little nearer the lake, and you will have a concert that will
drown all these voices in its tumultuous roar. Compared to these
feeble strains, it is the crashing of Julien's hundred brazen
instruments to the soft and sweet melody of Ole Bull's violin. Come
with me to this rocky promontory; stand with me on th... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
But, hark! the roar is dying away; voice after voice drops out; here
and there is one laggard in the song, still dragging out the chorus.
Now all is still again, save the note of the little peeper along the
shore. In two minutes that band will strike up again. The roar will go
bellowing over the lake through the woods... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
Let us rest on our oars a moment, here in the bay, to view the scenery
around us, as seen by the mellow moonlight. So calm, so still, so
motionless are both air and water, that we seem suspended between the
sky above, sparkling and glowing with millions of bright stars, and
the moon riding gloriously on her course, an... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
Pshaw! You have spoiled, with your worldliness, your greed for
progress, your thirst for gain, a pleasant fancy, a glorious dream, as
if everything in the heavens, on the earth, or in the waters, were to
be measured by the dollar and cent standard, and unless reducible to a
representative of moneyed value, to be throw... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
With us were to go two staid and sober stag hounds, grave in aspect
and trained and experienced, almost, in woodcraft, as their masters;
animals that had been reared together, and who possessed the rare
instinct of returning always to the shanty from which they started,
however far the chase may have led them. It was ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
Four or five miles down the lake, is a beautiful bay, stretching for
near half a mile around a high promontory, almost reaching another bay
winding around a like promontory beyond, leaving a peninsula of five
hundred acres joined to the main land, by a narrow neck of some forty
rods in width. Our first sport among the... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
We had in the morning directed the boatman in charge of the baggage to
go on in advance, and erect our tents on an island in Round Lake. When
we entered this beautiful sheet of water, about four o'clock, we saw
the white tents standing near the shore of the island, with a column
of smoke curling gracefully up among th... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"They've a curious fish in the St. Lawrence," said the doctor, as he
knocked the ashes from his meerschaum, and refilled it, "known among
the fishermen of that river as the LAWYER. I have never seen it among
any other of the waters of this country, and never there but once. It
never bites at a hook, and is taken only ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"We came to the nets and began to draw in. You ought to have seen the
fish. There were pickerel from four to ten pounds in weight, white
fish, black bass, rock bass, Oswego bass, and pike by the dozen; and,
what was a stranger to me, a queer looking specimen of the piscatory
tribes, half bull-head, and half eel, with ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"'I plead the general issue,' said I.
"'There's no such thing known to the code,' he replied.
"'I deny the fact, then,' I exclaimed.
"'That won't do,' he rejoined; "'the complaint is put in under oath,
and you must answer by affidavit, of the truth of your denial.'
"You see my dilemma. I remembered the circumstance of... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"You will see, therefore, that, as I said, I was in a dilemma. The
action against me was well brought. I could not deny the truth of the
facts charged against me in the complaint. In this position of
affairs, three alternatives presented themselves; first, a denial of
the truth of the complaint, but that involved perj... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Doctor," said Hank Martin, one of our boatmen, who had been listening
to the Doctor's narrative, "I don't want to be considered for'ard or
sassy, but I'd like to know how much of these kinds of stories we
hired folks are obligated to believe?"
"Well," replied the Doctor, "there are three of you in all, and
between yo... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
In the morning we sent forward our boatman with the tents and baggage
to an island on the Upper Saranac, and coasted this pleasant little
lake. On the right, as you approach the head, is a deep bay, skirted
by a natural meadow, where the rank wild grass, and the pond lilies
that grow along the shore furnish a rich pas... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
Smith had trolled scarcely a quarter of a mile, when his hook was
struck by a trout, and then commenced a struggle that was pleasant to
witness. No sooner had the fish discovered that the hook was in his
jaw, than away he dashed towards the middle of the lake. The rod was
bent into a semicircle, but the game was fast;... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"How was that?" inquired Smith; and we all gathered around to hear
Hank Wood's story.
"I don't know how it is," he began, as he seated himself on the log in
front of the tents, with one leg hanging down, and the other drawn up
with the heel of his boot caught on a projection in the bark, his knee
almost even with his ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"After an hour or two we came to a pause, and the old feller that was
towin' me about, walked up to the surface, and stickin' his head out
of the water, 'Good mornin',' says he, in a very perlite sort of way.
'Good mornin',' says I, back again. 'How goes it?' says he. 'All
right,' says I. 'Step this way and I'll take ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"All at once he seemed to take a notion to go down towards the bottom;
so shortenin' the line some fifty foot or more, he hoisted his great
tail straight up towards the sky, and down he went, the boat standing
up on end, and somehow the waters didn't seem to close above us, so
rapid was our descent. It was tight work,... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Human nater couldn't stand all that, so startin' up I found that
while I'd been layin' in the bottom of the boat the wind had ris, and
was blowin' a stiff gale. The boat had drifted across the lake and had
struck broadside agin the shore, and the waves were makin' a clean
breach into her at every surge. I soon got he... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"You are getting me into a bad habit, spoiling my morals in a physical
sense," said Smith, addressing us as we sat after supper around our
camp-fire; "I find myself taking to the pipe out here, in these old
woods, with a relish I never have at home. It seems to agree with me
here, and I expect by the time I get back t... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I called the other day upon a venerable friend and client, who is
travelling the down hill of life quietly, and though with the present
summer he will have accomplished his three score years and ten, his
voice is as cheerful, and his heart as young, as they were decades
ago, when his manhood was in the glory and stre... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I said there is a good deal of philosophy in a pipe, and I repeat it.
Who can see the smoke go wreathing and curling upward from his lips in
all sorts of fantastic shapes, spreading out thinner and thinner, till
it fades away and is lost among the invisible things of the air,
without saying to himself, 'Such are the ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I move for a suspension of sentence," said Smith, "Spalding's defence
of the weed, induces me to withdraw the indictment against it, leaving
punishment only for the excessive use of it."
The motion was carried unanimously, and by way of confirming the
decision, we all refilled our pipes and smoked till the stars look... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"He was a barking dog. When the moon was in the sky, he barked at the
moon. When only the stars shone out, he barked at the stars; when
clouds shut in both moon and stars, he barked at the clouds; and when
the darkness was so deep and black as to obscure even the clouds, he
barked at the darkness. Through all the long... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"'What's the matter?' cried my wife, springing up in an ecstasy of
terror.
"'Drive out that dog,' I replied.
"'What dog?' she inquired.
"'There,' I replied, 'that dog there, in the clock with his great
staring, glassy eyes; drive him out!'
"She lighted the gas, and as it flashed up, there stood the old clock,
the pend... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I had two rifles and a double-barrelled fowling-piece, sitting in the
corner of the parlor adjoining our sleeping-room, the gifts of valued
friends. My wife, wearied with the day's watching, had sunk into
slumber on the bed beside me. I woke her gently.
"'Make no noise,' I said, 'but bring me the guns; do it carefull... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I awoke, and thought that a dose of 'dog-buttons,' or a taste of
strychnine, administered with a tempting bit of cold steak, or a piece
of fresh lamb, or a bone of mutton carefully dropped in his way, might
have aided the operation. Be that as it may, whatever of debt may
have existed between my young friend and myse... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I don't believe there's a trout within half a mile of us," he said,
as he adjusted his rod and fly.
"Never mind," I replied, "throw your fly across towards that boulder
on the bank, and trail it home, and you'll see."
"Well," said he, "here goes;" and he threw in the direction indicated.
The fly had scarcely touched ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I say," said the Doctor, "how many have you in your boat?"
"Sixteen," I replied, after counting them.
"We've got eight, and I bar any more fishing. The law has reached its
limit. No wanton waste of the good things of God, you know."
The rods were unjointed and laid away, and such a string of trout as
we had, is rarel... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I like these old woods," said a gentleman, whom I met on the Rackett
last year; "I like them, because one can do here just what he pleases.
He can wear a shirt a week, have holes in his pantaloons, and be out
at elbows, go with his boots unblacked, drink whisky in the raw, chew
plug tobacco, and smoke a black pipe, a... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Will somebody tell me," said Smith, as we sat on the logs in front
of our tent after supper, smudging away the musquitoes with our pipes,
"will somebody tell me what we came into this wilderness among these
musquitoes, and frogs, and owls for? Mind you, I am not discontented;
I enjoy it hugely; but what I want to kno... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"You remember LONESOME ROCK, in the Lower Saranac, a great boulder
that lifts its head some ten or fifteen feet above the surface, away
out near the middle of the lake, around which the water is of unknown
depth. This rock, which is always dark and bare, is, as you will
remember, of conical shape, sharp pointed at the... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"The sun hid itself behind the hills on the West, and still he was
alone. The shadows crept up the mountain peaks that stand up like
grim giants away off in the East, and twilight began to throw its grey
mantle over the lake; still he was alone. The darkness began to gather
around him; the forests along the shore to l... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
CHAPTER IX.
HUNTING BY TORCH LIGHT--AN INCOMPETENT JUDGE--A NEW
SOUND IN THE FOREST--OLD SANGAMO'S DONKEY.
Spalding and Martin went out upon the lake after dark, with one of the
boats, to hunt by torch light. This is done by placing a lighted
torch, or a lamp upon a standard, placed upright in the bow of the
boat, a... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"But what I was going to tell you is, that Hank and I were down at
Plattsburgh last fall, and a big fellow who had taken quite as much
red eye as was for his good, undertook to pick a quarrel with Hank and
give him a beating. Hank, as I said, being a peaceable man, and much
more given to fun than to fighting, kept goo... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"We were passing from the Chazy to Bradley's Lake, and had sat down on
the trunk of a fallen tree to take a short breathing spell. It was a
warm afternoon, and the air was calm; not a breath stirred the leaves
on the old trees around us; the forest sounds were hushed, save the
tap of the woodpecker on his hollow tree,... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"We looked to our rifles and at one another, and it may well be that
our hats sat somewhat loosely upon our heads, from an involuntary
rising of the hair. 'What, in the name of all that is mysterious,'
cried my friend, in amazement, 'is that?' 'It is more than I know,' I
replied, as I placed a fresh cap on my rifle. A... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"There," said Spalding, "is the biggest, or what _was_ the biggest
fool of a deer in these woods. Do you believe that he stood perfectly
still, gazing in stupid astonishment at our light, until we were
within a dozen feet of him, when I dropped him with that ball between
the eyes?"
"No," replied Smith, "I really don't... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
The sweetest fish that swims is the brook trout, weighing from a
quarter of a pound down. Rolled in flour, or meal, and fried brown,
they have no equal. The lake and river trout, weighing from two to ten
pounds, beautiful as they are, have not that delicacy of flavor which
belongs to the genuine brook trout. Boiled, w... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
Smith and Martin passed silently out into the bay, and moved slowly
towards where the deer were feeding. The boat in which we sat was
permitted to float out to a position from which we could see the
sportsmen as they approached the game. Slowly but steadily they moved,
the paddle remaining in the water, sculling the l... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Spalding," said the Doctor, "How I wish our little boys were out here
with us. How they would enjoy themselves among these lakes and rivers.
It is a hard lot that the children of our cities have in life. They
struggle up to man and womanhood against fearful odds, and the wonder
is, that they do not perish in their in... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
I remember an anecdote told me of a little child, born in the great
metropolis, who had never, until her fifth summer, been outside of the
paved streets of New York. Her mother had friends residing in one of
the up-river towns, owning a beautiful farm overlooking the Hudson,
and in early May she paid them a visit, tak... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"That little boy, relying in his simple faith upon the wisdom and
truthfulness of his father, believed for a long time, that the
weathercock on the top of the barn, could bring the cold north, or
the warm south wind, by turning upon its perch. He was cured of his
error only by being laughed at for his simplicity. Pare... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
CHAPTER XI.
A CONVENTION BROKEN UP IN A BOW--THE CHAIRMAN EJECTED.
We sent forward our boatman with the luggage early in the morning, up
Bog River towards Mud Lake, the source of the right branch of that
river, lying some thirty miles deeper in the wilderness, counting the
sinuosities of the stream, and said to be t... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
We finished our evening meal while the sun was yet above the western
hills, and sat with our pipes around a smudge, made upon the broad
flat rock, which recedes with a gentle acclivity from the shore, where
the Bog River enters the lake, looking out over the stirless waters.
It was a beautiful view, so calm, so still ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I scorn to answer such an accusation," retorted Smith, "I shall treat
it with dignified contempt, as I do the Doc medicines, which I never
take but always pay for, just to keep him from starving, and to make
him imagine he cures me. But speaking of cats reminds me of a certain
matter which occurred not many years ago... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Well, one night, it may have been one o'clock, or two, or three, I
was awakened by the awfullest screaming and sputtering, growling and
swearing, that ever startled a weary man from his slumbers. I leaped
out of bed under the impression that at least twenty little children
had fallen into as many tubs of boiling wate... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"And then they pitched in, and such scratching and growling, scolding
and swearing, and biting, and rolling over and over, I never happened
to see or hear before. About that time I dropped a boulder of coal,
taken from the scuttle, weighing about half a pound, right among them
(accidently of course). Whether it hit an... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Well, as I said, the moon came up one night, with her great round
face, and all the little stars hid themselves, as if ashamed of their
twinkle in the splendor of her superior brightness. I retired when the
rumble of the carriages in the streets, and the tramp on the stone
sidewalks had ceased, and the scream of the ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"'Thomas,' said I, the next morning to the boy who did chores for us,
'there seems to be a cat asleep out on that woodshed, go up and
scare it away.'
"Thomas clambered upon the shed and went up to where that cat lay, and
lifting it up by the tail, hallood back to me, 'This cat can't be
waked up; it can't be scared awa... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
We reached the lower chain of ponds within an hour of sunset, and
found our tents pitched at a pleasant spot which looked out over the
easternmost one of these beautiful little lakelets. There are three of
them, connected together by narrow passages or straits, the banks of
which, as the boat glides along, the oars wi... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
We were moving up the stream cautiously and silently; the boatman who
had charge of the craft in which were Smith and myself, seated in the
stern, paddling, and Smith himself seated in the bow, with rifle in
hand, ready for anything that might turn up. As the boat rounded a
point, a deer started out from among the ree... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
The Doctor, by rotation, now became the leading marksman. He was cool
and calm, as if going to perform some delicate surgical operation. We
soon came in sight of a buck feeding in a shallow pasture, and the
boat glided quietly within fifteen rods of it. The Doctor's hand was
firm, and his aim steady. There was about h... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
After supper, as we sat looking out over the lake in front of our
tents, the Doctor inquired of our pioneer how he had taken his fish,
as he had with him neither rod nor flies, and there was no bait to be
found in the woods proper for trout.
"Why," said he, "I got lonesome yesterday, all alone up here in the
woods, wa... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Everybody understands, or ought to understand, how sheep are washed.
A small yard is built on the bank of a stream adjacent to a deep
place. One side of which is open to the water, and into which the
flock is crowded. The washers take their places in the water, where it
is three or four feet deep, and the sheep are c... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"He came out on the other side of the stream, and after joining in the
laugh against himself, and taking off and wringing his garments, he
wandered up to the apron of the old dam, and stretching himself along
the planks, went to looking anxiously down into the deep water. After
a while, he seemed to have discovered so... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"My father, though not a member of any church, was strict in his
family discipline in regard to the observance of the Sabbath, the
breach of which, on the part of his children, was very apt to be
followed by consequences not the most pleasant in the world, for he
held that a good switch was an essential article of hou... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Well, the trout were eaten for breakfast, and after the meal was
over, my brother and myself were duly paid off, at a hundred cents on
the dollar, with full interest. That flogging cured me of 'tickling'
trout, especially on Sunday. I am never tempted to take trout with my
hands, without feeling a tickling sensation ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
The deer that was feeding paid no further attention to them than to
raise his head and look quietly, and perhaps contemptuously at them
occasionally, while he chewed his breakfast, that he was picking up in
the shape of lily pads upon the surface of the water. Spalding and a
boatman paddled across the lake to make Mm ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
We left the first chain of ponds, and rowed some ten miles up the deep
and sluggish but narrow channel of the river, startling every little
way a deer from its propriety by our presence as it was feeding along
the shore. Few sportsmen ever visit this remote region, and it is
above the range of the lumbermen. We came t... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
We arrived at Mud Lake towards evening, and pitched our tent on a
little rise of ground on the north side, a few rods back from the
lake, among a cluster of spruce and balsam, and surrounded by a dense
growth of laurel and high whortleberry bushes. We saw a deer
occasionally on our route, and the banks of the stream i... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
We pitched our tent, as I said, a little way back from the lake, near
a cold spring, that came boiling up through the white sand in a little
basin, eight feet wide, the bottom of which, like that on the bank of
Tupper's Lake, was all in commotion, boiling and bubbling, as the
water forced its way up through it. I was ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
The season for moose hunting along the water pastures, was nearly
over. They go back upon the hills in August, the food there being by
that time abundant. The tracks we saw were old ones, the animals
having passed there several days previously. I would not have it
supposed that the moose are abundant in any portion of... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Your anecdote of the rabbits," said the Doctor, "reminds me of a
story told of a Dutchman, who discovered an owl on a limb above him,
and noticed that its face, and great round eyes, followed him always
as he walked around the tree, without its body moving at all. Seeing
this he concluded in his wisdom, that he would... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
CHAPTER XIV.
A DEER TRAPPED--THE RESULT OF A COMBAT--A QUESTION OF MENTAL
PHILOSOPHY DISCUSSED.
We returned the next day to our camping ground. On the "Lower Chain of
Ponds," we found our pioneer and his goods all safe, no visitors
having passed that way in our absence. Smith knocked over a deer on
our passage down. ... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
Upon relating this incident to an old hunter, I was told by him that
he once, while out in the woods, came upon the skeletons of two large
bucks, that, in fighting, had got their horns so interlocked and
wedged together, that they could not separate them, and thus, locked
in the death grapple, they had starved and die... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"It is that 'guard' of which you speak," remarked Spalding, "over the
emotions, the sentiments of the heart, stifling their expression, and
chaining down under a placid exterior their manifestations, that
constitutes one of the broad distinctions between youth and manhood.
It is when that guard is set, that the proces... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"As it has been in the past century, so it is now, and so it will be
through all the long future. Forward, and forward, is the word, and
forward will be the word for centuries to come. And why? Because all
men here, in this free Republic, are free to think, free to speak,
free to will, free to act. No traditions of th... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
After it became dark, Smith and Martin went out around the lake night
hunting, and the rest retired to our tents. We heard the report of
Smith's rifle from time to time, and concluded that we should have to
court-martial him for a wanton destruction of deer, contrary to the
law we had established for our government on... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
We pitched our tents at the foot of the second rapids, on a high,
moss-covered bank. The roar of the water sounded deep and solemn among
the old woods, as it went roaring and tumbling, and struggling through
the gorge. The night winds moaned and sighed among the trees above us,
while the night bird's notes came soothi... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"And yet," said Spalding, "if you will look into the philosophy of the
matter, you will see that this diversity of tastes, as you call it, is
not so great after all; that is, that the origin of the impulse which
sends some men away from society among the solitudes of the
wilderness, and of that which holds others in c... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Mud Lake, as you've discovered, aint very near now, and it was a good
deal farther off then. The settlements hadn't been pushed so far into
the woods then as now. But we put out, Crop and I, for Mud Lake; we
passed the eight carryin' places afore night, and reached the first
chain of ponds while the sun was hangin' l... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I heard the cry of the painter, the howl of the wolf, and the hoarse
bellow of the moose that night, and Crop crept close alongside of me,
in our bush-shanty, and answered these forest sounds by a low growl,
as if sayin' to himself, that while he'd rayther keep oat of a fight,
yet, if necessary, in defence of his mas... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"The next mornin', I got up just as the sun was risin', and a little
way down on the shore of the lake I saw a buck. Wal, he was one of
'em--that buck was. The horns on his head were like an old-fashioned
round-posted chair, and if they hadn't a dozen prongs on 'em, you may
skin me! He wasn't as big as an ox, but a tw... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"My gun hangin' fire made my bullet go wide of the spot I aimed at. It
had grazed his skull and stunned him for a little time, and crazed him
into the bargain. I learned more fully a fact that I'd an idea of
before, by my fight with that deer, and it is this--that it's best to
keep out of the way of a furious buck wit... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
We returned to camp before the sun went behind the hills, with our
fish ready for the pan, and our boatmen provided us with a meal of
jerked venison, pork, and trout, which an epicure might envy, and to
which a hard day's journey and an appetite sharpened by the bracing
influence of the pure mountain air, gave a pecul... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
Sure enough, in a moment the same ringing blows came from a reedy spot
in a different part of the bay.
"The bird that makes that noise," said Martin, "is about the homeliest
creature in these woods. It is a small grey heron, that lights down
among the grass and weeds to hunt for small frogs and such little fish
as swi... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"The wise people of this world," said Spalding, "that is, those who
are wise in their day and generation, laugh at the believers in this
modern theory of Spiritualism. They pity them, too, as the unhappy
devotees of a faith which sober reason and all the experience of the
past prove to be as unsubstantial as the moonb... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"I have sometimes amused myself by endeavoring to furnish a theory for
the Spiritualists to stand upon, based upon the demonstrations of the
past, the evidences brought to light by the researches of science,
which at all events should have about it truth enough to give color
and respectability even to an error as stup... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"Animal life made its appearance. It was weak and feeble at first, but
a step removed from vegetable matter. The molusca, the polypi, and the
rudest forms of fishes, were, beyond question, the first of living
things. Science demonstrates that the water brought forth the first
creations endowed with animal vitality. Ho... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 | |
"And here arises a question which science has not solved, and to which
the philosophy, the wisdom, the logic of the past can give no answer.
The earth, and the things of the earth, have been moving forward,
marching on towards perfectability always. Is this forward movement
finished? We have, in looking at the subject... | Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod | Hammond, S. H. (Samuel H.) | 1809 | 1878 | ['en'] | 11 | {'Hunting -- New York (State)', 'Fishing -- New York (State)'} | PG10009 |
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