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CLARK, LIMITED, MONTREAL. fe SY er a See ae ik =. % 2 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ——S > My ‘Snug Harbor Cigarette PLAYER'S NAVY CUT CIGARETTES— oy, S >, | VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 10 Rod and Gun in Canada 2 Woodstock, Ontario, March, 1921 Publishers are warned not to reprint contents, wholly or in part, without full credit attached muri Phe nakes and teagles io. alge en Bonnycastle Dale 1117 me pammrivies Cur Alois CMe Ge PE io03) 25. dacs tiyntey ctth ccc fave faeces sagesscyebasees F. V. Williams 1123 Pane ara. hapmedh LOUNOWMETEC:.. :;..cteertict vs) es lievceeeiscapbeviaesilovde. F. V. Williams 1134 ST ECISRLISNIRS EOS Sta ae LOC SR Pe J.W.Winson 1136 The Buffalo Runnert.............0...0..0.0.0. OR tect eaeah a Eee aes aE HarryiW. Laughy 1138 _ The Code Of a Hunting Tribe....................., SEL Se PAA George R. Belton 1142 (TS) ce ELISE SOTERA ans aR De a De Harry M. Moore 1145 mee cera Moliday-In Muskoka. ct cocci crete esteens G. J. Gonibear 1151 _ The Ghost of Fairy Lake.......... Be Ogre as manne Brae eae Gordon HillGraham 1154 jecuns and Ammunition Department .......12-2.. ieee eeepc E. IT. Martin 1157 UN OL eh Ne A ea hacia Robert Page Lincoln 1172 — A Backed Bow............ 2 SERS A nt ete Baer ae, Sema ae Robert Page Lincoln 1179 ATES SEES TY) Ba Tat Gea as pe nena bate PR rn cee D.S. Johnston 1183 a aie STIRS Sep Se Os EV ec ae eRe aetna ia ie See a ee A.L. Burch 1185 SSOMITIER- OF MITNCOG EE COLECLIVE ASSOCIALIOND,.(0./51: 5.0526. c0cancs With the exception of a few military calibres, there is no need of fear of the Reds overthrowing authority with rifles purchased in sporting goods stores. We know from experience gained in the war that one machine-gun properly manned ean successfully fight a company of riflemen. Why then. the ex- citement over the sale of sporting rifles and shotguns? If the government wishes to enact legislation for the upholding of constituted authority make the alien procure a license for weapons of all kinds, and the British subject procure a license for a military rifle~ and all revolvers and pistols. We fail to see the need of a permit for the gun club member to use his shotgun, the youth his small calibre in marksmanship, or the big-game hunter his rifle, and especially when he is supplied with a license to kill big game. ERE HERE! COME HERE!” shrilly screamed _Laddie, “I’ve got the daddy of them all.”’ We were on Migration Point, in the midst of the _ drowned lands and swamps and wild rice beds of Rice lake. The youngster had an adult black snake noosed by ithe tail; hooked on to his pocket scale. As I came near he held up two full 5 Ae & Sn / gat f ein a fingers, one half finger, and one quar- ter one—to show me it weighed two and three quarter pounds. It was literally gorged with young frogs. I knew the big chap was living near our campy as at night I had often heard the sudden low squeal, then for many minutes the continued crying, much as a child cries, of the captured frog being slowly swallowed alive. But even though it was killing many frogs it also would eat, during the seven months of the year of its active yearly life, fully a quarter tn Ay bale Raa) a ge we 1118 of a million insects and bugs; all of these dangerous and destructive to vegetation; so unless the big cold, sluggish beasts invade the camp, we let them live. ‘“‘He’s stowed some cargo away,’ laughed the lad point- ing to the swollen stomach, ‘“‘Let’s look and see if he has any sign of poison fangs?” repulsive reptile was staked out neat- ly and we were peering into its opened jaws—simply to teach the lad, as we’ all know the black snake is perfectly harmless. It is not a constrictor; that is, it cannot crush its prey in its coils, so as to break the bones and get it all sausage-like for swallowing. For the first three years of its life it is greyish with the back chestnut brown. In the south it is more greenish and yellowish. TM is, as are nearly all snakes; a dreadful coward, bluffing you with its vibrat- ing tongue. Give it a chance and it will alwaysrun. Corner it and it will put up a bluff fight. Don’t get it mix- ed up with the common water-snake, or the red-bellied water-snake. All these love to hang themselves from oo ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ay Soon the big slimy low branches of marsh trees and sun : themselves. They too bring forth their young alive. (I have tak = over forty young from the belly a dead black snake.) The water fas . snakes feed more on fishes than t Ee has the shiny red belly, and the water 6 snake emits a foetid odor when you examine it. I have never found this — from the black snake. The latter is _ a regular robber of birds’ nests, swallowing the eggs whole. Let it live, the number of moles and mice it kills in a year makes it very val-— uable to the farmer. - I remember once, in the bush, while seeking shelter from a thunder- _ storm at a lumber shanty, seeing a “new hand” seated on his bunk. He — was the “butt” of the camp. He had af been attached to a natural history "= es expedition as collector and he still — ce] brought in bugs and lizards, butter > flies and moths, much to the jeering | delight of the river drivers. This — night the fun was fast and furious. — = ““Got any nice young cold lizards?” teal mend _ called one. a “Say, could you sell me a milk — snake, our tin cow’s plugged,” laughed %: another. “I’m afraid to put on my boots in e the morning, worms and snakes and ~ crocodiles most everywhere,” taunt- — ed a third. The silent butt of all this fa Gan swinging his foot on the edge of his bunk, all the time feeling for some- ~ thing behind him—in under his mat- tress—suddenly his hand came out and he leaped to the floor with one of the biggest, most wildly wriggling black snakes in his hand. Every man was on his feet in an instant— and they almost broke one another’s bones crowding through that bunk- house door. The lad came over to me laughing. “I guess I'll have to go, or clear out all my pets and give up collecting.”” He wisely chose the latter. Although the black snake is to be found on the mainland of the Pacific Coast, I never saw or heard of a specimen being found on the big Island of. Vancouver. There are plenty of garter snakes on that island Gti * - monster). ite seven varieties in all, on both main- ~ jJand and Island—just about the same as you see them on your home prair- i a ies, each and all harmless to man. Of course I have never seen a milk snake nor yet a hoop snake, but there is a glass-snake. Now forget all the tales about this variety being . able to snap off its tail and promptly join the pieces together again—put a that story in with the hoop snake ve, Yarns. To be exact the glass snake Is a lizard, but to the average man it _ is a snake pure and simple. The tail is so feebly attached that a very light blow will knock it off the body. You might find these black, foot long snakes, in the southern prairies of Canada as they live in the Central States of the Union. While we are down there lets look at the odd, - stuffed looking gila monster, (if you _ want to get the Spanish of it say Hela It is the most ridiculous, two foot long puff of swollen bead pores, just like necklaces of bright yellow and black beads wound round and round its fat repulsive body. It is four pounds of odd animal surely. It is as slow as a snail. It can bite like a little trap, and the Digger Indians say it is sure death. This I. do not believe for a moment, yet none of them ever eat it raw, as they do many of the other lizards that inhabit the lower Southern Central States. I readily give one of the lowest places in natural history to both the gila and the digger. But there is one odd looking little chap down there you would like—the horned toad—really the horned lizard. These little five inch masses of spines and warty protuberances are excellent pets, sitting on one’s hand like a clod, motionless, inert, for all the world like a bit of dried cactus. _ —Z-i-zzzz—bump—that was your “clod’’ flying over your knee in a fine leap and pinning the elusive ‘housefly before it went ‘“‘bump”’ onto the floor. You can draw a pencil mark about one sitting on a piece of wrapping paper and, unless a bit of food strays too attractively near, that little living bit of cactus will be inside that pencil mark hours and - hours afterward. ze ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1119 Later we had been doing a bit of work on the “outside” of the Queen Charlotte Islands—I think the most wild and desolate coast I have ever seen. We had left a little island on the ‘‘inside”’ where we had a woman for our “‘host.’’ So rare is this that I must tell you. I well know the long days and the empty hours of the great prairies in the winter months, but we are right in the centre of the “bright lights” compared with the western squatters or beachcomb- ers. I shail not mention names or location. As usual the wee ones fled as we landed, in this case splashing like wild cattle through a “lagoon” (flood water from high tides). The little series of shanties were built of the ocean flotsam and jetsam. In this case of a deck load of doors, panelled, glass inserted, plain, heavy, and many other kinds, roof, floor, walls,” verandahs—all were cleverly constructed of this shipwrecked cargo. The husband was away after sea otter, a devious chase, unlawful and 1120 risky. The woman was of Coast Indian origin, but evidently only a halfbreed, as she spoke our language rather imperfectly. The dogs be- longing to the island had taken to the woods with the cow and kiddies and there maintained a rapid fire of mongrel yelps. We asked her if she was short of anything. ‘‘Would you trade any records,’ she answered questioningly. Here she lifted an old mortuary box (it would have delighted the heart of a collector, as it was beautifully carved out of native cedar, about three feet long, really a native coffin). She inserted in the ancient machine—now what do you think? “By Killarny’s Lakes and Fells,’ cornet solo by Dicken- son—but that was haphazard, as we found they .always put the played record under the pile and played right through. The balance of the concert was very poor. Needless to say we did not trade records, as we had none, and we felt unless we beat a retreat soon; the kiddies would starve. | was wrong, as I saw through my glass- es the eldest girl about ten, digging clams on the tide flats always with an eye on the invaders; no sooner was our thirty foot cedar log canoe launch- ed and Laskit and O’poots, and Laddie and I swinging the short shatp pointed paddles, than the child- ren and dogs crept back to the house. We took the canoe through Stuart Channel, on our maps, chuck”? O’poots called it, ‘‘tide up anddown’”’; and it truly was. If you want hair-raising trips use the natives and the native canoes. Even if they do upset, they ride the craft like a horse, turn her over by grasping the handle-like bow and_ paddle-splash the water out. Thank goodness they omitted this performance this time. It is truly a wonderful exper- ience to paddle up the great ‘“‘shish- ing’ seas, hold your breath in the windblown spume of the crest and coast down the receding slope. We had thirty miles of this wild work be- fore we headed into the little unnam- ed harbour or inlet. If it had been wonderful “bucking the seas,” it was terrible once we headed in and tack- led the surf and sea together. To ~ ————— ee ROD AND GUN IN CANADA the average white man the time had come for “‘the jumping off place,” but to these clever craftsmen it was but a time of jockeying on the boiling tops and “‘backpaddling”’ if we seem- ed to be getting ahead of the tremen- dous power that unceasingly urged us forward. One instant it was with © faces blinded and mouths gasping and the next we were riding on the calm waters of the inlet, and the eagles we had come so far to see were whistling shrilly from the wind-twist- ed tree trops. “TIT wonder what her name was?” questioned Laddie Jr. We were . standing beside the remains of a wrecked sailing vessel, one of the old “oaken walls of old England’”—truly oaken walls as she was built of two foot oak timbers spiked with three foot heavy iron spikes, only the deck protruded above the sands at low tide. Utterly lost, even to human records, as this “‘outside coast’’ is not lighted nor patrolled. So Jong had she lain there that not a vestige of wreckage remained above high tide line, all worn out by the elements or ~ buried in the sands. Who manned this one-time noble three master? Evidently a full rigged ship, a glorious sight bounding over the long seas, but a sorry one lying here unrecorded and unknown. All night long the giant surf beat on the inlet’s mouth and the high- flung spume was carried by the roaring sou’ wester clean over our wee tents—a quarter of a mile above high tide line. When an overtaxed hemlock branch would snap in the inky black turmoil all the migratory hosts of eagles would whistle and scream—the boy said, “Just like storm demons.” Morning broke clear and almost calm. A light ripple was on the retiring waters of the bay and a tremendous surf on the bar—made by the outgoing tide. ‘Hyas muck- a-muck,”’ called O’poots as he placed the tea ‘“‘billy” near the flat rock table. This clever guide had caught a red rockfish and broiled it, had beaten up - and baked ‘“‘sapo-lil,”’ flourcake, stew- ed ‘“‘to-luks’”’ (mussels); no wonder he called it ‘““Big-food.”? As we ate, the ROD AND GUN IN CANADA a (eagles) flew and ec and quarrelled. Look -at the picue of the **bald-head,”’ the Amer- ican emblem, sailing above the trees. This huge bird was fully three feet long with wings that spread eight feet wide; its snowwhite head, tail and neck gleaming in the bright Pacific sunlight; its slow mighty wingstrokes unexcelled by any bird that flies. I know what a varmint it is among the birds of prey. Read the ‘stories of any “desk writer’ and he will tell you they make their break- fasts of nice young, plump children, usually blonde ones I fancy. But all these migrating birds were eating “singing fish,” a little wriggling chap left under the kelp and fuca by the retreating tides and if you put your ear down, you can hear them grunting, this is called “singing.” Well! I have heard worse sounds by humans called by the same name. We were greatly amused as we sat there watching the crows. They were picking up cockles from out the sands for breakfast and carrying them up in the air and dropping them—on the sand—to break them open. They had been successful when they drop- ped them on the stones, but my! they were such poor shots. ‘‘Righteen and out” screamed Laddie Jr., as a dis- gruntled crow left unopened a re- cumbent cockle which he had carried aloft and dropped that ae of times. The ample table set by that won- drous old Dame Nature is always a source of wonder to the traveller in -these wild parts. Here we were, four different coloured atoms in a wild western bay, where the foot of man seldom wandered; yet there was food enough for a multitude—aye and light too, as we found many stranded oulican ‘(candle fish)’’ all nicely dried and ready for wee torches. Laddie Jr.,made a weird illumination of a tide-worn grotto that night. Now if my lady readers wil! kindly compare their pantries with mine.— Here we were four men, animals without that noblest of all the arts: housekeeping. The nearest market was some hundreds of miles distant; and we didn’t even have a TI basket. The lad and I had a knife, fork and spoon, cup and plate apiece when we left Vancouver. I had lost my fork and spoon and was using a fire hardened tiny crotch stick and a mussell shell. The guides had lost or traded away all their table equipage and were using shells straight, with cups made out of kelp weed balls. They drank their soup in a couple of 1122 gulps and only objected to stew be- cause it was “Pit-lilh skookum” (thick, bad). As I had already taken most of my notes and photographs of the eagles, we had let our supplies run low; so that all we had was pilot bread (sea biscuit or hard tack), salt, a little pork, sugar and tea. To men unfamiliar with the life, semi-starva- tion stared us in the face. Aye, even the guide’s rancid whale oil was mighty low; in quantity, not in per- fume. “Chuck sagh-a-lie halo klak-sta kla-awa’’ (Low tide, no one go today) said the squat O’poots glancing at the roaring “‘rip’”’ on the bar. ae Manook” laughed. Laddie , (big buy). This made the Coast =m laugh as thé lad wanted to say, ‘‘Let’s have a big search for food.” So we all set out to fill the larder. O’poots set snares and caught two big young racoons. Laskit filled his cedar bark boiler with eggs from the nests of sea pigeons (gulllimot) sea parrots (puffin) and gulls, these last have red yolks. Laddie Jr., working along a tide runnel, with no tool or weapon save a willow gad, threw out enough oulican to last for many meals and many candles. We followed the retreating tide and while I gathered ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Be ee ee a. the edible laver as avegetable, Ladd Jr.,tookclams, fine big clean ones that _ could run away far below the —— 7% faster, in many cases, than he coul dig with his fire-pointed stick. Us: sing a rude net made of sea-lion sine Wie caught a dozen big blue er: filled — my hunting coat pockets with some small but excellent oysters, good eve a if they have a slightly metallic taste. Six times I threw my baited into a runway and six times I pull d out a fine big cut-throat trout to make the-bill of fare complete; — from a Coast Indian point of vie Ae O’poots came back from the low tide line dragging a big devil fish, one © weighing fully forty pounds. The — Indians cut this up into short sectioz and boiled it later, but very few whit men can eat the grisly, but per- — fectly clean, semi-transparent ten tacles. So my good housekeepers, my lar- der, in a few minutes work, without the expenditure of a single cent, con- | tained a really wonderful collection of fine foods—truly the old saying, “The low tide is the poor man’s table,” is very, very true. Some of this “‘hyas manook’? was in our canoe when we paddled finally into Prince Rupert. 1+ ROM Woodstock, Ontario to Meta- gama, Ontario, a ‘flag stop’ on the Canadian Pacific Railway,—the old reliable road that girdles the earth— is a wee bit over twenty-four hours’ ride. A change in Toronto, another at Sudbury, Ontario, and a short ride after that you are at Metagama. This same ride from Sudbury to Metagama proved a very interesting part of the trip, as the conductor and one of the trainmen very kindly pointed out places of interest along the line,— one spot in particular where a large mass of rock stood boldly out against the blue of the sky, and where a few days previous, a big deer had stood and watched the train roll past on its way to Vancouver the while pass- engers and trainmen admired the big fellow silhouetted against the blaze of a rising sun. At Metagama, Mr. M. U. Bates met Jack and me—Jack by the way is a white collie. He has been as far west and north as the lakes north of the Canadian National at Collins on that line, and as far east as Al- gonquin Park and this trip he is my only companion. Mr. Bates is the C.P.R. agent at Metagama by the j sh sssaones sto Wha seen way, and also the owner of the finest kennel of real born-and-bred-in-the- open, hunting airedales in Ontario, 1124 but we will mention these wonderful dogs later. As we remarked before, Mr. Bates met us and made us feel at home at once. After being introduced to Mrs. Bates and that lady kindly furnishing us with a splendid lunch, we were out and at the business of getting our Lakefield canoe out of its crate and ready to start. A regular nat- ural canal leads almost to the back door of Metagama station. Mr. Bates lead the way in his canoe and the first lap of the journey was simply following the windings and twistings of this little canal; perfectly smooth water, practically no current. We made time as easily as on the lakelets in the city parks and in a short time, we emerged onto Larkin or Metagama lake lying parallel with the C.P.R. tracks at this place, and now the breeze that we could not feel in the sheltered waters of the little canal we had just left, freshened up, and as it was directly in our backs, we travelled the length of this lake with less effort than the first part of the journey. At the end of the lake we passed under the C.P.R. trestle, out through a big bend in the Spanish river that re- sembles a small lake, rapids at the upper end and the river flowing out again a half mile beyond. A turn to the left and we again enter a nat- ural canal waterway, this one as large again as the first. Again we pass under the C.P.R. track and then we are on the last half of our journey. The shore line of this canal is lined with swamp grass for miles; we see beaver signs aplenty; freshly peeled sticks are floating about in a dozen places, and muskrats swim across our bows as the canoes glide silently along. At last, the first portage is reached and joy of joys, there’s water enough to get the canoes through without unloading. Five minutes more of the paddle and we arrive at the second and last portage. Here we have to unload our canoes and make a regular job of it. How- ever, the portage is short and ten minutes beyond the portage is our destination,—a little cabin on the hill above the canal. There in the — = ROD AND GUN IN CANADA fp By a trail leading up to rea pe the track of moose. Two moose ch LV actually walked up the trail a short distance directly in front of the cabin after crossing the creek. The tracks — are probably a week old, but it cea a you an introduction to the country — that makes you feel as if you had really arrived in a game section. If you have any imagination at all you — will know that something, which would make the average horse look small, made those tracks. A bit of lunch disposed of and Bates takes you out and shows you the various trails and a general idea as to where they lead to and in the ~ midst of this you run on to partridge, a half dozen or more of them. The — season still lacks a few days of being © open but there is no open season for the camera and you waste an hour — snap-shooting at them with the cam- era. Then you are shown a beaver ~ dam, and a place where a black bear had marched off with beaver, trap and all. After travelling a short distance tore he the beaver from the trap and made off to the thick “jack pine” jungle avhere he was safe from pursuit. The time passes quickly and fata has to return to Metagama. You travel together to the first portage where he has left his canoe. As he turns the last bend he raises his paddle in the air as a farewell and as you see the sunlight flash from the wet paddle blade and it falls once more to the water to propel its owner homeward, you are aware that you and the white collie are alone. _ As we have mentioned before the distance from this portage to the cabin was not very great,—ten min- utes’ ‘paddling would do the trick, and as the water is practically land- locked, you wonder if there are fish in that tiny stretch of water? With the collie lying in front of you, your trolling rod firmly held across your knees, you paddle back toward home. Right off a big black rock the dark amber colored water looked as if it might contain fish. It was deep here and you paddle along expecting a ee that does e€ not materialize. that settles CANADA 1125 AHO) yz fa =) hg 5 Saute? t Zs | a ~~ 1126 it, that’s about the best place there is in this part of the water and you are rapidly approaching some weeds that show too near the surface. There’s a tug at your line and you think, well, there are the first weeds. You lay in your paddle and proceed to reel in that line. The line is slack and you reel in rapidly as the trolling spoon is evidently deeper than you thought,—splash! Kersouse! and a pike comes half out of the water and falls back and you see a glint of red at his jaw. That’s why your line is slack. Now you reel in for dear life. Mr. Pike is fighting good—these fellows in the cold waters of the north at this time of year give yoursport as well as meat. In five minutes you have him in the canoe much to the curiosity of Jack who can_hardly keep his place in the canoe he is so curlous to examine that flopping creature in the fish box in front of him. You are satisfied now that the fish are there right in front of your door whenever you want them and now you have to get back to the cabin and set things to rights. There’s a bunk to prepare,, pro- visions to open and say those first few meals are a regular burlesque. Ever do your own cooking for a few weeks? Why man, you'll be sur- pised how little you know and what a lot of little things there are to learn and also, what a lot of time you waste. You cut your fingers, burn yourself in the steam from the potato pot and tea kettle, trip up over the fry- pan handle occasionally, to say noth- ng of upsetting the coffee pot off your tiny cook stove just as you were about to get breakfast. Gradually you ‘arrive’ and at the end of a week or ten days you have progressed so far that you can set a table with a wholesome hot meal and have your tea, coffee or chocolate hot at -the same time. It is quite a trick to“c- complish on a small stove, but it can be done, even by an amateur cook if he has patience. Then there was the exploring. Is there anything more interesting than travelling out through the big woods in search of a new lake and after AIS a es ee e * tet ROD AND GUN IN | CANADA ~~ Ve. discouane that lake to7 Sp up ocr little shelter tent on a small island, st oe over night and the ate morning with your canoe go p owling : the shores, ‘just lookin’? We had been told there hed nee been anyone fishing this’ s! trolled all the way round it. “nary” astrike. There mage e ; ne te aga ay there, but if there are, they were not feeding the day we were there. At — the far end of the lake we discovered in a little bay a famous big beaver house, and as it was near what was evidently an inlet when the water was high, we landed the canoe and went ashore, the dog and I to stretchy our legs a bit. Gruntings and rumblings: came: : oka from the interior of the big beaver house and we lay on the side of the — family -~ house listening to the gossip going on inside. Whether the inmates were discussing the probable ~ price of beaver skins this fall or swear- ing about the intruders we could not understand, but true it was they were — doing a lot of talking in the beaver he lansuage. From the lake—after the canoe in the trees—we followed the outlet and discovered more beaver houses, partridges, and then ran across several moose tracks. About this time we began to think of a sack of potatoes and onions that ‘were to arrive by express at Meta- sama and the more we thought of these ‘spuds’ the more we longed for them. Accordingly; one day, a very {ine day by the way, we were out tak-_ iag pictures on the Spanish River— «ve decided to paddle to Metagama ~ id get those potatoes. The trip down was beautiful—a regular pleasure trip that canoe jour- ney, but we did not leave Metagama till quite late in the afternoon. It was dark when we arrived back at — the Spanish, but there was a fairly : good moon and not for many a long day will we farget that trip by moon-' light back up the little canal. There were rustlings and thumpings in the tall grass as we drifted along with scarcely a sound. Once or twice from out of the black shadows came the crash of small sticks and under- ‘hangenes ae Sant oe — a = Zz — 0 a Ed ~ 0 = a RO ig "Phe Anoixopenttor Mie oa three miles of Cre RR, trACKS 1128 growth as some large animal got suspicious Of the canoe out there in the moonlight. Any number of times the muskrats and beaver were within fifteen feet of the little craft. One big beaver from the moonlit water near the shore struck the water a resounding whack! with his tail as we entered a pool, and by the fol- lowing splashings he must have warn- ed the whole clan. Now by all the laws of the wocds and common sense, when you get caught out at night it is far better to camp and wait for daylight than to attempt to, travel in the darkness. When we arrived at the second port- age that night the moon had deserted us, and, it began to rain. Now once across that portage there was but ten minutes’ travel to our very comfortable little camp. We got the luggage all across and then we started over with the canoe. Ever try a strange portage with a canoe on your back in the dark? Well, we got off the trail and could not find the way back. Aswe could not turn the canoe for the thickly growing trees, and as a result we had to leave the canoe in the bush, go out to the beach and build a fire, then it was all very simple, and we made short work of the portage. That little fire was like a lighthouse to a ship amongst the reefs; it showed the way out, and by the time we reached the little cabin, the show, for such it proved to be, was over. It was near the opening of the moose season, in fact, it opened on the morrow, and only two nights be-. fore we had heard a moose grunting and calling down in a swamp not more than five hundred yards from where we were camping. The nights were moonlight and it looked dead easy to get that moose. There was a small meadow half a mile above the camp on the little creek and as it neared sundown we went up there and sat down about one hundred yards away in a bunch of big boulders. Directly across from us two muskrats had a great squabble Over a choice root; a big snowshoe hare got up out of the grass on the marsh and went leaping across the ROD AND GUN IN CANADA dry bed of a little creek to the thickets . beyond. An hour passed in complete — silence, the big silvery moon lighting —_ the landscape like a fairy pictu It was grand, alone with Nature, _ as the great God originally created — it. It is getting mighty close to Go himself for those who care to go and see, in our humble opinion. The hour of this, and then up there on ~” es ay a ie a y* » ae great silence makes you think. An the hill—crash! a dry stick—a good sized stick, by the crash it made in breaking—had been snapped in two. There was not a breath of air stirring. If anything, the breeze or draught of air was from that hill to you, and a~ shot from a heavy rifle would not have startled you more than that $ stick breaking up there. For ers haps five minutes there was absolute | silence, and then, smash! whackety smash! crash! You could imagine now what was on that side hill—Mr. © Moose taking a walk through a place >= \ where the fire had been years ago, — and those sticks you hear breaking are the charred remains of small trees. When Mr. Moose thinks he is alone, caution is a thing he does — not know. He smashes and crashes about as if he owned the universe ~ and truth to tell, he is practically boss of the woods until he runs afoul of the man animal, power rifle. Well, slowly but surely that racket advances straight toward you. Old Jack lying here on the flat rock beside you has his nose in the air and is trembling with excitement. Oh, ye gods! for an opening in that mass of moonlighted jack pine, but it is as thick as the hair on a dog’s back. That moose is not 80 yards away now and.still he is under cover and then he deliberately walks away to the northland and the moose that you were so sure of, has gone for this time atleast. You walk quietly back to the canoe and glide silently down to the little landing and you and the dog have a late supper with an early start next morning, nevertheless. The early mornin’ sees you travell- ing the hills where you had heard your moose the night before. In a thicket just off the portage at the with his high ROD AND GUN IN CANADA = i = > ly ne at toe "supper depend sop Waele aud 1130 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA to get interested in the snow and a glance at his object of interest makes _ you quickly change the auxiliary cart- ridge you’ve been using for ‘Pats’ for — little dry creek, you discover a bleach- ing skeleton, a moose skeleton of the year before, probably that of some animal which had been wounded and got into this thicket and died. Just for proof you collect a few teeth, and resume your hunt and a half hour later the freshly broken end of a small charred tree trunk stares you in the face. As you pause and examine this, you notice the big broad track in the soil below. Here is where the fellow travelled last night. You follow that track for miles. Oh yes, when a moose goes out for a moonlight stroll he takes more than one turn around the block —and then lose it on a large barren place, and after an all day hunt you have to come home and feed the dog and man again. Then the snow comes. _ Eight inches of it falls in one night; then on top of that it turns warm and that snow begins to melt. For two days you take your hunt through the wet bush and do not see anything larger than a squirrel track. The game large and small is all lying in the shelter of their dry thickets. You come in wet and hungry and wonder if the game has all left the country, Your better judgment tells you that anything with feathers or fur for a coat would be mighty foolish to travel in the bush this sort of weather, when every move means a handful or a bushel” perhaps of wet snow . dumped down on your back. The third day the trees have about rid themselves of their load of snow and travelling is quite a bit dryer. Back on the ridges you are sure there’s been a moose in those thickets these wet days, and at the earliest possible moment you and the old dog are away. An all day hunt reveals no- thing larger than a big: buck’s tracks and when you arrive at the cabin at 4.30 p.m. and have a bit of lunch, you notice that old Jack is very busy with something in the spruces and birches just back of the cabin. The whirr of partridges’ wings gives you the tip, and five minutes later you have your first of a pair of partridges. You have scarcely got the second one stowed away when Jack begins the real heavy load. There, fresh in the snow, are the tracks of two large moose. Back tracking these fellows to the creek you find wh here they crossed and after standing a- — round for a few minutes headed up over the ridges in the very direction from which you had just come. It is still mild and the snow fast dis- appearing and it is getting dark so following those moose is out of the question. Then, over night a quick change in the weather freezes your section of the creek. Well there’s your choice, leave your canoe in here for the winter, or set out before the ice gets too thick to move. Four hours of packing and cleaning the — little house up and you’re ready to move. Its lucky for you that you made up your mind when you did for this part of the creek froze up _ early. As you leave you have to break ice for two hundred feet or so before you get open water. The rest is easy, the whole channel all the ~ way to Metagama being open and free of any real ice. At Metagama — your canoe is shipped and you return to your camp with Mr. Sykes—as a suide for the overland trip of about two hours’ walk, three miles of this along the C.P.R. track, and the re- maining distance over a good blazed trail. Mr. Sykes by the way, is Mr. Bates’ partner. They have sey- eral splendid camps in different loca- tions, and keep them well supplied with all the necessary cooking uten- sils, stoves, etc., and—tight roofs. Deliver us from the leaky roof. — For two days we trailed moose over the snowless hills. No hunting weather this; you need a little snow. — On the last day we heard away to the north of where we were hunting, bang! bang! bang! a pause and then, bang-g-g! Fifteen minutes later, bang! bang-g-g! bang-g-g! We knew some one had found them for sure and on the following day when we hiked out on our way back to work, we found the hindquarters of one big moose in camp and were told there 2 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1131 “Moose ee _gpour miles from Lawes yieha enje ie Fee Sn) ic 1132 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Biskotass Lake Neale ; ss ea EB, Branch Spaish Rioew Dead Riyse Indian L abe METAGAMA Game and fish actually HH, Length of Seen at this place. Moose, y\ map about deer, bequer, muskrat.mink twenty five ond hare, partridge and spruceheng 9 © E ice miles noted tracks of hear and fox and welf. io) Prke -Jack fish- Whi'te fish and é lake trout, BAe n Duncan N Lake Vv Pogamasi\ — Lake vv: — 1 E Moe ak Rodsand?Gun's 7) Canad S$ Fish Anda GAmeEeMeR, ROD AND GUN IN CANADA was another down in the bush and the boys were out getting the meat ready for transportation. Mrs. Hart- ley of Chapleau, and Mr. Vance of St. Thomas, were keeping their re- spective camps in order awaiting the return of the successful hunters. Mrs. Hartley had three fine partridges that had fallen to her rifle out of four shots, and after taking a snap of these we proceeded on our journey. Half- way home we discovered two gentle- men from Walkerville, Ontario, fish- ing for pike off the rocks. ther was too fine for hunting and they were after a few pike for the camp larder. Seated in the luxuriously fitted train and speeding back to the daily srind we can close our eyes and dream of the moose, the partridge, and the pike. The moonlight through the tall spruces touches the surface of The wea-. 1133 the little creek with a brush of silver; a muskrat shoves his head up in the bright spot of light and swims steadily away leaving in his wake two long ribbons of silver; an owl hoots away over on the hills yonder and is an- swered by its mate not a hundred yards from your cabin; the tamarack stick in your little heater snaps and sends out a shower of sparks; the fire dies low and you in your dream think of the little house on the hill. Camping out along the C.P.R., believe me or not, is great. The fish and game are there, big and small. It would be superfluous to mention the courtesy of the officials and train- men on this road; that is world-wide knowledge, and for canoeing or camp- ing we can only recommend you to Mr. M. U. Bates. He has ideal locations and you start your canoe trip two hundred feet from where you leave the train. Suggests “Lost’ Dog Department Rod and Gun In Canada: Enclosed you will find “Lost Advt.’ with price to cover same. I am a steady reader of the ever-welcome Rod and Gun and helieve it to be the best of its kind, but I would suggest that more real hunting tales be narrated from the readers, who like myself are a little backward in de- scribing some hunting excursion. I am en- closing a couple of negatives taken near Wcst- port after a successful hour’s sport with Rey- nard. The four foxes in the picture were shot the same morning inside of an hour, one by “Doc” and three by myself. Every fall finds me in pursuit of the deer at McCauley Lake near Egan Estate. I shoot a .250-3000 Savage, which brings home the bacon every time I hold it on the target, and believe it to be the ideal gun for deer, no elevating of sights, no holding ahead of the game, just line up the deer in the sights and it is venison for supper. I have it equipped with ivory bead front with Lyman bar rear with ivory insert. This is the nicest combina- tion I have used, permitting a clear vision of the game at all times and as accurate as any crotch sight when held true. ~ There has been considerable discussion re the use of dogs in the hunting of deer. My opinion is that fewer deer get away Wounded when followed by dogs. I heard a party of still hunters say this fall, that they ought to have a couple of hounds, to follow the wound- ed deer, as they lost a good many in that way, which they knew must die owing to the wounds inflicted. It is my belief that game will be conserved more, by permitting use of dogs, since a dead deer is better than a wasted one. This year our party lost three honuds which must have gone to other hunters. Why does not the Rod and Gun start a registry of hounds, charging so much yearly for the is- suance of a number cr mark of some descrip- tion, so that all clubs may be able to locate stray dogs. Say if a dog comes to camp with No. 7 mark, by turning in that number to Rod and Gun the owner could be located and made happy. © Think this over brother sports- men who have dogs they worship and would hate to lose. Trusting I have not taken too much of your valuable space I wish you every success. I am, Yours very truly, W. D. Stevens, D.D:S. Westport, Ontario, Dee. 10, 1920: THE TRAILTHAT LED 70 hth yp fovncre J r “\ aa Ny mi ‘Ne *: a vi stl a Ny t H| - we i , i lie » aye ea yer i) ‘tit Yuan Re yh i f : . 2 y / "f) Fo d ~ - ‘ ~ Wi ¢ Wh Faz : : ge | x == pee t ss SS » ; Saw Wy, A ax a7, SX ee ey, 7; ss AN Pond . % Ly SES acoust Se eas \ SSS zr ra pe. apps = « . zs Sy Oy Ba i os. SaaS SS ee = F. V. WILLIAMS HE trees popped and snapped with the frost. It was cold, cold as only a night in the big north country knows how to be. Nota breath of air stirring and the stars, the mil- lions of stars as brilliant as pointed daubs of fire in the big blue black vault of heaven looked down on a stretch of country seemingly desolute of all life. Away still farther to the northwest the northern lights glim- mered on and off. In a snow bound thicket down close by the little frozen river the ‘King of the big swamp’ raised his head to listen. Away off to the east and north came the long-drawn howl of a wolf and as he listened it was answered by another of his kind farther to the south. The moon was not yet risen, but the big fellow did not wait for moonlight; if the timber wolves had already discovered his recently made tracks it was time he was on hi8 w ay, and silently he stepped out of the west side of the thicket and walked away up across the side hill opposite. Old he was and wise, this fellow of the fine antlers, and a single timber wolf would have had his work cut out for him had he attempted a scrap with the big deer. But a half dozen Sk eee gray fellows were different, and the — buck instinctively knew there was trouble in store for him should he await the on-coming pack in his pre- sent surroundings. Accordingly | he had started off, but there was no — panic or even a hint of haste in the deer’s movements. ‘Away up across a‘mile long open, snow-covered hill-— side he went and at the edge of the — inky black timber line at the top he — stopped and took a long look back- — ward. Did you ever try travelling - at night through heavy standing timber? If you have not you will not appreciate the cleverness of this fellow as he made his way through that mile and a half wide stretch of timber through the inky blackness, past windfalls and tangle of snow covered underbrush. In a remark- ably short space of time, considering the obstacles to be overcome, he emerged on a fairly open piece of ground sloping down to a ravine on the other side. This slope was but the first of a succession of low hills, and now it was nearing moonrise and the buck quickened his walk. He was over the last open hill and out of ~ sight in the gully beyond just before the moon’s rim topped the trees, And then things began to happen. — Joe Sonson, timber cruiser, and sometime trapper, appeared at one: és angles to the deer trail, on snowshoes, — Mids 7 and he was travelling fast. Joe had need to travel fast. For three days had been held up at the flag sta- tion down the line of the C.P.R. get- ting in a lot of neglected provisions, and in the three days he knew, he felt it in his bones, that he had been losing fur. This morning he had made his start early, knowing the big moon would make the last hours of night as light as could be desired over his route. He noted the fresh deer track, the enormous size and the di- rection taken, but he kept on toward the trap line straight up the ridge. In five minutes he was out of sight and for another five minutes there was an absolute woods silence. Then, like a shadow a big grey wolf suddenly appeared from out the night. He came on with his head down and thrust forward, travelling at an easy lope that covered dis- tance amazingly. Twenty feet. from the deer tracks his gait slackened, he swerved sharply, and sprang ten feet to one side as he nearly stepped PURIFYING DOUBTFUL WATER. Robert Page Lincoln. Water that is deemed harmful to ones health can easily be made harmless by boiling it a matter of one half an hour and then straining it through several thicknesses of cloth. A more simple method can be used, however, which is satisfactory and which will kill all germs of either vegetable or animal origin. A teaspoonful of dilute hydrochloric acid is ' used to every quart of water. The use of stronger acids should never be considered. The acid given is perfectly safe and does nothing to the water save kill the germs it may contain. It is especially desirable that this be used when one is in a region where the water supply is thought harmful to the health. In a limestone region it is generally far better to make use of rainwater whenever that is possible, although rainwater that has come in contact with lead in gutters may be harmful. Rainwater, however, that flows through wooden gutters into a clean receptacle makes the best drinking water to be had. Water that is taken from a faucet can be kept clean by tying two or three thicknesses of heavy towelling to the mouth of it, these cloths being renewed once in a while. This ENR eae ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1135 in a snowshoe track when he rounded the edge of a bunch of small, low bush- es. He paused, stepped cautiously back and forth and sniffed the air ~ curiously as he detected the smell of the deer tracks; then slowly with his mane bristling along his spine and suspicion apparent in every move- ment he advanced to within a few feet of the crossing of the deer and snowshoe tracks. For a full minute he stood and studied that track then with a sidelong glance of sus- picion at the man track, he retraced his steps and his followers racing up the long slope of the hill swerved to follow their leader and raced directly away from the deer track. The King of the big swamp’ had started a trail leading west, circled until it pointed almost due east; and as good fortune would have it, was crossed by the trapper. at the really important part, where the wolf pack would have picked it up. It finally led, as far as the wolves were concerned, to no- where. should be done even where water comes through a filtration plant. ROBINS AND CHERRY TREES. Robins have increased to such an extent under the protection afforded them by the Migratory Bird Treaty _Act that many com- plaints are being heard from fruit growers in different sections of the country whocontend that these birds do great damage to cherries, struwberries, etc. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has on several occasions been requested to issue permits allowing the shoot- ing of robins where they are damaging fruit. Sen. George P. McLean of Connecticut, one of the fathers of the Weeks-McLean Migratory Bird Law, offers a plan which he says never fails to work, whereby the cherries may be protected without killing the birds. Robins have great respect for black snakes. Theu winter sojourn in the South has taught them that-this reptile is very fond of robin meat. Senator McLean says that if you will cut an old garden hose into four-foot lengths and put a length of this in each cherry tree, the robins, thinkiag each piece of hose is a black snake, will give the tree a wide berth. (A. G. P. A. Bulletin.) Dwellers in Snow ~ —— J. W. WINSON HE GARMENT OF spring is green, the robe of summer is rainbow, autumn comes in cloth-of- gold, but winter is snow-white. Perpetual at the poles and on high mountain peaks, rare in temperate seas, absent altogether at the tropics, this frozen moisture is one of the first of Nature’s wonders. Regarded. as the emblem of winter, the symbol of cold, it is greeted by all the seers of “‘out-doors’ as a welcome blanket of warmth! Some scientists maintain that it is never absent from the air, that up in the highest strata o fthe atmosphere, fine ice-particles are forever floating as small but perfect crystals. The summer shower of liquid life, warm and invigorating started as minute ice-particles which joined into flakes as they fell, but melted when reaching the lower atmosphere, and reached the earth as rain. Future aviators may verify the theory but there is one practical observation which gives it credence. The line of eternal snow is at sea-level at the poles, even down from the north to Spitzenberg. From there it slowly mounts the hills. First, there are cliffs which never lose their crown, then only high ridges can remain- white-crested. In Alaska the summer sun can raise the line to 2,000 feet. At the international boundary it has reached about 8,000 feet and further southward the higher it climbs. Down in the tropics no snow is seen at sea level, but high in the Andes it lies eternally above 18,000 feet, a strong indication that it exists al- ways in the sky and that rain is only a condition of warm currents and low levels. The theory is offered that in very high altitudes there is never any rain, but only fine ice crystals, which unite t Ogg, 8! ee ee ee on occasion into flakes of snow, cry- stals such as those on a frosted win- dow-pane. . * * * ous Whatever the theory regarding” conditions in the air, it is certainly the rule that snow makes for warmth below. In localities where it lies all winter, the first fall cushions the ground and all plants and roots are safe from further freezing. Buds may continue their cradle development, and under- ground sapwork goes along steadily. Hibernating creatures use up flesh and emerge weak in the spring; plant — roots use the waiting darkness in gathering strength for the first warm ays. When not wind-driven, the flakes fall softly as if with apology, quietly, and without patter. The crystals keep their lovely forms, the air be- tween them is encaged. Flake over flake is piled light and airy as feath-— ers, fern and grass are slowly bent, bushes keep erect, evergreens catch armfuls and hold until tired. Soon the earth is overlaid with frozen cloud- stuff, white and glistening; no cold or heat can vex it now until the mantle melts. : * * * The burrowing rodents now come on the ground and tunnel through the yielding snow. This is easier work than mining in soil and if their food is now more difficult to find, they have the great advantage of foraging in safety. They are well screened from hawk or owl; any other enemy must tunnel after them, and few beyond the slim relentless weasel will hunt with much success. oS * a Birds seek the last bare patches under trees and lee of logs for food. Some game birds will shelter here but the refuge is insecure, their hunt- ers run to such places first. When these retreats are covered they must take to the trees—or burrow! The instinct which prompts the ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ruffed grouse to go tunnelling is probably but an extension of its pro- pensity to scratch. : It would scratch away the lighter sprinklings that barely covered the fallen leaves and discovering that this white stuff was easily scattered would get the habit of “‘pawing” it away as the reindeer does— to uncover its lichens. If the snow was deep or drifting it would continue to scratch until the soil was reached, then fol- lows the cleared space unconscious that it was mining. As the snows appear, a bristly growth developes on the toes of the grouse, as if it was becoming webfoot- ed. They finish as a feathery fringe, making a perfect snowshoe, enabling the bird to walk on the soft drifts, as well as assisting greatly in the for- aging tunnels. Thompson Seton, that tireless trailer and interpreter of tracks was the first to report this snowshoe development, and it is an interesting -sidelight on the popular-interest now ' shown in the ways of the wild things, that theatrical managers dare offer him $3,000 per week to appear in vaudeville and tell of these secrets! - Travellers and trappers in the sub-Arctic regions have many ex- periences of the sheltering power of - the snow, perhaps one of the strangest is the “huskies” curling up to sleep at night in a snowstorm, and being found next morning by their owners, from the steaming “‘breathing holes” that lead like funnels down to the sleeping dogs now deep in the drifts. * * The use of the snow for shelter by animals and birds may be understood as making a virtue out of necessity, but that insects should revel on snow for their constant existence is some- what astonishing. The snowfleas, though only seen on the whitened earth which they cover so thickly as to darken, are really creatures of the thaw. They are said to feed on the lichens of trees and rocks, and take to the snow only on sunny days, but this is where they are generally found, at_any rate. If the thaw is strong enough to melt into pools, these will be filled with 1137 them to suffocation, while as they hop over the snow they will purple the surface for yards, and when they die they fill the air with olfactory evidence of their decay. Found everywhere from the Pa- cific to the Atlantic, in various spe- cies, at times a nuisance in the east when they jump into the maple sap, perhaps a commonly general name is spring-tails. There could be no bet- ter name for these snow travellers, for it is by the spring of the tail they progress. The abdomen has a horny exten- sion which is curved back under the body of the insect, and when it wishes to move, sudden pressure on this spring-board raises the creature in the same manner as a swimmer leaps from a diving board. These fleas are akin to the fish- mothes or ‘“‘silvers’”’ that are often found in cupboards and drawers. * * * The snowflea is only a fair-weather traveller, insisting on thaw and sun- shine before it ventures far, but Mr. H. J. Blurton of the Okanagan has discovered a species of wingless crane- fly which prefers the other extreme! He has noticed these insects for years when out trapping, seeing them us- ually above the five thousand feet line, in the open spaces near the timber line, where spruce and _ bal- sam grow sparingly. They always travel in a straight line which he considers is a mating quest but when sensing the vibrations in the snow caused by his footsteps they crouch and remain motionless until the vibrations cease. It is only in the coldest weather he finds them travelling. They are absent in the morning sun, but appear if the weather should cool to snow in the afternoon. Specimens picked up and carried in the warm hand would die in a few minutes. If put back on the snow before life was extinct they would revive in the cold! When he placed his warm hand in front of their line of march, the creatures would turn aside from its heat, but would pass over his snowshoes without hesitation proving that they prefer cold to warmth 1138 a fact extraordinary in natural his- tory. * cK * Entomologists were long puzzled over the matings of some more or less common flies that attack animals until they were discovered above the snow line in the mountains of the interior. Hunters and mountaineers have found butterflies even, on the snow fields above the everlasting glaciers. What mysterious migra- tions could these be pursuing in such altitudes? There is minute life, fungoid or animal or insect, which colours the = ROD AND GUN IN CANADA mae ys snow over immense patches, making “red snow’ as we have “red’seas.” The range of wild life seems limit- less. Whenever or wherever we im- agine conditions are too severe, Na- ture surprises us with unusual adapta- __ tions. Much of this strange life is new and uncharted, and experts in biological research are very depend- ent on hunters, trappers, prospectors and other pioneers, who have the eye to notice these wonderful forms and the self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of knowledge to take trouble in catching and forwarding speci- mens to the government authorities. <= The Buffalo Runner . Harry W. Laucuy S HE training of the buffalo runner both man and horse, commenced at an early age. -In the case of the man it commenced when a prairie flower mo- ther sat a chubby coppery kid on the back of a cayuse colt; while with the horse it had its inception a dozen generations before his birth when it was noticed that an ancester, of either sex, could produce a burst of speed. The earliest ambition of a_ half breed, or Indian kid, is to mount a horse alone; first the old _ travois horse, with his blistered back, that can searcely be kicked around; next a lame one, or a gentle mare, and finally a wild-eyed colt. Trained in boyhood and through early youth to ride anything he can catch, he arrives at manhood with a-horse of his own, a part of the horse himself. : The Indian filly that showed signs of speed was carefully singled out. No searing travois ever galled her back, and no kid broke her heart in youth. Culling the dainties from the lap of luxury she became the vill- age belle, more petted and caressed by far than any squaw in camp; her matings and her off-spring were a | study in themselves, but it was only after generations of most thoughtful _ care and breeding that the petted In- dian pony could produce a buffalo runner. pe When the object had been attained, my, the beauty of him, not necessarily large, perhaps nine hundred pounds or so, but that lithe-limbed body of his must contain a frame of steel; must have heart and lung power that would drive an old-world cart horse; an intellect ripened through the by-gone years; an action free and light as thistle down, and a burst of speed like - a swallow on the wing. Petted and pampered to a marked degree, his only time of travail was at breaking time, for no wild arab of the desert wastes demanded more of exact obedience in his horse than did _ the buffalo hunter of the plains. 4 Early in the spring of his fourth year this usually pampered aristocrat would be caught up, and without preamble of any kind a raw-hide — thong would be slipped around his jaw. Now everything depended on the adjustment of this thong, for ~ this was the only harness that would be used. A simple running knot — would be made in the end, and the nose carefully adjusted with the knot on the right side of the lower jaw; the thong was then carried back along the left side of the neck, and the - first operation was complete. Next came the running mount. The pony was encouraged to a walk, then to a trot, and when the desired -speed had been obtained, the Indian, run- ning beside him would spring flat footed to his back. _ That mount alone was a work of art. We see an effort made to dupli- cate it by the “cowboys” in the movies of today, but the Indian mount of the buffalo days was a _ something by itself. Running lightly beside his horse with both hands tangled in his mane the Indian would jump once, his moccasins hitting the prairie grass together; then, aided by volition, one upward swoop and the rider was seated upon his horse. This feat was practised over and over until the pony ceased to shy, and then the lesson was ended, for no two lessons were ever allowed to lap. Next came the breaking to the rein. The stop came first. The pony was urged to a_ gentle run; then with a low, sharp grunt the rider would throw himself backward with a surge upon the thong; the savage grip of the slipping knot would tear away the skin and tender flesh; yank the jaw around sideways close up against the throat, and the pony with fore feet threshing the air would come to a sliding stop. This cruel lesson was repeated until the motion backwards and the grunt alone were _ needed to throw the pony back upon his haunches while running at break- neck speed. We read of the eastern rider who controlls his horse with his knee, and on the plains we have seen the cow- boy ‘‘neck rein” a horse with a skill that seemed uncanny; but the buffalo runner of the early days actually controlled his horse by the motions of his body. __ The method of teaching was this. - Remember the position of the knot upon the jaw. The thong was taken out of the right side of the pony’s mouth, carried back along the _leff _ side of ths neck and held in the rider’s left hand. Now for the first time the 7 / ~~ . _ =ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1139 horse was walked through his lesson; leaning well to the left side, with that arm extended, the Indian would draw the pony’s head to that side, but so gently that the pull of the thong. would not irritate. Soon at the leaning of the body and the extending of the arm the pony would turn with scarce a touch upon the cord, and within an hour would be running free, and responding to the sway of the rider’s body, without the cord at all. To turn to the right the treatment was a little different. The cord was drawn straight back along the same side of the neck while the rider sway- ed to the right; this acted upon the horse’s jaw exactly like a common bit, and responding to the curb and the. swaying body the horse would swerve to the right. When he had been taught to stand, the running mount, to stop, and to turn, his education was complete except for one thing. Those buffalo runners used to divide their time be- ‘tween hunting game and Indians; on the old Dakota plains the Red river hunters might run into a brush with the Sioux at a moment’s notice and on the open prairie it was often necessary for them to obliterate them- selves. To that end the buffalo horse was taught to lie down, and do it mighty quickly when the order came. The lesson was taught in this manner; the right front foot was tied up to a broad strap that was laced around the withers; a hackamore was slipped onto him, and his head was tied back to his tail on the left side; this tended to throw him off his bal- ance, and his trainer could force him off his feet at the word of command, and with very little effort. When this final touch had been given to his education the buffalo horse was.the pride of all the prairie, and was now ready to actually run his quarry. Of the professional hunters there were two distinct types; the dried meat hunter, and the fresh meat hunter. The one hunted close in around the trading post, and traded off his meat as it was killed; while the other went out in the spring, and re- mained until fall, drying his meat and * pounding it into pemmican. The 1140 actual mode of hunting was the sarne in each case so I shall confine myself to a trip of the dry meatmen. In the spring of the year, as soon as the grass was green upon the prairie, the first big hunt of the season was in order. Then, one evening the camp would gather around the council fire and the looser methods of existence would give place to a military dis- cipline. The women and children all withdrew, and the men went into council to elect a chief and captains and to frame a set of laws to govern the hunt. The chief and his ten captains were always chosen by vote, and their word was always law while the hunt was on; they in turn chose ten others who should act as scouts, or outriders; others were chosen to guard the camps at night, and so on until every office had been filled. Then the chief asked anyone who was dissatisfied with the laws laid down to leave the camp, and their failure to do so implied a willingness to abide by the rulings of the council. On the morning following the pow- wow the camp would be broken at the signal ot the chief; the tents and all the fittings packed onto Red river carts, or in earlier days, the travois, and the troupe would pull away to- ward the buffalo grounds. The scouts would be thrown well out in front and on either side; the old men and squaws would drive the carts, while the hunters, riding their buffalo horses would dawdle along ahead. To get an idea of the long drawn out equipment of a hunt of this kind it is only necessary to quote Pere La- combe, the old missionary, where he says, that leaving Pembina, for the hunt in the spring of 1850 there were between 800 and a thousand half breeds in the train. Presently, after several days upon the trail, the advance guard would sight the feeding herd. Perhaps he would be miles ahead of the others, but riding to the nearest hill he would signal to the man who rode behind him; he in turn would pass it back to the next, and within a couple of minutes the ever watching hunters of the band would know that the looked for buffaloswere in sight. Immed- ROD AND GUN IN CANADA a aN — iately the cavalcade would close up 4 ee Magi. $5" ae, and halt, then the hunters, armed for $ conquest, would ride ahead. Behind — the hill nearest to the herd they would © make their final rally and get their orders; then when every last detail had been arranged, and the proper formalities gone through—for the Indian was a formalist always—the ponies would be circled into line, and pawing the grass in their eager haste would await the final word. Then, “En avant,’ and in a single bound they would swirl across the hill top. : This spring initiation in the new year’s hunt was always an event to every hunter. hungry days had been dogging his camp of late, and little or nothing had hung upon the lodge pole. He drew to the rally with a craving for freshly killed meat. Chewing the thong, his pony strained beneath him, while the gnawings of hunger were urging him to the chase. Then a plunge across the hill-top, and as far as his eye could reach the plain was a sea of buffalo. occasion when an Indian could not yell, for his mouth was always filled with big lead bullets; but with rifle in one hand, powder horn in the other and guiding his horse with his swaying body he would flatten him- self out along his racer’s neck, and ride like a fiend of hell. Straight along the flank of the milling bunch he would go swift as a swooping hawk, Lean, and perhaps — with his pony pounding a tattoo on ~ the grass; and here came in the science of the hunt. A _ running buffalo is stupid as a sheep, but after he is wounded he becomes a devil; and many an old hunter’s leg I have seen with a sear from knee to ankle where a wounded buffalo had ripped him open, on account of a careless horse. Racing close beside, but a little behind the buffalo, the hunter would fire at point blank range be- hind the shoulder blade; the big bullet passing forward and down- ward would tear a hole in the heart, or in the lung, and the horse would swing aside at the shot as the wound- ed beast went down. But if he hap- pened to run straight on past the This was one © reeling animal,—a rip of a horn, and his entrails were hanging out. - Running with the bunch, the hunter would insert the nozzle of the powder horn into the muzzle of his rifle, let the powder run while he turned the horn once around, then spit in a bullet, cock and fire. Almost at every jump _of the horse he would drive home a big lead ball, and his trail far away across the plain was strewn with dy- ing buffalo. Abandoning the chase when his ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1141 ammunition became exhausted, and returning along the line of hunt he would find the camp pitched at the nearest water to the centre of the carcass strewn plain, and the small boys racing around on the colts and cart horses butchering, with fiendish glee, any buffalo that still showed signs of life. Pots would be boiling and fresh meat roasting by the time he got back to camp, and stretched in the shade, by the teepee fire he would gorge till his sides were sore. 3 Forms and Properties of Mushrooms POT: T. WARE Lycoperdon cyathiforme-(natural size), edible. I have found this plant quite frequently in stubble fields. p The body of the plant does not rest on the ground as in (L. giganfeum) but it is some- what pear shaped,rounded above and tapering below. They are from two to six inches in diameter, white when young or sometimes pinkish, changing to brown then purple. Like all other puff balls they are only fit for food when young and white all through. The plant has a curious habit of breaking up at the top and when the spores have all been blown away the outer covering is left in the shape of a cup giving it the common name of ‘Breaker Puff ball.’’ HIN The Code of a Hunting Tribe a GEORGE R. BELTON HERE are not many tribes of people on the face of the earth now who live entire- ly by hunting. There may be a few of the pygmy tribes of Africa —who though, small are mighty hunters and live by the chase alone; but their numbers are few and they are going the way of the animals from which they once made a good living. The pot hunter and _ the commercial greed of civilised mam has made it impossible for such tribes of men to exist in any region that can support the race in modern style. But there is still a hunting tribe even in North America: in Canada and under the same flag as the Cana- dian loves. The Esquimo of the north are still a hunting tribe getting their food and their clothing as well as their home furnishings and their utensils of war and peace from their prowess in the hunt. It is reported that of late they are getting high’ power rifles and taking after the way of the white man in killing for com- mercial sale and even for “sport.” What effect this will have upon them as well as upon the game is a matter for conjecture only. Will they go the way of other aboriginal peoples when this gets too far into their blood? Most people will hope not. Yet this may be a break-into their ways and customs that will be fatal to them as communities and even as a people. They had their stern laws before the white men came to them. One of these has been interfered with directly by the white man, according to their understanding of the case: and though they are wrong in this assumption there may be some trouble in the north among the hunting lodges over the matter. Ouangwak, an Esquimo, killed two men at or near Chesterfield Inlet. Now I will not tell you where that is; look it up and get some idea of how far north the laws of your country run. 7 Ouangwak was caught by the Mount- ed Police after a long hard chase, and was brought to The Pas for trial, for that was the nearest court. But no ~ > Ouangwak, Esquimo hunter witnesses were brought that long distance for the trial and the author- * ities ordered him taken back to Ches- — terfield to be tried under the inspector of the Mounted Police there. © When Ouangwak came back to Chesterfield there were murmurings of surprise and indignation amongst the Esquimo who felt their ancient exact sense of justice was outraged. They had their own law strict and stern, and by it the council of old men would have met to deal with Ouangwak’s case and appointed an execulioner to make him pay the penalty. But they had seen the Mounted Police come amongst them with the laws of the land they are adopted into and had left the matter to the “Great White King’’ for dis- posal. Now they see the man ‘brought back and they cannot accept the explanation of Father Turquetil, _ the resident missionary, that he will be tried there and if guilty will be executed. They gave him up to justice and their childlike minds can- not see why he was not killed at once. He had confessed to killing one of these men to get his wife. ROD AND GUN IN. CANADA 1143 Father Turquetil, who recently returned from Chesterfield Inlet to The Pas says he did all he could to explain the matter but fears the Esquimo did not accept his. explana- tion and that the tribe may take the matter into their own hands. They ‘may over-power the little handful of police there and take Ouangwak and deal with him according to the law of the hunting tribes as existing since they were a people in the dawn of human life when perhaps our Saxon and Celt forefathers were under laws and customs similar to those of the Esquimo, hunting in the woods of Britain and Gaul “with their bodies stained by juices’ instead of clothes, Caesar says that, after stating Gaul is divided into three parts in opening of Latin troubles for all students. It will be interesting to see how the hunting tribe ends this matter. Ontario Game Exhibit ; es The Department of Game and Fisheries in the Government Building at the Canadian National Exhibition last autumn, brought convincing proof this year that Ontario is the world’s sporting paradise. While our _neighbors to the south measure their hunting grounds in acres, the province of Ontario measures the vast virgin expanse of practically -unexpiored territory in square miles. _ Lord Burnham and Lord Cave, members of the Imperial Press Conference, who visited the exhibit, expressed themselves in words of admiration at the originality and beauty of the display and at once suggested that the Government take steps to bring this display over to Great Britain for the British Domin- .ions’ Exposition in London in 1923. This, more than anything else, would bring home to the sportsmen of the whole world the possi- bilities of Ontario as the greatest fur market and the best stocked fish ponds in the whole world. The actual demonstration of what the lover of the outdoors may find in a hundred we: different districts with rod and gun eclipses anything that could be accomplished in that direction with the aid of books or pamphlets. Among thelive animals were also several Can- adian black bear and grey and black squirrels. The latter are protected until 1923. The part of the exhibit that hits home to every resident of Ontario, as well as all sportsmen, was the fish showing. Trout from the famous Nipigon waters, white fish and sturgeons brought alive a thousand miles in the province, brook trout from the Ontario hatcheries and a splendid exhibition of black bass, which made the mouth water of all angiers who looked at it. The work and activity of the Department of Game and Fisheries are well shown in the fact that there are over fourteen thousand trappers and over 1,800 fur dealers in the province of Ontario to whom they sell. It is estimated that furs to the value of three million dollars are annually sold in the province. Last year there were twenty thousand hunt- ing licenses issued and the number of licenses 1144 - ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Ontario Department of Game and Fisheries Exhibit at Canadian National Exhibition, 1920, issued to non-resident anglers was 12.000. fish of different kinds, and in the coming year This year the department has restocked _ it is proposed to increase this number by fifty Provincial waters with over seventy million million. ene > RR See eel HIRTY-SEVEN un- nerved French-Can- adian lumberjacks packed their belong- “| ings and with the coming of dawn, they hit the trail—out! For the time being they were Beiotigh with the camp at Mount Laurier. Five of the thirty- seven bore the marks of a combat with an unseen, terrible something. _Five of the thirty-seven— One nightfall Jean Prevost, bruised and bleeding, dragged his two hun- dred pounds of beef and muscle into the sleep camp of the Rouge River Lumber Co. at Mount Laurier and whispered faintly, “Wolf.” Then Jean Prevost fainted. Three dozen excited shantymen, with many “Mon Dieus’” and *Sacres” dressed Prevost’s wounds and put him to bunk. They were mystified. Prevost’s injuries had not been caused by a_ wolf. A _ wolf tears out the piece his snapping jaws strike. Prevost had not been cut up. Rather he had been worried like a dog-worried sheep. The mysterious attack on Jean Prevost was but the beginning of a series of mysterious attacks, each growing in magnitude, each drawing the victim nearer to the door of death. Joe »Duhamel, Vincent Court, Xavier St. Louis, respectively, stragg- ling in from cutling logs back off the Main road, wereset upon. Each at- = > ag | ae? yh {| a Mm OvTTD Cn ii Hl He memati 1 Mit AMIR (C RORATSTREAL > tae as YY Goerettenny, Ih H Wit, Pa TH i i ‘lite ht lig i By Harry Moore ™)) Pe Se ES tack followed the coming of the long dark shadows among the trees. Each attack was sudden—a surprise rush from behind, a one-sided struggle and—and—a strange letting up just when the victim had been rendered powerless. Not one of these men could give the slightest idea as to what had hurl- ed him to the ground. Each one believed that this powerful, quick, supple animal was a monster wolf. But! A wolf tears out the piece his snap- - ping fangs strike. Not one of these lumberjacks had been cut, as a wolf cuts his victim. The men swore bitterly. Inured to hardship on river and in camp, brave, fearless fighters when there was fighting to be done, they roundly cursed this thing that would not be seen by the light of day. They trooped over to the office and told Tom Thompson, their foreman. ‘They threatened to quit. Tom Thompson, the interests of the company at heart, parleyed with them. They must not give way to fear. He advised them to wait. “Tl have a man go out today for poison and traps,’ he told them. The lumberjacks unpacked their bags. They went back to work, but with the coming of darkness each night they cringed with fear and foreboding. They began to show “nerves.” This strange “thing that struck them down without warning 1146 had drawn heavily on their courage. Poison and traps were spread and placed: in every likely spot on the limits, and for ten days nothing untoward happened. During those ten days the injured recovered, fear left them. Tom Thompson stroked his black moustache and smiled. “IT told you we’d get him,’ he chortled. ‘“He’s picked up a _ bait and crawled away somewhere to die. God bless his old skin.” But! Tom Thompson was wrong. That animal was insured against “the killing drugs or devices of man. The cook was his last victim. Striking back to the spring half a mile from the camp at ten o’clock one night, the cook was hurled face downwards into the snow. His fren- zied cries for help, brought the shantymen, armed with axes and peevies, on the run from*the sleep- camp. When they arrived the cook was unable to tell them what had happened to him. With scowling faces they carried the cook into the sleep-camp. It was eighteen miles to a doctor. And no’ one—not one—would ven- ture a trip out for the doctor’in the blackness of night. The lumberjacks applied all the knowledge of treat- ment they knew to. the cook’s in- juries, and lip-locked they waited for dawn. And at dawn— With the coming of the sun, they packed everything they possessed and carrying the revived cook on an improvised stretcher they silently hit the trail out: Tom Thompson’s: tall raw-boned figure Moved among them, “T can’t blame you,” he told them. “Tf I felt as you do about it, I would go too. Prevost, you take this letter to the boss. It will explain why you are leaving. Tell him that if I am not out to see him in two weeks that he better send some one up. I want you men to be ready to come back— when I send for you. In the mean- time I intend to remain here and So probe this thing to the bottom. long!” Long after his men had filed down ROD AND GUN IN CANADA’ Single the blazed trail through the big swamp, Tom Thompson dangled his legs over the side of the handy-man’s — work-bench. He was thinking. A fearless man was this tall, spare, wiry son of an Ontario town. He had been schodled in the lumber and railway camps. an authority. But! For once _ his vast knowledge of the ways of animals offered no solution for the present problem. Wolves were numerous in the Laurentian hills. - days before Jean Prevost had been Devoted to animals, particularly dogs, he was reckoned as — a — kn ban 28S Z ar a ra ihe~ ae ‘ > Just a few | so mysteriously injured, Tom Thomp- _ son had driven a wolf pack from a partially devoured deer at the head y ae Devil’s Rapids on the Rouge. ut! would not, believe that the animal that had undermined his gang was awolf. A wolf does not attack singly and silently. A wolf—__ ‘ Tom Thompson’s brows wrinkled. The ‘solving of this mystery was entirely up to him. Knowing as he ~ did th2 eccentricities of the lumber- jack of French-Canadian extraction, he knew that he would have to re- move this animal or the lumber com- pany would be unable to entice a man back to the limits. When Jean Prevost, Joe Duhamel, Vincent Court, Xavier St. Louis and the cook bared their backs to the inhabitants of Huberdeau— Tom Thompson knew that money could not induce them to return. No! This strange animal must be killed or captured. Proof of its death or capture must be advanced before operations at Mount Laurier could be continued. That afternoon Tom Thompson was on the trail cf the jinx. Two weeks later old Colin McKenzie of Seven Mile Mountain stamped into the sleep-camp and— . Tom Thompson had fully intended to kill the jinx, but Tom Thomp- son’s intense love of animals made killing impossible. To ingratiate himself into the good-will of the jinx, Tom used the charm of the good house-wife—food. — And it was by a careful study af. <3 what the jinx relished that Tom a — ae o- < « i A ae 2) ef Ps ee &s pee ns S rl oe ake Tom Thompson could not, nor — i - recognized the streak—a streak that he knew existed under the skin of every domesticated animal—a streak - that caution, perseverance, love and kindness would develop in all un- tamed animals—a streak that once crossed made men murderers and animals man-killing. It took a lot of perseverance to accomplish what’ Tom Thompson set out to accomplish. It displenished one carefully ‘guarded article of the cook’s pantry. But! It worked! One morning Tom Thompson coaxed the jinx into the office and slammed the door behind it. And that day— Although he had never set ey és on the jinx, Tom Thompson knew that it was but a question of time until - he would. Each night it came down from the mountains for its food, each night it ate nearer and nearer to the camp. Signs were not wanting that - it had tuned its ear to the call of the tame. Tom Thompson discovered one morning that the jinx was begin- ning to hang around the camp in day-time. —But he never could catch a glimpse of it. Sooner or later he knew he would. Ait the first break of dawn one morning Tom Thompson _ first saw the jinx. Stealing softly to the log-wall and removing a “chink’’—just as he had done morning after morning for eight days—Tom Thompson applied his eyes tothe crack. And then— Tom Thompson stifled an ejacula- tion of surprise. Tom Thompson’s _ eyes bulged with wonderment. There —there—before him The jinx wasn’t a wolf! Tom Thompson’s eyes smiled kind- y. Sitting on his haunches, less than twenty-five yards from the building and fitfully watching the lone window, sat a monster mongrel dog. Lean, starved, the poor brute showed the lack of human care, of human affec- _ tion. The terrible condition of the animal was most pronounced when it suddenly straightened up and _ supinely hugging the ground it crept towards the shadows of the woods. Long-eared, slender-barrelled, strong- jimbed, his big powerful j jaws gave the |e a ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1147 lie to any doubt of: his strength. From the place where his neck began to the point of his bushy tail, the dog was protected from the below zero frost by a ‘scraggly, though heavy, coat of long reddish brown hair. That was the beginning of the end —for the jinx.' Three days later Tom Thompson stood in the office . door between the jinx and liberty. And that same day— -That day an Indian breed arrived from.Huberdeau. He had been sent up by the company to find out why Tom was keeping them in suspense. Tom lead the Indian to the office, and pushed open the door. **There!’’ he pointed to the dog crouched in the corner opposite. The breed stepped in cautiously. Then he gave a grunt of surprise. *Why—Tom—that~ dog—- Why Tom, don’t you know that.dog? He belonged to old Colin McKenzie over at the Seven Mile. You know old Colin—the man that beat his wife and drove out his family.’ Tom Thompson’s black eyes flash- ed. That series of brutal occurrences at the Seven Mile was well known to him, as they were well known to everybody in the Mount Laurier dis- aie: 2 ss Tom turned to the breed. “Tell the company, L’Mab, that I have.succeeded in r2moving the jinx and that operations wi!l begin at once. See St. Louis and Duhamel and the gang and tell them to hurry right back. Casually spread it around that I have old Colin Mce- Kenzie’s dog here and I intend to keep him. And. see that the cook brings back with him some sweetened chocolate—I’ve a sweetheart here who must have her chocolate.” Next night the boys came in. They were open-eyed and open-- mouthed. The breed had not told them what manner of thing the fore- man had captured. They wanted to know. Tom Thompson exacted a. promise from them that they would not demand the life of his capture. They were men quick to forget. They were men that any foreman might love. Tom lead them over to the office and opened the door. 1148 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA a bi, 2 er i bi a UAT en ah a “Each attack followed the coming of the— > -mouth. The dog wagged his tail, & Joe Duhamel aes the first. to spot the jinx. a “Sacre!” Joe ejaculated, scratch his head. ‘““That — old — son — of — —a—gun! Why, Tom, # dog—only a dog. Bah! never run from a dog in my be- — fore. Well, well, sacre Mon Di fe. What you think, ‘Tom, is the matte aa | with him? ‘Mad? Crazy?” : Tom Thompson stepped into nes office, his hand made a mysterious — movement towards the animal’s got up, his hazel brown eyes coaxed, he followed Tom towards the men. “Boys,” he turned to them. ““There is no Secret to this. Treat a dog with — kindness and respect and he’ll follow — you to the ends of the world. Treat | him brutally——’ Tom Thompson’s — eyes mnarrowed— “Some day old 4 Colin McKenzie will come in here, — and when he does——” Tom Thombs son’s teeth crunched. And old Colin McKenzie did come. cs It was three days later. Tom was in the sleep-camp giving his men ~ their orders for the afternoon’s opera- tions on a new cut near the river. old Colin picked Tom out and went 3 right to him. “See here, Thonipaoi **-hhe snarled ba his grizzled beard and hard eyes 3 peculiarly matching his round bullet- © shaped head. “I hear Youda ve; my dog. I came to get him.” | Tom Thompson’s black eyes” glis- |, tened dangerously. *“‘T admit that I have a dog,” with | a hard effort to keep his control, “But as to its ownership—well, ‘that must be settled here and now.’ *‘He’s mine!” old Colin snapped — testily. ‘ * Tom Thompson’s_ broad hands 4 rested on his hips. Three dozen . lumberjacks formed a semicircle be- hind him - “Te—was—yours!” Tom drawled sneeringly. “If possession is nine — points of the law, he’s not yours any more, Colin.” Old Colin McKenzie’s fist rattled the timbers of a bunk nearby. : “You'll give him up, Thompson, or yy—” Tom Thompson’s strong han oe Se a - ae ; dropped heavily on old Colin’s nar- Bee mesuider. Tom Thompson’s jaw muscles tightened into ridges along his cheeks. — “Listen to me, McKenzie!” he commanded. “I want to tell you -something.”’ The lumberjacks edged closer around them—the foreman and the old wife-beater. The silence ‘was intense. “One night when it was fifty below a bruised and bleeding, heart-broken and frost-bitten woman rapped at the door of Dame Sarazan’s house and asked medical attention and pro- tection. That poor woman was your wife. Listen!’ Tom jerked old Colin’s shoulder roughly. “‘You had a son. Where is he now? In Ste. Schol- astique penitentiary. What for? Not for the crime he committed, though that was bad enough, but for the crime you committed when cursing him as no good you brutally kicked him out scantily clad into the biting - frost of a midwinter night——” Old Colin jerked his shoulder from . under Tom Thompson’s hand. “What in—-has all that got to do _ with my dog?” ‘Tom Thompson’s hand leaped the intervening space. His strong fingers tightened on old Colin’s collar. © “Don’t say your dog!’ Tom warned him. “That dog is not yours. You deprived yourself of his affection, his undying loyalty to you when, like your son, he was driven from your door. You starved and abused him. Poor old fool that you are, how could you expect that your son or your dog: would turn out well. He was only a dog—a poor mongrel. I'll admit that much. Yet a dog has a streak _of humanity about him. You crossed that streak. What was-the result? That poor mongrel returned to the wild of his ancestors. He was en- raged and bitter with just cause at the treatment accorded him by one _who transgressed all the laws of God and man. That dog soured on hu- manity. He was not a killer, though. Time would have driven him to that stage—eventually. He preyed on: -Iny men, he did it with human in- -telligence, doing so under cover of -darknessZand striking where and - > i are oa Re is oe: less a as ROD?AND GUN}IN CANADA 1149 —= ———————— —— = —————— SS SF = SS | eS) iD eerie = ~ - ——— ———— —— ee, — —| = ‘ame = SS = = — = _————— =a = — Pee rete renee —————— —— )\ 7 ee SE ————— 4 - [ = oe eae : —— RR tee. +S ve U tht , is = = — i - SASS a —— = ——— ee r= <= - — = = —— SS 3 SS a = == —— i << === SSS = ae he —— a i —= = Se —=_ SS — —— SSS Ss ' i, i i —long dark shadows among the trees. 1150 when he was Jeast expected to strike. Poisons and traps, he had become accustomed ,to all these devices at your shack—”’ Tom Thompson clear- ed his throat before proceeding. “I re-tamed that dog. He is my pro- perty. What better claim can you advance that he is yours?” Old Colin McKenzie’s eyes ap- pealed for sympathy from the silent circle of faces. There was none ap- parent. Old Colin’s head dropped dejectedly. Tom Thompson’s fingers unloosened on the old man’s collar. “The trail leads direct to your shack, Colin,” —Tom Thompson sug- gested. ‘“‘Better hurry along.” Old Colin slowly paced towards the .door. He stopped. His head straightened up. He turned to Tom Thompson who was watching him closely. “Forgive me, Tom,’ Old Colin shot out his hand. .‘‘Forgive me, Tom. It is the first time I ever asked forgiveness from God, man or devil.” Tom Thompson’s lips opened with ROD AND GUN IN CANADA surprise. Colin McKenzie was tr § velling westward towards the Long — Silent Trail. How soon! Tom Thompson’s hand went out involun- — tarily. ; reac “Keep up the good work,” he said. Old Colin’s right hand and tear- — moistened eyes were directed up-— wards. ON, Serene “Tf God gives me time, I'l] make amends. You have taught me a valuable lesson, Tommie—a never- to-be-forgotten lesson. Good-bye.” And the jinx— The jinx—the lumberjacks hu- morously christened him that—be- came once more the obedient, devoted _ friend and companion of man. When the camp broke up in the spring and Tom Thompson was leaving for home, thirty-seven French-Canadian. © lumberjacks followed him to the station to see him off and they — hugged and kissed the jinx when they parted with him as though he were a fellow being,—which he was. ~ -- * * Hungarian Partridge in Alberta Attempts have been made to establish European gray-legged commonly called Hun- garian partridge in many different sections of -the United States. These attempts have generally resulted in complete failure. In some instances the birds have held their own for a time and slight increases have been noted, but we have never heard of any section where they have become well enough established to consider the experiment on entire success from the standpoint of the shooter. Experiments made in Canada have shown far better results. We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. Fred Green of Calgary, part of which is as follows: “The Alberta Fish and Gume Association of Calgary started the importation of foreign game birds in the year 1908 and in all has liberated about one hundred and ninety-five pairs of Hungarian partridge. These birds were liberated about five miles apart in five and ten pair lots in a circle approximately twenty-five miléS in diameter. “*The results which have been attained are far beyond our fondest dreams. These birds have multiplied and spread out so that they ~ are now found in all directions from Calgary. Some have been noted as far as one hundred and seventy miles from the nearest point — where any birds were liberated. Ea pd “We have-found this bird, which weighs — about thirteen cunces, is very prolific, fast on the wing, and 1s a splendid bird for dog” work. It prefers the farming communities and is invariably found on plowed fields and stubble. I think I am well within the limits of the truth when I say that there are more — Hungarian partridges in Alberta today than there are prairie chickens.” a’ ee As Alberta has long been noted for her prairie-chicken shooting, these European — birds must surely be firmly established. The fact that they have thrived in Canada, where they have generally proved a failure in the ~ United States, leads us to believe that a study — should be made of the conditions under which the birds have succeeded in Alberta. These — European partridges are a valuable addition — to the game resources of any section, as the are prolific and hardy, and it is possible that they may yet furnish real shooting in northern — states. h i ae re eS es? SN” ee tea A Week’s Holiday in Muskoka G. J. ConrBEAR FL had seemed such a long way; -§ I was-anxious to reach my des- tination, and the express train had seemed to move as slowly as a heavily-loaded freight’ would , have done. The time-table which I consulted every few minutes showed that we would be there in eight minutes, and I had my valise ready at hand to jump out the instant the _train stopped. I had been away from my old home where we used to: have such merry times before we moved. I had worked hard all winter, and the greater part of the summer so that I would be able to take this trip and have a week’s fishing in my old home in Muskoka. I was anxious to see ‘the dear old village, the dear old folks, and all the dear old places where I had wandered, and fished, and hunted and done all the other things nice a good healthy boy so loves to 0. All through the winter I had looked forward to this trip. And in my mind I had gone over the old fishing grounds, recalling the times when I had landed the big black bass that were then so plentiful in Mus- koka. I expected that the place would be greatly changed, but still I could not help thinking that I would yet be able to get good sport and lots of bass. All day I had been sitting or lying on two seats of a first-class passenger coach, watching the scenery drift; and watching the time-table to see how much longer it would be before I would reach my station. Now towards evening it had_ staited to rain torrents. I am rather fond of rain usually but just at that time I hated the sight of it. I had told Uncle that I~ would be there, on Monday, but I had been delayed and now it was Wednesday. Uncle’s house was more than a mile from the station, and I knew that the roads - would be a mass of mud, and I had brought no -rain-coat or rubbers. What should I do? I would not likely be able to hire a horse and the one small hotel was closed for the time being. ; The train whistled and slowed down, then it stoppgd, and my med- itations were cut short in the usual hurry of getting off the train. I was just going to dive into the shelter of the little over-turned box of a station to get out of the rain until I decided what to do, when I heard a friendly and familiar voice say: “Hello, Jack, come around this way; I left the horse around behind the station so it wouldn’t be frighten- ed of the train, here, put on this old coat; it isn’t much to look at but it will keep off the rain.” Well, in about two minutes we were going up and down hills as fast as the old mare could cover the slippery road, and with pieces of Muskoka flying in every direction from~the wheels. A few minutes later we turned at the gate and drove up to the back door. There was a rushing noise inside the house and the next. minute Auntie and four girl cousins burst out of the door and showered me with questions about how everybody was at home, and all the other usual questions which are asked upon seeing someone who has been away a long time. I hoped it would clear up, so that I could go fishing the next day and in fact all the week I was to stay there, but in spite of all my wish- ing, it rained heavily the next two days and part of the third day. However, the third day about three o'clock, it stopped raining and ap- peared to be clearing up nicely. I have always believed that* the fish would not bite very well after a rain; nevertheless I borrowed Uncle’s fishing-pole, dug about twenty worms, got into the boat and rowed around to the narrows where the fish used to abound. . I rowed up to what had been the best place of all for bass; where there 1152 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA was a small eddy just below a straight cut rock about two feet above the water, and a large pine tree hanging far out over. This same pine tree had caught and firmly held many a youthful fisherman’s hook. Indeed one has to -be very careful or he will have the same luck. I started in feverish haste to slide a worm on to the hook, but I found out right, then that I wasn’t going to have any luck. Instead of sliding on as it should have done, that worm divided itself into many small pieces and fell or went squirming up my sleeve. I was not going to be beaten, by the failure to put on one worm; so I took another one which was short and fat- and looked as if it would be good. Well, this worm had an altogether new set of tricks from the first one’s. Instead of breaking itself into small pieces the moment I stuck the hook into it, it merely stretched itself about six times its original length, and in doing so made itself as thin .as a darning needle, and as soon as I had it on the hook it contracted to its original length again. That meant that I had to put at least five . inches of worm on the hook to cover one inch of it. But I persevered and finally, with a triumphant sigh I threw the line out into the stream. O delirious. delight! The cork float hadn’t fairly settled on the water before it headed for the bottom as if there were a whale tied to the hook. Say, I gave that line a pull that would have jerked the whale out if it had been on. But instead of the vicious resistance which I expected the line just came out of the water and flew high in the air, and then to add insult to injury curled itself lovingly around an over- - hanging tree. With a strong feeling that I had been betrayed I went to* work with mind and muscle to extricate the hook which was firmly fastened about ten feet out from the*shore and it seemed to me about twenty feet above the water. I worked hard for about a quarter of an hour trying to induce it to come down, by giving it quick jerks with the pole fromias, many ~ ‘me to slip and scare all the fish out of different directions as I could think of. The hook just simply refused however, so I came to the conclusion that there was nothing for it, if I wanted to fish any more but to climb out on the tree and chase that hook down. Taking a good look at all the roots to see that they were firm and hardy, I crawled out, and after many risks of falling into the water, and soiling my clothes, I released the hook and was just going to jump on it to teach it better manners when I remembered that that might cause ele the lake. When I got back on to terra firma I examined the hook and line to see if they were damaged. Then I saw why the float had headed for the bottom in such a hurry. You could- n’t expect a little cork out of a vinegar bottle to hold up a two-ounce stone could you? In my eagerness to get the line in the water I had not noticed that the owner of the line had for some reason tied a_ stone weighing at least two ounces on to the line by | way of a sinker, and I can’t deny that it answered the purpose. About five minutes later I again threw the hook into the water and anxiously waited results. It lay on the water for about one minute then bobbed under. But I was not to be deceived again, this was just some more trick play of the hook, so I did not even pull it out. os However the next instant when the float dived--and stayed under for a longer period I could not resist the temptation to see if there was any- thing fooling with the hook. I soon found that there was, for when the line came out, there, hanging on the end of it was a very small and in- nocent-looking sunfish about three inches long. And the little brat had taken all the worm. Needless to say I took it off the hook and then watched it struggle back into the water without even attempting to stop it. Then I threw the hook into the water again, farther — out this time, and picking out the softest piece of rock I could find, stretched out comfortably and let my mind run on thez;days ofzlong ‘ago. I Sent over many of my fishing experiences again, one in particular when I had come down here alone at night and caught two bass each over two pounds. It had been just such a day as this, and no one else had cared to go fishing. I was not quite sure whe- ther I wanted to fish myself, or not. However, I had thrown in my line and sat down to wait. I had almost given up hope when I felt a jerk on the pole, and the next minute I[ had a large bass wriggling at my feet. A minute later I landed another to match the first, but after that I couldn’t get a bite. So I had gone home quite content with life. Just as I was thinking of this pleasant little incident, I saw my float disappear in a hurry—and stay under. Then I exerted a little strength on the pole and landed a bass that weighed at least a pound. I had been expecting no less than a two-pounder but this would make a start. gsAfter that I got bites aplenty but all from sunfish or perch too small to take the hook, but big enough to eat the worm as fast as I could put it on. About five o’clock when I found that I had used up all the worms, I went home. _ I told Uncle of my poor tuck, but he just grinned and said the fish were mostly all fished out of these lakes. “However,” he said, “last year I got ten two-pounders in about two hours up at the end of the lake at the mouth of the river; if you would like to go there, why, we can both go and maybe | between us we can catch something.” Of course I was agreeable. So the Mourning Doves in Newfoundland __ A very interesting discovery of bird life in Newfoundland has beer reported by Mr. W. A.. B. Sclater of St. Johns. Writing under date of 12th November he states:— “It might be of interest to you to know that ‘about the middle of October, two birds were sent tome foridentification. I found these to be a male and female mourning dove. The Ba =, ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1153 next day at two o’clock we started out for the end of the lake which was about three miles distant. We got there in short order, and after anchor- ing the boat we immediately started fishing. We got bites by the hundred but all from sunfish or perch. Several of these we pulled out and kept after deciding that they might make good eating even if they were small. We roamed around all over that end of the lake and away up the river, all afternoon trying to scare up a big fish, but nothing worth while would bite. About six o’clock with thirty sunfish and perch abeard we went home, and I didn’t want to do any more fishing just around there. We went to work-immediately on -our arrival home and cleaned and scaled all those little pests of fish. Next morning we had them for breakfast and they really were very nice tasting little fish, but owing to the amount of bones in them, I ‘decided that it was not very pro- fitable ‘fishing. I did not get another chance to go fishing, and I was not quite so an- xious to do so either, although I had thoroughly enjoyed the exper- ience. Four days later I bade farewell to Muskoka and all the folks for the time being. But I promised them and myself that I would return again as soon as I got the chance. I hope next time I can find some little nook where the tourist fish fiends have not penetrated and there enjoy at least another hour of real good fishing where the bass take the hook and fight for it. female was too much shot up to be preserved, but the male was in perfect condition and it is now at a taxidermist’s being mounted. “These are the first specimens of this bird seen or taken in Newfoundland. I think they, must have been driven by the late storms across the Gulf. They are indeed beautiful birds. They were in company of curlews and golden plover when shot.” The Ghost of Fairy Lake eo GORDON HILL GRAHAM WAY up in the Mus- koka district, in the Northern part of Ontario, is a little body of water known as Fairy lake. On the farthest shore of the lake in a small clearing, over- grown with weeds and underbrush, is the ruin of a log hut. Doorless, windowless, with the walls crumbling and the roof falling in, it is a picture of decay. The superstitious Indian trappers and hunters thereabouts shun the spot. They say that it is haunted, and prefer to camp, if need be, on the mosquito-infested swamp on the other side of the lake rather than spend the night on “Gregg’s Farm.” Big Buck Peterson, one of the bravest of the backwoods guides, once tried to spend a night on the farm. When he came back the next morning he was pale and looked as though he had not slept much. He did not tell what he had seen on the farm and somehow or other none of his companions cared to ask him. They noticed, however, that for many nights afterwards Buck would draw closer to the fire as darkness set in and would never leave the camp after dusk when near Fairy lake. One night when he and I were in camp alone Buck told me this story. “Guess you’ve heard qf me goin’ to pass the night on Gregg’s old place,” he began. ‘“‘Well, there’s a story in that if you'd like to hear it. It'll explain why I don’t like jack- fishin’ or doin’ nothin’ else after dark on Fairy lake. Wan time that little clearin’ was the makin’s of the urtiest little farm in north Ontario. am Gregg came here with his young wife—he had married a girl from the south— bout fifteen year ago I reckon. There was no other house for miles ’round-an’ he intended to take up more land later on. Well, he took his land by ‘squatter’s right’ an’ a thinkin’. - started clearin’. For a time things went good with Sam. By the time the second kid come, he’d cleared five acres an’ had raised one good crop; ‘sides this he’d laid up a little by huntin’ an’ trappin’ in the winter months. “Then his luck changed. When the third little baby come his wife died. Sam was miles from a doctor an’ so the baby diedtoo. It broke Sam all up, it did, for he was terrible fond of his missus. Bein’ winter it was three weeks before he could bury her, but then one of the boys happened along an’ between them they managed it. They made the grave way out on a little point, where Fairy lake was purtiest in the summer time. Sam said that his missus used to like the place. “For a long time ‘after that Sam kep’ to hisself with his two little ones; ’bout five an’ six they was Im He wasn’t neighbourly, the boys that called to see him said. He used to spend his evenin’s an’ spare time sittin’ by the grave with his two little girls, just thinkin’ an’ dreamin’ like. They said he was just wrapped up in the two kids, special in the eldest which favored her ma. They called her Violet. Her ma had been a city girl an’ liked them high-falutin flower names better than plain Mary or Jane, which was good enough for the likes of us. T’ other little ’un was just called Baby. -** Tong about Christmas time one year, Sam’s axe slipped when he was_ cuttin’ timber in the clearin’ an’ he got laid up with a cut leg. So far’s we could learn from Baby, he was sick abed for a couple of weeks. “The day before Christmas there was nothin’ to eat inthe house. Sam_ bein’ sick couldn’t walk good, an he darén’t trust his little girls out in the woods ‘cause there was wolves about. Finally he must have made- up his mind to go to some place where he could get food, or else p’raps he wanted to do a little shootin’, “cause ~ * ma S skins onto ~" ROD AND GUN IN CANADA he warned his two little girls to stay home till he come back, an’ w rapped them up in deer skins to keep ’ em warm. Then he took his gun an’ went out. He must ha’ been power- ful weak, ’cause we seen after where he used his gun for a crutch, just a little ways from the house. The butt marks was frequent in the snow, an’ deep as though he had leaned heavy onthe gun. Just after he had gone, Violet told her little sister to stay where she was as she was goin’ to follow her father, *cause he was sick an’ might need her. Seems she’d promised her mother somethin’ of the sort, fore she died. “Well, Sir, to make a long story short, it seems Sam, bein’ a good woodsman, must ’a heard somethin’ followin’ himan’ turned ’round to see what it was. An’ then,’—Buck paused and sat looking silently into the fire for a few moments—‘‘Then —You see, the little girl had the deer her, an’—an’—well the Good Lord knew best. She was a purty little girl an’ a good little girl. P’raps that is why the Good Lord allowed it to happen, an’ made it sudden an’ painless. “Sam walked back an’ We seen afterwards from his tracks that that was all. He stood still for a minute or two an’ then threw his gun far off into the bushes. Then he walked the ten miles to my shanty. He didn’t need a crutch; he didn’t know his leg was sore. “I didn’t know it was Sam at first when I seen him standin’ out there in themoonlight in front of the shanty. He was old an’ his hair was white. * “Come with me!’ he said. “T wondered what was up, but my missus seemed to guess. It’s the childer, Buck’ she says. So the three of us tramped back, Sam leadin’ ~ an’ sayin’ never a word; seemed like he was walkin’ in his sleep. Us two was somehow too scared to talk. “When we came up to Violet, lyin’ there peaceful an’ quiet in the snow, with her pretty little baby face smilin’ up to the sky, the moon seemed somehow to shine a blessin’ on her little head an’ made her golden _ hair shine as though it was daytime. looked.. My missus an’ me knew how it was. There was a whole story there that didn’t need no tellin’. *‘Sam gripped his hands in front of him, hard, an for mebbe two min- utes he didn’t move, only stood there lookin’ at his little girl, so white an’ still. She had been shot right through the heart, an’ only a little dark spot on the snow beside her told that it wasn’t sleepin’ she was. My missus leaned her head against me an’ was cryin’ softly. I stood still lookin’ at Sam, wishin’ to God that he’d cry or do somethin’ *cept stand still an’ shiver like that. Bimeby he seemed to know what it was all about, for he lifted up his hands over his head an’, turnin’ up his face to the sky, he cursed. “I sent my missus to the house to see if the other baby was all right. It weren’t no place for a woman there—an’ I aint religious at that. Then I tried to peacify Sam. He didn’t seem-to hear me an’ when I talked to him he looked at me but didn’t see me. Finally he seemed to shrink into an old man again an’ callin’ in a voice that was full of broken-heartedness ‘Is there a God?’, he dropped down beside the little dead girl an’ buried his face in the snow. **T left him then an’ went back to the shanty. Baby was all right an’ the missus was feedin’ her with milk that she’d brought along, think- in’ that it might come in handy. * ‘Is it Kissums yet?’ -the kid asked. ‘Violet said that tomorrow would be God’s birthday, an’ that we'd all be happy an’ not hungry.’ “My missus was. cryin’ her eyes out an’ couldn’t answer, but I said as well as I could, ‘Yes Baby, it’s Christmas today.’ *“ *An’ I aint hungry now—an’ where’s Violet an’ Daddy?’ she said. I went out to look after Sam. “He wasn’t lyin’ where I had left him an’ neither was the little girl. I followed his tracks through the bushes till I came to the little point where the grave of his missus was, the place where the lake looked purtiest from, an’ where Sam an’ 1156 ‘ROD AND GUN IN CANADA I cry that I heard that Christmas Eve his little girls used to sit on the summer evenin’s. “Sam was lyin’ on his back with fifteen years before. I didn’t hear no words mind you, just a cry like his head on the grave an’ one arm acrostit. With the other arm he was holdin’ his- little girl protectin’— like with her head restin’ comfortable on his shoulder. . “« “Sam!” I says. ‘Sam, come into the house for God’s sake!’ But he didn’t answer. Sam was dead too. ‘“Now sir, it’s the livin’ truth ’m tellin’ you when I say that the night I was fool enough to take up Black Pierre’s dare, an’ go an’ stay on the farm,—that night I heard the same what a man would give when his heart was breakin’ to pieces with a sorrow that he couldn’t bear. — No, ’twas no animal; no animal could give a cry likeyon, an’ no man that heard it once could ever forget it. Saget ‘Why didn’t I tell this before? — Well the boys would have said some- thing or other about it some time p’raps, an’ Baby might have heard of it. Baby’s my girl now—mine an’ the missus’s. She’ll never hear how her father died if I can help it.” The End-of a Day W.-C. MotTLey HO, as he wends his way homeward along the dusty pavements, through evil smelling streets and jostling city ciowds, has not longed for a sojourn in the mountains—far from the ignoble pretence of being something which he is not? Deep down under the veneer with which at times he attempts to hide the best that is in him lurks the hunger to cast it all aside and live as the Creator intended—to revel in the great out of doors. far from the maddening scramble which men call civilization. As I write this, I see the towering peaks oi the snow-capped mountains extending for countless miles all around me. The sun is slowly sinking in the west and alreadythe deep shadows are gathering in the valleys, hiding, who knows, how many woodland tragedies. The waters of the “‘Pool” reflect the pine clad hills on the broad surface of this mountain gem and three fishermen are busily casting the dainty fly in an effort to tempt the wily trout from the unfathomable depths. But even here the hand of capital has intruded. Just to the east, at the foot of the falls, the hugeturbines of the power company spin in countless revolutions to supply electricity to the distant towns. The mighty Kootenay pauses for an instant only at man’s puny efforts to turn it from its course, then flows majestically on its way to join the mightier Columbia. To the west, the power-lines stretch lke long tentacles, carrying the mysterious force which science has stolen from nature. Indeed, as though in wrath at man’s presumption, the ~ storm gods of the peaks hurl bolt after belt of crackling flame at this intrusion into their — domain. The winds reach down from the hills and snatching giant trees from the earth, — hurl them across the lines as though in protest — at this desecration of their home. Truly, man with‘all his science is a puny thing in ~ ’ comparison to the irresistible forces of nature. At present though, Nature seems to be in repose. All is peace. The twinkling stars appear one by one and the snow-clad peaks, but a moment ago clad in gorgeous pink, are slowly changing their evening dress to one of — sombre purple. The moon peeps slyly from — behind the mountains and in the distance, a lone coyote howls, the one discordant note in the wilderness. The boats are gone, and on the opposite shore, a light twinkles . as the fishermen depart with their catches. The last embers of my camp-fire are flickering iow and as I write these few lines, I am. impressed with the wonder of it all. 4 a : PE. Ste x Ds ty Vie wes Nee a ie you are viving your own muscles and eye cer- tain necessary improvement, but your own skill never makes up for defects in the gun. New rifles have faults. Never yet have I seen a rifle in “factory condition” which did not need to be changed somehew in order to oe 1160 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA make it as dependable or as handy as it ought to be. In three or four or five numbers of Outdoor Life Magazine, of Denver, Colorado, a prom- inent hunter has been telling a most unusually interesting story of his hunting trip in the far Northwest. He carried along two rifles of a popular make, and he bought his am- munition in a city he travelled through going in. When he got to his selected hunting ground he found that about one cartridge in ten would go off with a good resounding “bang,” reasonable promptness and a fair degree of accuracy. The other nine gave hang-fires, misfires, weak explosions and wild strikes. He credits the trouble both to rifles and to ammunition. That is what happens when you fail to do your own testing before the starting day, and long enough before to provide for remedying any trouble that you locate. In 1916 the writer got his ammunition supply for Ross 280 as usual, about six weeks ahead of open season. On trying it, the bullets struck all over a 15-inch circle at 90 yards, whereas good ammunition in the same rifle had struck inside a 2 or 3-inch circle at 100 yards not many days before. That ammunition was sent back, was exchanged by a courteous deal- er in those goods, and new ammunition once again demonstrated fine accuracy. One other little thing was found, however—the new am- munition grouped four or five inches away from previous sighting. That sight adjust- ment made, we were ready for the woods. One possible explanation of part of the trouble with the two rifles mentioned is that the firing pin points or strikers were not long enough. Several years ago a new rifle of this same make was secured by a man in Wash- ington, who tcok it to a range there to try it. It would not fire at all. Investigation dis- closed that the firing pin point was too short. It was taken out of the bolt, heated, hammered to lengthen it between a sixteenth and an eighth of an inch, and after that it did its full duty without a failure. The only hunting rifle I have ever seen come from a factory with a trigger puli that was really satisfactory was a Ross 280. It’s sear works over a roller, and fit of all parts showed that care had been taken at the factory to make the pull right. A Savage 303 once was bought which had a long, heavy, rough drag. Resort to screw driver and whetstone resulted in a light pull with instant let-off. It worked splendidly—until cne day a cartridge was thrown in its chamber in a hurry, lever was was closed hard. Model 1899 Savage trigger action is peculiar in that it has upwards ~ of three eights of an inch of engagement. If — you cut the ends of the s off too — leaving engagement of only an eighth of an inch or less, you get the result mentioned. — Consequently, while the pull of this rifle’ can be much improved, it can never be made very “@ short or quick. a" Another Ross 280 always worked a little light on the trigger. One year its trigger got so light that a cold finger or gloved finger would fire it before a touch could be felt. Cleaning oil off the slanting engagement face of sear, and slightly roughening it crossways with sharp edge of whetstone made a world of difference without increasing the pull asi agreeably. a Savage Bolt Action rifle calibre 250-3000, has a peculiar long dragging trigger which | : some profess to like, but which is bound to ~ cause Many a Miss uNless much improved. — By glancing in under the rear end of bolt when closed, and working the trigger a little, one can see that engagement of sear and block on bolt is lengthy. To smooth this pull, polish the engaging faces with a fine whetstone — followed by emery powder on a cloth. To shorten it, cut down the block on bolt or the sear, either one, until just the required amount of engagement remains. How much that should be, can be determined only by test. Put the parts together often toward the last and try the pul!. Don’t make it too short or too light. It will go off itself- sometimes if — you work it down too far. ; Cn the models 1886, 1892 and 1894 Win- chester the pull can be made very smooth and quick. The job takes time on account of necessity of removing screws to remove trig- ger and sear, and takes care on account of danger of getting the pull too light to be safe. Winchester Model 1895 rifle has a loose trig- ger. It swings back and forward for a quar- ter inch or so in front of its engaging position. — Two of these rifles have been tried, both of which had good smooth “‘let-offs.” On one the loose motion was taken up by fastening a little flat spring in trigger guard in front of trigger by means of a small screw. To do it, one strew hole was bored and tapped. There - is no doubt of the improvement made by te | taking up of lost motion. a Remington model 12 rifle; 22 calibre, is ‘is hard to improve in trigger pull. One of these a rifles as it came from the factory hate yes e, weighing up to 8 or 9 pounds. Attempts to - whet or to grind down notch in hammer or : end of trigger or sear resulted in getting too ~ much done, and ihe gun would go off too easy. _ The trouble was remedied by getting a new _ trigger, which happened to fit so the pull was just right. It would have been best to take hammer, sear and trigger out and send them to the factory, with an explanation of the’ trouble. Factory could have tried several triggers, and finally could have selected a shorter or longer one that worked better. Springfield army rifles, model 1903 are sup- posed (on target ranges) to have trigger pulls weighing at least three and a half pounds. As they come from the armory, they often pull much more, pull rough, and have a long drag. It is rather easy to whet down the eNgaging parts, and to smooth their faces until the pull is snappy, oily and light enough, while keeping them perfectly safe. We have _ made it a practice to whet down the sear ra- ther than the bolt block, because if the small ‘part is spoiled it costs less fo replace. It is worth knowing, however, that a part cut down too much for safety or to meet the rules in one rifle may be just right in another. Ex- changing parts for those in another rifle there- fore often saves trouble. Put the parts together often as you whet down the engaging surfaces, and test the remaining grip by press- ing upward on firing pin head with your thumb. If rifle remains cocked after you press the bolt up and jar butt on floor, it is entirely safe. It pays to improve the butt-stock of a rifle. Few factory stocks are what they ought to be. They are poorly shaped, too short, with too little drop as a rule. One man with a 38-40 Model 1892 Winchester missed game persistently until he lengthened his rifle stock from 13 inches, or less, to fully 14 inches. After that he could hit what he wanted to on quick shots. A 405 Winchester recently was lengthened fully an inch with muck benefit to its shooting. A soit rubber pad was used. It absorbed some of the sharp recoil as well as provided length. A 30-1906 Winchester was lengthened, and at same time provided with more drop and with a quarter-inch of cast-off, by making a new stock out of native walnut. Its owner always was gun-shy when he used the old stock. Now he has recovered from that entirely, and shoots well. A 280 Ross was lengthened with advantage by adding a quarter-inch under the butt-plate. Sole lea- _ ther was used io: the purpose. Checking stock and other parts often helps ROD AND GUN IN CANADA “per cent. better. 1161 rifles that are so smooth they slip in your hands when you try to handle them with gloves or mittens on, particularly when you wear wool. One such rifle was checked over fore end and over grip, and the Steel butt- plate as well was ridged. It gained a good deal in quickness of first shot. Trigger also was ridged up and down after the pattern of one or two high-priced bolt-action rifles not- iced. That made trigger touch surer. An- other small item that helped a Model ’95 Winchester carbine was to straighten out the butt plate. It was too curved, with project- ing corners almost like the regular so-called “rifle’’ butt plates. It was taken off and ham- mered flatter and straighter with the result that when wood was cut to conform, recoil was not nearly so noticeable. Sights of course are the most frequently changed item. Factories are supplying bet- ter sights than they did a few years ago, but so far none have furnished anything but open sights. The first real rifle ever owned by the writer was a 303 Savage. One day I missed a big wild turkey on a fair snap shot. There- upon I immediately proceeded to squander the considerable (for me) sum of three dollars for a Lyman rear sight, and thereafter old round-barrelled Sally and I usually brought the answer. This article is not intended to preach about which sights are best, but just to tell the story of what we have done. That original Savage was finally fitted with a Lyman No. 5 front sight, which has an ivory blade interchange- able with a black bead in a ring, which made a pretty workable combination. When that rifle was discarded, Marble and Sheard gold bead front sights were used for several years on other rifles, but they always seemed to have a tendency to blur in sunlight, and they appeared poorly outiined in certain lights and against same objects. When V-M sights first came out, they were tried with rather astonish- ing results. Groups seemed to be almost a half smaller. Definition in al! lights and on all manner of objects averaged a hundred For nine years past we have been using home-made V-M front sights of steel, as well as Marble’s V-Ms, and they con- tinue to demonstrate their claims to better definition and better average accuracy. A certain amount.of experience with ivory bead sights on a couple of rifles has been ac- cumulated at the same time. When face of an ivory bead is straight and square its clear- ness against game usually is excellent. Its blur sometimes against a target, but that is => A em ee | Z Tay Sheed 1162 a place where blurring can be forgiven. At the present time, all the rifles in the home gun cabinet are fitted with V-M front sights or square faced ivory beads. Our rear sights invariably are of the peep type. One thing we insist on is windgauge movement in the sight. The only rifle not so fitted is a 45-70. All high power rifles require side adjustment of sights for different kinds and lots of ammunition. The Lyman wind- gauge stem No. 47 has been used with satis- faction, as well as the Lyman No. 30%, with windgauge in base. On 405 and 30-1906 Winchester rifles Lyman No. 41 and Lyman No. 38 are used; on Springfield and Ross, the excellent Lyman No. 48 On Marble extension base sights are used, with Lyman No. 47 windygauge heads brazed to their stems. Proper sights double a man’s chance for killing game. increase in accuracy Which makes the differ- ence, for very fine groups can be made with almost any open sights under good condition. The advantage comes in getting sights set more precisely where the rifle shoots, 1n gett- ing sights that suit the eyes and purposes of man who uses them, and in better visibility where light is poor. Value of ammunition wasted in adjusting crude open sights often will pay for the very best windgauge peep sights—and when vou have adjusted the rifle once, you are likely to have to do it over again as soon as you buy another lot of cartridges. Value of game missed, and of time you spend finding it, will buy a new gun, not to mention new sights. Open sights have been improved by filing the notch big enough so that the front bead can be seen full. A clean-cut open sight with proper notch has almost. equalled a peep sight in satisfaction, but not quite, especially in fast shooting and very fine shooting. In connection with sights, it is important to learn trajectory and at 100 and 200 yards, ROD AND GUN IN CANADA two rifles” It is not so much downright , = 4 " > i J te J ete Se i - group size your rifle will make, time of flight _ (as measured by your eye), alsofall of reduced _ much your bullet falls, or where it is going to strike at any range, you are hardly in condition — to guarantee results at running game. Shoot at distances you step off, then mark your rear sight with a knife in a.way you will not for- get. To determine group, shoot ten or more ~ shots at one mark without going to look. The result will show you what you really depend on doing to game. Stiff actions can be made to work smoothly and easily by dusting them with powdered emery and then working them freely for a few minutes. We have smoothed up a stiff. Springfield bolt that way, and a Model “95 Winchester action that worked like a thresh- ing machine before, but now, works like a charm. A new Savage bolt rifle is waiting in a. corner now for its dose of this treatment. Sometimes one can pick up an old rifle with a smooth action and a beautiful trigger pull, and have a new barrel fitted. Barrels are apt to be ruined by wear of muzzle in careless cleaning, as well as by rust. But new bar- rels are very cheap compared to prices of new rifles, and when one has an old rifle fitted with a new barrel, he has something better than a new rifle, because he does not have to do a lot of trigger fixing and other adjusting. More than that, it is still possible to get new barrels for many reliable old rifles which are now off the market. Thus the Winchester 45-70 is no longer made complete, but barrels can be obtained. It has been our experience that it pays to spend a little money in equip- ping ourselves with reliable and suitable rifles. That does not mean to pay outside prices to every profiteer who offers some doo- > loads if you use them. Until you know how - o dad” for a rifle, but it does mean to fix trigger pulls, sights and stocks, smooth up actions, make sure magazines are feeding certainly, check smooth hand-holds, and work over in general every rifle bought new. It pays to do this in advance of going into the woods. A Talk on Revolvers % M. NEELY HE worn-out subject of the .45 Single Action Colt against the latest patterns by the same firm and Smith & Wesson, keeps being revived by one and another of your correspondents. In the November issue of Rod and Gun, there is a letter from ca Chas. E, Hastings, inquiring what you mean when you reply to a form correspondent on the subject in this way “TI do not believe it (the S.A. .45) will prove as good a target wea- | ROD AND GUN IN CANADA a pon as some of the other models of Colt and S. & W. Arms which permit of a cleaner and shorter sweep of the hammer.” Surely this does not require explanation. Anyone who has used the old-time .44 or .45 S.A. knows that the stroke of the hammer is much longer than in any of the best weapons made to-day. This may be seen by placing both models at full-cuck on a table. It will be at once noticed that the hammer of the old-timer comes much further back than that of the others, and of course has further to travel in it’s fall when the trigger is pulled. I think, to, that most of the latest revolvers have a sweeter trigger-pull. The majority of gun cranks seem willing to advance with the times. If anything new is brought out, it is tried, discussed, its good and bad points are brought to light, and if it proves to be an article of merit, it is ac- cepted without question. Not so with some people and the old ‘Peacemaker.’ They swear by it at all hazards, when at the same time it is known that much handier, better sighted, and consequently more accurate weapons are in daily use. We have known some good targets to be made with S.A. .44 and .45 with 714” barrel, ’ but this was done by men who used the gun almo.t daily and fired thousands of shots in a year. The great drawback to the .45 was its heavy recoil_—we have noticed beginners - flinch under it so much they were actually afraid, and it is doubtful if any of these would ever become good shots, with that weapon. The .44 was somewhat more pleasant to shoot, and in my opinion made better targets; but, a man had to do a lot of work with either of them to become even moderately successful. When we read of what the “‘Cowpunchers”’ and ““‘badmen”’ of past days have done with this gun, let us take it with a very big grain of salt. Books of fiction are written to sell, not to state facts, and most of those relating to the cld-time west are full or flaring exag- gerations with regard to the shooting abilities of their heroes, We read them, we enjoy them more or less, at the same time knowing that much related therein—is overdrawn. Take the shooting “‘stunts” of one “Hopa- long Cassidy” as related in the closing chapt- ters of ““Bar 20,’’ a book written by Clarence C. Mulford,—read it, and then imagine any- thing like this taking place in real life. Against this we place the experience and opinion of such a man as the late Col. W. F. Cody, whose western experiences covered practically the whole of his kfetime. He lov- 1163 ed guns, and would discuss firearms and shoot- ing for hours on end. When asked whether the .44 or .45 Colt was preferred by most men, he said —‘*‘It didn’t make any difference, just what we happened to have at the time.” He admitted that old-timers could not shoot as well as the gun-men of today, simply be- cause they did not have as accurate rifles, revolvers, and loads. He claimed that Cap- tain Hardy and C. M. McCutchen of to-day can out-shoot the best of old-timers. Frank North was one of these latter, and was looked on as a Wonder in his day. Some of these men of the past had one splendid quality—they were willing to give the credit of being the best gunman to the other fellow. Captain Hardy, who was an excellent marksman says that Col. Cody was the best shot from horseback the world has ever seen. Coil» Cody willingly gives the palm to Frank North, among old timers, as the best revolver shot under any conditions he had ever seen. If we are to believe the literature written about mén of the old west, ‘“‘Wild Bill’? stood as a peer among gun-men, both for quickness and accuracy. But Col. Cody, who knew him personally for many years, said that he had seen very many men who excelled him on these two points, men who were probably forgotten the moment they were dead. We must not forget that those men who’ were proficient with the .45 SeA. in the past, Swore it and used it daily, chiefly because their lives and safety depended on their being able to use it quickly and well. Today, we do not require to carry weapons for safety-sake and- few oi us use them as much as did the mean of oid frontier days. Personally, my choice of side arms are the Colt .38 auto Military model with 6” barrel and the Colt .38 Revolver with 6” or 714” barrel and target sights as supplied by the Colt Co. I have yet to see anything to sur- pass the latter for handiness, reliability and accuracy. The “New Service” Colt taking the heavier cartridges is an accurate shooting weapon, but it is doubtful if it could be used for as many purposes as the old Single Action with- out a serious breakdown. The latter was built for a certain type of service: the rough use Which was inseparable from the daily life on the frontier, where repairs were hard to obtain, and a breakdown meant the purchase of a new gun. But these days, are past. The automatic seems to be more in demand than the revolver, and will, no doubt, ere 1164 long take it’s place entirely as 4 weapon of defence. While writing this a neighbor has dropped in to say that he had just bought a new gun,— a .25-35 Carbine. which he expects to use in bear-hunting sometime soon. This would-be Nimrod has never spent a day on the moun- tains or in the woods in his life and has never shot out of anything bigger than a .22, less than 50 shots at that. When told it would be well to have a little more experience, and a ROD AND GUN IN CANADA bigger gun thaa the .25-35 before facing a probable grizzly, he still fondly believed that with his present experience and his little gun, — he was fully equipped to meet the worst that came along. before the Editor of Rod and Gun, and 1 want you, Sir, to tell this fellow candidly how many grains of wisdom you think he has packed away. I showed him a.405 Winchester which I thought would serve him better, but he declined to see the merits of the larger gun. Exceptional Scores and Targets EDITOR E believe that it would be a good idea W to print, each month in this depart- ment, several exceptionally fine scores or groups made by our friends and subscrib- ers. The writer is- particularly interested in groups that are made from 50 to 100 yards, especially with .22 calibre rifles as this is a sport that is bound to grow in this country. It is also possible to print 50 to 100 targets full size, which cannot very well be done with long range targets. This Department will, therefore, welcome exceptionally fine targets or groups of any kind that hawe been made by our friends and subscribers. ° In sending in your targets please give a full description of the weapons and ammunition, and something of the conditions of the shoot- ing, written in the form of a short article so that the other readers will appreciate the class under which the exceptional score sent in was made. We prefer groups of from 7 to 20 shots each. Five shot groups do not con- tain enough shots to eliminate freak groups to any appreciable extent. Please bear in mind that we must insist upon one condition being observed, and that is that all of the ranges must“be accurately measured. Groups made at ranges that are guessed at or paced will not be printed. We believe that this feature of the department will prove very interesting to many of the readers who like the old turkey shoots and who are very much interested in fine target shooting. We believe that several months of this practice will bring to light some exceptionally fine groups. In case some of the readers are not familiar with what are actually considered good groups at various ranges we might add that groups larger than 1 to 144 inches at 50 yards, 2_to 24% inches at 100 yards, or 4 to 5 inches at 200 yards are not worth sending in unless the groups is exceptionaliy fine with the exception of one shot. - ee . ee ee we ah Ae ° ye ty 71d eae : ’ A 1168 Reply—I would suggest that you would re- load your ammunition with short range loads rather than to use an auxiliary chamber with pistol cartridges, as the results would be much more satisfactory. You can obtain reason- able accuracy with the pistol eartridges, but not sufficient for fine target shooting. It will be impossible to tell you which notch on your rear sight will change the sighting of your rifle by 100 yards except by actual trial. I would suggest that you would try the rifle out at from 50 yards up to the limit of range at which you will use it. Shoot several shots at each range and be sure to shoot them from the same position and if possible, with the same amount of light on the sights. The changes of light will cause a large amount of difference in the grouping of the shots. Editor. Editor, Guns & Ammunition Dept. : Please tell me what are the standard sizes of targets in Canada for use with the 22 rifle at 25, 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 yards respec- tively. I am using the Savage N.R.A. 22 ‘rifle, which will handle all of the above ranges. I notice cartridges advertised as “N.R.A. Cartridges.”’ Are these the same as “Long Rifle.’ If not, what is the difference? Where can I purchase targets ready printed? C. H. James, Regina, Sask. Reply—It is customary to have the ten ring of the 25 yard target, 14” in diameter; the 50 yard—1” in diameter; the 100 yard— 2” in diameter, and so on. I do not know of any standard targets for 150 and 250 yards ,excepting the C-4 target which is used at 200-250 yards. N.R.A. cartridges, are long rifle cartridges manufactured by the U.S. Cartridge Co. and Peters’ Cartridge Co. and are so loaded to give a higher velocity than their regular issue of long rifle cartridges. You can obtain targets, free of charge, from the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn., or the Remington Arms Co. Inc., 233 Broadway, New York City. When you write to them tell them the ranges at which you will shoot. Editor. Various Rifles For Moose. Editor, Guns & Ammunition Dept. I would like to know the velocity and energy of the .33 Winchester Rifle, Model 1886 at 200, 300, 400 yds., using the 200 grain soft point bullet, Winchester make ammuni- tion. ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Boece 2 using the copper cased bullets as they’ give less metal fouling in the barrel than Remington shells with nickel bullets. ? Which shooting. at long range—300 or 400 yards, is the better moose ou Savage Featherweight or .30-30 Witte Which bullet would you choose for moose _ =_ . LJ 5 vate pe Va = PS waa Motte’s paste, applied on a rag, will also help to remove the fouling. This can be obtained ; from O’Hare. However, I have found that the vigorous use of a good steel brush will nearly always take out the metal fouling— _ irrespective of it being copper or cupro-nickel. Editor. SHOOTING HARES. Editor, Guns & Ammunitoin Dept. One Saturday last fall in company with - four friends, I left Brantford, Ontario, on the Grand Valley Car for a day’share hunting. After Teaching Paris, Ontario, we started out over some stubble fields.. walking along about 15 yards apart. We walked over several fields without result when suddenly a big hare . jumped up about 10 yards to my left and ran down the field. My friends were all young sportsmen and became very much excited, and all of them fired at it without getting any results. They all felt very much down- hearted about losing the first rabbit, but I cheered them up and told them not to make so much noise as there were plenty more of them in the vicinity. After walking about 50 yards down the same field up jumped another hare, so I took a shot and knocked him over at 40 yards. I am writing you this letter pa elpally to let sportsmen know what kind of shot touse ‘ when hunting hares. I have seén some fel- lows use No. 2’s or 3’s._ That’s all wrong be- cause four of my friends saw me kil] a 12 pound hare at 83 yards with No. 5 shot. I use _ Eley’s Grand Prix shells and I will back Eley’s ‘shells against any shells on the market and I _ have used all of the other makes in Canada and the old country. I believe that the best size of shot to use for all round shooting is No.5 or 6’s. We bagged five splendid hares on this afternoon’s shooting and-were back home at 5 p.m. I would like to hear front some other sports- men as to their experience in hunting hares. , A. E. Howting, Brantford, Ontario. “‘Revolvers or Pistols For a Surveying Trip.” Editor, Guns & Ammunition Dept. Would you mind giving me a little “‘dope” on the capabilities of the Colt Auto .45 Govy- ernment Model using the 200 grain bullet as recommended for this arm. I would greatly prefer your statements re- garding this pistol than those of others who may be interested in exploitation of this model pistol. << . "eS a 4 Ra eo. ROD AND GUN IN CANADA £PAL First: is it a more powerful arm than the “New Service .45” using the S. & W. .44 Special or the Colt .45? Would the Auto .45 have equal penetration ~ in animal tissue as well as equal shocking power at 50 f{t.? If unexpectedly confronted with a black bear at this distance with no other arm handy, would it be advisable to go to a finish with this weapon? If so, where would you advise placing a shot or shots? Are there any other revolvers or pistols than the one drawn for comparison, more powerful and having greater shocking power than the Colt .45 Gov. Auto Pistol? Is this a useful arm to take through the Canadian far North woods on a scientific survey, not a hunting trip? Could you re- commend a better one? C. A. MeMahon. Reply—tThe revolvers, pistols and cartridges that you mention compare ballistically as follows: 45 Colt Automatic, 200 gr. bullet, Muzzle Velocity 910, f.s., Muzzle Energy 368 it. lbs. .45 Colt Automatic, -230 gr. bullet, Muzzle Velocity 809 f.s., Muzzle Energy 335 it. Ibs. .45 Colt Revolvers, 255 gr. bullet, Muzzle Velocity 770 f.s., Muzzle Energy 336 ft. lbs. 44 Special, 246 gr. bullet, Muzzle Velocity 755 f.s.,, Muzzle Energy 305 it. lbs. I would prefer the .45 Colt Auto to the revolvers mentioned unless you Wish to reload the .44 Special with reduced loads for shooting ptarmigan, grouse and other birds. I do not have very much faith in revolvers or automatic pistols for killing big game and it is very seldom that a black bear becomes dangerous even when wounded. Ii the op- portunity presented itself I would shoot for the base of the ear as it is a most deadly spot to hit in North American animals. I am rather inclined to believe that you would get better results by choosing a Colt or Smith and Wesson revolver shooting the .38 Smith & Wesson Special cartridge and use a variety of hand-loaded ammunition. For most pur- poses a .22 Colt Automatic Pistol or Smith and Wesson target pistol would do very well as long as it is not necessary to kill anything large. Use the hollow point, high velocity ammunition if you can get it. One advantage of the .22 would be that the ammunition weighs much less than the aver- age larger calibre. The actual danger from black bears is practically nothing when you are on a surveying trip. Ifa dangerous situa- 1172 tion presents itself you undoubtedly should have a high power rifle as a revolver is too uncertain except possibly in the hands of an expert shot. Of the big revolvers mentioned ROD AND GUN IN CANADA I would prefer the .45 Colt Auto as it is easier to shoot accurately and besides the gun is” easier to carry. ‘ o - Editor. 2 ~ Sear Amateur Fly-Tying RoBERT PAGE LINCOLN Chapter III. Leader Tying and Testing N the two chapters already printed we have considered the manufacture of gut for leaders and directions have been given for the coloring of same suitable for use in various waters. I shall in the present chap- ter take up the matter of tying leader strands together to make the whole, it being presumed that you are willifg-to do this yourself; that you have purchased your gut for leaders in the hank; that you have colored them since you cannot buy colored leaders, to the best of my knowledge, on the market. I have previously stated that leaders for trout fishing can be made either level in calibre (which is to say of the same thickness throughout), or it can be made tapered, the back portion of the leader being of heavy gut. the middle por- tion of medium gut and the froat portion of a finer gut. By following up these latter direc- tions you attain to what is called the tapered leader. If you have never used one in your fishing you have missed something for there is ‘no doubt but that casting ability on your part is increased in a manner that it would be hard to set down on paper.but which is a known fact. line, the heavier portion is back acting upon the lightef forward portion forcing it much as does the crack of a whip. Gut, as stated, comes in hanks; the gut pieces are twelve inches in length; these are tied together to make the whole. Not all the gut’ strands in a hank are of value, therefore select the best and eliminate the useless. To be able to tie gut strands together it is obvious that they must be soaked in water heated to a degree that is a trifle more than lukewarm. This softens the gut and the strands can be connected without any trouble. ee ee (Drawings of the various moves made in tying leader strands together and making other loops and knots are of course a necessity. The illustrations that go with this article are The same is true of a tapered — reproductions taken from the elegant book — by Charles Zibeon Southard, “Trout Fly — Fishing in America’ a book which I believe _ to be one of the most interesting ever put out — and which should be in the library of every angler. The drawings being flawless, there would be no use to improve upon them; in ~ fact they are the best drawings ever made of — leader knots and loops.) & 5 a : 5 To connect two leader strands together we . have for use the single surgeon’s knot and the ~ double surgeon’s knot both of which are useful. > Of course a glimpse at the two drawings will be sufficient to show how this is done. In the - single surgeon’s knot the two ends of the _Jeaders are laid together and the tie is made. In the double water surgeon’s knot one simply FIG 2 Single Surgeon’s Knot. slips each end through the loop once more and then pulls it tight. Probably no knot for tying leader strands together is equal to that known as the single waterloop knot, also known as the single water knot, also as the fisherman’s knot. Turn to the illustration for an idea how to go about this. It will practically explain itself. Figure I. of the illustrations shows how the two leader ends are laid to overlap. Figure 2 shows a'loop thrown around one end and then a loop thrown around the other after which the two are pulled tight together. - Figure 3 shows the result. But the claim is fia 28 FIG 2 Double Surgeon’s Knot. laid against the single waterloop knot that the ends cannot be clipped close to the knot without it coming up. Therefore some prefer the double waterloop knot, which see. It is the same as the single waterloop knot save that instead of throwing one loop around the leader, two loops are thrown. It is then pull- ed tight and the result is a firmknot and it is _ possible to sever the leader waste ends close to the knot without it coming undone. For - Iny part I have never found anything wrong a ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1173 with the single waterloop knot. True, there may be some points: against it, but not im- portant enough to lose sleep over. Generally in trout fishing three flies on a leader are used.. There are some who prefer to use only one fly and the use of one fly of course is a practical necessity in dry fly fish- ing. For wet fly fishing the use of three flies call their attention to the fish more speedily where one fly would, in the sense of things, be lost sight of. It is, therefore, necessary to have loops on the leader to which the fly snells are connected. As shown in the illus- FIG + Single Waterlock Knot. tration the leader dropper loop is made by bending the down-end of the gut and laying it to the other leader end as shown in Figure I. Then as shown in Figure 2 a simple knot is tied and drawn tight as shown in Figure 3. It will of course be interesting to the beginner to know how far apart he should have these. dropper loops; say a distance of forty inches from the tail to the middle fly; and about twenty four inches between this one and the hand fly. That is about right. -- There are several methods of connecting the line with the leader. The jam knot is one that is largely used which note in the illustra- tions of the various moves. The jam knot HIG , ES Double Waterlock Knot. is a good one and it will stay put, but there is another one that is known as the tiller hitch that 1s an exceedingly good one in that it can be readily pulled apart in a twinkling and readily re-tied again. On all scores the tiller 1174 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA hitch wins. Mr. Southard gives an idea of the tiller hitch in his accurate illustrations. For my part I have an improvement on this that I think is much safer. In the illustration: “tiller hitch improved” a glimpse will tell you how this is made. This cannot be up-set when it is once tightened, where, as I have discovered, the other one may. You will make Leader Drooper Hook. no mistake by using the tiller hitch for it is one that should be used by all trout anglers in making line and leader connections. The leader end loop is very easily made as shown in the illustration. It does not need to be explained in words for the various moves explain themselves. For attaching the leader to the fly we have the jam knot again which is shownin three illus- trations. And then there is not to be forgotten the famous turle knot, which also see. The turle knot is by far the most desired knot that the angler uses and is especially in demand m dry fly fishing. The drawings of knots listed Numbers 6 6 vias The Jam Knot. 10, 11 and 12 are some that were especially favoured by Mr. H. P. Wells. A glimpse at Number 10 will practically tell you how to go about it. You slip the leader through the —eye of the hook, throw it around the hook shank, then up on the other side and through. _ That is all there is too it: it is then pulled tight. At first glimpse this “knot” will ap- pear woefully insecure’ to you, but there is a place for it, for it can be said of it, that only under certain circumstances is it reliable. Have you ever stood on a stream with a desire within you to use a smaller fly than ~~ those you have been trying out? “You have — then discovered that the eye of the fly hook — was small and it was very nearly impossible — to connect the leader with it, try as you would. Of course you were able to slip the gut through the hole, but to make a knot that you could easily untie was another matter. The illus- tration (Number 10) is a knot for use on small- eyed fly hooks only, as, where the eye is large FIG The Tiller Hitch. ° it will come undone. But for small hook eyes it is a reliable one. It wiil not pull out. To undo it, all that you have to do is to push the spare BE downward and you have nogut end to clip off as eternal waste. In Number 11 we have a simple knot for a hook having a larger eye that is always reli- ~ able. Unlike Number 10 which goes around the leader shank one time, the gut is thrown around the hook shank two times in Number 11 and then drawn tight. Still another method is shown in Number 12 which is another good knot, the spare end lying par- — allel with the shank of the hook or the body of the fly. All spare ends of gut in these three knots can be clipped down to leave a quarter of an inch protruding which will not TILLER HITCH IMPROVED in any sense of the word interfere as alarming the fish by creating any unnatural aspect to the fly. : In the directions and illustrations contained in this chapter you will have no trouble in ~ gaining your end; the knots are true and tried ~ ones; have been tested out under all condi- — . eee i ~ tions of water and are trustworthy. But as should be noted only selections from the best gut out of a hank will suffice to give you good work and reliable leaders. Gut that is flat, scaly or with inequalities along its length cannot be counted on for any service and it is better not to attempt leader tying unless good EL SY: - Leader End Loop. gut is had. brittleness which, when bent may cause it to splinter and fray. Personally I have a method for safeguarding the life of a leader and if it is followed out the best of results is to be had. It simply consists of soaking the leaders for at least twenty-four hours in glycerine; glycerine having a tendency to soften the animal fibres. In fact some of this on the pad of the leader box or in the fly-book is of a very great help and should not be lost track of. Another point that is a great help is to rub down the leaders occasionally with a piece of chamois skin. This keeps them clean and adds to Jits life as you will find out. ( “a = FiG t FIG. 3 Knot attaching leader to fly. When you have tied your various leaders they are by no means ready for use for they must be tested out toseehow much strain they will stand. The leader is again soaked in lukewarm water until it is soft and pliable. Then place one of its loops on a hook above you and hook in the spring balance at the other. Now pull, and, as you pull note by the marker how many pounds it will stand » ROD AND GUN IN CANADA pounds pull it stood at breaking. Gut when dry has a tendency to” 1175 when it breaks, Now take the leader down and carefully re-tie it and paste a slip of paper around the coil, writing down on it how many This will lead you right when you are ready to use it in knowing just which leader to select for the fish in the stream you are after. I have never tested a leader by jerking it between the hands. Mr. H. P. Wells recommends this method, saying: “This can be readily and satisfactorily done Co SO The Turle Knot. without other appliance than the angler’s own two hands. Seize the line with one hand and the leader about a foot beyond the line with the other. Then give two or three smart jerks. If it stands, test the next foot or so in the same manner, and so on down to and including the tail-fly. Be careful to have the knots, which are the most to be suspected parts, between the hands—that is, each hand should always grasp the leader between the knots. PRU etc, Itis, therefore, best to know your leader before you count too highly on it, and this refers not only to the leader you tie yourself, but to any of the leaders that you buy. And never immerse or soak leaders in hot water. It simply rots them and they lose at least three or four times their strength. As Wells says, and which J have found out through a particular experience in this line through my own tests: “Keep your gut from hot water except when dyeing, and then let the expo- sure (when dyeing he means) he as brief as possible; and never use an untested leader, no matter how great your confidence in its strength may be.” It is for this reason, by the way that one should have a spring-balance always along with him in his outfit; and when going out on the stream. Any well-appur- tenanced sporting goods establishment will supply you with just exactly what you want if you mention it. It should be understood that when one tests out a leader with a spring balance he is exerting a steady strain without any let-up. No fish ever does this; therefore the leader always is in the adv antageous position. If ale a trout when hooked could exert a . dead and the line were connected to an immovable object, we would have something to compe ee with the spring balance test. But this is not so. Back of the line and the leader is the | resilient, giving and taking bamboo rod and the hand of the angler feeding out and taking in line as the fish fights. Also a fish is never still when captured, but must plunge this way — and that in the endeavor toescape. —_ + A leader that will stand a dead pull test ‘on? four and one half to five pounds is suitable ~ for most trout waters, for, while there are trout being caught that go over this weight, such captures are most assuredly restricted to. waters known for their large trout as in the - Nipigon and the Steel River district, in a_ number of the waters of Quebec Province and — in some of the Maritime Provinces of Canada; though most of the sea-run brook trout hardly — ever go over five pounds weight. At that a_ » five pound fish is something to conjure with — and should have a lot of fight in him tle out of any water. Mr. H. P. Wells quotes from a correspon- dent to the old Forest and Stream Magazine as having made the following tests of the pull of brook trout when captured. In the dead water of aswift stream it was found that: — Abrook trout Olb. 100z. pulled.......... 16 oz. 5 OMT ee tee 2 F 5 0z. Ms gape! S pacewet, bo): bene pee 9 oz. = SL a In pond fishing: bes: | A brook trout 12 oz. pulled ....00..0.0c 14 0z. ¢ oD OBS sn Seale meas ‘ri OL ae 60S OSE 1807) 0 2002. — _. In rapid current: ; , Abrooktrout 1lb. 9 oz. pulled . Abn Re aE aa a5 2 Ibs. 12 0z. — te pars Reser NL “ .Albs. 40z. — bs

v5 be 207.75 In comparatively still water: 4 A brook trout 3 Ibs. 4 oz. puflled ......4 Ibs. 8 oz. (To be Continued), Minnows to'be.Used as Lure in Ice Fishing ROBERT: PAGE LINCOLN O make a minnow to be used as a lure that will travel around and around in the water horizontally, by merely pulling on the line connected to it, is a device that is useful in ice fishing er in spearing through the 3 es 4 ice. At first glimpse it would seem impossible that a wooden minnow-like lure can be got — to do this, but if one is made and tried out following these directions, it will be found to move as stated. mt should appeal to every canoe owner. may be taken apart and put away in the 2 Ee ot a - Sumac wood makes excellent wood for this “minnow, the next best being cedar. The ‘body is cut slim like the body of a perch, three and one half or four inches long. Then proceed as shown in Fig. I. which shows the underside of the minnow. The fins (a) and _(b) are made of tin being one and one fourth » - inches long and one half inch wide. These are, however, cut sufficiently longer than this length so that they can be worked into the body into slits made with a knife to receive them. A tail of tin is also inserted by means of a slit, a fine nail holding it in place. This tail (c) is then bent in whichever way one ooh, Aan ROD AND GUN IN CANADA. Be 3 1177 desires the minnow to travel, as shown in the drawing. To weigh the minnow sufficiently a lead socket must be made nearly in the centre of the underpart of the body as shown in (d). This socket is one half inch deep by one inch in length and to hold the lead it is cut out dove-tailed as shown in the inset. The edges then hold the lead in place. Melted lead is poured in. The balancing point of the minnow is now found as shown in Fig. A screw ring is inserted in the back at the balancing point. By working up the screw ring with the knife a swivel can be slipped on _ and the ring bent into place again so that the swivel will not come off. The line is tied to the swivel; the swivel preventing kinking of the line. When worked in the water, by pulling up the line, the minnow, instead of coming straight up, swims horizontal in the water in a perfect circle following the bended sweep of the tail. The minnow should be worked not deeper than six feet from the sur- face and when spearing of course it is best to have a house on the ice. The best color for a minnow is bright red. Lee-Boards for a Sailing Canoe RoBERT PAGE LINCOLN F one has never used a sail on a canoe he has missed one of the most enjoyable features of that form of water-cruising. Probably many do not make use of this fea- ture, held back by the belief that the canoe under sail and in a brisk wind will capsize, and that is true in many cases if some means is not used whereby the canoe can be steadied and made more reliable in holding its own. Just here is where a pair of lee-boards come in fine and the knowledge of how to make them These ‘outfit when extended trips are made, for in- f stance into the wilds of Canada. Or they may be used in home waters as one sees fit. They are light and do not take up a great deal of room. The wood to be used for lee-boards must be able to stand prolonged immersion without cracking and warping. Of materials experi- mented with mahogany will be found .to be the best to be had. Procure a piece that is seven eighths of an inch thick-nine inches wide and seven feet long. When this board is sawed in two it will give you two pieces each three and one half feet in length which is the approximate length of each lee-board. The 1178 board is now marked out and cut in the shape shown in Figure [. In the small end is the handle which is two inches wide and four inches long up to the point where it broadens up into the wide part. The wide part is about eight and one half inches throughout. with a key-hole saw. When you have one piece ready then mark out and cut out the second piece. The piece is permitted to be seven eighths inch thick in the handle end but from that point down to the other end it is tapered, both sides being planed. In the big end it may be one fourth of an inch thick; even thinner than that will not be harmful. A little thicker than a straight taper along the middle will prove more satisfactory than a straight taper. The boards when finished as to planing and sand-papering should be oiled several times and then given a coat of spar varnish of a good grade. It will now be necessary to obtain two flag- pole sockets, the sockets being one and one half inches across on the inside. Sockets of this sort coming in a brass material are most desirable. Arrange one on each lee-board as shown in Figure II, just forward of where the sweep begins. A round oak piece one and one half inches through is now obtained. Lay this across your canoe to measureit, being sure that at least three inches protrudes on either side. Then, as shown in Figure III, join the lee-boards by means of the sockets to the round oak piece adding a screw to hold them firmly in place. Figure IV shows the next move to make. A piece of squared The Winnipeg Fishing Club Judging by the enthusiasm shown and the good turnout of members at the December meeting, 1921 promises to be a red letter year for Winnipeg anglers. Arrangements were completed for the lease of a camp site at Lake Brereton. A committee was appointed to handle the erection of a suitable building. Several members signified their intention of having boats on the lake next summer. The secretary reported that he was in communica- tion with several parties with the view of obtaining some black bass; but-had not yet met with success in his quest. It was decided to have a club button, and the secretary was instructed to purchasé a sufficient number. ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Mark the piece and cut it out YY hardwood (a), one and one half inches fi from one edge of the canoe to the o hel LO press up against the strips that follow. the edge of the canoe. Obtain two- pieces of brass rod of the one fourth inch thickness and thread both ends, then bend as shown in the inset (b). A brass plate one eighth of out inch thick by three and one half inches long is now obtained. Holes are drilled in ‘this plate to slip over the rod ends as shown in (b). Suitable thumb-screws are now obtain- ed. ‘They are worked onto the threaded ends and can be tightened up as desired. The pull thus obtained as between the under-piece (a) and the upper lee-board piece keeps the lee- boards in position, down when so desired, or, |! when one desires to lift them up as one nears |} shore the mere matter of loosening up on the thumbscrews will permit of the boards being lifted. The wood rod that connects the lee-boards can be made more firm. in place by cutting a flat surface to fit the wooden edge of the canoe to prevent turning. The illustration (d) shows what is meant. If the wood rod is perfectly round its tendency to turn will be greater than if partially” gi ee least. os The sail of the canoe is gendsally Ee Re in the bow of the cance. The position that the lee-boards assume is one mid-way between the common centre of the canoe and the bow. If these simple directions are followed one will obtain excellent and satisfactory work, and once one has made use of thissteadying contrivance in sailing, he will never be without it. Lee boards take all the danger out of canoe cruising. similar to the design submitted by the jewel-. lers. The button wiltsbe a miniature black |, bass, with the initials of the club in blue en- | amel. One of the suggestions made at the paces was, that enquiries should be made concerning the streams and small lakes of the province, whether they contain fish, and if not are they suitable for stocking? CARS NS RRS Neil M¢ Dougall Sportrmans' Representative Orient -Bay and 3 Specimens of Brook Trout. the lower of which tr Mr Jerrup’r which captured the Trophy—~— FN NN NN NN NN NN NN ee “== boet ey 4h : * 3 1182 Butler, of Montreal, both caught fish close to the 7% pound trout of the winner, but they were of the same party and accordingly affidavits were not sent in to the company in connection with the competition. Mr. Butler, who is President of the Canadian Car and Foundry Company, Limited, was the winner of the trophy two years ago, and he expressed himself as delighted that his friend, Mr. Jessup, was the successful competitor in 1920. The facsimile shield of the Nipigon Trophy has been forwarded to Mr. Jessup at Scranton, and in his reply he sends the following description of his experiences on the Nipigon River. “Our camp was pitched in the beautiful spruce and birch timber on the banks of the Nipigon. There were three fishermen in our party, with sufficient Indians to take care of us properly. The beauties of the location of the camp are impossible for me to describe. As we had expected to stay. in camp about two weeks, our intention was to move several times in order to get better fishing, but we found the fishing so good where we were, that we abandoned any such ‘dea. Of course, we fished up and down the river a few miles from our camp, but most of our fish were caught immediately in front, where the river was running eight or ten feet deep. “The first of our party to catch a trout weighing over seven pounds, was Mr. W. H. Woodin, of New York city. His trout weighed within an ounce of 714 pounds and we be- lieved Mr. Woodin had won the Nipigon trophy. The next day Mr. W. W. Butler of Montreal brought in a trout a few ounces heavier than Mr. Woodin’s. He was then marked for the Nipigon trophy. The next day I brought mine in which weighed 7% pounds, measuring 2914 inches in length and 14 inches in girth. We had the very finest of fishing during our entire stay With the exception of one day. Mr. Butler caught the limit every day but two. We were in camp nine days. The trout ran so large that unless we hooked one over five pounds in weight, we hardly gave it a second look. “Such fishing I have never dreamed of and was simply astounded that any place on earth afforded such, my fishing having been confined principally to streams where a three- ROD AND GUN IN CANADA pound trout was an unusual catch. 2 “As to the hooking and landing of thes particular trout which enabled me to win the — trophy, would say, I was using a light casting © rod, a Shakespeare reel with one hundred and fifty feet of Japanese silk line. I had, about one-half the line out when I felt the trout strike and after giving it slack line for what I thought a proper time, I reeled in the — slack and made the heek. The trout for the first two or three minulgs, came towards the canoe without much difficulty, although I thought I had a heavy fish. Suddenly when within twenty-five feet of the canoe, he came to the surface, and while he did not jump, made a great splashing for a few seconds and evidently saw us, for he made a dive for the centre of the river, taking nearly all of my line before I could stop him. He then rose to the surface again, made some splashing, but did not jump. Of course aiter the first time he came to the surface I knew well that I had hooked a large fish. The trout made several fierce dashes to get away during which he nearly succeeded in getting my line all out. It was a fierce fight most of the time from beginning to end, which kept up between fifteer and twenty minutes. Finally he tired and I brought him up to the boat and the Indian landed him, “J discovered a peculiarify about the Indians while I was fishing on the Nipigon. We used two Indians to paddle for us. They would never speak until after a fish was hooked. That appeared to be a sign, for both would begin to talk at once, teiling the kind of a fish and its size, changing both every two or three minutes. It was so with the large trout I caught. They both insisted it was a lake trout and weighed thirty-five pounds. Another peculiarity I noticed was. that the minute the Indian landed that large fish, without a word, they started to paddle for camp as fast as they could, which was not at all in accordance with my ideas, as I thought it was a pretty good day for fishing. } “T heard before I went to the Nipigon that | il was the finest large brook trout stream in the world. . My experience there makes me willing to vouch for that statement. The number of large trout our party caught during our nine days camp was simply astounding.” ‘ Tough Luck and Why D. S. JOHNSTON “The melancholy days have come The saddest of the year For I must needs remain ‘“‘to hum,” And not go shootin’ deer!” *Not the common vulgar “herpes,” nor - the seven year variety, nor yet what manner of itch is picked up in the barbers. But a permanent, annual, ineradicable, life- long type that sets in about September first, when the leaves first begin to color and come fluttering slowly down to Mother Earth; when there is an early morning tang in the air, and when the dusky shadows of evening carry a memory of loafing back to camp after one of those perfect days one never forgets. The symptoms of the disease develop rapidly and become acute toward the middle of Oc- tober and unless the malady is checked by a final decision “‘to go,”’ the patient lingers along in great distress till the end of the hunting season before there is any marked improve- ment. Those are the days when you go home to lunch and friend wife remarks ‘‘What a grand day it was to dry the washing” and you come back with, ‘It would be a peach of a day to be in the bush,” and then she says but why go over it? We've all. been over it so often. : We can’t go this year. D—‘it all. After four consecutive years in the bush, we solemn- ly promised ourselves that we would never, never Miss a year’s hunt so long as we and the years endured. But man proposes and the disposing is in other hands. So for two Seasons, three counting this present season, we have had the itch, a very aggravated and aggravating case indecd. And the only soothing treatment—and it’s more or less neg- ative in results—is to get some of the boys in—preferably those who also can’t go—and sit by the fire-place burning brightly, and Picture to ourselves the past seasons, the days of real sport, and how the memories crowd in. Who ever forgets the first time he went into’ the bush? We recail the long railroad ‘journey, with a change of trains at 1.30 a.m.; “the breakfast next morning in the third rate ‘northern Ontario hotel; the trip on the “‘pal- -atial steamer’’—see railroad guides—built for summer traffic only, on which we either ‘shivered sitting on the piles of baggage in the Biiscr the cc did you ever have the itch? » bow, smothered in the blue haze in the ladies’ cabin aft, or waited for a chance to lean against the thin wall next the boiler. Then there was the good home cooked dinner which included, on Oct. 3l1st., “Muskoka Lamb’’; after dinner the twelve mile hike to camp. One could ride but who wanted to? Three of us started out onfoot. For three or four miles the foot- ing was good, and then we struck the bush and the rocks and hills. We tramped up, and we tramped down, and tramped some more. After a few miles we asked how much further it was and if the camp had been moved fur- ther back this year. We were assured it wasn’t far now; that we would likely see the lake at the next turn. But when the turn was reached someone had moved the lake. After many more turns we came to old man Dunn’s and then we did see the lake; and then Jack’s place, and after that it was only two miles tocamp. Maybe we weren’t glad to get there. But the next year and the next that walk seemed much shorter and a very pleasant road indeed. Then came settling down in camp; and after that everyone had to test their guns on that old bit of stump in the water. We were quite ready for the supper served by lamplight at the long table in the kitchen that just held twelve, where the fel- lows near the stove roasted while those on the long bench at the back of the table were chilled by the breezes blowing through the chinks in the logs. But who cared? We wouldn’t have exchanged that seat for the best table in the King Edward with any kind of bonus thrown in. And the hunt! We were taken out the first morning along an old hunter road, stopped at a certain spot, and told to go in to a hemlock stump, in “that direction’? about a hundred yards. That was our watch. We took a line by our compass (it was cloudy overhead) and started for said stump. But that bush was just full of stumps, and that compass was a very Ananias of a guide. We knew the direction better ourselves. Wespent our first morning on a dry knoll entirely surrounded by swamp. We found the stump next day and stayed there two wecks and didn’t see a thing. The next year we were sent there again, saw three deer, wounded one poor brute, and did nothing to inconvenience the other two. The first we saw gave us such an attack of buck fever that we simply could not 1184 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA find the back sight—a peep—to aim through. We finally got desperate and discharged our weapon in the general direction of the deer. He went away; and alter he left we found that sight concealed under our thumb. We had- not thought of looking there. But the next year was our year at that stump. We saw four and got three. ‘One only kills their first deer once, but we will never forget the thrill that came with the first. We left camp, with- out any great hopes after our previous exper- iences. But within ten minutes of the time we got to the stump, a nice spike buck hove in sight, and stood for some time behind a big tree with only his hindquarters showing, about forty yards away. Wewere all strung up, but had no buck fever this time, so when he moved we proceeded to lay downabarrage. We were quite willing to use up all our ammunition and to borrow some if necessary rather than let him go, and when he fell beside an old fallen pine—oh boy! what a grand and glorious feelin’! Then we had to clean him out: We took up physiology at public school; but it was not an exact guide; and our baggage havy- ing gone astray the only tool we had to work with was an old saw-toothed pocket knife. We didn’t measure our chest that day, but a large 46 would have fitted closely. We had some more fun with that deer. Next day at noon we were to bring him in to camp, a mile and a half over a broken corduroy road. One brother carried our rifles, coats and other im- pediments, while two: of us dragged the deer. It wasn’t so bad for half amile orso. But the day was mild, and our muscles were soft, and our Wind was only a zephyrs; so when we had gone half a mile or so we decided that they couldn’t eat the whole deer at once anyway and that we would cut it in two—which we did, right through the saddle roast. We hung the bow haif up and pushed bravely on. Shortly we meta relief party. The guide ‘said he had lived there all his life but had never seen a deer come in in two sections before. F. L. Washburn, Professor of Economic Vertebrate Zoology, University of Minnesota, is the author of a comprehensive and practical manual entitled “The Rabbit Book.’ Mr. Washburn is evidently familiar with his subject and thoroughly covers a field that still has great possibilities for development. His book gives the result of years of experience in breeding, care and marketing on Belgian hares, Flemish Giants and other meat and pon And those tramps along the trails, and there were mo trails. How one ¢li os sweats, and calls himself all kinds of a foc for ever leaving the car lines! But after the’ climb the long after noon on that big st with a steep hardwood covered hill behind one, and a little valley with a hemlock ridge ‘in, front: or that other spot, where you sit on é very narrow ridge with a deep bowl in thi hills, with the river winding past at the bot- tom, on your right: and on your left a hollow backed by another hardwood slope. And the bright afternoon sun and the quiet, un- disturbed except by the sudden scurry of a fieldmouse in the leaves at your feet, or the clamor of an Arctic woodpecker beatae a tattoo against an old dead stump. ; Then the good fellowship of it all. “When the crowd gathered at’noon or at night, and tried to decide who fired that fusilade that nobody will confess to. How the days were lived over again and again around the big box stove. Then one finds out what is the inner material of his companions, in such surroundings; whether they are what they seem, or if after all they are a size too small to be areal good sport. And for all it’sdiscom- forts how you enjoy it all! The getting up at 5.45 a.m. in the cold dawn, the wash in cold water, Which you empty over the front - ver- andah railing; the meals you eat, that at home would sure result in acute indigestion! The sizzling fat bacon and fried potatoes, or veni- son steak, or stew; or the blue herring taken out of the ice-cold water at noon and served to you for supper. And the cook’s fresh made apple pie; and the candicd honey served so tastefully (piled high with a spoon stuck straight up in the top,) in two delicately fash- ioned gray enamel quart cups, one at each end of the table. Yum, yum! and agnin I say yum, yum!! One could write reams about. such exper- iences, but what’s the use. As we said before “We can’t go this year, d—— it all!” - fur-producing rabbits. The reader will find the chapters on building a rabbitry, managing it, purchasing stock, breeding, feeding, killing and dressing for table or market, diseases an remedies, etc. both profitable and instructive. Any of our readers who are interested in this profitable enterprise can obtain a copy from the J. B. Lippincott Co., Ailes Sq. Philadelphia, Pa. i 3 HE above club have their lodge on one T of the lakes of the Pickerel in the nor- thern part of Parry Sound district, which, to my mind, is the very Eldorado: of Ontario for real sportsmen. The character of the forest, which in our section was mostly hardwood with many lakes, makes it the natural home for deer; and besides, the waters are teeming with fish—the chief of which are black-bass, pickerel, pike, maskinonge, and late in the fall, white fish. There are three requisites for a successful and satisfactory hunting party. When I say “satisfactory,” I refer to a real holiday for men who appreciate God’s great silences and arefond ofthe gun. - The three requisites. to my mind, are:— (1) a party entirely agreeable to each other and about a dozen in number. (2) comfortable quarters. (3) a good cook. _ If these. three are provided, the number of deer acquired becomes quite a secondary matter; and I am glad to say Captain Kelcey and his party of twelve constituted one of the most agreeable parties it has ever been my privilege with which to share a holiday. We were twelve guns and a cook and all our hunting was done by stalking and without dogs. The woods, prior to our visit, must have contained many deer; for in every direc- tion the runways gave constant evidence of the passing and re-passing oi these animals. Our first day was given up to a study of the forest. The chief of our party, already fam- iliar with the ground, led us in various dilec- tions pointing out the various runways, draw- ing our attention to the frequent signs of our quarry, and giving such direction as those who may be unaccustomed with the forest should always observe. We had not expected to shoot anything on this first day, but ere night three deer were hanging in the trees within a radius of, perhaps, three miles from our camp. I desire right here to become an advocate for “‘still’’ hunting, believing that as many deer can be obtained with less hardships and more real benefit to the sportsmen than by the method so many prefer, viz: chasing the ‘deer through the woods by dogs, hoping to Secure them in the water. This means that two or three days after the opening of the ‘season, all the deer for miles around are fright- ened and continually on the alert, It means “we ~~ : The Mirror Lake Hunt Club A. L. Burcu besides that there is much shooting at ran- dom in the forest, many shots taking effect, - but not in vital parts, and therefore permit- ting the escape of the deer which dies a day or so afterwards, and the meat is thus a total loss; and besides if venison is intended for meat (and surely this valuable food should not be wasted), the quality of the meat is very much impaired by the running of the deer. There is scarcely a comparison between venison which has not been run by dogs and that which has been taken while quietly “stalking.” The meat of the latter will keep longer without spoiling, and is very much sweeter to the taste; and there is added to this the satisfaction that the game is the result of real hunting, and not slaughter. When our party had become somewhat — familiar with the geography of our environ- ment, and had a more or less rough idea of the directions of travel each day by the deer in our forest, we then spread out each morning over two or three miles of country, and simply waited. The deer are bound to appear, some- time or other—if not today, then tomorrow— and their time of travelling is always on these runways, between broad day-light and a little while before sundown; and, if the party be, say, ten or twelve, and they are sufficiently stretched out and protected from each other’s fire by the contour of the land or thickness of the forest, they are quite safe, so far as danger of shooting one another is concerned and at the same time, some members of the party are bound to have deer coming within shooting range. Of course, such an arrange- ment means that, at least, one member of the party must be well acquainted with the locality and the others of such high intelli- gence that they are willing to be advised by his experience. We were happy in this re- spect as we had the result of successful exper- ience in our adviser, and all were willing to be guided by his advice. This seems very ideal, and such it is; and so it would have remained but for the fact that hunting parties on every side were using dogs and soon were chasing the deer, that really belonged to other sections than our own, across our territory, the deer making for some of the lakes in the neigh- bourhood, and in their flight, warning all the deer in every direction; the result of this being that after the third or fourth day our “still’ hunting paradise had fewer deer than i tore 3 ‘, 1186 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA what there were at first, and when seen were always on the run. Within a couple of miles of our camp a week after we were established, three dead deer were found that had been shot while chased and had escaped from the dogs by taking to the water, and died on the farther side. When such are found it only can cause lament because too late for use and thus meaning an utter waste of valuable provender, besides there is the knowledge of unnecessarily prolonging agony to a really beautiful animal. These latter had not been shot by any of our party, but were found by One of our keenest hunters—the wife of Captain Kelcey and our hostess. them while stalking. I am quite convinced that as many deer as the law would have allowed could have been taken from that sec- tion of the country had there been no dogs allowed in the hunting and all hunting parties had depended upon (1) the necessary patience required to wait for the appearance of the deer; (2) watchfulness of the eye and (3) reasonably skilful use of the gun. . It is true that many deer were, this year, taken from this section of the country—perhaps as many as there were hunters seeking them, (of -this I have no knowledge), but it must also be true that there are many deer now lying rotting. It seems to me a woeful and unnecessary waste and most of this accounted for by the running of the deer. It had been the intention of our party from the first to allow all does to pass by the range of our guns unmolested, and shoot only when we had detected the horns of the bucks; and we would have had no reason to have charged our first plans but for the disturbing elements of the dogs crossing and recrossing through =~ ? the section of the forest in the immediate neighbourhood of our camp; consequently in the second week it was decided, in order t: get our count, we would need to shoot at least half the number in does. Jaa We got our count. Each member of 1e | party is well satisfied because we did it with out the assistance of dogs—in fact, in spite of | the dogs; not one of those we secured were | needed to be taken from the water. I not an experienced hunter, as were some other | members of our party, but I am an out-and- | out advocate for “‘still’’ hunting:— (1) because better food is thus provided. } (2) because it is far better sport, and (3) because it does away with the trouble of | shipping dogs in and out of the country, } which, to say the least, is a most troublesome § and unpleasant task. Our party was gathered from several towns and cities of Western Ontario, and were men who were glad to be free for a Jittle from the aggravations of business, the complications of congested life in which the telephone plays sometimes an irritating part—in fact men who needed a holiday and looked upon the hunting season as fifteen of the best days of the year. Every day, excepting Sunday, was spentstalkingtheforests. Intheevening not later than 6 o’clock, we were back at camp ready for the best dinner that one of the best cooks, with abundance of supplies tof hand, could provide. There was no question of over delicacy or indigestion here. The tramps through the hardwood- forest had f caused the disappearance of these ills of civil life. Men were happy because, though tired, f now around the blazing fire, they could com- fortably rest; or around the well-filled table they could eat, and eat gloriously and after- | wards were able to sleep on comfortable beds without even a dream. i Our lodge, which was made of logs with a} lean-to kitchen of inch lumber, might look small to an observer, but there is one big} room which served as dining and living room, | and under the rafters were beds for twelve. We had also, among other equipment, a} Victrola, the property of our chief hunter, and | some 65 records, many of which were some of the very best the market can provide; so that every evening we had plenty of music and occasionally, when someone inserted a tune familiar te earlier years and calling for part- ners for the ‘Buck-Fever-Quadrille,” the floor would become lively with the movements of the dancers who forgot that it was 25 years since they were young. : 2 . a ‘Twice ae the season eae came to _ our camp, and not a gun was removed from the wall. It was the Day of Rest, but it was “more, it was a day of refreshment. Among the large collection of musical discs were many quite suitable for keeping this day true to the early training of our lives. Each Sunday evening, accompanied by the Victrola, we listened to several of the old familiar hymns; listened to a portion of the Divine page; and joined each other while kneeling in confession, thanksgiving and praise. _ We are now scattered again throughout Western Ontario engaged in various businesses HAT the hunters of Ontario are begin- ning to take an active interest in legisla- tion pertaining to themselves, was evidenced at Bradford on January 13th, when representative sportsmen from the Various parts of Simcoe county met to discuss Domin- ion and provincial game and firearms laws. The speakers were unanimous in emphasizing the necessity for organization. It was sug- gested that each county in the province form a similar protective association so that the sportsmen could bring sufficient pressure to bear on the Ontario legislature, in the making of game laws that would produce a maximum of sport with a minimum tax on the game. The “gun permit” law came in for consider- able criticism when it was drawn to the at- tention of the meeting that the Dominion Government, in enacting amendments to the criminal code had, with one exception, failed to differentiate between the alien and the Cana- dian sportsman. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Digby Horreil, Mid- land; vice-presidents, W. C. Davey, Bradford, and Alfred French, Elmvale; secretary-trea- surer, J. S. McDowell, Midland. The various seasons for moose ‘and deer were fully discussed. Some of the speakers drew attention to the confusion arising from the districts and seasons in force in 1920. It was moved by Messrs. French and Davey “that the open season date from November ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1187 and professions, but for myself (and I think I speak for all others) there will be acontin- uous harking back to that little log cabin beside a lake~in the North, living again in memory, when time permits, the free-from- care life, where for two weeks westalked these forests watching for deer, listening to the great silences, or stepping aside to examine the wonderful work of the beaver—for there Were a number of beaver-dams within our stalking range—and feeling anew, life, real life, a life that purifies and strengthens, and makes another year of tasks more possible. pouty of Simcoe Hunters oan Game Protective Association Ist to November 20th for the territory south of the main line of the C. P. R.” Rod and Gun In Canada was made the official organ of the Association. All reports will appear in the magazine. It was moved by Messrs. Curwin and Neilly “that section 13A. prohibiting killing of deer in the water be eliminated, and a royalty equal to the license be paid the government for the shooting of moose.” ; Another motion which seeks to redress a considerable grievance is that introduced by Messrs. Walsh and Sutherland to the effect “that each hunting party be allowed to eat venison while in their camp in addition to the deer they are allowed to take home by license.” It was recommended that the open season for beaver and otter be extended from Noyvem- - ber Ist to March 31st, and rabbits from Oc- tober 15th to December 31st, and also that the following animals be taken from the list of fur-bearing animals; bear, fox, weasel, skunk and lynx, and that a royalty be paid the government on the same. This to apply only to all territory lying south of the C.P.R. main line. It was also resolved that the president, vice-presidents and secretary be a committee to suggest certain amendments to the criminal code, so that a permit issued regarding the possession of firearms be extended, so that one permit will cover the Dominion. Membership fee was fixed at $1.25. N IN CANADA ~ + j AND GU a ROD 1188 Fa Oan RPE 05 ‘ oe . SoL10} 119} owe ‘BIq ONSET ATENAGaoT Oy Ut ueueyoy suoyy, Aq pequosep ay} ore svore pouoysrep oy, “Aemyrer [BUOT}E NE uvipeuvy ayy uo yared sodser¢ pue yaed uosqoy “yyQq Jo UOl}Bd0] Sutmoys det =5 MEN: a) 1 / ( h Wn ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1189 An ideal camp site on Berg lake, Mt. Robson, B.C, Mount Robson, monarch of the Canadian rockies, rises to a majestic height of 13,069 feet. In the foreground is seen the mighty tumbling glazier. a WwW ayy Y I Hie if Deg fave Me Us if et ait wut i uN . ( De f a Al b i 2 tc ername UNAS Te 1 be ae Big Game Hunting in British Columbia A. BryAn WILLIAMS PART IX. HERE is a small bunch of caribou about r a mile and a half away, I was beginning to think that, in spite of the fact that we have seen no end of tracks and have almost got up onto the high ground out of the willows, We were not going to lay eyes on any of the animals themselves today. It is no use my trying to look at them while I am sitting on my horse as he will not keep still enough, I had better get off. There are four- teen of them and four of them are bulls, only one of which is of any size and even that one has no horns worth noticing though he appears to be very big in the body compared to the Just take a squint at them and then let’s Push on as we are likely to see-others at closer range. No, we will not get amy nearer to that lot today as we are going to turn sharp off to the left, away from them, before long and descend to lower ground again. We had to come aWay up here quite a long distance out of our way to avoid a huge uncrossable canyon which divides the lower part of the “tundra” in two. You cannot see it and would never guess it was there until you came right on it. Last year, when I did not know the Way as well as I do now, it gave me no end of trouble and I travelled several miles more than I need have before I got clear of it. It is just three o’clock and we have about others. two more miles to go. You can nearly see the Louk at those three ~ spot I am making for. little knolls straight-in front of us. Well just underneath the middle one there is a bunch of small timber and though there is not much dry wood still we shall be able to find enough to do us. The main thing is that there is splendid horse feed afl around and a nice little spring handy for water so we shall not have to use muddy stuff like we did where we were last night. It will take a good hour still to get there as some of the ground is soft and there are lots of patches of willows to be circled. Stop! There are seven or eight caribou lying down right in front of us. Look, out on that little grassy meadow, not two hundred yards ahead. They have seen us and have all got up, two of them are bulls, the rest. cows and calves. What are you going to do with your rifle, you do not think you are going to shoot that poor little beast? You think he is a monster! Humbug, he is only three or four years old. Keep still and you may see an interesting sight. old cow, the one nearest us, she is coming closer. Notice how she has her head up and — is sniffing, her little ears are pushed forward and her eyes staring for all they are worth. 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Put your glasses on her and you will see that they are still in velvet. Did you not know that caribou cows have horns? Most of them have but not all. Their horns are given them to protect their calves with when they are first born and on this account they do not shed them until as late as June and consequently the new horns are grown late in the summer and are still in velvet now. They are all coming this way now, scattering about and trying to make out what we are. One of the cows has a notion to run away but curiosity has overcome her fears and she has turned back. Would not that be a beautiful shot, some of them are within a hundred yards now. Listen, at the horses snorting, they do not like them and you had better hold on to the black horse or he may bolt and stampede the others. Watch how they are circling pff to one side, they are trying to get our wind and will -oon succeed. There, that cow got a whiff of us, did you hear her snort as she jumped, she did not get it strong enough to frighten her badly and she has gone too far back to get it aguin. The biggest of the bulls will get our wind soon as he is working well round and the others are bunching up after him. There, he got a touch of it! Now he has got it strong, they have all got it. Look how the buil rears straight up on his hind legs and paws the air as ke bounds away with an enormous leap. The whole lot are off after him as hard as they can gallop, snorting and puffing at every jump. Did you ever see anything like the way they are covering the ground now they have settled down into their regular trot. Can you imagine any animal with a more perfect action than that biggest bull has? Notice the poise of his head, it is just turned enough for him to glance over his shoulder and see if we are after him; watch how those enormous hoofs of his are thrown right for- ward and yet they hardly seem to touch the ground, it looks as if he could trot over eggs without breaking them. Now they have suddenly wheeled round and have stopped for another look; they are off again with the old cow on the lead this time. Well good bye to that lot, let’s push on. Was not that a sight well worth coming a long way to see? For my part I am notsure that I do not enjoy the time spent on the caribou range more than any of the rest Of the trip. Of course as far as stalking is con. cerned there is far more skill required for sheep and bear, and even moose before the rutting season, but when you are on the the animals themselves are so curious’ and — confiding and do so many queer things f] they have a peculiar fascination for me. Ye as a general thing you have little trouble in finding caribou when once you are on the — range, some days, in fact, there are bands — scattered here, there and everywhere, and you get splendid opportunities of watching © their habits, while even on the poorest of — days you can hardly fail to find a few head Well, from the look of the ground ahead of us you might think it was all level going but you will soon find out that such is far from being the case and that this plateau is cut up — - ‘RROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1195 THE DOUBLE TRACK ROUTE GRAND Wiks WINTER TOURS CALIFORNIA SYSTEM Or to Some Other Pacific Coast Point or to Alabama Florida New Jersey South Carolina * Arizona Georgia New Mexico awh Bermuda Louisiana | North Carolina West Indies Cuba Mississippi Golfing, Tennis, Polo, Bathing, Fishing, etc. or just rest. Stop-over privileges allowed. Apply to any agent of the Company who will be pleased to furnish you with complete information as to fares, routes, etc. G. T. 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I had, however, a fair idea where to look for him so we kept on going, running .and walking, walking and running and making all the speed we possibly could. We had passed the spot where we had last seen him and I was hoping to spy him again somewhere at any moment when, un- fortunately, we saw another band lying down right out in the open and of course just where we wanted to go. There was a fine bull among them too but nothing like the one we were after so we decided to give them a wide berth and continue the chase. As it happened the wind made it difficult for us to pass them without frightening them, which we dare not do for fear they might stampede the one we were after. Consequently we had to make a wide detour and lost a lot of time getting round them. Then when we were at last clear of them we put on an extraspurt to make up for lost time. Finally when we had run until we could run no more we came to a place where we could see for several miles ahead of us and here we rested while we tried to spot our quarry. Not a sign was to be seen of him and I began to fear he had turned straight down hill into the willows and perhaps laid down so that we could not see him. There were several other herds of caribou to be seen from where we were, one of which, consisting of eizhteen head, was not very far away. I had almost made up my mind to give up the one we were after and go and examine some of the others when I happened to-look back and just glimpsed a pair of horns. They were several hundred yards behind us and about the same distance lower down the hill- side which at this particular place went down in a succession of wide ridges, connected by short steepish slopes. The glimpse of the horns was enough to tell me at once that it was the bull we were after. He had evidently gone down into one of the depressions we had crossed but instead of climbing straight up the other side had swung round and kept ona lower level and was hidden from our sight by keeping close under one of the ridges. At first it seemed an easy matter to creep straight down hill to where we would be within easy shot as he passed by, but while I watched he moved out from the ridge so that we would be in full view of himif we attempted ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ~ / 4 toe i Se iia such a manoeuvre. Luckily there was a ei, stream bed close to us that led straight down ~ hill and into it we crept without much diffi- culty and then hurried down it to his level “is so that he would pass close to us. The wind was favorable and I anticipated — an easy kill. You can therefore imagine my chagrin when, on peeping up from the-spot — I had chosen for the shot, he was nowhere in sight. Once more he had vanished. Higher and higher I rose until at last I stood upright but still there was no sign of him and I must say I was not only puzzled but also felt pretty small at losing him a second time. It then occurred to me that there must be some other stream bed or depression in the ground though it had not that appearance, that would obscure him from our view and that the oaly thing to do was to climb back higher again. 5-3 we Sure enough this was the case as I had not gone far before I discovered that just under- _ neath one of the slopes was a big wide hollow — and in it was not only our bull but about fifteen other caribou also that had probably been lying down there. “They were of various ages and sexes and the new arrival had stirred them all up and was making himself unpleas- ant by starting a fight with a smalier bull that had the temerity to resent his presence. Well the rest was easy, there was a short stalk, a single shot and we had the prize we had- worked so hard to get and which proved to be more than up to expectations. _ No, I have not quite finished the story yet. While we were making the stalk I was wonder- ing where Jack was and in terror lest he should come blundering along down the hill after us and spoil the whole thing. However, he had been watching us from a point where he could get a good idea of what we were doing, in fact he had even seen the caribou a short time before he joined the otherherd and within ten minutes of our making the kill along he came in a great state of excitement. He had seen nearly the whole hunt and though he had not seen the caribou fall he knew we had him as he had seen the others running away alone. The sight of the splendid horns was too much for him and jumping off the horse he began to give vent to his feelings by doing a war dance. Of course we were too intent on our prize to notice him or the fact that he had not tied up the horse. Well whether it was that he could not stand Jack’s antics or the smell of the caribou I do not know but when I happened to glance up a minute or two later I just caught a glimpse of the horse a quarter of a mile away disappear- Py, orn ROD . AND GUN IN; GAMADA ti arekiag the Deer-Crossing ‘Don’t worry about my hitting him, John. Old ‘certain death’ is loaded with real stuff today. All I want is one good shot and we'll hang up a deer. “Since I’ve been shooting this new ammunition, loaded with Hercules > 39 Powder, I know I’m ‘right’. HERCULES POWDER Co. 909 King Street Wilmington Delaware 1197 eo 1198 ing at full gallop and, from what I saw of his tracks later on while on our way back to camp, I doubt if he slowed down until he had re- jommed the other horses a good six miles away. And he carried our lunch with him. The end of the story is that we made Jack hoof it back after him while I cut off the head and as much meat as the horse could carry and then we filled in the time by looking at several other bands of caribou, though without finding another suitable one. Finally we plodded back to camp, which we did not reach until after dark, taking it in turns on the weary way to tell Jack, in by no means mild language, just what we thought of his foolishness. I can assure you he was a very humble Indian before we had down with him I have been longer telling you this yarn than I intended and now I must stop and hunt in earnest as we are beginning to get near to that bunch I saw before and now I can see several other lots too and if I am not mistaken there is a bull moose about half a mile away. Yes it is a moose and he is walking this way but his horns are not of any great size. Yes, you are liable to see moose frequently up on the caribou range, especially when they begin to travel at the start of the rutting season. Last year I suppose I saw between fifteen and twenty while after caribou, they were all bulls except one cow and a calf, which curiously enough were lying down in the willows with a band of caribou a short dis- tance off on each side. Look af the rate that bull is walking, it is evident he is rutting, if it were not that there are so many caribou about I would try and call him but I think we had better stick to the game we are aiter. Let us get down to the edge of the willows where there is some grass to picket out our horse on, then we will strike out on foot and stalk those caribou. From here you can see them quite plainly, they are about half a mile away. I do not think there is a head in the lot worth having but we will go as close as we can to them easily and make sure. They are all up feeding now * and will be easier to approach than if they were lying down when some of the cows would be sure to be too wary for us unless we took the trouble to get down and creep. Yes, sheep would have spotted us ages ago at this distance and a moose would too as we are out in full sight of them. We are-even quite safe in walking quietly along for another two hundred yards and before that we shall have got low enough down to get into willows of sufficient height to afford some cover. ROD AND GUN IN CANADA _ This is about as close as it is safe to go without danger of disturbing them, they are | still three or four hundred yards off but by using your glasses you can see then very plainly. Four or five of them are bulls and one has very long horns but they are spindly and have very little palmatian on the tops, moreover though the points are fairly numer— ous there is nothing at all in the way of a plough. considering. Do you notice that the biggest bull has a much whiter neck than his younger — brethren, it is not so white as it should be though and he has no white hair at all on his flanks. Wait until you see a really good big old timer, his neck will be nearly as white as - snow, there will be quite a lot of white on his flanks and his horns will be as heavy again. There are two bulls quarrelling, one of than has a notion to give the other a good punch but is not sure whether he is man enough to doit. No, they will not have much of a fight, © in fact I have never seen caribou come to blows in earnest, as if they really meant to hurt one another. They must however, sometimes have quite a scrap as I killed a bull once that had a number of holes in his hide and some bad bruises where an adversary had marked him, but compared with moose, wapiti or even sheep,I think their battles are mild. offensive now, the other one is standing up to him and they are locking horns and pushing but neither of them seems to be putting much vigor into it and it appears to be more play than anything. There the combat is over and each has gone his own way. The cows are feeding steadily but they are not travelling much like they would if they were on higher — ground eating moss. Under-such circum- stances they move along at a great rate, taking a bite here and there as they go so that before they take another rest they are likely to be miles away. Supposing we left this band to day and came back tomorrow would we be likely to find them? No, they might be five, ten, fifteen or even twenty miles away by then. 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In fact I believe that ROD AND GUN IN CANADA a a quite a number around here stay pretty well on the same range all the year round, anyway you can always find some here, no matter when you come. Now let us be moving on to examine some of the other herds. a (oe ee ee eee RoBERT PAGE LINCOLN It's a Mighty Fine Sensation Its a mighty fine sensation to be sittin’ in a boat, With your hands upon a cane-pole an’ your eyes upon a float, Its a mighty fine sensation as you surely will admit, An’ you don’t have need to worry of the fishes that you git! There are songs of joy an’ laughter, an’ of music sweet an’ clear, But altho’ my heart is lightened there’s a song Id like to sing, Of a boat upon the water, an’ a pole I like to swing! When the sun is gittin’ brighter an’ the days are like a dream, An’ you hear the birds a-singin’ by the silver of the stream, Then you feel a mighty stirrin’ in the centre of your breast, An’ your weather eye is busy, kinder lookin’ to the west: Take about this time o’ season when the bloom is on the tree, An’ the whole blame world is hummin’ of a lovin’ melody, Then vou rummage in the attic an’ you pry aroun’ the shed. An’ you find the line you’re after an’ you cut a piece of lead: Then you kinder shoo the cob-webs from the pole beneath the eaves, An’ you tie the line upon it while your sturdy bosom heaves; Then again you grub for dew-worms over half a garden plot, “Come across an’ spade my lot!” While the neighbors git to shoutin’: Then you hustle to the margin of the flower-skirted lake, An’ you see the crystal surface tothe mighty big ones break, Can you rival the sensation when you slide the old boat in, “Lordy brother, where you bin?” An’ you hear the oar-locks creakin’: Well I swear to goodness brother I am tickled through an’ through, When I git my line a-workin’ an’ I catch a fish or two; An’ I feel so dern contented like I owned the sky an’ land, With a crown o’ gold upon me, an’ a sceptre in my: hand. I ain’t travelled the world over, an’ I reckon there are things, That are powerful enchantin’ an’ a constant pleasure brings, But about this time o’ season I spell Pleasure with a boat, With my hands upon a cane-pole an’ my eyes upon a float! There are many songs of pleasure an’ of merriment an’ cheer, ; | | ° ae Ae. ~ ROD AND GUN IN CANADA a = if : Sg“ Peli NORTHERN ONTARIO . 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MacDONELL, 4 : Minister of Agriculture Director of Colonization, ~ ; : Parliament Bldgs., TORONTO, CANADA . |591 STRAIGHT RUN 591 Pt ; ; Fred Gilbert and The Parker Single Barrel Trap Gun * Make the World’s Record in Competition 591 WITHOUT A MISS 591 Eventually you will shoot the PARKER. Why not now? y , : : Send for catalogue and free booklet about 20 bore guns. PARKER BROS. cun’Maters Meriden, Conn., U.S.A. New York Salesrooms: 25 Murray St, A. W. duBray, Pacific Coast Agent, P. O. Box 102, San Francisco = EDITED BY M. U. BATES Hints for Your Spring Trapping M. U. Y the time this issue of Rod and Gun ap- pears, the young trapper will be begin- ning to look about his spring trapping. The distinction between spring trapping and any other kind of trapping is that at this time of year the ice will have gone and all the trap- ping is done in or around open water. Spring trapping might, therefore, also be properly termed open water trapping, since, as before stated, all the trapping at this season is done in the open water. The pelts having the highest average value at this time of the year are those of the rat and beaver; most of the hitherto valuable furs deteriorating quickly in value as spring advances. Not so with the ancient castor and his smaller brother, the rat; the skins of both being good in some localities up to late May or early June. As the trapping of the beaver is not so general as that of the rat, being restricted chiefly to more remote localities, and therefore to fewer trappers, and those, generally, professionals or old timers, who are not in need of these “hints,” I shall give but a few good “‘spring sets” for these animals and then pass on to the rat, which will be of more interest and value to the majority of the young trappers: reading these pages. Go to your lake or stream where your beav- ers are working and in some of the numerous runways or “feed slides” easily discernible along the shores near their houses, set your No. 3 or 4 traps,—the sets being made as follows :— First procure a Jongish stone weighing from eight to twelve pounds; this is your ‘“‘drown- ing stone’; take a piece of ordinary rope from your pack-sack, and cut off a piece four or five feet long; tie this firmly around the stone so that it cannot be pulled off; take your trap chain, and five or six links or so out from where it is attached to the trap, tie it securely to the strand of rope on your drowning stone. If you were to tie the stonetightly against . BATES : your trap spring you would be unable to reverse or adjust it when the time came for setting it: this leverage of five or six inches of — chain is therefore desirable; is in fact, gener- ally necessary. Next, take another piece of rope, or wire,—wire preferred—as long as will be required to reach out into deep water: if rope, fasten one end to the trap-chain ring. and the other end to a stake driven into ground near trap: if wire, fasten a chunk of sodden stick to the end of it, and throw the. chunk out into deep water; pass the free end of the wire through the trap-chain ring, and tie to a stake near trap. Your trap, with either wire or rope, is now ready to be set. Place the trap in three or four inches of water, not right in centre of the runway, but a little to one side of it, so that in swimming up, one of the animal’s feet will strike the pan of the trap, and not his chest, in which latter case you will have only -a lost and very much frightened beaver for your pains. At the runways on each side of the house it will hard- ly be necessary to use any bait or scent as these will be used by the beavers going up to cut fresh feed as soon as the ice is gone. A little farther away from the house, however, after you have your trap set and placed as described above, you cut a small stick, about as large around as a lead pencil, and a foot or so in length, according to the nature of the ground: splitting the top of this slightly, you place into it a small piece of dried beaver castor, or one of the oil glands of a beaver, and drive the stick into ground just inside and above your trap, and every beaver swimming by will be attracted by it and will swim up to investigate, as all animals invar- iably do with the scent of their own kind. When the trap springs on-his foot, the beaver, like the rat, immediately seeks safety in deep water, where, with the weighted trap on his foot, he is soon fatigued and drowned. Another good set is in the small water ways tah ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1203 e ‘TORONTO'S TWO LEADING HOTELS The Walker House and Hotel Carls-Rite “The House of Plenty” “The House of Comfort” i As - A town is no finer than its Hotels, and is often judged by the Hotel Accommodation provided for the travelling public, as also the Restaurant accommodation provided.. One wonders if citizens fully appreciate the debt of civic gratitute they owe to the hote! man and restaurant keepers who are helping to keep the town in the forefront of progress. Travelling men and tourists are the best press agents any town ever had. They are constantly going from place to place and, since hotels and restaurants are essential to their comfort, they naturally consider hosteleries as an important item in any town’s make- up. “It’s a fine town,” says the jovial salesman, “‘best hotel on my route.” Sometimes the hotel does not suit him, and then his opinion of the town is expressed in words that bite like acid. The man who maintains an up-to-date hotel is not only doing a good stroke of business. but is performing a public service as well. We realize our duty to the Public at THE WALKER HOUSE or THE HOTEL CARLS- RITE in Toronto. The next time you are in this great city we would thank you for your patronage. ; We specialize on the AMERICAN PLAN. EUROPEAN PLAN if desired. GEO. WRIGHT and E. M. CARROLL, PROPRIETORS GUN REPAIRS We have recently opened a well equipped gun repair de- | es ee : — ’ “ a i . . Be : oe ~ Re! SB: Me _|{ agement of an expert Gun- YOUR FAVORITE DOG partment under the man- smith and are 1n a position ' may be either a Setter. Pointer. any kind ‘ reg d ) of hound or an Airedale. If it is, we can to give efficient service in all supply your needs. All of our dogs are ) shipped on trial. We let you judge the branches of éun work. | quality. Ifyou are not satisfied we will cheerfully refund your money. Send 10 cents in coin for our HIGHLY ILLUSTRATED INSTRUCTIVE 84 PAGE CATALOG THE © Remit. American money only. The pro- hibitive rate of exchange makes it impos- @ Lix sible for us to accept Canadian paper. 123 Kine Sr. E., BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS BERRY KENTUCKY 1204 where the surplus water washes over the centre of their dam: the beaver uses these places as a slide-over, and a catch here is nearly always certain, no bait or scent being required. If the water is not running freely enough, use the back or blade of your axe to obtain desired depth; your trap being set in, and a little to one side of this drain. There are generally a couple of slides one on each side of the top of their houses. They seem to slide up and down these for fun more than anything else, although in the fall months these places are used for carrying up the black muck and mud which they use for plastering the outside of their houses. These also make an excellent set; in every case the trap being rigged for immediate drowning as already described. Where the trapper has none of the castor scent to start in with, a few small sticks of green poplar will do almost as well, as the beaver will come to these bait sticks in the open water just as readily as when set under the ice. As to your rat sets: The best all round trap for rat is the No. 1, but where you have several No. 14%, 2, or even No. 3’s left from your winter trapping, these can be utilized to good advantage as well. The larger the trap, of course, the safer your cateh; for with a trap like the No. 1% or No. 2 etc., the animal is caught high up, and sometimes around the body, and even failing to reach deep water he is there safe for you when you come. Caught on dry land in a No. 1 trap, the rat, unless caught very high up, will invariably twist out and escape. Hence then, the neces- sity when using a small trap, of setting it so that the animal will immediately drown. One of the easiest and best ways to set your rat traps is on an old floating log, board, or tree trunk reaching out into and under the water. The rat uses all such floating plat- forms to rest and sit on when, in the cool of the spring evening, they come out to scout around or eat their evening meal. A trap at such a place is always a good set, and is prepared by simply chopping a small notch into the log the size of your trap jaws, into which your trap is placed and covered by a few blades of old, dried grass to make appear natural; the trap having already been secured by driving the small iron pin on the chain ring into the top or side of the floating ob- ‘stacle. When the animal is caught it jumps off the log into deep water, and the weight of the steel trap holds it under water till drowned. Where the log or tree is partly submerged at one end, set your trap here in an inch or so of ROD AND GUN IN CANADA water: the rat will use this low end when swimming up onto the log; no bait nor cover- ing is needed here. Your next best set is in the runways which you will always find along the banks of lakes or streams inhabited by muskrats; these look very much like min- iature beaver runs, and the set for rat is made practically the same as that for beaver, with the exception that no drowning stone is required, the trap itself having sufficient weight for this purpose. In such places drive your stake out in the deep water, the full length of the chain, or as far as the depth of water will permit. at this point a piece of wire long enough to reach the deep water will be needed: arrange it so that the ring of the trap will slide along it, the same as the set described for beaver. Often along the shores of creeks and dead water you will find floating beds of fine grass: the rats use these as feeding places: place your trap here covered by a handful of this grass or let the trap sink slightly below the surface of the water; fasten your trap chain to a small stake driven into the water under the grass; no bait is required here, but if no catch is made in a reasonable length of time, place one of the musk sacs of a rat on a small twig near trap. Another method is to set your — traps here, there, or anywhere at random along the banks of your river or stream, leaving the traps covered by an inch or so of water; drive into the ground near trap a small split twig into which has been placed the musk sac of a rat, or a small piece of beaver castor. If none of this scent is available for your first trip out, use a piece of carrot, or a piece of parsnip if available. A ‘‘den” or “hole set” for muskrat cannot very well be made in spring trapping due to the flooded conditions usually prevailing at this time; but if such places are found, usually under low, over- hanging banks, set your trap at the entrance to the hole, staking out in deep water, as already described. You will find the musk sacs of the. rat attached to the outside and lower part of the belly after skinning,—two small, whitish sacs or glands, an inch or so in length, and recognizable from the faint odor of musk which exudes from them; cut them off with your skinning knife, and preserve, by simply hanging them up to dry for your future sets. I shall be glad to hear from any of the boys trying these sets and starting in this season for the first time, so write up your experiences and send them in and we will try to get room for them when - “Along the Trap Line’ opens again in the 4 If the water is shallow © Lad Wy, < élite Dale oe o~—- "| » ww ee See OL ar o, “at . Ls © . 2 et ey et, ee ae ee Lo a 8d sein ee ee -— = | ee i Sad 1 =e ee ee AT ff) CP oe ROD AND GUN IN CANADA % RE SEPARATED Bn POWDER FOF FOR ALL USES p80 1206 October number. “In times of peace pre- pare for war’’: Don’t wait till the fall trapping is on before you look to your traps: No. 14 for mink; No. 2 for fox: have them ready for when the first ice comes, for it is at this time they will be travelling most and you can make ROD AND GUN IN CANADA i your easiest catches. I shall have some good fox and mink sets ready for you in the Oc- tober number; and in closing the Department, | wish you the best of luck in your ventures for the coming year._ The Clam Question The following is the government commis- sioner of fisheries’ report on the edibility of the fresh-water clam: ‘‘The general opinion is that they are not suitable for food, as they contain far too much connective tissue, which makes them very indigestible, in contrast to the marine mussel which is rich in fat. One American writer recently stated that he had stewed some with butter and seasoning and found them good, but most people who have tried them, found them so indigestible as to cause serious symptoms of sickness, and they cannot be recommended.” We are further indebted to Prof. Detweiler of the department of Entomology, Cornell University, who went to a great deal of trouble to obtain the following reports of experts on the same question. The director of the Fairport biological station gives as his experience that: ““The main trouble apparent- ly with the mussel is the toughness of the foot, which corresponds nearly to the sinew, or “‘white-leather’” in beef. The longer they are cooked the tougher they get. During the war, when every attempt was made to meet the food shortage, we tried them here in a pressure cooker in the hope that exceedingly high temperature under highypressure might succeed in softening the foot, but it was of no avail. They had to be rejected. In some of the literature, probably from Call, the location of which is forgotten, is a statement that the French voyageurs used mussels as food, catching the animals by dragging tree- tops in the water. This statement is simply made from memory, and I cannot give you the exact reference. Call (Mollusca of Indiana; 24th report of state geologist, 1899) ; remarks that, nothwitstanding the occurrence of large shell piles left by the aborigines along rivers, that ‘It is certain that there is no historic record of their use by the red men for food. But there is no good reason why, with abund- ance of condiment and proper preparation (here you will note the special pleader) a really servicéable food article could not be made out of them. The large white “foot” is tough, and becomes more so when well cooked, but many of the smaller shells have a tender animal which could be eaten if neces- sary. Trial attempts made by the writer to use these as food show that they are better than common report makes them.’”* The report from the director of the Fairport station, also contains the following paragraph: ‘Along the Maumee river a river man was met _ that reported that down in Tennessee where he came from, they ate a little round clam (probably Obovaria circulus); and found it very good.’ But in the adjoining paragraph, same report, we find: “‘One of the station staff reports that years ago his father, who was very fond of oysters, got a lot of friends and attempted to have aclam-bake. They made all hands sick.” The report of Dr. Walker, a noted authority on fresh-water shells, is as follows: “I have never tried to eat clams my- self, but Goodrich has told me that a keeper on one of the lighthouses on the Ohio shore of Lake Erie told him that frequently he went out and got a ‘mess’ of clams to eat. This is the only recent instance that I know of- The Indians, however, used them in great quan- tities.”” While the above reports on the status of this clam as a food conflict in several places, the weight of valuable opinion seems to be that they cannot generally be recommended. About the only conclusion we seem to have arrived at then, is that if you feel disposed ‘to sample some of these animals as food, try them, cooking according to the best recipe obtained: if you find them agreeable, dig some more; if, however, after eating you have to have recourse to the Cow Brand baking soda box, a change of diet would seem to be more or less clearly indicated.—M.U.B. ) } ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 12 FREE TO MEN Would You Like To Be a Strong, Husky, Manly Fellow Once More? ~ New Method Without Drugs The attached coupon entitles you to one illustrated copy of my pocket compendium and guide for the self-restoration of lost strength. 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Satisfaction guaranteed in every case. Dear Sirs—Please forward me your Book as advertised, free, sealed. 1208 Queries and Answers us Editor, Along the Trap Line: Being an interested reader of your magazine . and finding your Question and Answer de- partment very valuable, I would like to know a good method to tan a moose hide with hair on; and could a horse hide be tanned by ss same method. An early reply will oblige, Buctouche, N. B. Carl Lawrence, Ans.—For a recipe for tanning moose hides write Armand Bastien, Indian Lorette, Que.. and for a recipe for horse hides, write A. R. Clarke & Co., Toronto. Either firm could probably tell you whether any method would be suitable for both hides.—M.U.B. Faith, Hope and Charity oe 24 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA > Editor Along the Trap Line: I note your name in ‘‘Rod and Gun” and 4 Pe: wonder if you can advise me as toa good place along the Canadian National Rys. tolocatea camp for moose, deer, etc. I have been hunt- — ing on C.P.R. east of Ingolf, Ontario with Ed. ~ Nason as guide. We would like to move into a newer territory next year, hence thisi inquiry. Any advice will be greatly appree a Yours;- = “Se Aone Jordan. | e fe Ans.—For information on the localit yyou © “i name, write F. C. Armstrong, Pres., N.O. 0. a & G.A., Cochrane Ont.—M.U.B. ~ ae W. S. Woop | oa Man demonstrates that he has FAITH when he still has a desire to live after his Mother-in-law discovers his shortcomings. HOPE is.a w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l thing, one little nibble wilt keep a man fishing all day; while CHARITY is giving one’s honest-to-goodness advice without charge. Brother if you are still dodging, and have your fingers crossed, take my advice, and pick an orphan. If this kind advice had been handed to me early, there would have been no story like the following to tell. Saturday, July 15th promised everything one could wish in a summer’s day. It also promised a half-holiday; and knowing that if I went home at noon I would be elected a committee of one to take my Mother-in-law, (my wife’s mother was visiting us, no that is not the word; she was staying with us;) to the park, to the library or on one of those d-e-l-i-g-h-t-f-u-l trips with a bunch of flowers_ to the cemetery. At 10.30 I phoned my wife that the Boss was going fishing at noon; wanted me to go with him; would not take no for an answer, and that I had better go if I wanted to stand in for a raise. Now what could she say? I went, and with the exception of my tackle-box, and a lunch fit for a regular he-man I went alone. Why mention that the wind was in the wrong ‘direction, or that the water was rough; but come out flatfooted and say that owing to no fault of yours, or your system the fishing was rotten. When walking along the docks to the car for home, I noticed some fishermen unloading — their day’s catch, among which were some fine walleyes; fifty cents looked as good asa seven pound fish to the man in charge so we made a trade at once. On my way home I concoted a story-of the - awful fight that fish gave me; of the many times it nearly got away, and that if I had not used head work I would have lost out. — Arriving home I placed my creel on the kitchen table, and after relating my experience as per story above, I went upstairs to wash. =~ The window of our bathroom is situated directly over our side-door, and as the ~— window was open I overheard the following conversation between my wife, my mother-in- law, and our neighbor’s little boy. _ : “T know what yer goin’ ter have fer supper Mrs. Jones;”’ said the boy, “yer goin ter have fish.” “Your right Percival; how did you know?” asked my wife. “Why Ma took me down ter the beach this afternoon an I saw Mr. Jones buy it at the dock.” What my wife said to me and what my mother-in-law added, is not necessary here, but for the benefit of those who never go to church, and those who cannot keep awake when they do; I would ask you to turn to e the second chapter of St. Matthew and read the sixteenth verse, then think of Percival _ our neighbor’s boy, and I feel that you will agree with me that King Herod was not such a bad chap after all. — a = @ Ce S im = L Ss ( IRA A. LIEGHLEY LAW that was passed “Like a thief in the night,” covering the whole of the Dominion of Canada, went into effect on Oct. 16th, 1920. So quietly -was it passed that many Government Officials who are in- terested in the enforeement of the laws of Canada. were unaware of its existence until several months after its passage. . This law effects every man who owns a rifle, shotgun, hunting knife or revolver, as it provides among other things that anyone who owns a rifle, shotgun, revolver, sheath knife. (which means practically all hunting knives), and some other articles mentioned in the act, must have a permit to have the same in his possession, except in the case of a British subject who owned a shotgun before the 16th of October, 1920. It also provides that a merchant cannot sell a rifle, shotgun, revolver, sheath knife and some other articles covered by the Act, - unless the person intending to purchase same should first secure a permit to purchase the article. The act also provides that for a violation of this law, you are subject to having your firearms confiscated and to be fined a sum not exceeding $100.00 or three months in jail or both. What is the effect of this law? It means that although you are born and bred a British subject, and have a rifle in your possession that was owned by your grandfather or a rifle that you have owned for many years, you are liable to a fine and imprisonment, unless you secure a permit to have the same in your possession. The law also provides that a permit may be issued by a chief constable, chief of police, magistrate or some other official for a period not exceeding twelve months. As there is no provision in the Jaw for the charge to be made by the officials for the issue of a permit, this is left to his own sweet will; and the official can give you a permit if he feels so inclined and make no charge for it, or he can charge _ you any amount that he desires. This opens the door for a petty species of grafting as the officials can charge any amount they desire, and you have to secure this permit each year or be liable to a fine and imprisonment and also of having your arms confiscated. If you desire to purchase a new shotgun or rifle you have to pay another visit to one of the designated officials and secure a permit to purchase such rifle, shotgun or sheath knife as well as to secure a permit to have the same in your possession, with another opportunity for the official to charge you for that permit and for every year there- after. This law is an amendment to an act which has been on the statute books for some years concerning concealed weapons, and it looks as though this act was amended with no con- sideration of the rights or interests of the great hunting and sporting public of Canada.. How many of you deer hunters would think of going into the woods with simply a pocket knife in your possession, with which to cut the throat of your deer or moose and with which to dress its carcass? You would be very foolish to do so, and yet the word Sheath Knife as provided in the Act, covers Marble’s hunting knives and other makes of hunting knives that are popularly used by deer and moose hunters. As far as a sheath knife being an offensive weapon is concerned, if a thug desired a knife of that kind, he can buy a butcher knife or sticking knife which is just as dangerous in a fight as a hunting knife. The law does not provide that they cannot carry a sticking or butcher knife, but because a sheath is provided with a hunting knife so a hunter can carry it conveniently and with safety to himself, you cannot purchase same or have one in your possession without kow-towing to some officials for a permit, and paying any amount the officials may see fit to charge. Thousands of dollars are spent every year by the railroads, by the various provinces and other persons, in advertising Canada as a hunters’ paradise. Many thousands of dol- lars are spent by visitors to Canada from other 1210 countries who come here on account of the facilities for hunting big game, and the game departments of the various provinces, add to their yearly income from this source, as they charge them many times the amount for a hunter’s license, that is charged a resident of the province in which they desire to hunt. Thus many thousands of dollars are con- tributed directly and indirectly to the rail- roads, hotels, merchants and guides of Canada by these visitors, who are attracted here by the presence in Canada of good hunting facilities. This is one of the assets of Canada, and should be encouraged as long as there is a surplus amount of game in Canada to provide for our oWn requirements, as well as the requirements of our visitors. While the law provides that a British sub- ject who had a shot gun in his possession before Oct 16th, 1920 does not require a permit, yet it is not safe for anyone to go hunting with a shotgun unless he has a permit, as some of the constables in the country districts would be only too glad to find anyone with a shotgun in his possession on a hunting trip without a permit, and although you might be exempt under the law, yet if he toek you before a Justice, you could be fined and your gun confiscated, unless you could convince the Justice you are exempt. If you were convicted it would mean a lot of time, trouble and money to appeal the case and be released, so that there is only one safe way to do, and that is to have a permit whether it is required or not. Another beautiful? ? ? section. Another particularly vicious section of the law, as far as the owner of a shotgun or rifle is concerned, provides that “Such permit shall not be good or have any force or effect beyond the limit within which the person granting same has jurisdiction or has power to exercise and perform the duties of his office,” so that even if you have a permit from the chief of police of a city, magistrate of a township, or sheriff of a county or any other official, and you should carry a rifle or shot- gun outside of the limit of his jurisdiction, it can be confiscated and you fined and imprison- ed. For instance, if you have a permit from the chief of police of Toronto to have a rifle in your possession, and you desire to go deer hunting, the minute you go outside of the limits of the city of Toronto, your permit is void: In order to be secure from arrest, you have to secure another permit from an ROD AND GUN IN CANADA _ official in every county through which you - pass, and in which you desire to hunt, or it z is within the power of a constable to arrest you under this act, and the magistrate to convict you. Don’t you think this is a nice state of affairs? _ pe: This provision of the act may be all right as applied to a revolver, but it certainly — shows that the amendments to the act are put through without due consideration of the_ rights and interests of the sportsmen, and also of the effect that this act would have upon the sporting public of Canada. What is the object of the law? It does not provide for any revenue coming ~ to the Government nor to any other person, except a chance to make a little money on the side for the officials who have the power to issue the permits. It does not provide for any money to be charged for the permit, which is to be de- voted to the propagation or protection of wild bird and animal life. - If the framers of the law imagined it was to prevent the Bolsheviki from securing or having firearms in their possession with which to conduct a revolution against the Govern- ment, they are mistaken because it does not fulfill its duty; for at the present time a rifle, shotgun or revolver cannot be brought into Canada, until the merchant who is importing same, first secures a permit from Ottawa allowing the importation. _ You may rest assured that if any firm attempted to bring into Canada any quantity of military rifles, unless they could show a reasonable excuse for importing same, the Government would stop the importation at the custom house, by refusing to grant a © permit to import them. Z "9 You may rest assured that if the Bolshe- na viki intended to bring revolvers and other ‘ firearms into Canada for the purpose of a e revolution, they would never bring them through the custom house, but would attempt to smuggle them into the country, which is an _ offense already covered by the criminal code. Just think of a lot of Reds being armed with .22 calibre rifles, or for that matter with any of the ordinary calibres of sporting a rifles, or shot guns and being opposed to the ~ military or regulars of Canada who are armed with rifles and machine guns, shooting __ a .303 British cartridge! The militia could keep at such a distance from the Reds that their sporting rifles and shotguns would not touch them, while with the .393 British - - ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1211 New DeLuxe Wag Tail Chub A Nature Lure which apparently swims with its tail. The last word in the making of artificial baits. 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Canada. 1212 cartridges, they could mow them down at their leisure As far as the present law is concerned it bas not, and will not prevent the criminal class {rom securing revolvers or other arms to carry on their nefarious trade, as there has been a law on the statute books of Canada for many years, making it a criminal-offense to carry revolvers, knuckle dusters and some other offensive weapons. OF to have the same in your possession. However, the crime wave that has recently swept over the country shows that the old law, and the new amendments to the act, do not prevent the criminal class from being armed with these offensive weapons. This law seems to be like the mule, ““With- out pride in ancestry and without hope of posterity.” A hybrid law that simply results in a lot of irritation and expense to every sportsman and hunter in Canada without bringing any revenue to the Dominion and without being a safeguard against the pro- paganda of the Reds, or a protection against the criminal classes. ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Re *aoed 5 Bes § The officials may not be enforcing this act © eo in your locality, yet it is the law, and you are =. never safe unless you comply with the law. A constable who may have a grudge against . you, has the right of bringing you before a Tok magistrate and upon conviction you are liable : to a fine and imprisonment or both, if you = do not have the permit as required by the : a law. J 4 We believe that all sportsmen, trappers, se hunters and everyone who having a gun, rifle | > or hunting knife should join together and each and everyone make a protest to the member of Parliament from his district, urg- ing him to use his best endeavours to have the law repealed or suspended, as the act itself provides that the whole Act or any part of the act can be suspended at any time by an Order in Council. Don’t wait, but do it now. for if every man will do his part, enough pressure can be brought to bear upon the Government, that they will see their way clear to either remove this ill advised law from the statute books or by Order in Council suspend its operation. ns Do your part today. 3 A a aS Z uate Attention, Revolver Shooters ! ; ARTICLE WANTED—Due to the extra- ordinary number of hold-ups by motor ban- dits and other types of desperadoes, that have occurred during the past few months, we be- lieve it would be a good idea to print two or three articles on “Practical Revolver and Pis- tol Shooting for Personal Protection.”” The editor would be glad to receive such articles from men who have had practical experience in the use of these weapons for the purpose stated. If we can get a good practical article from a man who has been instrumental in disposing of a large number of these undesir- ables, or who has been present at afew of these attacks and noted the effects of the shooting, they would be especially desirable. Many of our returned veterans can give us practical information on this subject. What we want to know is—the actual effect of wounds delivered in various parts of the person by various revolver and pistol cartrid- ges; the best method of preparing for and se- curing efficiency in this method of personal protection; information, if any, as to the pro- bable chances of serious personal injury to an individual who makes an attempt to protect himself against attack; and, suggestions about the best practical weapons to use for this purpose. we We realize that most of our readers have passed the age when they consider it either © brave or especially noteworthy to pack a few pounds of hardware, for the purpose of per-» sonal protection; but, at the same time, con- ditions in many localities all over America — are such that—an ounce of prevention in this respect, is often worth several funerals. Editor. MOOSE AND DEER LOSE THEIR ANTLERS. Editor, Rod and Gun in Canada. As the result of a little argument, I am writing to find out if deer and moose grow a new set of antlers each year. What time « do they drop their old set. When do the young develop their first set of horns? Cc. W. O. Strathroy, Ont. Moose, deer and elk shed their horns every ~ year. They fall off in the latter part of the winter and early spring. The new set are — fully developed by August. Young deer develop a spike the first year.—Editor. Better Pattern Cleaner Burning Uniform Waterproof Higher Velocity Low uniform pressure - —maintained clear to the muzzle not only means less strain on the gun but an actual increase in ve- locity—and elaborate tests show that the lowest pres- sure of all is given by SMOKELESS SHOTGUN POWDERS “The Proof | is in the Shooting”’ It is a fact that— The pressure generated by “Du Pont” averages 10% less than that of any other F powder made, and the ve- E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. locity given to the shot is Sales Department Sreater than thatobtained Rifle and Shotgun Powders Division from any other powder. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE — = 7 | i | f fH i Lim PA iT i Uf aE ( yy The Fox Hound as a Hunting Do Jim GLAAB © HE American fox hound, of which there T are a number of different strains, is, in my opinion, and from past exPetience, the only breed, of hunting dog that any sportsman can rely upon for best results, from hunting rabbits to trailing and treeing bear. Taking each line of sport by itself, fox hunting, coon hunting, big game hunting or fur hunting in general, the fox hound has been found and proven to be superior to all others. As to hunting and trailing in water or rough country, they are surpassed by none; the same applies if trained to. tree coon, squirrel or bear. They have a _ reasoning power of their own; are quick to learn and once trained they are slow to forget. Some hunters are in favor of a cross bred dog; some like a cross between a hound and airedale; others, a cross between a hound and bulldog; still others think a cross between a hound and collie is best. Of course, we- all know there have been a few good cross bred dogs that would run a hot track and get some game, but they are not to be considered ina class with a well bred hound that will pick up a trail three or four hours’ old, run it at ease and get the game. It is natural for a hound to range out and look for a trail torun. Their natural instinct keeps them working until they find one and run their game in or catch it. Stopping to think matters over, where does a cross bred dog get his hunting qualities from? Also, where does he get his ambition to hunt and trail game? Of course, it was from his hound parent and the hound biood that is in him. Therefore, if he is considered a good hunter. how much better would a full blooded hound be with all the superior hunting qualities of which the cross bred has only a small per- centage? How much nicer is he in appear- ance? If in buying a hound you want one for fox, be sure the parenis were good fox dogs and you will have little trouble training the puppies; the same if you want one for coon. Some sportsmen like a long eared hound; others the short eared variety. Some like a large hound, others a small one. These are only minor points and matters of fancy. A hound does not run and scent game with his ears or size. If his legs and feet are good and he has the “grey matter” in his head, he wi'l get there. As for myself, I am partial to a large rangy hound. When I go on a hunting trip or fora walk, I like to have people notice my hound. Not because the large ones are any better hunters or trailers, but just simply a matter of fancy. _ I have hunted with both large and small and find-that size, ears and color should not be considered. ° I do not claim that all pure blooded hounds ~ prove to be the best hunters nor do I claim that all cross bred dogs are worthless, but I do say that a larger percentage of better hunters will be had from pure bred stock. It all depends on the training they get and the way they are handled. I may have a well bred dog and not have the patience to train , = lots oF = eats, thereby saving the day for many a well nigh famished hunter who had dragged his luggage up the rocky steeps TELLS HOW FAR YOU WALK The American Pedometer Regulates to Step and Registers Exact Dis- tances; Simple, Accurate, Durable. Indispensable to every lov- er of outdoor sport and es- pecially to those who love WALKING. 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Send for catalog showing this and our other types of rowboat mo- tors. We also build launch motors. The Caille Perfection Motor Company ~ 103 Caille Bldg. Detroit - Mich. Perfection Motor Co. 380 St. James St. Montreal TOURNAMENT DATES FOR 1921. Hamilton Gun Club—Hamilton—Good Friday. ~ Manor Gun Club—Clarkson—May 24th. Grand International—St. Thomas—June 6, 7, 9. Bob White Gun Club—Niagara Falls—June 18. Canadian Indians—Niagara-on-the-Lake—-June 30, July 1,2. Eastern Canada Championships—Montreal— July 26, 27. Practise day, July 25. HAMILTON GUN CLUB. Another record crowd attended the regular shoot of the Hamilton Gun club on Saturday afternoon, Jan- uary 22nd, when 48 shooters took part at the traps. Ideal pronthey nteeried, and although the events were shot under a distance handicap, some very creditable scores were turned in. _ The very popular. handicap was the feature event of the day. All contestants. were divided into three classes. A class shooting from 18 yards, B class 17 yards and Cclass 16 yards, andin future eventsposi- tions will be govemnee by the preceding score. J In A class W. Barnes topped the list with a possible 25, and is certainly traveling at a marvelous clip, but had no great lead, as M. E. Goodale, M. E. Fletcher, T. Gardiner and E. Harris were right up with 24, while E Sturt, H. Lennox, J. Jones ,H. Kretschman, A. ates and I. Smith all broke 23. : B class scores also were well up, with J. Gray leading with 24 and W. Dynes next with 23. W. W. Living- stone was third with 22. In C class a real battle is on, with J. Griffiths, G. Brown and W. L. Smith all tied with 23, with Colin Smith and J. C. Stout next with 21. : On all round shooting for the afternoon E. Harris, W. Dynes, W. W. Livingstone and M. E. Goodale were tied for high wth 47 out of 50, while W. Barnes was next with 70 out of 75. The scores follow: Shot at. Broke Gr: SEV OM oS eos ted saat ipemadnsticeiek 125 106 WEB ame cic Acc coae sheen teccavenestecesec cbt aererecee! 45. 70 Fi” Kretschmans io icesktcssantcncsssertcnee 150 136° | Dag 8 ra Ce OS Pere caer ea ee 50 47 (a PAaNeVs © totes teatatece atc ieee 60 50 OP HME ED vo ora eaten eres car a tot etear eee 50 43 A) Bates. ck oS piceecake see 50 46 Gri thes ies. acavbanecvosccctcspteshaben eae eee 50 43 J NonteOmery sec uxgssdecose lecthetsestesene: 125 111 Ds As Conkle 0-05 « fake ee a 43 AP PArmenters ook oo iis vscccuecetaccetsserteeacee 50 43 TE SLOUCs vos 50 43 5 ee PO Te rere oer 50 35 J. Griffiths..... 50 45 W. Dynes 50 47 W. Filman 25 17 =— T. Klodt 50 32 J. Emery.... 50 35 N. Young 100 60 OS BP er oo acacs Riess eee es 50 29 WE lone. ekci artancmees 75 56 A Vien Glintet 3. Gi. cet acre 50 31 Ge Brean ioe ninkss sick 50 42 Ge Brinib ise i Sa ceeehchen ck ccs 50 40 et PAS Tr): CEP ae ata See Be 50 44 CG. eT O Ds oe atin sores saeatin cxseetonteds Mtoe 50 29 A> Corer Sian ciescs seal tee eect oc obec eee 25 15 FR SHAVERS cores sectaceasckstecvsagavoretactctaaneeebale 25 20 Nori SISO ni sincscs teseerione cette snes 50 27 FSO VER ie corse sirscatecaecenteetts eeieetlceverazes 5 31 SI GOT yy ss dasevaneencline: Gitetde oe een 50 32 W..o OW. Livingstones ois isis ae 50 . 47 MoE: Goodalet signs nce eek 50 £47 N.S. 5 F. Elli Nels. Long M.E. EH. H. Lennox T. Gardiner nN or Sasson OTTAWA GUN CLUB. Ottawa, Jan. 29.—The regular week-end tournament held at the New Orchard Beach traps turned out some good scores and a pleasant afternoon was spent by the shooters. Five events at ten targets were again card- ed and the winners were all different, with the exception of Norman Brownlee, who repeated last Saturday’s success inevent five. Several shooters tied in eyent one with scores of nine, and S. E. Sangster repeated in event two, whilst the others dropped out. Sammy Hebert captured spoon number two without any opposition with 8x10. The popular hockey player, who has ha only a few trials at the traps, was given a hand a around for his good work. The feature of the season, and indeed a closer competition has not taken placefor some time, than the contest for the spoon in event three. 5 ‘Half the shooters on the list had scores of 8 x 10, and the shoot-off in event four narrowed the tie down to two shooters, Runge and Corby, with cards of 9 x 10. ~ Event number five brought scores of eight each. In an extra event at 10 targets, the President, who had been shooting in a different squad and using the same aus as his competitor, now called for another gun, the eld captain realizing that the use of his own gun was proving his undoing. However, the result was the same at 7x10. Both gunners were now keyed up and friendship was put on the shelf during the race. In another extra at 15 targets, both dropped a bird necessitating still another shoot-off, in. which Mr. Corby turned in a straight, while Fred Runge dropped three birds out of 10. The president can shoot when he ~ uses a good gun. : H. I. Barber, who fell down to 6 x 10 in the first three events, came in with a score of nine, and spoon four was taken care of. Norman Brownlee, shooting below form in four events, got ’em all in the last event, taking spoon five as a result. : The long run prize in these events, a box of apples. preutel by W. J. Corby, went to S. E. Sangster, with 0 straight tacked up. In addition to the spoon in the regular events and the long run prize, the spoon on the 50 targets was added to: S. E. Sangster’s list of prizes, with a total of 43. . This same score entitled him to his first win on the deer head’ trophy, presented by Mr. E. Bedard, also proving the high gun honors. — 3 The luck changed over to the president, as captain. of the winning team. The vice-president’s team were: - losers by a narrow margin of two birds. The scores in detail follow: SJE. Sangater in wteserscsatvevesscopdeciecvs 9 9 5 10 10—43. BP DWV o ER Vaasa cst wnceossecaccance 9 7 3829.8—4 Fe Bedard 6c ascterekyssveseccscocesccesee 8 7 8 8 9—40: Gio: Fiat ale resect fee seve. cassaves 6 7 8 7 98237 Ni dBrownlet oc atececditer.crey-2-cesare 50 36 EPS DEOU BE. cseenecokes poesteeicaiee eae 50 36 BG loa oe fsa ac ones eee 50 39 IT SSG are: stn Sasa rte 50 50 DD: RRasenriees ae eek 50 99 T. Woodland. .....:..-.- 50 39 C. Prudhomme............. 50 99 W. Nicholson........... 25 50 WW? RGeH 7 see ena eee 25 16 S. Honsberger. ........:...- See 15 P.Wismen. (jun) iis 9-22 -csrarankencc-tov cen 10 3 ST. HUBERT’S GUN CLUB. Norman Brownlee carried off the prone honorsin — the weekly shoot. January 15th, of the St. Hubert Gun Club at the new traps, turning in a card of 46 for the two event shoot, which was also the high gun score. Incidentally Mr. Brownlee registers his first winfor the — E. Bedard prize, and wil! shoot in future under a handi- cap of two. e Vice-President Easdale’s team won the team event from President Corby’s squad by forty birds, while * S. E. Sangster had three on Tom Baird in the shoot off — of last Saturday’s tie. The scores follow: = Handicap Event. ‘Two events at 25 targets. Pebert So: «tous a eee x TEAM RACE. ; Presidents. Vice-Presidents. W..J. Corby... Sex easeee: G Easdale.. j............ 33 N.Brownlee.:....+.:. 46 E:L. Faller.....0..%55% 37 ‘E-Baird: 3 Gea 40 F: Bedard = 2.5. 42 W. A. Johnston ...... 40 C. Wallace ©. ...sssc. 23 ». Hébertx..ci ee Total 22 eet aseae, 208 Total is. seem Vice-President’s majority, 40 shots. H..1. Barber-2= 42 O. TT: Ring; ae Shoot off of last*Saturday’s tie; S. E. Sangster, 43; _ T. Baird, 40. ° ST. 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Scat. tee 273 Majority for Vice-President, 26 birds. Extra Event at 25 Taré¢ets. S. E. Sangster, 22; S. Boa, 21; H. L, Barber, 21; H.W. Fairchild, 19. GARDEN CITY GUN*CLUB. St. Catharines, Feb. 5.—The Garden City Gun Club held its regular shoot on Saturday afternoon at their grounds at the Grape Juice Factory. A large crowd of shooters were on hand, and a number of good scores™ were made. The following are the scores:— ) TO TTA: Rae eee NE eee. Pag opus eas 60 48 A. K. Wismer...... 60 44 WY 5 FOROS i Fe cn: o eceucs teaser tasekenas 60 35 PP. Cals tterbuek. 0.5 fat hemes tee 58 48 H.W. Hunsberry 50 47 NE SIONSOrBeR oo2ice ce tcade os -aethactovascncahanses 50 42 IW. FUMNGE Eo Bet dates Re ee, ee hee 50 46 Pe W ILE * us 2s cite Gattsch oes ebwe 50 41 Geo.GClatierbuck:: ©2225. ch acopsatende 50 42 ER PArtin GiGi: 2... otissstasstescoksrtasde ckacseuresce 50 38 A? McGlashan rice coccc kocsis cxvssntarasepaleces 50 35 AR Prefield o55c..; 5.5 tase tare ne 40 20 ALC BPistO pene ss oo t:cssexeesvaceesvueben tienen 40 16 OER Ty Co. BRN ee ae ie a MEA VE DGS, OM 30 1 UE 7 ene Mee Sie REAR Eh 30 12 C. Clatterbuck 30 22 BR a ais o.oo tated ecact ge vatatvareaa at 30 14 7 Bm ES ry See ee pea See Pei SA REED 30 14 Fi: Ghamber aan ooc3 <5 ope eosbcnteceoacstonee 30 12 BO GY GOR Hes te ha esvden cdnncabranpounnt ancealides 30 16 EU SRMRO NE: boos ace ce Casesach tech ndceey okapactpenetoaponcuete 20 16 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA fs A. Notman Skies ict ee AMaye {0 J 10 F. BALMY BEACH WON SECOND TEST MATCH. February 12:—Thesecond match of the series of the ofthe Toronto Trapshooters’ League took place Satur- day afternoon on the grounds of Toronto Gun Club, the contesting clubs being the Balmy Beach and Tor- onto Gun Club, a very large number of shooters and their friends being in attendance, The weather, although not of the best brand, was fair for shooting. The match was won 4 the Balmy Beach shooters, defeating the Torontos two birds, the score bei 115 to 117 out of a possible 125 birds. hot match. "Twas a The individual prize winners and scores out of a — possible 50 birds were—J. Colborne a straight 50, J. E. Jennings,49, W. H. Gooderham 47, G. Anstee 46, H. Winters 46. In the event for high gun from each club, J. E. Jennings won with 23 out of 25, J. Colborne being second with-21. The cash sweepstake was won By H. W. Burke. shooter with the “‘Chinese rigged”’ gun was certainly “‘picken *em.”* Balmy Beach shooters went home we:ring their hats crosswise on their heads. Toronto club shooters went home each man individually “talking to himself,”’ and are still dazed. The scores for Saturday’s shoot follow:— Toronto Club. Shot at. Broke CTT ZOOM yess esate ew cessed cu dade scpsasebadebis dag aedpete 25 16 PEEL IRAN y eoia oot epee oaashtanvdeiptnivadseunk te gates 75 51 COOL Yc Mics cubitacecarteantipete- tacs neat sae deamagnanens : . 68 Lanskal... BE etd eee a i ae 20 Bee WW thas asec e adn ones as pupsprcananche 49 UF UPTCR s canpecisennaczante-segeenas 40 Dre Orda ste esr crennt ccs 80 TR WEES conetecesewccsereor aes 35 TM CG ry oie oe op oeine sean sone na cnessacpentaeins 64 DL Pay ae aes a len WR eee erm 75 49 Be ee Ee Ory Seno nem ore 75 65 Edwards...... 86 Dr ttt) 1 yee ee ee eet poe eee 40 HLUghes. «0 cccesscessscrereessncccteconnensssseonsenenes 57 Amstee. ss .<.c600<. 93 Roach.,... 35 C. Jennings.......... 30 Tsegu sable y Seo a octaak oer oon oon ee oped ogee eae 29 Cpe lsDtrra so inns scant rananvantpeesstrenssnetenereasae 50 37 Papa a Bitty oh Pee eR ty me ere ry aes 25 16 Colborne on oat asipa cakgploedacce tla: oaows a COG 70 WY ied ee hei cose kesaeg va oereenges eer 25 18 19, OT ee eee rr or perenne as 50 42 Pp Gero sn oor he ccc snvesoaalsalecorwecsdnarcestite 25 20 WY ITE CTR a dies eokians shcedes tanucnencanetnaltcarenenogee a a FEAT TISON oe cpsoe shen shes dvoevauatact ou dcceposh--— The |i Covers every phew. of angling. Revillon Wholesale, Ltd. Alex. Martin Sporting Gds. Marshall-Wells, Ltd. Morrison-Blackwood, Ltd. Wood, Vallance, Ltd. Nelson Hardware Co. McLennan Backelly Co. Hudson Bay Co. mgs Tisdalls, Ltd. Merrick-Anderson. oe RH Wood, Vallance & Leggat. Wood, Alexander & James. John Hallam, Limited. YOUR ATTENTION, please, to, the fact at there is a special azine pecuerery devoted to your special hobby. It is four years old; a strong, healthy youngster, aed a bya little coterie of real sportsmen who ow the usiness from Ato Z. You should see it! The American Angler THE ONLY ALL-ANGLING MAGAZINE Contains well- eae een lly illustrated stories by and for ng ade how to get the most sport near home; stories ‘famous angling waters ayenied anglers who have “been everywhere” and who know how to write; daring omginal and timely opinions ns all matters piscatorial; amateur tackle making; fly, bait and surf tournament. Salt water angling is generously treated and angling humor is delightfully illus- trated. Published monthly. Special Trial Subscription $1 50 Six Splendid Numbers . Regular Yearly Subscription $2.00; ’ Canada, $2.35; Foreign, $2.60. Send Check or Postal Money Order to THE AMERICAN ANGLER Candler Bldg., 221 W, 42d St., NEW YORK This Is the* CANADIAN 1921 MADE Canuck Model single shot, 22 cal. ’ bolt action rifle Manufactured by Z The H. W. Cooey Machine & Arms Co. Toronto, Ont. SOLD TO THE TRADE BY:3 Wood, Vallance & Adams. Caverbill Learmont Ltd. D. H. Howden Co. H. S. Howland Sons & Co. Hobb Hdw. Co. Kennedy Hardware. L Lewis Bros. arshall-Wells Alberta Co.Rice Lewis & Son. Ashdown. Revillon Freres Retailed by All Good General Merchants. ROD AND GUN_IN CANADA | FISHERMEN! Western Canada Hardware. aoe AS NATURAL AS LIFE describes the decoys made by Mason of Detroit. The wisest old duck or the craziest old goose will be fooled by the life-like appearance of these decoys. Send for our free catalog. MASON’S DECOY FACTORY. 5901 Milford St., and P.M.R-R. Detroit, Mich. THEY GET THE FISH Because they have the zip and snap’ and quality and workmanship that makes the game fish fightin’ mad every time he takes a look at them. Made for every kind of fishing—and in every class they bring in the big ones. Your dealer has them— insist upon the Genuine. ee ee “s Majority, 12 birds. , HAMILTON GUN CLUB. *~ February 5.—Rough weather did not affect the aah i attendance at the regular shoot of the Hamilton Gun Club on Saturday afternoon, when over 40 shooters took part in the afternoon’s program. The feature —_ event was the second 25 birds in the handicap, andon account of a heavy fall of sleet and snow at that time = the scores in most cases suffered to a certain extent. W. Barnes still has the hold on first place withatotalof == 48, having broken 23 for this event. E. Harris; M8 2 Seb es Fletcher and R. J. Montgomery are close up with 46. C. Syer shot up in this race and for the first event broke them all, but was penalized one bird, butforhissecond — __ ime out, got only 21 for a totalof 45. J.E.Gray,a B class nean, is also well up with 45. Fs Through the kindness of one of the members a > ’ handsome prize is being geen for the longest run durin Z the series, and so far W. Barnes has this honor also wit rae. ~ : 33; while C. Syer is next in line with 31. _Among the A class shooters R: J. Montgomery had high score with 24 and won the spoon. InB 2 class, A. — = Glover and J. Moyer both finished with 22, and on the as toss Glover got the spoon. In C class H. Fletcher left % no doubt as to who should get the spoon by breaking +s 24 out of 25, while C. Stout was also in good form in eae this class with 22. y ~ ge een __W. Barnes had the high average for the afternoon ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1235 ; ° s ° : Canadian Mational Railways Daily Transcontinental Service to the PACIFIC NORTHWEST From Montreal (Bonaventure Station) From Toronto (Union Station) The ‘‘Continental Limited’’ ’ The “‘National’”’ Leaves 5.00 p.m. Daily. Leaves 11.00 p.m. Daily. COMPARTMENT - OBSERVATION - LIBRARY CAR, Standard and Tourist Sleeping and Dining Cars, Colonist Cars and Coaches For fares and full information as to routes, etc., apply to nearest agent, Canadian National-Grand Trunk Railways. TRAVEL 3 Add To Your Collection of Victor Records---FREE We are offering “His Master’s Voice’ records as premiums for new subscriptions to ROD AND GUN Magazine. Two new subscriptions at $1.50 each entitles you to a 90c record. Three new subscriptions at $1.50 each entitles you to a $1.25 or a $1.50 record as desired. Four new subscriptions at $1.50 each entitles you to a $2.00 record. Five new subscriptions at $1.50 each entitles-you to a $2.50 record, and _so on. Send us the subscriptions and we will have the record or records you earn sent you, all charges paid. Sample copies and subscription blanks will be furnished on application. DeparTMeNT Rod and Gun in Canada, Woodstock, Ont. a le a a oS RE SS ee ved petal ’ A ‘ 4 1236 with 47 out of 50 and C. Bailey was next with 46 out of 0. A. Glover, who has been shooting consistently of late, got 45 out of 50. The scores follow:— Shot at. Broke 50 3 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Be St ra sas heen vee nak pawacah cap ashes conser v- pee 9 John Hunter 44 WY) Bh arma eee costese hate ca nev eraneds cntcadyaanates 47 H. Lennox... Re ee 37 N: Leng. ss aie - 66 ~~ Dr. Greene... .. Ei. FLarr is .isscsene 42 M. E. Goodale AD WEL Sanitit, 2.:enp eae sae PS t hh Se ncahscotess 44 AS PRETRETOGES o., saineekg cxstoce 0 vessees Sey avarean 50 ADS oF MON. yo scitateateeeees EEG AMBIT s (a 6 ia onc st vad, acreoes aderniracaveaterbar 50 44 C2 LEMONS 6 hic -csesssaetensereey eS Oy i Eee ieee peers 42 W. Livingstone. i R. J. Montgomery................... 44 H. Newman.... sce 0 SR Ee ae ope ies etc: 208 40 H. Vallance. ......... ae e Wa Gel as oie. sich as-- cesar 43 T.. Easterbrooke:i2).2.i0c cco sie ees oe OF) CETL Roe eee een a ae Pty 46 Bab. ar Rees coeteecae eae scare 2 DG ee pe Ore enti ate Babe 67 Wie Sail ys vi. cannes tectstceceeee erates ‘ean 31 43. SCT eee 41 R.Schoan.... 25 20 LP H. Fletcher....... 64 G Vaan sc eaicion sete 25 10 a ASF DOUGS his. oe ee eG eae ee 55 W. Fonger 25 22 Z RIGHT ROYAL The whole poem vividly portrays his 3 sympathetic insight into the minds of men “Right Royal” by John Masefield, and eae 8 ds published by the MacMillan Co. of Toronto, The price of the book is $2.25. Bra is a splendid poem of a horse race. It is a - 4 poem to stir the blood; and even those most TAXIDERMISTS REQUIRE DOMINION =? a | indifferent to animals cannot fail to thrill to LICENSE 5 ae sar of ai Poa : cae e ser eo In a letter from the commissioner of Bs ne ee arn ee sree eae Canadian National parks of the department __ wins the great steeple chase in the face of great odds. “But a glory of sureness leaped from horse into man, And the man said, “Now, beauty, and the horse said, I can.’ And the long weary Royal made an effort the more, P Though his heart thumped like drum-beats as he went to the fore.”’ The atmosphere of the race and race track is vividly portrayed. **Then came cabs from the railway stations, Carrying men from all the nations, Olive-skinned French with clipped moustaches Almond-eyed like Paris apaches. Rosy French with their faces shining =: From i*_ of living and love of dining. Sile .spaniards, merry Italians, Nc ~&€s, commoners, saints, rapscallions; Russians tense with the quest of truth That maddens manhood and saddens youth; Learned Norwegians hale and limber, Brown from the barques new in with timber. All kinds of bodies, all kinds of faces, All were coming to see the races.” of the Interior, Ottawa, the provisions of the Migratory Birds’ Convention Act that deal — with taxidermists are stated. “The law requires every licensed taxider- mist to keep books, and records which cor- Tectly set forth the name of each migratory game, migratory insectivorous, or migratory non-game bird received; the date and locality of capture; the date received; and the name and address of the owner of such bird. These books and records are to be open to inspection by any game officer at any reasonable time. The license fee for taxidermists is one dollar.” A TOBACCO POUCH FOR CARRYING LEADERS. Robert Page Lincoln. A circular compressed rubber tobacco pouch makes a handy articlefor carrying gut. leaders that a trout fisherman always has along with him onthestream. Simplydamp- — en the inside of the pouch with some water and the leaders will keep soft and pliable and in the best of condition. This is far superior to any of the leader boxes to be had and can be carried in any pocket. ¢ ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 1237 reserve Your Outing _ SS n an Oil An Ideal Decoration For ; Painting Your Den or Office. ND in after years, you and your friends will take great delight in this permanent reminder of that pleasant sojourn you spent in the Canadian wilds—or wherever you went. Your camera snap-shots have possibly not done your trip justice. At any rate, they yr missed the vivid colorings of the woods, the [eS Eis Sait e sky and the water. ; Rod&Gun's Artist Can Reproduce Your Trip Trueto Life In Oil, Pen and Ink Sketch, or Wash Drawing. He can illustrate that incident which stands out prominently in your memory, just as it actually happened—full of life and action. F V WILLI AM Painter of the Out-of-Doors, Designer Ae 2 and Producer of Rod and Gun’s Covers You know his work—you see it every month He will do this, either from descriptive mat- on the cover of this magazine. He excels in _ ter furnished by the sportsman, or from his reproductions of Big Game Hunting, Canoeing, snap-shots, or better still, from a combina- ountain Clim bing, Fishing—any and all of _ tion of both. You'll be delighted with the the vast number of subjects offered by the result and number the picture among vour great Outdoors. Den’s treasured articles. Send us the details and photos; we'll turn them over to the artist. He’ll work for ~ you just as well as he does for us. And the price will be moderate. Address— ROD AND GUN IN CANADA WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO : - A BC OF THE MOTORCYCLE By W.J.JACKMAN, M. E., Author of ‘‘Facts for Motorists,”’ “Crushed Stone and its uses,’”’ and similar books. Pocket size, 250 pages, fully illustrated, leather and cloth. A Show How Book for Owners and Operators of Motorcycles. Modern machines and their vital parts, How to master the mechanism, construction and operation of the carburetor, What the carburetor does, Ignition systems Batteries and magnetos, Practical methods of hand- ling, Various types of motors, Troubles of all kinds and how to avoid or overcome them, Lubrication methods, Transmission or drive systems, How to compute horse power, Relation of power and speed, Cost of mainten- ance on basis of mileage, Some Dont’s that wil! save time and money, Selecting a motorcycle, Hints for the buyer. What an owner should do on receiving a new machine, The first ride. Ly oe i Ce 1) CR aa” Ee eee ere $1.75 Cioth Binding@......:............. $1.25 ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO W. J. TAYLOR Limited, Book Dept., Woodstock, Ontario, Canada EXCHANGE DEPT. = BIRDS AND ANIMALS Fox Ranching—Select stock for sale. Correspondence solicited. _Literaturefree. Blake Vannatter, Georgetown, Ontario. 1-TF RAISE RABBITS FOR MEAT AND FUR—Big mag- azine teils how. $1 per year. Clip this ad now and mail with 75c and 12 issues of the most instructive rabbit maga- zine published are yours. Canadian Fur and Food Month- ly, Brantford, Canada. 1-3T DOGS FOR SALE—Splendid Llewellin, English, Irish, Gordon setter pups and trained dogs, pointers, spaniels and re- trievers in pups and traine dogs. Enclose stamp for description. Thoroughbred Kennels, Atlantic, acai Ae THE BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS OF BERRY, KY., offer for sale, Setters and Pointers, Fox and Cat Hounds, Wolf and Deer Hounds, Coon and Opposum Hounds, Varmint and Rabbit Hounds, Bear and Lion Hounds, also Airedale terriers. All dogs shipped on trial, purchaser to judge the quality, satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Remit American Exchange only. Canadian paper not accepted, as rate of collection is prohibitive. S Eighty-four page highly illustrated, instructive, and in- teresting catalogue for ten cents in coin. 5-TF WANTED—ChesSpeake (dog). Must be well bred, good colour and size, well trained and not over two years. Might consider good pup. J. Coulthard, 2142 Collingwood St., Vancouver, B.C. 3-IT Well bred hound for sale. Guaranteed to run deer or fox alone. Weighs about 70 lbs., 4 yrs. old, loud voice. Will ship C.0.D. Price $25.00 Roy Thompson, R.R. 1., Frankford, Ont. 3-1T FOR SALE—A pair.of trained coyote hounds also several choice pups. J. F. Clare, Vermilion, Alta. 3-IT BOOK ON DOG DISEASES And How to Feed Mailed free to any address by the- Author H. CLAY GLOVER, V. S. 118 West 31st Street, New York AN te ah America’s Pioneer Dog Remedies ENGINES AND LAUNCHES. _FOR_ SALE— Peterboro canoe, varnished cedar, copper rivets throughout, 16f{t. Good as new. Paddles. Write or send $75.00. Gordon NcLean, Uxbridge, Ont. 3-IT Cylinders ground, new pistons fitted. mobile or marine engine like new, send for circular. Guar- antee Motor Co., Hamilton, Canada. 1-TF FOR SALE—Marine Engines, two cycle, two, three and four cylinder. All new. Write for further particulars stating horse power required, to Box L. ROD AND GUN, Woodstock, Ont. TF FOR SALE—23 ft. Semi-speed launch, beam 4 feet, 3 inches, finished ready for engine. ‘This is a new launch, now ready for delivery. For further particulars, etc., write Box F. ROD AND GUN, Woodstock, Ont. TF FOR SALE, WANT AND Makes an auto- — : See: and get them put in aners Order your targets now, elso Advertisements will be | inserted in this Department © at 4c. a word. Send re- | mittance with order. Copy [| should not be later than § the 10th of the month. — GUNS Rifle and revolver ammunition loaded to order. Special — high velocity loads for big game shooting. Reduced oads. for small game shoating, Fired shells reloaded. ee Bros., 616 Cordova, St. East, Vancouver, B.C. 11-11 New Smith & Wesson 455 revolver $25.; new 30 Luger Pistol $30.; 16 gauge Belgium, new $20.; new 303 British Winchester model 95 Carbine, 22 inch barrel $40.; 303 Enfield single shot, 21 inch barrel, $20.;$100.00 new Le- fever, 12 gauge, 30 inch, $50.; new No. 3A folding Eastman Kodak, $25. All of the above are guaranteed new. George Mawson, Box 52, Creston, B.C. poe _FOR SALE—Colt’s 22 Automatic Pistol, new condition — highest offer. B. Hutchinson, Gretna, Manitoba.’ 3-FT WANTED—Game Getter, | description and price first letter. C. Erskine, Alta. eter e FOR SALE—Marlin model 1893, 32 special. Good as new. Price $30.00. R. Wicks, Norland, Ont. Sek Tye ~ FOR SALE—.22 Target Pistol, Stevens New model, 8 inch barrel. Factory condition. $24.00. Will send Be subject to examination. Shedden, Glace Les 2. Games = en FOR SALE—.303 Savage, 26 inch barrel, regular. Perfect condition, $35.00. Jacob H. Friesen, P.O. Box 66, Rosthern, Sask. 3-1 FOR SALE—Sharp’s Carbine, cal. 50; reloading tools, ammunition. All like new, $20.00. J. Marshall, 130 Mutual St., Toronto, Ont. : Give 25) H. MacVicar, e 3-ET cae perfect condition. FOR SALE-—22 highpower Savage rifle only used last o.. Cost $72.50, will sell for $37.50. Box 25, hot un. -il | . ous 280 Ross Al condition also 40 rounds ammunition, will trade for a new 250-3000 Savage bolt action. Roy Thomp- ‘ son, R.R. 1, Frankford, Ont. 3-F Eg FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—Marlin 12 gauge, re- peating shot gun. Willexchange for small marine gasoline engine about2H.P. S.N. Sees, Port Elgin, Ont. 3-IT FOR SALE—Colt’s Single Action .44, Savage .22 — repeater and saddle holster also stock-saddle. Thistleth- waite, Prince Albert, Sask. Sar ae = FOR SALE—280 Ross model 1905, specialgrade, with = complete reloading outfit, $90.00. Weiss_Alpine binocu- f lars, highest grade, with case, $65.00. German officer's field glass with case, $32.00. Particulars sent to anyone ; a interested. C.R. Darough, Nelson; B.C 2 id apt FOR SALE—25-20 Marlin repeater, good condition, ! takedown trom-bone action, carrying case, cleaning a rod, 100 smokeless, 100 black powder cartridges. $37.50. — Norval Kilgour, Shawville, P.Q. sO Ses WANTED—.22 calibre single shot pistol. 458 Spadina Ave., Toronto. nh cara eee nsoee PS Brarley, .— 3-1T FOR SALE—One .22 Colt automatic, target model, 6% inch barrel, extra magazine and holster to fit same. Allin good condition, $25.00. R. E. Thornton, Box 111, Woodstock, N. B. 3-1T WANTED—Western Automatic trap, single or double, & state lowest price. Bex 24, ROD AND GUN. 2-2T GUN CLUBS—Send me your old Western Automatic. > eight fifty per thousand. n Long, Hamilton, Ont. _ . 2-3T itd hel seed. i} We makea specialty of Fine Gun Work Re- GUN REPAIRING W. A. BROCK stocking, Barrel Boring, Stock-Bending, Barrel _ Browning, etc. j All Work Guaranteed For $50.00. A 10 gauge high grade English hammer atop action, genuine damascus barrels 32”, bar eeley and ngs fore-end. Beaut- ifully engraved. Made for J. L. Rawbene of Tor- onto. A bargain. ee BROCK’S The Sporting Goods Store of London, Ont. ° OLD MONEY WANTED. _ We Buy and Sell Old Coins. $2 to $500 each paid for hundreds of coins dated before 1895. You may have a valuable coin and not know it. Send ten cents for new illustrated coin value book, 4 x 6. Guaranteed prices Get posted at once. Clarke Coin Co., — re ~ SPECIALS ~ Guaranteed Germinable Wild Rice and Wild Celery Write Robert Campbell, Keene, Ontario. 12-TF YOUR FUTURE FORETOLD:—Send dime, birthdate for truthful, reliable convincing trial reading. Hazel Hause, Box 215, Los Angeles, Cal. 3-27 WANTED AT ONCE—Salmon and Trout fly iresadtar Steady work. Apply Canada Fishing Tackle Makers, Ltd., Trent River, Ont. 3-IT WANTED—Old catalogues of firearms and Sports- man’s supplies, back files of Sporting Goods Dealer, Arms fos * __ that want to locate in new district. + WAN 1915 and March and the Man, etc., Capt. Hugh Smiley No. 4 Mohonk __ Lake, Ulster Co., N.Y. 3-3T WANTED—Deer hunting location for club of twelve Would purchase buildings if any. Write Box 26, Rod and Gun. 3-IT TED—As early as possible, copy of the August _1919 issues of ROD AND GUN IN CANADA. ROD AND GUN. 3-IT Pair of ten point deer heads, well mounted, new. W- Helmka, Listowel, Ont. : St 6S Ie Field Glasses lower than before war. American dollar now buys three dollars in French francs. Take advantage now. For example: No. 1425, powerful achromatic lenses, beautifully finished black, nickel trimmings, case, straps, only $5.00. Try to duplicate second hand for double. Write for bulletin all sizes. 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