Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from University of Toronto http://www.archive.org/details/p9rodguncan09cana Feu » ¥" | & V-. Lil a6 VY) < § ae Y) 8 WE C 4 4 eo RSD TESS OEE A BO SE, WINCHESTER LOOK FOR THE REDS TRADE MARK REG INU S PAT. OFFICE HIS safe-guarding trade-mark now appears on every package of Winchester goods. It is the hall-mark of guns and ammuni- tion as perfect as brains and experience, coupled with a com- The Red W is to guns, cart- plete plant, can make them. ridges and shotgun shells what the word ‘‘Sterling”’ is to silverware. For Your Protection “‘Look for the Red W” - NEW HAVEN, CONN. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO., ROSS CANOES ARE THE ACME OF PERFECTION. YOU OUGHT TO HAVE ONE AND HAVE THE BEST. «BR BS a Hi i a iA sk (Ulta a i There were more Ross Canoes used in New Ontario in 1907 for prospecting than any other make. Send for catalogue, it tells all about them. The J. H. Ross Canoe Co. ORILLIA, ONT. -— ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. I The Baby’s Picture. It makes no difference how often baby goes to the photographer ——and for the sake of admiring relatives his visits should be frequent —the record of his infant days is incomplete unless there are home pictures to supplement the more formal studio photographs. Mother or father or sister can readily make a series of pictures of the little ones that will grow more precious year by year. Picture taking is easy now and inexpensive too, the Kodak has made it so. “The Kodak Baby Book”’ is the title of a helpful little booklet that tells how to successfully keep a photographic record of the baby—-how to make the pictures, how to arrange them. Illustrated with a dozen home pictures of the author’s own baby. Free at any Kodak Dealers or by mail. CANADIAN KODAK CO., Limited TORONTO, CANADA: When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. i W& ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. | For Target and Sporting Purposes The best in the world. 303 Calibre, Military and Sporting Patterns. Special calibres to order. CATALOGUE ON APPLICATION ROSS RIFLE COMPANY | Quebec | When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. z {i PD ee 4 ” « pe oe uit No. 10 $3.50 No. 14 $5.00 No. 12 $4.00 Size/of seats .4.... 00s. a ee Lox IgXI9g 18X17 Height of back from seat 23 in. 26 in. 24 in. Height of arm from seat 9% in. Io in. 20 in. HE distinctive feature about my Willow Furniture is not the price, but the quality—lots of Art Furniture is sold at less, but you would not want it at any price when placed alongside of YOUNGER’S WILLOW FURNITURE. I grow my own Willow. I supervise personally the workmanship. I guarantee strength and durability of every article. As to BEAUTY of this furniture, it speaks for itself. The handsome set, illustrated above, sells for $12.50, It comprises three comfortable arm chairs, made of Willow. That means coolness and comfort. There is no reason in the world why you should sit in an unventilated and unhealthy upholstered chair when you can buy these artistic chairs at prices from $3.50 to $10. We also manufacture a variety of other Rush and Willow Furniture, including Settees, Arm Chairs, Fancy Chairs, Invalid’s Chairs, Tables, Picnic Baskets, Automobilist’s Bakets, and numerous other articles. Special bas- kets of any style made toorder. No extra packing charges for shipping to outside points. -'Send for catalog. W. YOUNGER, 666 Yonge St., Toronto. New EYMAN Patent A PAIR OF STARR Combination Rear Sight “BRACKETED” Hockey Skates WILL BE GIVEN FREE to anyone sending 4 SUBSCRIPTIONS TO ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA These skates wil] stand rough usage and Now accomplished for Savage Rifle Model 1899 No. 1A Price $3.00 are warranted to give thorough satis- faction. We can supply any skate Send for catalog of Sights and || | Maryfastured.by the Starr, Manutactur Bow Facing Rowing Gear Address Premium Department THE Rod and Gun and Lyman Gun Sight Corporation Motor Sports in Canada MIDDLEFIELD, CONN., U.S. A WOODSTOCK, ONT. When writing advertisers kiudly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. 4 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Cigar Sells on its merits; it needs no praise from us, but we want smokers of good cigars to recognize this— that’s why we advertise.¢ : Harris, Harkness & Co., Makers,) ;Montreal. Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers about these and other home-made Traps, by A. R. Harding. : : : THIS book contains 232 pages, size 5 x 7 inches, and 84 drawings and illustra- tions, printed on good heavy paper. The most complete book on how to make ‘*home-made” traps ever published. The book contains twenty-eight chapters. Building Deadfalls and constructing Snares, as explained in this book, will be of value to trappers where material— saplings, poles, boards, rocks, ete.—are to be had for constructing. Price, cloth bound 60c. Postpaid 70c, or To anyone Sent Free sending 2 Subscriptions to Rod Gun and Motor Sports in Ganada. W. J. TAYLOR, Publisher. Woodstock, Ont. When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 5 WHEN IN DETROIT | THE STOP AT Absolutely Fireproof THE TULLER| {" Wellington’ "| Cor. Adams Avenue and Park Street Vrniag take Specialties : havea world wide reputation. Bromide Pavers Gaslight Papers Films In the centre of the Theatre, Shopping and Busi- ness District. A la Carte Cafe. Grille Room. Service Unexcelled. Ask your dealer or write Every Room With Bath. European Plan. WARD & CO. 13 ST. JOHN STREET, MONTREAL. Rates $1.50 per day and up M. A. SHAW, Manager SVVESVVsseVSesVSeVSoeoesoesgssesesessws ~ | SVVSVSSSSSSsseseseses CHESTNUT “CRUISER MODEL.” BUILT FOR ROUGH WATER AND HARD USAGE. Special design makesit absolutely the strongest and safest cruiser canoe the world has yet seen igh at the ends to enableit to ride large waves. Handles beauti- fully in rapids. Easy to portage. It may be propelled either with pole or paddle. Write for Catalogue and Prices. THE CHESTNUT CANOE CO., Limited Fredericton, N. B. Royal Motors ARE ROYAL Unexampled in their simplicity Unparalleled in their design. Unsurpassed in their quality. Unqualifiedly a superior motor. | 2 Stroke—one or two cy linder—2 1-2 to 15 horse power ~a no _ Write for catalogue Royal Equipment Co. PA gore SA ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. MANUFACTURERS BY HARDY BROS. THE GREAT PRACTICAL ENGLISH FISHING ROD, REEL AND TACKLE MAKERS produce the best in the world. If you want the greatest satisfaction you must have A “HARDY” Cane Built Rod A “HARDY” Perfect Reel and Tackle 4@ THE ENGLISH FIELD SAys: ‘‘It is to Messrs Hardy of Alnwick we owe our supremacy as rod makers. Hardy Bros. International Tourna- ment, Crystal Palace, won 16 cham- pionships. Hardy Bros. have been awarded forty-one Gold and other awards. “#7 We publish the finest and most extensive Catalogue which is sent free to any address. HARDY BROS. ALNWICK, ENGLAND GLOVER’S IMPERIAL DOG REMEDIES. The result of twenty-five years’ experience in the treatment of sick - DOGS. FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IN SPORTING GOODS IN CANADA PREE BOOK ON DOG DISHASHS AND HOW TO FHHD On application to H. CLAY GLOVER, V.S., 118 W. 3ist St., New Yerk U.S.A. Never-Lose Key Tag. Unusually novel and practical. Only Key Tag which makes it easy for the finder to return lost keys with @ OR0P IN apy out cost or inconvenience. Twe parts aa en BOX ORw hinged together. Name, address and <~ POST OFrice postage on inside Finder simpl POSTAGE & ADORESS | reverses aod drops in nearest INSIDE box. Avoids necessity of offering re mee := ward for return German Miver ~eeS handsomely made, Me postpaid Agents wanted C.E LOCKE MFG. C0., 159, e723, KENSETT, (OWA. A Business Education Free “THE ART AND LITERATURE OF BUSINESS” By Charles Austin Bates Complete, in six volumes, will be sent FREE to anyone sending Thirty Subscriptions to Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. These volumes enter fully into methods suitable for all kinds of business and point out methods leading to success. The books are bound in cloth, will make a fine addition to any library and to the young student will furnish an excellent business education. Address W. J. TAYLOR, Publisher Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada Woodstock, Ont. GUN CABINETS For home use. Capacity four to ten guns and other articles. Attractive and useful pieces of fur- niture. Hundreds in use the world over. Suitable for presents. Write to-day for large catalogue of Gun Cabinets and Den Furniture. Hudson & Son, Ellisburg, N. Y.. U.S.A. When writin~ advertisers kindly mention Rod wd Gun and Motor Sports im Oaneada. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 7 A Collapsible MINNOW | | TRAP |. Steel Fishing Rods Take a “BRISTOL” with you on your next trip. Then you will know positively why “BRISTOLS” have for 20 years held the un- questioned fish rod supremacy. ‘‘BRISTOLS”’ earned their reputation for reliability under all conditions. rey Where can you find an expert fisherman w ho does not know and love the ‘‘feel” of a “BRISTOL.” Heknows that the ‘‘BRISTOL’ represents not only the acme of skillin catching the wiliest nib- blers, but also the acme of skill in landing the gamiest fighters. Every coos has the word “BRISTOL” tamped on the handle. L ook forit. Refuse imitations. Every “BRISTOL” guaranteed for 3 years. Beautiful illustrated catalogue mailed free. WILL BE GIVEN FREE TO ANYONE SENDING 7 SUBSCRIPTIONS TO ROD & GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. This Trap is a proven success—made of THE celluloid, unbreakable, and invisible in HORTON MFC. CO., water. Weight less than 30 0z., complete 32 Horton St. Bristol, Conn. with metal case. * Bea o NPRPEST -Perserequrppyaappyranyet. oe mae: ee 2 7 - SURE TO RUN AS THE TIDE. UP TQ DATE BOAT or LAUNCH WITH AN ENGINE THAT ISAS If so we can supply you. Established 25 years. JUTTEN’S Boat and Launch Works Foot of wellington st., Hamilton, Ont. A Matchless Cigar Lighter Will be sent FREE to anyone sending us One Subscription to Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. Address, W. J. TAYLOR, publisher, Woodstock, Ont. When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. 8 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA Majestic Has No Superior | arnt 7 y Ye airs | Indispensable and unequalled for Automobiles, Motor Boats and Household Uses. MANUFACTURED IN CANADA BY MAJESTIC POLISHES, Limited 575 Yonge Street, TORONTO, CANADA When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor .Sports in Canada. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 9 M_« AND ALL OTHER WORK REQUAIG Any Battery is Good WHEN NEW For Ignition But how long do the majority of Dry Batteries last Uitte) §$=when put on heavy ignition work ? Not long. They are not made to stand it. The Red Seal Dry Battery is especially made for ignition work and gives the utmost satisfaction wherever used. Long life and high efficiency are the character- rerum) istics of this battery and you will make no mistake F. Ss Jersey City, KJ. Raveanap- cells. in specifying Red Seals when in the market for dry >, ELITE ERy AW Elite Battery Ammeter Don’t throw away your batteries until you have tested them. A whole set is often thrown away one cell only is defec- tive. The Elite Am- meter registers accur- ately to 30 amperes. Comes in neat leather case, PRICE $2.00. when For tent or camp use. Three cells of Mesco Dry Battery will give ita speed of 1500 revolutions per minute. Pulley is fur- nished to run as a small motor. Runs at a cost of about three-fourths of a cent per hour. Mesco Dry Batteries 15c each extra. Practical and substantial. For Camp, Auto or Boat EUREKA SEARCHLIGHT. Replaces the oil lamp for above uses. Each battery will illuminate the camp several thousand times. Ab- solutely safe, substantially constructed, convenient size. Case is of nickel plated metal with soft leather- ette covering, each 75c SEND FOR CATALOG L-=22 Entitled SOMETHING ELECTRICAL FOR EVERYBODY. A postal brings it MANHATTAN ELECTRICAL SUPPLY C2 NEW YORK 17 Park Place 14 Murray St. CHICAGO FACTORIES 188 Fifth Ave. Jersey City, N. J. Ravenna, Ohio When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. 10 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. CATALOG FREE Learn this great art at home by mail Mount Animals, Game Heads and Birds The Splendid Art of Taxidermy can now be Learned Quickly in Your Own Home SPORTSMEN, HUNTERS, ANGLERS, NATURALISTS—It is no longer necessary to lose your fine trophies nor to pay taxider- mists exorbitant prices for stuffing them. You can now learn this great art for yourself easily and quickly during your spare time. We teach you by mail in your own home to successfully stuff and mount all trophies. Also to tan all kinds of hides and furs and make them into beautiful rugs and robes. Easy to learn by men, women and boys. By taking our course of fifteen lessons you will soon be able to do perfect mounting and can decorate your home, office or den with the choicest of art. Thousands of men and women of every vocation, bankers, lawyers and business men, are members of our school and endorse it in the highest terms. + H | Professional taxidermists earn from $2,000 Big Money in Taxidermy to 83,000a yearand thereare nothalf enough taxidermiststo supply the demand. Mounted specimens seil readily for big prices. Many birds and animals now killed and thrown away can be turnedinto cash. {| TAXIDERMY BOOKS FREE—We will send FREE postpaid our beautiful cat- alog,acopy of the Taxidermy Magazine, pictures of mounted game, sample diploma and hundreds of Jetters from students, allfree. Write for these books today—now while you think of it. Remember yeu learn at home during your sparetime. Write today. Northwestern School of Taxidermy, Box 10 S, Omaha, Neh. (= We mount or sell all kinds of animals or game heads. Price list on request. Write today for our beautiful catalog and maguzine. Single and Multiple Cylinder 2 Cyle and 4 Cycle Engines. an up-to-date Racing Canoe, or D O You Want to Get a fsehe Motor Wea a Cruis- ing Canoe or a Family Row-boat? If you do we can supply you with the best on the market at a reasonable price. We designed and built the war canoes used by the Ottawa, Brittania & Carleton Place Canoe Clubs, winners of the Championship of Canada, ‘04, '06, 07. Write for catalogue. THE CAPITAL BOAT WORKS Bank Street, Ottawa. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. II No. 305 Six Volt 70 Ampere MADE IN CANADA. “Oulcan Are standard equipment on all high grade Automobiles and Motor Boats Established 1898 SPARKING. BATTERIES YACHT LIGHTING and SPARKING SYSTEMS Over 300 Outfits in use in Canada. GUARANTEED FOR TWO YEARS The CROFTAN STORAGE BATTERY CO. $3eaurci Sass, Montreal and Kast, John Forman. Winnipeg, Cooper Engine Co. Vancouver, Vancouver Shipyard, Ltd. HAVE YOU A Canoe A Gasoline Engine A Launch A Rifle or Gun A Camera A Dog A Fishing Rod or Reel A Tent An Automobile That you wish to Sell or Exchange If so you can reach a large number of buyers through a condensed advertisement in this magazine than can be reached through any other channel. RATE 2 CENTS PER WORD PER INSERTION See pages 36 and 37 this issue—send in your ad- vertisement with remittance for next issue not later than February 2ist. APAIR OF FAMOUS DUNNE DIAMOND TUBE SKATES will be given FREE to anyone sending 12 subscrip- tions to ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Start out for subscriptions now before the skating season commences. For particulars address, W. J. TAYI,OR Publisher, Woodstock. Ont, Every Motor Boat Owner is Interested in Spark Pluas We have made arrangements with the R. FB. Hardy Co., New York, to supply us with a quantity of their famous Sta-Rite Spark Plugs, which we are oing to GIVE AWAY TO MOTOR BOAT OWNEPS. FOR TWO SUBSCRIPTIONS WE WILL, SEND ONE OF THESE PLUGS Only a limited number to be @istributed. PLUGS SELL FOR $1.25 EACH Subscription Blank. W. J. TAYLOR, Woodstock, Ont. Enclosed find $1.00 (postpaid to the United States $1.50) for which please send Rev AND GUN AND MomTor Sports IN CANADA to the following address for one year beginning with......... ...... Number. Gitysor shawn e=s>: 5-7 Province or State 12 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. = ‘Aga “ = = Shooting Jackets WITH OR WITHOUT COLLAR THREE GRADES 3 °4.50 °6 e Guaranteed all wool, seamless, elas- tic, close fitting, but not binding, com- fortable and convenient. Designed es- pecially for duck shooters, trap shooters, etc., but suitable for all ouldogs Pua Must be seen to be appreciated. Made Made of Oak, antique finish. Height 5 ft. ro in. Width 28 in., depth 12 in. only in three colors—Dead Grass, Oxford Gray, and Scarlet. Send dd f s 523 Broad one of oargun cataiogs’ Lhe 1H. H.Kiffe Co." yee The 1907 Edition of Marble’s 56 |:;c. Catalogue is nearly exhausted. It contains an article by Mr. Marble entitled “HOW TO USE A COMPASS” Mr. Marble first used a compass in his boyhood days as trapper and hunter; later in his business of timber estimator and surveyor. His 25 years of experience “in the silent places’’ has enabled him to write a most instructive and interesting article—and made it possible for him to conceive and invent these and 36 other specialties. Our catalog shows 90 ‘‘extra quality’’ Specialties for Sportsmen. Sold by deal- ers or direct, prepaid. Money back if not satisfied. . Safety Pocket Axe No. 2—Nickle plated steel and hard rubber handle, $2.50, Ideal Hunting Knife No. 42—5 inch blade, $2.75, 6 inch $3.00 ; with sheath, Safety Hunting Knife—4% inch blade, $3.00 ; 5 inch $3.50. Waterproof Matchbox—Size of 10 guage shell, soc. Improved Front Sight—1-16, 3-32 or 1-8 inch beads, Ivory or Gold, $1.00. Reversible Front Sight—Same size beads as Improved, $1,50. Jointed Rifle Rod—Brass sections with steel joints. Cannot break, $1.00. Rifle Cleaner—Brass guage washers on spirally bent spring steel wire, soc. Flexible Rear Sight—Always in position unless locked down. The lower sleeve locks the elevating sleeve and holds disc stem rigid, $3.00 Standard Front Sight—Beads same size and colors as Improved, $1.00. Handy Compass—Fastensto coat. Always in sight, jewelled needle, $1.25. MARBLE SAFETY AXE CO., 101-129 Delta;Aye. Gladstone, Mich. PARTLY y REVERSED a ae tS eee When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. YOU MAKE A BIG MISTAKE! If you fail to get our catalogue and prices BEFORE BUYING YOUR NEXT SEASON’S MOTOR BOAT but do not write us if you are looking for cheap trash, WE DON’T MAKE ANY We do our own boat building and turn out nothing but the highest class of goods—any size and shape—your designs or ours. BuffaloMotors are our standby. What's yours ? MOTOR BOAT DEPARTMENT Merchants Awning Company Ltd., Montreal 25 TO 29 NOTRE DAME ST. EAST. Nothing Useless Put In Nothing Useful Left Out This accounts for our success. ® Buffalo Marine Motors are designed and built to give satisfaction and do it. Write for 1907 catalogue and get Ms: Ca HOMES | posted as to new sizes and styles. Our New Slow Speed Kngine fills a long felt want. BUFFALO GASOLINE MOTOR CO. 1218-30 Niagara St. BWwREAcE O, “Ns Y. When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. The Adams Catalog It is different from the for 1908 others. So is the is Now ready ADAMS ENGINE. DO YOU WANT A Stevens’ Crack Shot Rifle? If sosend TEN yearly subscriptions to Rop anpD GUN AND Motor Sports 1N Canapa, and we_ will send you Those who have used them say one of these popular rifles. they are worthy of their name, “CRACK-SHOT.” For further particulars address: W. J. TAYLOR, Publisher Woodstock, Ontario. When writin advertisers kit Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 15 Wall Papers There are many strikingly handsome and original effects in NEW WALL PAPERS and we can suggest many dainty and artistic schemes for treating the different rooms of the house. We feel confident of being able to meet the requirements of the most exacting taste, as our stock embraces from the dainty inexpensive paper to the most elaborate manufactured by the leading English, French, American and German makers. We mail samples free on request and our expert advice as to decoration is always at the service of our customers. next season. We can supply you with the best. Send for Catalogue. ey The The W.J. Bolus Co., Limited | | William English Canoe Co., 245 Yonge Street, TORONTO. Peterborough Ontario ’ . No is the best time to order a canoe for A Fountain Pen Free One of CONKLIN’S SELF- FILLING PENS will be sent FREE to anyone _ sending Six Subscriptions to RodandGunand Motor Sports in Canada Address Wer: TAYLOR, Publisher, Woodstock, Ont. When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. 16 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. ENGINES Save Trouble And Expense Get the Right Engine First A Satisfied Canadian Purchaser _ writes as follows: Montreal, Canada, Nov., 1907 STERLING ENGINE COMPANY, Buffalo. N. Y. Dear Sir—In replying to your letter of the 12th inst. I beg to state that Iam highly satisfied with the 20-40 H.P. Motor which I installed in my launch, built from your B-P No. 102 by Mr. John Morris of Hamilton, Ont. The boat was guaranteed a speed of 16 miles per hour, being a semi-racer. I was greatly surprised, however, when I ave her a trial spin on the Hainilton Bay over the surveyed mile course which she did in three minutes flat, mak- ing a rate of 20 miles per hour. I have since timed her several times and accomplished the mile well under three minutes. I undertook the trip from Hamilton to Montreal, a distance of over 400 mites, no small undertaking at this time of the year, especially through Lake Ontario. I may say we reached ourdestination without the slightest trouble of any kind from the motor ; she simply worked beautifully. One day on the road we worked her nineand three quarter hours without a single stop, a very serious test on any gasoline motor, being anxious to get through the lake as soon as possible. As soon as your catalogue and prices are out for 1908 kindly send mesame as I am contemplating getting one of your six-cylinder motors for racing purposes. I remain, Very truly yours, (Signed) E. P. GUY, Members National Association Engine and Boat Builders, Montreal Street Railway Company. sett MULLERITE The Perfect Bulk Smokeless Powder. GIVES HIGHEST VELOCITIES AND CLOSEST PATTERNS. Many championships won the world over. Unvarying as to stability, velocity and pattern. Loaded by all cartridge companies and the leading hand loaders. Leads always for penetration and regularity of pattern at all ranges. Even in granulation, and the hardest grain bulk powder in the world. Regular in combustion and pressures lower than the average. Ignition perfect in all makes of shells, Total wins this season at Monte Carlo over $15,000 besides the ‘‘Grand Prix,’’ Every test in comparison to other powders shows superiority. A Trial is Our Best Argument. Shoot It and be a Winner. SCHOVERLING BROS., Sole Agents, 6 READE STREET, NEW YORK. Wood, Vallance & Co., Agents, Hamilton, Ontario. When writing advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports tn Canada ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 17 22 Calrtber } This gun makes its first appearance this year and @3 brings with it many new features. Though the rifle sells for a moderate price ithere is not a piece of cheap material in it, and the workmanship is in every way up to the high Mar standard of quality. Like the other HZar/z .22 repeaters the rifle isa take-down and can be packed in a very small space for traveling. It also handles .22 short, long or long rifle cartridges without any change whatever in the This rifle is sure to be one of the most popular in the market. log, which explains this and all other Medel 20 eee le . Ml (4 rlin Hee is athe very new — and best thing in fie DD caliber repeating rifle line. mechanism. Thus, with long-rifle cartridges the rifle is instantly changed from a short range rifle to an effective arm at 200 yards or more. The barrel is of special gun-barrel steel carefully and deeply rifled with the Ballard system to give perfect accuracy and long life. The action is on the trombone principle.and has a solid top, side ejector and regular closed-in MZr/iwz frame. The frame is of best quality special gun frame steel free from seams. The working parts are made from best quality crucible steel with contact points hardened against wear. Send three stamps for new cata- 72 guns more fully than we have space for here. Thelllarlin Firearms Co.,67 Willow Street, New Haven, Conn. THE ‘SOVEREIGN’ THE SPORTSMAN’S AND PROSPECTOR’S FAVORITE Made from genuine Chrome Tanned German Calf Skins and Waterproofed. Every pair guaranteed genuine Oak Tanned Soles, Waterproofed. Full Bellows Tongue to top. The most Waterproof Boot made and will not harden when not in use. Made in Tan or Black, specially to your order. 1-2 Pint Can Waterproof Dressing with every pair. 9 INCHES HIGH - - § 8.00 12 - - § 9.00 15 = a - - $10.00 Express fully paid anywhere in the Dominion. None genuine unless stamped ‘‘Sovereign.” Kindly remit cash with order. The Laidlaw Watson Shoe Co. AYLMER (WEST) ONT. Sy pe” Ltd When writine advertisers kindly mention Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. 18 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. COMMONWEALTH HOTEL Opposite State House, Boston, Mass. = = = = Offers rooms with hot and cold water for $1.00 per day and up; rooms with private bath for $1.50 per day and up; suites of two rooms and bath for $3.00 per day andup. Weekly rates on rooms with hot and cold water and shower baths, $6.00 to $9.00; rooms with private baths, $9.00 to $12.00; suites of two rooms and bath, $15.00 to $22.00. ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF Stone floors, nothing wood but the doors. Equipped With Its Own Sanitary Vacum Cleaning Plant Long Distance Telephone in Every Room STRICTLY A TEMPERANCE HOTEL Send for Booklet. STORER F. CRANTS, Manager ) For GuN 1°23 in One’’ Oil Has No Equal for oiling trigger, lock, every action part. Does not dry out quickly like heavier oils, gum, harden or collect dust no matter how long gun stands. **3in One’ cleans outthe residue of burnt powder (black or smokeless) after shooting, leaving the barrel cleanand shiny. It actually penetrates the pores of the metal, forming a delicate per- manent protecting coat that is absolutely @ M impervious to water or weather. No acid. F A test willtell. Write for sample ¢ Y€C bottle. GW. COLE COMPANY, 55 New St., New York,N.Y.? Catch em and Hold ‘em. THE NEWHOUSE TRAP Never is absolutely reliable. fails to hold the game. Positive in action, easy to set, will not get out of order. Made in all sizes to catch any- thing from a rat to a bear. Send for Catalogue ONEIDA COMMUNITY, Ltd. Niagara Falls, Ontario When writing advertisers kindly mention If you desire to make a reputation as an expert cocktail mixer, buy the “Club” brand, follow directions, and your friends will wonder where you gained the art. Many a cocktail you have drunk and complimented your host for his art of mixing—the truth is you had a “Club Cocktail.” it merely required a little ice to cool it. You can do it just as well. G.F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Proprietors 29 Broapway, NEw YORK, N. Y. HARTFORD, CONN. LonDOoN GOOD HEALTH! DRINK Bromo Mineral The well known morning bracer. Sweetens a sour stomach. Sold at all Hotels in Canada. ALSO DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF HOTEL GLASSWARE AND HOTEL SUPPLIES. BROMO MINERAL CO. 86 Church Street, Toronto, Ont. Rod and Gun and Motor Sports in Canada. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. 19 SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF THE COMPLETE henzcs,| SPORTSMAN’S a3 CAMPING AND CAMPING OUTFITS G U | D OUTDOOR LIFE © PROVISIONS E. oD, OUTFITS RECEIPTS © CLOTHING ANGLERS MANUAL — HUNTERS’ " it h, “1h ) MEDICINE FISHERMEN’S AND AND SPORTSMEN GUIDE SHOTGUN SHOOTERS’ MANUAL CAMPERS MANUAL * WOODCRAFT Y OT J CAN GET IT BIG GAME HUNTERS’ MANUAL RIFLEMEN'S GUIDE TRAPPERS’ GUIDE SECRETS OF ALL ARTS BOATS CANOES © DOG TRAINERS’ CUIDE eee wiies ie is unquestionably the best, most complete and AND 1000 OTHER SUBJECTS most authorative book ever written for sports- sauanca ECE A EEN cca | | Men. Contains 544 pages, with 1,000 illustrations ; weight 20ounces. Is the only complete sportsmen’s library in one volume. 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Hickson. ../......:..: ET ge eat SL Reverie-) Virs..Charlotte Et “Leigh. 2.02. of. ie. LN € catia oo ba Ganadian Horests in Early Winter. FF. J. McVeigh... ....... S17 An Adventurous Snowshoe Tramp: A Schoolmaster’s Outing. (Co als de ovor OVS ie cizaiaie 9 ieee ea ge leer ey ae foil) ihe Buffaio. A.R. Douglas... .. BO ae aN eens MERE: gee 822 mm Winter on the Mississaga.. James Dickson, O. L. S....... 823 Crossing the Waterways: A Long Canoe Trip. Martin Hunter. 828 omseteNtcer ham: ©. Ho Hoopetin.. x2: ese. db eos cine: RB In the Nova Scotia Silent Places: My First Moose Hunt. W. A. \ AVA RC miko oer iat a Ca ere mC RS ges NT Er 834 A Moonlight Snowshoe Tramp on the Edge of the City. G. J. Witt Me peters athe coisa te Ok os he aA, ee 7839 A Retrospective. Holiday. Sydney Hope................. peste ihe Woods in,VWinter Dime: F. B:ssDoud....::..0..5.5.5..64 845 Hunting on Vancouver Island: A Dangerous Encounter With a Beige ee Ste | SBA Neen cous weenie ese Wyse we cat) Oe 846 itcay tldiceone We Dy HODSOM.. 3. eet os Sg eels 850 shes VVioodcock:; John: Arthur‘“Hope... 205. 2:2). Jee. 1M ee OO mowWinter Wolf Hunt. Ps E. Bucke.:..... are nant fiat eee trey 853 A Fall Holiday in the New Brunswick Forests. J. W. Spears... 856 Sum\anishing Meera. C. Pratt, M. B.vP socks he. 6 os 860 How to Preserve Our Big Game. E. E. Lemieux .........°.. 862 Speanmesunder Mitticulties. ““Jos..\Chapman, .2.... 045.6... 863 Memacami. Edward Angus-............ ARNE. s caa eet iy OL A Tragedy of the Wild. Arthur Ormandy ...... ies ee Oe An Attempt on Mount Pinnacle. Peter D? McTavish......... 871 Protection of the Deer in Ontario. Rev. A. Murdoch, M. A., Jon ir) TD Rel Sal ase peat en te One Pn Speak (an eee Se sae: Books of Interest toSportsmen ..... PM es Rise a oa en un ar A 875 mouetinexpected Pry. - Jos. Chapman... ... .... 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C., Eng. 5 Beekman St., Temple eaten New Work: N.Y ee aSaaqqq====—=@™EuuuyTEICNNNNNN eee oO LAKE TAMAGAMI. Zz za = < ) < = a) fe Wn =) ie) = < fu 1-2) = fe a @ | ROD ano GUN || VOL. IX FEBRUARY, 1908 PZ B | ve) Snowshoeing in Canada. The Benefits and Pleasures to be Obtained Therefrom. BY W. Wis the winter storms rage, Can- W adians never forget that prepara- tions are being made in that way for an enjoyable time later on. They know that layer upon layer of snow is being laid until the fences disappear and they are enabled to look out upona white world—a _ characteristic Canadian scene. Such a scene to the average Canadian means snowshoeing, a fine exhilarating sport, the joys and pleasures and benefits of which are known only to those who in- dulge in it. When such a scene breaks upon their vis- ions, Canadians realize wh at such a snow means to their country and bless Kipling for giving expres- sion to their thoughts and feelings in such agrand way as through ‘‘Our Lady of the Snows.” Each month of the twelve in our year has its full quota of joys in sports and pleasures for Canadians who avail them- A CANADIAN WINTER SCENE. HICKSON. selves of the opportunities presented to them. Winter—King Winter—although the fierce nor’ wester or the cold bleak nor’ easter ‘‘that stirs the Viking’s blood” may blow with all their force, has yet joys that are denied to balmy spring, scorching summer, or hazy autumn. Yes, winter has pleasures in his keeping that no other portion of the year can surpass. uf In the latter part of January, and the whole of February, when old Sol has at- ained a fair height above the horizon at midday, he sends out his rays in long slanting plumes to this good old world m a king countless gems, with myriad varieties of beauty, shape and appearance glittering in the morning light, showing the whole white mantled plain as one sheet of burnished diamonds. . What can be more pleasant on sucha winter morning than for a party or mem- bers of a club to don their blanket suits, 814 tie the thongs of their new shoes and start across the country or through the forest for a snow shoe tramp lasting a couple of hours? The healthy exercise invigorates the frame, causes the blood to flow freely and warmly and makes the whole body better. Those who indulge regularly in this _health- ful winter pleasure aver that it excels the joys to be obtained from either rod or gun. I shall not attempt to decide the respective amount of pleasuretobederived by devotees of the several sports, leaving every lover of outdoor life to practice that which pleases him the best and which he finds from experience to be the best suited to himself. If people do that which pleases them the best it is certain they will do it well. P The practice of snowshoeing is as old How far back it may im- as it is pleasant. go into the mists of antiquity it is possible to de- termine. When Canada _ was first discovered the Indians were using them and snowshoeing is one of the few things the In- dans taught the white man. The early set- tlers of Can- ada, the French ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. of Nature they became reckless and lawless and easily managed to set at defiance the Royal edicts issued for their restraint. Adventure and ro- - mance are inseparably connected with this old time pleasure in Canada. Of course it is not only a pleasure but also a ready means of travel and many thous- ands of miles which could have been covered inno other fashion have been traversed on snowshoes. Snowshoe Clubs are now quite com- mon in Canada and their costumes vary with the tastes of the members. Some adopt a picturesque costume of white slashed with red, others wear all red, the St. George’s Club of Winnipeg make a fine turn outin a costume of Hudson Bay style consisting of the blanket coat and toque-of white slashed with Royal blue, with blue epaulets on the shoul- ders, sash and stockings of Royal blue, knee b reeches with heavy white du ffe 1 trimmed wi th blue, and moose skin moccasins for foot wear. Usually each member of the Club wears a white sweater over his vest before he dons the Club’s uni- Voyageurs, the form. Coureurs de All through bois, ‘‘runners the Kawartha of the woods,” Lakes district soon learnt to PREPARING FOR A SNOWSHOE TRAMP. it is usual for use them and the people -to became as expert as their teachers, The Coureurs de bois were bodies of young Frenchmen who liked not the steady work of agriculture but became fascinated with the roving backwoods life. They found charms in the wilder- ness such as have appealed to many since their time. They roamed through the then unbroken forests pushing for- ward with their frail birch barks over lake, river and portage in summer time, and traversed portions of Lakes Erie, Ontario, Huron and Superior on their snowshoes in winter. In the wilds make jaunts on snowshoes on fine winter days and the popularity of this style of walking has been long established. Our illustration shows Mr. W. T.C. Boyd of Bobcaygeon, Ont., and family out for asnow shoe tramp. Bouncer, their tame deer, is enjoying the outing although he has ‘‘to hoof it.” Many Clubs arrange .hese walks tor an hour or two usually in the afternoon or even- ing, to some rendezvous which is nicely located in the forest. At the point de- cided upon they call a halt, build a bon- fire, smoke and have a chat and oftea ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA times a lunch, for snow shoeing is a fine appetizer. The homeward trip has for its goal the lodge or some hotel for supper. Songs, games, feats of skill make the evening short un- tilit is time for those desiring repose to seek their homes. Often indeed this program is varied by extending the tramp to some house, lodge or hotel for supper followed by a dance. The sight of the dancers in full costume with moccasins on their feet is one not soon to be forgotten by those who may witness it. On such an excur- sion as this as many ladies as gentlemen will join the party and make the outward trip. For the return journey a sleigh will be provided for the ladies while the gentlemen face another tramp. It fre- quently happens that one or more of the male members of the party make excuses in order to be taken in the sleigh on the homeward ride. This, however, is not regarded as a popular move onthe part ofa gentle- man and is frowned down, Snowshoers are nothing if not earnestand such anaction as the one describ ed is consider ed effeminate by the majority of them. It is amusing as well as exhilarating when a party of gentlemen, who are as good as professionals, start out with the understanding that each of them shall clear every fence in their path. Young men, used to high jumping, find no diffi- culty in this program if there are no barbed wire fences to be cleared, Older men and amateurs had better excuse themselves from any attempt of the kind, and be satisfied with climbing the fences as they reach them. I remember a very amusing incident which once occurred to a member of a pa:ty adopting this program of clearing OFF FOR A SNOWSHOE TRAMP. 815 allfences. They had not gone half way when they came to a barbed wire fence, and acouple of the leaders, who were the most agile, cleared it with ease and grace. All, however, were not so fortu- nate and one _ individual succeeded, after a most desperate attempt, in get- ting his feet, legs and the greater part of his body clear. The barbs caught the back part of his strong duffel breeches from which he swung with his head down and his heels up, oscillating like a pendulum till two of his comrades released him from his ludicrous predicament. It is needless to tell the reader that after this’ exper- ience he carefully climbed any barbed wire fences he came across in future snowshoe tramps. Those who are learning this healthy winter exercise should nev er ‘attempt any of these daring feats: © They should first con- tent themselves with walking steadily and as they become used to their footgear they may increase their gait to a lively walk. There is no harm, and com- paratively no risk, in a num- ber of novices trying their powers in places where the ground is level and the snowsoft. In such cases tumbles do not mean broken limbs or even scratched faces and it is from such tumbles and premature trials that they are likely to merge into the ranks of experts. Many of the older Clubs arrange their outings fer evenings and in such cases after rest and amusement the return is made by moonlight. If only the moon- light is good the outing is simply perfect and then youhave snowshoeing at its best. The Provinces of Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba and parts of the western Prov- inces all provide ample fields for this 816 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. manly and healthful sport. No country in the western hemisphere can come up to Canada for snowshoeing advantages. Much money has been spent in build- ing gymnasiums for young people who live in our towns and cities. In its place this is all right and I have not a single word to say against gymnasiums. I believe, however, that if therewere more well organized snow shoeing clubs in order that youths might take larger shares in this most healthful of out of door sports it would contribute more to both their mental and physical develope- ment than the gymnasium—at least dur- ing the winter months. Although wood rangers, trappers, ex- plorers, lumbermen, and Indians have used snowshoes to such an extent as to have enabled them to do much more work than would have been possible under any other circumstances the pas- time has not come into such general use as it certainly ought to have done. With the great wave of public feeling in favor of outdoor life which has distin- guished the last few years it has become more popular and will no doubt soon take a foremost place amongst our win- ter sports Snow shoeing has great advantages over any of our indoor winter sports. One must be in the open air and a brisk snow shoe tramp through the pure air of a Canadian winter is an enjoyable ex- perience in itself which very few things indeed can equal and none surpass. ~ Reverie. MRS. CHARLOTTE E. LEIGH. My loved one sleeps. The night wind cool Makes music through the rustling leaves; A large campfire, like ancient Yule, An ashy shadow now receives. The tents are three, with two in each, Fatigued with hunting all the day, Their rifles lie within their reach, Should aught through darkness near them stray. Four soft eyed hounds are stretched around, And follow in thetr dreams their prey; Bright moonlight falls on tent and ground, And is reflected in the bay. ’Tis there he lies; and I sit here, Within our distant city home, Yet moonlight shines as soft and clear, And night winds rustle as they come. My loved one sleeps. A peaceful sleep, Beneath Heaven’s starry canopy, May angels round him vigils keep, And sunrise wake him joyfully! Canadian Forests in Early Winter. BY ERNEST J. MCVEIGH. and four feet of snow? The native of the sunny South might well an- swer in the negative, with a shudder, and prayer to be delivered from all such, and small blame to him, for it does sound terrible, and he knows no better than to take it as it sounds. To us Canadians however, ‘‘Our Lady of the Snows” is never more fair than when dressed in her white robes, taking her deep and re- freshing sleep while she stores up strength and richness for that ever new and wonderful miracle, the Canadian Spring, and we may well say ‘‘now isthe Winter of our discontent made glorious” —by our Winter sports! The Norwegian ski has to a great ex- tent superseded our own Indian snow shoe with the dwellers in towns and cities who go out for exercise, but they will never drive the snowshoe out of the forest, where the length of the skiis ren- ders them useless among the trees and brush. In November each year there is an army of Canadian Sportsmen in our for- ests and wild lands hunting the deer, and most anything else that comes in their way. Most of them know with what joy the first light fall of snow is greeted, and how much itis likely to add to their pleasure and the success of their hunt. But this first fall is generally gone again ina few hours, and the deer hunter is back at his desk or work bench before the real pleasures of the ‘‘bush’”’ with snow on the ground begins. This time comes in asa general thing from the 20th November to the 15th or 20th of December, after the snow has come to Stay, but is not yet too deep for walking. Then is the time to visit the woods. Even the greenhorn may then read the signs spread out before him like a print- ed book! The streams and lakes are not yet locked in their long winter sleep, and the deer and partridge are still in their prime for food and all fur is at its best. Now poor stupid man can begin to understand Ty life worth living- in zero weather, something of the teeming life of the for- est. How plain now is the track of the deer, and how many there seems to be as compared with the first of November, and here beside this single track, and not the largest, Oh, no; is the great imprint of the wolf pad, and you note the brute was walking, just walking, just walking at his ease, he is so sure of his dinner by the time he needs it. As your mind flies along those two tracks to the final tragedy, you grip your rifle and pray for just one moment’s glimpse of the grey coat and slinking form. Oh; how you wish for it, what a day that would be could you just plant one bullet in that shoulder, but such luck comes to few indeed, more is the pity! And here is the track of a walking partridge. How bravely he was step- ping out, for you are sure it is a lordly cock, and you follow along, not that you want to kill him particularly, but just be- cause—. He has his snowshoes on this cbap, and you smile at the conceit that he is just enjoying his walk because they are new, why not? you have done the same thing yourself. How far he has walked, you didn’t think a partridge ever walked so far. But what is this, coming in at right angles to the bird track? It is another, but how different, not so big as the wolf track but just as deadly, for it is the Red Fox, and you unconsciously hasten your steps as if you would warn and save. But alas! close beside a log there is the end of the won- derful little snowshoe track, the mark of a little body in the snow, a few feathers, and the fox track goes on alone! As you stand and think it out you hear a soft thud and here comes a rabbit. Gee whiz: sonny you are in a hurry, he goes by like a shot from a gun, and as you glance back along his trail your gun comes up quickly, but not quick enough for that black shadow was a Fisher, and he saw you first, or as soon as you saw him anyway. Well, bad luck to him, he didn’t make his kill that time! Now what is this track? A _ bird ot 818 some kind, bigger than a partridge, but not asign of a snowshoe, you hear a croak and glance up to see a large black bird skim over the treetops. Of course, that is the track of the Raven, true son of the North and the wilderness; when the last migrating bird has left our On- tario forests, he comes down from some- where further North and takes posses- sion, only to follow the winter back again from whence he came. Now the Shantyman must hide his mid-day lunch well if he works not close to where it is, or he will go hungry at noon, and curse the black thief that has robbed him. Here down by the pondis a funny trail. Has some man been dragging a body here? There is no sign of man. It is the trail of the Otter, and that strange mark in the snow is his long, supple body, for his front legs are so far ahead of the hind ones, and they are both so short, that the body drag's in the snow. Don’t spend too much time look- ing for him, you may see him but not likely, and you needn’t look for signs of the enemy that is hunting him, there won’t be any, nor will you finda track following that dainty trail left by a Mink down near the water. No, sir; these are the hunters, not the hunted. And so the trails go and the life of the forest is laid bare, and it is all a tragedy. See this tiny little track so very small, that was made by a mouse, just a little mouse, smaller than one you find in your pantry. Follow it up and you will likely see the end of it between the marks of a pair of wings; an Owl got him. Kill and be killed, the smaller and weaker they are the more enemies they have, the stronger and better able to care for themselves the fewer they haveto fear. Nature’s cruel, relentless law, from which there is no escape. Is it waste to create life to be destroyed, oris it economy to destroy life that life may continue? How much of it all do we understand? little enough I guess. Were it so arranged that the lower and more useless lives (from our point of view) perished to sustain the higher and more useful life, we could reason it out. But we cannot understand why a beauti- ful and useful partridge should give up ts life to feed a useless Owl, or thievish ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Fox, nor whythe Deer should be made so grand and gentle to furnish a meal for such a brute as the wolf. Man is called the wasteful animal, and he is, but does not all Nature set him the example? Even here however, comedy and trag- edy walk hand in hand. There under ~ the fallen spruce your eye catches sight of a movement that means life of some kind, and you approach with caution What a picture presents itself! For a space of six feet under the shelter of the branches the ground is free from snow, and quite smooth. Sitting along the edge of this with tails pointing your way, and heads pulled in close to the shoul- ders, are seven plump, matronly hen partridges, while strutting back and forth before them is a noble cock. He stops for a moment to take a look at you, and some of the hens turn their heads, but you stand so perfectly still they are reassured, and he goes on with his march. Down the line he goes, with a soft cluck and snap of the wing, full stop at the end, eyes front, left wheel, and back he comes. Oh; the step of him, the stiff held head, the chest thrown out! Full stop, eyes front, right wheel, march, and back once more—while there is a soft flutter along the line where the members of the harem sit! Did you ever see anything so very funny? Or anything like it? Why, of course, now you remember, it was on Sparks Street, and the Guards were out on church parade, the pavements were filled with our girls in their best clothes to see the boys go by. See that young officer, his tail feathers are on top of his head, but otherwise he was the twin brother of this ridiculous fellow! Bad luck to you, would you make fun of your betters, I will knock the swelled head off you, and you raise your rifle with murderous intent. But you don’t fire. At your first movement the march stops, the fluffed feathers sink close to the body, the neck stretches out, and the wild fear shines out from the beautiful eye. No, hang it all, I won’t, and you step back slowly until far enough away, and go away around that tree top so that you may not disturb the only bit of real comedy you have seen in along day’s march through the woods. An Adventurous Snowshoe Tramp. A Schoolmaster’s Outing. BY C. H. HOOPER. 6 OOK, look, look at the man! LI What are those things on his ) back?” This, as I stalkedalong a side street in moccasins, toque and mitts, with the old familiar ‘‘clap-clap- ping” of the rackets behind me. And her companion frankly confessed an ab- solute ignorance in regard to what ‘‘those things’”’ could possibly be. Winter, indeed thou art a stranger amongst us, or Canadian folks would not talk so. . But winter has been with us nowa whole week, therefore we must not grumble, for last year we saw not his face at all, nor yet the year before. The snow began to fall on Saturday at seven a. m. We looked at it casually —sneered a bit—and wondered if it would last till breakfast time. By eleven a. m. half afoot had fallen, and we grudgingly said to each other that there might be sleighing. For hope so often deterred had made our hearts sick. By night, hadcome a foot—we had vis- ions of snowshoeing. But it was dreadfully wet, hurled before a northeast gale, and threatening to turn to rain at any moment. All that night the snow fell. On Sunday morning eighteen inches of it lay on the ground—frustrating the churchgoers, but filling our hearts with joy unspeakable. Were our fondest hopes to be realized, were we to have snow- shoeing, and in the Christmas term too? We were. That night came the frost, the crust formed—our prayers were answered. But ‘‘Tubby”—a skeptical soul—would take no chances. On Saturday afternoon he was fighting the gale on the ‘‘mountain” top, plodding through a foot of soaking snow. Thought he, ‘‘I will not trust this winter weather for one single night. I have not hada racket on for two years; ergo, I take my snowshoeing now, for, peradventure, the morning dawneth, and the snow be gone.” He returned exhausted. In two hours he had had much condensed snowshoe- ing; but with -satisfaction he reflected that the season could not now rob him of at least one strenuous tramp. I was not so precipitate. Besides I had a pressing engagement that after- noon with a snow shovel. And so we both worked in our different ways, and I reflected that by thus taking time by the forelock, I should gain much on the ‘“‘morrow-morn.” But all night it snowed, andin the morning I again as- sumed the shovel, and proceeded to do over again what I should not have done the day before. Meanwhile, Tubby kindly came down to ‘‘jape” at mea little, ‘‘You should have waited,’’ quoth he, ‘‘as a wise man doth, until the storm be abated.’”’ This was annoying. Then he related how he had also stolen a march upon me in the matter of a tramp, which annoyed me more. y For several days afterwards, I could not go; then, quite unexpectedly, I went. Tubby did not accompany me; he had broken a shoe. I commiserated ‘*crocodilishly,’’—warned him against the sin of precipitation, gave him my _ bless- ing, and departed with ‘‘Jess.”’ The first tramp of the season is usually enjoyable; but the mere fact of its being the first is not sufficient to render it so. Other causes combine to bring about the ideal outing. One must not, for instance, anticipate. A planned and longed for excursion invariably falls flat. And yet unexpectedness alone is not sufficient to insure success. An intangible something remains—a psychic state,perhaps. Rarely, we make the move at the exact moment when all conditions, known and un- known, are combined in our favor. The result surprises us. So was it on this tramp. 820 The last night of the term had come. It was probably now, or never, for who will promise us winter weather after the holidays? Moreover a gale was blowing, and the moon obscured by dark and rushing clouds. Everything seemed un- propitious. Jess was reluctant to leave the other chaps. I thought 1 could de- tect in him a half desire to ‘‘chuck it,” and exchange a wild goose chase for the last night’s jamboree, with its various creature comforts. We had even promised to bein by lock-up, a fatal frame of mind in which to start. Yet we had unconsciously chosen the psychological moment for our tramp. Before we had our rackets on a minute, I felt the leaven working in me. By some subtle thought transference, I knew that Jess also felt it. Nor was I mistaken. ‘‘I should like,’ said he de- liberately, ‘‘to take a header into the snow.” And that is how it affected him. An elderly retired ‘‘Captain of Foot,” once out with me, stopped short in the middle of a vast sheet of snow covered ice, where space spread round us palpably without end. I expected poetry. ‘‘Let’s yell!’ said he suddenly, and we did yell, and our voices sounded thin and strange and far away and lost in the silent void. And that is how it affected the elderly retired ‘‘Captain of Foot.” | Words- worth feltit—much more than we—he says: The mountain and the gloomy wood. Their colors then to me An appetite, a feeling and a love— But then he was a poet, and poets are allowed to say things like that. It af- fects us. differently. Some, I have known, desire to roll large stones down steep places, and with satisfaction, watch deep and and their forms, were them shattered on the rocks below. There be those who will spend whole afternoons in this amusement, and when evening comes, retire well pleased with work well done. With me, when the moment of complete enjoyment comes, I yearn to communicate my feelings to others, but cannot. Common prose would be no fitting vehicle for my theme —and, being no bard, | remain tongue- tied. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. To return—thus ‘‘high and disposedly” we crossed a couple of fields. We were in the teeth of the wind, but the clouds were breaking, and something told me that the night was ours. I was trying the leather strap attach- ments which are now used universally in Montreal instead of thongs. Their sim- plicity is great; with a twist of the heel the shoe is slipped on or off at will. The night would show if their virtues were indeed of sterling quality. Still, in the back of my head, there lurked a doubt about the buckles. What if they broke? I wisely took a good stout yard of lamp- wick in case of emergency. Presently we entered the woods at the head of a little valley which lost itself in the second field. I put Jess ahead, for the place was new to him, and _ the scene grew more fairy-like every minute. The steady ‘‘crump, crump’’ of the rackets changed to a softer sound. We cut in an inch or two, but the air was cold and the snow, in consequence, light and dry. Down the gully we threaded our way, the rush of the wind growing more and more remote. The half gloom around us fled at intervals before a flood of moon- light. The hard woods stood sharp and bare against the sheeted hillsides, while the light twinkled in innumerable sparks from the loaded bending branches of the evergreens. Round each _ bend opened up another vista of snowy wood- land, its usual beauty a thousand times enhanced by the witchery of the moon. Deeper and deeper we penetrated into the woods until we reached the valley’s end—a_ secluded dell, traversed by a stream, now hidden by the universal blanket of snow. ‘‘Here,” quoth I, ‘‘will I light the pipe of peace.”’ Tobogganing mitts, as I have heard Tubby remark, are not the best things to ‘‘smoke in.” It is true; one must take them off to fill and light up and, as they reach above the elbow, this is a nuisance. Then, to press down the glowing to- bacco with a woolly thumb produces a most unpleasant taste in the mouth—in- cidentally it burns the mitt. Such con- siderations are of little moment on a night like this. As the blue cloud rose from the bowl, and the sweet aromatic ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. smell assailed my nostrils, I realized that here was’ indeed contentment. waited silently by ‘‘Breathing with such suppression of the heart as joy delights in’—or at least I supposed so. What he actually said, however, after a long silence was ‘‘Isn’t it bully?” and this, from the silent Jess, expresses volumes. Who does not remember his first moonlight snowshoe tramp? Plain, or- dinary objects assume a different charac- ter in these mysterious rays. Thereisa suggestiveness, abouta half seen vista through the trees, a snugness under the sweeping lower branches of the pine; and over all there rests a muffled silence, stark silence,only intensified by the plain- tive calls of the owls from the tree tops. We became aware that nature was smiling on our little walk. With reso- lute hearts we had sallied forth into her presence when laggards kept the house; we were to have our reward. The wind was steadily decreasing, the clouds had all cleared away, and over- head the stars winked frostily, while the full moon poured down her cold white flood. ‘“Let’s get on” said Jess. Then I took the lead and, wishing to give the boy some work, struck down a ravine half choked with raspberry canes and underbrush. Here we _ stepped high, floundering much inthe deeper drifts, catching on the raspberry stems, an- chored firmly at either end, until down I went—one shoe off and my leg up to the thigh in a hole. Examination showed one of the patent buckles to be broken. Happythought—the lampwick! Out it came and soon we were under- Way again. Jess mysteriously lagged behind. As he said no word, I refrained from turn- ing round, and when we regained the open, he quietly came up abreast, cool, collected, quite the casual coureur-de- bois. Who can forget the companion who always lags behind; who is ever asking you to ‘‘wait a minute; whose thongs are never right, and whose toes or heels or corns are ever giving trouble and necessitating a halt? ‘‘Mal-de-raquette,” like ‘‘mal-de-mer” can only be cured by ‘‘hard use.” I have had my own toes frozen while wait- Jess” 821 ing for such a one as I described. Since then I wait no more, but let the unfortu- nate wretch proceed as best he may. One such walk will teach him more of tying thongs than hours of careful in- struction. This night, at least, I re- flected, my comrade is not of that ilk. Over hill and dale we tramped in the glorious light until we reached our turn- ing point—a solitary grave—the stone wedged into the trunk of a giant pine planted at the head just eighty years ago. Here we paused, asis my wont, and ruminated. ‘‘This, my boy,” said I, after the manner ot Mr. Pecksniff, ‘is the sort of place to be planted in— miles from the nearest house, se- cluded, quiet in the woods.’ ‘‘Here might one ‘‘lie through the centuries,” as Browning says, undisturbed by the ‘‘madding crowd.” Now when it comes to quoting Browning and Gray, one must be in a very exalted frame of mind indeed. But Jess caught the meaning at once—‘‘thus facing the moon,” said he, neatly capping the idea. But on such a night strange thoughts are not long with us. The animal is up and must be doing. By a long two miles across the open, taking fences, ditches and lanes as we went, we reached the foot of the ‘‘moun- tain.” Then, turning homeward, we skirted the lower slopes, with the little wind left at our backs, and in our faces the silver disk of the moon. Passing a tangle of raspberry canes, a confused and muffled ‘‘walloping”’ sound behind mecaused me to turn. Jess was down, and muttering—well, not his prayers. ‘‘Want a hand?” “No thanks, I’ve been down twice before to- night.”’ Then he explained the cause of his mysterious lagging behind in the deep ravine some miles behind. To come a cropper in a snow drift, among the underbrush, with snowshoes on is no joke. The most experienced sometimes take a good five minutes to get up again. But Jess was game, hence he had made no sound. The end of our tramp was now but a mile ahead. Comparing notes, we agreed that this was a fitting windup to a ‘ripping’ term. With juvenile optim- ism we planned a longer tramp including 822 a few more congenial spirits, and a sup- per in the country; then we passed out of the woods, across the golf links to the toboggan slide. To our surprise it was in full swing, though the snow had been with us but four days. ‘‘I would give a good deal for my little ‘‘Blizzard’”’ here now. What a glorious end to a glorious tramp it would be,” said I, asa sinuous eight- footer rushed by, undulating over the bumps and sending the snow in puffs like smoke from her curled over bow. ‘‘Hi, you! Do you want a ride?” came a hail from high overhead—from Heaven, it must be surely. ‘‘Right-o!” I roared back to this most opportune invitation, and we scrambled and heaved ourselves up the steep hillside, until, panting we reached the top. Here an angel in moccasins and toque smilingly indicated his wait- ing toboggan. Off came the shoes in a jiffy, and we threw ourselves on the cushionless ribs in glee. I, as the heavyweight, took the bow, the angel steering, and Jess packed chuckling in between. ‘“‘Ready?” ‘‘Right-o!”—we were off. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Then came the first quick drop, the glorious swoop, the rise and shoot from the bumps and the mad tearing down the lower slopes. In front I crouched low, forgetting in my joy, my pipe, clenched tight but streaming sparks as we rushed like acometin its orbit through the frosty air. The angel, not being fire- proof, naturally closed his eyes, and thence came our destruction. At the last incline, half a mile from the steep take-off, we grazed a drift; a cloud of snow sprang up before us welurched, slewed, the lee side caught and scooped the snow and in a moment, amid a whirl of arms and legs and snow and fire we rolled in a heap to the bottom! Breathless but radiant we extricated ourselves, snowy from top to toe; the cause of the accident was explained and apologized for; but in my heart I was glad of that lucky pipe, for to its aid we owed our dramatic finale. Once more we donned our rackets, and with hearty farewell shouts resumed our way. Long after lock-up we arrived at the school, a little tired, a little sleepy, but withal supremely satisfied with our mid-winter night’s reality. ive Buttaion ce BY ‘A, i. DOUGLAS. Long years ago the buffalo roamed At will, o’er these vast plains. 3ut now his shaggy form is gone The trail alone remains, The Redskin with his lust to kill No mercy for him showed The arrow quivered, then sank home The great beast’'s life-blood flowed. A few bleached bones in coulies deep Washed by the many rains Alone thy monument shall be Thou monarch of the plains. A Winter on the Mississaga. BY JAMES DICKSON, O. L.’ S. NTIL a comparatively recent period the pine timber of Ontario was not looked upon as an asset of any great value, or asa source from which any considerable revenue was ever likely to be derived. The quantity was consid- ered practically inexhaustible, and noth- ing whatever was done to either regulate the cutting or preserve it from destruction by fire. Alla man who desired a right to take the timber ona certain block of land had to do, was to notify the Department of -Crown Lands that he wished to acquire a limit fronting on a certain lake or stream bounded in a manner best suited to his Own interests, and in the event of there being no rival claimants the request was granted. A Surveyor, also named by him was given instructions to lay the berth out in the field and report the same together with the plan and_ field-notes to the Department. Generally speaking the cost of the survey was about all it cost the lumberman, a rental of three dollars per square mile per annum to be paid by the first of April was exacted, and dues amounting to one-half penny per cukic foot on the manufactured article and on sawn lumber in a like proportion was all the revenue that the government derived from the vast forests. No Inspectors were sent into the woods in winter in those days to see that all the cut was ’ accounted for, and as no provision was made for the prevention of fires, millions of feet were annually destroyed from that source alone. When, however, Confederation became an accomplished fact and Miss Ontario launched out into house-keeping for her- self, a new sun began to shoot its rays above the economic horizon, and it began to dawn upon our rulers that in our pine timber alone Ontario possesses a rich in- heritance. They also awoke to the fact that at the rate at which it was being made away with by the axe and fire, if drastic measures were not very soon adopted, the forests, vast as they were, would soon become exhausted, and the provincial treasury be none the richer. It was therefore determined to abandon the old system of disposing of the right to cut the timter, call so many lots and concessions of the surveyed townships in the Huron and Ottawa Territory a timber berth, and divide the country lying north of the Mattawa and French Rivers, also north of Lake Huron, and extending some forty miles north, into berths each six miles square and numbered consecu- tively; also whenever it was deemed best in the interest of the province, to offer some of them for sale by auction to be knocked down to the highest bidder for cash. The payment of such bonus to- gether with a ground rent of five dollars per square mile per annum only gave the purchaser the right to cut the timber and before he could dispose of it he had to pay a further sum of so much per thou- sand feet according to the measurement of sworn Government cullers, licensed experts who had undergone a rigid ex- amination. Those sales were extensively advertised and the Government sent out trustworthy and trained estimators to ascertain the quantity and also the quality of the timber to be offered, also it’s con- venience to flotable streams or other means Of transport. By adopting this means, the authorities were enabled to fix a reserve bid and lumbermen had “ample opportunity to also have out their experts to give them confidential reports. By adopting this method, in many instan- ces, more money has been gathered in to the provincial treasury from timber stand- ing in the woods than was realized alto- gether for the manufactured article only a few decades ago. Many millions of dol- lars have as a matter of fact been, gath- ered in from this source, and to the peo- ple of Ontario through channels so ob- vious that it is not necessary to men- tion them. The first of those sales were held in the autumn of 1872 and the writer was engaged by a firm of lumbermen to _pro- ceed to the north shore of Lake Huron to outline and estimate the quantity of 824 timber on a number of berths which they had purchased without having sent a man in to ascertain their worth. I left home on the eleventh of Novem- ber of that year. The party consisted of two timber estimators, two chainmen, four axemen, and a cook, ten, all told and with the exception of the cook, who joined at Little Current, the expedition was made up at Collingwood. My supplies were procured at Toronto, and we took passage on the steamer ‘‘Waubuno,” which a few years after- ward went down with all on board. She was commanded by Captain Campbell, then a weather tanned veteran,and who I believe is still buffetting the storms. The vessel got under way late in the afternoon ot the fourteenth and made Owen Sound after a rough passage at 10.30 the same evening. This being intended as the last trip of the season the vessel was literally packed with goods and passengers. Owing to stress of weather the captain did not venture out until one p. m. on Saturday the 16th. We steamed eight miles to Presquisle, where the storm having again come down, we lay until 7.20 whena fresh start was made. As the gale ac- companied bya blinding snow storm, again increased, the vessel was run in behind Cape Croker and a line passed to an American schooner riding out the gale at anchor. Here we lay until day- light, when we once more put out. After battling with the elements for half the day the attempt to cross the bay was abandoned and a course laid for ‘“Tover- mory Harbour” which point we thankfully steamed into at sundown. The gale continued with unabated fury till noon of the 19th when it finally set- tled down and the engine was once more set agoing at 12.30 p.m. At8p. m. we steamed into the dock at Killarney and the middle of the next afternoon arrived at Algoma Mills where both men and sup- plies were disembarked. As my work lay along a _ parallel of latitude run bythe late P. L. S. Salter and which line was the south boundary of timber berths, numbers 188, and 194, (194 isnow the township of Otter) two of the berths I had to outline, and as my plansshowed the Salter line crossing the ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. Mississaga River only a few chains from the south-east corner of 194,that is where I intended to begin work. I had hopes to purchase canoes at the Mills and as- cend the stream to that point. I found italready partly frozen over. So this route had to be abandoned and I had to make my way to the Thessalon River and pack fromthence to the field of my opera- tions. Fortunately there chanced to be a party there with a large open bateau, which would hold the whole party and © supplies, and I engaged him to takeme to the Thessalon. As he had some other work on hand before he could start with me it was not until noon on the twenty- fourth that we started out. The bateau was an open boat with only a few feet at the stern, which was digni- fied by the name of cabin, decked over. Here the owner hada barrel of tangle leg and a quantity of musty pork stowed away, and was trading with the Indians exchanging the pork at twenty cents per pound for white fish for five cents apiece and the whiskey at a still greater profit. When we had all on board, the craft was filled up to the gunwale. We start- ed with aclear sky and fair wind and hoped to reach our goal before night. At three p.m. another snow storm set in though the wind continued fair and even after dark the shore was distinctly vis- ible. But the captain, without any ap- parent reason took in sail and cast an- chor at 5.30 although we could have made our destination in another hour. At 3 a.m. after a brief calm, another storm burst upon us from the west, and we lay tossing in the gale until daylight. The night became intensely dark. Shortly after the gale sprung up an exclamation from one of the men caused all eyes to look up when a_ yellow light of nigh a foot in diameter was seen enveloping the block at the mast head. This aroused the superstituous fears of the men and the certainty of an impending catastrophe was freely indulged in. As I could at- tribute the phenomonen to natural caus- es 1 succeeded in allaying their fears somewhat. When day began to break the light gradually faded. As soon as it became clear enough to see we found that we were down in the trough, even the tops of the tall pines ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. which lined the shore were not visible, and I was astonished that our little ves- sel did not swamp. Everything was coated with ice. The anchor was got up and the jib hoisted, and the vessel headed before the wind. In less than two minutes the sail was torn from the bolt ropes. The cap- tain managed to geta few feet of the main sail freed from its casing of ice and hoisted and we ran down before the wind ten milestoa small sheltered cove, and 1 arose from my seat for the first time in twenty-three hours. Here the tent was pitched and we remained until the following day. Next morning as the gale had blown itself out and a light wind had sprung up from the east we got un- der way once more at nine o’clock. There had been a hard frost during the night and the little cove was coated with ice through which we had to break our way. We rounded Thessalon Point at sun- down just in time to avoid another gale from the west, and passed the night in the house of a French fishermen who with a couple of Scotch families a few miles up the river were the only white settlers between Byng Inlet and Bruce Mines. The problem now to be solved was to find the easiest route to berth 194. I knew there was a Salter line, which start- ed from the south west corner of 194 and ran due south fourteen miles to Waquekobing Lake, eight miles from Lake Huron, also that the line struck that lake near its west end. I now found that an old lumber road started from the furthest up settler’s house and extended about half way to Waquekobing. A son of the fisherman professed to know all the country and also where the line struck the lake. So, engaging the fishing boat, I got all the stuff up the three miles of frozen river to the settlers, set the men to cleaning out the road,and with the young fisherman as guide started out to locate the line. It did not take long to find out that the young man was utterly at sea without either rudder or compass. He could not even find the lake and I do not believe had he been alone that he could have found his way home. When paying him for his day I accom- panied the cash with afew well chosen 825, remarks which ought to have deterred him from ever undertaking such a job again. Next day I had the camp pitched at the- end of the trail and giving the men the course to steer and brush out a jumper trail I started out alone and found the lake, a lovely sheet of water about eight miles long, without difficulty. I observed that the country north of the lake where the line should be had been recently burnedover. That day’s work developed the fact that it would not be to the inter- est of my employers to spend any more time in road making. I therefore ceased © operationsin that line some distance south of the lake, leaving a clear distance of eighteen miles of tump line work to where- the survey would begin. I now engaged the settler’s one horse team to forward our goods, and _ striking off to the green woods north of the lake, with the assistance of an Indian whom I met, I soon found the line and brushed. a trail through the burned woods to the lake, also on to the end of the road. I was now confronted with another diticulty. The snow of which there had been more or less nearly every day, had now become so deep that snowshoes for the whole party was an absolute necessity. I therefore sent one of the settlers to Bruce Mines where I was assured they were always held in stock. He returned with only two pairs. Here was another sticker. It has been said that a bushman is never at a loss for arope so long as he can find a sapling capable of being twist- ed into a wythe. I had observed that one. of the settlers had a few calf skins which I purchased and setting the Indian and his. family at work showshoe making I soon had my whole party shod for the winter. By this time I had got all my supplies up to the end of the trail and a portion of it across the lake. This was before the long clear bacon era. All the pork was in barrels or in big square chunks and covered with brine so it was an absolute impossibility to tran- sport it in that state. The men, there- fore erected a scaffold, the barrels were emptied and the meat stacked on it todry. The flour was also in barrels and had to. be transferred to sacks. I divided the distance we had to carry 826 into three stages of six miles each. The men going north went six miles witha pack and returned empty. This consti- tuted a day’s work. The country was not only heavily timbered but very moun- tainous. Not only was there a good deal of brushing to do on the line to make it possible to walk along it, but also frequent and long deviations to avoid ab- rupt hills, so that to make six miles on the line frequently meant a good deal more by the trails. Snow storms were of frequent occurrence and the falls heavy. While the falls continued the weather was invariably mild, and the snow soft. Just as the fall ceased the weather cleared and an intensely cold night followed so that the following morning the newly fallen snow was frozen hard and the snowshoeing was superb. Tent stoveswere notthought of inthose days. My party had two tents facing each other with a huge fire between them. Each man had one pair of blankets. There was little time spent in disrobing before turning in forthe night. The nights were generally intensely cold and to find the beard and blanket in close contact in the morning was too common an occurrence to call! forth any remark. It was a common occurrence to find tassels of hoar frost as large as the finger hang- ing from the tent in the morning. It took the party until the afternoon of January the 21st to get everything up to the objective point. , That night I observed Polaris and next day we began our work by running part of the east boundary of No.194 and I sent the estimators out, one on each side, instructing them to travel three miles at right angles to my line, then two miles north parallel to it then back to it, and report at night to me what timber they had seen. From this until the [Ith of January I walked tothe west along the Salter line, when having completed the work in that direction | returned to the starting point. It now became apparent that owing to the length of time consumed in getting in, an unforseen contingency, the supply of flour would be exhausted before we could complete our work. It was, there- fore necessary to get in four hundred weight more, which could only be done ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA by the whole party going out to the point. At daylight on the morning of the twelfth, I started on an eighteen mile snowshoe tramp to Dyment’s lumber camp near the mouth of the Thessalon River instructing the men to follow as far as the lumber camp and there await my return from Bruce Mines with flour. I reached the camp at eight p.m. Next ‘morning with a settler’s team I drove to Bruce Mines, purchased the flour and re- turned to the lumber camp the following day. The evening of Wednesday the 19th, the party were all back at the base line with the fresh supplies, and next day be- gan moving to the east. The snow now became so deep that the blaze on the trees were only at long in- tervals seen above it and no posts were to be found ; consequently the line had to be brushed out and chained in order to find the corners of the berths. It, there- fore,took us two days to get six miles to the next line. From this date until the 21st of March I was running the east and west outlines of the several berths and having an es- timate made of the timber on each. Then having completed all the work out- lined in my instructions I started all the party to pack out and _ strapping one blanket and the light rubber sheet on my Shoulders an axe inmy hand and a revol- ver at my belt, I struck off alone ona southeast course to find out what pine was On the east and yet unexplored berth by the side of which I was then camped. The day was dark and a soft snow fall- ing. The country was mountainous, alternating with small thick swamp, a dense undergrowth headed down with soft snow over all, so that the travelling was very fatiguing and the progress slow. Towards evening the weather cleared and the usual hard frost set in. I select- edacamp for the night where a good supply of dry wood was available, built a fire on top of the snow and spread down a quantity of balsam boughs fora bed. I had shot a partridge for supper, then after an evening pipe, replenished the fire, spread down the rubber sheet, and rolling myself in the blanket lay down ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. for the night. The night turned out clear and calm, but intensely cold. The thermometer must have registered away down into the forties so that my sleep was by no means an ideal one. The fire had to be frequently replenished and as the snow melted underneath, the fire gradually sank, until when I awoke at daylight I found myself lying by the side of a pit fully four feet deep with a small mouldering fire at the bottom. Snatching a few mouthfuls of frozen bread and donning my snow shoes I was under way ere the rising sun had begun to gild the tops of the tallest pines. The intense frost of the night had hardened the snow and made the travell- ing all that could be wished. My course Was now south west andI crossed the Mississaga at a rapid where the ice was no more than safe and at an early hour made Waquekobing Lake, striking it some three miles east of the old trail. I arrived at the lumber camp betimes in the evening. To say I was not tired would be fibbing. However after a good wash and a hearty meal, prepared in his best style by a first class cook, I felt equal to donning the snow shoes again, although my limbs did ache somewhat from ‘‘Amal de Baquet.”’ On the 27th all hands arrived at Bruce Mines where we had to remain until navigation opened. The only means of communication with civilization during the winter in those days was by dog train from Parry Sound. The mail was conveyed from thence every two weeks by dog train in charge of two half breeds, one jogging along at a dog trot in front and the other behind. The whole distance was made on the ice, and in storm or shine they held their way, and as night approached headed for the nearest point of woods to camp. It was rot until the twelfth of May that the first vessel, the steamship Chicora, Capt. Orr, arrived from the east, and the party left for home by the first eastbound steam- er Manitoba, on the 15th. While lying here I did some surveying for settlers near the Mines, and alsoon St. Joseph’s Island, which enabled me to considerably reduce my hotel bill to my employers. $27 That winter was one of uncommon severity. Heavy falls of snow were of frequent occurrence, and there were few days when less or more did not come down and the frost was intense. The health of the party was _ uniformly good and the frost bites few and trifling. We had passed the winter parfly in what is now the ‘‘Mississaga Forest Re- serve.” The country was all very moun- tainous and all heavily timbered. There were many deep ravines where long de- tours had to be made to reach the op- posite side and there were few which did not bear unmistakeable signs of the glacier period, cliffs hundreds of feet high, the naked oaks fluted and polished as smooth as glass. Some of the scenery was simply gor- geous. The lakes were numerous and large, some on top of and others hidden deep down betweer thehills. All the water was as clear as_ crystal and the signs found around’ empty Indian summer camps boreample testimony that they were well stocked with fish. From some of the higher peaks the eye could range over miles and miles of forest, lakes and rivers. On one occasion I stood on a moun- tain peak twenty-four miles from the shore of Lake Huron. The atmospheric conditions were perfect and I could see Cockburn and Drummond Islands as plainly as though they were only a few miles distant, with a splendid bird’s eye view of the whole intervening country. It looked like a gentle undulating plain, the sombre woods broken here and there by large and again small spots of white indicating nestling lake and winding river. An attempt to pen picture such scen- ery is impossible. | What pen, no matter how gifted the writer, can do it just- ice? There isa limit beyond which neither the most talented or powerful caa go, and sometimes what we consider mere trifles show the strength of weak things. We have Mark Twain as an authority that even the Tzar of Russia (than whom no man in the world has so much power,) can’t stop a sneeze ! EARLY BREAKFAST ON THE UPPER ST. MAURICE RIVER. Crossing the Waterways. A, Long Canoe Trip. BY MARTIN HUNTER. received orders from headquarters to inspect the posts of the upper St. Maurice and to proceed from the most northerly one to the post of Pointe Bleue on Lake St. John, thence across country back to my point of de- parture, Coocoocache, on the Lower St. Maurice. It was my the breaking intention to get away as soon as up of the river would allow me, which in ordinary years took place between the tenth and fif- teenth of May. I had a good canoeman at the Post in the person of ayoung French Canadian, a man born and brought up in the country and well used to canoeing and carrying. To get a guide however, was more difh- cult as it was yet the hunting season in that Northland and an Indian was loath to leave his trapping to go on a trip. Several promised but at the last mo- ment drew back and excused themselves. It was only on the eleventh of June that I finally yot one to act as guide and really got away. I was so anxious to make a start after the repeated disap- pointments that we paddled away from the Post at almost sundown. I cared My principal desire was to effect a make sure of my man. _ In- dians are so unreliable, that when you have their consent the thing is to leave before they can change their minds. not. start and We got out of the lake and into the ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. river, paddled up stream about three miles and camped on the opposite bank. My Canadian, George, being a single man with no ties to pull him back, was perfectly content to make a trip of a day, week or months as the case might be. With the Indian, however, it was differ- ent. He was comparatively a newly married man ahd had never been sep- arated from his wife, and notwithstand- ing we had really started there was every probability that he might desert in the night for there is nothing impossible to an Indian once he gets the idea. In achance moment I had alone with George I told him to talk while camping and keep the guide from thinking too much of his own affairs. George, like most men of the bush, was naturally silent but that evening he out- did himself as an entertainer and posi- tively once or twice 1 saw the Indian smile. George and I both spoke Algon- quin as fluently as the Indian himself; in fact, right through this trip it was our vehicle of communication even between George and myself, who would, under _ other circumstances, have spoken French. In spite of all George’s fairy tales and tunny anecdotes the Indian could not, or would not, shake off his regret at having embarked on the trip, and around the campfire that evening he told me the way he felt. He was confident he would be unable to make the voyage and it was folly for me to continue with him; moreover, now he had begun to think seriously of what he had undertaken, he was afraid there were some parts of the route that he would not semember, and soforth. But his doleful predictions had no effect on me for!I knew there was nothing the matter with the fellow only homesickness, and thus we turned in for the night. The following morning he had either shaken off his lonesomeness or decided to adapt himself to the inevitable for he was astir bright and early and we were ’ soon in the canoe and working up stream. Our canoe (of birch bark) was eighteen feet feet long from tip to tip, three and a half feet beam and made rather flat so we could navigate shallow water at the 829 heads of the several rivers we were to pass through. Back of the second bar my traveling basket fitted in crossways; leaning against that bar and the basket my bun- dle of bedding set on edge made a fine rest for my back, while | sat on a cush- ion as low in the craft as possible. This placed me out of the way of the poles when the men were forcing the canoe up any shallow swift water. In front of the middle bar was stowed our tents, the men’s duffle and pots and pans, while the bowsman had the space ahead of the second bar towards the bow. Back of my basket, sternwards, was our provisions, pork, flour etc., and the steersman with his teet in the bottom of the canoe, sat onthe gunwale and paddled or poled from there. By carrying a light load myself we managed to make the portages in one trip. Whenone can do that there is a great saving of time. One man carried the canoe, with a bundle on his back, and the bag of ket- tles and frying pan inone hand while with his other he balanced and steered the canoe clear of branches and trees. The other man’s load consisted of my basket, the provisions, two tents and their own dunnage, while the poles he dragged in his hand. My load was beds ding, (made up in a waterproof sheet or oilcloth) being a pair of biankets, a pil- low, a canopy of mosquito netting; added to this a grip satchel and my rifle. After making a portage, or two and each man knows his load and what to get hold of, it is astonishing how quickly one gets away on thecarry. The great secret of rapid travelling in the bush country is to divide the load that one trip on the portage takes all. The moment you have to send one man back, you may as well send the complete crew, for it is like a fleet of warships— the progress of the whole is regulated by the slowest vessel, and the canoe and balance of the crew has to wait the re- turn of the one man sent back. Our first day over was at Weymont- achingue Post on our second day after starting. Here I remained two days ex- amining the books, inspecting the stock, going through the collection of furs and 830 taking general notes of and suggestions from charge. Making a very early start from this post we managed to reach the first port- age north, thirty miles distant. We had several good back eddies that helped us along, but to offset these we had to ne- gotiate a number of strong points, some of which took the united efforts of two at the poles and one on the tracking line to overcome. The next day, and the next, was one succession of rapids, falls and portages and we were all pretty tired men our third night from Weymontachingue, but we had overcome the river and our camp that night was pitched at the upper end of the last portage on the shores of the first lake of the St. Maurice. That evening, near dusk, a fine, fat beaver, came swimming down near our camp. A lucky shot fixed him and that night we had roast beaver, one of the tid-bits of the bushmen. As we had, the following morning, an all day’s lake paddle in dead water we loosened out our belongings about the canoe to give them a chance to dry after being damp and tied up for the past five or six days. Our beaver skin stretched on a hoop of alder lay flat on the top drying. What a rest and reliet it was after the strenuous work of the past few days to paddle along the shores of this beautiful lake with very little exertion, the turn- ing of each point showing some new and varied scenery! That evening our camp was pitched on the Loon portage, a short carry as the requirements the officer in name will indicate, to avoid going around a long peninsula that runs out into the lake. It is called McKay’s Point, and there or thereabouts a general cleaning up takes place, before present- ing ourselves at the Post. Here in charge of the Post was a Mr. Shifter, an Englishman, anda_ brother- in-law of the editor of “Truth.” He came out to this country some years ago and adapted himself very successfully to the manners of the bush and its people. The old Post of the Ki-Kin-dash was situated some miles up the lake, at the associate ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. inflow of its principal feeder, but was re- moved to the present situation a few years back. Three reasons caused its removal—scarcity of firewood, impurity of the water. and growing numbers of very large snakes. The latter while not venomous were anything but pleasant to see about often being found indoors and coiled up in the bow of any canoe pulled up on the beach. Here again at Ki-Kin-dash my stay was brief. Mr. Shifter’s books were so admirably kept that I had no trouble in getting an intelligent understanding as to the business done at the Post. A couple of days saw my work finished and with anew outfit of provisions we started on the next portion of our trip, the lakes of the water shed and the Ash- uapamushuan river to Lake St. John. This journey took us nine days. My Indian was not familiar with the river and at each rapid or falls considerable time was lost considering which was best and safest to do—carry or run the canoe. Most of the rapids that it was possible to run were too rough for more than one man to be in the canoe and George and I had to make our way as best we could through the unkept portages or scramble along shore, and this often with a half load on our back to lighten the canoe. Down near the end of the river where several miles of very bad water occurs there is a portage of seven miles to avoid these dangers. It is called the ‘‘Long Portage” or ‘‘Burnt Portage.” Either name fits the aspect and conditions, for certainly seven miles isa long portage and one that has not a tree from end to end may be considered pretty well burnt. The fire that swept this part of the lower Ashuapamushuan was the same disastrous fire that did so much damage to property and life. the great fire of the Saguenay, which passed over the then new settlement some fifty or sixty years ago. In some places where the fire passed a second growth of trees had sprung up and flourished, but in the Long Portage it burnt soil and all and the only thing to be seen along the footpath is blueberry and cranberry shrubs. but the most of the way is bare rock or sharp flinty sand. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. It is fortunate that two or three small creeks trickle through this bad land, otherwise we would have been pros- trated from the excessive heat that beat down on us the day we passed over. We came out on the river at the end of the portage about four in the after- noon and had yet time before dark to cover considerably more of our route, but the portage had been very trying to all and I decided to camp and make an early start in the morning. It turned out very fortunate that I had so decided. The men had barely got my tent pitched and were about to put up their own when Sha-gu-nash, the In- dian, was taken violently sick. He squirmed and writhed about on the ground in the most astonishing way causing the Canadian and myself consid- erable alarm. The river was quite a distance away as we were camping on the high land to be free of the mosquitoes. However I hurried the Cat adian for water while | gathered together some chips and twigs and produced the ever reliable pain killer from my grip. By the time George had returned with the kettle of water I had the fire blazing, In our anxiety to get a warm drink we had paid no attention to the Indian. Dusk was now on, settling down apace and in the uncertain light we knew not if he were alive or dead. George got his head upon his knee while I spooned some of the hot drink between his clinched teeth. After a few moments we had the satisfaction of hear- ing himemit a sigh which told us life was yet in him. We continued giving him spoonfuls until he could drink from the cup and then rolled him in his blanket and placed his feet to the fire to which we now added more fuel and continued on with our camp work and cooking supper. It was far into the night before George and I turned in and it appeared to me to be hardly a few moments before daylight awoke us. Sha-gu-nash having eaten nothing from the afternoon before, was very weak, but he managed to partake of a little breakfast and sat around while George andI broke: camp and carried the things down to the river bank. 831 We placed him in my seat amidships wrapped in his blanket while I took his place in the bow. Thus we pushed out and headed down stream, but the least sign of white water caused us to put ashore and ex- amine'carefully for we had neither of us ever been on that stream before. We had progressed about five miles and run two or three small rapids when we were gladdened by the sight of a tent on a point ahead. This proved to be the camp of two Lake St. John In- dians engaged in bear trapping. Fortu- nately they had not yet left camp, being kept later than usual by skinning a bear they had trapped the day before. A bargain was soon struck for them to help us down the river and to the Post of Pointe Bleue on the lake shore. They gave Sha-gu-nash some bear broth which revived him and gave him strength almost. at once. My Indian was transferred to their canoe, while one of them took my place in the bow of ours and this fellow’s brother paddled their canoe alone. Nowwe hada thorough guide who knew the river well we pushed away once more, but this time with a feeling of considerable relief. From the point upon which we found the Indians camped, the riverfell awayin a succession of rapids and falls to within a couple of miles of its outlet or dis- charge and the day passed in one con- tinuous excitement. Most of the rapids were run by the canoes, but where the falls occurred everything, including the canoes, was portaged. We had a good mid-day meal of fried bear steak, which set our sick man up. and by the aid of a stick he managed to walk slowly across each portage as they came. About four in the afternoon we swung out into the lake and there to the south of us on a long, low, jutting point stood the Post buildings of Pointe Bleue, about seven miles distant. Now we were clear of the river and its dangers we had no further use for the extra men and as they were anx- ious to get back to their bear traps I paid them off for their services and while they headed back up stream we 832 leisurely coasted along to our destin- ation. After the heat, fatigue and the pests of flies for the better part of a week what a relief I feltin a bath and change of rai- ment and that night, sitting on the piazza under a full moon, I thought this is indeed worth living for! and with the officer of the Post sat there smoking regallas until long after midnight. My work of inspection at Pointe Bleue kept me five days, during which time Sha-gu-nash thoroughly regained his strength and his mysterious attack left no bad effects. I could with pleasure have remained a day or two longer after my work was completed, and enjoy a further stay in that delightful climate with the ever- changing scenes about the Post. Bands of Indians were arriving there daily from their winter hunts togged out in all their finery. Duty called me to my own Post on the St. Maurice and we had yet one side of that big square to make, from the basin of Lake St. John to the St. Maurice, again across country by lakes, portages and cutting of rivers. We started one fine morning in July to paddle along the lake shore to Chambord Junction.. The people of the Post and all the Indians turned out and give us a parting salute of guns. At Chambord Junction we got our canoe and baggage placed on a flat car which took and dumped us at Kis-ki-sink bridge. Here we loaded up and struck into the wilder- ness once more. A short piece of river brought us to the first lake and here we pitched our camp forthe night. That evening our shore clothes were put away and our bush ones put on and we hada general overhauling and doing up of things for the rough road before us. Sha-gu-nash was now in great glee for was he not on his native heath and homeward bound? Every stroke of the paddle and the far end of each portage would bring him nearer his hunting grounds and his tepee. The next day an early start was made and all day lakes and portages was our portion. That night brought us to the east bank of the Croche river; the last portage being astunner of four miles over an overgrown shanty road. This ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. was not a regular carrying place but we took it as a short cut and to avoid some shallow lakes and creeks. We were a pretty tired lot that night. Tired was no name for it; we were pos- itively exhausted with the long and try- ing day. The question was who would cook supper,—ah, who? Our camp was on an old rollway high from the water. The river drew down a cool air from the north, all night, so we were pretty free from flies and hada re- freshing sleep which braced us up for the morrow. Our route next day was only a mile or so down the Croche, where we left the river on the west bank and took up more shallow ways, smalllakes and creeks that would hardly float the canoe; in fact, in some of the first, one man had to navigate the canoe while two men made their way, as best they could, through the bush along the shore. It was tedious and slow work and night took us againin this miserable country, in fact, I may as well skip a de- scription of the next day and night for it was a repetition of the one I have just described. The morning of the fourth day brought us to the Big Pierrish. Down this stream we went for a few miles portag- ing past several falls. At one of them the Indian told me to get out my fishing tackle. As the men were cooking din- ner and portaging at the same time, my fishing was no hindrance to our progress. Luck! Well, yes. I have often won- dered how many I would have caught had I kept on for half a day. I only fished for half an hour and had seven beauties. Speckled trout? rather, the pure bird, running from one and a half to four pounds. The first three I caught were speedily in the frying pan, and such fish! It is only when promptly cooked that one eats fish to perfection, and that cooked by an Indian. At the foot of these falls which I named ‘‘Speckled Trout Falls” we left the river again to make our way across. country and had the same _ laborious. work, small lakes, shallow creeks and rugged portages. We were passing over a route that had not been travelled ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA for twenty years and was filled up solid with the new growth. We now fell into the Lesser Pierrish and again travelled southward on this river before leaving its waters for our last cross country cut to the St. Maurice. As we came to each of these rivers, Croche, Big Pierrish and Lesser Pier- rish we notched south a few miles before taking another dividing watershed. Bright and early was the word for the next morning for was it not to be our last day and one and all were anxious to complete the trip. We might have tollowed the course of the small Pierrish to its disharge into the St. Maurice, but the Indian informed me its bed was a succession of falls and rugged rapids and the quickest way was by the dry portages. Our last portage and the last descent of that carry brought to view the noble St. Maurice. We lost notime in admiration but got down to its banks without delay. Here we boiled the tea kettle once _more. How many, many times had we gone through the same process on the 833 long journey we were about bringing to a successful termination! But now we were veritably in the avenue and away the canoe shoots up stream, the steersman taking advantage of every eddy and backwater that would add to our advance. Swinging into the canal that connects the great river with Coo-coo-cache Lake, my Canadian struck up one of the old paddle songs of the old time voyageurs, which brought us up in fine style in front of the headquarters. Our long trip was done without a mis- hap, notwithstanding the numerous rap- ids we had ascended and run, over one hundred portages the canoe had been carried, yet she reached home without being once regummed. A _ remarkahle credit to any bark canoe. Roughly es- timated we had travelled over eleven hundred miles and arrived at our point of departure with only one scratch on our bark. At the head of these notes I givea reproduction of that staunch little craft, ‘‘The Lena,” in front of one of our night camps. Sunset After Rain. BY C. H. HOOPER. SUNSET AFTER RAIN. At times, when all the dreary day the rain > Fell, and the dripping shores were veiled in mist, At evening, from the west, a cool breath kissed The clouds, and sunset is_ restored again. MY CHUM AND OUR GUIDES. In the Nova Scotia “Silent Places. ’ My First Moose Hunt. BY W. A. OR a number of years one of my pet schemes had been along the lines of amoose hunt. I had never seen the ‘‘Monarch” of our forest in his native element. The tales of different successful sportsmen had ever thrilled me and set up the insistent call known only to him who has revelled in the glories of the wild places and learned to give the lust to kill second place. My wife and mother, both lovers of nature and keenly interested in my plans, pre- sented me with a fine 33-Winchester for a Christmas gift. The very next day my close compan- ion, Charles M. Hoyt, and myself started for the south woods to the home of Glen Gillies, our guide, to enjoy two or three WARREN. days in camp before the season ended. The sleighing was superb and we ar- rived at our destination at a seasonable hour, after a full enjoyment of one of the finest moonlight drivesin the woods either of us had ever experienced. Our guide’s house is the one furthest south in the settlement, and is right in the game zone, it being no uncommon sight to see moose on the edge of the clearing, a few rods from the house, in the summer. Next morning bright and early we set out, our guide carrying on his back a tent seven by nine, collapsible stove, blanket, axe, rifle etc., while Charlie and | carried grub, blankets, ammunition, etc , in back packs specially for this pur- pose. In this way each man can carry a ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. heavy load and yet not feel it much. Our costume consisted of a suit of heavy wool underwear, loose riding breeches buttoning almost to the ankle, two pairs wool hose, short, under oil tanned larri- gans, half length, heavy wool sweater, wool cap and loose woolen jacket—the idea being that everything must be loose, warm and comfortable. Thesnow was about two feet deep and thus our snowshoes came in very handy. Our route was towards the Randolph Lake, about five miles, and as most of this lay along a tote road the way was fairly clear of snags. When we arrived at our destination we soon cleared a Space, by means of our snowshoes suff- ciently large enough for us to pitch our tent. After our strenuous exercise we enjoyed our dinner and then set out for some old ‘‘yards’”’ in the hope of discovering fresh trails. Before! and fast and erc|#™ we reached the camp our mus-|g cles were smart-|s ing under the strain. For thelpy rest of the day and evening welfé sat around thelig fire, smoked and|/% swapped yarns 8 while the sterm outside increased 4 NEW SHANTY BUILT IN in fury to a hur- ricane. When we awoke in the morning we found the little tent almost submerged in snow and as there was no chance to hunt we lay in camp till the time came for us to start out, planning, in the meantime while enjoying the novelty of a camp under the snow, a trip for the following fall. Throughout the year we kept hard at it, but when at last the autumn frosts turnedthe leaves to red and gold, and old Dame Nature donned her night cap, that inexpressible longing for the woods kept creeping over us, and we began Opening up the ‘‘togs” and. getting 1906 AND THE SCENE OF OUR LAST SUCCESSFUL DEER HUNT. 835 things in shape. Monday, November thirteenth, was the day chosen for our departure, and as it dawned fine and beautiful we soon loaded our two weeks’ food, ammunition, rifles, guns, extra underwear and the other extras always needed, into Charlie’s express wagon and started out, Will accompanying us in order to bring back the team. As we were rigged in our hunting togs we felt as comfortable as we looked and the drive out was all too short. How- ever that drive made us as hungry as bears and we did full justice to the very appetizing repast Mrs. Gillies placed be- fore us. Willie started for home with the team shortly afterwards, and as Gil- lies was still in the woods and not ex- pected out till dark we decided to go back with the wagona piece and hunt ruffed grouse, which we did ‘|with indifferen t 43 |Success. A few days be- an fore Gillies had A taken our tent ‘and some stuff jout and had them jall ready so that between us we were able to pack blankets, etc., on | the one trip. Tuesday morn- tie|ing found us up at an early hour putting the fin- ishing touches on Our packs and seeing everything in shape to set out. After a heavy breakfast we shouldered our loads and started on our journey to the tent, which was about eight miles south of us. Part of this tramp was on an old tote road, but the greater part lay through ragged, uneven, rough ground where stepping from windfall to hollow soon madea forty pound sack weigh a ton. However the holiday ahead of us, together with the excitement caused by the novelty of the occasion, made the work seem fun and the trip was made in very good time. Our first move was to put up the tent 836 and get everything trim and in ship shape atter which came the first dinner in camp—an experience all its own. After dinner and a pipe we made a long circle for moose signs, but without success. On our way home we passed the Ran- dolph meadow, where we found Wil- liams and Shipp comfortably placed in a brush ‘‘lean to.” They had not seen any fresh signs either. We drank in the beauty of the forest the rest of the way back to camp, and after supper kept our pipes hot till bedtime, feeling as con- tented and ‘