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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 1 Rod and Gun in Canada Woodstock, Ontario, June, 1920 Publishers are warned not to reprint contents, wholly or in part, without full eredit attached JUNE CONTENTS The Spring Trapping Season on Rice Lake ........Bonnycastle Dale 1 After Bass at Bewdley 2320.08.00. .00008 William Strange Campbell 6 Peerless\limasamr Meera) Sc ey) ae 5 OM. Parkinson Ontario Guides Will Organize.............. vate irs ee, ator 15 Not a Sparrow Falleth....... Victor Lauriston and A. L. McCready The Silver Kons:(@arb tle) )... _....... Harry M. Moore 22 Justi Gam pil sree. a ie BS Va Willtams 29 Rod and Gun Notes in British Columbia..........0000......... 5 Sees 33 Guns and Ammunition.......... Oo); Merson ca! Gost LOnaLs 43 Forms and Properties of Mushroom....... Bienes) ered axMRONe 59 Fishing Notes Aiea 5.0)" ee ...Robert Page Lincoln 64 Conservation............ Sc : Kennels sic ee Sena cS Be Trap oe. 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This is the better equipment for fishing in all waters, under all conditions. Representative sporting goods dealers everywhere can supply you with Bristol” Tackle. If yours has not exactly what you want, we will equip catalog prices. Write today for Bristol, Meek and It has made fishing ou by mail Kingfisher ( at italog 32 Horton St, Bristol. Conn. The Horton Manufacturing Co. Pacific C art Co., ast Branch The 717 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Phil B. Beke ry 22 fi sas] AN GANA he VOL. XXII. ’ WOODSTOCK, ONT., JUNE, 1920 No. 1 The Spring Trapping Season on Rice Lake 7 in 1919 T was mid-February when we started across the badly cracked surface of Sj the lake ice for the | hut on Migration Island. We wanted to register climatic and flight conditions and—of course —Laddie Jr. wanted to trap. The snow was too dry to let the slzigh runners under the canoes glide; and too packed to let them slide through—so it took six hours to do seven miles. icy blue landscape there was no sigu of animal life save a fox’s track. We at2 the mid-day lunch under ‘the lea of the big crack in the centre of the lake. The ice,-being only partly covered by snow all the winter; had expanded under each day’s sun, and contracted under each night’s frost, with booming and reverbration like a mighty park of cannon. The ice was thin too, but fifteen inches. Last vears wild rie2 straw crackling in the ice before the north wind told us we were near our journey’s end._ After we had carefully tucked our hearts back where they belonged and caught our limited breath we made_a trip through the drowned lands. Very few tracks, not many muskrat houses, only chick-a-dees and hairy wood- peckers,- and flocks of snowbirds— two weeks for the lad to wait as traps were not placed out before March First. In all the white and BONNYCASTLE DALE The Indians of Hiawatha fooled him by placing their unset traps out a week ahead of time—it seemed to be April Fool all around as the weather turned so mild that some of the wild fowl migration fared north and the moose wood threw out leaves over an inch long—down pounced Winter again and froze everything up—but not the lad’s desire to get his traps out too before the first of March. As all the best places were being taken up I told him to go toa kind neighbour’s and telephone to a Game Overseer and ask if it was permissible to lay out traps now. He got the answer “Yes” and out he set with his traps on the night of the 27th of Feb—lo and behold on the morning of the 28th, another Overseer arrived with the kind news that he was ordered by the Department to pick up alltraps. I kindly but firmly told him not to touch the Lad’s traps as he had permission to put them out, but to go and telephone the Depart- ment of Game himself. We watched the good old chap skate off and hours after he returned—and did not pick up any of the hundreds of traps set out. Although he kept his counsel we ‘“‘smelt a mice,”’ and were glad we had not been accused of an infraction of the Act. In the meantime another Overseer, aided by two white ,trappers, picked up all the Indians’ traps at the mouth of the Otonabee, as well as a few white men’s set traps. Off posted . ' -.. ov one of the Hiawatha Band to Peter- boro and he got news that the tfaps could not be seized if they were unset—By this time we were so uncertain as to just where we did Laddie and a Western Grebe stand that I wrote the Deputy Min- ister and found out that the Depart- ment did not make a practice of seizing unset traps. I wrote this letter for the Chief of the Hiawatha whose entire set of traps had been seized—so the Overseer had to take back to the Otonabee the traps he had wrongfully taken, although the blame is not on him as he had orders from someone to pick them up—but although the Indians, under advice from Chief Crowe acted orderly, there was some tall grumbling and muttering. Poor Laddie Jr. had half his traps up and half. scattered through the marsh. Some men lost good places and others got them. Now my advice is—No trap should be set until it can .be set in and well covered by water, and not water made by chopping holes, the natural water of the thaw or rise. Many 2 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA be set in the water from a canoe I think this is good too—BUT NOF TRAP SHOULD BE PUT 0 rT FOR MUSKRATS SOUTH ‘OF THE FRENCH RIVER, SEDO UNSET, BEFORE MARCH FIRS" The prolific Muskrat has hat hard time. I told you last April” their being frozen in great numbe during the winter of 17-18, then they - were illegally trapped out in the Fall of “18, but they produced about half ” a catch for 1919. It was a rare sight © to see a muskrat house at all in the — fall of ‘18. I knew it was utterly impossible to trap out the muskra : thoroughly from any one place. ~Th x an’mal, belonging to North America» only, has spread from the furthes ss northern place where grows a tree - to the warm waters of the Gulf o: Mexico—although I have noted a difference in the colour of the fur: a few thousand miles difference i the homes of the animal leave the exactly alike. All have the young > born blind, and a pretty little grey ‘ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 3 and pink silky thing it is, with great awkward hind feet. Many atime one of my assistants has tried to rear one of these puny crying babies; I have found my fountain. pen filled full of curdled milk when an overzealous Laddie Jr., had tried to squirt warm milk into a writhing youngster, but always in the small hours before dawn of some morning the squawling ceased—not altogether; for. the lad now took it up at the loss of his wee pet. I must defend him by saying he never took a young one until it had been deserted by its mother. It is sad the great number of muskrats that twist and tear their legs when caught. . Here is money reward for some man- who can make a trap that will always Hold a-muskrat; and sell it for-a fairly low price. I still do ‘not think the animal eats it leg off. I know many a trapper tells me so. but I cannot really find proof that the animal applies its teeth to its imprisoned member—if it did the foot projecting into the trap would be badly numbed; and a much less painful place to tear at. It is remarkable the quarrelling and jealousy this trapping arouses,— although many of the men are trapping on ground from which they could be turned off—(see High Court decision that the owner of lands owns all trapping rights in waters thereon, or write Edward Meek—lawyer-for printed decision to be published in the Mail and Empire Toronto at any time.) ~ Trappers still argue and quarrel with one another as if they owned the ground. There is no doubt that the few dollars a white man can get at trapping is a ready addition to the housekeeping funds, but it does seem No! Laddie is not whistling, his mouth is o’er full of lunch. I have seen many muskrats tearing at the trap, but I have never seen any part of the foot below the trap actually torn by tooth marks—Yes! I know I am on debatable ground, eit #0 a shame, in this age when education is the only test of a man or boy; that any father should bring his boy up to such an uncertain livelihood as trap- ping. - Ts _¥?: ROD AND GUN IN CANADA el I find things in}the trapping and hunting field in worse condition than before the war. I never heard any such regular spring duckshooting as I heard this year, and nearly all of it was from localities where only white men could have done it. I hear that many muskrat houses were Everywhere I go I find the same ff apathy towards the game laws, if ) we Canadians would only realizé/} that we are actually stealing our own — fish and wildfowl and fur, when we take them out of season, stealing > from ourselves as truly as if we slyly put our hand into our own pocket — The two trappers of Migration Camp 4 broken into this Spring and traps set in them. Also the Overseers tell me there is much more Fall trapping than before. I would strongly ad- vise the Department to select Re- turned Men—strangers to each local- ity where they are placed—as over- seers. Remember I am_ speaking from the viewpoint of a middle aged man—true I broke game laws when I was young—but the alarming de- crease in the bass and maskinonge tells me that unless the overseers really stop the Spring spearing and the winter icefishing there will be little left for the summer trollers and abstracted and threw into the walter a handful of Silver; then we may begin to value our game. _ he same tale of maimed and injured among the song birds and wild fowl and marsh birds was taken by the traps this Spring—Oh! how it makes one shudder to hear the alarmed cries and see the wild plunges ol Our game. birds When caught in the trap; poor black ducks call so loudly, the great blue heron thrashes So wildly that it dies from exhaustion in a few hours, bitterns survive a lon time, mudhens a shorter while tie ‘all ducks soon thrash their weary . lives out, the blackbirds and snow- jbirds, yes nearly all the perching }birds soon perish. Is there no short jcut to mercy? I know the majority of trappers will trap and cannot javoid these poor intruders. I also jknow our appeal last year saved jhundreds of lives, as few traps were set before they were placed in the jwater this year. I tell you truly, jall you trappers who have farms or jgardens, if you kill of the insect jeating birds this way the world will jJeventually face famine. The crop of 1919 muskrats skins per cent from the year No sale of ten millions skins }this year in London as there was in 41914. Without doubt this is the }most valuable furbearer, and if the jfur seal does not soon strike, all commonly called. “musquash’’ or }muskrat. Why do not more men .go jin for muskrat farming.? A hundred acre marsh, well inclosed will give jany man a fair living, without, it if jis stocked with natural food, the seven thousand dollars off his big marsh—over a thousand acres—but he sold all the bodies as ‘“‘marsh rabbits’ to the cafes of a big city— jso city dwellers watch your menus jcloser than ever. _ “Say, I want to go to the fur sale,” Laddie called over my clicking type- writer. I watched him sail away to the Indian village, and on his return he told me. ‘‘We all went into the Council Chamber, bags of skins and all, they took your advice and got together and made the buyers bid on the fur. Each man wrote his bid and signed it and laid the folded }paper on the table—how all the faces fedhed forward when the bits of paper were opened—‘‘Two dollars and forty-five cents’ read one, “Two jdollars and fifty cents” the next, “read out Hank Cow,” “Two dollars | milady’s coats will be of “‘near seal,” - ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 5 and fifty cents,’ he repeated for the third one. “‘Guess you fellows had ‘better bid again’’ he told the two highest bidders. Once more they wrote and folded and handed in their bids “Two dollars and fifty- three cents,” called out the Indian, “Two dollars and fifty-five cents,” he called for the last one. - This was acceptable and off went the lucky buyer with the men to count the big catches. Chief Crowe beat them all with two hundred and ten—and the also ran had but three, but the total was about fifteen hundred, and many a Satisfied Indian there was at such an unheard of price—yes and “everything went” even a last Fall’s pelt that was shot by mistake for a wounded duck. The mildness of the winter made the skins a bit tender for stretching and the entire absence of kittens made the run of size very large, this no kitten catch tells of fall trapping and it would be better for those men to leave them until the spring and get a good price. I think the au- thorities should make a strong effort to find out just who are the guilty buyers of illegal pelts and take away their licenses. I would just like to again appeal to all true sportsmen to try and kill the drakes in the fall flight of big bluebills, as they so greatly out- numbered the females in the spring flight—some fifteen thousand males to five thousand females—that the most prolific duck family that we have left is in danger of being badly re- duced in numbers. I have not the same fear for the muskrats as I heard of two couples that were exported to a Bohemian noble—these were the busy little four—these just got right down to business and they filled that Kingdom of Bohemia chuck full of little musk- rats who cut into all the great fish pond preserves, and in ten years the descendants of that industrious four keep all the trappers of that part of our late Austrian enemies busy. After Bass at Bewdley WILLIAM STRANGE CAMPBELL HE big lake shone in gleams of molten gold as the rays of the setiing sun irra- diated its glorious expanse. The gent- lest of zephyrs played on its surface, trans- forming the dying into vari-colored tints of sunshine rose, saffron, and olive green, the tiny ripples murmuring a tuneful harmony, interrupted now and then by the splash of a rising fish in the lily pads. It was_a lovely setting, a Sabbatic calm brooding over the great sheet of water. Away to the eastward rose heavily timbered is- lands which seemed to float in the amethystine haze like the fabled isles of Hy Brasil, while on the slopes rising from the lake shore the fields shone ripe for harvest, their golden hue contrasting beautifully with the green of the pines and cedars standing out commandingly on the bill sides ofa a smiling and undulating country, reminiscent of an Irish county. Rice’ Lake harbors some big ‘lunge and while I was there, making my headquarters at Bewdley, a few miles from Campbelleroft on the Grand Trunk Railway, many sizeable fish were taken, the biggest being one of twenty pounds. This evening, how- ever, I was after bass and as the dusk gathered the fish became more play- ful and active. Drifting placidly on the verge of the reeds I cast lightly between the floating pads and soon was into a nice fish, the reel sing- ing merrily as he made his initial dash for the liberty which was soon to be his as he managed to fight his way into the stalks and free him- elf from the hook. This was an lucky beginning, but soon another on. Heading Mr. Bass safely from underwater entangle- he soon had the landing net his shimmering body and came into the canoe a pretty fish and three quarter pounds weight. — A couple more came to the me before business was over for tk evening and I paddled to Bewd House well satisfied and ready for belated supper. As a matter of f the prospects had been so inviti that I had stayed on the lake si half past five o’clock that mornin except for a recess for breakfas luncheon basket serving for the of the day. The sun had: been strong, until like a great molte of golden crimson, he had disapp behind the western hills and durit the day there had been little spo the fish being lethargic and shy, | that they were all around in good numbers was some consolatio the fisherman and I determined to make an early start next morning. | Catching fish is not all of ang as most fishermen will agree. True there are men to whom the weigh of the basket is everything, but - sonally I believe they are in minority and he is indeed a dull el who cannot enjoy the charm a lake and stream altogether ap from what comes out of them. D ing slowly over the mirror-like _ face of the lake as the shad lengthened, the ineffable serenity ai placidity of the scene is unconscic ly transmitted to one’s mind Senses, the brooding peace soothes } with restful comfort, small wort and cares are forgotten, and te porary troubles are consigned, wit out an effort of thought, to € limbo from which happily they never emerge. ee But the darkness gathers and mMOrrow is a new day, with its ho ies oe of sport so early to be is the order with an early rt tc roe th an early se ( And the new day does not dis point the sanguine expectations the evening before. Dawn arrives ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 7 serene and beautiful. Scarce a cloud flecks the azure of the sky, a deep vault of Neapolitan blue that would vie in color and beauty with anything the Mediterranean can show, flecked away to the north-east with cirrus haze. A gentle breath from the south west sways the reed beds and carries over the water evidences of matut- inal activity on the part of the birds inhabiting their grateful shelter. A few hundred yards away some wild- fowl, young birds, are paddling in search of breakfast and at his wonted vantage point of observation stands the familiar heron, keenly on ‘the watch, eternal vigilance being his meal ticket. It is early and the lake is deserted except for one boat a couple of miles out working a favorite beat for ‘lunge, although according to a local wiseacre these fish will take less readily for the next few weeks. The Indians have an idea that ‘lunges’ (Esox masquinongy) teeth trouble them at the latter end of July and that they bite less freely - until about September, and presum- » ably the Ojibways should know all about the maskinonge that can be ’ known. But they are great fish and amply repay the labor of trolling for them. But as I hinted before I was on this occasion at least, more _ interested in bass and fifteen minutes’ _ row brought me to the spot where I - had landed a few on the previous evening. But for two hours there - was nothing doing and as the break- fast hour. approached I turned the _bow of the boat hotelwards. My first job was to put on a stronger hook, double-gutted, using for bait the tail end of a small perch cut diagonally so as to make a spinner, the idea being taken from a recent issue of Rod and Gun. The mile and a half to the boat landing was covered without a strike and when I was within twenty feet of the boat- house and in very shallow water I began to reel in. Suddenly the line taughtened and IJ thought I was in the ground, but a couple of seconds later a fine fish sprang out of the water. This was no time for refined methods. ‘The shallow water was no place for that fish and leaving noth- ing to chance, or taking a chance, whichever it was, I reeled him in as fast as I could and soon had the net under a three pounder. This was as good an appetiser for breakfast as I could wish for and I enjoyed the good home cooking all the more for the fact that my morning spin on the lake had not been fishless. There is nothing novel in the bait used on:this occasion, but the method of cutting the fish was new to me and its attractiveness was amply demonstrated by results, Sporting papers are well worth watch- ing for hints from time to time in regard to lures and the best way in which to present them. Like our- selves, fish are variable in their fancies, and it is well not to depend on one type of attraction. Unfor- tunately I had forgotten my flies in a hurried departure from Toronto and I could not procure any locally but on the whole I did very well and had every reason to be satisfied. If one were inclined to rhapsodise columns might be written in regard to the glorious heritage the people of Canada have in the multitude of lakes and rivers all over this favored land. It is truly the paradise of the sportsman and fisherman, while its magnificent possibilities are within easy reach of those compelled to live in cities. The spaciousness of these realms of lake and river can scarcely be realized by dwellers in more densely populated countries and, des- tined ultimately to be the home of many more millions of the Ansglo- Saxon race, an essentially sport- loving people will find in Canada a land pre-eminently favored and dow- ered with the finest gifts that bene- ficence can bestow. - Peerless Timagami e M. PARKINSON ATURE Lovers, Seekers after Health, Disciples of Isaac Walton, Hunters, and all others who wish 4 for a few short weeks =1in the dog days to = lay aside the artific- ialities and strains of life, who long to exchange the Christie and four-button sack for the cap and sweater, whose hearts hunger for the smell of the pines and the swish of the addle have to search farther and arther for the unspoiled wilderness as the years go by. The onward march of civilization, the greed of the ljumberman and the conventional tour- ist resort have every year sacrificed areas of the “forest primeval’’ that would put to blush a kingdom’s fee. Soon the majority of our great Northland’s forest playgrounds will be things of the past, and the sports- man and wilderness lover will have to o far afield to find the undisturbed Couinith of their finned, feathered and furred friends. The Timagami Forest Reserve Fortunately for the wearied den- izens of the busy haunts of men, the Government of the Province of On- tario has set aside a magnificent area of pine covered lakeland, containing 3,790,000 acres, for the Timagami Forest Reserve. This domain, stretch- The Belle of Timagami on its way to Bear Island ing one-hundred miles from north ~ south and sixty miles from east west, is just as Nature left it—b ling cliffs rising sheer hundred, feet in the clear air; rolling hillsid clad ‘in interminable green: islam and islets like emerald gems. set in field of bluest blue—and this it will for the next, and the next, and succee ing generations, as no settle no lumberman may enter into this car free kingdom. Bae Nestling in the midst of this green vastness of the Timagami Fore Reserve lies wondrous Lake Timaga- mi. Like some gigantic octopu we with its innumerable legs, and arms, th and feelers, each one more sinuous ~_ and beautiful than the other, stretched _ out, east and west and north and south, into this interminable wonder-_ land of evergreen hills. or T-i-m-a-g-a-m-i! Pronounced (1 mog-a-me) with a full, open, dee chested tone. How the very sound of this Ojibway word for “deepwater” carries one off into the pine woods! — n it you hear the sound of lapping | waters, from it you catch a whiff of — the balsams and the pine trees, 2 nde) by the music of its soft vowel sounds — you are carried back to the days of — frowsy Indians, black-robed priests, and picturesque Coureurs de Bois threading these forest wildernesses in the days of the golden past. Picture to yourself, if you canjeu this marvellous lake with its 1,600 islands and islets. There are 1,259 of them surveyed and marked on the Government map, ready for leasing to prospective’ cottagers. Visiting four islands each day and remaining forty days each year it would take you ten years to merely pay each island a flying visit. Consider for a moment its 3,000 miles of shoreline. If you paddled around it once to explore its beauties you would have a canoe trip from Halifax 10 Vancouver and on- some 200 miles into the Pacific Ocean, and yet you would never find your self a mile from shore for the lake is never two miles wide. “Crystal Timagami, Wasacsinagami. Low waves that beat on thy shadowy shore, North of the Nipissing, up the Tim- iskaming, We will come back and sing you encore: Me Back to the wilds again,-show me the way, , Make me a child again, just for a day.”’ How To Get There. The natural gateways to Timagami are through Buffalo (400 miles) and Toronto (300 miles). From _ these gateways the Grand Trunk Railway ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 9 carries its guests in solid-vestibule trains and standard Pullmans to Timagami Station on the lake itself. From North Bay to Timagami (70 miles) the Grand Trunk trains run over the rails of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. It is from here the wildwood scenery commences. Panting up the grade your engine strains at its task until afew miles on from Mulock ‘“‘The Summit” is reached. From here the Jocko runs off into Lake Temiskaming and the Ottawa, the north into the | Mattawa and the Ottawa, and the Tomiko into the Sturgeon, Lake Nipissing and the Georgian Bay, thus making this point the water-shed between Lake Huron and the Ottawa. This is the country of fish and game. If you want a fine moose-head for your den make arrangements to do your shooting in Timagami — next autumn. If you want to fill your creel with the finest of speckled trout, real salvelinus fontinalis, camp for a few days-on Rabbit Creek near Red- water, that beautiful bubbling brook which you cross and re-cross in such a marvellous way that you fall to _ asking yourself, from which car win- dow you will next catch a vision of its loveliness. And so it goes on purling brooklet, limpid lakelet, miles Wey ‘ Early morning—Lake Timigami 10 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Mrs. James F, Barker and her twenty pound trout of balsam and of pine, and over all the arch of illimitable blue. Are You Coming? Come and visit the interminable mazes of this primeval forest. What a marvel is spread before you! Every breath that reaches your nostrils speaks of health, and you strive to fill the inflated lungs still fuller of the sweet balsamic air; you cast. care away, and resign yourself to the kind-~ ly rule of the Genius of the Pine Woods who will bring strength, and peace and rest, as you listen to her gentle wooing and allow the spirit of the wilderness to sink into your soul. Advantages Of Timagami. What makes Timagami unrivalled health resort? Why does a few weeks in these forest’ wilds reconstruct a broken down physical constitution and give a tired, worn- out man a new lease of life, sending such an ee him back to his work with such aj} store of energy that he finds the ten ]} months of following toil a thing to be | enjoyed sooner than to be feared? |} Timagami’s advantage /may be en-]f umerated as follows:— | pans | Ls Tits rae ee Lake Tunas aa lies with its southern extremity in 47 degrees north lettin or 300 miles north of Toronto, 500 miles north of New York, 700 miles north of Wash- ington. This ensures a_ delightfu summer climate—clear, warm days, i) and invigorating, cool nights. De. | 2. Its altitude. Lake Timagami jj) lies over 1,000 feet above sea levels If on some heated August day in Ney York, you were carried up 1,000 above the top of the Metropoli Life tower, you can imagine 1 change in climate conditions whie would result. Timagami is not onl 1,000 feet above the level of Ne York, but it is 500 miles farther nor Latitude and altitude unite in giving a clear, dry, rarefied atmosphere, — | 3. Its geological formation. Lake }} Timagami lies in the Laurentian are: | Its shores and hillsides are composed 4 of crystalline or granitic rocks. Al=4 most entire absence of limestone has caused its water to be comparatively 9 soft. The hard nature of its shore line and bottom has prevented dis- 4 integration and the foundation C mud or sand. Everywhere you will | find rock and water, and rock ind water only. There is, with rare exceptions, no mud, no weeds, noth=- | ing offensive; only ‘the bare, clean | rocks and the crystal-clear waters # into whose pellucid depths you may gaze to a distance of twenty of 7 thirty feet, and note the active | motion of the sportive minnow, or the more sedate movements of th lazy four-pound black bass. you afford to be so busy that cannot give yourself this opportunity © for increased health and happiness! | Think twice before you decide to | spend another year with no let-up to | the dreary tread-mill of business. i 4. Its clear, dry atmosphere. No. ‘one can fully appreciate the clearness" and lack of humidity in the air of | Timagami, except those who have | Spent a week or so in its wilds andl ; ROD AND GUN IN CANADA I] fastnesses. Some conception of it may be conveyed to the non-visitor from the following facts — (a) The writer has frequently car- ried on conversation with people camped on an island a full mile away. To appreciate this, measure off in your mind a mile from where you now sit, and imagine shouting to, and being heard by a person sitting at the other end. of that mile. This is wireless telegraphy withouta sending or a receiving instrument, except the ears and the throats of two lusty campers. In the still clear, Timaga- mi evenings, the weird cry of the solitary loon, the hoarse bellow of the giant bull-moose, come over the quiet waters mingled with the incessant bark, bark of the Indian dogs, the lightsome laugh of some care-free tourist,and the dip, dip of some be- lated paddle. (b) Everywhere in Timagami is “echo rock.’’ Anywhere between the islands, and where can you go and not be between islands, you can get as many as six distinet echoes. Some August night, with the moon sailing through fleecy clouds, and the planets shining like points of light in the crystal depths below your canoe, let a clear baritone voice roll out a flood of song among Timagami’s islands and you might think the gods themselves had awakened, and that every rock and islet was the home of some music- al spirit voicing the theme of the night in silver song. Come to this “Gem of the North Land”’ if it be only hear the echoes on a still night under a harvest moon. ce. Your clothing will not stay wet in Timagami. Draw in your line on a hand troll over your left leg and soon a wet patch’ appears on your trousers, only to become perfect- ly dry in the next ten minutes while you are cooking the luscious pickerel which rewarded your labors. It is necessary to say that there is no hay-fever in such an atmosphere as this. ~ Those who are afflicted with. this annually recurring malady find perfect freedom in Timagami. Many have found this out, and year after - year they hie away to the northern wildwoods to find relief from their distressing affliction. Come once, to put these assertions. to the test. Accommodations. You must not think that great hardships and much discomfort must be met in order to enjoy the myster- ies of this wildwood elysium. The opposite is the fact. As before stated you travel in Standard Pullmans, carried on fast solid-vestibule trains right to the gateway of the Lake. On the station platform you will find the representatives of the Perron and Marsh Navigation Company. They operate a fleet of gasoline laun- ches, and the steamboat Belle of Timagami, capable of carrying three hundred people in comfort and safety. Mr. Oderick Perron and Captain Marsh know all about Timagami. They. will tell you just where to go; how and where to catch the fish, and Lady Evelyn river eco ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Oderick Perron and his thirty pounder any othér information you may wish. Their boats will connect with all trains. and take you to any part of the lake you may desire. Bear Island Seventeen miles up the lake is found Bear Island. It is the heart of the octopus to which the lake has been compared. Every _ tourist should come to Bear Island. Stand- ing on the wharf of the Hudson’s Bay Company you have time to draw breath, after the excitement of the wonderful trip up the north-east arm, and look about you. At your feet lap the wavelets of the “Deep water.” Down fifteen feet in its crystal depths you may catch a glimpse of a skulking ass. out you stands the Hudson’s Bay Post, not altogether what you might expect in this far north-land, . a. ibe bul a modern up-to-the-minute, pla glass fronted store. Farthey up t hill looms the Roman Catholi¢ Chure! its spire a heavenward pointmg finge its bell tolling out in this far-awe wilderness the story of fidelity heroism wrapped up in the lives those Jesuit Fathers who first ca the story of the Cross to the Ii Minnehaha. For it w he Northern Ontario lakelands that t Ojibway Chiefs came who told Hiawatha legend to Schooleraft repeated it to Longfellow, who bodied it in those singing ve all English-speaking people know well. 3 At the Hudson’s Bay Post, at the windows are seen new potatoes, fresh cabbage, ripe tomatoes and downy cheeked peaches. So th you may live in this untouch wilderness and still enjoy much the comforts of civilization. Mr Fraser knows all about fishing tackle, tourist’s supplies, canoes and guides Leave your itinerary and ar ments to him and rest assured ¢ pleasant holiday and plenty of His boat-house is filled with a com- ed canoes. From him you can sec launches for private trips over T agami, or outfits and guides for a trip even to Moose Factory with salt waters of Hudson’s Bay, if you are venturesome enough for such a4 journey. The Hudson’s Bay Post is headquarters for Indian silk a beadwork as the Factor is in clo touchwith the Indians of the Hudson’s Bay region for hundreds of mile around. Be: Fishing A ai ‘ Timagami is certainly the paradise of the fisherman. Other waters may ROD be fished out, Timagami and the hundreds of other lakes reached from Bear Island in a day or so still teem with fish. The fish found in these regions, coming as they do from these cool, clear waters, are toothsome and gamey. The most sought for, of course, is that “living arrow of the 14 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA white-waters, whose food is_ the glancing butter-fly,” the. speckled trout Salvelinus fontinalis. The rivers and streams between North Bay and Timagami are alivé with these speckled beauties. The writer has a photograph of 144 tipping the scales at just 100 pounds, caught by ien rods in something less than two hours. In the Lady Evelyn region and the rivers running into this lake the trout run large and many are secured up to two pounds and over. No one with a good guide, and the necessary skill, need leave Timagami without the full export quota of 50 pounds of speckled trout. Next in order, of course, comes that “inch for inch and pound for pound—the gamiest fish that swims’ the small mouthed black bass, Miscopterus dolomien. Everyone in Timagami has his favorite bass ground, but the fact remains that the black bass is distributed over the whole area of Timagami and surrounding lakes. They run from 10 to 12 inches in length, and scale from two to four pounds. No one should fail in se- curing his limit of eight in anything like a favorable day. Then comes that Lancelot among the fishes, the Great Lake Trout Cristivomer namay- cush. No matter how you may rave les are falling-—Lake about the speckled trout and the black bass, the .namaycush trout stands unrivalled in form, in color, in markings, in outline, and in flesh,— a synthesis of qualities making a perfect fish. Timagami /and_ sur- rounding lakes are full of /this lordly game fish. To take him is great sport, to look at him glistening on the . floor of the canoe is a picture; but when the great pink slabs from his coarse sides fall into the boiling Crisco, © and sizzling and browned to turn are placed on your improvised table under the pine trees, the aroma rising, mingled with the odor of pine and balsams, to your tense and quivering nostrils, then it is not sport, and no picture can describe your feeling, it is simply the ecstasy of delight. When you remember the many spec- imens run to thirty pounds and over, that ten and fifteen pounds are frequent and that five or six is a common day’s sport, you will have some appreciation of what gray trout fishing in Timagami means. Then there is the common, every-day doré, Stinzostedion Vitreum locally called pickerel or wall-eyed pike, better called pike-perch showing its relation to the Percidae and at the same time calling attention to its slender pike- like body. The flesh is firm and very \ Fae ran . ?| | Timagami ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 15 flakey, white and delicious flavor, and those who have to eat fish every day and twice a day during a holiday of nine or.ten weeks will gladly turn from the delicate brook trout, the juicy, luscious black bass, or the rich gray trout to the flesh of the much overlooked pickerel. The limit is a dozen a day for each rod, and you will have no trouble in reaching that limit each day anywhere in Timagami, still fishing with worm or minnow, or trolling with an ordinary light spoon. Then last, comes the common pike Esox lucius thrown aw ay as unfit for food, often-high up on the bank, where he can no longer prey on more re- spectable. fishes, by the ordinary Timagami fisherman his rank odor and coarse flesh are commonly de- spised, yet some-cling to him as a choice morsel. Probably they are right for you will remember. that Isaac Walton devotes a whole chapter to the scavanger, giving directions how to “roast him when he is caught,” cepanne that when thus prepared he “choicely good,” too good for any irk anglers and honest men. Your trouble will be to keep the pike off your hook or spoon with which you are hoping to tempt better fish. ‘Hunting. The lordly moose is Timagami’s show animal. In July and August they are often seen by the tourist swimming in Timagami’s water, or feeding on the lily pads of the small surrounding lakes. When the open season comes they are more wary, and have retreated to the ridges of the uplands, and not a little skill is necessary to get one. However, it is the proud boast of the Bear Island guides that they have never allowed one hunter to return without a head for his pains, and many of them have been giants of their kind. Good comfortable accommodation is pro- vided, parties outfitted, and guides supplied. The red deer is not found in any great numbers in the immediate neighborhood of Lake Timagami, but in the territory between North Bay and Timagami Station they are found -in abundance. The ruffed grouse, commonly called willowed partridge, and the pine grouse are plentiful anywhere in the forest. You may kill them with a stick or stone as they run along the portages. Wild ducks nest all over the lake and during the summer it is a common sight to see mother and her fleet of ducklings sailing within a few yards of your canoe. Wild geese nest farther north but Timagami waters are full of geese during the Open season as they are on their way to the south. Ontario Guides Will Organize THE EpiTor HE daily mail for the editor contains on the average ten enquiries from prospective tourists to different - partsof the Dominion. =~ The first letter will be from a man in Baden asking about the nearest moose country for him to go to in Canada, the next will be from a party of fishermen in southern Ontario asking forvirgin bass territory in Northern Ontario. An enquirer from Salt Lake City asks about big game in British Columbia, and so on varying from moose to rabbits in game, and from brook trout to tuna in fish and the extent of the territory can only be gauged by the boundaries of the country. These letters, which are a pleasure to receive, are answered with ease in the majority of cases on account of the invaluable sources of information in the provinces in which the sportsman wishes to hunt or fish. This is particularly true of the Mari- time provinces where the guides are organized into protective associations. For a man wishing either fishing or 16 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA shooting in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, a letter to the Secretary of the Provincial Guides’ Association solves all the difficulties attendant to a successful trip into strange territory. Knowing the conditions relative to conservation and organized guides protective associations in the Mari- vision of the North Country asa sportsmen’s Paradise is F. C. Arm- strong of Cochrane who holds the official position of Sportsman’s Representative of the Canadian Nat- ional Railways. aie ¥ Mr. Armstrong knows. Northern ~ Ontario like a book and during the Mr. F. C. Armstrong times it was with great pleasure that our attention was called to the likelihood of a similiar organization being formed in Ontario. Very fit- tingly the proposed Ontario Outfitters’ and Guides’ Association is being fathered by a _ native of New Brunswick who has spent the past sixteen years as guide, father confessor and companion to tourists in Nortn- ern Ontario. This man with the true time he has lived there has seen great changes in the country. ‘“‘When I went into the North Country nineteen years ago the caribou were very plentiful, now they have dwindled to scattered bands” said this experienced Sportsman “and as with the game so with the fish, At one time the lakes and streams were literally alive with game fish of all kinds and it was no trick at all to catch a dozen four pound ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 7, speckled trout in a short time.” Continuing he stated that while the fish and game are not depleted that he would like to see them kept up to their present standard. This he pro- poses to do by the careful organization of guides, sportsmen, outfitters etc. into an official body to.be known as the Ontario Guides’ and Outfitters’ Association. In addition to this or- ganization he urges the re-stocking of all bodies of water that have become depleted through a ruthless slaughter of our game fishes. Mr. Armstrong, who has the support of the Deputy Minister of Game and Fisheries of Ontario, the ° various guides, trappers and Indians with whom he has broached this important ~ subject briefly sums up the objects of the organization as follows: (a) To ensure the securing of com- petent and qualified guides for sports- men. (b) To ensure, as far as possible, that uniform rates shall be charged by the various guides and outfitters. (c) To provide disciplinary mea- sures for guides charging exorbitant prices to any sportsman. (d) To prevent guides trespassing on the rights of other guides who are now established. (e) To require each guide to do his best in protecting the game, and to give information to the proper author- ities if this protection is not given by others. At the present time it is practically impossible for anyone to get in touch with reliable guides in_all parts of Northern Ontario. While at different points there are guides who will take charge of parties at normal prices, there are other virgin game territories where it is impossible to locate faithful and honest guides. There is a tendency on the part ofsome uides to charge exorbitant prices and ailing to secure these, often outrage- ous demands, they will show the hunt- ing party all kinds of scenery but very little game. The proposed organization will consist of representatives of the var- ious railways serving the territory which is all that section of Ontario lying north of Lake Superior, from Quebec boundary on and north of the Ottawa Division of the Grand Trunk Railway, Ottawa to Parry Sound, to the Manitoba Boundary. The rail- ways interested include the Canadian National, The Canadian Pacific, The Grand Trunk and the Algoma Central. The first meeting when the organiza- tion will be formed will be held in Port Arthur during the latter part of May or early in June. The territory will-be divided into twelve sections or districts. i The railway representatives appoin- ted will meet the different guides and outfitters in these various districts, acquaint them with the idea of the proposed organization, and ask them to nominate a delegate to attend the Port Arthur conference, at which a President, Vice-President and Secre- _ tary-Treasurer will, be elected, also a District Chairman representing each district. 2 The twelve delegates representing the twelve districts will be designated as charter members, in addition to the President, Vice-President and Secre- tary-Treasurer. They will in turn elect other memb- ers from their respective territories who must be qualified men with good records as guides,- and previously licensed. By-Laws and methods of procedure will also be outlined at this conference. While the preliminary organization has gone forward with enviable success it is hoped that anyone with suggest- ions to make that will further this commendable project, will make them in person at the conference in Port Arthur or that they will be good enough, to mail them to F. C. Arm- strong at Cochrane or to the Editor of Rod and Gun in Canada at Wood- stock. VicroR LAuRIstoN anp A. L. McCREADY HE dance was well under way when Dub Hixon removed his overshoes at the woodshed door. Because everyone invited had arrived long ahead of him, Hixon intended to entrance as unostenta- his make tiously as possible. As he knocked his overshoes clean, a few words drifted to him from in- side the shed. “It'll mean jail for the whole bunch of us, Elgin.”’ “Jail. Aw, slush! Jack.’’ Dub Hixon felt embarrassed. He removed his driving gauntlets. and, You're loony, making all the noise he could, pushed Open the door. Jack Slade started up, his pale face perturbed. But Elgin Wilkes grinned. “Did I hear you say jail?” remark- ed the Dub, jocularly. “What d’you know about Ly. demanded Slade, nervously. “Oh, I know all about it.” Dub was always cocksure, but Vicious. The never He strode on into the kiteh- en, leaving Slade and .Wilkes to wrestle with their difficulty, whatever it might be. ; The kitchen he found crowded with the young manhood of Talbot Ridge, some smoking, others in shy retreat from the fair sex. The fair sex, for their part, were doubtless shyly wailing in the front rooms.. The Dub regarded the whole party with a bored air. The dining room, cleared of furniture,-was the scene of an hilarious quadrille. “Ladies salute and gents salute and round you go with a lickety-scoot,”’ bawled the strong-lunged prompter. And ladies and gents ducked and bobbed, and rose up with haads clasped ring-a-rosy about each other’s necks, completing the figure, 8 quar- tette of bowed heads with flying heels as they circled, wildly striving to keep time to the squealing fiddles. Che dust, pounded out of the soft wood floor, settled like thin smoke about the heads of the two fiddlers, perched on the wide kitchen table in the corner of the room. Old Sol Sammers played first fiddle and his son Alex second—old Sol with his proverbial chaw in the side of his ROD AND GUN IN CANADA cheek and a cuspidor at his heel. To-night, as every dance night throughout the settlement, they rasp- ed out Virginia reels and Heel and Toe, perspiring, flushed—old Sol at the end of each change, bowing his heated face to carefully expectorate. The Dub, big, fair-haired, freckle- faced, gazed about him, and thought of one or two things. This dance was the outcome of a protracted sparrow match. Talbot Ridge had organized two teams of twenty-eight boys each. Jack Slade captained one team, Long Elmer Sweed the other. The losing team was required, of course, to furnish an evening’s entertainment, topped off with an oyster supper. As might be expected, ev erybody con- cerned nearly” or remotely was on hand to-night to see that the expense to the losers was commensurate with the effort the match had cost. Get the sparrows. — that’s the watchword of a sparrow match. Shoot ’em, snare ’em, bird-lime "em, but get °em—get ‘em anyway. The favorite device, heretofore, had been to go at night with lanterns and scare them out of the big barns and. straw-stacks. Dazzled by the light, stupid from their awakening, the birds would flutter around within reach of wooden bats and: waiting hands. Slade’s team was easily in the lead with 5,000 kirds the night Grantham’s parn burned. That catastrophe put an end to hunting in barns and about straw stacks. True, none of the sparrow hunters had been seén there, but the disaster was a reminder that barns were inflammable. The far- mers shut down on barn-huntings, and Long Elmer’s team was left in the air. Through the last two weeks of the contest they, including the Dub, struggled desperately to reduce. the jead of their opponents. They scout- ed with shot-guns by day, and with jJanterns by night at such places as were still accessible. Unceasing diligence wiped out the opposing lead, and piled up an over- plus that made victory certain. Then, on the crucial day of the count, Jack Slade rushed in a load 19 of sacks and dumped from them a pile of 2,5000 additional birds. Long _Elmer Sweed threw up his hands, at the sight. The Dub was the first of the defeated team to find voice. “Where — did —- you — kill — those — birds?” Elgin Wilkes, Slade’s red-faced crony, grinned. “Count ‘em,” he jeered. “Count "em, boys. Who beat? Eh? Who puts up them there oysters? Oh, you Dub Hixon’”—as the big, fair- haired fellow repeated his question— “where did them sparrers come from? I'll tell you, all right—some of these days.” The Dub, remembering it all to the tune of the fiddles and the stamping of feet, looked for, and found Elgin Wilkes. A question came to his lips; and, as usual, he did not stop to consider it: “Where did you kill those spar- rows, Elgin?” Wilkes drew close. He drew Hixon a little apart, mysteriously. He was derisively self-possessed, was Wilkes. “Oysters all ordered, eh? Pretty big crowd, 100? And your bunch has to pay for it all? Huh?” His derisive tone made even good-natured Dub Hixon writhe. “Well, I'll tell you, then. Jack Slade killed them sparrers with his own hands, over to the Billingworth settlement—that’s where he killed em.” “The Dillingworth settlement?” Dub Hixon’s blue eyes widened. ‘Well, you're some hustlers—that’s all I can say.” He was honest in his admiration of their energy, for the Dillingworth settlement was all ‘of thirty miles from Talbot Ridge. “That’s what J said—some hust- lers.’ Wilkes was complacent. “The Dillingworth folks had just finished their. sparrer match, and we got them twenty-five hundred spar- rers cheap—oh, for a five dollar bill. Pretty slick—eh?” The-Dub looked at him hard. “So that’s how you won?” “Uh-huh!’’ Wilkes was unawed. Now that the oysters were bought and the dance in full swing, it would be the capstone to his contentment 20 to have everyone know how Slade had put one over. “Jack’s going to break the good news at supper. But I reckoned I'd tell you a bit before-~ hand, Dub, so’s you’d catch on about the same time the others did.” He grinned cruelly. Dub Hixon, though, was a game loser. oe “Say, that was pretty slick, though. I’d never have thought of that.” *_* * & It was during the supper hour that old Sol Summers, the fiddler, removed his chaw and unloosed his garrulous tongue. “It’s all right to get rid of them darned sparrows, but I’m like the rest, I don’t want no one wi’ lanterns around my barn 0’ nights, nohow. No, sir, I’ don’t!” “Twan’t no sparrer hunters set Grantham’s barn a-fire,”’ squeaked old Otto Morgan. “Crazy Alvin McGuire, he done it. He was right there, loony as ever, when I come running up.” “Well,”’ remarked Malcoim Kelly, “crazy Alvin’ll sure git a stiddy home now. They’re a-going to send him over to the county house.” “That’s all right,” chimed in old Sol, again, “but, all the same, them young badgers might a-been there ter sparrers and upsot a lantern. ; a can’t most gen’rally sometimes ell. Kelly Sagely nodded his head. “Grantham’ll get a new barn with the insurance—and Crazy Alvin won't have to sleep out at nights.” The Dub caught the words about Crazy Alvin. e thought of an- other remark, and mildly tossed it across table at Jack Slade and Elgin Wilkes. : ; “Say, you Jack Slade’”’ he shouted, genially, “you don’t need to go to ail. Why don’t you go to the county ouse with Crazy Alvin?” : Slade reddened. It was Wilkes who answered swiftly: “Aw, barn door. you don’t, McGuire will stray in and fire your garret,” , The table roared. The Dub re- garded the grinning Wilkes, mildly, Elgin ROD AND GUN IN CANADA “He sure couldn’t set fire to your hay-mow. Too muth water. 4 The retort was a bit too subtle; — it just drew a titter. But Elgin ie Wilkes was on his feet. There was ae triumph of bigger moment to pull a off; and right now, Jack Slade, some- ae how, wasn’t in shape to do it. ray “Folks,” he said, ‘‘that there spar- rer match was to get sparrers... and 4 we... our side... Jack Slade’s team “y and mine . . . we got the sparrers. 4 In spite of Dub Hixon here, we got: Bi the most sparrers.”’ : eh And, . quite unblushing, amid growls that grew at last into resigned — grins, he told of the purchase of thea ®, twenty-five hundred sparrows from the Dillingworth settlement, ie There were no more sparrow match- ee es on the Ridge that winter. No one felt that it would be opportune toe propose another. Rie All winter, Grantham had men et work getting out timber for his new ; barn. Framers were busy hewing poe Ss out the plates and beams. is in the spring, trenches were made for -— the foundations, on the sidé of the | old barn. The Dub men hired for this work, for his muscles were of generous proportions. — _One day, digging alone in a corner, his shovel Struck something that : hoveling away the ashes and charred _ lantern frame. ically scraped rusty ashes with a had been made in the, “se hole was pierced in the top of each of Those holes, he knew | it from the bow of a boat for use as a Jack-light in Spearing fish. ub Hixon turned it over and Over, thoughtfully. : Another worker hailed him. Oh, I say, Dub, Wilkes and Slade are going on Big Red Houston’s team at the barn raisin’. Lucky it ain’t another sparrow match... eh?” The Du reflected. “I reckon,” he said, thoughtfully, , he brought to light a twisted e€ r ed. He examined it closely; mechan- ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 21 “T ought to join in with Little Dan Gregory.” The other man cackled hugely. The Dub was not rated high on Tal- bot Ridge. - In the country, a barn raising is a big event. It is a keener contest, in its way, than a sparrow match. Not so protracted, of course but from the very days of the pioneers, there has been ineffable glory in _ helping a barn raising team to win, and particularly in being its captain. Little Dan Gregory: gazed askance at the Dub. “Take him, you bDlistered little son of a sea-cook,” jeered Big Red Houston. “‘He’s a regular hoodoo, and you've got to lose, anyway.” “T will take him,” returned Greg- ory. He was a cool, quiet leader, doing things with systematic precision. He contrasted with Big Red, a blasphem- ous driver of men. Big Red had the sulphurous vigor of the boss of a railroad construction gang. Under his stream of red-hot invective the men sprang to their work with alac- Tity. : “Go to it, you hounds,” he bawled. “Git a-—hustle on.” This to Bob Travers, boon companion of Slade _ and_ Wilkes. So driving, he gained bit by bit on the opposing team. Little Dan urged and coaxed and encouraged, but his methods were no match for the blasphemous driving of Big Red. Bit by bit the team fell behind in the contest. The Dub finished laying a timber, ‘and glanced up.- His eye caught that of Jack Slade. _ “Say,” he remarked, nonchalantly, “you'd think you fellows were hunt- ing sparrows, the way you’re hopping around.” F Slade winced. The Dub swung close to Wilkes and Travers. “Say, Elgin,” he drawled, ‘‘you’ve got a new lantern on your boat, eh? Whatever happened to the old one?” He laughed softly, as he leaned closer. “I know, Elgin Wilkes . . . I know what happened to it and just where it is ‘A piece of studding went tumbling, as Wilkes let go to glare at him. The Dub, desisting from work, thrust his hands into his pockets. “Td know that lantern anywhere . .. there’s not another like it on the Ridge . . . those holes in the bottom rim, and in the standards, where the wires went through.” He laughed, and sprang to his work. He heard Travers gasp. Wilkes was working on, desperately, but it was plain to see that his mind was not on-his work. The Dub swung near Slade again. “Makes one think of scaling jail walls . . . eh?’ he shot across, in a clear whisper. “Hi, there, you ~~ : A torrent of scorching, blue- brimstone abuse from Big Red Hous- ton sought to lash his men to renewed efforts. The more he stormed, the more rattled three of them grew. Slade, Travers, even Elgin Wilkes, made blunders that balked the work of the others. Big Red, purple- faced, frantic, incredulous, stormed to no avail. Little Dan Gregory, the last of his team, slid to the ground. “We're three sets of rafters ahead of ‘em, boys,” he said, quietly; and the cheers went up. The Dub, stood a bit apart, and Wilkes and Slade drew near. “Say,” said Wilkes, bluntly, “what d’you mean by that about the lan- tern?” “T meant—well, never mind. Did- n’t we win?” “Yes, d you!’ spat Wilkes. The Dub filled his. pipe, leisurely. “That lantern sort of got your goat, didn’t it? Helped us to beat your team just now. Sort of made up for those Dillingworth Birds at the spar- row tally?” The two men watched him anxious- ly, trying to read his freckled, un- perturbed face. They remembered, with qualms, some of the things they had said in contempt of the Dub, and jeers they had flung his way. “There was a lantern, wasn’t there . that old lantern you used on your boat for a jack-light when you went spearing fish? It got lost, some- > 22 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA how, about the time Crazy Alvin MeGuire set fire to Grantham’s old barn last winter. Well, Crazy Alvin's got a steady home now, which won't hurt him, and Grantham’s got a new barn .. . and that old lan- tern of yours, what’s left of it, is buried under the foundation at the Hil Il Hl I] HA Ty Hi A SOOM HH ANU ry i) ba | HHH) Pate | 2 3A: A [ee ti Mir I b : i oeccas } “hk dy . S Ny PART II. Mi HERE were no two huts alike. Streets there were none. The women and children kept well to the immediate premises and I noted over all there was stillness broken only now and then by the sharp barking of dogs. I saw one of these brutes—a large white fellow with short erect ears and bushy tail—and he was tied to a tree. I thought there were animals on four legs that I would much sooner tackle. The village was in a valley, or rather in a square-shaped hollow around which was a thick bush and towering back over that the moun- tains. It was easy to understand that the climate w as mellowed through these hills hurling back the Winds, - IN THREE PARTS south-east corner. I rather fancied © you wouldn’t want anyone to ae find it.” ; ae He puffed, and smiled. And Elgin Wilkes smiled back, oddly, as though in The Dub he discerned something bigger and finer than he had eve aN l Wy é “th 1 ee Back over the tops of the huts on ¢ rise, surrounded by young pines, entirely overlooked because of height and the trees that stoo front of it, was a large building was much out of place in its surround-_ ings. It was a log structure with some pretensions as to architecture. Looking below it, I saw the hu which we had first been taken, by putting two and two togethe at once realized that this mansit was the home of the Silver King. — “Well, I'll be stumped,” ejac lated Delray—“I never saw th before. Ill take it all back abou the old fossil with tusks like a wild boar. Give me another guess and I'll say he is a white man with a head © for business. Say, do you know — What I was thinking?” he said, Suddenly—*I_ believe we could get away from here easy enough... Say the word—” -. ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 23 I nodded my head towards the door where three natives stood on guard. “No rifles, no cartridges—not even a knife—no chance in the world, Del. Their picquet is out and we would look nice 9running into it. Then, fancy on the top of that—sup- posing wedid get by—having one of those dégs after you—pure suicide is my definition for it—pure suicide. No, sir,” I shood my head stubbornly —‘We'll stay right here until wesee it through. We must meet this king and if he’s half square, he is bound fo let us go. If not, and the worst comes to the worst, Ill guarantee that you will never have to tell any of your friends that The Hunter ~ failed you-when there was work to be done.” : ‘Hurrah,’ shouted Delray, grab- bing my hand— “Here’s to the finish!” : . Along about the time the sun was going down, we saw them coming up from from the mines—all fur-clad, all painted —but dirty, and dog- tired. These were the aged men of the village and there were twenty- two of them. Just like common, ordinary work- ing-men they went to their huts, _ then the air was filled with the aroma of cooking meat, lights sprang up “Tf I had a dozen of these,” said he —‘‘T believe I could put ‘the whole town on the blink. I’m going to try a little of it on Slim to-night and see what effect it will have. Maybe that young: gentleman will tell us something that we would be mighty glad to know.” Along about midnight, when the village had gone to sleep, Delray called Slim, and that worthy came in bashfully. Assured that we meant him no harm, he sat down on the bunk beside us and Delray produced the bottle, took a drink and passed it to me. All the while a pair of sharp, black eyes watched us. “This is medicine,’ explained Del- ray, handing Slim the whiskey— UK Ti The native took the flask in his hand and examined it curiously. He had evidently never seen such an article before. He smelt the con- tents and he made a wry face, then encouraged by us he took a deep draught, choked, and with his eyes ‘rolling and his hands on his paunch, he sprang to his feet, and went through some grotesque movements that were as surprising as they were laughable to the other guards who stood in the door and watched us. “Tell us, Slim,” I said after he had quieted down, and was again sitting _here and there, for the darkness fell _ rapidly, and over all was a super- natural silence which was broken only by. the occasional barking of a beside us with his eyes fixed on the ground—‘What do you call your people—what tribe are you?” He turned quick and looked me hungry dog. _* After a while a native came to us, lighted a crude made candle, and _ brought us food—venison and brown _bread—which we only tasted for we had enough of our own in our packs to do us a couple of days more. : Then when the moon peeped over the horizon somewhere our guards were changed and it was with a strange sense of pleasure that among ‘those who remained to see that we didn’t get away was that linguist, Slim. Here at least was an_ oppor- tunity to get a little information. For a while we conjectured on our straight in the face. “Not a tribe—we are the Silver Nation—” ‘Eskimo or Indian?” “Not Eskimo—not Indian. Silver King knows.” I could see I wasn’t getting along very far with him. I thought may- be I'd better switch the subject. “Who is the Silver King? My friend here and I think he must be a white man.” Slim was at once interested. That one look he gave us showed that he adored his king. ‘“A white man? No. Listen—” The his voice grew low and he spoke quietly and easily—‘‘Long time ago when Slim was about that size—” fate and then Delray slipped his hand into his pack and_ smilingly 4 showed me a smal! flask of whiskey. San holding his hand about four feet from -the ground—’’Our chief died and we were gathered in the council house to appoint his successor. It was a dark, cold, stormy night’ and we were burning offerings on our altar and praying to the Great Spirit to help us, when the door opened and he walked in. “He carried a rifle, much the same aS yours, and had a belt, cartridges and knife. Across his face was blood and alongside his head was a cut. He was big---and strong. He stood in the door for a minute and then he strode down among us and taking two of our strongest by the shoulders he struck their heads together just like that—” his hands went smack— “The younger of us were for killing him, but he knocked us down right and left, and all the time he was shouting in a language we didn’t understand— ‘I’m the King. I’m the King!’ “Now the older heads among us had told of the mysterious ways of The Great Spirit, and they interposed on his behalf, and it was not long until they were down on their knees before him. We, who knew what his strong hands could do, bowed to him because we were afraid. “You'll learn to speak Engiish, you blasted heathen,’ he flared , and although we didn’t understand a word he said, we answered “Yea’ in Our own tongue and kissed the earth. ‘I’m the king’ he repeated—‘And you are my people—now get to h— out of here and let His Majesty go to bed.—’ “We brought skins and made hima place to sleep, he permitted us to wash the wound on his head, and our medicine man applied some stuff to effect a cure. “For a couple of days, during which our women watched over him. he lay in a stupor, and then on the third he called us to him and explained to us that the first thing we had todo was to learn to speak his tongue, and that to identify us his mark must be put upon our faces. “We are a loyal heople—we are a quick people to take up anything, In a few months the younger of is 24 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA were ableito talk to him and he to and then he told us that he had dec ed to divide us into three cla The younger men were to plow ground, grow the food, hunt and fi the women were to cook and and make clothes from skins; older men were to work in the min to extract silver which he said very plentiful. aa “Gradually life here took on al aspect. Wood was gathered, pi high, then sodded and _ fires lighted. This was to make chare to melt the silver from the rock bred with caribou and from a sn eginning and after many difficult a great number resulted. These ani- mals were used for ploughing—the if harness being made from hides an@ _ the plows, affairs shaped from hare “The king has three wives in tha palace over there—a palace built by — us for him. He has many, Dy children. He has three tribunes— I’mone—who are responsible for the conduct of his people. One tribu is at the mines, another is at_ king’s house, while I lead the -hunti party. Tribunes are appointed b the king for age, knowledge I hunter. The king gives each m in the palace. All the food is giver to him and he distributes it, as he alse The man who used to live her dead, that’s why you see these things “Not many women here now—too Many men—but Slim. will right, for hasn’t the Silver King pro “Who’s Neebaw?” questioned De ray “That's king’s daughter—she speak best English —like her father.”’ a Hurrah,” snorted Delray, play: a fully digging him in the ribs—**You are certainly after the big ones~eh, Slim?” “Tell me,” I interrupted, not at all interested— “‘What do you do when anyone kills another?” Slim shook his head. “No one kills here—but sometimes “they steal. I remember long time ago of one who stole a bar of silver from the mines. He was brought before the tribunes and we sent him on to the king. The thief was a big, strong man and a fighter, put the king he came down off his throne and taking off his coat, he went at the culprit with his fists. It was a good fight for a little while, but—we had to carry that man away and put him in bed and it was a long, long time before he could work again.” At midnight our guards were again changed and Slim refusing another taste of the “white man’s medicine’ hecause it made him feel ‘queer here”’ -—rubbing his stomach—accepted some little trinkets from our pockets and went away. We knew if we had a friend in all that lone land that it was the third tribune of the Silver King. The events that follow bear Mme out. . VI. “Del.” I began, after we had crawled into our bunks— “‘can you see in the strange appearance of this .king any connection with the mys- terious disappearance of Norman Lambert?’”’ , “J was just thinking of that,” he returned. “God! If it were only ‘ possible—” mn ob 2 “Not only possible, I'm thinking, but altogether probable that when we come face to face with this man we wil] know him. I’ve a hunch that the Silver King is none other than Norman Lambert—” “And what ails him? he come back?” “Tve been trying to figure that out,” I told him—‘“And my con- clusion is that something went wrong with his mind—he was injured so badly that the past is a blank. don’t know what you Tail it, but # Why didn’t has a name—"’ “ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 5 George Delray scratched his head for a minute. “J understand you, Hunter. It is called asphasia, and there have been cases without number. Then there is another belief in regard to in- sanity. Some have it that it is caused by a pressure of bone or some other substance on the brain, and that when this pressure is removed, the person becomes sane again.” Thus we talked ourselves to sleep and when we awoke again it was bright and there was quite a stir in the village. \ Slim came in and told us that his people were not going to work that day so they could be present at the trial of these ““white-faced strangers.” He asked us to be ready and the guards would take us to the council house. He cautioned us not to at- tempt any violence else we might be killed—a nice assurance to leave with us. Along about ten o’clock—I say “ten o'clock” because I think it was that time for we had no way .of knowing having left our watches and even our tobacco at the forks— we were marched to the council house accompanied by about a dozen of their strongest. Arrived. there we were taken inside and told to stand about ten feet from three men who knelt on skins—the tribunes. This was to be our preliminary hear- ing and if the charge against us was serious enough we would have to appear before His Majesty, the Sil- ver King. Thethree ages of man were repre- sented by these tribunes. Slim was the personification of youth, strength, and speed: the gentleman from the king’s paiaée was honorable middle- age, business-wise, reserved and like granite. while the tribune from the mines was stupid old age, with a face wrinkled and seared like a weather-beaten rock that had stood for ages. - We were not long in finding out that even in this village youth had to cross swords with age. Slim was the only friend we had and what he said was overruled by the others. We were charged with hunting the is .— king’s deer and coming into this country uninvited. In plain English we were charged with poaching and trespassing. ; Slim told them in the best way that he could that we were hunters, had shot at the deer, but didn’t hit it, and that being lost, we were apt to wander anywhere. The first tribune—the old man— stood up and in his tongue he jab- bered and jabbered. We couldn’t tell what he said, but he evidently did not have much love for the white race. When he had done speaking, the second tribune arose slowly and his black eyes flashed as he talked about us. Slim, painfully nervous and somewhat enraged, listened until he was done and then was on his feet. “T talk to you in the tongue of my king—you can listen if you want to, and if you don’t—’’ he tioned to the open door. “These men are noi of us, neither have they been sent here by the Great Spirit. I would ask you to let them go, securing from them before departing their word of honor that what they have seen and what they have learn- ed here will not be repeated—” “No, No,” the natives shouted— _“To the King! To the King!” “Let these men speak,’’ demanded Slim, as a last resort—‘‘Let them tell you why-they are here—” Up to this time we had never _ been asked to say a word for our- selves. The natives agreed. Delray gave a short account of himself in a bold, straightforward manner and I added a little on my own behalf. 2 The tribunes consulted for a min- ute and we knew that Slim was bat- ting against odds that were too much for him. taken before the Silver King. With the tribunes leading and a guard which walked on either side we marched towards the palace. A heavy door opened by an invisible hand and two abreast we crossed the threshold. There was no floor to this square- shaped court of the Silver King. ROD AND GUN IN CANADA mo-\ silver pulpit, approached by s We were ordered to be From the door there ran to the th which occupied the centre of the wall, a narrow walk made of bric burnished silver as pure and b as new money and upon which nails in our heavy boots ma sound not unlike miniature bells. The log walls were “chinked” tone keep out the winter’s cold and the ~ place was lighted_by day by f ‘—those of the former, about s feet deep, and from which was pended a modern rifle—hung abi the king’s head. i : There were no seats in this pl. and the tribunes, bareheaded, kn on skins a few feet in front of a larg steps, and behind which the Sil King reclined in a large willow cha He was a heavy, raw-boned me with a long flowing beard, and g tinged hair which reached his sho ders. On the small bare- patel beneath his large grey eyes there w small red X’s and across_his furrowed brow there was a bar 0 same color. Upon his head w crown of beaten silver and in his hand he held a crooked, knotte stick upon which at the top was large bright star. Over his suit furs he wore a long beaver clo trimmed with ermine. ae Fa man who had expected us. . In a semi-circle, the natives stoo uncovered. A step forward of [ centre of this line we were place There wasn’t a sound. 0. “Well,” spoke the king, when a was set—“What’s the trouble?” are The first tribune arose and his words were in his native tong Without interruption he was pi mitted to speak, as was also second tribune who followed. Th Slim stood up, made a salaam, an proud of his English he told His Majesty just upon what charge we rh * ROD AND GUN IN CANADA had been brought before him and ended up with a plea to pardon us and let us go. f “These men,”’ said the Silver King, in a strong loud tone— “‘Are not of my people—they have not been sent here by the Great Spirit—” God!’ gasped Delray, in a whis- per— “That yoice is Lambert’s, but that body is not—” “They hunted my deer—your deer ——’ he went on—“‘And they shall be punished. You of the grey hair and face of the outdoors, what have you to say?” I looked at my feet for a minute. Never did they ever seem so small. “Tt is true we hunted your animal,” I said—‘‘As true—as true—” here I raised my voice and shouted right at him— “‘As sure: as your name 1s Norman Lambert, and that you were lost twelve years ago at Black Lake—’ The king laughed at me. “The old man talks riddles. Nor- man Lambert? In treth that is a fine name for thé king of the Silver Nation—the race that knows no other—”’ “You deny you are Norman Lam- ‘bert, and that you don’t know us?” from Delray, a blank look on his face. The Silver King sprang to his feet. “You fools,” he roared—‘*Know you? No. You are as strange to “Me as you are to my people.” I looked at Delray and he looked / at me. > kind. carry on your back what the hunters *He’s queer in his head,” Delray _whispered— “May the Lord forgive him for the lies he tells. That’s Norm Lambert or I’m not living this blessed minute—the poor freak—” “But you shall be my people,” the king thundered—’’You shall be clothed in skins and my mark shall be put upon you. You of the grey hair shall work in the mines. You of the smooth face shall be a hunter, but a hunter without an arm of any It shall be your duty to of the Silver Nation shall kill) In the mines—’ he pointed to me— ~ “You shall help extract the ore from _ the rocks—the silver that is valueless, except for the employment it gives of the Silver _ feel the imprint of his bony fist, he , 27 men who are going down towards the sunset of life.” He turned to the guards and with a wave of his arm, he said— “Take them away—’” then he walked down the stone steps from his throne, strode to a door that lead into his household at the back of his palace, and without so much as a glance in our direction, he passed out. “That’s a rotten deal,” flared Del- ray, moving towards me— “Will we submit to it?” “No,” I declared baring my arms— “Tl be no blooming heathen for all the kings in the world.” AYA bik I started the trouble, but it wasn’t a second until Delray was into it. A big, square-faced chap shoved me in the back, and [ struck him fair and square on the nose. Fifty to two were the odds as we faced each other. Delray fought that day like the very devil, and if there was man Nation who didnt wasn’t present to receive it, that’s all. We knocked them down as fast as they came up and as we fought them we tried to reach the door. But they had anticipated such a move on our part, and they gradu- ally closed in on us from all sides; those who were at the back pushing those who were nearest right upon us. We were loath to quit, but we were beaten. Our hands tied behind us with thongs and our feet lashed together, they carried us outside and lay us full upon our backs. Then they bathed our sore faces—for we hadn’t got off scot free, by any means—put some salve on our cuts, and then placed the king’s mark upon us. We were members in good stand- ing of the Silver Nation—the race that knew no other. All this time, from the passing of sentence upon us, we never saw the face of Slim. He had com- pletely vanished. A friend of ours, there was no doubt that he had to keep on the good side of the father of his bride-to-be. In my heart I readily pardoned F ’ 4 ih 28 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA him for his absence; he had done all he coald do for us, and it was too much to expect him to help us against his own people., We were not aware that our good friend was at that very moment a prisoner in the king’s residence and that he was being held on the advice of the second tribune that he might help us escape. Delray, damning everything on earth, in the sea and on the sea, lay about ten feet from me. We were all alone. 5 “You savage, heathen brutes, he stormed at the atmosphere— “Untie these strings and I’li lick the best two men among you—”’ all this from a man who was tied hand and foot and —alone. After a while he broke out in a . fit of laughter and I knew the worst was over with him. “God! Hunter, it was great— wasn’t it? Talk about adventure— what would the wine clerk at the old Pacific at North Bay say if he saw us now—” he rolled over on his side and he stared at me. “Hunter,” he said— “At this bles- sed minute you look like the wild man in Barnum & Bailey’s circus. Two X’s and a bar—two ten dollar bills and a place where a gentleman ina white apron asks you ‘What will you have?’ parched and dry; my tongue swollen. I was terrible sore thirsty. ay “Water!” I shouted, and ra my head, I looked around. — was nobody present. I knew I w choke. ‘ hy “Water! I want a drink,” Ica and pretty soon I heard .some tapping on the outside wall wi stick. “Come here,” I said—Do afraid—I want a drink of water— The little one watched me j minute, then she darted away a a remarkably short time returned. a_ birch-bark cup. Very care she carried it over to me and p it to my lips. “God bless you, little one muttered, thankfully—*What’s. name?” uy For a moment she kicked moccasin into the ground, then her finger in her mouth, she w pered: “Neebaw!”’ The Silver King’s daughter! § bride-to-be! Mighty young for wife, I thought—but then, Slim w. not very old either. | raised mys and studied her. If it hadn’t been tor the hideous paint.on her face. this child would have been as pretty a: picture. Her flaxen hair fell in ring. ROD AND GUN IN CANADA lets to her waist, and her dress was of the best of fisher. There was nothing foreign about her features. “Daddy is sorry,” she volunteered —‘but he must be obeyed. Heard him tell mummer he came away be cause he expected you would fight. Neekawaug, who defended you, is in our house, because daddy and the tribune thought he should be pun- ished—”’ _ “Neekawaug? une?’ “Yes,” she answered— “He is a great hunter. Is he the third trib- He leads the. hunting 929 ae party. Once he killed a bear, mind you, with ,his bare hands. It-was ever, ever, so big—” “Tell me, Neebaw, I said““-Do you know where they took my friend—” - “The other? Oh, yes, he is over in Neekawaug’s hut. He is lying on his back and talking and talking—” Icould picture the language Delray was using about that time. Outside a feminine voice was calling ‘‘Nee- baw—Nee—baw!”” and -so with a smile for me the daughter of the Silver King ran out. = (Concluded in July number) F. V. WILLIAMS VERY, very good ar- gument it was, the opposing factions were a two hundred and forty pound fat man, and two young- 4 ish looking gentlemen with slightly pasty looking faces, and the latest cut in “Sway-Back”’ summer suits. This comprised the one side, \ Ef hz (SD 7 ie while the opposition was a long legged, rather ordinarily dressed man _ of perhaps forty years, and a gray haired stout little man, who was to say the least, very much excited. For an audience they had the ““Newlyweds” who ‘alternately laughed or became perplexed as the argument became ludicrous or beyond their ‘ken’ when terms or expressions were used they did not understand. 30 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA All this happened at the boarding house table where the fat.man had ridiculed the idea of the ‘““Newlyweds oing on a camping trip that the long- i sed individual had proposed they take. The two friends of the fat one had immediately joined forces with him, as they being understudies of the rincipal thing in life, ““Men’s Fash- 1ons” had no time to waste studying the erection of tents, or the art of placing a painted wooden plug in sundry open spots among the weeds for the temptation of the scrappin’ bass who lived therein. The fat man and his two “snappy” boy friends lost the weight of their argument with the ‘Newlyweds’ when the little stout man entered the controversy on the side of he of the long legs. It developed afterward that the “little stout man’’ was an ardent fly-fisher and a believer in the old religion that outdoor sports and exercise was just what the average man needed, especially for the class that was running to frills, fashions and females. man would be able to carry his “bay- window”’ front on an ordinary five mile walk let alone scramble that distance through underbrush after trout, and “you boys, why’ he snorted, “you wouldn’t go campin’, of course you wouldn’t, I fully under stand that, so does everybody else that takes interest enough in you to notice your ‘get-up’ yourcouldn’t stand it if a mosquito was to take a good meal out o yout skin, you wouldn’t have enough blood left to navigate on, besides you wouldn’t leave Wink St.. Mushy-Eye Ave., long enough to get to a trout stream. No Sir: if I were you three fellows, I’d sure take the advice you were just trying to give these two young people and not go campin’: it’s too strenuous a life for you, you wouldn’t be able to stand {Pg “Listen to him rave,” giggled one of the trio, but nevertheless they got up and left the table and went ouiside while the long-legged one laughed openly at the sudden collapse of their tirade against camping for pleasure, and the little stout man proceeded to ES ES. ee With the sarcastic remark _ that he did not believe that the fat — give the “Newlyweds” a small po ke map and descriptions of the co he had fished in the last season. Wee Ten days later the “Newlyweds were located in their tent on a b high ground near a little lak say, every day was a revel their provisions, blankets, etc. all been brought over; enough » grub to last two weeks by the who after seeing them comfo1 settled had departed down the to the lower-end, where “his canvas covered canoe carried some five miles down a beautifu stream and out onto another lake to the head-quarters_ ca leaving the two “‘greenies” to hav their adventures to themselves man of the party, however, Ss exactly an amateur and his wife ~ as enthusiastic as himself, and enjoyed every moment from the the great red sun climbed up thro Fish there were in the -lake. they both became wonderful fishe at least they caught all they eat, and they discovered that _ the early morning and evening that always gave them the be and then one never-to-be-fo evening, it was perhaps an before sunset, the man of th was washing dishes at the edge of little lake, the lady busy abou tent arranging the surplus food, she stepped outside and her happened to wander—as it gen: did, to the lake, and she saw her deer. It was standing on a li point gazing across the lake the sunset; the deer looked casua about, as if it Was in the habit © passing close to campers every day” his life, and then slowly tu nibbling here and there at the swam grasses, and walked into the thic’ Not till after it had disappeared the lady find her voice and call to companion, and then they both went out on that point and examined delicate hoof prints in the soft srou’ Always something new, and ev the rainy days were not so bad, as ROD AND GUN IN.CANADA “As snug as a bug in a rug” was quite a problem for these two, to keep their fire going and to find dry wood for such occasions, and on one of the worst days they had, these two put on their oilskins and went out in their canoe on an exploring . trip just for the adventure in it. At lunch time they discovered an old hollow stump, so large was this that they both sat inside entirely sheltered from the rain and ate their lunch, and a few days afterward the is eS river to the lake. 32 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA guide dropped around to see how they were making out, and to help them ack up for their homeward trip. They mentioned to him that they had discovered. this big hollow stump, almost large enough to camp in, and that there were signs of an old fire out in front as if someone had used the place for the night, at which the guide told them of how some two years before a new hunter to that region had arrived up there and had had very poor success for three or four days. Fin- ally one of the guides had suggested that they take a canoe and go farther up the lake the next day. The next day arrived with promise of a storm, and to add to the hunter’s disappointment the guide, the only one available, was called away for that day, but after asking the hunter if he knew how to handle a canoe, and was assured that he did, he drew a rough map of the surrounding coun- try and after helping him get his biankets—in case he should have to stay all night,—and a few odd bits of his out-fit together he left him to his own resources. The hunter having had such poor luck near camp and hearing that this lake was a good place for deer paddled On the way up he had the good fortune to get five fine partridge with his rifle, but before he reached the lake he could hear the wind moaning through the tree tops on either side of the river, and occas- ionally he noticed that the gusts of wind swept down with considerable violence where the channel was wider. Arrived at the lake he did not think the wind was particularly bad and having food enough, and his partridge and blankets for staying overnight he decided to go straight down the lake to the further end, which was quite a distance away. Well, a half mile out from the shelter of the trees the hunter suddenly discovered that the wind was so strong it would be useless to attempt a return. Another half mile and he was scudding along with the white caps racing on either side, in a regular gale. The swells were running so high that it was al- most tempting the Fates to attempt to run cross-wise the swiftly moving a ¢ - re white caps. Once in the trou little craft might either fill or rol so he kept away before the wind” that little point where the old stub standing, like a sentinel reached. Atthis place he had on few hundred feet to go to a shelter of the point, and he me attempt and although he shi few inches of water he made + side of the point safely, and by 1% time the rain was beginning to coi down and it was quite late in ‘ afternoon. oe After making a landing he | looked about for a place to spend 1 night realizing that there w chance of getting back to the ma camp that night. An old win his first idea, but before he had se ed very far he discovered the stump closed at the top and’ ample room, inside, and the closed facing the storm and roots that; of being well able to hold the old for many storms to come. This as good a shelter as one woul many a long hours’ search proceeded to get a plentiful sup firewood ready for the nigh canoe he hauled out of the wat turned upside down in the back of the stump, in such that there was little chance of bi es or falling trees dropped b storm falling on the thin shell knocking a hole in it, With blankets, and all safely stowet in the stump he started out on hunt before darkness set in an half a mile from the place he lan he got a fine three point buek: buck hastily dressed and slung u a pole he started back to his before it should be blotted out b night. And amateur woodsman he was, he spent the remainder of t day-light in cutting more firewoo That night he ate fried deer liver, a onions from his pack, which wi hardtack and tea made’ qu respectable meal, and before 0 clock he was sound asleep, worn | with his day’s adventures. i _It must have been perhaps fe o'clock in the morning when he w awakened by the wind how through the trees and the wash of a - VS Wt * ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ; ; waves on the tiny beach a few feet from his shelter. Whew! how it howled and roared and the arm of the lake back of him was aroaring mass of tumbling water. He put more wood on the fire and sat listening to the storm. -Gee! This was great, he sure enjoyed the storm; sheltered as he was, it was an experience to be remembered. A little before daylight he dozed off to slumberland again only to waken at dawn to find the wind as strong as ever. He spent the entire forenoon cutting fire-wood as the weather had turned decidedly colder and the second night the rain was accompan- ied by snow and sleet, but toward morning the wind began to die down and by daylight it had shifted; and a light breeze was blowing homeward down the lake. By the time he got his duffle all packed, and the deer, | uni ii) inst Mo | his 33 now nicely frozen over, to the beach he had a nice breeze directly in his back for the homeward journey, and at the mouth of the little river he met two canoes / of very anxious searchers looking for him, as they were fearful he had met with a mishap during the storm, but to their enquiries as to whether he had put in a bad time, he simply grinned and informed them he’d been “Just Campin’ ’’, “‘and to let you know that this fellow really did enjoy that adventure, the fellow I speak of was I, andI ought to know, and now we will begin to break camp” concluded the guide. Yes the “‘Newlyweds” are going back there again next year providing of course they are both alive and well. Thanks to the little stout man and his tiny map, they had one glorious good time, and something to be remembered for years to come. Ma uy yi - “ 2 UN NOTES Aan Stee Dil i si Big Salmon WILLIAM BECK PORTSMEN come from allover theworld to fish for the big Redspring salmon at Campbell River. Why this particular place has remained the one and only spot for visitors year after year is difficult to state, because there is hardly a bay or an inlet on the whole British Columbian coast where these fish cannot be found at some time of the year. The method of fishing also leaves much to be desired. Campbell River being a salt 34 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA water estuary, has to be fished by trolling from a boat, using baits about six inches long, and a line heavily weighted. All these salmon enter our rivers to spawn of course, and it was a continual source of wonder to me that nothing was heard of river fishing, Certainly a few are caught in the Vedder and the Cheakamus, but there a 39 lb. fish is a big one, and I never could find out where the 50 and 60 lb. fish got to, or if, when their spawning grounds were known, they could be caught with rod and line. My Indian Friend—Frank Bolton As a matter of fact, except within easy reach of Vancouver, British Columbia from an angling point of view, is still pretty much an unknown territory, and there are not enough sportsmen with the necessary time and money to spare, to go exploring the out of the way places. It is therefore largely a matter of accident when you hear of some new fishing grounds, and it was entirely owing to the accidents of time and place that I solved the problem of these big Redsprings, in so far as I found one river where the largest of them go to spawn, and where they take freely. That river is in the Naas district, on the border of Alaska, and I dropped on to it unaware of the fact that a river or such volume was anywhere near. With clear water and a powerful current, it appealed to me as any unknown river in the wilderness will appeal to an ardent fisherman. I pottered round the mouth trying fly and artificial minnow without any luck, and then went back to the cannery, two miles away, to make enquiries. Fishing there was an old Indian Chief named Frank Bolton who,under some ancient law recognised by his tribe, holds the hunting a 4 Pi ~ rights to the whole valley through which river runs. He spoke little English, and | knew no Chinook, but with help we were able to convey some of our ideas. xy This was the middle of June and he told n there was nothing in the river but trout. Th Steelheads had all gone back to the sea, ai the Spring salmon were about due to run. Plenty of fish came up the river, but he di My not know whether they could be taken with a ‘ bait, as no one had ever fished the river with a rod and Bes He and his friends netted the je ea other ae had ever been used to ca them. 4 We arranged that in a week or two he would take me up in his canoe, and I could try it out. tunity, I used to wander along the first mile or ‘i two of the river, trying the pools as far as” tide allowed me to get ‘up, but I got no thing a except Cutthroat trout, ranging from 1% lb. = 24 Ibs. ay? In that wild country no one goes about in the bush without a rifle, and as you cannot re wander along a river bank with a ere rod ‘ than aaually attaches to a fishing pea Bea vn bear were very numerous in the lower po ' of the river, and these are harmless enough unless they are in a trap, of which Frank Bol- , ton had several laid.- Grizzlies do not as a a x rule come so far down, but they also are plenti- te ful at the head of the valley, and 1 for one, had no great desire to meet one armed with aed ‘ only. In August and September it was a fees ‘sight to see bear either at the edge of the river or standing in a riffle, scooping out the salmon The bush in places is littered with the rema of hundreds of fish which the bears h carried in, and Baldheaded eagles can also k seen gorging themselves. These were Hu: my back salmon running 5 to 6 Ibs. in weight, 2 me no use from an anglers’ viewpoint. One morning early in July, Frank Bolton sent word that he thought it time to try, so. got my things together and went over to his house. We were to stay overnight, so- his canoe, a dug out about 16 feet long, had quite 7 a cargo of goods. Blankets, slickers, gum- | boots, 30 yards of net with corks and lead line, 2 pairs of paddles, 2 poles, 50 yards of rope, an orange box full of food, pans etc, axes anda nifle, along with my fishing tackle. i could J not see how we were to get into it along with — Frank’s grandson, but we did, and I underrat- a dits carrying capacity to the point of absurd- ty, because we came back down the river ext. day with the same load plus 700 Ibs of almon in the bottom, and with that load we ad to cross two miles of salt water with a/ are two inches of freeboard showing. For- unately there was not a breath of wind and he water was like glass. . We went up on arising tide which helped us or a mile and a half, but after that it was ather hard going. Ropes and poles were in -ontinual use, and it took two hours to make S ROD AND. GUN IN CANADA 39 first cast or my second or third, butI got int® a fish right away, and his Tush upstream against aheavy current told us that it must be a Spring salmon, and dispelled any doubts as to whether they would take or not. That doubt I may say, was driven home by every white man and native 1 had§talked to in the Naas district, as all stated emphatically that these Spring salmon would not take in the ‘fresh water. This first fish was the smallest Spring salmon I took out of the river and weighed 25 lbs. My the ext two miles. After passing Bear Creek ewe came to a long deep pool which Frank said always held Spring salmon when they were "running, so we beached the canoe and smoked while I fitted up my rod. A fish rose—just breaking water—and _ Frank said “Salmon.” Another showed be- "low, and he said “Plenty fish.” My rod was a medium weight spinning rod, one I used for _ Steelheads and Cohoes, and would be called _ in the Old Country a Sea frout rod. I hada - line, about 100 yards of it ona 3% inch Mal- loch reel, and the only baits I had brought - North were small spoons and some 1% inch ee Devons mounted with a single treble. £ Red Spring Salmon, 58% lbs., caught on 134 inch minnow guide took to the game like a duck to water and by the time I had killed this onehe knew what was wanted. In the same place and without any waiting I got into a second one. This seemed much heavier than the other and fought all over the pool. A hundred yards below me a huge Douglas. Fir tree had fallen right across the river leaving only the narrowest gaP to get through, a tangle of branches which would be fatal to any hope, once a fish reached it. After many narrow escapes from that trap, we at last killed the fish, a 38 Ib one. These fish right up to the end of August were in fine condition, short, thick, and very powerful. They run well, very seldom sulked but never jumped clear of the water when being played. They break on the surface occasionally but their usual proceedure. especially for the big ones which are quite beyond a fisherman’s 36 ROD Rock Pool from above = control, is to fight in the pool for a time and then go down stream. Many and many a fish have I followed from half a mile to a mile down stream, through white water and snags where only a miracle seemed to guide the line clear of trouble. And it Was on such occasions that the marvellous ability of my guide with a canoe could be appreciated. When a fish running down a swift stream suddenly made a break inte the easy water at the side. it was wonderful to see how he plunged his pole into the bed of the river and held the canoe against a racing torrent. And when after fighting through half a dozen pools and rough streams we gaffed our fish, it was delightful to hear him chuckle. “‘It’sss good It’sss good.” he would say and would then start singing some strange song of victory ina pleasant monotone, He was a fine old man, and to be on the river in his company was sufficient reward without the salmon. Our intention was to make camp half a mile higher up and my guide said that the pool there was much hettet than the one fishing, so it would be well to go. The pool we came to Was, for natural beauty, quite beyond description. The accompanying photograph gives but a faint idea of its actuality, as the Jagged peaks in the vicinity do not show. The rock face seen in the Picture is sheer as thou: gh cut with a knife, and about 200 feet high we were AND GUN IN CANADA Right along the edge of the rock is where the - big Spring salmon lie, all weights from 20 Ibs to 70 lbs, and fish were rising steadily whe We arrived. ae We made camp before starting to fish, and” had a good meal, and although it was eight | o'clock we had almost three hours of daylight left before it would be too dark, the coolest and pleasantest part of the day for fishing. -_ There was no waiting for a strike: that and _ an irresistible rush up stream while my guide ~ paddled frantically after the fish, were all on in a few seconds. I regretted the fineness oy my line, and the lack of strength to my rod. A jet of water rose for a foot in the air where | line and current met, and the swish of theline — cutting the water had an ominous sound tomy — ears. at For half an hour that fish worked the pool — without a rest. My hands were covered as” ‘ though with grey gloves by a thick layer of | mosquitoes, which I could not attempt to — remove. Nature gives generously in these — Northern lands but she exacts a lavish tribute, — and how much blood those brutes sucked from me in payment for that particular fish Ido J not know. Later I found that an application 4 of Oil of Citronella removed a good share of | the nuisance, Para p | At last the fish worked down to the foot of the pool and I thought it was about done, but although I gave it all the butt I could, it wast ROD AND GUN IN CANADA impossible to stop it. Even when moving slowly, it had the feeling of being altogether beyond any control, and I think even the stoutest of rods and tackle would not have been much better. Then it turned down stream and quietly, but determinedly kept on. In how many pools and rifiles it stopped I have no recollec- tion, but it looked as if, with my light rod, I would never kill it. At last in one pool, it showed belly up for a moment, and I knew then that if the luck held, that fish was mine. We beached the canoe on a gravel bed and my guide wading, below me, eventually drove the gaff in. 2 It weighed 24 hours afte: being caught, 5834 lbs, and as the photo shows was a very thick fish. Its tail looks misshapen, but that is owing to my cutting off a piece to distin- suish my catch with the rod, from the other ‘fish which the guide got with his net during ‘the night. \ " We worked our way back to the rock pool and although I was very tired by this time ‘there was no satisfying my guide. He was ‘apparently having the time of his life as he had “never before seen salmon killed on a rod. _ The sun had dropped below the line of the “Alaskan hills when I started in to play my next fish. After about half an hours’ running Bis line caught round the top ring of the rod while the fish was making a plunge and with a ‘twang the broken line came back to me. Qn ~l However we got that fish, when Frank netted the pool during the night. The minnow was firmly fixed in the side of its Jaw and the hooks tangled up thé net rather badly, otherwise we might never have noticed it. It was weighed on the cannery scales next-day and pulled 63 lbs, so it is more than doubtful if I would have landed it on the rod. ‘There were several fish in the net bigger than that one. j My experience of the river afterwards con- vinced me that I was lucky to kill the 5834 Ib fish. I got several up to 50 tbs but anywhere near that weight and over it, was really too big for the tackle I had with me. Just before darkness set in I killed one more fish—42 ]lbs—and then laid down by the camp fire, played out toa finish. I remained resting and smoking while Frank and his Grandson— a boy of 12—did their netting, and a ittle liquid refreshment from that Scotland of blessed memory, completed a state of bliss which I leave to the imagination of my brother anglers. This was the first of many trips 1 made up the river. 1 never went higher than this rock pool which is four miles from the mouth, but there is no doubt that the whole twenty miles of river up to the lake would be good for Springs. Probably the higher up the river the better, as such powerful fish would make an easy journey of it. They took the small minnow so freely that Rock Pool from below ~ 38 1 am certain a large silver bodied fly would prove equally as acceptable, although I think that a fish over 60 lbs weight on fly would prove more of a toil than a pleasure. At me stage of the game between the hooking and the gaffing of your fish, I like to feel that I have some say in the matter, instead of feeling that I might as well be fighting the laws of gravity. One interesting item is worth mention, as I have never heard of a similar occurrence. | had a very hard fight with a fish which took me down river a long way. Every rapid it reached started it on another wild run, and it fought without ceasing through every pool. Where Bear Creek joins the main river there is a good pool, and the fish rushed down and right through without a stop, ending its rush on the gravel bed clear of the water, and quite dead. It was astrange end to an exciting run. I judged the fish to be bigger than my previous best, but it weighed only 48 44 lbs, much to my disappointment. One other thing about that river is that I never. again want to hook a Spring salmon when alone in the boat. That happened frequently late in the season when I was . fishing for Cohoes in the lower reaches of the river. Your fish runs up stream and the strong current takes your boat down, and a lost line and minnow are the usual result. It is even worse if you don’t break. ! spent nearly an hour one afternoon trying to gaff a fish when alone. 1 couldn’t land on the bank as that was impossible. Again and again I had the fish lying alongside the boat and the moment I reached for my gaff it sank, as I could not hold it up with my left arm only. The Early Life of the Grouse J. W. HE feathered drummer in sooty suit no longer makes muffled thunder to startle woodland wanderers. The log on the knoll that is worn smooth of moss with his wing-beats, may now regain its green com- posure. He who won his mate with lordly strut and proud display is proving the poorest of hus- bands, he does not even know where the home nest is while his sober spouse is happy in his attentions. She carefully guards the treasures of their love from his blundering interference. He may spend the day in selfish sport pecking at leafbuds, picking at grasshoppers, taking a nightly roost on an ROD AND GUN IN CANADA WINSON | got it at last after using all the language I knew, and as it was below 40 lbs, it can be realized what 2 hopeless proposition the’ ones are under such circumstances. On thr occasions also I had to deliberately break line, and this was when fish proved too big to do anything with, and they would not leave the pool, and so exhaust themselyes by a downstream fight. When this happened my guide would land me while he manoeuvred the canoe below the fish until he got alook atit. When they seem- ed to him to be about as long as his canoe, he © would say, “No catch—too big,” and f broke | loose. al There is another river a few miles iron this one and greater still in volume, where I saw © fish, but 1 was not there for the purpose, so I did not try for them. Enormous fish they were too, and although that river is slightly muddy — even in late summer, it was not too thick to spoil spinning, and sport there would be quite as good as in the river I fished. ae There must be many other rivers in British Columbia equally as good as these where , visiting sportsmen would get all they could | wish for. "Despite the widely spread idea that British Columbian salmon do not take a fly, it has been proved times out of number that the Cohoe does take freely, and I am certain i in my AS own mind that the Spring salmon would too. Not anticipating any such conditions as Ty found, I took no flies or fly rod with me, except trout flies, very small. I hope therefore inthe near future someone will try out these Sprin with the fly, and-prove it beyond dispute, as would be of inestimable value to British Col umbia if we could offer to sportsmen fl fishing for sixty pounders. trunk, from eaiene e he sends forth a co} it ing “whoo, whoo,” to the mate who has 1 no left her usual tree perch for a couch on ground. Straige departure this! The bird tad h been arboreal until now, sleeping, as all roost- ing birds do, for safety’s sake in the high tree | branches, is braving all the terrors that prowl by night on the ground. She is doing this to” guard the precious eggs that she will hold to” her warm breast until new life bursts from | them, and eight or nine cheeping chicks crowd upon her all the joy and worry of clucki motherhood. ir i ‘The ‘Sooty Grouse, excepting the Sage We = is the largest of our native true game rior, to the Sooty Grouse of the Coast ran- Des one genus, Dendragpapus (the tree-lover) ith | three localized species. It has been _ named Blue Grouse, Gray Grouse, Mountain _ Grouse, Pine Grouse and Fool Grouse, the tter a piece of unconscious satire on the part of those who so described it, for it is only | ‘oolish because it is trustful towards humanity, and will suffer the penalty of its trust! The nest is hardly worth the name. A ght depression, such as the bird would make in taking a dust-bath is made under the lee of allen log and a few bents of grass, dry leaves, pine needles, whichever is handiest to keep e eggs off the damp earth. _ These eggs, like several others of the grouse ‘ind, are creamy buff with speckles of brown, eckles that may be rubbed off while the eggs > fresh, and frequently are so erased by the t of the mother. Roane she may be where herself is con- d but she will brook no interference with e eggs. If they are but moved, in her bsence, she notices the change and will trust hat spot no longer. Those eggs are forsaken md the rest of the clutch laid in a new spot. nm incubation commences she is not so icular, but is seldom found off. » Many an ignorant foot step has come within ne! es of that wary eye, but motionless body, ionizing so perfectly with the shades and wns of log and earth. She will not be ed till certain that she is discovered and é anger, then she goes never to return. For three weeks, or even longer she will ; her breast to those embryo chicks, ng them on into individual life, and when tremulous moments come, the chipping struggling to emerge into life, they are de ‘to leave at the dawn of their first day, me-nest they never saw or knew. i birds of bush and tree and even the g ng-birds that have taken to ground nest- hatch out their eggs in ten or fifteen days. nestlings are born bare, blind and In a few days down and sight are them. They sit in patient waiting for food that is brought them, until pin- ers. pen into awkward wings, and after ‘clumsy flutter they can folioy the through the bush. me birds from quail to pheasant. differently. - That extra week spent ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 39 ® in the shell was for a definite purpose. Down was developed, legs were strengthened, bill was hardened. No helpless wailing in the nest was theirs, lying at the mercy of hawk or rodent or a score of other enemies that might discover them. ' Born to obedience, their first order is to march; at a warning cluck they clutch the ground, silent and motionless, till “all clear” signal is given. Who taught them the signs that they obey the first time of day, that they will obey while yet in the egg, for it has been proven that the chick in the shell ceases mov- ing, when the barn-yard rooster gives the warning cry of “Hawk.” A calf or a lamb will bleat in danger, will howl in.terror if it misses its mother. These little “‘grouslings” will obey the call to squat, seeing their only guardian fly away to the trees leaving them» with nothing but their faith to save them! When the danger has passed and the mother returns. they will unite again at her gentle calling and then keeping unobserved motion- less as a statue, one can see as pretty a sight as the forest holds, the speckled puffs of down on invisibly fine legs trotting along the trail, first one running ahead, and stopping in curiosity to peck at something light coloured, turning quickly when the hen pecks and calis,- to be the first to get the tit bit, she offers. No open-mouthed waiting for a meal, to be brought them, but a sturdy self-reliance from the very beginning. ‘ They take orders and guidance from their parent as to how they shall act and what they shall eat, they are grateful for the brooding, warmth and love that protects them through the rains and darkness until their own feathers grow, but their independent spirit asserts itself from the very first peck, and the first keen look from the newly opened eye. This spirit” of self reliance makes our gallinaceous birds the true game birds of the sportsman. They are game! Your water- fowl have no trick or lure to set against your wits. They do not squat until danger draws . too near, then rise with a buzz that startles the finger from the trigger for one precious~ moment or, alighting, run speedily at a tangent so that when you reach the spot where they dropped, they are no longer there. Man admits himself beaten in the contest and must bring a dog to his aid,—and even train that animal for generations, before it becomes an efficient assistant! To describe one nesting site of our ground v7 , 7c game birds, is to describe almost all—On our logged-off lands they may all be found. In the bay of a cedar stump, by the side of a log, under an arch of dead bracken fern, in a little thicket of underbrush where a fallen branch has drawn tail grass or weed stems about it, where last year’s leaves have lain in a sheltered heap, or pine-needles make the ground less suspiciously bare on the hill-side all these are admirable sites. There is no need for lining, down or padd- ‘ing,—true the mallard will make the softest of cradles and will then take off her ducklings to the cold water as soon as they are hatched, —these do no such foolishness. Every aim is to avoid detection, and buff coloured eggs escape both eagle-eyes and crow scrutiny. Some of the birds will pick up bits of grass or leaves, and throw them over their backs towards the nest in apparent wantonness,— the domestic hen sometimes does the same but there is a trace of trickery in this, it helps to disguise the nest. Till the settler comes with fire and plow, the birds do well in breeding time. But bush fires work devastation. .Fine cooked clutches I found in one ten-acre “burn.” The lands are cleared and the birds’ seclusion is gone. Partridge, quail and pheasant will adapt themselves to the fields and fence-rows of cultivation. The grouse. being a tree-bird retreats further back. The sportsman will gradually lose his game unless he enlists the interest of the farmer. In plowing, in clearing, even in haying many ascore nests are disturbed, the brood lost, for the bird does not return when fright- ened from her eggs. A pheasant can be approached slowly, from behind. lifted with a stick and the eggs counted under her, their closeness to hatching guessed by their polish, and the bird gently lowered again. Some settlers will generously leave a corner un- cleared or uncultivated, rather then rob the bird of her family. This spirit is not fostered by the ruthless gunmen who tramp his acreage, careless of his crops, shooting every bird that comes in range. Bitter farmers have shot game out of ~ Season for no other reason than to disappoint the townsman who is regarded as a robber come to reap a harvest of game that the Windermere Club Invermere, B. C., March 12th. The second an- nual meeting of the Windermere District Rod and Game Club was held this afternoon at In- ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ‘lies in a few broody hens. farmer had reared. Now both can be fited by mutual trust and education. Let the sportsman come out in Ma June, meet the farmer over whose gro will shoot, arrange with him for the the young game. Neither may know of the salva’ A clutch of eggs discovered can be hat out at the farm or in coops put out in pasture. ; G Pheasants, grouse and partridges tam hens-make good foster mothers f smaller birds. Could not the Sporting his—or more likely her broody hens anc for the attention? What welcome © await the eager sportsmen in the fall had been done in the spring? And if ; a good day’s bag, a brace were sacri the farm kitchen altar instead of graci the glow in the sporting soul be bri The Government Game warde necessary in the unsettled distri more cultivated country (that src year) the Sportsmen must depend farmer-game-warden! pe There is another aspect to this su, co-operation. Bob White has trave n ward into B. C. from the Washington to which he was imported. The co whirred about this hill through th broke up and spread at the end of Mai the time of writing “Bob-white—are- is heard all round. Polished whit clustering, trust, here and ther grassy domes. iad Is not this an opportune advance set dykers, reclamation schemes and pot are diminishing the ducks? But hunters and fewer farmers know , the «€ omic value of this tasteful quail? A ¢ does more good on a ranch than a hired n reducing weeds and insect pests, but de drags, mowers and boy-handled “twenty will stamp out these desirable immigrants farmer, sportsman and nature-lover do speedily combine for the good of all,— cluding Mr. White! ter much discussion were adopted. The eport of the treasurer showed that the club as in a sound financial condition, and of the ther officers the reports showed that atten- * tion had been paid to the requests of the Club " for the correction of some evils which were ' thought might be corrected. Many import- ‘ant resolutions were passed for the direction ‘of the Board’s\ officers for the coming year. _ The officers elected are Honorary Presidents ~ Mr. John A. Buckham, M.P., of Golden and _ Mb. E.T. Copper, President of the Cranbrook ' Rod and Gun Club. President John A. Hope; ' Vice President Joseph Lake of Athlamer; ecretary Treasurer, Basil G. Hamilton. Executive members Messrs. R. Randolph .E., F.R.G.S.; W. Howard Cleland; Talks Dr. Tee Tite Hanington; J.C. ‘Pitts; William N. Taynton; F. L. Archer; A.G. Cuthbert; A.M. Chisholm; Al. Cochrane; _ Frank Richardson; Captain A.H. ae ' Ed. Tunaclifie; Walter Nixon; H.G. Low (of -*Spillimachene); F.C. Stockdale; James L. Me- id _ Kay and George A. Bennett. The following are the reports of the Presi- Bdent: and of the acting secretary-treasurer. To the Members ‘of the Rod & Gun Club. Gentlemen: -Although our club is but one ear old on the 17th of the present month, it cis gratifying to be able to record several succ- esses out of the many and varied resolutions ' brought forward and adopted by you in the nterests of the district, with one notable ception of special interest which failed to receive the recognition it was entitled to All the others were dealt with. The one re- _ ferred to is stocking of the Windermere Lakes with game fish. On two occasions special meetings w ere ' called to meet the representatives of the FOE rovincial Game Department, both of which eetings were as well attended as they were enthusiastic and in sympathy with the objects to be attained. _ At the recently held annual meeting of the Cranbrook Rod And Gun Club your president ad the honor of beme elected one of their re will be Ponieriated by every iesibiex of s club, and I would strongly suggest that a sis Eh associations seedy organ- , with others in process of formation, the majority of these are located on the ROD AND GUN IN CANADA . 41 pacific slope and southern belt of the interior. Still further advices from the Vancouver Game Protective Association intimate their ardent desire for affiliation in the near future with all other associations of a like nature throughout the province for the purpose of bringing greater pressure to bear on the powers that be for still better and more efficient pro- tection of one of the Creator’s most attract- ive, fascinating and useful works to man, and in particular, as a resource of incalculable value to British Columbia as a whole. e watch-words of the future, are, “you shall not destroy what you have not the power to replace.” In conclusion, I wish to express my thanks to one and all, including Mr. B.G. Hamilton, who, with his usual kindness and forethought, took over the arduous duties of Seeretary- Treasurer on several occasions at amoments’ notice, for the assistance, help and sympathy tendered on all occasions during the past year, and I sincerely trust the same whole-hearted assistance and advice will continue to be ex- tended to my successor in the chair for the coming term. Jno. A. Hope. President. To the Members of the Windermere District Rod and Gun Club. Ladies and Gentlemen;;- Owing to there not ‘being any duly consti- tuted Secretary as I am more or less familiar with all the doings of the Club I have been asked to make a report to set before you. It is not quite one year since this organ- ization was started and all things considered it is wonderful what it has accomplished within that time. You have been favored with visits by the representative of the Game Conservation Board representing the East Kootenay and tributary parts,—Mr. F.A. Dunn of Cranbrook; you have had an official visit from Mr. Hose the late Secretary of that Board. Both gentlemen have given great heed to your remarks as voiced at the meetings by the members present and this district has become a factor in the fashioning of the game questions throughout the interior of the province.. Our influence or our name has gone farther afield even than that as you will notice by correspondence with such persons, organi- zations and corporations as the Game Protect-~ ive and Propagation Association with Head quarters in the City of New York; Mr. James White, Assistant to the Chairman of the Conservation Commission of Canada; Rod and Gun in Canada, to say nothing of a b » A _search for food. In _ President has much to say in regard to what he voluminous correspondence carried on per- sonally by your retiring President, Mr. J.A. Hope. It was with more or less fear and trembling that the organizers launched the Rod and Gun Club for the District but we must one and all feel pleased with the résult as we now have no less than forty paid up members and as _ your financial statement shows you have - money in the bank. There seems to be an increased interest taken throughout the whole of America in the preservation of Game and Game birds. To this end several important gatherings have been held and legislation resulting therefrom has been introduced. Much attention has been brought to the fact that America is fast depleting the few herds of elk that remain especially by the unfortunate slaughter of many thousands in the State of Montana, being such animals as in the open season got beyond the bounds of the Yellowstone Nation- al Park and were ruthlessly slaughtered by pot hunters who fired regular volleys into the herds of these semi-domesticated animals as they came within range of civilization in the this connection our calls a tremendous herd of elk which are habitants of that part of this District lying to the South East of here. He considers that a Lake Windermere Rod and Gun Club Invermere, B.C. March—At a general meeting of the Lake Windermere District Rod And Gun Cub held in Invermere some important items were handled, amongst others was a motion asking that the Game Conser- vation Board take steps to put the marten on _ the protected list through out the D.strict of the East Kootenay for a period of one year. Asecond motion was one appointing a commit- tee to look into the subject of establishing a refuge for elk in the neighborhood of the Palliser River more particularily in regard to protection and the supplying of feed for these animals in the severe winters. Still another motion of a very important nature pertains to the present protection of zame under the Game Act of the Province. This motion is so far reaching that it will stand being published in full. It reads:—“‘That this Club is of the opinion that the enforcing of the game laws by means of the Provincial police in pursuance with the Game Act 1918 has proved a failure. It is therefore resolved: ROD AND GUN IN CANADA thorough inspection by competent men sho be made of this herd and that certain of old bulls should be cleared out. An atten was made iast year by Mr. F.A. Du member of the Game Conservation Board make this examination. It was not success! owing to conditions arising which prevent the work from being carried through. — doubt the subject will come up before you fc discussion again. . The number of Game Wardens tough District has been increased by the app ment of Mr. Hardick Grainger of Canal rhe to the staff. No steps have yet been take under the Game Conservation Board to have the Game wardens transferred from ce where they are well known to live in the out lying parts of the preserves. This has alway [Ss seemed to us to be an important point. . oe In conclusion I may say that the apne i ‘ ment of a true sportsman to be your secretar Msekunnen has Fiibuta a reside some on the open prairies. Yours faithfully, ‘ le B. G. Hamilton, Acting: Sec’ y. (a) That the serious depletion of game of kinds and the extraordinary increase in the infractions of the laws and the flagrant brea he és of the same now prevailing is due failure of the present system of enforcing provisions of the Game Act. (b) That this Club is confident haga best method of enforcing the game laws as. a board of Game Commussioners nominated b the sportsmen of the Province and appoint by the Government, with a salaried s consisting of a competent Provincial warden and deputy- wardens whose sole du are to enforce the game laws. j (c) That in order to efficiently proteceaame it is absolutely necessary that the whole or a very large proportion of the funds collec’ from licence fees paid by the sportsmen sho’ kd be expended solely for the purpose for whic’ a they are subscribed, namely for “the prote ion and propagation of the game birds, an als and fish.” * \ ' acest Still a further resolution was passed to the "effect that it would serve the purposes of game protectiorm better if the Game Conser- vation Board nigde it obligatory for the \ ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 43 wardens engaged in the protection of game to live on the ranges of the animals such for instance on or near the dividing line between Alberta and this Province. Nl _ VW GUNS wf a ad aoe Reed Sd be ala a th HE old saying, that ‘‘a man without a 2 hobby is nd good,” may not be true, but he is. no doubt almost as bad off as the man without a flag. ____ I became a gun crank with the first smooth bore musket I tinkered up ammunition for. ' I devised a way of shooting a gun that would- n't stand cocked. At the end of the first _ summer I had swapped red apples, skates and jack knives for an English double of a rare make having a sand hole in the very thin _. damascus barrels, plus hundreds of bed bugs, __ some dead and others alive, that nested in the locks. Don’t mistake me for a collector of an- _ tiques as you gaze on these cuts of famous arms. I have just bought these arms of a ‘class I call precision. ars “Major Whelen calls a barrel that will make ~ five inch groups at 200 yards, a gilt-edge one. Therefore, I call mine ‘“‘precision,’ meaning ~ accurate, as I know from actual proof that - every one of these arms has made two and one half inch groups or better at 200 yards. The two Billinghurst percussion rifles averaged five to seven inch strings when tested on rest (machine bench) at forty rods (220 _ yards). The Pope, in Harry Pope’s own hands, made a one and three-quarters inch, ten shot group at 200 yards. He charges $10.00 for testing his barrels but it is worth (Se * ITIO Home Work for the Gun Crank a Hervey Lovett Iram going to explain for the home mechan- ‘ ic, not the gun smith, how to remodel arms for certain purposes, such as hunting, rest shooting, or offhand target shooting. Neither 1s entirely suitable for the other two purposes although I usually try to use the fine target rifles for hunting,- getting more pleasure from one well aimed hit than several kills from lucky hits. After reading this, forget it, and have your barrel bluing and stock making done at a factory. You will find it cheaper and better almost every time. To make a stock, you first get your stock and, don’t use Americgn Walnut (which isn’t walnut at all) but buy an English walnut flank of a dealer in rare woods, Remember that English walnut comes from a French walnut tree and Circassion, Italian or Turkish in straight figure will have the needed hardness to hold up under recoil, if it is fitted the way a mechanic works and that is the only way to do anything. Doitright the first time and don’t rush the job. It takes the skill of a bearing scraper to do gun work either on steel or wood. The machinist with a fine machine to cut parallel and square or round cuts could not make a trigger or a sight correctly but the man or boy with the eye of an artist cultivated for proportion can do wonders after mastering the principle of bearing, scraping, cutting or filing. a . Kaiser’s rifle showing the very best form of stock for an all ro This one was 38. You design and work a” piece of wood or metal as a sailor doesa ship by a blow of the eye. With my finest micrometers, reading to one ten-thousandth of an inch, I could not fit a single piece in a gun action that would look right, anymore than a Parisian tailor * could ‘construct a’gown with a tape measure and sewing machine. A machine, such as a grinder used in tool rooms, can finish square surfaces so close that two pieces wrung together will be impossible to pull apart by the hands, and a dozen pieces can be suspended by adhesion alone. A good, gun maker can file a barrel more nearly round, and™to match the other barrel of a . Kaiser's rifle show $ what hand workman c; prs. 1un can do. ROD AND GUN IN for deer and hog rifle in Germany — possibly offhand target shooting, this is standard type with the German sportsmen since Suns were perfected in Europe. ; Whole rifle CANADA und rifle to be used with medium or low recoi 7 rae Such barrels as Purdy of London makes ar filed this way and lapped inside by hand with — lead plugs. They represent full value abiiveao4 hundred and ninety five dollars, where twenty-dollar machine made barrel ac ua costs little more than $5.00 to manufact Don’t be afraid to try for accuracy in fitti as our greatest barrel maker was not a gt smith by trade-at all. He didn’t learn in a factory but started making his own barrel to win matches with and others just compelled him to make them some to do this fine type ¢ shooting. I made over several military arm to a set of specifications. Then seeing tha a hier, is hand made. Right side of frame, Martin; Ay ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 45 OP wasn’t equalling Windhammer’s work | tisited his shop in Los Angeles and he showed Sime where I was wrong. His pistol grip stock had a flare out at the bottom of the grip similar to the Golt’s Single Action Pistol and this was where the difference was. The Ross Nand Newton factories copied him but really B . . r )only flattered his work, never being able to equal it by turning on a blanchard lathe what } “he did with a couple of home made tools and with liberal use of the eye. al shop is over. s With a few tools I tinker away until bed time. Often I have friend wife brew extra strong coffee to keep me awake longer so that I may finish some particular job while the notion is with me. Of all gun work I find the telescope the simplest thing to make when the ordinary straight tube is used. Most any of you can rig up your own’scopes as good as any common grade put out at less than $20.00 for about Stock of Kaiser’s rifle was presented to him and he gave it as first prize, Berlin riflé match and was brought 9 America and inscription inlaid in ivory. i The hardest job of all simple ones is /making a separate fore end for a round barrel ‘and putting in a screw at the right place to make the finished job look symmetrical and 7 not twisted to one side. The next job was getting a druggist to mix @ browning solution that would work, from a of published receipt. I tried ten before getting » the old Greener formula which really rusts ) uniform, and gives a smooth brown or black finish (according to the method of using.) e My personal hobby is telescopes and I et have owned and rebuilt almost all makes and pmy desire has always been to equal the Ger- man makes. I really think that all my work Was for naught as I find that only one glass is ) practical and that is the prism telescope of about six inch length. With the expert aid of 4 great optical firm here I hope to gei two Wsizes of prism scopes into shape for spring tchuck shooting. This is my hobby and re- ‘creation after the day’s work in an experimen- ue Stock of rifle once handled by Kaiser William of Germany. one-half that cost to you for lens and tubing. Precision work isn’t put on American rifle telescopes and the lens are of the cheapest forms made by opticians. First dismantle your rifle, say a military musket, by unscrewing stock screws, then removing upper and lower bands and butt plate. Take out the bolt leaving barrel and receiver intact. Box up all metal parts. Don’t lay them on the floor or window sill or you may be minus a few pieces when you get ready for them. Mix up some lamp black and oil, or buy Prussian blue. . Obtain a round and square file, a half round and flat carving tool, or even a regular chisel will do. Have a block plane or spoke shave and brace and bit to mortise in the magazine and receiver. If you have purchased a military blank piece of walnut, it will probably be sawed out with flat sides and top. Lay out form of action orreceiver with pencil. Keep inside these marks for 46 safety. You can take off more but you can- not easily put back a chip taken off by mistake. Lay this wood on a flat surface to hold it up plumb for. boring out for the receiver fitting. Don’t force the auger. Let it feed itself. Stand back at arms length to watch the angle at which you hold up the braceand bit. Then , Sharpen teeth wedge shape use a gouge and trim up inside true in form slightly under size. Then blacken metal and try to force it into the opening in wood. Your black and blue will show on wood where high spots were that came in contact with metal first. Master this mechanical point first. Do it thoroughly and the rest comes easy. Slight this one thing and you get a sloppy unsightly job. I have seen a great many samples of amateur work and only one im- pressed me as a job and his work has caused me many a pang for I cannot work as deliber- ately and slowly as this master worksman but he is a model maker by profession and often a new patent sight of his costs above the value of a whole gun and he never makes anything to sell to others. ROD AND GUN IN CANADA * all parts are down to the solid bed, dr Diagram of pistol grip stock When the receiver is let down till the b: touches the top of ‘the wood, mark out half-round gouge. Dig out center ant 2 beds down in fore end tight by using 1 blac! on metal parts, watching each time you ren wood for black spots which are only be cut away. As each part of met: down to touch let it down into cut lai same way as former ones. If square co gradually cut down square with chisel. with gimlet for screws and put them soap to make them turn easy. ao oe Now you are ready to work on the out of the stock and form it up for drop and If a check piece is wanted you must! start i with the barrel and receiver about half inch the right of the center line. Draw this from center of barrel or sight line to the ce of the butt plate, if no cheek piece is wan leaving comb of stock the last thing to be down to tight fit for side of face when looki over sights set for shortest distance. Cut sides of stock and fore-end off oval and sym- ; "metrical. Don’t hollow out any place but do s “just the opposite. Make them rounded out _ till last cutting which is done wi‘h fine file run _ crossways with grain of wood. ___ Screw on the trigger guard tightly and then - your choice of butt plates. Checked steel _ shotgun type is the best. With plane or knife, cut off all wood projecting over edg se of Rn metal. Then use file to trim down flush with ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 47 stock méans a ruined trip and loss of consider- able expense money. I saw one on an import- ed Automatic divide itself into two pieces as it’s proud owner showed it to his friend. The Ballard in this photo has a piece glued cross- ways at butt to hold that beautiful piece of wood together. I don’t use Circassiam walnut anymore. To finish'wood, just wet and heat quickly, raising whiskers. Take the finest steel wool (buy it at a paint store). -Use it similar to _ and tostrengthen. I varnished this and rubbed down metal. Don’t be afraid of scratching metal furniture as we will refinish and blue it last of all. Now file down all bumps carefully. Squint ‘down and up all lines on both sides in turn until they are exactly alike. File cross- “ways of grain and around stock till every line true but not hollow. Get strength in the grip by thickness up and _ that feeling of hand fit comes in by flaring out at bottom of grip. Your hand squeezes up nstead of sliding down as it does on factory stocks. ' Now spend one more evening on going over your form of lines in every directign. Don't slight this and you will be thankful _ tater when some old crank begrudges you the remark that it feels and hangs right. Re- - member a word from him or some gunsmith is : worth forty words from the other fellow who robably thinks a two by four is graceful. ~ Trecommended straight grain but contrast- a Ay fi figured walnut, curly American stocks are ' pretty, though hard to cut. Never make a E ilitary stock of expensive Circassiam walnut with extremely curly contrasting figure. It drop into two pieces in your hands and down, not cross ways of grip as that is where- This i is stock and Pope barrel Ballard action made of two planks glued together to get thickness for cheek piece Strictly an offhand target tool. sand paper. Repeat this, wetting several times, then when hunting in the rain your finish will stay smooth. After every spot is smooth as glass, witha brush apply one or typ coats of shellac. Dry one day and cut down smoothly with steel wool. Now apply a coat of rubbing varnish with another brush. Keep stock warm near a hot fire and keep it free from dust after it is flowed onsmoothly. Aftersix days get rotten stone from the painter and rub with wool cloth or felt and water. Oil, such as linseed, can be applied over a coat of shellac, instead of varnish, and rub it by the palm of the hand. If you insist on a greasy, oil finished stock, hand rubbed just do it and you may make it a nice job after a month of hard work by applying fresh coats of oil and rubbing in with the palm of the hand until the arm gives out. Then ona hot day it is greasy and slips when your hands are perspiring. It kills the color of the wood and ages black and dull. Ifitis boiled in at the factory heat makes it penetrate quickly but we can’t do that at home. Make a checking tool like enlarged cut and just sit down ands start cutting on a board. In a few minutes you will have the hang'of it better than I can explain. It is easy with the 48 correct tool and very hard to teach another, so do your friend’s gun first for practice or the work bench can bechecked. Cut out apiece of paper and bend around the stock. Mark around with pin or pencil. Then both sides are alike. Check lightly first. This is always done after varnishing. The cuts are then oiled and brushed. You are now readyto refinish the metal, the butt plate, screws, sights, pins, etc. Follow these simple rules until you find better ones, then take them. To case-harden small parts, get one ounce cyanide of Potassium (this is the most deadly Very good type for strictly, offhand targets solid. poison.) Heat the small parts very hot, bright red. Sprinkle powder of cyanide on this and it will boil up. Heat up to bright red and drop into very cold pure water. To get the figure of case hardening used on fine gun actions pack them in old leather, bone dust or horse hoofs. Put all in iron box, which is then put in the coal fire of a stove and kept hot forseveral hours. Thenit is quench- ed quickly before air strikes the metal. To harden tools, for metal cutting, heat rod, quench in water then polish with emery cloth. Now heat slightly till a straw color appears at edge. Put heat back farther and A. D, Fraser ET it besaid, by way offoreword to the experiences about to follow, that some weeks previously Ihad noticed, among the advertisements of a well-known American outing magazine, one of a striking and alto- gether unusual nature, It called the atten- tion of the public to the fact that a certain New York firm of the reputable name of Bannerman had for sale a single-shot rifle in ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Allows head to be erect, neck ataiuhe and head is suppor Not fit for hunting or prone shooting Ballard rifle. » homemade jobs that are fit, to show. it will cause upper shank to blue. ee sprin and wood cutting tools, knives, or firing Dp: draw temper to a blue purple after harde and dip in fish oil or machine oil. Hard drill for cutting glass or hardened metal clapping red drill in acid or mercury. To black-blue parts such as screws, or Suard, etc. heat one ounce of black manganese with ten ounces salt petre. v bullet kettle to melt them in. 5 Parts can be nicely blued if polished -ve : fine, by dropping in melted lead or heating in, | sand placed under a blow torch or gas fla until a nice blue is seen. iy blued by heating over a charcoal flame. ceivers of repeating guns are all blue heat treatment under care of experts. Barrels are always browned or bh chemicals that cause rapid rusting in” fe with steam to cause a damp hot air to Bs chemicals (usually acid base). It is best. let an experienced man do this as I se them are spotty or rough. Use steel wool to” scratch off each rust instead ofta rag, as hia advises, and you will get a better polish an come nearly up to factory standards. — which could be fired cartridges of the U. . Government .06 model, employing the 151 grain bullet. This in itself was not an extra- ordinary announcement: the ‘notewo: feature lay in the intimation that the rifle could be purchased for the sum of $7.77, anc j that cartridges for the use of the same would: be provided for $3.50. per‘hundred rounds Chis statement seemed’ at first sight to _ almost too good to win belief. 1 had recently _ disposed of an old .280 Ross rifle for the round sum of $65 without any demur at the high _ price reaching my ears. At the same time, - ammunition for this arm was retailed at 17% cents a shell, and no apologies were forthcom- ing from the dealers or manufacturers. Fur- thermore, I had always regarded the Spring- field as being in the same class at least as the .280 Ross, even if falling short of it in efficiency in some respects. The statement of the Bannerman firm, however, could hardly be doubted, so it goes without saying that in a _ very few days my order for one of the rifles and _ 100 rounds of ammunition was on its way to the city of New York. J may observe in passing that I realized from the very first that more than $11.27 would be required to put the gun and its fodder within my grasp. In the first place, _ 45 cents had to be forwarded to pay for the packing of the arm, and the exchange situation 1 called for a further loss of about $1.20. Ex- _ pressage to Nova Scotia meant a payment of 4 $1.67, and Canadian customs duties and , American impost amounted to about $4.50. As a result of these annoying concomitants, _ the original initial outlay for rifle and shells was increased to a total of over $19.00. But even at that one could hardly grieve at the expense. In course of time the package was delivered. As regards appearance, the rifle could _ hardly be termed, by even the most enthus- " iastic as a work of art. The barrel, with its high foresight, was bound to a cheap looking fore-stock by a single band of metal: the lines 0 of the rear-stock were extremely old-fashioned: _ while between the two, the cp ohne spur-like ' projection of the hammer lent the arm a - decided flavour of antiquity. It is true that "the advertisement of the rifle had described it as a remodelled Remington, while an examin- ation of the inscription borne on the tang evealed the fact that the last patent taken out on the arm had been in the year 1871. Soonit } began to dawn upon us that we had in our possession a hybrid,—the curious anomaly of _ a20thcentury barrel and set of sights attached ' toamid-19th century weapon. *When loaded, ‘ the head of the powerful 30 cartridge reposed pon the primitive rolling-block mechanism of 1e early days of the breech-loading rifle. For. the benefit of those who are not famil- wr with this long-obsolete form of Remington ction, a word of explanation may be necess- _ The breech-block consists of a cylindri- -sector revolving on a pin which passes te ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 49 transversely through the walls of the receiver —in form like the quarter section of a grind- stone with crank attached, This sector has a lug attached at the right side by means of which the block is rotated backward for the purpose of extracting the shell and reloading, and forward, for the purpose of closing the . breech. A block of similar form supports the hammer, and is in like manner attached: When the gun is fired, the last -named block is of course thrown forward beneath the edge of the former, thus supporting it and locking the mechanism against the discharge. A feature of the system is that at the m6ment the trigger is pulled, and in fact for some little time afterwards, the breech-block is absolutely free, and no locking takes place till the very smallest fraction of a second before the hammer strikes the base of the firing-pin. Still, 7t must not be inferred from this that the action is a risky one. But, apart from all question of safety, the mechanism seems alto- gether novel and curious on first acquaintance. The bullets of the shells furnished me with the rifle were all of the full-coated variety. Hence, I decided to test out the rifle in some place remote from public road or dwelling, no range for the purpose being immediately available. I also was minded to go alone, so that in the event of possible accident with the formidable weapon, I alone must needs suffer. So, having waited for a day when the weather conditions were reasonably satisfactory, I made my way to a point about four miles outside of the city, to a lake whose shores were | wooded and rocky, with no habitations in the immediate vicinity. I carried . with me several paper targets, but acoidently discovered an old gasoline can on the shore, which being a foot in diameter and more than a foot in height, seemed to present a fair mark for even long-range work. Setting the can, then on the snow at the margin of the lake, with a background of beetling rocks, I walked out on the ice for a distance of some fifty yards, and loading the rifle I took careful aim at the tin,— with a brooding sense of danger, but notwith- standing with a stout heart. ; The discharge of the rifle left me quite uninjured. The recoil seemed light to my 185 pounds of bone and sinew, though the noise in proportion, appeared prodigious. I also noted a peculiar clouding up of my eye-glasses. The reason for ‘this was soon manifested by an examination of the rifle. Under the terrific strain of a breech-pressure of 50,000 or more pounds to the square inch the mechanism had partially yielded and a half inch of the butt of “50 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA the shell was clearly visible. Furthermore, the primer had been badly punctured,—the darkened state of my spectacles being accoun- ted for by the savage backward puff of the compressed gas. This could hardly be called a reassuring state of affairs, and to add to the gloom of the situation, the target, I found, had been missed entirely a bullet-mark »showing in the snow to the right of the can, although of the proper elevation. A man of less courage would have immed- iately returned home, subdued and perhaps angry. But—my ancestors were all natives of Scotland—i fried again. Courage was ina measure lent me by the presence of the huge upstanding spur of the hammer, which reared itself up before my face after the fashion of the renowned shield of Achilles. Surely not even the mighty .30 Government could break through that wall of steel, and in the outcome I was not disappointed. This -time the breech-mechanism resisted with all boldness, although the cartridge had somewhat expan- ded, and a powerful tug was necessary too extract the empty shell. On this occasion too the primer had suffered a fracture, but that we could forgive. The tin target, how- ever, had again escaped injury, the bullet striking in almost the same spot as before. Another attempt met with no better success, and a couple of trials from a range of 100 yards, in the prone position, proved equally un- fortunate. Ultimately, a hit was secured from a distance of 30 yards, but a mere graze onthe right side of the target. Of the primers, in the meantime, only one out of three would survive the strain. ) 1 By this time it was manifest that something Was amiss either with the rifle or with the arrangement of the sights particularly as the majority of guns shoot a trifle to the left with me, as they are‘sighted before leaving the factory. Both sights of the Springfield- Remington lack a wind-gauge, so that an immediate correction was impossible. How- ever, a glance along the barrel from the muzzle end revealed an astonishing feature. The front-sight, it may be observed, is constructed of three parts. An integral base grips the barrel firmly, as in the case of the .280 Ross: in a transverse slot in the base is held 4 central portion, which in turn supports 4 small longitudinal sight of the Rocky-Moun- tain type. Now, as was quite evident, the base just referred to had been milled onto the barrel alfogether out of alignment with the rear-sight. Subsequent trials showed that the error was about 15 inches to the hundred yards, so that further “try-outs” wii readjustment seemed altogether a waste time. However, several more shells W used up in an attempt to determine the. trative power of the bullets on hardwood the results being reasonably gratifying. But, in the course of the firing latter shots, a new trouble began to dey Upon reloading the arm, the block fail close the breech, the hardest pressure could be exerted by the thumbs f: move the block the last necessary eigh inch. At first it appeared as though someth 1 Was at sane in the fit of certain cartridges, chamber was empty. Presently, qui accident, I noticed the true cause;— firing -pin was jammed in its slot.in th so that its point protruded and came tact with the primer of the inserted c: thus preventing the mechanism from icl D It is with a feeling of thankfulness that able to say that a little hammering with handle of a pocket-knife remedied this trot I temporarily at least. * =) I must really apologise if I find it ne to point out one more feature of the which made itself apparent that afte and which may be interpreted as.Co adefect. When the armisheldin a position, or in one where the muzzl downwards, and after the rifle is co ed breech-block is opened and closed, action slightly trips the hammer and: to slip into what we might term a th er-cock position, from which the h very easily raised to full-cock. This should be. On the other hand, ee is held with the muzzle pointing ee indeed at all above the horizontal-plane the same operation gone through, the el of the breech-block brings after it the ham mm into the quarter-cock position. The swir the hammer is quite violent, and somet least it strikes the base- of the firi Whether the force is, in the case of an uni sensitive primer, sufficient to cause deto: 2 ion, could, I suppose, be determined experimentally. , _ + The firing—as above noted—of some dozen of shots at the trunks of trees b to an end the course of my afternoon’s ex, ience. Of my own feelings I will say not hi for introspection is not the purpose or th basis of this paper. Let it suffice to say although rocks of various sizes and-s were very numerous on the shore of the where the experiments were made, yet th aN _ rifle-escaped destruction in a moment of _ passion, and was carried back to the city in - safety. 3 On reaching home, I thrust the muzzle of the Springfield-Remington between the pipes of the steam radiator, and by means of a _ violent twist I loosened the fore-sight to such an extent that a proper adjustment was possible. which the firing-pin operates, so that further mishaps in that quarter are probably no longer a Se eee aaa J + for some years, gleaning a great deal of information therefrom, both as to firearms and human nature and only the fact that I am not an expert rifleman in any sense, has prevented me attempting to break into your columns long ago. Most of the articles in your department while very interesting and vinsiructive appear to be written from the _ view point of the expert target shot, rather 4 than that of the hunter while data as to the effect of certain loads on the target is no doubt s of real practical value, it occurred to me that _ you might welcome a little information as to the effect of these loads on game. For this reason I would like to tell you something of ’ the history of a certain gun in my possession. | have been a reader of your department aA lat SY Ae aS a : © ss This gun is a 95 Model .30-40 Winchester | and has been an important part of my arma- ment for eighteen years. During that time it has killed nine grizzlies, ‘stretching from a little less than eight feet to nearly ten feet in length, a due proportion of other bears and such other big game as we have in B. C. Of _ the grizzlies mentioned, some required three shots, some two and one was killed by a single 3 _ shot, due to the fact that I did not reach him for several minutes after he fell. In every 3 4 case the bear went down when struck in or E near a vital organ though I believe most woul@have regained their feet fora fewseconds at least had they been permitted. One was F ‘Killed charging at less than ten yards, the _ bullet entering his breast and passing out of his -back just behind the kidneys and one was id killed at nearly four hundred paces, at least _ 300 yards and the most astonishing fluke I ever saw. It was impossible for me to app- roach any closer without losing sight of him altogether. As I knew the tendency to I scrapped and oiled the groove in ~ Bt ROD AND GUN IN CANADA By possible. I removed the hammer, and smoothed off its surface where it is engaged by the sear, thus lightening the trigger-pull. Lastly, I took the rifle to a gunsmith to have the receiver-tang tapped, so as to allow of the attachment of a rear aperture sight formerly used on a Model .97, .22 caliber Marlin rifle. Next season I hope to carry the Springfield- Remington when hunting deer,—quite prob- ably moose as well. Is it a good and reliable. weapon? (Juien sabe? The .30-40 as a Big Game Rifle over-shoot I left my sights as they were for the first shot and fired at the line of his back. He whirled like a flash and started digging just below where he had been standing. Tak- ing a little more elevation, I fired again and he started for the timber, shot through a front foot as I afterwards found. There was no time for any further fussing with sights so I brought my front sight well above his back, swung ahead and fired and just for a second over the sights I seemed to glimpse a bear whirling over and over down the mountain. For a few moments I thought it was pure imagination, but presently a most-convincing uproar arose from the brush below where he disappeared and when I reached him he was just giving up the ghost. The bullet entered a few inches behind the right shoulder and lodged in the left shoulder shattering it so badly that it felt like a sack of dice, proving to my satisfaction at least that the gun has sufficient punch to account for any American game, at reasonable hunting ranges. As to its effect on smaller game such as deer I am inclined to agree with Ashley Haines, when he says that it does not shatter so badly as the 30-30. This is probably due to the difference in the shape of the bullet and the fact that more lead is exposed in the bullet of the .30-30. Judging from my observation I have killed enough deer with this rifle to be justified in expressing an opinion. A shot through the shoulders of a large buck will result in a pair of badly damaged front quart- ers but placed behind the shoulder its effect would be comparable to that produced by a .38-56 or a .40-65 than which no better deer rifles were ever manufactured, and here let me say that I have never known a .30-40 bullet to. / lodge in a deer or cartbou. Once, inadver- tantly I killed two caribou with one shot and the second one was an unholy mess, just such a spectacle in fact as would delight the soul of one of our 3000 foot per second enthusiasts. To sum up, I have used this gun eighteen years and have hunted bear with it through May and June for five seasons. I have killed at least as much game with it as the average sportsman kills in a lifetime. I have had some misses and have lost just two wounded ~™animals that I know of—the result of poor shooting,on my part. Unlike some of our More modern arms, with higher velocity and lighter bullets, I have found it very uniform and reliable in its effect on game, quite equal to the .45-70 in this respect and much more destructive when it strikes a heavy bone. As to its accuracy I cannot speak with authority but I know that it will shoot with reasonable regularity inside a twelve inch circle at 300 yards, I have no doubt that a good shot could do even better withit. When I cannot get within that distance of an animal, I am willing to concede that it does not belong to me. Ill admit that it is not a thing of Queries and Answers a A Gun For Rabbits. Editor Guns and Ammunition Dept. Would you prefer a shotgun or a .22 Calibre rifle for shooting rabbits? What is the open season for rabbit shooting in Ontario? , Poe hort), Ontario Reply—I would suggest a 12 gauge double hammerless shotgun with the right barrel improved cylinder and the left barrel bored full choke as being about the best weapon to use for rabbit shooting. If you do not use a dog I would suggest that you have a gun bored improved cylinder and three-fourths choke. The open season for rabbits in Ontario is as follows: ‘“‘Hares may be taken by any means at any time between the 15th day of October and the 15th day of November and between the 23rd day of December and the 2nd day of January following, and may be taken at any other time by any other means than shooting.” Editor. The .22 Colt Auto Pistol. Editor Guns and Ammunition Dept. I believe that the Auto pistol will become ROD AND GUN IN CANADA beauty and many men object to its wei but I doubt if that could be reduced advantage. A friend once loaned ~ Martini—Metford .303 foratrip. Th weighed about 6 pounds I should ju perhaps a little more. But whether bee of its light weight or some peculiarity of eu decidedly gun shy for the remainder of the As the .303 British is practically the same -30-40 and I was using Winchester am tion I don’t think that I would care to S .30-40 that weighed less than eight pound I notice that now and then some opti still inquires for the best all round gu you would care to hear of it sometime I you of another gun, the one that in my o comes nearest to reaching that unattai ideal and the gun that afforded me mort sport than any other I ever owned. ** * € * € Let us have the article. We need art this type and are in a position to use the any time. —Editor. s — ~ = the most widely shot side arm in a fi and will rapidly replace the older re O of them is to hit something and here is wh I fall down. This is not because I hav Practiced sufficiently for I have han types of revolvers since I was big enot work, having been raised on a Western fa in the days when the antelope were o Plains. The main trouble with every 2 volver company now-a-days 1s that while they put out a very good shooting Weapon they — fail to put a full size and correctly prop tioned handle on it. et At the present time I have a .22 C Automatic Pistol which I think is the accurate shooting weapon that I have e used. I do not know why I do not hear m about it but I suppose it is because of its r ther high price. I obtained this pistol | fall and since that time I have killed abow twenty red squirrels, two black squirrels seven ground squirrels, three wood-chue ‘mnumerable crows and small birds. crow-call for shooting and lie down in brush and when they come and sit on the trees over head I pot them. I kill two or th ah we 4 g _ every Saturday afternoon while shooting in this manner. I think that this is a pretty fair recommendation for this little pistol. ’ If I had to use a revolver I would have killed nothing. I often hear stories about men shooting the spots out of playing cards at 15 yards with a .45 and other similar yarns but I merely smile at these and say ‘‘show me.’ . I have had some trouble from one make of cartridges when used in this .22 Colt. The bullet is not crimped enough. It buckles _ when it is being fed nto the chamber of the _ weapon. While I was on the “other side” I used a Smith & Wesson .455 and we had this make of cartridges. Not a man in the bunch of thirty.scouts I was with could*hit a man’s figure at 15 yards more than about three times out of five. We had five marksmen in our bunch and I had the pleasure of being one of them. We also had one sniper and a lot of other good shots. revolver the better. I threw mine away in France and took a .45 Colt from another fellow who had no more use for it. I do not know why we do not hear more _ about guns and such things. Having been ~ out West, I have shot everything from gophers _ to antelopes and from sparrows to Golden _ Eagles and black vultures. While I was on the “other side’ a German bullet went through my right elbow and it broke a nerve causing the inside of my right hand to shrink and left a big hole between the thumb and the first finger on the back of my _ hand just where you grip the pistol. In cao fact, which makes my hand very , the grip of the .22 Colt Automatic is - too short: This is about my only criticism ; of them. OS Ed. Dawson _ Toronto Ontario. Lae 3 % Various Questions. 4 Editor, Guns and Ammunition Dept. _ What is the range of the .22 Savage Model | 1914 with a 24 inch barrel? Should I use the ~ long shells in it? Should I use Dominion 1 cartridges loaded with Lesmok or with smoke- léss powder? iy Is the .32 Iver Johnson revolver a reliable _ Weapon and is the Harrington & Richardson ‘ 32 Cal. a better weapon? ; Fred A. Bradley Ontario, Canada. _ Reply—The accurate range of the .22 Say- e Model 1914 would be about 200 yards. a should always use the .22 Calibre long The less said about the’ P ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ’ 53 rifle cartridge in it as well as in any other rifle chambered for this cartridge. I would suggest that you use either Dominion, Win- chester, or Remington U.M.C. cartridges loaded with Lesmok powder or Peters cart- ridges loaded with semi-smokeless in prefer- ence to smokeless. I would not recommend the use of any other American revolver ex- cept the Smith or Wesson or Colt. Editor. A Rifle For Moose. Editor, Guns and Ammunition, Dep:. I am thinking of buying a rifle for moose and bear shooting. What do you think of the .405 Winchester for this work. Is it more powerful than the .45-70 or the 45-90? I hdd intended to purchase a .30-1906 Calibre Winchester but after reading an article in the October issue by Mr. J. R. Mattern, I decided that possibly a “‘coal burner’ would be better after all. What would one of these rifles cost in Canada? Is the .22 Colt Auto pistol as accurate an arm as the new Stevens target pistol? D. W. Campbell, Strathroy, Ontario. Reply—The .405 Winchester would be thoroughly satisfactory for your purpose. It is undoubtedly the most deadly rifle manu- factured in America. It is very much more powerful than the .45-70 or the .45-90. The .22 Auto Colt might not do quite as well as the single shot Stevens Pistol when fired in machine rest. I doubt if you could tell the difference. These little Colts are remarkably accurate weapons‘and make splendid target or hunting pistols. For all round use I would prefer the Colt to a single shot pistol. It has a splendid trigger pull, good sights, holds well and is very accurate. I would suggest that you write to the D. Pike Company of Toronto, Hallam’s or the Lion Sporting Goods Company for their latest prices on the .405 Winchester. Editor. An All Round Rifle. Editor Guns and Ammunition Dept. I would like to ask through the columns of your fine magazine which is the best all round rifle for bear, mountain lion, sheep, cougar or deer and what would it cost? IAS OSB: Vancouver B.C. Reply—I would suggest a Model 1895 Win- chester chambered for the .30-1906 cartridge and loaded with the 180 grain bullet. Have ‘the rifle equipped with a receiver peep sight and a medium sized gold bead front sight. Have the trigger pull eased up and have it fitted with a sling strap. This rifle when so fitted, would probably cost you about $75.00. The addition of a 5A Winchester Telescope Sight, which is easily removed, would help you considerably in shooting sheep and goats and for long range work on bears. Editor. Information On Reloading. Editor Guns and Ammunition Dept. I wish to obtain information concerning the reloading of .303 Savage cartridges. Does Hercules smokeless powder No. 300 contain nitroglycerin? If not, is it a pure nitrocellulose powder? Would it be all right for me to reload my .303 Savage shells with this powder and the 150 grain bullet? Do DuPont rifle powders No. 10, No. 15, No. 16 and No. 18 contain nitroglycerin? If not are they pure nitrocellulose powders? Are any of these adapted to use with the 150 grain bullet in the .303 Savage. Can I buy primed cartridges from the Remington people and 150 grain bullets from the Remington Arms~U.M.C. Company? What Ideal tools'do I need and where can I procure them? What per cent or type of ammonia will I fieed for cleaning this rifle? Will this 150 grain bullet be any harder on the barrel and take down system than the regular factory bullet? Where can I get these pow- ders in Canada and which ones would you suggest? Would my hand-loading be more accurate than factory loading and how much flatter would the trajectory be over 500 yards? What type of powder scales should I use, where can I get them and what will they cost? I expect te send this rifle back to ‘the fac- tory and have a No. 3 front sight and Lyman No. 3014 combination rear sight fitted to it. Do you consider these sights to be 0.K.? I think the .303 Savage F eatherweisht take-down rifle of mine is a little wonder and like it fine. It will put deer out of commis- sion quickly and. would not take $75.00 for it if I could not get another rifle like it. I think it is far superior to the .30-30 and 32 Special for deef shooting. Russel! R. Raynard Tusket Falls,{Nova Scotia. Reply—Hercules No. 300 does not contain nitroglycerin. It would be very well adapted to use in your .303 Savage. DuPont powders No. 10, No. 15, No. 16, No. 18 are also nitro-cellulose powders. Du ROD AND GUN IN CANADA -mined except by test made at the for use in your cartridges. and DuPont No. 16 or DuPont No. 18 be suitable for your use. You can buy primed shells and 150_ bullets from the Remington Arms U.M Company. If you wish to use metal bullets exclusively you should have the tool with double adjustable chamber an extra bullet seating screw for the 150 pointed bullet. These are all the tools you will require excepting your pow measure and powder scales. You can ob the scales from the Fairbanks Comp about $12.00 or $15.00. Use the strongest ammonia that you” obtain which would be about 26%. I U cannot obtain this use 10%. You mus 5H monia. The 150 grain bullet would not’ harder on the barrel than the regul tory cartridge. You can obtain either the Her DuPont powders by writing to the n facturers for the name of their nearest dea Your own hand-loaded shells would I accurate as factory loaded shells if y id the work very carefully. If you had and opportunity to experiment with. beads you could very likely obtain loaded ammunition. With the 150 grain bullet and the charge of one of these progressive. bu powders your 500 yard trajectory w be about one-half that of the factory ridge. The exact amount cannot be ¢ companies. > Loads For Crow Shooting. — Editor, Guns and Ammunition Dept. — Please inform me what velocity and en I might expect from my .303 Savage lo with 100 grain U.M.C. metal cased bull and 14 grains of DuPont No. 75. Gould yo fecommnend a \ better crow load for this and a woes of appreciation for this ; interesting deparment of Rod and Gun, I amt Gerald A. Birks Montreal, Quebec. ; Reply—The 100 grain U..MC. metal ¢ bullet and 14 grains of DuPont No. 75 we be a good accurate load for crow shooting in “the .303 Savage. It would be rather hard to tell just what velocity this load will give you * without having it chronographed. I should judge that you would obtain about 1400 feet per second velocity. About 14 or 15 grains of Du Pont No. 80 _ would give you better results as it would be less influenced by atmospheric changes. Hercules Lightning would also be very sat- isfactory for the same purpose. Editor. Rifles For Bear And Moose. Editor, Guns.and Ammunition Dept. AsI ama Yeader of your valued paper, -would like to know the hitting power of the .250-3000 Savage. Which do you consider are the best three rifles for large game such as moose and the largest of bear, also the vel- ocity of same? Is it satisfactory to reload the .250-3000 for small game providing that a little tin is used with the lead? T. K. Yarkley, Estevan, Sask. Reply—tIn reply to your inquiry I would consider that the best three rifles of American manufacture for use on large bear and moose 5 would be the .405, .35 and .30-1906-220 cali- ~ bres of the Model 1895 Winchester or the .30 Springfield loaded with the 220 grain bullet. It would be possible to load the .250-3000 Savage with a 1 to 10 cast bullet and about 10 grains of one of the short range powders. This will give you extremely accurate results. If you can possibly do so use cartridges that have never been fired with the full charge as these will stretch some in firing and will be hard to insert in the chamber after ‘reloading. : Editor. A Rifle For Deer. _ Editor, Guns and Ammunition Dept. Would like a little information on the .30 Gov. 706 “Winchester Model ’95. _-I have been seriously considering buying one of the above mentioned rifles, but thought I would first ask your opinion as to whether Y you would consider it too big a jump from the _.32-40 Model ’94 for a young fellow of twenty, "six feet and 180 pounds, general measure- i ments, to contemplate. __ My reason for thinking up the .30 Govern- ‘ment stuff is that I have about gotten tired having to shoot up my deer before they finally decide to cash in. Also during my three hunting seasons I have been watching the \ “ROD AND GUN IN GANADA 55 results fellows have with rifles of the .30-30, .32 Special and .303 Savage tribe and have decided that they haven’t gotten that “little extra” power that is needed to put the tough old buck or big bull moose down and out so that you don’t have to trail him away back into a balsam or alder swamp before you get in a final wallop, and you’re lucky too if you can get close enough to him in there. What reduced load and weight of bullet would you consider best in the .30 Govern- ment to use on woodchuck and to get the hang of ’er. Junior Nimrod. Reply—You would have no reason to worry about the recoil of the .30-1906 in a 9-pound rifle, as you weigh 180 pounds. I weigh but 145 and do not mind shooting 100 shots a day so that I believe you could stand 10 or 20 without feeling seriously inconvenienced. The .30-1906 when loaded with the 180 or 220 grain bullet will certainly be far more effective than the .32-40. I would suggest the regular factory 150 grain load for your wood chuck shooting. Use the soft point bullet. Editor. Weapon For Shooting In South America. Editor, Guns and Ammunition Dept. , I am going to South America this Spring and would like to have your opinion on the necessary firearms. I am a green horn on guns and rifles, but in my ignorance have thought of a 45-70. Winchester or a .44-40- Marlin for big game. I see most people are in favor of small calibre high power arms but don’t you think the above would have more stopping power at the usual shooting ranges. Would there be any trouble getting am- munition for the larger calibre arms for a “table” gun? I have thought a good .22 would be about right. My choice runs to either Winchester or Marlin. Would a .22 long rifle be better than a .22, long? Charles A. Murray, Grimsby, Ontario. Reply—tt is a little hard to advise you re- garding the very best weapon to take to South America as conditions in different parts of South America differ very greatly. For instance, there is a great difference between game shooting on the open country of Argentine and the thick jungle shooting along the Amazon River in Brazil. For close range shooting the .45-70 cart- ‘Tid ge in a Model 1886 Winchester would make you a splendid outfit, but this ammunition is heavy to carry and is not well adapted to shooting in open country. For all round shooting a .30-1906-220 or a 30-1906 loaded with the 180 grain bullet would be much more preferable while for plains shooting the same cartridge loaded with the 150 or 172 grain bullet would have the .45-70 hopelessly out-classed. I would not consider using the .44-40 under any circum- stances. A trip of this kind is very expensive, so why handicap yourself with an antiquated firearm. I would depend upon taking my ammuni- tion along with me because then you would know that it was fresh and you would be sure that you hadit. The .22 long rifle Winches- ter. Savage or Marlin repeater and a few thousand cartridgesloaded with the hollow point bullet would make you a fine outfit for ordinary pot hunting. I would have the big gun equipped with a medium sized gold bead front sight, a Lyman peep and a folding open rear sight. I would have the small gun equip- ped with a fine gold bead front sight and a Lyman tang peep. The sights are'even more important than the Model of the rifle. The -22 long rifle would be much preferable to the .22 long cartridge and the added cost would not make enough difference to be worth considering when you figure up the total cost of your trip. I would try each rifle that you take before you start, and take your ammunition with you. In this way you will be sure that vou will have no unaccountable failures. Editor. Editor, Guns and Ammunition Dept. I am’a reader of Rod and Gun In Canada: and am desirous of obtaining a good rifle suit- able for British Columbiz. Would you sug- Sest the .401 Winchester Automatic as a good rifle for bear and deer? Do you think it too heavy for cottontail deer? | have been told by several persons that the Auto- Matic was not safe for bear as it jams very easily and would not eject the shell? Do you think this is true? If you do not consider the .401 as a suitable arm, what would you suggest? Would you kindly answer as soon as Possible and oblige, Fred Schmidt, Rossland, B.C. Reply—The .401 Calibre Automatic Wi in- chester would do good work on bear and deer at short range but it is by no me ans a ROD AND GUN IN CANADA : long range rifle. If you have any be ing over 150 yards we not select th jamming. I would prefer the Model 1895 Winch for any one of the cartridges that it L preferably one of the .30 Cal. oe I have never taken very kindly to matic rifle. I do not like the way it ba nor the type of cartridges that it u a otal ef .32-40 and a zine how ae 32-40 Savage rifle” with the .303 Savage for velocity, etc. : Can I get a supplemental c¢ auxiliary chamber), which will shoot 20 Winchester shells in a .32-40 S: pressure rifle? i D. G. MceDo i Rutland, B.C. ‘ A Reply—The 32-40 high power a tags pare very well with the .303 Savage, b would prefer the .303 due principally fact that you have the 150 grain Spi calibre bullet to reload with when to obtain a flatter trajectory. ey I do not believe that you can Calibre supplemental chamber fi .32-40 barrel. I would not recom you could do so. I would reco: you reload your cartridges. 4 The .30 Remington Riml Editor, Guns and Ammunition, Dept. I would like to ask a little information the .30 Remington rifle. Is the .30 Ri ton considered a high power rifle? heavy enough to kill a moose or caribi 100 or 150 yards? I don’t own the above mentioned 30 ington but I have a friend who owns the on one of the type I have ever seen. It to me like a dandy deer rifie and I am opinion that a well placed shot from it” put a moose or caribou down. Me J. C, Stewart, — Schreiber, Ontario. 4 Replj—The .30 Rimless is a high rifle, being almost a duplicate of the It would quite easily kill moose or at 100 to 150 yards if you hit them pro It does, as you surmise, make a splen deer rifle and would also make a good m MOK Se and caribou rifle at short ranges. It is in _ the same class with the .30-30 and .32 Special _ type of rifle. Editor. bid A Rifie For Ducks And Geese. _ Editor, Guns and Ammunition Dept. Tam a constant reader of Rod and Gun In . gsdiada: I would like a rifle; the same to be _ -arepeater, bolt action preferred, the accuracy of which for 100 to 250 target shooting cannot be surpassed by any single shot rifle made. “The rifle should have a sufficiently flat tra- “jectory to use successfully in shooting ducks and geese at long range. Also to be of suffi- cient Power to use occasionally in shooting deer. “The weight preferred would be from seven to eight pounds. Can such a rifle be obtained? How about the .25-35 cartridge, also the .28-30-120 for these purposes. S. C. Garrison, x Boonton, N.J. undoubtedly get a rifle of the type that you _ mention. It would be the .25 calibre High Power made on a Springfield frame. The barrel could be bored by Harry Pope, 18 Mor- “ris St., Jersey City, N.J., or by A. O. Niedner, ' 1 Beacon St., Malden, Mass. _I would prefer the .25-35 cartridge for your purpose or you could use either the .30-40 7 0-1906 necked down. , Editor. ine and would like your anion: on the fol- posing rifles. - T have a .32-40 Marlin repeater equipped with a Special smokeless steel barrel, Model 3. -Is this rifle when shot with high power artridges powerful enough for mogse and Is a .303 British powerful enough for any ne found in Canada? What is the best and model and what is the extreme ing range of this rifle? What is your opinion of the new Reming- n UM. C. automatic pistol as a big game QO. L. French, , ater would be powerful enough for and deer at reasonable ranges but it ‘ot equal the more powerful cartridges hat purpose. The .303 British would be uch more satisfactory cartridge. It ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ae ‘Reply—in reply to your inquiry you can ' 57 would do good work at 500 yards on game. Just what its extreme killing range is depends upon the kind of game you are shooting at and where you hit it. It is impossible to give any definite range, as the extreme range at which the rifle will kill game. The new .380 Remington U.M.C. Auto- matic Pistol is as reliable as other automatic pistols of the same calibre. I would prefer a weapon shooting a heavier cartridge for big game shooting but personally I would not carry a large calibre revolver or pistol on a big game hunting trip as I can see no reason for doing so. What you cannot kill with a high power rifle you can be sure that you will not kill with a revolver. You would do far better to carry an extra clip of cartridges for your big game rifle. . The .380 Remington Automatic is a very fine pistol, but it was not designed for the purpose that you mention. - Editor. Webley Revolver. Editor, Guns and Ammunition, Dept. I have a Webley Mark VI revolver, the calibre of which I believe is .45 and so far I have been unable to procure any ammunition for it m Canada. I have been told that the Colt .45 short will fit it, but have been . unable to obtain any of these. I would be very pleased if you could tell me where I could get ammunition for it and also if you can give me any information about the accuracy of this gun. : H. W. Street, Parry Sound, Ontario. Reply—yYour Webley revolver is undoubt- edly a .455. You could obtain ammunition for this revolver from the Remington Arms U.M.C. Company or the Winchester Repeat- ing Arms Company. It has the reputation of being a very reliable weapon. Editor. The .35 Remington and the .30-1906. Editor, Guns and Ammunition Dept. Would you kindly reply in regard to the two cartridges or rifles .30-1906 and .35 Remington Automatic on deer and heavy game up to 500 yards, or distance the average hunter can make a hit. The boys on returning from their new hunt- ing grounds state that they are now shooting farther and that those using the .250-3000 were out of luck. They spoke highly of the .35 Remington Automatic. It is faster than the Remington Slide Action, using the sane shell, but thought they were shooting between 300 to 500 yards which would be quite a dis- tance for the .35. } Would you kindly give me your opinion of thée two shells as to recoil and on deer and moose. Have you shot the Winchester .30-1906? Is it a steady arm or apt to jump or flip with this heavy load? Can they be reloaded for light work or target practice? Is the rifle with this shell hard to keep in shape? Weyburn, Sask. Walter J. Garner, Reply—The .30-1906 would undoubtedly be much better for use between 300 and 500 yards than the .35 Remington cartridge. The .35 Remington is a splendid rifle for deer shooting, up to 200 or 300 yards. It does not 4 have the flat trajectory of the .30-1906. The Winchéster rifle for this cartridge has a good heavy barrel and as the rifle weighs over eight pounds it does not recoil excessively. I have seen very nice off-hand shooting” done with this rifle at 500 yards. You can reload these shells for short range work and I would suggest that you use shells that have not been fired with the full charge. Unless you observe this you. will have some trouble from sticking shells. The .35 Remington cartridge in either the Automatic or Slide Action rifle make as splendid big game hunting cartridge. It would hardly be chosen for 500 yard work as the bullet has a blunt nose and has a rather high trajectory for this range which makes it hard to hit your game. One advantage of the .35 Remington cart- ridge 1s that it is a very clean killing cartridge at reasonable ranges as the bullet weighs 200 grains and makes a good big hole. Editor. -32 Calibre Revolver. Editor, Guns and Ammunition, Dept. I have a .32 Calibre revolver but had the misfortune to break the striking pin. I am not able to find the maker’s name on it. It is a single action, five chambered gun. The length of the barrel is 3 inches. The grips are celluloid with dog’s head on top. On the top of the barrel are the following words “Smith & Wesson’s American Metallic Cartridges are to be used for our Model revolver,’ Where I have put the line are some letters or numbers I cannot make out. If you could tell me the name and address of the maker and the probable cost of a new hammer you will oblige, Sussex, New Brunswick. John Hodgson, ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ‘compound Division 2. Reply—I am not able to tell you who’ your revolver from the description tha give. It looks to me as it is of cheap Ge make or possibly it might be of Belgian facture. Mr. W. A. Brock of London, could very likely make a new firing pi t this rev olver. He would need to ha 2 this. Schultze Shotgun Powder.’ Editor, Guns and Ammunition Dept. It gives instruction for loading a certain number of grains. far as I can find out this is a bulk smok powder. Is it not? On the can it says he it may be used in small bore-rifles. I tried a 15 grain load in the .30-30 Winch with home-made bullets. It does not to be very accurate. I think it is ab UW high as I can load it, although it has not any signs of leading and the rifle is very cleaned. It leaves a white coat inside shells. Can I use this powder for a me load? If so, how much with cast bullet 1 to 10 in the .30-30 Winchester? | Wha’ of Dominion primer should be used in De minion shells? eS Irwin Brothers. Wilkie, Sask. t ees) Reply—Schultze is a bulk shotgun It is, of course, impossible for me to te ther it is the English Schultze or the Schul that is made by the Du Pont Company I have no doubt that you are using too : powder behind your cast bullets. I feel that you cannot use more than from 8 to grains of this powder behind a cast bi If you will cut your charge in half, I am : that you will find that the accuracy is much increased. Cast your bullets about one part tin to. parts of lead or one part solder to 8 Pp: lead. Not knowing just what you are I cannot give you the exact charge to use. Shotgun powders should not be used rifles excepting in very small charges. Editor. bs) Editor, Guns and Ammunition, Dept. Will you kindly give me the cs formation regarding rifles. pare with the 303, Savage and 7 ‘Mi. he Mauser in killing power? r Is the .32 Carbine less effective than .32 rifle at 100 yards, and if so how much less? Can you give me the number of powder, number of powder grains, etc., for loading the _.32 Winchester Special, and will the load give : Beater power than the regular factory load? G. H. Skinner. Tieeen, Alaska. __ Reply—tin reply to your inquiry, the .32 ‘ Special has a muzzle velocity of 2112 foot ; seconds with a muzzle energy of 1682 foot Pounds. The .303 Savage has a muzzle velocity of 1952 foot seconds with a muzzle _ energy of 1658 foot pounds. The Savage _ has a heavier bullet than the Winchester so = that at 100 yards they would be almost equal. & The 7 M.M. Mauser with the 139 grain bullet _ has a muzzle velocity of 2785 foot seconds | and a muzzle energy of 2392 foot pounds. : With the 175 grain round nosed bullet it has _ a muzzle velocity of 2300 foot seconds and B a muzzle energy of 2056 foot pounds. & The .32 Special Carbine is not very much _ less effective at 100 yards than a rifle would be, | not enough to be worth worrying about. E Its principle difficulty is that it is quite a little ' harder to hold steady for long range shots k than the rifle because it does not have the | weight in the barrel, but it is undoubtedly ~ much easier to carry. ' You can-obtain a higher muzzle velocity pi in the .32 Special by using 32.5 grains of Du : Pont No. 16 or 35.6 grs. Hercules 300 which | will give you about 2225 foot seconds velocity. Editor. b 2 is _ The .22 Ross Rifle. _ Editor, Guns and Ammunition Dept. I recently bought a .22 Ross rifle which I find to be very accurate, but it has a very peculiar trigger pull and I would be very FJ have been asked by a great many people ‘a great many times: How do you tell -~> toadstools and mushrooms apart and make _ no mistake? Those people are possessed with the idea that toadstools are poisonous and ‘ymushrooms are not. Generally the term mushroom is applied to a single species, the common or cultivated sort while all ovkers are classed as toadstools. At the present ime-a great many students apply the term nushroom to all the higher fungi to which the ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 59 glad if you could tell me a remedy. for it. I have cut off about six inches of the fore- arm and the result is very pleasing both as to looks and balance. Another fault, I find with this rifle is that the firing pin does not seem to be long enough as sometimes I have to cock and pull the trig- ger three or four times before it goes off, which makes it useless for any kind of hunting. I have put an ivory bead front sight (Ly- man) on it. What do you think of the rear sight which is sold with the rifle. Keith Tate. Lakefield, Ontario. Reply—yY our .22 Ross rifle may misfire due to having an improperly shaped firing pin, a weak main spring or to improperly primed cartridges. Mr. W. A. Brock, London, Ontario, could very likely improve this for you and could fix your trigger pull. Almost any rifle is worth the price of a good pair of sights. For that reason I have always recommended that riflemen purchase a good pair of sights and apply them themsel- ves so that they can get everything possible out of the rifle. Editor. New Dominion Ammunition In addition to the .280 Ross, the Dominion Cartridge Company have added the following new ammunition to their lists. .25 Colt Automatic, .30 Mauser, .250 Savage High Power, .280 Ross S.P., .30 Remington (Rimless) ~S.P., .30 Springfield (Rimless) S.P., .32 Remington (Rimless) S.P., .30 Springfield (Rimless) pointed, .33 Win- chester S.P., .35 Remington (Rimless) S.P., .351 Self Loading S.P., New Dominion 30.30 S.P. with muzzle velocity 2187 feet per second. Forms and Properties of Mushrooms T. WARE common mushroom (Agarieus Campestris) be- longs, making no distinction whatever be- tween a mushroom and a toadstool. So it matters not whether you employ the term mushroom or toadstool, there are edible and poisonous kinds. There is no single way in which to distinguish the edible from the poisonous mushrooms, the scaly pileus or cap, the absence of the anulus or ring around the stem, the feeling test, the blackening of silver on the presence of thepoison cup, all 60 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA to distinguish the Close observation however. will reveal in- characteristics which will surely show them to be two distinct species. fail to serve in all cases edible from the poisonous forms. For stance take two plants Amanita Phalloides \manita Phalloid and Amanita Caesarea and viewed carelessly Amanita Phalloides they seem identical but the first mentioned rhis plant is deadly poisonous There are arious forms all closely related and they are he mest dangerous of the poisonous mush- is deadly poisonou hile the latter s , vy splendid mushroom for the table ; ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 4 h F . Made 147 out of a : possible 150 That’s what H. W. Cooey, of Toronto, did at the Galt Tournament with “Canuck” Shells In the regular events he made a straight 5 run of one hundred and fourteen, un- twenty-five straight and twenty-four out of twenty-five Olympic style. You, too, will get better results if you use ‘“‘Canuck’’ Shells—for either_trap or game shooting. - Dominion Cartridge Co., Limited % Head Office, Montreal Halifax * Toronto Sudbury Winnipeg Vancouver finished. In the Merchandise Event, ~ 61 ‘rooms. This one is known as the deadly amanita, Itispurewhite in color generally but specimens are found of a yellowish tinge, some are brownish almost an umber color, others are greenish white, others still are olive. There are other wariations also such as the surface character of the stem and the way in which the volva or death'cup is torn. The volva is a wrapper which encloses the plant completely in its young stage, while at maturity it may be distributed in broken fragments over the cap nd base of the stem. When collecting mushtooms for the table ~ it is of the utmost importance that all parts of \ the plant should be obtained. If this pre- caution is not strictly observed even an expert may not be able to identify the specimen through the loss of some part which to most people would seem of little or noconsequence. So for this reason mushrooms should never be picked but should be dug up, bearing in mind always never to use any for food unless you are absolutely certain as to what they are. Returning to the specimen under description I will quote! Mr.| Chestnut’s account of phallin. the poisonous principle of this mushroom. ‘The exact chemical nature of this extremely toxic substance is not certainly known, but it is generally conceded to be of an albuminous nature. That it is an extreme- ly deadly poison is shown by the fact that .0015 grain per 2 lbs. weight of the animal is a fatal dose for cats and dogs. It is the active principle of the most deadly of all mushrooms, the Amanita phalloides or death cup fungus.”’ I will also quote again from Mr. Chestnut’s account of phallin and its treatment: ‘“The fundamental injury is not due, as'in the case of muscarine to a paralysis of the nerves controlling the action of the heart but to a direct effect-onthe blood corpuscles. These -aré quickly dissolved by phallin, the blood serum escaping from the blood vessels into the: ailmentary canal and the whole system being ROD AND GUN IN CANADA symptoms begin until nine to fourte after the poisonous mushrooms have eaten. There is then considerable ab pain and there may be cramps in the le other nervous phenomena such asconvul: and even lockjaw or other kinds of tet spasms. The pulse is weak, the ab I pain is rapidly followed by nausea and extreme diarrhoea, the intest charges assuming the “rice water” ¢ characteristic of cholera. The latter ensues which happens in from ‘two days. There is no antidote know the effects of phallin can be ec The undigested material, vomited, should however be remove stomach by methods similar to tho principle of Amanita muscaria, another spec of Amanita. ‘ Re i “After that the remainder of tl if the amount taken up by the systen too large,may wear itself out on the blooc the patient recover. It is suggest this wearing-out process may be assiste transfusing into the veins blood freshly t from some warm blooded animal or the ¢ tion of the blood serum might be remed ed similar transfusions of salt and water.’ sketch represents the white form natural size but they vary from two quarter to eight inches high and the slightly over an inch in breadth to four and the stem from an eighth to half thickness. The cap is slimy w smooth orbicular when young exp bell shape, then conyex and oO depressed-in the centre and the — elevated. ras a. ‘eoise Tey : List of Prizes | 1 First Prize $3000.00 1Second Prize .....- $1000.00 ’ ‘ 0 Prizes 0 Prizes 20 Prizes | 50 Prizes ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 34 KSSSSSSSSSSSXK_ SSS SS SSS SSS SUNS $3000.00 First Prize for a Thought 103 other prizes from $1,000.00 to $10.00 NOTHER Eveready contest! Another chance to win a big cash prize! Another incentive for active-minded men, women,, boys and girls—for everybody with imagination! On June 1, Daylo dealers through- out the United States and Canada will display in their ‘windows the new Daylo Contest Picture. It has no title. The storywit tells is a great big interesting, intensely hu- en one. A thousand different people will see a thousand different stories in the picture. The story the picturé tells you may be the Most interesting—the prize winner ‘—the story, that may be worth $3000.00 to you. 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It had been a severe winter, as winters go, but the relieving sunlight had come to the world again, and gradually, as though a veil had been lifted, the ermine had disappeared: then the country lay waiting for a time while the rains fell heavy and drench- ing upon the earth's carpet: the sun came out onee more: the alders were budding and the ash-trees took on a delicate cloak of greenery. Now as the spring became an accepted fact the prisoning ice went off the lakes and a month, hastily slipping by, left the world of the north a place of charm, of freshness. The returning birds from the southland were putting in their appearance. A black bear, out of his winter sleep stumbled down to the shores of the lake, weak from his long rest, beset with an over-powering appetite. The pike were now on the verge of spawning. Day in and day out in the shallows they disported themselves, seeming half giddy and intoxicat- ed as their sex were awakened. Hither and thither they swam, lolling weakly from side to side: and reckless, yet wishing to deposit their spawn inshore as far as possible actually lay splashing on the sands of the beach. clumsy rush on one passions some, Che black bear made a of these Occasions and -Wisdom---The Sand Lake Bass Rosert Pace LINCOLN eS returned to the woodline the possessor bf an af eight pound female dripping with "spawn ; which he greedily devoured with a grunt e satisfaction and was ready for more. Ovyer- head swung the eagle-eyed fish-hawks: dart ing now and then into the lake with a crash splash, returning sky-ward as often with ‘thee prey held in vise-like claws. The Sand Lake pike were on the spawning grounds many days. Other fishes too were busy with the duties of reproduction. It ha been a successful spawning year. The season ~ had not been backward and the yoiding of ~ fish spay went on without a hitch. ae ae mating. Unter on, with their smooth bellies, ra and aided by their fins they would brush out : small spawn-nests, some but a foot across, ‘ and perfectly round. These nests would be cunningly set in the bottom with gravel ai pebbles carried in from the outside. Th would cast their eggs in these nests and Et rear eee young: and ne anger-perme sath Ww: atchfal eyes . Scaihaee the a around. Come life, come’ death—there each 7 male would remain, to watch his off-spring aie) till they would be of a size to care for them- : selves. eve father and ane of Wisdom, whi 3 HOD AND GUN IN CANADA 65 = — SP South Bend FUZZY BODY BUCK TAILaae No. 1634RR_ Hook No B South Bend bn cee) = ¢ 4 WEEDLESS SPINNER f SS epee a 5 ~~ » BUCK-TAIL ~| sou Bend™ \ South Bend = = 8 No, SESW P°WPANTI-BACK-LASH REEL LEVEL-WINDING ANTI- A “Teghie Yy=o-- a BACK-LASH CASTING REELS" South Bend Py WEEDLESS SPECIAL Sipe South' Bend SPOON BUCK-TAIL SPECIAL SPCON No, 1563AL ¥ : BUCK-TAIL. 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SOUTH BEND BAIT CO, ; ¥ 8290 HIGH STREET, ‘ South Bend Rit a = P SOUTH BEND, ~ a Z > INDIANA but Wisdom’s father was a strong, as well as an attractive bass and came away with flying colors; he won his mate by reason of size and fighting ability. After some comprom- ising, the bonds of holy fish matrimony-were duly adjusted, in the presence, we maysuspect, ‘of a finny Justice of the Peace and the ways of Nature were fulfilled. _Wisdom appeared from a tiny round egg as large as the head of a pin. He was burdened down with a round lump upon his breast, the yolk- Sac. Upon the contents of this his voracious sys- tem derived nourishment to tide him over as he grew. This yolk-sac had veins and pulsed with life. The life of the little fishes at this stage was spent within the spawn-nest which lay in about two feet of water or so, in between some roots. Over the nest hovered the parent fish, his fins trembling with a strange excite- ment. He was intent upon letting nothing disturb the objects of his creation, and would, if need be, attack the largest muscallonge that swam the waters of Sand Lake—but Sand Lake had never produced a muscallonge that would dare do it. That parent bass would release all his bottled-up energy and would dart upon the intruder. He might die defending his home and children, but he would die fighting. Wisdom grew quite rapidly: in time the yolk-sac dwindled alarmingly: but one might have noted also the more rounded proportions of the body that fed now so hungrily upon that precious fluid. The little bass’ mites rose daily, by degrees from the bottom of the nest, As they grew they rose a trifle more but stayed for a time at that level, always sinking to the bottom of the nest when ‘the shadows of night crept. over the land. In due course of time they would reach the surface and that would be when the yolk-sae was absorbed and they were ready to fare for themselves. The brothers and sisters of Wisdom were in varying degrees of health and efficiency: many of them were weak and were undoubt- edly destined to give up their lives in the strange battle for existence, that rule of Nature, so fixed and so relentless—the sur- vival of the fittest. Some would live, but they were the strongest. Now as the mites grew they neared the surface, and every day they circled out, edging further and further away from the nest so that the parent fish had a hard time keeping them herded. Wisdom was early an adven- turous sort of a fish and he was first of that little family to forage abroad for fare when ROD AND GUN IN CANADA hunger, a new feeling, set the vitals to in the clamor to be appeased. He was the first to seize the succulent parasites | gyrated through the water in a tho ludicrous attitudes and postures, and kept themselves around the stems of water vegetation. Gradually, © others brothers and sisters, acquired a taste fo: new food and not a day but that th further away from the hole, braver braver though they were driven back ti 1 time again by the parent. is Now a queer thing happened to family. Instinctively they had come upon the parent fish above them as protector. His fluctuating shadow wo / always lie upon the bottom of the ‘nest, would shift and be gone as that parent to see if there were enemies about, only return to take up his guard. But one something strange took place. Th bass mites would no longer stay herde parent bass suddenly swooped do them and. scattered them in all dire driving them into the weeds and’ them into the shallows. He had fulfi his duty in the eyes of Nature. The yo must shift for themselves. After this | they were alien to him: he would : them not. He was a barbarian and th off-spring he had so dutifully rearei guarded he would fall upon when the ( be stalked and greedily devour them. py The battle for existence of Wisdo began. Lazily fanning the water on pickerel swam inshore near to- the basses. He had noted this swarm 1 of and meant to make them his morning ing his body i in hestion! Scarce disce: he backed into a cozy, obscure nook in wait. On came the bass minnows, still on. Then there was a lightnin action in the water: a living bolt in fins scales hit their far-from-formidable arra: when the water cleared and the pia gulped down a portion of that family, no could be seen of the survivors. But Ww escaped. Foremost in the crew, he 3 et missed by a hair and instantly dived into thick of the weeds where he lay half-stric with fear, his tiny heart palpitating whole minute consciousness charged with demon, Fear. 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The guiding hand of instinct led the way and dictated to him more and more the older he became, and though many times set upon by large fish he managed to get away unscathed. He began to know the world of the water now more thoroughly, for daily his experience grew. Above him there was light or there was darkness. When darkness eame over the water he subsided into quietude, and rest, lying very still wherever chance found him. _ So then again, finally, came winter with its sheet of prisoning ice: the cold of the north again set in, penetrating and bitter in its firm clutch upon all things. With the coming of this season Wisdom found himself growing sluggish, and not at all hungry. It was a period of hibernation. On warmer days he would bestir himself, however, when the sray light of the sun came through the blanket of snow above. The larger, predatory fish then came inshore out of the deep to prey upon the minnows which also bestirred themselves, for then also the parasites, the cyclops, be- stirred themselves and the various succulent crustaceans wiggled ever so'little to betray their hiding places. On these days instinct dictated an ever-present watchfulness for there was always the pervading fear that intruders, detrimental to his welfare, were in the neighborhood and meant him nothing but harm. Thus the winter strode grimly by and once more to the northern country came spring, the munificent, to spread with lavish hand over all her witcheries: the world became one of greenery, lit up by re- juvenation. The loon shrilled out again his devilish laughter down the far reaches of the lake: the birds arrived: beauty replaced the desolation. With the passing of the ice, Wisdom began to know life from another angle. Experience opened a vast book of knowledge before him. There were nooks and by-ways of the lake he had explored, but there were a thousand others he would like to quest over, And so the seasons passed. In later days his greenish body, darkly tinged here and there and having the well- fined stripe down the lateral line, grew bepu- \ fancied bass, (Mu ceoniaen salm There was something independent abou some hint of aristocracy, easily discer and perhaps, after all it was only ‘the proportioned outlines of his body that « veyed this impression. In the upper r oi the lake he met others of his kins was now of such a respectable size inge from being set upon by them an d feverish energy: very restless a moving about, back and forth kept himself well enough away a with careful eye the various domair e ed. On one of these days a thrill of : Ae 2 through him. A great shape passse by as he lay there in concealment by a log. It was an immense shape, a callonge that would run in weight thirty-five pounds. Wisdom saw | his way oud knew by the look in his ing in their appearance and va erous and cannibalistic. constant danger of his life, he liy gt caution. Hae Be must conter were fe fittest by reason of their prop 0 their immense pace 1g powers : watching a sane a strange thing ha ed. The bay where he had ensconsed self was very still—the waters very 1 and unruffled. There stole into the b boat. The boat contained fishermen were out for a singular purpose and if ay had known he would have been wis he did not. All at once as he lay there, 1 a splash near to hand. The water. sft illed trifle and he saw glide by him’ a beauti arrayed creature, of blending, merging ¢ having all the wonderful hues of the rai but he did not know that it was an a +i i minnow with hooks in abundance upon sides. 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HERCULES POWDER CO. 1023 Orange Street Wilmington Delaware 69 70 through his lip. He leaped out of the water and viciously shook his head to dislodge the evil creature that held him, winning exclama- tions of approval from the beings in the boat. But the evil creature would not let go of him. It clung to his lip with a tenacity that boded ill. He plunged and tore about but insistently he was led toward the dark hulk on the water. Nearer and still nearer and suddenly a net encircled him and he was lifted from the water, gasping and wriggling, and flopping. Then a hand grasped him lightly and he was lifted out of the net. “Husky little fellow, isn’t he,” said one. “In a few years more he will be a thing to contend with if one is to judge by the fight he just made.” “Every bit of that,’? responded the other. “You note how he fairly seemed to dance on his tail. I bet he leaped five times. Let him go, George—let him go before he loses his wind.” “Out you go then, little salmoides and when we visit you again be here to pay us welcome. May you live to see seven pounds of weight. Goodbye, old top!” Wisdom with a flutter of fins got his bear- ings: poised uncertain, hesitating: then with a glad, wavering thrill to feel the water again around him, sped away and still kept on swimming -in “exultation at the thought of his regained freedom.The sensation had been an extraordinary one to say the very least. By all the laws of instinct and fish observation that gaudy, glittering creature he had seen had been a water parasite of un- comprehended gender and origina: but he knew now, somewhere in his minute brain, that it had been a lie, a fake, a sham, a bun- combe, built so to lead him on to destruction. It caused him fear, and instinctively he watched day after day for other such remark- able creatures to appear before him, but saw none. His experience was not repeated for everything he consumed thereafter was first duly inspected and painstakingly mouthed before being swallowed. The animals of the earth and the fishes of the water. possess, as far as we know, no dis- tinguishing intelligence such as is the divine gift accorded mankind. Fishes and animals possess only an instinct, heightened by contact and example. Possessing not a wonderful intelligence, the mightiest resource at the command of the minor earth beings is instinct, sharpened by constant, often trying, exper- ience. Some blunder, some perilous happen- ing, in which the life was nearly lost,serves to . ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ‘shape loom up before him. He ney stamp itself indelibly upon the conscio through what agencies, and with what degr of understanding we can only leave imagination. Wisdom had no hum telligence: his instinct was of the ordin 1 but he was learning through ane value of study and example, the preyed upon him and which meant him s a In the month of July he returned to the other end of the lake to the tr bay where he had fallen foul of the a1 minnow. He was fanning along lei: the center of the bay when a sounc we may suspect, caught his attention did not flee, but rested, waiting evi see what it was. A shadow. fell water and then passed. It was a bi shortly thereafter there came trailing obediently after it an apparition tha’ his attention. It was a different creature from the artificial he had s f it was a spoonhook and to it were e faster long streaming lengths of red yar ae watched it au made no move. ao bewind it dee gigantic shape he had in that bay before. ates It was the giant rinicealleaner es bee This creature was inordinately “ating c' to the spoon: he followed it wonderingly a if the spoon- hook at first, nipping at the stzan wavering lengths of yarn and then wi open mouth fastened to the whole contriy: He soon realized his grim mistake, drew made a roaring side-sweep, and at th of a taut Line rose to the surface. a battle royal that sent the t far away to his accustomed close up on the shallows and the pro dead-heads. Wisdom never again 1 saw U had to fear those gmmly suggestive j those penetrating, all-seeing eyes. where far away in a city. ina certain ris cratic home, in a certain’s angle1’s den aE muscallonge hung upon a certain wall, o panel, the oe w oa in the art of taxide line’s termination was a certain. spoo with short lengths of red yarn upon it! One day in late spring, when in the full 1 of fish maturity came the desire to mate was an irrresistible impulse that burned in veins, and his now well-proportioned, ene: ic body was carried with all the lordly and determination of anticipated parentha ROD AND GUN IN CANADA | Real Sport! . WISH! Out flies the “clay” in a long, low curve. Follow it, cover it. Crack! You gotit. “Dead bird.” That’s real sport—always different, always fascinating. If you have never broken them” yourself, you can’t know the thrill of it, Go out to your local gun club next Saturday afternoon and try your hand. That’s all you'll need to get you started. 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Anywhere! Anytime! 72 He was now mingling promiscuously with his hind. They were courting and pairing off with clocklike regularity. To the intense fascination of Wisdom he found himself in the presenée of the fish damsel of his choice. It must have been love at first sight for both Wisdom and the lady found in themselves much to adore. Naturally no talking was done. Wisdom swam up and bowed—at least we so suspect, though this may open to conjecture. Anyhow they thought themselves just the sweetest things and the result was that they twain were married and proceeded to make the best of it as fishes will. The spawn eggs of Wisdom’s demure little wife were cast in a belly-brushed out hollow in the sand, and the bottom was studded with . pebbles brought in from ‘a short ways off. When the spawn eggs were cast Wisdom followed at her side and ejected over the eggs the precious milt that was to bring animation to them, creating in them, fishes. After the official spawning Wisdom instine- tively took possession of the spawn nest and mounted guard, even as his father had done over him and his brothers and sisters in the past. Wisdom and the’ mate of his choice were now more than ever joined to companion- ship. They swam together, hunted together and preyed upon the minnows with all the cunning craft of their kind. | In the upper end of the lake, in a secluded bay there was a wilderness of lily-pads. Here Wisdom was wont to lay, lazily fanning the water, watching with careful eye his surroundings, ever on the alert for food in whatever shape the water or the air might choose to afford. On one of these days he was startled by hearing a noise some distance by. He had just risen and had taken an insect, when through the air there came a éreature, dropping apparently ‘out of the very heavens, all white, with two red wings. Something back in his inferior consciousness told him it was no insect: for he had never mouthed that kind. He felt an impulse to spring upward for it, but did not. The strange thing fell to the water, slid away from him, throwing two rolls of water up over the red wings—slid by and was out of his reach. Wisdom had not risen to it. Some- how, faintly, he seemed to sense that it was unreal. It was another enemy with sharp things upon it. In the boat from whence had come the artificial minnow, connected as it was toa soft-braided silk line, a digusted fisherman cast automatically, and finally sat down wiping his perspiring brow. ™ ia} ry ROD AND GUN IN CANADA F “No use, George,” he said, shiftn another minnow. “I have fished t years, but I can never remember of the poor luck I have had this years lakes are getting tame. Too ma penetrated into the north, and the becoming wary. Why, hang tt all, the are becoming civilized, that’s what th “You are right there,” replied thi taking up the oars to row to another “But why, O why don’t you shift baits? know that live bait wins where th se things, wooden and unreal, will not regis kill. Now suppose you had used kicking, swimming frog over therein the Why. I know you would have.” he “No matter,” frowned George , dra: line tight on another minnow. “I human—still it will be a long time before get me to drive a hook through a frog’s and cast it around, kicking and wig I agony. I have too much respet thank you!” - ‘ Ms “Some day you will forget all you have in that copious box of yo return to live bait as the one and only getting them,” said the nian at the oar a friendly laugh. ‘“There are big ere, bu lake. People may have come he lakes are yet far from being civilization-rid Use live bait, George, use live bait.” : Wisdom did not see any more of t ficial minnows that month: ; on, while in company with his — he was lying alongside of some deadhead: the thing happened. There was a spl the water and the oddest looking’ er he or his mate had ever seen, began and flounder by. This mysterious thing to diving, and swimming ~ sideways, % plumping up and down in the manner wounded fish. This was another fo artificial minnow, known as the w and if wobbled. Someone invested in'st fic observation knew that preying fish naturally attracted to a minnow or fish has been disabled, that is wounded. — kill it instantly, not through humani reasons, but because it is more easily pr WI without undue exertion, Itgarouses _ th blood-lust. Wisdom felt just this pa desire, but instinctively held aloof. 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When the artificial minnow slipped by her, diving and quartering, plump- ing up and down, she rose, on the impulse of the moment and struck it hard, with jaws clamping securely upon it. A silk line was jerked taut,—and Wisdom’s mate leaped far out of the transparent waters of Sand Lake, and like a bull-dog shook her head to loosen three hooks that had completely fettered her. Followed a battle,—but it was of no use. , Wisdom’s demure wife never again returned to the waters of Sand Lake. Just what were Wisdom’s feelings none will know. But it served to impress upon its mind, inferior as it was, that one thing: that artificial minnows were by far the most deadly of the creatures of the deep. And, still remembering his own experience, in the actual hands of the fishermen, so now was caution redoubled in him. But he seemed to feel that his mate would return. So he haunted the deadheads where she had left him, but, day succeeding day, and week succeeding week, still witnessing no return, finally he gaye up and went his Way, a widower in fins. This sudden leavetaking had a serious effect upon Wisdom. It took much of the vim and energy out of him, and inthe months before thesheeting over of the | ake with a frosty mantle he had become glum and slow-moving. He may have sorrowed: he may have felt the depression, and lack of- comradeship that had hitherto been constant. For as all fishermen know, bass run in pairs. Some seasons slid by and still Wisdom held ° his place among the inhabitants off Sand Lake: His body was now in perfect trim; beautiful easy going, accomplished broad and corpu- lent with the wide jaws that told his kind. Upon the scales ‘he would have gone to six and one half pounds, live weight, and in the history of bass weight this is a tempting figure indeed. Each season Wisdom impreg- nated spawn, fulfilling Nature’s set law, but never did he retain a mate after the spawning was completed. When the season for repro- duction arrived he would mate, would enact his part, and would then retire to the secluded nooks, going his way like the serene philoso- pher he was, and taking life much in the manner Of one resigned to the inevitable. He was now 9 wise as they make wise fish. Experience had been a sharp teacher: he had learned. Many times he had seen these arti- ficials but never did he rise to them. In these days of his mature age, however, one of his most pleasing pastimes had been to catch eS | ROD AND GUN IN CANADA _ edge in the upper lake, frogs that were known to live at th With all the cautio ness Tue: in him he would stalk these f: Saute sly victim. These frogs had been provide coating of scum upon their backs, nature that one might look as muc willed at the vegetation where th y themselves, and yet, unless they squirm moved, so perfectly were they colore: match their surroundings, one eyes may have been lacking. ~~ Wisdom grew fond of the fr A pastime, and it was one of his daily ple And therein was contained the factot contrived his defeat. One day he was idly fines ab bay, and was close in on the shal moments before he had made a dive but had failed. Now happened a warmed the cockles of his heart, that might be. No noise had he hear him. Of that he wassure. . | Something fixed his attention. moving in the water at the outer, delight. It had just the whi : was even creamy: no doubt from t e of flesh. — cr % did not note that one of the legs had ahook. Or that it trailed a silk lin he was thinking of just then was: the frog could use him, The spotte started to swim, _ pushing with its | such thoughtful endeavor. Theref ‘ promptly grasped it and swallowed it, b legs and all. And the next moment ens alive. : Sistatratie haute in a certain angler’s den hung, upon a varnished pancl, @ varnished the final word in the art of taxidermy; had his yaws wide open, and his eyes | had | glint of warfare in them; and stretched fro corner of the mouth was a line, and at the lin lermination was a bass fly, the barb of w held the edge of the mouth. - A man entered the den, bit off the end 0 black cigar, lit it thoughtfully. the whil ROD AND GUN IN CANADA _[Fistine-Hornne /¢ (aM PING \ in the Canadian Wilds’ WRITE CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS RESIRENT SPORTSMAN'S REPRESENTATIVES:.- Mr. F. C. ARMSTRONG, Cochrane, Ont Mr, NEIL McDOUGALL, Port Arthur, Ont. before decidng on your 1920 trip. is They will give FREE TO ALL SPORSTMEN THE BEST OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION Sportsmen are advised to make their arrangements in advance. TTI = Tea 4, Canadian National Railways 75 76 surveyed the bass upon the panel. man entered, and paused, having witnessed the other’s appraisal of the fish. “Live bait, George,” he said meaningly, smiling wider than ever. “‘Live bait: Sand Lake, and all that. Hooked the frog in the leg too. I saw you do it from among the bushes. George—by the way—how did you say you caught that bass when you wrote it up Plying a Night Line . Ropert Pace LINcoLN Night fishing for the hlack bass. It brings to mind many delightful adventures on the waters what time the sun has slipped down behind the western hills and the world of Nature lies wrapped up in quietude. There was a time when night fishing for Mycropter- ous salmeides, the large mouth bass, was quite an unheard of thing, but in modern days, along with many notions that have been dispelled, never again to be given countenance, is the belief that finny brethren are in bed after seven o’clock and that to fish during these hours is an impossibility first, and a fruitless ‘adventure last of all. However, bass fishing enthusiasts, (and many famous 1n the piscat- orial ranks), are more and more eschewing day fishing for the more pleasurable adventure of testing the quality of the water by night. That great Waltonian sage, Robert H. Davis, manager;in-chief of the Munsey string of magazines forcibly brought mght-fishing to my attention, and pointed out why I should thereafter seek my favorite fishing haunts, (in quest of bass), in the hours between six to twelve, midnight. I was—in fact I had been —rather skeptical as to the success of such an venture, but when I read his seductive words 1 found myself giving way. “I do most of my bass fishing at might,’’ he had said. ‘‘and the darker the night, the better, and the more fish 1 have to my credit. The big ones take the artificial minnow best after dark. I have caught three, four and five-pound fish at night on the lakes where I could never take them over two-and-one-half and three pounds in the _ daytime. I think these lagger bass have an “idea that they are protecting the smaller ones under cover of the darkness and for that reason are braver: or else, perhaps, like the human family, the sports are out after sunset!’’ Night fishing is an oddity. People are generally of a belief that when the shades of “ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Another — big fish?” “Shut up, idiot,’ replied George, “You know I caught him with the I upon the Grizzly-King lead-fly..... Beautif specimen: isn’the? He must have been in his day to have escaped baits so long. A wonder\”’ night have fallen the fish betake themselv sleep and rest, and while it is true tha fish are lying still. the same cannot b the black bass. that. bridges on the cori ia appetite of the black bass is as vo certain days nothing has been said « place. Itisafact. They are coursing uj down the shores, on the alert for food shape of minnows and frogs, and vany ¢ i living thing, of suitable size which the cram down their capacious maws. Th : bass is Batoriguely a 1 glutton sii the bass feed heavily in the late Oe reason that they can catch their prey un their approach is unnoticed, where, during daylight hours they must needs Stalk 4 I Steins night on which to ply the line doubtedly they feed voraciously one n skip the next night; largely in the late a noon of that day, It is also a fact, I bel that bass gorge themselves and then lie idl a day or two. Bass have been foun fish four inches in length in their throats, ly digested, waiting for their stomachs to es emptied before swallowing the rest of acquired meal. I have also come to be from my observations that few, if any,stri are to be had during the daytime, that. nigh i: should prove a productive one for using the slowing lures. Or, vice versa: if the nigh fishing in the best covers should fail following day should prove a good on we study and understand the moods of #] ‘ ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 77 FOXES FOR SALE Se ————————E—E—E—— Anyone wanting to purchase the best breed of Prince Edward Island ) Silver Black Foxes will do well to write B. I. Rayner, the fifth man to commence the business. Twenty-five years’ experience in grading and raising the best fur pro- ducers. Also established the most prolific strain in the world. All foxes guaranteed pure Prince Edward Island standard bred stock. Write at once. B. I. RAYNER Box 33, Alberton : P. E. 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All the mysteries and the witcheries of the w orld of darkness one will know. - Generally speaking there is one form of lure that is used in night fishing. This type of minnow is an artificial which is coated with a phosphorescent preparation that gives off a ghostly, radiant glow in the water; much the same as the glow of a wet match rubbed on the hand in the dark. Before setting out on the trip for a night on the waters the lure is held to the light of the lamp to absorb needed power to shed luster; two minutes held thus is sufficient, and it will hold its glow through the night. Glowing lures are made in many forms but most of them are of the commotion-making sort. One is made possessed of a coliar in front: when this bait is reeled through the water it creates a boiling disturbance that presumably is meant to imitate a frog swim- ming in the water. Some of these lures are weedless, others are not. One may be cast into the pads without fear of hitching up to them but the majority must be cast in water that is move or less free from obstructions. Being non-weedless rather expert casting must be the result of one’s endeavors or nothing will come of one’s night fishing. Nor is it necessary that glowing baits be used. Arti- ficial minnows, white of coloration, work equally as well, which proves the owl-like eye- sight of the bass. We do know that the bass sees Well during the daylight hours. Whoever has experienced having a bass flash through the water, rushing to take a descending bait, will know that the eyesight of this leading member of the sun-fish fa.nily is of no ordinary merit; though its ability at seeing by night is surely the most remarkable of all. The outfit for night fishing? To say that the rod you use for your daylight fishing is the rod that is suitable for the game of night fish- ing apparently is neither here nor there. Yet it is a subject we will not discuss in this chapter more than to say the ideal length for the bait casting rod is five and one half feet, for in that length may be contained the demanded iimberness toward the tip, which, however, ROD AND GUN IN CANADA one’s expectations aie than a reward, reel for night fishing is another considerat that must very carefully be looked into. man who is well acquainted with the av governors or bale wires, etc., mm front—vy have no trouble casting at night. But t same cannot be said of the man unfami lal with a reel, and especially with night fishin In the dark he will mis-judge, and his m calculations will result in that eternal bu and Chinese puzzle, known as the blackl blacklash. Such an reel will prove a to the man who is an amateur and yet night line. Nevertheless, - even the ; bait caster must remember that casting i dark is far more difficult than casting by One casts at Hea in the dark, to reat cast in rae LES gauging just how m force to put into the rod at the time of th ae and just pee to bear down with the ,th when the bait is shown to be falling to. water. Night fishing by means of rod and the artificial plug near-to demands » one learn the game again from the beginning; for many an acknowledged has found himself wanting when casting ae on the pads at night. The joys and fascinations of night are many and varied. We will take a parti lar night as an example. Supper o prospect into the contents of the tackle p seeing too that the desired baits are in th ei respective places. The lines are tested ¢ and . the fore-part of each may be severed for Lad distance of three to six feet from the ; That much of the line has given it tothe and tear of past casting performances, an allow the weak portion to remain on the he may be the difference between. gaining 4 losing a fish. The night is calm, and thes being partially clear there is. every hope th: d the moon will show the way. The trip to h lake is soon accomplished and’ we get into the boat, one person at the oars and the other to d the casting. We push out and soon the oar are dipping into the water and’we glide along to our destination. There is something about night upon the face of the waters that exerts é ROD AND GUN IN CANADA e 79 TORONTO’S ‘TWO LEADING HOTELS The Walker House and Hotel Carlene “The House of Plenty” “The House of Comfort”) A town is no finer than its Hotels, and is often judged by the,Hotel Accommodation provided for the travelling public, as also the Restaurant accommodation provided. 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In the sky the night hawk veers his arc, and now and then there is a suspicious splash in the water, near to hand, telling of some active fish breaking water to seize some marooned in- sect, or chasing minnows in the shallows. The dip, dip, dip of the oars is the most palpable of the sounds and the splash of the water as the boat cleaves through the dusk before one adds a fine accompaniment. Your pardner’s pipe glows in the dark. Never has tobacco smoke seemed so fragrant. Finally the pads are reached and little if any sound has been made. By the light of the lantern in the boat the glowing lure is pressed into the copper snap and the cast 1s ready to be made. It is a destructive lure. Jt makes a boiling disturbance in the water that is so attractive. so irresistible to the bass. And Where are you to cast it? Over there inthe pads, the serried edges of which you can just make out, there is a certain pocket that has always had a fishin it. Why, you do not know and yet it seems for every time you draw a fish from that storehouse another will take his piace. Ofcourse not all the time will you be successful for the big fellows may be out visiting, but onthosé select occasions your heart may be set to pounding through a greater catch than you have ever linked up with. The bait, already having absorbed the necessary glow from the home-lamp shows up in the biue-black waters as a strange phantom. How one’ s heart will pound in anticipation of the catch to be made. Perhaps it will bea large lunker, the finest you have ever taken. Whatever your thoughts youcast forthe smooth Indentation in the pads, close up to its very edge: no success. The bait roils the water nicely. Ghostlike it parades that watery realm, easily to be seen, as you hope, by every six pound bass in the neighborhood. Imagine a fish seeing this ghostlike apparition, how he must be aroused to wonder and curiosi- ty: and how, giving way to the promptings in him, he will sometimes arise and smash that lur® hard, with a particular vim, fish of his caliber. We have had no luck the first two casts and the boat moves inward to about twenty five feet of the pads. There is another mysterious pocket. Thence the glowing lure is cast, and drops softly right at the place you aimed for. Just dimly you mark the place. And hardty have you star ‘ted to reel in the line when some- ‘¥ mt > pew Sis oi % i befitting a ROD AND GUN IN CANADA mysterious one. Heavens on earth! poy “Out we g0,” sings your pardner, swin the boat craftily, heading for open w prevent the fish from plunging into HS ness of the pads. The line tautens out—with a shatter! the water, the fish breaks through the su rising fully afoot into the au. He dro a splashing crash, then swings in a cirel hooks show no signs of leaving his mouth again he breaks water with a churning | that somehow causes your heart to sin a moment he has gained slack. But gather it up. He is still on, safe and Where now! He has darted undé boat, but your pardner’s skilful work oars saves the day, or the night, ra finally, your prize worn out, you net 1 to the side of the boat. 4 “Five pounds, if an ounce,” gloats. pardner holding the beaufiful lake-be glow of the lantern. ‘‘Five poun ounce. Lord of al] things ever see a nicer fish......... a) my, O my, O fi fellow and lay ene away—and ont ou are back at your post, your hand gripping thi solid cork handgrasp of your Tod. Pee. ag ain iatinghe dip the water, W pardner is eulogizing at length: “T tell you there is nothing like it. all the methods 01 fishing beat by m guess we will catch four or five more shore, ” ete., etc... But wait: You have reached a spot where rivulet flows into the lake and around its as though to accomodate you no pai seen fit to cluster. What a place! Here bass betake themselves, for, as is known to rivulets and streams carry down food to lake and this food the fish lie in wait for. inland you cast the lure. And your lin hardly begun to traverse the water trip again to the tip of your rod when : som thing pounces with grim determination upon your bait. Pounces is the correct word Nothing could be more expressive. A b bass to the last inch of him; a true-blooded. born fighter, worthy of all the emulatioy periodically showered upon the species. ‘Three times he breaks water, but he is doomed al soon the net is slipped under him and anot \ ROD AND GUN IN CANADA cae For 2 Maskinonge and Bass the Ontario Resorts = —_ Ontario contains 200,000 square miles of forest, watered by countless lakes and streams full of game fish. Much of this is virgin territory, but readily accessible districts with a proved reputation for maskinonge and bass fishing are: The Kawartha Lakes, Trent River, Point- au-Baril and the Georgian Bay District French River and Lake Nipissing. Lake Penache and Lake of the Woods District These localities are all easy to reach via the Canadian Pacific Railway Write to_A. O. SEYMOUR, General Tourist Agent, Canadian Pacific Railway, Montreal, for literature and information EE GES Ds. ROD AND GUN IN CANADA sparkling fellow is added to the catch of the night. Nor alone is bail casting a prominent meth- od of acquiring a mess of black bass during the hours of dusk or of darkness. Fly fishing has proven itself one of the most tempting of all. On warm, muggy nights when the insects crowd the air and fall to the surface of the water the fish will be inshore, rising now and then for them, as they fall to the water and are unable torise. The face of the lake may be as calm as a mirror. Far out, gigantic fishes rise with a splash that startles the tomb-like silence. Nearer to hand the pumpkin-seed sunfishes are everywhere in evidence and now and then a black bass shows himsell......... Just the fime for the fly rod! It matters not what sort of a fly you use! any of the standard regulation bass flies will answer. Move along the shore, keeping your eyes alert to what is transpiring. You pursue much the same tactics as the dry-fly angler, by watching for a rising fish. You aim to ac- quire that fish. You know ¢haf fish is hungry and is active; he is more likely to be interested in your fly than the non-rising fish, which, after all, eternally remains the mysterious unknown quantity. Ten feet from shore one has risen, in water Where the foam of eddies circle, In the pool so still and deep, In the soft light of the morning, When the world awakes from sleep. Steal I forth in trepidation, With my heart in eager beat, For I know that in the rip-raps, Lies a bass both strong and fleet. O’er’ the big pool I am standing, Now the reel is safely checked, On the water falls the hackle, In a cast that’s neatly recked Then a movement of the red tip, With a quiver drifts the fly, There's a swirl beside the boulder As the king bass rushes by, With ths glad heart wil lly be ating, —, . iia , Pe i | ‘method may be, comparatively. The King Bass RoBERT PAGE LINCOLN : andes of the monient: is liable to s one destructive gulp, when the hook Had that same fly fallen to the water in t light of day the bass may have been cautio He may have witnessed something out- f= aboutit,mayhaps. But the dusk, or the da is deceiving. Here, he thinks, is the the fly to the rising large-mouth b: favorable points to it that it a looking into but following up— int enthusiastic manner. devotees are aware of it; for while od of approaching the large” ne ; there is a time when this method will P ov t most engaging of all; and thatis at du sk, evi into the night— ; ¢ Forth he rises from the pure depts Tossing by the water mask. — Jaws distended—red gills gleami: % As a mad dog shakes his head, Down he plunges, like a meteor == To the burnished heavens wed! — But again he rises madly, Till the tackle seems to rend, Still the barb beneath the good lure, Answers to the bamboo’s bend. Vainly darts he back and forward, But the slack is gathered in, And the king bass of the rip-raps, Weak, exhausted, cannot win. Guided forth the net darts to him, Curved:o’erhead the pliant rod, Thus the lordly one was fettered, By a fly that was a fraud! 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Hamilton I think that I would like to be, Like Walton. fishing by the Lea— By all the streams of Staffordshire, Then many joys mysoul would sire! I think I know another Trent, And there my thoughts are ever sent, To banks “whereon the wild thyme grows,” And no harsh wind ill favour blows. And men may claim a greater love, But my heart knows another Dove— Where one may garner, if he try, The “harvest of the- quiet eye.” As Walton with his line and hook, Lingered “‘long days by Swaynham brook,” I, too, must take myself away Have done with Gloom and Sorrow gray. And once again, hear the birds sing, “Bid welcome to the cheerful spring,”’ By glistening lake, or crystal pool, Will I forget man’s code and rule! 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Great fhanks should we owe him had he never left us anu other sentiment than that which he penned down when he heard the nightingale singing as he sat angling! ‘‘Lord what music hast thou provided for the saints in Heaven when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth?” So spoke William Hewitt the great English man of letters, at the resting-place of the Father of Angling with due reverence and remembrance for one whohad lived a long and fruitful life and who had, in that space oftime, glorified the pastime of angling by writing that immortal work, “The Compleat Angler,” so called, the Bible of the Line and Fly Contin- gent. And this is but one passing reference; hundreds of great men have paid tribute to the man and his gentle deeds; hundreds have read, have been keenly delighted by the work and have spontaneously set down their words of praise in black upon white. The name of Walton is a household word. To the great majority of the people it represents fishing and all that is connected with the sport. No writer, in speaking of fishing is content without mentioning the fishermen as being “disciples of Izaak Walton.” In this very manner has the name travelled over the globe, as well known in one portion of the world as in another. Walton is synonymous with angling, among all men,and all races, It is doubtful if the.fame of any one man _ could be greater than that acquired by this world’s exponent of the art of angling. Walton to rise today perhaps he would register _ unbelieving and endless surprise to think that his slender volume had risen to one of themost prominent places in the history of literature. And yet this happens to be the case.. The Waltonian fame, instead of decreasing in the very least has risen, and will continue to rise ne ’ in spite of Time or Tide. Rare old volum: of i Walton’s work now abide under guard ing cases, only to be looked at and not to be auch ae ed. It has been stated that a volume of the Contemplative Man’s Recreation,” bearing the year stamp of London, 1653, wassoldsome years ago in the city of New York for the stm | of two thousand five hundred, dollars. The - "4 purchaser of this volume was Mr. George D. | a Smith: It is said that the highest price re- ceived for a copy of that same edition was six thousand dollars, purchased by Pierpont Morgan for his marvellous collection of old works. Other and later editions have sold for prices below the figures named and are always _ in great demand. Walton released his original MS. for publication early in May of the year 1653, and the first edition made its appearance on the stalls the middle of that month. It was An instantaneous success and sold increas- ingly from the'very start. Walton lived to see ‘Were ~ : first edition of the “Compleat Angler; or, the » a SGU Se as | R Street. 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Our book ‘Taxidermists Supplies,” is full of information. Send today itis free. " Guns and Ammunition Wecan supply your firearm needs from our well chosen stock of shot guns, rifles and revolvers. We handle all makes of ammunition. Our fair dealing with sportsmen has become a byword in the Dominion. OLIVER SPANNER & CO. DEPT. ‘‘R”’ 26 Elm Street. 87 b I ’ The first without the book go through five editions. edition was as he had written it, changes; but the second edition had an addi- ° tional entry. a second part, which was contrib- uted by his adopted son, Charles Cotton, of Beresford Hall, Stafford County, ‘the home of the venerable angler. By linking his name with that of his father, Charles Cotton has gone down Ne ever-lasting fame, or else perhaps the world woud never have known of him. From the time of Walton’s death to the present day innumerable editions have been placed on the market. No reign of book production in any one year is apparently considered complete without a new edition of this monumental work, Some of these have been representa- tions of art at its height, both as to style of type, binding and illustrations. Superior art editions of the Compleat Angler command prices as high as ten and fifteen dollars, and some Very much more indeed. Cheaper copies have sold for fifty and sixty cents. Some are prone to believe that the history of fish and fishing begins with Walton, but while we know him as the Father of Angling, the pastime itself is as old as the very hills. Fish- ing is spoken of very highly inthe Bible. Four of Christ’s disciples were fishermen—St. Andrew. St. John, St. James and St. Peter. After the passing of Jesus these saints turned to fishing for consolation, and so arose the immortal line: “I go a-fishing!’’ That fishing was employed in Biblical times both for pleas- ure and profit we have the proof of the Great Book before us. Says Walton: “Moses, the friend of God, appointed fish to be the chief di¢t for the best commonwealth that ever yet was. The mightiest feasts have been of fish.” The early Greeks poets wrote entertainingly about fishing as a recreative pastime; and long before Walton’s day many books had appeared in England dedicated to fishing and hunting. In the year 1596 a certain W.G. Fawkener published his “Hunting and Fish- ing.” Ten years later there appeared, in (1606), “The Booke of Angling and Fishing.’ by the Reverend Samuel Gardner. Thomas Barker published his, “Art of Angling” in 1651. In 1652 Gervase Markham released his book, “The Young Sportsman’s Delight and Instruct- or in Angling.” But even earlier, in England “there appeared a book which may be said to be the basis, the foundation of the literature of angling, in our language, at least. This was the “Booke of St. Albans,”a treatise of fishing * and angling by a woman. Dame Juliana Bern- ers, the exquisite prioress of the Nunnery of St. Albans. This appeared in 1486, and it is ROD AND GUN IN CANADA - recorded that she put forth another volu the year 1500 under the title, “Fysshe a Fyssheynge,” though there is no certainty. : this fact. No doubt Walton found his ation in the various books at his disposal the very old and those comparatively n his day. The inspiration was parent realization of his desire and “The Comp! Angler” was the result. It has been Walton that he was a plagiarist: that he himself to parts from the works of other writ without due mention. But quotation ma were not in use in those days, and helping ot self to the cream of another's output © considered an out-of-the-ordinary Charles Frederick Holder upholds saying: “We are told that the im Walton was a pirate; that he stole f In truth, Walton Paes himself to ex knows n. ‘The early part of his life i ne c d mystery, and though any number of men ra sought to trace the events attached th they have not been overly successft Ke Walton was borr at Stratford, in thi St. Mary, August 9, 1593, and died ber 15, 1683, as one delightful old- fev “in the ninetieth year of - has stated, c cency.” Therefre but fragmentary e\ of his pou yeh hat variety of an edu feannint in, we-know not. the late twenties of his life he went London and there engaged in an another; some hold that he kept a store: some aver that he was a wholesale | trader. Sir Herbert Maxwell, ho’ stated: “Izaak Walton was born in 1 1 son of a Staffordshire yeoman; as_ 1 went to London, and was apprenticed ironmongery trade; and as a you succeeded so far as to set up for himse humble half-shop in Fleet Street. = was there, something in his manner or sation, or his personality, attracted Dr. Dean of St. Paul’s;a warm friendship sp’ between them and through Dr. onne, Walt became acquainted with many persons superior to him in standing, tist, ‘De Hales of aot all men of either in letters 6r general intellectual cv The intimate and permanent: friendship— or it was retained in almost every instance 5 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA About Your Own Vigor Sent Free To Men MR. 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You get it all free. ‘ 4 R. G. SANDEN CO., 140 Yonge St., Toronto, Ont. Dear Sirs—Please forward me your Book, as advertised, free, Address..........:0+++ Bin spcaevoee abattoir hat po cab ners caaamaptasveendaccenaShezy - Moo ROD AND GUN | which these men admitted the humble iron- monger, indicates, I think, something far above the ordinary in the personality of Izaak Waltor. William ‘Simmons, however has this ver- sion of the occupation of Walton, saying: “Walton was a linen merchant on Pater Noster Row, in London and he accumulated a con- siderable fortune for his day. As appears by his work he spent most of his leisure time in angling, and 1 is a fair matter for speculation. by psychologists, whether he became a philan- thropist by angling or an angler by philan- thropy.” However true the above may be, neverthe- less later in his life, Walton held small offices in © his parish, fulfilling his duties with due care and consideration. Walton, in the year 1624, at the age of thirty-one, married a lady by the name of Rachel Floud. This proved to be a singularly happy union, the two living in Fleet Street, and later in Chancery Lane. The first wife died in 1643, and much overcome by the sudden loss of his constant companion he left London and returned to Staffordshire where he again took up his residence. In turning his+ back upon London-town he did so with the avowed intention of never again returning to the busy mart. England was torn by internal troubles and upheavals of every ilk and hue. There was religious strife that usually ended in nothing short of murders and beheadings; there were grim court ordeals and whatnot— such a mixture of affairs, in truth, as one would gladly turn from, seeking the holy solitude of the woods and the comforting voices of the “ silent silver streams.’”’ Had Walton stayed in London perhaps we never may have had the pleasure of reading a work such as his, and he may have faded utterly into oblivion. But, apparently, so great was his relief at finding solace in natural scenes and environments that he thus gave whole souled expression to his thoughts. “He was sixty years of age when he publish- ed the work by which he is most generally known,” says Sir Herbert Maxwell, “‘in May, 1653, a few months before Oliver Cromwell was installed Protector of the Commonwealth. Can we withhold our admiration for that serene intellect, for the philosophic detachment which enabled Walton to devote his mind to collecting materials for “The Compleat Ang- ler; or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation ” during those furious years when the land rang with the blare of Rupert’s trumpets, the tramp and clash of Cromwell’s Ironsides and with the din of wrangling Antinomians., Ana-baptists, Fifth-Monarchy men, Quakers, Covenanters, his pen had not however, been idle. IN CANADA Presbyterians, and a fine babel of other Yet I would not have you suppose that it -w: from indifference or pusillanimity that Izaz Walton kept himself aloof from this strife. Te a certain extent he did. Nevertheless he wa a staunch Royalist, and he suffered for h adherence to that cause, with many othe Monarchy in 1644, he had to give up his shoy Fleet Street, and’sold his business at a sacri to himself and retired into the country- to himself, but a gain to literature.” After nine years at Staffordshire, eng tilling the soil, and angling asa pastime, in 1653, put forth the first edition Compleat Angler.” During these nine Hew exquisite verses and also the lives and doi men dead or living in his day. Many of writings are, of course, lost to the world’s as writings will disappear, yet the passages of his great work remains to sh glamour upon the pleasures of angling. ‘ appeared an advertisement of the edition of his book in the Diurn é Monday, May 9, 1653, and ending May 15, 1653. We are told that: of Fish and gs not ire ep of most Anglers, of 18 pence price. by. Iz. Wa. plea the known ie at his shop in Saint Dunstan’s_ iG Fleet Street.” ‘ The same advertisement abn ; seven days in the Mercurius Pol elsewhere, proving that the spirit o| f ing was abroad even at such an early ¢ d measured by the fact that the first was rather speedily purchased by ‘a ; work. the help of his adopted spr Charles Cott who did up the second part of the work, ‘ D running dialogue, namely : Piscator Viator. The second edition eliminates Viat and places Venator there instead. Viator i ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 91 The Highlands of Ontario Hay fever unknown. One thousand to two thousand feet above the sea. Air scented with pine and balsam. Modern hotels in Algonquin * Park, Muskoka Lakes, Georgian Bay, Lake of Bays, Kawartha Lakes and Timagami. A short, pleasant ride from Toronto, and you are in the midst of a charming summer playground. Fishing, boating, BPS bathing, golf and the great out-of-doors. Write for free illustrated literature. 7 C.E. HORNING, D.P A, E, C. ELLIOTT. 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HaMord Esq., for whom we also made rods, etc. GUT CASTS—The Anglo-American tapered mist color No. 1 medium, No. 2 fine, as made for Mr. Halford. . Stout to 4X Ditto, Ditto to 3X, Stout Lake to fine, Ditto- to medium, Ex-stout to MEDIUM, Ex-siout to stout, 6 ft. we We will be pleased to quote prices on receipt of inquiry. Hardy Bros.,Manufactory Alnwick, England 92 second part, by Charles Cotton. The second edition of the “The Compleat Angler’ was even more successful than the first. Five editions appeared in Walton’s day: First, 1653, second, 1655: third, 1661: fourth, 1664: fifth, 1668. The fifth edition remained a finished work, as Walton would have it remain, and all editions, put forth in later days, have been fashioned after this, without changes. Walton was in no sense of the word a pains- taking student of fishes, and, scientifically, his accomplishments may be stated as being practically nil. His was no stupendous technical knowledge: he had none of the make-up of the ichthyologist,—above a certain point. Some have argued that he did not know one fish from another. Walton lived in a day when natural history, and all studies - along this line, were in their infancy, and much superstitious guesswork and elaborate theor- ies were given due and generous sanction by even the greatest minds of the day. “The Compleat Angler” is simplicity personified: it is Nature wrought with a semi-sentimental ‘touch, but it is not a weak sentiment—it is sentiment expressed by the,pen of a genius: It is a fair deposit of kindly observation, and, as one writer stated, it “is fuil of descriptions, quaint sayings, good humor and sweet pat- ience, all thrown together with careless art, the work of the master that shows no artifice. It teaches the philosophy of him who thirsts not, and hungers not unduly, and is, moreover, full of that choice learning which is not science ber ause it is not truth, neither is it set in order,’ No one has accorded Walton more genuine praise than the late Charles Frederick Holder, nor, at the same time has anyone analyzed the Father of Angling so carefully. Says this exquisite writer- “None of the naturalist’s divine curiosity spurred Walton on. He cared nothing for the difference among fish, and never gave them an analysis. He did not know the charr (which he calls the umber) from the grayling, and because the ahiyling 4 is scarce in Swayn- ham Brook, if indeed it lives in any brook from Axe-edge to Dudley Green, he does the ‘flower of fishes’ scant justice. The leather lips and jaws of the tench and bream are simply facts of the hook to him, and. give nm no suggestion of their common origin or the steps by. which they became different species of fish. He is interested in making better fishes out of his despised dace rather then finding out the secrets of their fishy lives., Even of the brooks he loves he tells Fe ROD ABD GUN IN CANADA » in peace and contentment hee * us nothing distinctive. There is no p in their names, nor joy in their geograp For aught he says they may as well b Arcadia or Arden as in Staffordshire: % only know which they are by poring over Stafford map, not from any details given by him who made them famous. Thi: who would have us see things as they 1 are. What concerns Walton is their e upon him. Again, a t have left the front and back door of his credulous age. He jots.down - seriousness the’ intricate theories of learr men who believed most freely that wh never was and never could be. tentious nonsense.’ _Walton looked upon angling as a d the soul. He was first and last of all a p osopher, superlatively content with his meditations. His was the poet’s things. ‘ greatest work, and that it should be and exalted, in accordance. If he angling he did so by first exalting N In angling he found an excuse for being | the world of running brooks so that he c contemplate all moving things and be en kindly wit and grace he says: “We may s angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawhe ‘Doubtless God could haye made a | berry, but doubtless God never did’: az if I may judge, God never did ma’ calm, quiet, innocent recreation than, His opinion of angling was the very. hi It was to him a truly religious devotic art. As he quaintly avers:! “Angling is an art, and an art worth ing: the question is whether you be capab learning it. For Angling is something - e Poetry—men are to be born so. J] me with inclinations to it, though both - may. heightened by discourse and practice, — he that hopes to be a good Angler mu only bring a large measure of hope and. t ience, and a love and propensity to the ar itself, but by once having got and prac it, then doubt not but Angling will prove to bi so pleasant that it will prove to be’ like virt a reward to itself.’ Angling was to him~ “cheerer to the spirits, a aver rch of sadness 5 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA ; 93 eee ia —r > Oh Boy! What an Appetite You Have! After the long day’s fishing or canoeing, jumping over logs, portaging over rocks, tramping miles, and then pitching camp late in the afternoon; when your crackling fire takes the tang out of the chilly Northern air; when you’ve lit your pipe and lean forward with your hands to the}blaze—thea you know what hunger really is. You hang your kettle over the coals, roll a Black Bass in Cornmeal and fry it over the blaze; and then—how good it is to dig that handy pound tin of Klim out of the corner of your kit and know you can have a real camping luxury, four quarts of pure, fresh, separated milk, ready in a moment, simply by whipping the powder into water. You congrat- ulate yourself as you make your camp biscuits, flap-jacks, and cocoa; but when you start that camp supper and you taste the real milk flavor . —Oh Boy!—you realize that after all, the greatest pleasure of the trip is satis- fying the camper’s appetite. Klim is a compact, dry powder, convenient, light, and always fresh—it never sours. Mix it with water according to directions and you have pure, pasteurized separated milk. You don‘t know what a pleasure the real milk flavor is on a camping trip if you haven't tried Klim. 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In all cases he admonishes the angler to be gentle and per- servering: to ply the rod faithfully: to be content with the little and hie homeward at night to sleep dreamlessly till the morning’s sun. As arule to anglers he advised them to “be gentle and patient and forbear swearing lest they be heard and catch no fish.” Could anything be more tinted with exquisite and admirable humor than such delightful pass- ages! ; : Strangely enough it has never been advanc- ed as a criticism of Walton, and his work, that his utterances have been accorded far greater merit than they possess: nor has it been committed to print that such praise, as has been accorded him, is the result of exaggera- tion. One reading of Walton’s book results in Consulting Zoologist, Commission of Conservation HE fur-bearing animals of Noth America have played a more important role in the development of Canada and the United States than most of us realize in these days. We are apt \o forget that animal pelts solely furnished the garments of primitive ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Our Fur-Bearing Animals, Their Economic Si and Future THE LATE Dr. C. Gorpon HEwitr another perusal, and so on: its simple bea its delightful reflections enliven the ima tion: they quicken the spirits and add inspit ation to the view when everything st painfully dull and monotonous. It is true that Walton brought no s¢ and method to the angling craft. Buthe told men of the benefits to be gained by out along the streams, with eye alert to fl ins stream, spreading trée, flowers and blue ski He has silvered with romance the g pursuit of fishing. We can perfectly with James Russell Lowell, who has sun up on the Father of Angling by saying — 7 se ed “What gives him a special and native aro is that above all he loved the beauty holiness and the ways of taking and sp: life, that makes it wholesome for cursely: our fellows. His view of the worl ) the wildest, but it is the Delectable Tour that bound the prospect. Never, sure gnificance men. In Canada we should always reme that the fur-bearing animals were the that attracted the “gentlemen adventure and the brave pioneers who blazed their tra through the forests, navigated our endl rivers, streams and lakes. and traversed ROD TELLS HOW FAR Y OU WALK The American Pedometer Regulates to Step and Registers Exact Dis- 5 tances; Simple, Accurate, Durable. Indispensable to every loy- er of outdoor sport and es- pecially to those who love WALKING. Instructive be- cause of value in determining distances: a necessary ad- junct to compass and as use- ful to SPORTSMEN. It fur- nishes the true solution of many a disputed question of how far it is to or from vari- ous points. Best of all it is a wonder- ful health promotor because its interest- ing notations afford real_ incentive . for WALKING. 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It is desirable, therefore, that we should take advantage of such an opportunity as this Second National Conference on Wild Life Conservation affords to review the present status of our fur-bearing animals, and con- sider means whereby we may continue to use wisely. one of our valuable natural resources. And it is singylarly appropriate that we should meet for this purpose in the city of Montreal. Here the great fur market of the western world was first established in the 17th cen- tury.. As Canada produces the greater portion of furs of this continent, those engaged in the fur industry of this country are asking: “Why should not Montreal again*be the chief fur centre?” An effort is being made to bring this about; we believe that this effort will prove successful. It is our hope that this Conference, at which many matters respecting fur-bearing animals and the fur trade will be discussed, will assist in bringing home to Canadians the importance of the fur industry as a factor of our national commerce and the necessity of conserving our wild fur-bearing animals as well as promoting the propagation of fur-bearing animals in captivity. In the control and development of any of our resources the first requisite is a thorough appreciation of the present state of that re- source. The wise exploitation of our fur re- sources must be based on biological principles. It has been repeatedly emphasized in the meetings of this Commission that our wild life is the most sensitive to human interference of all our national resources. As fur resources are not inexhaustible, they can only be main- tained and utilized through wise conservation. Never in our history has such activity in the fur trade been witnessed as we see today. In spite of the need of public and private econ- omy, the demand for furs, both for legitimate purposes and as luxuries is greater today than ever. Figures will be presented later to show the high prices that are being paid today for furs of all kinds. ‘The result of this great ROD AND GUN IN CANADA animals. Never before in our history so many men gone in quest of our fur-beat aed be a constant source of national trade ra wealth. bis FACTORS TENDING TO DECREASE TH) NUMBERS OF FUR-BEARING ne ANIMALS. | The primary cause of the decrease in th numbers of our fur-bearing animals, ‘is, of course, the zeal of the hunter and rapper, oN im In addition to this obvious cause t other factors, the adverse effects o might be checked in some cases if the m in which they operate were known, 2 assum ae dividuals int the species concerned are Te propagate. In the case of the muskrat, which toda assumed a rank as a fur-bearer all undreamt of a few years ago, the ex of agriculture and the drainage of swamps marshes have been responsible for the’ e In view of the present value of muskrat it is a question as will be shown later, wh in many cases the land now drained woul have been financially more profitable farms than under other croys. One most serious factors tending to redu numbers of many fur-bearers is aa aide companies, is an important mea protecting fur-bearers, their haunts and All who are interested in conserving o r i bearers should co-operate with the protective agengies. GAME AND WILD LIFE RESERV The fur-bearing animals share with t other wild creatures the advantages that are to be gained by the establishment and main- tenance of reservations in which all huntin; and trapping is prohibited. 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But, so far as the smaller fur-bearers are concerned, their immigrations into the protected area will benefit neighbor- ing territory by natural increase and spread. In such reserves, certain of the protected fur-bearers, such as beaver and muskrat, will increase to such an extent as to necessitate a reduction in their numbers. Predatory animals should also be controlled in all wild life reserves. Measures to this end should always be taken by duly authorized officers of the Governments concerned and trapping by private persons for their own profit should not be permitted. Up to the present this policy has been generally adopted, certainly A characteristic of all wild _ ROD AND GUN IN CANADA so far as the Dominion parks are concerned. The maintenance of well protected natural game reserves will uhdoubtedly prove to be one of the most effectual means of maintaining a stock of our fur-bearing animals. The gradual development of the country, parti- ~ cularly the extension of lumbering operations, will render the establishment of such reserves as absolute necessity if we are to conserve even a small proportion of our native fur- bearers. THE BIOLOGY OF OUR FUR-BEARING — ANIMALS: It is not until one investigates what is known with regard to the biology of our fur- bearing animals that the paucity of exact and reliable information regarding the habits, food, and inter-relations of some of the most im- portant of them, particularly the smaller species, is fully understood. It is true that there is an extensive lore concerning these _ animals, and that trappers and others who have studied their ways for many years pre- serve a great deal of information that is of practical value regarding their habits, but much of this information is unreliable and is based on inference rather than actual ob- servation or experience. If we are to make the best use of our wild fur-bearers and, at the same time, successfully propagate them in captivity, we have much ‘to learn regarding their food, breeding, and other habits. The failure that has so frequently been experienced in dealing with many of our fur-bearers in captivity, has demonstrated clearly the need of such investigations, which must form the basis of the successful conservation or pro- pagation of our fur-bearing animals. ss THE PERIODIC FLUCTUATIONS OF OUR FUR-BEARING ANIMALS. The dependence of the higher upon the lower forms of life is a well-known biological phenomenon. Not only is the abundance Gras the higher predatory animals dependent upon .— the abundance of the lower forms upon which they prey, or which may indirectly affect their — food supply, but this dependence may result in remarkable periodic fluctuations in the numbers of the predatory forms. In my book — on “The Conservation of the Wild Life of Canada,”’ which is now in the press, this im= portant subject is fully discussed, and the “~ extent to which the number of our fur-bearing animals, and consequently the trade in the skins of such animals, fluctuates, is shown by means of statistics courteously furnished by the Hudson’s Bay Company. I will therefore ~ “ * i 4 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA NORTHERN ONTARIO - A Vast New Land of Promise This vast new land of promise is one degree South of Winnipeg, and is big enough ta include the six New England and four Middle States of the American Union. 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A study of the fur statistics from 1845 shows an average periodic cycle of 8.5 years. The sudden disappearance of these animals ap- pears to be due to over-crowding, and a consequent epidemic of parasitic diseases. ¢As the rabbit constitutes the chief food of many of the larger fur-bearing animals such as the lynx, fox, or wolf, it is one of the most important factors in determining the abund- ance of these animals. The lynx feeds chiefly on the rabbit, al- though it also devours mice, grouse, ducks, stranded fish, ete. We find that its periods of abundance correspond with those of the rabbit, and when the latter die off in the more northern regions there is an extensive south- ward migration, not only of lynx but also of other predatory animals, including such birds as the great horned owls and goshawks. The red fox and its colog phases, the cross fox and black or silver fox, exhibit marked periodic’ cycles, although they are not so pronounced as those of the lynx. If we had records of the years of mouse abundance we should probably find a co-relation between the abundant years of mice and the abundance of foxes, as the latter feed largely updn mice and moles, in addition to rabbits and game birds of various kinds. ,The statistics show that the different color phases of the fox have a periodic cycle of about 9.5 years. The white, or Arctic fox, has a shorter Periodic cycle, averaging about 4.2 years. Next to the lynx, the marten shows the most pronounced periodic fluctuations of our fur-bearing animals, and this is probably due again to the dependence of this animal ona rabbit diet supplemented by mice. The statistics from 1827 onward show a periodic fluctuation of the marten in cycles having an average length of 9.5 years. The marten’s larger relative, the fisher, displays a marked periodicity in abundance, and from 1840 we find an extraordinary sequence of regular periods having an average length of 9.7 years. The mink is subject to fairly regular periodic fluctuations, and while the years of maximum abundance lack in precise regularity of certain of the preceding fur-bearers, we find there is a period cycle averaging 9.7 years. The economic value of ‘a study of these periodic fluctuations is such as to warrant a more careful and intensive study of these phenomena, and especially of the®underlying ROD AND GUN IN CANADA a: cause, namely, the food. Particularly de need research in the biology of the small rodents, such as mice, which play a rol great practical importance in relation to. abundance and scarcity of many of our: ur bearing animals. q LEGISLATION GOVERNING OUR BEARING ANIMALS. ~ governments concerned to one impo aspect regulating the killing of our fur-beari animals, namely the establishment of seasons. It is obvious that the conserv: these or any of the species of native mam bird or fish depends upon the strict prote € of such aninals during the breeding se and provision is now generally made such protection. But the enforcement of close season sa the breeding seasons can only be suce eae: of animals that may be taken, a other words, a bag Ifmit. This prin now generally accepted and put into pr: the case of the large game animals. — would seem too obvious to require « that, with the exceptional destructi fur-bearing animals that is now tak we should seriously consider the questio what extent a limit should be placed u numbers of valuable fur-bearers beaver, which may be taken. Valuable fur- — producing territories will be completely cleaned out unless steps are taken, in the near fu ure, to impose a bag limit. It, would seem to. highly desirable and, indeed, necessary t careful account should be taken of the nv of the different species of fur-bearing al taken in different localities and, as soon is seen that the numbers have diminis certain point deemed compatible wi safety of any species, that either the fi capture of such species should be proh: within that territory or a bag limit should established. Otherwise valuable fur-pro ing territories will become unproductive. — The proper enforcement of such restric j regulations will necessitate an improvem of the present methods ‘of obtaining f statistics. This we will now briefly consid ‘ ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 101 4 > ¥\ TENT DWELLERS Wee 2 he ‘ ESS q Read This Great Dog Story! PtA TALE OF THE NORTHERN WILDS In the old Klondike gold rush days, Jack, a full blooded Airedale terrier, followed his master up from the States, to Dyea and Skagway, to Dawson — and to Nome. 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Yet this is what in the absence of statistical information is actually taking place over the greater part of the fur pro- ducing area of Canada. / At the last meeting of this Commission, an account was given of the excellent policy that has, been adopted in the Province of Quebec to regulate the fur trade of that pro- vince, and we cannot do better than recom- mend that a policy along similar lines be adopted throughout the Dominion. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics is endeavour- ing to obtain reliable statistics regarding the fur trade of Canada, but its efforts are handicapped by the fact that, with the exception of the Province of Quebec, it 1s compelled to rely on the figures obtained ffom thefur traders. The inadequa- cy of such a system of collecting statistics 1s obvious to everyone acquainted with the methods by which furs are marketed by the average trapper who may ship his furs to a buyer either in Canada or in the United States. These buyers or traders buy from each other, and thus the difficulty is increased. The only reliable means of obtaining statistics of the number of furs taken is to secure them from the trapper or hunter who takes the furs. In most of the provinces resident trappers or hunters are not required to take out licenses. \ satisfactory method of obtaining accurate returns is to require all persons engaged in the capture of fur-bearing animals to take out a license and to furnisn returns as to the numbr of animals taken under such license. The im- position of a royalty on all furs taken serves as an additional means for obtaining the statis- tics required, apart from the fact that it furnishes an excellent ‘source of revenue. This policy of licensing trappers and hunters has been adopted by the Dominion Govern- ment for the Northwest Territories, and it is expected, as a result, that we shall be able to obtain reliable statistics as to the numbers of furs taken’ in those territories. We would urge those provincial governments which have ROD AND GUN IN CANADA been connected with the fur industry, not already adopted this policy to their legislation to provide for the licensir Ce} resident, in addition to non-resident, t appers and hunters of fur-bearing animals as. ame: resource. The Dominion Bureau of St is anxious to co-operate in every possibl with the provincial governments in colle bearing animals. THE FUR TRADE. This subject will be discussed bore more qualified than I am to deal witht commercial aspect of ourfurresources. Up the present this side of our topic has been sole consideration of practically all who biological aspect of the question has received little attention. Therefore, while itis one of c objects to direct attention to the needs o fur-bearing animals, it may not be out of} Pp to refer briefly to some of the signifi z features of the fur trade. adhe any idea as to its extent, i aed the accurate statistics on thesubject i is res to not a little extent for this i ignoran I fur exports of undressed furs for ee di March 3ist., 1919, according to the : seach: I have available, were va inerease in the number of furs expo the increase as value. AS] Unfortunately, we have no — of skins of certain of the chief fur. animals. He states that from 3 to muskrats, upwards of a million skun’ to 700,000 raccoons, and about a are taken per season. One of the most significant fe relation to the exploitation and col of our fur-bearing animals is the re increase in the value of all furs. This made clear by a comparison of presé former prices, and for this purpose selected a number of examples from compare with prices which are n offered to trappers for raw furs by on leading Canadian fur dealers: ROD AND GUN IN CANADA \ WALL TENTS | Ene 2 ¢ rosy E = aa mned (10x12 x 3ft. wall. 8 oz. Duck | | $32.50 each. Poles and Pegs, $2.50 set Fly-top, $17.50 Bags, $1.50 each =D) PIKE 123 Kine Sr. E., TORONTO. 0} Lim 103 Swallows Report Noise Cut out that unnecessary report noise. Get another shot when you miss. Don’t scare away all theothergame. Equip your rifle with a MAXIM SILENCER Price, .22 cal., $6.00. Send 6cin stamps for catalog and booklet of humorous stories of noiseless shooting. The Maxim Silencer Co. 63 Homestead Ave., Hartford ‘DIAMONDS <) BOOKLET FREE OUR diamond booklet iljus- trates all the newest dia- mond rings, pins, ear-rings, etc., at$ISandup. All diamonds are sent on approval, so you may see and examine them carefully before buying. 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Un- isual cutsine. Every room an outside room. $2.50 up. On Empire Toure. Road map and cunning directions tree. c. A. MINER Managing Director North St. at Delaware Ave, St. Louis January 1879. 104 ROD AND GUN IVETE Oslo estate aetee ct aeks cacserep tess 40 cents Raccoon, No. 1...... 60 cents Wil Clay: hau abst hs Sole dh een ey abe er eEe ee 12 cents Slee Dlacle ater, apes ted catentavaceses-t $1.25 Waldicat eager cct atk ates Wilts (DYeutRle nor cages ners rcet nae teat 85 cents Beaver, large... Ache e250) Marten, large and dark s ...$5.00 REG Ox 6 ee isnt acta SO Cents Bears black vise we tea cette bd wD OO Is it surprising in view of the present incentive which has created by such high prices to find that our fur-bearing animals are being hunted with a zeal and to an extent that can have but one outcome? Such persistent hunting and trapping by large numbers of men, other than thosewhohave beenaccustom- ed to engage in such work, means a serious depletion of our fur-bearers and their exter- mination in all regions that dre comparatively accessible. With the exception of beaver there is no limit to this killing except theavailability of the supply. The history of the fur trade in Canada is bound up with the history and exploration of the country, and it is ‘to be regretted that for so many years our furs have been marketed elsewhere, principally in London. The outbreak of the war in 1914 paralyzed the London fur market and led to great activityon the part of the merchants of New York to regain for that city its former place as a fur centre. The London Public Fur Sales ceased, trade with America was checked, there was a sudden decline in the prices of raw furs and a consequent discouragement to trapping. In New York, the Raw Fur Merchants Associa- tion and the New York Board of Trade of the Fur Industry had been organized in 1914 be- fore the outbreak of the war but on the cessation of the London Sales and the resultant effect on the fur trade of this continent, the New York Fur Sales Corporation was organ- ized in 1915 with a capital of a million dollars to receive furs from any part of the world and sell them at auction in New York. The first public sale in New York was held in January, 1916, and since that date the success of these auctions has increased to such an extent as to place that city among the leading fur markets of the world. From August, 1914, to November, 1918, Canadians concentrated their energies on supplying men, money and materials to win the war, and for to supply the needs of our Allies. But with the resumption of peace es - -. SS ...10 to 25 cents (lynx) J IN CANADA 350 New York Auction Sales, Feb. 19 0. time efforts and trade, Canadian fur and merchants have asked: ‘Why ou not Canadian furs be-marketed in Canada Since Canada i is and wil become 1 ine continent, it is obvious that it will | advantage to market such furs oe Can consisting of the leading Canadian fur ants has been organized : recently for th pose of holding fur auctions in Mont the first of of these auctions will bel few weeks. It is anticipated th auctions will become increasingly and that Montreal will attain the pl: in the seventeenth century among J fur markets of the worid. NEEDS OF THE FUR FARMIN ~ ORY eee It is evident that, in spite of the that has so far followed the ue f pressing need for information on all relating to the successful raising animals. The various problems — with the propagation of fur-bearin subsequent papers which will be. those who have had practical expe be profitable to refer briefly. In order that the practice of fur farmu be based on sound séientific lines, it necessary that governmental assistance be given in the direction of establishing more e experimental fur farms. These Vv with which the uninitiated have to con and the securing and dissemination information would enable beginners to losses which conduce to wasted effort eS we ROD AND GUN IN CANADA 105 HOT LUNCH or DINNER ae C1 = COLD LUNCH FOR SANDWICHES THE RELISH DE LUXE All cooked ready for use, Stew. CLARK’S — PREPARED FOODS How about the following, Mr. in menu with the minimum of trouble. BREAKFAST CLARK’S Pork & Beans, Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce & Cheese, Cambridge Sausage, Corned Beef Hash, Tongue Ham & Veal, Sliced Smoked Beef. CLARK’S Steak & Onions, CLARK’S Corned Beef, Roast Beef, Boneless Pig’s hi English Brawn, Ox & Lunch Tongues, Veal Loaf, etc. CLARK’S Pate de Foie, Potted Meats, Meats, Peanut Butter. CLARK’S Tomato Ketchup. simply heat (if required) and eat. CLARK, LIMITED, MONTREAL Sportsman, for variety Soups (13 kinds), Minced Collops, Beef Canadian Boiled Dinner, Irish Devilled Are a proven success all over the United States, and the pleasure a Sportsman gets fish- ing with them, is of the keen- est type. They are bound to be a great HIT in Canada. Devil Bugs Sell on Sight Bass Bugs made on No. 1/0, 2/0. ao Ring Hooks, and No. 3 Fly Rod eee Trout Bugs made on Nos. 3, 6, & 8 Hooks. Patented in Canada, Feb. 17th, 1920 Inquire of your nearest dealer. Send all Orders to JUD LANDON INC. 123 State St. Schenectady, New York General ae Manager of the O. C- Tuttle Patents. 0. €, Tuttle’ Inventor and Manu- facturer, Old Forge, New York UTTLE, DEVIL BUGS | Raise Silver Foxes It is the surest and best money making proposition in the world today. Write me for further information and receive Free a pamphlet on the fast growing and practical industry. Ranch building an art. For instruction plans which will save you money in construction, communicate with JAS. H. KAYE Room 1020, 116 W. 39th, St., New York. KEEP :YOUR GUN CLEAN! HOPPE’S NITRO POWDER SOLVENT (Trade Mark Registered) For Cleaning High Power Rifles, Shot Guns and Firearms of all kinds. REMOVES and PREVENTS RUST. It will neutralize acid residue of Smokeless Powder and f prevent corroding. Sold by 4 The D. Pike Co., Ltd., Toronto. The J. H. Ashdown Hardware Co., Winnipeg Wood, Alexander & James, Hamilton. E ape McFeely & Co., Ltd., Vancouver §— G. Prior & Co., Ltd., Victoria. i Tisdalls Limited, Vancouver FRANK A. HOPPE, 2314 N. STH ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA Sole Manufacturer. 106 disappointment. Fealizing the importance of such experimental work, the United States Department of Agriculture has established an Experimental Fur Farm in New York State. The Japanese Government has also undertaken fur farming, and I am informed by Mr. Keishi Ishino, the F'ur Expertof the Japnaese Govern- ment, who is now in Canada studying fur farming methods, that the Government, has about 2500 fur-bearers, chiefly red foxes, in captivity. The Dominion Government has already taken steps to assist the fox farming industry by the establish- ment’ in Prince Edward Island of an Experimental Station; this station is main- tained by the Health of Animals Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The inyestiga- tions already carried on by the Health of Animals Branch and the Research Council have demonstrated the special need of investi- gations on problems of nutrition and diseases as affecting foxes in captivity, and the study of these problems constitute the chief work of the Heaith of Animals Experimental Station in Charlottetown, P.E.I. The experimental work that is now being . undertaken on the problems affecting the propagation of fur-bearing animals in captiv- ity, however, is confined to one aspect only of the fur-farming industry. This industry is in its infancy, in fact it has hardly been weaned, and before much progress can be made we require a large amount of information regarding the best methods of keeping and breeding our chief native fur-bearing animals in captivity. The fur industry is capable of unlimited expansion. Our wild fur bearers are being depleted in the more accessible parts of the country, and, so long as high prices for skins prevail, the diminution “in numbers will continue. Now is the opportunity for farmers and others to start the propagation of the common fur-bearers and thus to extend and place on a sound basis an industry which cannot be otherwise than profitable. Farmers, particularly those living in sections in which native fur-bearing animals were recently to be found or still occur, would find fur-bearing animals a very profitable crop. Our advice would be to start on a small scale, obtain all the information possible concerning the raising of fur-bearing animals in captivity before undertaking this work and make certain that the right kind of environment can be given to the species that it is proposed to rear. There are few sections of Canada in which it is not possible to raise some species of fur-bearer. Sas eS ROD AND GUN IN CANADA The Commission will be very pleased 1 assist those who desire to obtain information this question and information onthe s can also be obtained from most of the cial officers in charge of game protec FOX-FARMING. — The pre-eminence of the fox ind Prince Edward Island is renowned t the world and needs neither descrip’ comment here. Prince Edward Island ; are forming the basis of fox ranches i in ‘them 1 northern portions of the United States the New England States to Minnesota. conspicuous success of the fox rank Prince Edward Islandis apt to divert ably undertaken in other provinces: ae and particularly in New oes a ec. ful fox ranchers; we have a census ¢ of these ranches, containing altc We are informed that one of chee started in 1913 with three pairs $0,500 and which the owners paid $9,000, $9, $10,000 per pair respectively. This was established at a total cost of $33 Since itsfestablishment, $20,000 have b expended/in upkeep and dividends tot amount of almost $50,000 have been Starting with 10 pens of foxes they have pens and from the original 3 pairs of fox I have 30 pairs. of breeding foxes for 1920. the Province of Quebec there are a nu successful fur ranchers, including known ranch of Holt, Renfrew, Limitec the Quebec government is endeavow promote the fur-farming industry — province. We have the addresses 0: licensed fur-farmers in Ontario. In Mai we know of only one fur farm, which is si about 12 miles north of Winnipeg and co: ig about 90 silver black foxes of Prince oe Ibe Island stock. A’ silver fox farm has ] established at Regina, Saskatchewan,’ an contains about sixty foxes. We have bee furnished with the names and addresses — nine persons engaged in fur farming in Alberts There are also a number of fur farmers British Columbia. ; From the foregoing, it will be seen that f farming has already made a substantial s throughout Canada and, in View of th profitable nature of the industry it is safe ea tte ROD AND GUN-IN CANADA 107 COFFEE Ready instantly when you pour on the water, hot or cold. Trial size 1O cents. Booklet free G.Washington Sales Co.Inc. 522 Fifth Avenue, NewYork Mink, Skunk,"Coon,”Rabbits,et) with 2 brings Illustrated Trappers A Di me Guide. It tells how. Giving the first time in print the treasured secrets of the wisest old trappers in this country, it’s worth dollars to you. TRAPPERS’ SUPPLY CO. BOXC - - - OAK PARK, ILL. was paid this year at Auction for one ranch raised Silver Fox Pelt. Furs are like Dia- monds today, big demand, ever lessening supply. Fur Farming is assuming big pro- portions. Learn all about it from The “Black Fox Magazine. Subscription $2.00 per year. Send for sample copy. ThegBlack Fox Magazine 1400 Broadway, New York. $1,225 Genuine Hudson Bay “Point” Blankets 60x72 - 3 points - 8-15 oz. pairs 63x81 - 314 points - 10 Ib. 72x90 - 4 points - 12 lb. Scarlet, Blue, Green, Grey, Khaki, White. WRITE FOR PRICES ™D PIKE Go 123 Kine Sr. E., TORONTO. New York Office: No 1 Cliff St., N. Y. City Hotel Algonquin JOE LAKE, ALGONQUIN PARK Try the park this season for real Camping and Fishing. Our store will rent you a complete } outfit, tent, blankets, cooking utensils etc. Booklet. | Geo. W. Colson, Mer. JOE LAKE. Mowat P.O., Ont. "EZ AND FISH ATTRACTIONS Hi ie you arranged with Clyde B. Terrell, noted naturalist, to. determine we bes st location in your fay- p> orite waters for planting i ape Wild Rice and _ other plants to attract wild 4 CANADA~ the Fly that “‘Gets’em"’ 112 some of the fanciers found fault with his selections, particularly in “Poms” and “Pekes,” still considering the big job he had to do and also the small ring he did very well and there ~ are few people who can judge a whole show of this size and quality and give complete satis- faction. It was apparent and to Mr. Ross's credit that he did his work carefully and con- scientiously. Col. E. F. McFarland, of Toronto, the well known breeder of Bullterriers of years past, judged this breed and it is to be regretted that he did not have a very large entry to go over. This is partly due to the fact that none of the ‘‘Charlwood” dogs were shown, owing to the illness and death of Frank Lewis, one of the brothers owning this kennel. However we hear that Walter Lewis now has the kennels going again and shipping his quality terriers to the U. S. as fast as he can produce them. The first breed on the boards were Mastiffs, there being an entry of a half dozen from the Wingfield Kennels of Chas. Dickenson, Tor- onto, the only man in America who is main- taining this ancient breed. It was a great and popular win when his Alfgor of Wingfield was judged best Canadian bred dog in show. The other breeds competing in this were Airedales, Wires, Bostons, Cockers and Whip- pets and when one knows what high quality we have here in these breeds the win for Mr. Dickenson who has stuck by the mastiff so long and faithfully, can be appreciated. The usual lot of Toronto St. Bernards, were shown, all by Ch. Alta, the King and all large ones. Seven Russian wolfhounds were next, some lacking in coat condition and feet. Then a small showing in greyhounds, beagles and whippets. Among the half dozen foxhounds there was one real good one named Shorty, owned by Mr. Archibald and sired by Bald- win’s Prompter, sire of the N.Y. winner Heffwin. Shorty went through every class to winners, which the writer was pleased to see, being one he had bred. Cocker Spaniels had an entry of twenty- eight. In solid color winners dogs was Dr. Campbell’s Oakley Jackdaw (black); bitches, Mrs. Worthy’s Jenny June. Parti color dogs, Bowerbank’s imp. Trey; bitches, Midkiff’s Christinia. Z Next large entry were Airedales with twenty-six. Polam Maxim winners dogs, reserve to Claycliff Tip Top beating his brother C. Colonel whom Offerman placed _Teserve to Maxim at the C. N. Exhibition gshow last Sept. _ i said last fall that C. Tip Lele b * PE Oper eA ROD AND GUN IN CANADA Top would make the best terrier, he is a sm one like Polam Maxim, all terrier, while Colonel is large and going coarse, needs ‘thin - ing down to show to advantage. Winne bitches, was Claycliff Beauty, res. Park to Spat looking her best, but hardly as” gol 0d Maxine, by Silver Birch Maxim, 2nd; monte Aristocrat by Suncrest Top Notes ae in Canada. There were a half dozen good Irish el dogs. Ch. Mendon Mike taking winne Jos. Strachan, sec. C.K.C., showed h Strachan is going in for this breed must say they are a nice little dog. "he The bakers dozen of wire fox terriers i in: cluded five of the Strachan string from Mo treal, his Ormsby Snow Ball by Ridgeway Dark Boy going to winners dogs, res. to J Russell’s Claycliff Corker. Winners bi to Ormsby Artist Model, res. = sister of winning dos. Smooths winners dogs, Newton’s Karsw II, res. Jos. Russell’s Peerless Prince, ¥ bitches, ch. Madison Atlanta, an Engl bitch owned by Mr. Village of Winnipeg to writers Sale Duchess by Clapton Sensa on. Bull dogs had an entry of thirty, ami which were many recent English importatio to compete with our good Canadian breds. — Winners dogs, Who Goes There by the Hi wood Marquis dog Euston Prince an Pp. by Mr. Malovitz of Montreal who racked that he thought it the best policy to give $100( 0 for one dog that would win rather than for — two or three. Res. to Juson’s Southpor' eo Joffre. Winners bitches a Canadian bred, Princess Pat, res. Hefty Mickey Too, (b over 45 Ibs.) Open dogs under 45 Ibs., ’ Southport Joffre; 2nd. Diamond Thornfield ; Pride; 3rd, Roxton Boy. Over 45 lbs., sen fe: Who Goes There; 2nd, Ch. Costers Diamond; — Sb 3rd, Failsworth Dark Duke (Charbonnies, ‘ Montreal). . Twenty-eight collies, winners dogs to ch. 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This Twin Type for Front and Rear of Ford Sedans. This Type Type for Front and Rear of Ford Commer- cial Cars. This Twin Type for Front and Rear of Ford One- Ton Trucks. “toll - gates OMETHING has had wear that it should not have had. Some- thing probably has received a slight strain that will develop into trouble. : ; ’ Add these thousands of little strains, bumps, shocks, and jars together and you have the reason why your car needs repairing, why your tires are worn down quickly, why your car wears out sooner than it should. ; ; Hassler Shock Absorbers protect the car against the bumps and jolts that come from bumpy, rutty roads. They eliminate the need of paying tolls. They make your car capable of running over ordinary roads, without injury. , In fact, a million sets of Hasslers in use today prove that they save at least one-third of the ordinary repair and tire expense, and lengthen the life of the car by a third. { : These are real advantages which you want. 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HASSLER, Ltd. 1061 Sherman Ave., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada W.L.RENTON &CO., Distributors for Ontario and Quebec, Hamilton, Ont., 16 Jarvis St., Toronto, Ont., 2-4-6-8 Wood St. PHILLIPS & PRINGLE, Ltd., Distributors for the Maritime Provinces, Fredericton, N. B., City Hall Square. W. J. HUNTER, Distributors for Alberta and Saskatchewan, Regina, Sask., Cornwall St., Canada Life Bldg. J. F. PUTNAM & CO., Distributors for British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 925 Standard Bank Bldg. The Hassler Guarantee: ‘Absolute Satisfaction or Your Money Back” A Standardized Quality Product— Worth the Price. TRADE MARK REGISTERED Shock Absorbers PATENTED for Ford Cars and Trucks The conical springs set at the angle shown prevent sidesway and allow for the most resilient downward action. The springs compress On either upward or downward movements—do not stretch out of shape—do noi allow up-throw. Hasslers last as long as the Ford and make it last. Consistent use of the highest grade materials and years of manufacturing experience makes “Arrow” and “Nitro Club” steel-lined shells perfect from primer to crimp. ‘They are a “gun within a gun,” the steel lining keeping all the force of the explosion behind the shot, giving tremendous speed, splendid penetration and uniform target pattern. The most conspicuous suc- cesses at the traps and in the fields have fallen to Remington UMC users. Use a Remington UMC pump gun, first and best of the repeaters. Six shots, bottom ejection, hammer- less, safe. Its velvet-smooth slide action is swift and the Remington UMC dealer in your town.