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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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
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And the new day does not dis
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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-
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regard to lures and the best way in
which to present them. Like our-
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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

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Timagami

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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

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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

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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

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“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-

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“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-

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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
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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

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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—”

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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.

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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

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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

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at me.

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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

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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

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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?’ <All for what? A curi-
osity to hunt a hybrid animal in
this damnable land of savages—”

“Shut up, you fool,” I exploded—
“You look even worse than I do.
And keep your mouth shut on this
Norman Lambert affair. If these
natives ever find oit that their king
is a demented white man and not a
product of the Great Spirit, they
will cut his head off as sure as my
name is what it is—” ,

“Tl beat his block off for him,”
Delray stormed—‘*The d-—— fool.”

“Leave him to me,” | suggsested—
“As the old man of the party and
about his age, I'll settle the score
with him. If I don’t succeed you
may step in—” ;

“We'll have to get awav from here,”
Delray said, after a long silence

“We

will,” | agreed SoU 6 it
may not be for some time now—”
“We go together, or we don't

go at all, Hunter. Id give you
hand on it, but at this mom it
fly is eating my nose off and Ir
help myself—”’ ae
In about an hour they came
took us away: Delray going or
direction, and me the other. B
Back to the same old prison, bou
and all, was ! taken and very ge
laid upon a bunk—a painted s
just like the rest of them, exce
my white man’s clothing. ~
At noon the natives fed me,
although I was in an angry m
swallowed readily enough of th
they placed between my teeth.
they left me, I fell into a deep
and it was late in the afternoon whe
I again awakened. My throat >
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.

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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

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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,

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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.

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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

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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

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“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

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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

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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

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;
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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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| 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

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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

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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-

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‘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

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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:

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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.”

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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* 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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_ 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

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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
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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 ~

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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.

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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

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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.

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the most widely shot side arm in a fi
and will rapidly replace the older re

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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
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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’

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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

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-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

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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

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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.
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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

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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

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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,

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‘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

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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

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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 ;

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F
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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, ~

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‘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

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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
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SOO ESS

HE full flush of Spring was abroad in
fh the north country. But shortly ago

there had lain over that region a blanket
of glittering snow, feet deep, and the wild
norther had raged madly through the pines,
while the wolves lamented to the cold arch
of the heavens. 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

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till they would be of a size to care for them- :
selves.

eve father and ane of Wisdom, whi

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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

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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. But the pickerel did not
show up, though in the days that follow
Wisdom lay low and was very watchfw
ever on the alert.

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Wisdom soon became aware of one singular.
fact that stamped itself upon his minute brain.
It was an impelling instinct which told him
that larger fish prey upon smaller, fish,
even as he preyed upon the myriads of water
beings that clung along the sides of the water
vegetation, and which tasted so well and
filled one so full of blood and contentment.
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-

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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. He saw only the glittering, attra
spinner revolving: and deeply fascinat
curlosity aroused, he darted forward,
it and the next moment felt the basta

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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-
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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,
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‘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
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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.

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“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. A
time, his mate was lying concealed at the

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end of the log. 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

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_ 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:

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started to swim, _ pushing with its |

such thoughtful endeavor. Theref ‘
promptly grasped it and swallowed it, b
legs and all. And the next moment
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held the edge of the mouth. -

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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-
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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
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“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 :
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the bass feed heavily in the late Oe
reason that they can catch their prey un
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Steins night on which to ply the line

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bass, and other fishes, as regards feeding, and
in as we lay our plans in accordance do we have
success by means of rod, reel, line and lure.

After a few successes at night fishing one
will more and more begin to fish after dusk,
discovering, unobtrusively, that the bass
strike best at such times. The night fisher
escapes the torrid heats of the day that his
brother fisherman endured, and uncomfort-

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coolaess on the face of the water. 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,

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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

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strange influence upon’ one—a mysterious
thrill that remains in the remembrance for a
long time. The night sounds are not numerous.
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-

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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
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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
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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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edition was as he had written it,

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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

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- 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
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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,

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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 ;
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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

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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

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» 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

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calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of
passions, a procurer of contentment.” And
as he sat on the “primrose banks” of his
beloved Swaynham brook he was_ busily
listening and was sure that he heard waits
of the singing from Heaven when the wind
was in the right quarter. 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-
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tion: they quicken the spirits and add inspit
ation to the view when everything st

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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 —

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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

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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. In all the pre
vinces of Canada, with the exception of Nov
Scotia and Prince Edward Island, such re-
serves have been established, and the success

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ful results of such protection of the fur-bearing
and other wild animals have been admirably
illustrated in our numerous Dominion and
Provincial parks, especially in the case of the
beaver. The mere establishment of a reserve,
however, is not sufficient: it must be followed
by a definite policy of maintenance, including
the provision of an adequate warden and
patrol system.
life reserves is their tendency to attract an
exceptional number of predatory animals,
which, in the interests of the game animals,
are undesirable. 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 _

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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 ~

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now refer only briefly to certain of the main
conclusions of that study.

The periodic increase and decrease of the
common rabbit or varying hare is well known.
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

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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
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FUR STATISTICS.

No resource can be properly utilized or
maintained unless statistics are regularly
obtained to indicate the extent to which such
resource 1s being exploited and is further
available. No business man would consider
it for a moment possible to manage his busi-
ness without a regular system of stocktaking.
Why, then should we contnue to exploit our
fur resources without obtaining full information
each year as to the number of animals that are
killed of each species and as to the available
supply? 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

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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
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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

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J IN CANADA

350 New York Auction Sales, Feb. 19 0.

time efforts and trade, Canadian fur
and merchants have asked: ‘Why ou
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Since Canada i is and wil become 1 ine

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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

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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

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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

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next few years.

MUSKRAT-FARMING.

The present high prices that are being
obtained for muskrat skins have given a new
aspect to the question of utilizing marshes
which are not required for agricultural purpos-
es and are suitable for the propagation of
muskrats. Until recently the expense of
protecting muksrat preserves hardly rendered
muskrat farming a profitable source of revenue,
but such preserves should now, under proper
Management, yield satisfactory profits. There
are very many regions in Canada where
muskrat farming could be successfully develop-
ed without much outlay and with excellent

, financial results.

In many sections of the United States
muskrat farming is proving to be very profit-
able. Lantz states that the muskrat
industry has reached a_ high
development on the eastern shore of Maryland.

_ Formerly the extensive marshes of Dorchester
county in that state were considered to be
almost useless, but with the increased value of

“furs, many of these marshes, measured by
actual income, are worth more than cultivated
jands in the same vicinity. Trapping privi-
leges are leased, usually on a fifty-fifty basis,
and the trappers and owners co-operate in the
protection of the marshes from poaching.
The owner of a 1300-acre tract of marsh
secured over 12,000 muskrats in 1909 and1910.
It was estimated a few years ago that the
muskrat industry of Dorchester county brings
into the community about $100,000 annually;
to-day ihat figure is probably doubled.

PURE FUR.

‘The increased demand for furs, infldequacy
of supplies of wild skins to meet’ this demand
and higher prices have led manufacturers to
turn their attention to the utilization of the
pelts of a number of animals which have not
hitherto been regarded asproducers ofcommer-
cial furs. The domestic cat has attained a
new dignity; no longer is its lifeless corpse
considered fit only forthe garbage pile unless it
has been deprived of its marketable skin.
Rabbit skins no longer rot on the arid plains of
Australia, but are cased and exported by
thousands to be converted into furs of all
kinds, including ‘ Muskrat has long
ago attained the rank of “‘seal’’, and the
ingenuity of the fur manufacturers is such
that we may expect unlimited imjtations and
new kinds of furs in the future.

The conversion of what have hitherto been
rogarded as worthless skins into furs which

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‘seal’,

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state of,

can be used is a highly commendableind
as well as a very profitable commercial
prise. But it should not be allow
affect the sale of the staple kinds of furs
deceive the public much as the

appears to like to be deceived. Itis desira
and, indeed necessary in the interests b
the fur industry and of the consumers
steps should be taken to protect the. intere S
of what is generaliy known as “pure fui
This fact is becoming recognized and legisla’
is Sooe sph to secure such bree

from which the said fur, hide or
removed.” ai

On account of the extent to wh
misnaming of furs offered for sale in Engle
was being carried on, the ree ;
Commerce gave notice that misleadin [

rile would be prosecuted.
We would recommend the more

tion. The following examples take
Jones’s “Fur Farming i in Canada,” pi u

of eeeaas kinds or leopard.
ae when dyed, becomes sable or
Woodchuck or magmot, | dyed, f
skunk, sable or mink. ay
Muskrat, when treated and dyed, bee
various kinds of seal, mink or sable.

Nutria, a large species of Tat, |

phinchiis: or musquash.

It is possible to distinguish by Re. ‘
examination the different kinds of |

whether commercial furs are mis!
Until recently, however, no very depends
series of criteria for the indubitable ide
cations of mammal hairs was available

Dr. 15 x Mausman, of Cornell Univers
and, in a paper on “The Identification OFS
Commercial Fur Hairs’’ he has described and 2
illustrated the microscopical structure of

ROD AND GUN IN cant. 109

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hairs of fur-bearing animals and has laid the
basis for further studies of this important
question.

Published in ‘“‘The Scientific Monthly,” Vol.

10, No. 1, pp. 70-78, January, 1920,

In conclusion, it is hoped that this necessar-
ily brief survey of the different questions which
are connected with the conservation of our
fur-bearing animals, their propagation in

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captivity and the utilization of their pelts fo
commercial purposes, will serve to direc
greater attention to the necessity of incr
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Breaking the trail for the most of the way
and covering the distance in the fast time of
13 hrs. 22 mins. Walter Goyne the Alaskan,
won the Dog Derby. . Pronteaux was 2nd,
Haynes 3rd, and Winterton 4th. “ Goyne’s
victory was a big surprise and much money
changed hands asaresult. Goyneisacripple,
having lost both feet from frost in Alaska
some years ago. He used a racing sleigh with
runners on a narrow trail, which in itself was
a handicap against the light carrioles of the

Spring Shows d

HE Toronto Kennel Club’s spring show
April 2nd and 3rd, was a very success-
ful affair. The show was held ina large

clean one storey factory building on Dufferin
St., near the Canadian National Exhibition
entrance, with a street car service from King
St. There was plenty of light and room, the
only fault to be found was in the small size
of the judging ring. There were some 250
dogs benched, making it a 2 point show and of

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Dog Race at Le Pas, Man. ~

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other racers. He was¥at Sturgeon Landing —
first, but left three minutes after Pronteat
and rapidly overhauled and passed him. Aft
that he was never headed and pulled into an }
hour and a half ahead of Pronteau who wal ae )
200}yds. aheadJof Hays’and Winterton. The ay
race was a test of endurance and strength, a
but developed into a speed contest as well |
when the victor set a pace too fast for the ARS 3
on the return trip.

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high quality, in fact some of classes were as
good as one would see in any Blows in America.

ed, showi ing that the dog game in Canada is az. :
going ahead with renewed energy. and en- ee
thusiasm. 4
“Bob” Ross of Montreal, judged all breeds —
(except Bull terriers) and had a hard two days’
work giving the quality dogs of this show his
careful and conscientious going over, whil ,

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Non-residents, equally with residents of
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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

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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.
Alstead Aeroplane, his first show appearance
in Canada, he having strayed for ten months —
from the day he arrived in Toronto, res. to ne.

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There are a few ardent French Bulldog

fanciers in Canada, winners dogs at this show
was Henderson’s Jacques Fournier, res.
Dundee Pourquois Pas.

The twenty-five <Bostons were the usual
lot seen at our shows. Winners dogs Yankee
Speed King (Jos. Gouin, Three Rivers Que.)
res. Jackson’s Paddy Dee. Bitches, Speed
Queen, res. Thomas Betty Roffles. The well
known winning Toronto dogs Count Du Cu,
Joyce’s Prince and Mrs. Ingram’s good ones
were entered for specials and exhibition only.

Mrs. Wildon of Galt Ont., had a splendid
representation from her kennel of ‘Toys, ac-
counting for winners dogs and bitches in
Yorkshire Terriers and Toy Poodles.

Among the twenty-eight Poms entered

were representatives of Montreal, Cornwall,
London, Grimsby, and Vineland, the latter
being Mrs. Wylie’s.
shaded, 5 to 7 lbs., went to the Montreal
dog Stormlight of Dara. the Cornwall dog
Jumbo 2nd, and Askern War Cloud of Tor-
onto 3rd, Waggits Lilyhill Model next, then
this one took 1st open anyweight or color
against one other competitor and Jumbo Ist,
Canadian bred in like competition. Limit
bitches under 5 Ibs., 1st Mrs. Wylie’s Cornduk
Felicitous, 2nd, Somme Frix (Withom Corn-
wall) open 5 to 7 lbs., 1st Rotherville Mervielle,
the above two Ist and 2nd and C. Felicitous
Ist open and Canadian bred any color or
weight, winners dogs Stormlight of Dard, res.
Jumbo, Bitches, Rothervale, Mervielle, res.
C. Felicitous.

The only outside ‘‘Pike” among the twenty-
four benched was Miss La Violette’s Prior-
wood Pansy Pup Shantung of Wongza, which
took 3rd and 2nd novice. Mr. Wilson got
Ist open 10 ths, with his imp. Diamond Right
Kind and 2nd to Mrs. Redway’s Walnut
Manikin the good dog Sam Bamford imported
lastyear. However Mr. Eastham’s Ten Li was
placed above both these in the limit class and
went to winners. With 5 to 9 in the bitch
classes competition was more interesting.
Mrs. Richardson’s Nowata Tai Pai took 1st
Novice and Limit, 2nd open. Eastham’s
Doffy of Heartburn getting 2nd Limit, 3rd
open. Ist open and winners going to Mrs,
Redways Yuk Son of Ecclessall. Mrs. Red-

_ way won best Brace. This lady is one of our
latest and most enthusiastic fanciers of
Pekingese. .

There were only a few entries in each of

the several other toy hreeds, and three chows.

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Open dogs, orange or -

Three Belgian Sheep dogs were shown, bu
they looked more like huskies.

In varieties, non sporting, Southport Joffre.
ist, Diamond Thornfield Pride, 2nd, Baas
Lombare, 3rd, fe

Any var. terrier, Claycliff Ladybird (Aire
dale) 1st, Belle Mahone, Bullterrier, 2:
Wycollar Terror (wire) 3rd.

Toys—Card’s Ernier de Molta (Maltese)
Ist; Yen Li 2nd, Cornduk Felicitous 3rd.
This was a much applauded win as all the
best and winning toys in the show wereien
ed in this competition.

den’s Chu Chin 2nd; Cornduk’ Molly 3rd.

There was a splendid array in the b
class, as follows, Tusons Bulldogs; H
Wilsons ee ie aS Airedales ae

Alstead Aeroplane.
Best in show, open.:

ist. Polam Maxim; res. Who Cour Th
others competing Alfgor of Wingfield; Alst
Aeroplane; Yankee Speed King; Elme
Malta.

The many specials were run off. Salar
night and Ross was a very weary man,
fortunately there are always lifesavers.
started his work on cigarettes, continued
cigars and finished up with his old pipe, »
will not say what he had after.

One and all said this was the best sp
show yet and why shouldn’t it be with th
following such officers. Pres. John Kenyon —
(dean of Toronto fanciers); Ast Vice-.Pres.
Geo. Ward; 2nd G. C. Briggs, sec. G. McFafden
Geo. Ward; 2nd. G. C. Briggs, Sec. G. Me
den.

Ex Com. T. H. Kenyon, Wm. Ma | a
I. McNaughton, Geo. Ward, Ted Ward, Bat
Gwann, G. Briggs Supt., P. Herd, H. Shaw, C CH
Bowerbank, G. Sheth, I. Bell.

The Guelph Ont. K.C., held a very nic
show April 14th and 15th. and while th
entry was not as large as the Toronto show, —
yet the quality was high and some very in-
teresting decisions were handed out, notably Y
the winning of the Airedale Haryey Warlock —
over Claycliff Colonel and Tip Top and the
Boston Count Du Cu over Joyces’ Prince.
Judge Jack Meadows scoring these two to . —
finally decide which was best. St. Catharines
show was held May 5th and 6th; London

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OLYMPIC TRIALS
T_was decided at a meeting called by the Eastern

Canada Trapshooting Association that the trials

would be held in all points of Canada for the pur-
pose of selecting a team of six men with two spares in
order to go to Antwerp to shoot for Canada. It was
decided that the dates for these trials are to be May
8, May 15 and May 22, and that the trials would be
held all over Canada on these same dates. The con-
testants, in order to qualify, must compete on the
eter different dates, shooting at 100 targets on each

ate.

For the Ontario trials the following places were
chosen:—Toronto Gun Club, May 8; Brantford Gun
Club, May 8; Niagara Falls, Ont., May 15; London,
Ont., May 15; Hamilton, Ont., May 22; Tillsonburg,
Ont., May 22.

All the trials were shot in ten-bird events, gun held
between the armpit and hip, two barrels, and not put
to the shoulder until the bird was in view. Distance,
Sixteen and a-quarter yards. Targets thrown a full
50 yards

Rules Held Up Trials.

The trapshooting Olympic trials have been held up
owing to the non-arrival of the rules which will govern
the shoot at Antwerp. ‘These rules have finally ar-
rived, but as they are written in French some parts of
them are not yet clear. ;

There are four associations in Canada, as follows:
Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Colum-
bia and Eastern Canada, which takes in from Fort Wil-
liam to St. John, N.B. The latter association has been
divided into three digtricts—Ontario, in charge of Sam
Vance (Tillsonburg), E. J. Marsh (Toronto) and Jack
Hunter (Hamilton); Quebee and Ottawa are in charge
of O. J. Killam, of St. John. Manitoba and Saskatch-
ewan will be looked after by J. H. Black, of Winnipeg:
Alberta by Harry Holmes, of Edmonton, and Brit-
ish Columbia by Dr. Baker, games commissioner, of
Vancouver.

Final Trials May 22.

The final trials take place on May 22, and the scores
of all the trials will be sent to George Cashmore, sec-
retary of the Eastern Canada Association, when the
averages of all the shooters will be compiled. After
the averages have been made out, a list of the twenty
high men will be sent to the Executive Committee,
consisting of the foregoing men mentioned in charge of
the different shoots. From these twenty shooters
eight will be selected to represent Canada at the
Olympic Tournament at Antwerp.

_ The executive are arranging to meet the financial ob-
ligation by c ging an entrance fee of $5 for every
hundred targets, which will go towards the fund,
as the clubs running the shoots are donating the tar-
ets free. Then a number of trapshooting enthusiasts
lave already forwarded donations to help out the
expenses of the team going to Antwerp.

May Competeln England.

Just when the team willsailis not vet decided. They
were to have sailed on July 11 on the Scandinavian, but
this boat has been cancelled, and now efforts are being
made to secure passage on a boat leaving early in July
in order that the team will be able to compete in the
English championAhipsaround July 15. The American
téam have made Prrangements to compete in this
tourney.

QUEBEG DATES OF TRAPSHOOTING TRIALS.
Montreal, May 4.—It was announced epee by ©
al

officials of the Montreal Gun Club that the local trials
would commence in Montreal on the same dates as’
those to be held in Ontario. The first trials will be
held at the Montreal Gun Club’strapsatSt.Laurenton
Saturday, May 8, the second trials will be held at
Ottawa on Saturday, May 15; and the final trials will =
be held at the Montreal Gun Club traps on Saturday,
May 15.

As in Ontario and the West, each competitor must
shoot at one hundred targets. The competitors will
shoot off in squads at St. Laurent on Saturday. Along
with the Olympic trials, team matches will be held for
the Montreal and Lansdowne cups. i «i

These trophies were won by the Montreal Clubfrom

Ottawa on Easter Monday, and Riverside Club shoot-
ers have challenged for the trophies. Ottawamaysend ie
a team to Montreal to compete. ‘ hl

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TORONTO. TRIALS. “Tee

Toronto, May 9.—An Olympic tryout was held at Bip
the Toronto Gun Club on Saturday afternoon. It
will be from the scores made by the shooters at these
tryouts held throughout the country that the team will "me
be chosen to represent Canada at the Olympic Games. 6

Every shooter should attend those tryouts and
give the same loyal support to the team that will rep-
resent Canada as was given to the successful Canadian
hockey team.

The first two events on Saturday were held under
favourable weather conditions, but the wind got up,
and the shooters had some difficult targets to contend
with for the balance of the afternoon. R. J. Mont-
gomery of Beamsville was first: W. H. Gooderham of ° a
Toronto, second, and J. H. Symnes of Niagara Falls :
South, third. The scores:— hist

W.H.Gooderham, Toronto..
A. J. Colbourne, Toronto ....
J.H.Symnes, Niagara Falls.
H, W.Cooey, Toronto........
E. F. W. Salisbury, Toronto..
Geo. L. Vivian, Toronto ..
N. Gooderham, Toronto
G. Beattie, Hamilton. .
R.J. Montgomery, Bea
D. A. Konkle, Beamsville.
Geo. Anstie, Toronto.....
Dr.G. G. Jordan, Toront "
Joe Jennings, Toronto. .. 100 86

In the handicap trophy event Jeffers, an old field
shot, Braden and Smith, tied. In the shoot-off all
three tied again, in the third attempt to break the
tie Smith and Braden tied. The light was getting bad,
and on a toss up Smith won from Braden.

The scores were as follows:—

Rolph... .....
McCall....
Curran. ...
Lancing
Watts tec:
Fowler........ :
Turner, Sr..

Howard....
Jeffers..... fe
Hughes.....
Hutchison be
Joyce Leer wit

BRANTFORD TRIALS Ae
Brantford, May 5.—Brantford, Tillsonburg’and Lon-

don trapshooters made the following scores in the of
Olympie trials here Saturday: - we
Name. Shotat. Broke Ef,
James Vance. ..........0.... «. 100 94 ian
A.L. Hart... 91 ,
AlBurke...... 89 -

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——_——_—_——_

Toronto, May 21.—Secretary George H. Cashmore
announces that returns have been received from every
centre but Edmonton, and on first 200 birds, O. J
Killam, of St. John, N-B., is leading, having only mis-
sedthree. J. H. Montgomery, of Beamsville, is second,
having missed six birds. c

The following are the averages of the Olympic trials
of the shoots held on May 8th and 15th, one hundred
targets each day:—

Shot at. Broke.
0. J. Killam, St. John, N.B..-........ . 200 197
J.H. Montgomery, Beamsville, Ont... . ., 200 194
~~ Garder, Vancouver,B.C. - . .....-- 200. 186
_ Jas. McLaughlin, Halifax .... 200 184
S.G. Vance, Tillsonburg...... 200 183
— Oliver, Vancouver......-.. 200 183
J.W. Hart, Dresden, Ont... 200 183
W.E. Burke, Preston, Ont...... 200 182
J. Symmes, Niagara Falls, Ont. 200 182
A. R. Baker, Vancouver. ..--. 200 182
Geo. Beattie, Hamilton, Ont.. 2 181
J. H. Black, Winnipeg, Man. 181
J_H. Kenyon, Montreal. ...- 179
J. Vance, Tillsonburg, Ont.. 179
D. J. Condon, Montreal... 177
—-MclIntyre, Vancouver. - 176
T. Westlake, Montreal... .. 173
W.H.. Berry, St. John, N.B 171
W. Marshall, Galt,Ont. 170
B. Murdock, Montreal....... 170
H.W. Cooey, Toronto, Ont.. 169
H. Newiands, Galt, Ont......... 164
D.Konkle, Beamsville. . ..-..- 162
F. Kerr, Crediton, Ont 161
H. D. Payson, St.John, N. 161
—~ Osbourne, Montreal, - 159

GALT GUN CLUB.

Galt, April 30.—"Herb” Cooey of Toronto madea
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the first held here since the war, when he made the
high score in the main event with 147 out of 150, was
high man for the long run with 114, tied with four others
for first money in the Merchandise event with a per-
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pic trial with 24 out of 25.

To-day’s shoot was the most successful ever held
here, with 56 entries in the main event. Close scores
featured. The day was an ideal one and there was a
large crowd on hand. The Canadian Indians, a crack
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allowing the local club to select an all-star team. The
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ca here, the Indians losing by four shots, 692 to
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In the Merchandise event five made perfect score

2 . Cooey, Toronto; Billy Marshall, Galt;
S. Vance, Tillsonburg; J. McCausland and R. Day of
Che prizes were divided among them. In
J Su and G.
h “oronto, and G.
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MARITIME TRIALS.

St. John, N. B., May_16.—The resu
finals in the Erapshootnge among can
Maritime Provinces for the Olympic team held h
Saturday are as follows:—O. J. Killam,
Laughlin, Halifax, 94;
78. At the trials held here
made a perfect score, Mr.
actting 90 out of the 100. :
From reports received here Mr. Killam has a 7
cent. lead over his nearest competitor in the Domini
for a place on the Olympic team. J

KILLAM’S RECORD DISCUSSED.
(Sl. John’s Standard.) F é aie
Last evening’s Times contains the following: |
Halifax, N. S., May 11.—In connection with the —
score made by O.J.Killam, in the Olympic trapshooting ee
trial contest at St. John on Saturday, of a long ru :
119 targets broken without a miss, H. S. Tolson, se
tary of the Dartmouth Rod and Gun Club, ip a lette:
to the press, states that this score does not constitu
a Maritime record. Mr. Tolson says that Mr.
de under different rules from those reco
ubs in Canada and the United States
two shots at the one bird. Mr.
an, of Halifax, who, on Tha’
ninety birds without a
ds the Maritime

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bove, J, Walker Andrews,

that under Oly
allowed asecond

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visible for only abou
mention a more impor
the latter rules, the comp

traps, and must carry the gun betwee
until the bird appears, whereas in
of trapshooting the competitor is-all
gun ready at si

oulder and can fire imm

the appearance of the bird—a very great adv

All trapshooters agree that the O ympic style

harder—and therefore Mr. Killam’s performance all

the more worthy of recognition As a matter offact.

shooting Olympic style, Mr. Killman broke 124 out of

125 targets, and later 96 out of a 100, a totalof ;

of 225. It is doubtful if this has ever been equa

Canada at any style of trapshooting. tz
Mr. Andrews further states that the St. John As:

ation will be pleased to arrange the Dartm:

fora Jipece match between Messrs. Egan of Ha

and Killam, of St. John, for say 200 targets—100 O

pic and 100 standard—on neutral traps—possibly Tr

and he says that St. John sportsmen will back

Killman to. the limit. Since Killam and Egan are wa

poe friends, this could no doubt be arranged, and .
e assures us that as far as Killam is concerne is

willing to shoot for “fun, money, oF marbles”

time, and place. 3 ; Sean
Several friendly and interesting matches have been —

shot between the two clubs. On Thankieis

1919, a team of five St. Johnmen visited the Dar

Club, and they brought back the five-man Halifax |

the two-man Maritime Championship shield, and sev

al other prizes. Mr. Killam was a member of thi

John team, and on that day won the and

of the Dartmouth Club and he and J. L. MeAvity

the shield, which St. John still holds. _Later, on

uary Ist, of this year, our team again visited Dartmot

and again won the five-man team race. e Da

mouth shooters were prepared to give St. John a

match on Good Friday, but owing to the condit

the local trap grounds it was impossible to accon

date them. It is hoped that a friendly riya

long continue, and that the Halifax shots will

at St. John frequently this summer.

One thing is certain, the sport of trapshoo'

making rapid strides in St.John, and from the ati

of the members of the local organization it ii r

that they think that in Mr. Killam they Dare

champion, and they are repared to stand by him

thefinish. Reference tothe all-Canadian scores ontl

sporting page will show that at present he has 2

me over the field fora place on the Canadian Olym

eam. ra
Two matches of 100 birds each remain to besh

Here’s hoping that St. John gets representation int

great sporting event. oa

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THE BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS OF BERRY,
KY., offer for sale, Setters and Pointers, Fox and Cat
Hounds, Wolf. and Deer Hounds, Coon and Ae

Hounds, Varmint and Rabbit Hounds, Bear and Lion
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purchaser to judge the quality, satisfaction guaranteed
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choice, write for prices, C. A. Yorke, Ruscomb, Ont. 5-3T

Airedale pups for sale; clegible for registration; best of
breeding. A. Faulkner, Box 1753, Welland, Ont. 6-1T
FOR SALE—Biack and tan hound, 3 years old, good
on deer and rabbits, good voice and no bad habits, $15.00.

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St., Toronto 6-

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black and tan; fine stamp. A. C. Clemens, Milverto;
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Everything guaranteed. Tell us what you want in fi
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.30gCal. Springfield, Mauser, Lee Enfield. H. J. Gngsbis
Bow Island, Alta. Si -1T

FOR SALE OR TRADE—1 Colt .45 S.A., 514%” bb
shot only 50 times, $16.50; 1 Eastern .38-5” bbl. belt a
holster $14.50.; 1 Meriden .32-5” bbl. belt and hol
$13.50. 1 Smoker and 26 traps, $6.00. Want rifles
Brendel, C. R. R. Pier 18, Jersey City, N.J.

WANTED—Revolvers, Pistols and Autos in first=cl
condition. Save your empty shells. Specialist on R.
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want moulds and tools, also powder measure and br
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Brand new wen power Marlin repeater, (&
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all for $5; extension blue rock trap $9; glass ball trap $5:
3240 and 40-70 bullet moulds each $2. Claude He
tairo, Ontario.

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half magazine, good condition, Marble’srear peep and ivory
d front sights, 65 cartridges, 125 shell
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model, 644 inch barrel. First money order for $30.00
getsit. Roy E. Thornton, Box 111, Woodstock, N.B.6-1T

FOR SALE or exchange all standard makes high class
American made guns. Want cash or English made guns
in good condition. Clyde Atwood, Dundee, Minn. Cat

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FOR SALE—One American Waltham watch, 17 Jewels
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order for $18.00 gets it. Roy E. Thornton, Box 111.
Woodstock, N.B. 6-1T

FOR SALE—One pair of the famous Turner Reich,
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case and strap. First money order for $40.00 gets it.
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