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Waters of Rejoicing

GEORGE GILBERT

PINIONS' were at
variance in Ruccas-
tarra Valley on the
usual things and em-
phatically so as to—

Who had the best
sa herd of belted cattle.

* Who could pitch
the most hay in a fair

working day.

Who could catch the most speckled
trout from Ruccastarra Creek.

But everyone agreed that Agnes
Varnum was the prettiest girl in the
vale and would, what was more im-
portant than her prettiness, make a
consistent home-body, for she loved
to bake, ¢o do all sorts of home tasks
and was so wholesome in all her ways
and tastes that men turned to her
instinctively and women liked her
immensely. So of course Agnes had
many, many male admirers and en-
joyed their admiration sweetly and
openly—and impartially. And she was
invited to dances, taken out to ride
in shiny, rubber-tired buggies and,
in time, in large or small motor cars
and in other ways permitted and
encouraged to queen it to her heart’s
content. She was too sensible to be
_spoiled by such attentions and too
honest with herself and others to
_ show any real preference for any of
_ her suitors until she was sure of her
heart. >
Let us take her portrait as she
stands in the wide doorway of the

_ Varnum home, that fronts the River

| Road and has, at the back, the

sweetwater brook purling under the
bank at its rear:

About up to a big man’s shoulder;
eyes a-light with humor and set
wide apart; eyes hazel, warm, friend-
ly. Her body, free-moving under its
pink-and-white checked gingham,
swings in steady rhythm as she sweeps
the wide, white-leaded porch and the
over-arching Colonial doorway, with
its fanlight transom above it, makes
a frame for her as she works before
it and her coronet braid nods, nods,
nods, at each stroke of the broom and
the little, merry sun-lances that
strike through the elm shade break
into shimmering glories as they shiver
oh the chestnut tones of her coiled
wealth of hair. Add to such details
the complexion that goes with a-
bounding health, the smooth, easy
play of muscles that comes of just
enough exercise, nerves non-existent
because of her normality—and you
have something that——

Here is what Will Ogden once said
to her:

“Agnes, you make a man think of
home.”

“Thanks, Will, for that word,” she
had replied.

Like many another bashful, clean
man, Will had not said anything
more—to the point—on their stroll
home that evening and so—-

5 * * * *

The Varnum house was almost at
the valley’s end, where Ruccastarra
tinkled into the Susquehanna. Be-
neath the knoll-bank on,which the

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homestead stood was a pool, hollowed
back under some overhanging bed-
rock by the age-long churning of the
spumey, cool water. That pool was
almost always counted good for at
least one trout of ample size each time
the creek was fished.

It was an understood thing in Ruc-
castarra that the trout in the home
creek were for home folks. No fish
hog applied—over once. If a fair-
fishing stranger came and was polite
and nice and did not cut pasture fence
wires and shut the bars after him, he
could come again and would be let
alone while he creeled the few trout
a stranger could catch in that creek.
For the natives did not envy him his
small catch, for they knew every
springhole under the banks, every
root and boulder, each likely spot and
could get always a small mess, no
matter if a casual fair-fisher did once
in a way take minor toll of their
stream. Now and then a city club
tried to lease the fishing rights, but
had no_ success. Public opinion
would not permit it.

At the top of the vale was the
quaking bog with the small, but deep
and ice-cold, spring-fed pond in its
unstable centre and the wild cranber-
ries growing about its upper end and
the lady slippers at home in its in-
choate, half-formed peat. It was
there that the trout, gorgeous, mystic,
wonderful, foregathered in the sunny
days of late November and deposited
their eggs in the neverstill gravel that
the springs kept in motion. The
pond, by common consent, was sanc-
tuary to all Ruccastarra trout. No
one fished the pond, or, if they tried
to, despite all warning notices against
trespassers, the Ogdens, on whose
land it was, drove them off.

The Ogden house was of white
frame, snug, ample, comfortable. It
was set in the middle of ihe bit of
lush, sweet loam, perhaps 10 acres of
it. The pond, some brushlots and
hard-scrabble pasture that lapped
over the hill behind the house, made
up the remainder of the Ogden farm.

“Not enough of a farm to be rich
on; just big enough to be happy on,”
old Peter Ogden had said to his wife,
Melissa, when he had brought her

there, right after the Civil War when
he had homed, a _ veteran of many
battles, to take up anew the burdens
of peaceful life.

“And that’s big enough for me,”
Melissa, Peter’s wife, had replied,
snuggling up against her big hus-
band’s side—the one nearest his heart.

From his remark and her answer it
is easy to imagine what sort of a man
Will Ogden, their son, was—dreamy,
quiet, a lover of the pond, the hills,
the creek, adept in trouting with the
fairly-flung fly. Lover, too, of So-
lace Green after he came home from
fighting the Dons in ’98. And she
was just what her Christian name
implied—a solace to man, pretty,
soft in speech and manners, helpful,
tactful, a woman to inspire a man to
do his best. Their children, in their
turn, grew up healthy, red of cheek,
with sun-glinted eyes, merry ways,
their living all shot through with
little tender whimsies of speech and
action. Each married and moved
away—but one. For, nice as the
Ogden farm was, it would not, by
sheer farming, support a large, ample
brood. Yet no matter how and where
the Ogden boys and girls fared—and
they fared well, being industrious and
persevering—they carried with them
laughter, little bursts of song, smiles,
the best of feeling.

The one who remained and kept
the old farm was Will, jr., the ad-
mirer who told Agnes Varnum that
she made him think of home. After
his mother and father died—he was
the youngest and they went just as
he was through his schooling in Ruc-
castarra valley—Will made an ar-
rangement with the other heirs where-
by he was to have the home farm and
pay for it after he had completed.
his technical course in Cornell and
perhaps a year in the College of Ag- -
riculture. Will finished his educa-
tion, working his way through cel-
lege and earning extra money be-
sides during vacations, letting the

farm lands out on shares during his —

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summers of his absorption’ in educa- —
tional effort. He came home at the —

last, an Ogden, all through, whimsical,

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sunny, his big grey eyes nested in —

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ruddy, mouth wide, but firm; chin
firm, shoulders broad, torso well
muscled, step springy, every move-
ment alert when he was interested.
And his brown hair crinkled and
whorled and was so nice to gaze upon
that the fingers of women fairly itched
to tousle it.
“JT kind o’ like our old home,”’ Will
said. when some of the anxious, kindly
women of the valley remonstrated
with him for his determination to live
up there alone; “I can batch it—a
while. I want to find out what the
old farm’s good for, in the light of
what I’ve learned at college. There’s
that old bank of red clay over the
hill that dad often said was good for
pottery. That might turn out Dig.
I want to analyze that and see if
it’s worth working. Then, there’s
the farm itself—some one’s always
been happy on it ever since who come
first. ll stick up there—alone—a
while, at any rate.”

And of course, like the other young
men of Ruccastarra, Will Ogden paid
court to Agnes Varnum. Paid her a
distant, shy court, waving his hand
at her when he passed the Varnum
- house, his creel shouldered, his deftly-
cast flies flicking over the pools in
sight of the Varnum house. Or he
would leave her a bushel of hand-
picked Northern Spy apples of a
crisp, cool October morning. Or in-
vite her to ride in his rather shabby,
side-bar buggy behind the old brown
mare that had come to him along
with the other Ogden heriditaments.
For Will, with the farm to pay for,
and his innate honesty, could not
ride in a motor car as yet.

* * * *

Where the creek vale widened out
to meet the river’s wider flatlands,
was the Steele farm. Daniel Steele
was the son of old Marve Steele and
their meadows grazed over a hundred
fine grade cows and the Steele barns
and milking machines and steel stan-
chions were the wonder of all the
people ‘roundabout. The _ Steeles
were good neighbors; just folks. Yet
a hard, cruicible Steele would mani-
fest itself at times in some boy or girl
of each generation—a tendency to be

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375

spite of everything. Dan Steele had
it and showed it early. He was sev-
eral years older than Will Ogden and
made fun of Will for fishing the home
creek, and joined an exclusive club
that had preserve rights in a well
stocked lake a dozen miles away. Dan
had money in his own right, left him
by an uncle, and he made more money
—hbig money for Ruccastarra—by
trading in cattle, shipping produce in
car lots, buying and selling hides,
furs, ginseng and other countryside
commodities. Meanwhile Dan cul-
tivated the acquaintance of such city
men as were members of the Lake
View Trout Club and before he was 30
he had affairs so shaped that he was
ready to leave the farm, after selling
his share in the property to the other
Steele heirs, old Marve having died
meanwhile.

*T won’t stick in this hole,’ he
snarled, when his mother expostulated
and hoped he would remain, as head
of the family; “‘let the others grub it
out, small, if they want. I’m going
where I can make big money.”’

“But what about Agnes Varnum?’’
his mother demanded.

“Oh, she says she won’t marry
right’away and I’m sure that when I
come back, any time, I can have
her. Trade follows the flag and a
woman will follow the money bags,
every time—and I can get her or
‘nuther, just as good as she is, any
time.”

He laughed crisply, but ceased
when he saw his mother’s fine, peace-
ful old face cloud. Then he stooped,
kissed her and blustered out of the
front door, into the yard, where his
trim racing car was and soon it snored
Dan Steele away to the city.

After Dan Steele went Will Ogden
continued his shy courtship of Agnes
Varnum. Almost all the eligible men
of the valley had_large or small cars
by now. But Will had—just the
old side-bar buggy and the brown
mare. He had the usual Ogden five
cows and the usual Ogden fair crops
on his ten acres of loam; the usual
Ogden happy smile and cheery
whistle. And he found time to whip,
with his father’s rod and outfit, the
home creek, and he never failed, when

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Agnes was visible as he passed, to
wave a greeting to her. And she
always answered. Will was immersed
in the work of the one-man farm.
Often folks noticed that his high-top
boots were splashed with red clay and
they joked him about the Ogden pot-
tery prospects, for that had been a
stock bit of humor in the valley ever
since Will’s\father had first cut into
the red clay while getting out logs
over the hill from the house and had
scrubbed out a logging road there for
the teams of the timber contractor.
At such times Will laughed and said:

“No: I’m still working it out. But
there’s the farm; that’s got a living in
it, anyhow, for a man and a family.
Not a big living, but a happy one.”

Agnes had letters from Dan Steele
—sripping, fiery, boasting letters.
Dan made money. His commission
house, with his knowledge of country
folks and their ways, plus Steele wit
and forcefulness, put him to the front.
He told her, on paper, of his success,
beyond even his expectations, and
wrote, too, of the great new racing
car he owned.

“Tm going to run up in it some
time,’ he wrote, near the end of his
second winter in city harness, ‘“‘and
take you out for a nice spin, Agnes.
And I may ask you that question
again. I’ve a notion I’ll come when
fishing’s good, and want to make a
record catch to show the home boys
that money in fine tackle can do a
lot for a fellow, even in trout fishing.
And I want some of the pretty native
trout out of the home creek, not the
hand-fed, hatchery--raised German-
browns out of the club’s lake. Some
of the men in the Commerce Club
here insist there’s no trout in Ruccas-
tarra, because they fished it and failed,
and I’ve made a bet with them that
I can bring in a creel full and give
them a dinner of them and I’m going
to show them that it can be done,
I do what I set out to do, you know,
dear girl.”

or) ee
~ It was that same evening that
Dan’s letter came that Will Ogden,
in his swell-body cutter, drove up
to take Agnes Varnum to the Granger
dance. After a happy evening, dur-

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ing which she had danced with most
of the eligible young men of the
valley, Will drove her home under
the big February moon. The feelin

in the air was of a coming thaw an

Ruccastarra Creek was beginning to
talk again, after nibbling its way
through the blue-black ice that so
long had prisoned it away from the
sun’s kisses. -

“Ts there any answer?” Will whis-
pered shyly, as he handed her out of
the big cutter onto the stone horse-
block before the Varnum home.

“Not yet,’ and she darted away
from arms that would have held her—
if Will had not been a,bit slow and
hesitant in wooing, and so anxious to
make her happy that he feared to
alarm her or hurt her feelings by being
too insistent.

* * * * :

The big blue racer that Dan Steele
brought out from the city created a
sensation in the quiet valley, as did
the liveried chauffeur and the fine
fishing tackle that Dan unfolded to
the view of his favored friends. With-
in a day or two almost everyone had
had a ride in the speedy car—and en-
joyed it thoroughly. Farm cars gave
it the road and folks smiled toler-

antly at Dan’s racer as it tore up or ©

down the valley road. Dan’s suc-
cess had beenrathera popular one and
it was the general opinion that he
was one of them yet, if he had gone
to the city to make “a pot of money.”
For, after all, Dan was just folks,
like the rest.

Agnes went out with Steele from
the first. He did not go fishing in
the creek those early days of his out-
ing, but devoted himself to visiting
and courting Agnes. He had her
with him out to the Lake View Club,
to several parties at not-too-distant
resorts. He dazzled her with his
ability to whisk her fifty, sixty or a
hundred miles between lunch and
dinner hour and back again. Often
he took the wheel from the paid driver
and showed her how his car, well

driven, could pass everything on the {

road. :
“When I ask you that question

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along some stately macadam stretch, —

again,” he would laugh, as they if

“you want to think that with this
big motor goes enough money to keep
it going and more to come and to keep
you in style to correspond, for ’m
making it hand- -over-teacup and mean
to make more.’

Steele was attractive, in his bluff,
virile way. He was big, with highly
capable hands, a square chin, fresh
clean skin and light hair, closely
cropped always. His eyes were a
blue that could be cold or warm, ac-
cording to mood. He always dressed
well, but not loudly.

Once, when he took advantage of
a lonely spin on a side road to make
more direct love to her, Agnes found
it not alarming to be caught to him
in an embrace that seemed to batter
at the doors of her inner citadel of
. dissent.

*“T know,” he whispered, mouth to
her ear, one strong hand on the steer-
+ ing wheel, “what your answer is

going to be to that question, Agnes;

it’s got to be what J want it to be.
Day after tomorrow ends my vaca-
tion. And I mean to get a creel full
of the home creek native trout, the
beauties, to take with me, to win

‘that bet with the men of the Com-

merce Club. You'll. remember I

wrote you about that?”

She nodded her head, silently
studying the play of his strong hand
on the wheel. She could not help
but think:

*“A hand like that would never-put
a woman into the ditch—from lack
of monetary success.”

But aloud she said, banteringly :—

“Perhaps the trout won’t bite for
you.”’

“Yes they will bite—for me.
what I want!’

His back-tossed head, his big, in-
clusive laugh, in tune to the hum of
the big motor, seemed to clinch mat-
ters.

“T’m going early in the morning,”
he urged; ‘“‘catch the fish, and keep
them in the -ice-house at our place,
till I leave next morning. Ride up
to the headwaters of Ruccastarra with
is me in the morning? I'll have the
chauffeur run you back home after
I start fishing. I’ll finish in the pool
behind your hotse after dusk, motor

I get

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377

home from your house and come
back in the evening to take you for a
drive and my answer. I know what
that will be, too, Agnes.”

She assented to his program and
he laughed again, possessively.

“Tm going to get those trout—and
you, too,”’ he said.

She felt caught in the swirl of his
masterfulness and sensed, too, a little
fear. Yetit was not unpleasant—the
tang of full life so blended.-

Steele came for her in the blue
racer at seven o’clock and she was
ready, eyes shining with the excite-
ment of it. He was dressed in finest
rubber-silk waders and had his ex-
pensive creel, reel, line and solid=silver
fly-book with its dozens of hand-tied
flies.’ His leaders, he boasted, cost

- him a dollar each; the line, a choice

hand-tapered silk, $5, and so on.

The racer picked up speed smoothly
and swirled them out onto the main
up-creek road. Half a mile.from the
Ogden place they passed Will, down-
bound, one leg, with its clay-smeared
boot, hanging over the side of the
wagon as he nursed the knee of his
other leg in one hand and drove care-
lessly. He was, it was plain, more
than knee-deep in thought. They
passed him in a cloud of dust, but
he found time to call a cheerful greet-
ing after them.

“T put on a little extra spurt,’
Steele said—he was driving and had
her in beside him—‘‘to give Will some
dust to chaw on.. What does he stay
hived up in that house at the road’s’
end for? I told him t’other day that
I want a smart delivery man in town
and to come and take the place. I
don’t forget my friends up here,’ he
bragged. ‘“‘I told him he was getting
to be a regular muskrat living beside-
that pond.”

“But everybody knows the Ogden
place has been a happy place,” she
flared in defense of the home nest
up there in the hills that everyone
admired so much.

““Yes a body could be happy there,
—like a cow chewing a cud,” he
agreed, turning the car into the Ogden

-dooryard. With Will gone there was

no one at home. The five Ogden
cows lowed at them over the pasture

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bars. There was a drowsy hum of
bees from the straw skips under the
apple trees; a breath of buckwheat
odor floated in to mark the summer’s
peak. Comfortable mother hens
clucked; doves circled low, fearlessly,
and martens skimmed the farther dis-
tance just where hill and sky-line
met.

Steele swept his eyes rather con-
temptuously over it all.

“What Ogden hangs on here is
more’n I know,” he said quickly;
“his dad thought there was good red
potting clay in that hill........”’

“There may be,”’ she offered timidly.

He laughed and eyed her with
amusement.

“If there was, you don’t suppose
I’d let it gone to waste?” he deman-
ded

ed.

““Why——” she began.

“T took a sample of that red clay
four years ago,” he went on “‘one day
when I pretended to be hunting up
there on the hill. I had it down to

* an expert on potter’s clay in Montreal,

and got his report. Paid $500 for
it too. He said it wasn’t any good
for potter’s clay. That wouldn’t oc-
cur to Will Ogden in a lifetime. He’d
waste months and years puttering
around, his own way, and in the time
it would take to make the right kind
of a’test, he?d miss his chance for
making a success at something else.
If it had been potting clay, I’d bought
the farm and turned it into money—”

“Perhaps he wouldn’t have sold—”

“Him? Aw, Aggie, you can always
get what you want—for money.”

He turned the car over to his hire-
ling driver, took his tackle and bade
her goodbye. She watched him go,
leaning her chin on her hand, the el-
bow on the edge of the richly plushed
cars door. She watched him skirt
the Ogden meadow, go down the
fence as if to begin at the place where
the creek issued from the pond that
was Ruccastarra’s sacrosanct trout
preserve. But—-

Instead of turning down-stream,
he swung about and deliberately be-
gan to fish the pond!

“Please drive me home,” said Agnes

to the waiting driver.
* ne ok *

Will Ogden came by the Varnum
house about 10 ‘o’clock, up-bound
after his trading trip at the cross
roads store. Agnes waved to him
from the porch and he called in:—

“Yo, ho, Aggie! I’m going to fish
down the creek s’afternoon. I guess
Dan won't catch them all, eh? I
want a small mess of trout, so I can
divide with you.”

He was so friendly, so “homey”
there, in the old side-bai buggy, with
the mare looking back, twisted be-
tween the cracked thills and whicker-
ing at him as a horse will at only a
person it loves, that Agnes felt drawn
toward him. She went out to chat
and notic2d his boot, covered with
the dried-out clay. She pointed to
it and laughed:

“Been messing up in the old clay
bank again?”

“Yes,” and his laugh matched her
own; “and I’ve found out it’s no good
clay for pottery use by this time, too.
Maybe it’s good for something else,”
and he looked at her, mouth-corners
a-twitch with his Ogden whimsy.
“T’m still a-hoping so.”

“Tl bet,’ she funned’ and then
they passed it over and chatted on
small matters.

“Look out for the trout tonight,”
Will called to her, as he drove off.
He waved his hat to Mrs. Varnum,
who came out to see him off,

“Will won’t even fish his own
trout pond, he’s so square with the
rest of the valley,” Agnes’ mother
said, from the doorway. “Like all
th’ Ogdens; quiet, happy, self-sacri-
ficing, an’ deep-down good. He’ll
never be rich, like Dan Steele,
though.”

“No, he won’t,* Agnes agreed, a
shade of inchoate wistfulness in her

tones.
* * * *

There was a little walk along the :

creek-side that Agnes often took. It
led down the sloping bank on which
their house stood, through the lower
pasture and to a clump of hemlocks,
seedlings, thickly growing where the
creek made a sharp turn. She made

the little trip that afternoon and >

gathered some early gentian and

then, blooms in het lap, sat and

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listened to the cool waters of rejoicing
talk to their banks and rocky shal-
lows.

The shadows lengthened; swallows
twittered as they swirled over the
little pools of the brook after low-
dipping flies; the day dream of the

_ girl deepened.

She heard some one coming, down
the brook, wading, splashing, with-
out exercising the trout fisherman’s
usual care. It was Steele. His creel

| hung heavily from one strong shoul-

der.

In a little pool above her own
sheltered nook she saw him make
several quick, eager casts—but not
with gossamer-winged — flies. His
hooks were heavy and he yanked
them through the water with a vigor
that told its own tale to the girl
who had seen so much of fish and
fishing at her very doorstep since
early childhood. Presently his
snatch-hook, triple-barbed, as she
could note, snagged into the back of
a beautiful trout that -was sunning
himself in the depths of the big pool
and Steele yanked the beauty out
and slammed it into his creel. He
tried his gang-hook agajn and again
and failed. Then he frowned, laid
down his rod and took a bottle from
his sidepocket and poured some of
its contents onto some stuff he pro-
duced from somewhere. He cast
the doctored stuff onto the surface
of the pool. There was a flurry of
speckled fins, then fish came up from
the depths, stunned with the drug.
Steele waded out and began to net
them with fhis landing net. He
packed the creel to overflowing ‘and
then, with a smile on his strong face,
gathered up his rod and strode up
the path toward the Varnum house.
Agnes, scurrying along behind the
hemlocks, was in the home lane be-
fore Dan Steele came up it and he
found her behind the house, near
the well.

“See the big mess, that I was sure
I’d catch,” he boasted, flopping open
the creel to show.

He hastily poked down a trout

that had been gashed by the snatch
hook, but not before she had seen

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the cruel, gaping wound in its speck-
led side.

“Yes,” she agreed, stepping back;
‘“‘a big mess—for Ruccastarra creek,
Dan.”

*‘And tonight, Aggie,” and he lean-
ed toward her masterfully; “I’m

‘going to come here to take you for a

ride and to ask you———will you give
me your answer tonight, Aggie?”

Her eyes were full on his and her
answer was simple, direct and
satisfying; more than satisfying the
man who had been working so hard to
get her to make the decision that he
did not fear:

“Yes; tonight.”

From her place under the seedling
hemlocks’ screen, Agnes saw Will
Ogden coming long before he came
to the head of the big pool. He was
using his father’s old fly-rod, an old
line, a much patched leaderand
home-tied flies and hand-woven land-
ing net stretched on a loop of hand
whittled hickory. Will was wading
the creek, clad in old shoes, stockings
and trousers and butternut shirt and
had a fairly disreputable hat, its band
stuck full of veteran flies, on his
tousled head. And ever, as he
cast hopefully, but — uselessly,
whistled, low and sweet, in accord
with the little creek’s own music.

He fished the big pool carefully,
eagerly, then gave it up regretfully.
It was the last one, for just below was
the Steele flatlands and then the
river and no trout went below the
Varnum pool during the warm wea-
ther.

Will unstrung his pole, up-turned
his empty creel to rattle the ferns out
of it that he had placed therein to
cushion the trout he had hoped to
catch. She saw him prepare to go
up the path to begin his trudge home
and knew he would stop to tell.her
of his non-success. So she went
quickly up the slope and came into
the. yard while he was going more
slowly, stopping once in a while to
glance back at the shimmering stream
stealing from its ambushment of
copses and knolls toward the Susque-
hanna off below. The sun was just
going.

*“Asnes,” he saluted her when he

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had seen her beside the well, where
he so often had met her in other
days; “I’ve fished all day and caught
nothing. Some one fished the pond
today; I saw his tracks on the margin
of the springs—and all down the
brook, too. And he didn’t fish fair,
Used gang-hooks, for I’ve found some
little trout, dead, too small to keep,
slashed with gangs, all torn to bits,
the beauties! And, worse the pirate
used *Injer cochlin’ on the pools, to
drug the fish out—the stuff we use to
stun bait-fish for ice fishing for the
winter, you know—yes; the pirate
skinned our little brook—so there’s
no trout for you today, Aggie te

He glanced at her. She nodded.

“Tl ask Dan Steele if he saw any
one—a stranger—on the stream,”
he went on earnestly. “I know
Dan would“never do it. He’s one of
us. He knows the rules up here—
fair fishing; no fishing in our spring
pond. Dan wouldn’t do it........ ‘al

He paused, his face alight with the
energy of his defence of his boyhood
friend. She looked at him, eyes
a-shine with understanding of ‘his
Ogden loyalty to home folks and
things. ;

“So there was no trout left for you,’
Aggie,” he said quietly,#regretfully;
“and I did so want you should have a.
mess. I always give you some, each
year. You're so fond of Ruccastarra
trout........

“Yes, Will, I am.”

She came toward him. Outside a
big motor hummed, then stilled.
The horn tooted.

The dusk was coming; day all but
gone. The brook babbled under the
bank; coachman flies flittered past;
an early moth. Then a whip-poor-will
in the hemlock thicket called softly.

“Will,” and she took him by the
lapel of his wet coat; “it was nice up
by the old house today. The old
home is beautiful and peaceful—I—
like it.”

“Do you, Agnes? It’s always been
a home of happiness. I couldn’t
leave it for the city and city successes.
I’ve had my hopes at times. But,

shucks, a fellow with a small farm, a -

few cows, a trout pond that is the
valley’s own and an itching to go

exe

fishing every little while—what. am
I beside Dan Steele and his pros-
pects?” ;

The Ogden smile of quiet whimsy
wreathed his loyal face.

“Never mind Dan Steele- now,”
she said, putting her hand into his
empty creel; “Jets’ talk of .fhe== |
happy place........” "s

The motor’s horn called, insistently,
out front

“Oh, Aggie—you’d take me, poor—
and everything?” Will whispered.

His hand went into the empty creel
to clasp her own. She let her hand
remain in his.

The big motor out there in front
tooted again, impatiently.

“You'll have one like that,’ Will
said; “a big blue one, if I can make
i = tes) +

“Never mind that, either,” she
said, coming closer.

““That’s what I mean,” he went on,
earnestly;

The horn tooted again.

“A big one, like that, or better,’
he swept on, happily; “and every-
thing that goes with it. There was
a letter for me when I got home. I
missed the mail-carrier this morning
when he went by and didn’t look in
my box, but the letter was there
when I got back. It was from the
Paint Syndicate, an offer of a lot of
cash-down money, with royalty on
every ton, for my red-clay bank, that |
really is a fine grade of ochre of a °|
kind new to science. They'll develop
it all and the papers make them put
the refuse over on the back end of
the farm, so the-creek won’t be fouled el
in the operations, Aggie. We can
keep the happy house just as ‘it is, :
have everything in it nice, a arage |
behind, electric lights, hardwood 4
floors — everything —I turned my~ |
tech-school course to good account
boring into that old clay bank, |
Aggie, working out a process for
refining the ochre, and in laying out
the ground plans for the operations,
to prove, when I submitted my pro-
position, that it was feasible from an
engineering standpoint, to get the
raw stuff to the railroad at a cost that
will leave a nice profit to the syndicate.

”

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and me is that your mother call-
cg ieaiee

It was:—

‘Aggie, AGGIE!”

‘Yes, mother.”

“Mr. Steele is in front, waitin’
for you

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“Tell him NOT TO WAIT!” she
answered, happily.

And as they walked together, up-
path, they could hear behind them,
tinkling, purling over its shallows,
the little home brook, whose waters
of rejoicing spoke of love and quietude
and heart’s delight.

In Trouble Again, Joe!

Harry M. Moore

\HERE sat Joe Duff
at the door of his
shack at Long Lake
alone. For the nonce
i) Joe Duff was content
= eee at
ar =| Within two days
paddling the seduc-
tive city rumbled to
the sounds of the Great Unrest of
Man. Within two days paddling,
The Runt wandered aimlessly about
the city streets, longing for the com-
panionship of his pal. Within two
days paddling, Police Magistrate Mc-

Hugh—

Joe Duff’s big hands knotted. His
brown eyes gleamed lividly. His
long thin face set in a sombre, sullen
soberness.

Joe Duff had been born to trouble.
He had not meant to kill Franswa,
the up-country packer. He had
merely done his duty by his pal. At-
tracted by sounds of a struggle in the
Grand Central bar-room that night,
Joe through sheer curiosity entered.
But what he saw—

Franswa and Labarge stood over
the prostrate bleeding Runt. The
Runt’s apparent critical condition
meaat a lot to Joe Duff. The Rint
was Joe’s pal. No man had ever
suffered through having Joe Duff for
a friend.

Franswa hurtled against the count-
er and sank to the floor. Labarge
catapulted into a corner and sat up
rubbing his neck.

Joe Duff got The Runt to his feet.
He was not hurt—much! And then--

They told him that Franswa was
dead. That he had killed him.

Joe Duff stooped and feverishly,
hopefully sought a breath of life in
the body of the breed. Then he
arose and brushed off his hat. The
police came. Joe Duff was placed
under arrest.

Next day he was brought for trial
before Police Magistrate McHugh.
And McHugh—

Before reading the charge, McHugh
looked over his glasses. Assuming a
stern parent-wayward child attitude,
McHugh had said, “In trouble again,
Joe,’ just as he had said’ the same
thing in the same way a dozen times
before. And Joe Duff—

Joe Duff colored and swore under
his breath. The magistrate’s words
were all too true. Joe Duff had al-
ways been in trouble. But never
before had he been the cause of the
death of a fellow-man.

The trial proceeded.

It was brought out in the evidence
that Franswa was a bad man. Wit-
nesses swore that had it not been for
Joe Dyff, the breed would have killed
The Runt. The doctors swore that
Franswa’s death had not been caused
by a blow, but from striking the oak
counter. The best criminal lawyer
the city afforded, marshalled these
facts, seasoned them with sound’
argument, sweetened them with flat-
tery of ‘‘my learned friend’s uncom-
mon knowledge of Blackstone and:
Hoyle.” He asked that the defend-
ant be given the benefit of the doubt.
Franswa’s death was an accident, pure
and simple.

The magistrate summed up the
case in a few words. He gave Joe
Duff a severe lecture. He warned

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him that if he ever came before him
again, the Franswa killing would be
resurrected against him. He order-
ed that Joe be released from custody.

Joe Duff was a free man. And
then—
He parted with The Runt. It was

a bitter termination of the fellowship

Harry M. Moore

cemented by years, but Joe Duff
knew that as long as the city held
him between its borders, he would be
a target for the police. As indeed he
had always been a target for the blue
uniformed wielders of the night-
stick. Not that he was innocent of
wrong-doing, Joe Duff would never
Say that. But it had always seemed
to him that when his own personal
safety was at stake The Law drew the
line too fine altogether. So—.

Joe Duff kicked the city dust off
his shoes, packed a canoe and stole
Two days later
he arrived at Long Lake and the
shack.

And now—

Joe Duff rolled a cigarette and
azed longingly southward. Some
ay—some day, after a month or a

year—. Some day he would leave
this silent, solitary lake and go back
to the city. Some day he would go

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back and tell The Runt that the

Separation only added new life to
their palship. Some day he would

go back to the city and with head

held high in defiance he would show
. these bounds of the law, he would

show Police Magistrate McHugh,

that he was as free of crime as he

Hee iv by right of birth.

ut

Joe Duff was not aware that
Labarge had sworn that the same
trail that carried Joe Duff north
would echo, too, to the dip of his
pares Joe Duff did not know that

is stay at Long Lake would not be
more than three days, that he would
go out to the city, and when he did—

It was early afternoon of the third
day after Joe Duff had arrived at
Long Lake. Joe had filled his cart-
ridge belt and was buckling it around
his waist, when he heard the faint
dip, dip of a paddle.

Joe Duff sprang to the small
window that overlooked the lake.
He saw a man run his canoe up on the
beach and jump out. Then a crouch-

ing figure stole in behind the low
shrubbery.

“Pings

Joe had barely time to duck. A
Steel jacketed bullet burned the side
of his head and drove with tremen-
dous force into the opposite wall of
the shack. Instinctively Joe Duff
grabbed up his rifle. He slipped a shell
into the barrel and raised the hammer.
Then— .

Joe Duff’s brows gathered in per-
plexity. Should he do it? One
death was already registered against
him. Police Magistrate McHugh
had said if he ever came before
him again—

Joe removed the cartridge dnd
threw the rifle from him- No! No!
No more trouble for him. He was
done with trouble. He was going
back to the city some day and he
wanted to be a free man.

Joe Duff doubled his spare six feet
and applied his eye to a crack in the
log walls. Another bullet sang
through the open window. Joe duck-

ed again. Two more shots stacca-
rake from behind the shrubbery,
then—

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Labarge walked out onto the path
and with his rifle at the ready,
watched the shack. For one, two,
three minutes he stood, then a
mysterious unexplainable thing hap-
pened.

Labarge jerked around. He watch-
ed the lake. He ran to his canoe,
pushed it out and jumped into it.

Joe Duff straightened up. His
big hands pressed back his hair.
Labarge paddled frenziedly up shore.
Joe watched him eagerly.

Suddenly Labarge sprang up in his
canoe. His arms spread awkwardly.
He tumbled over the gunwhale on
his face. -

Joe Duff’s long legs ate up the
distance which separated shack and
lake. Labarge’s canoe drifted with
‘the light off-shore breeze. Joe Duff
scanned Long Lake for signs of
life. He couldn’t see any. Then he
pulled his own canoe out of the
cedars near-by and went to the
stricken man.

Labarge had been shot through
the left side.

Joe removed

the unconscious

breed’s shirt and found the hole a

few inches below the heart. The
wound bled freely, but Larbarge was
not dead.

Joe bandaged Labarge and stood
over him. What should he_ do?
There were two alternatives: Either
remove the breed to the shack and
take chances on pulling him through,
or take him out to the city and
the hospital. Joe Duff ten-
derly lifted Labarge into a canoe.
He was going to take him out.

An hour later the shack at Long
Lake was deathly silent.

Two nights later Joe Duff’s heavy
boots joined the joyous sounds of
the great city. Labarge, still un-
conscious, occupied a ward in the
city hospital. The doctors had said
he would pull through, thanks to

Joe Duff's herculean, fifty-six
hours, ceaseless, foodless, restless
shah Joe was glad to get back,
is

Where was The Runt? All efforts
to locate him had failed.

Joe’s brows clouded. Had The
Runt followed Labarge to Round

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Lake and then shot him in the back?
Joe’s eyes sought the sidewalks for
an answer. His feet quite uncon-
sciously brought him around the
corner by the city jail. Joe raised
his face. He smiled ironically. He
knew every stone in that high, un-
scalable wall.

Two bluecoats came out of the
jailer’s office. Between them—

Joe Duff raised his head defiantly
and crossed the street. The blue-

coats separated. Joe’s hands fell

on The Runt’s narrow shoulders.
“Why, hullo, Joe,’ The Runt
chuckled, looking up. “What
brought you back? Did you know
this was my coming out night?”
“What were you infor? How long?
Joe shot at him soberly.
The Runt smiled sheepishly.

“Got pickled and they gave me
ten days. But they cut it down for
good conduct. Can you beat it?”

“Thank God! Joe Duff breathed.
I brought in Labarge today. He was
shot at Long Lake two days ago.
And I thought maybe you did it.
Now I .know it couldn’t have been
you. He must have shot himself.
Thank God! Runt, neither you nor
I have anything to do with it.” He
wiped his perspiring forehead and a
smile lit his sober face. ‘‘Let’s get
around to the Central for a drink—
I’m nearly all in.”

Ten minutes later they stood a-
gainst the counter of the Grand
Central. eA

“Mine's whiskey,’ commanded
The Runt.

“Whiskey twice,’ suggested Joe
Duff.

They raised their glasses.

“THere’s to a clean slate and a clear
conscience,” toasted Joe Duff.
‘“Here’s to freedom, a little booze
and i

A hand dropped on Joe Dufi’s
shoulder. Joe spun around on his
toes and ran his face into that of a
—a policeman.

“Drink it down, Joe,” the police-
man commanded, “I want you to
come with me.”

The color left Joe Duffs face.

“What the 2? he snarled

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“What do you want me for?”

The policeman jerked a thumb
over his shoulder.

“The breed in the hospital has

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>

come to,” he explained, “and he
says you shot him. Come along,
Joe! I’m sorry, but—the law’s the
law.”’

The Passenger Pigeon
E. T. Martin

HERE are probably
few birds about which
as many fables have
been printed as about
Spa | the passenger pigeons.
Writers who were
never in a nesting,
who never even saw
a pigeon alive and who if they did
could not tell it from a mourning
dove, form the authority on which
much of our pigeon lore is based. °

They tell us first of all that man
exterminated them, This I do not
believe. We all know he helped, but
it does not seem reasonable to say
that he did way with them down to
the last bird, now does it? Is it not
reasonable to think that some few
must have been left? For the fact is
well established that there was a
billion in 1878. I saw them and with
others made a careful estimate of their
number—a third of that number in
1880 and none or nearly none in 1882.
Yet in 1880 a flock millions strong was
followed by men in my employ across
the straits of Mackinaw, traced into
Canada from which as far as is known,
not one returned.

For half a dozen years, so to speak,
I lived with the pigeons, almost
roosted with them. Kept with them
from Neosho in the swamps of
Southern Missouri to the Canadian
Woods. Was present at the last three
nestings that we know of and it would
seem that my say so on the pigeon
question should be valuable above
that of men who know of it only from
what they have read and heard.

For twenty years there were well
authenticated reports of small flocks
seen now in Canadian woods, then
elsewhere, then they also vanished;
at a time too, when one single passen-
ger pigeon, alive or dead, was worth
several thousand dollars, so none
could have been caught or killed.

I myself, saw, in the early nineties a
flock of about a dozen.

There was no increase in the number
of birds reported, rather a drying up
of the reports which would mdicate
that some virulent disease Had car-
ried even these few off as it had most
of the billion alive in 1878.

No, man did his part, with beasts
and birds of prey his able allies, but
the combination was not equal to the
total destruction of every pigeon in
the land.

What did it, then? f can only-
guess. \

The passenger pigeons were not
hardy birds, also were very subject to
disease and far from rapid breeders,
two or three nestings in a year, one
€gg at a time, rarely two, was their
limit.

The nestings before my time as
described by two eminent nat-
uralists, first Alexander Wilson, a
few years later by Audubon, were
much the same as those I knew but
larger.

As to numbers and habits of the
pigeons in 1811, Wilson writes:
“These birds nest in the back woods.
I saw one of these breedin places
which was several miles in breadth
and was said to be upwards of forty in
extent, with nests wherever the bran-
ches could accomodate them.” That
is, this nesting contained approximate-
ly 120 square miles, as against thirty
or forty, the largest in my time, which
as I have already written, was
estimated to contain a billion birds,

Wilson went on, ‘““The pigeons made
their first appearance about the’ tenth
of April and left with their young
before the 25th of May. As soon as
the young were fully grown but before ;
they left their nests, numerous part-
ies came from all parts of the adjacent
country with wagons, axes, beds and
cooking utensils, many of them accom-

panied by the greater part of their
families and camped for several days
near the immense nursery. The
ground was strewed with broken
limbs of trees, éggs and young squabs

Band tail pigeon.

on which herds of hogs were fattening.
Hawks, buzzards and eagles were
seizing the squabs at pleasure, while
from twenty feet upward to the tops
of the trees, the view presented a
perpetual turmoil of crowding, flutter-
ing birds, their wings roaring like
thunder, mingled with the frequent
crash falling timber, for the axe-
men were at work cutting down those
trees that seemed to be most crowded
with nests and contrived to’fell them
in such manner that in their descent,
they might bring down other trees
which meant the falling of one large
tree sometimes produced 3000 squabs.
I passed through several miles of this
breeding place where every tree was
spotted with nests. In many instances

single tree.”

Add to these conditions that Mr.
Wilson said existed in the early part of
the nineteenth century, ‘““There were
also almost entire tribes of Indians,
bucks, squaws, pappooses, gathering
the half feathered squabs by the
basket full to be smoked for winter
use, and then one has a pen picture of
several nestings as I saw them:
Fortunately though, this harvest of
squabs only lasted a few days for the
young pigeons were soon able to fly
and take care of themselves.”

Mr. Wilson goes on to describe an

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evening flight of pigeons as they
returned from their afternoon meal of
beechnuts, the beech woods being
distant some sixty miles. I will add
that a hundred and twenty miles
there and back was not a tiresome
trip for a pigeon to make. I myself
have found rice only partly digested
in the craws of a pigeon being dressed
for market, when the nearest place
where rice was raised must have been
nearly 300 miles away.

Speaking of this evenin flight Mr.
Wilson ‘continues: ““The breadth of
this body of birds from right to left
extended as far as the eye could reach,
seemingly everywhere equally crowd-
ed. The flight continued from before
half past one until six in the afternoon
and was “several strata deep.” He
estimated the entire length of this
procession of pigeons to have been
240 miles and was not much out of the

—

way.

The “‘travelling’’ speed of a pigeon
varied but little from sixty miles an
hour. From half past one until six is
four and a half hours,making 260 miles
as the probable length of this body of
birds. Mr. Wilson goes on, ‘““There
must have been more than two thou-
sand millions of birds in all’? and he
was on the safe side again. What he
did not say and probably did not
know was that these birds were the

“in” flight of the males, called by
pigeon men “the Tom flight,” the
females having gone out earlier and
returned before the males left the
nesting. These, with the squabs

al

would make a grand total in excess
of five billions, instead of two as he
wrote. He also said that each pigeon
would consume at least a pint of food
a day, which is too much for it would
mean a bushel of food to each 128
birds in twenty-four hours.

A person raising domestic pigeons
knows better. The netters only fed a
bushel of corn to a hundred dozen
pigeons which was sufficieht to keep
the birds in, good condition but not
enough to fatten.

My own experience showed a bush-
el of corn a day would keep very
handily a thousand pigeons while

*much more would be likely to cause

a canker to break out, which like
diphiheria among humans, proved
very fatal and this “pigeon diphther-
ia’? may have been what exterminated
the birds, Mother Nature being slight-
ly off her balance in that she provided
too much of one variety of food and
not enough of another: which started
the sickness and then like a prairie
fire there was no stopping it, the
germs clung to places where the

pigeons. resorted, new arrivals con-
tracted the disease and in the end not

a passenger pigeon was left alive
anywhere.

Young quail, often young wild ducks
and sometimes pheasant chicks will
contract sickness and die from the
poison left in the ground by_ barn-
yard fowl half a dozen years before.
So why may there not be something
in this theory about pigeons?

My estimate of food requirements
calls for a million bushels every day
for each billion pigeons. Were the
five billion of 1811 alive now with
most of the beech woods and oak
forests destroyed by ever advancing
civilization, see what an inroad they
would make on the country’s crop of
grain? It would be as bad as in the
early days when they swept through
Canada leaving the grain fields a
desert behind them and a good Bishop
of Montreal considered it necessary
to march against them at the head of
his clergy to exorcise them with “‘bell,
book and candle,” which if it did
nothing else, at least gave heart to the

eople.
From 1811 to 1878, if estimates as

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to numbers are correct, the pigeons
decreased at the rate of more than
fifty-five million a year from what
perhaps might be termed natural
causes, but neither natural causes nor
man are to be charged with the almost
total extinction of the last billion
within a period of four years as if they
had ran down a steep place into the
sea.

The -way we estimated that the

greatest nesting of our time contained |

a billion pigeons, was first to measure
off an acre of the pigeon woods, count
the trees, average as nearly as possible
the number of nests in a tree, count
the birds; two old, one young, to a
nest, then take the total ascertained
in this way and multiply it by the
number of acres in a tract one mile
wide by thirty long and this result was
the entire number of pigeons in that
nesting. As I now remember there
were several millions more than a
billion, which over plus we threw in
for good measure.

I not only helped count the pigeons
in the nesting but saw them when the
nesting broke. They were three days
passing a given point, not in a contin-
uous line but one flock after another,
thousands in a flock, and besides these
many left the other side of the Resting
heading north.

It would not be surprising if the
millions that went north in Canada,

all perished in a sudden storm of sleet

and snow. I have seen thousands
dead and: dying from what was not
very severe weather and acres, after
the snow had melted, white with eggs
the pigeons dropped, having no time

-

to build even the frail nests of sticks ~

that they used.

The drowning theory is not a good
one. ‘The pigeons were strong enough
of wing to cross the Atlantic as a 4
did, for a few were seen in the Britis
Islands, so why should being lost in a
fog that covered the face of the Great
Lakes, trouble them? They could

keep on the wing while it lasted else A)

find land on which to light. True,
late one fall many dead pigeons were

seen floating on Lake Superior. So

very many that the steamer was
“several hours passing through them,”
but the wash of the waves ‘had

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scattered them until the line was thin
and could not have numbered over a
few hundred thousand pigeons, prob-
ably not half that number.
~Theorize as we may, we will never
know what became of the passenger
igeons. For years those of us who
ad made them our study, thought
that, annoyed by steam whistles, the
shine of the many. lights, as well as the
netting and shooting in their nesting
places, they had picked up in a body
and gone to some less thickly populat-
ed country, migrating to the wild
of Canada, the mountains of Mexico
or the swamps of the Amazon.
Personally I feel while man is
deserving of much blame, the fault is
not all his any more than is the
disappearance of the saber-toothed
‘tiger, the mastadon of Northern
Canada or the Moa of New Zealand.
They had lived their time. Even
a race of men cannot last for thousands
of years so when Nature called ‘“‘come”’
there was nothing for them to do but
to obey and this they did regardless
of what means she took, disease, man

: 387

and his net, the farmer and his plow,
civilization and its ax, or drowning in
the fresh water seas, for these were but
instruments she used to enforce obed-
ience when she called.

NOTE.

This article makes interesting read-
ing especially to those who remember
the good old days of the passenger
Pigeon.

One important fact the writer has
overlooked, which no doubt was
the cause of their extermination.
The real home of the wild pigeon,
was the beech woods of Pennsylvania.
After the beech nuts had been cleaned
up in the spring, beech buds was their
staple food and as the woods became
less and less, the pigeons found no
other suitable place and as a conse-
quence their numbers were reduced
until their enemies were able to blot
them out entirely. They are all gone
these many years, off the face of the
earth, to be seen again no more.

Wi ail

My Request .

Georaina M. Cook

Weave me a romance, Songster,
Of the days of long ago,
Not in the’days of knight and sage,
Not in the halls of squire and page,
But out where the wild winds blow.

A song of the prairies sing me,

When the sweet wild west was new,
When the wild-geese, fearless, flew the sky,
When the wigwam’s smoke ascended high,

And the fragrant West-winds blew.

Paint me a picture, painter,
Of a glowing Western sky,

When the sunset glory spread overhead,

With its glowing yellow, and purple and red
In splendrous shafts flung high.

Paint me a winter midnight
With a brilliant moon o’er head
With stars like diamonds shining there
And a midnight mirage, ghostly rare,
And the white snow-carpet spread.

And the mornings—paint them—(can you?)
So I feel their charm again,

Of winter, frost-crowned, glittering white,

Of summer, radiant, warm and bright
And April’s soft spring-rain.

Sing to my heart,—paint for my eyes,
Oh, songster and painter rare,
Then give me the Road, with your Songs and
Book,
And all of heaven for my upward look,
And my soul shall find yours there.

FW

Hunting the Wild Duck in Nova Scotia

BoNNYCASTLE DALE

OW our Jittle expedi-
tion of two persons
is settled down in
a century old house
on the borders of one
of the long narrow
rock edged harbours
of NovaScotia. When
the tide is in, it is a
salt water scene, running about four
miles long by a mile wide, When
the tide is out half of this space is
one long green tide flat all thickly
covered by eel grass and millions of
snails. On the fat succulent snails
the black duck feeds. This is an
entirely different duck—although
they* appear much alike in plumage
from the bird we call the black duck
in Ontario. This is the “Blue-Wing”’

of the Atlantic Coast. _A bird which
makes its nests from the southern end
of Nova Scotia clear up to the
tundras of Labrador, and on the
islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
It is a bigger bird than our Black
Duck by half to a pound in weight.
Its legs and feet are red, its bill olive
green. It is Rubripes or ““The Red-
Legged Black Duck’’ of the A. O.
check list. Among these are to be
found in lesser numbers the black
duck of Midcontinent, obscura. We
cannot tell if any of these birds cross,
but it seems as if the greater number
breeding in the south are Anas
Obscura and the majority of the ones
breeding in Labrador the Rubripes or
“‘Redlegged’’. I may never be able
to prove these points personally as I
am too old todo the hard Labrador trip,
but I have hopes ‘“Laddie’ will
finish the work I am unable to do.
He noticed yesterday that when the
‘Blue-wings” are gabbling they have
also a whistling note—three short
whistles blending into one. Another
thing we notice is that when we
approach them in the canoe these
big Labradors do not jump as far
off as the common black duck.
They are not quite so shy. We
found them mating in December.

In the early days ‘of the spring they
are flying in couples before they leave
for Labrador. We find them as
excellent eating as the Ontario black
duck. They have much more fat
on them when Laddie is picking them.
It is a wonder that they are not
coarse, as they pick up their food
out of salt water, however, they are
delicate.

One day when Laddie and I were
out in the upper half of the harbour,
we saw Mallards. The harbour is pro-
tected water where none may shoot,
so that the wild geese may live in
peace—all but for the flock of eagles

which feed upon them and the hunters —

on the goose hills which wound many
and get few.

Speaking again of these birds—the
“Bluewings—,” in winter are obliged
to spend all their time along the
salt water harbour, as all the fresh
water lakes are frozen; and many may
die from lack of food and water.
They have been seen dead along the
creeks where they have walked up
after fresh water—and it running
away below many feet of ice. The
cowardly eagles and the wild cats
eat these dead-birds. In the summer
time all the black ducks that live in
Nova Scotia, mainly the yellow
legged ones, spend the days on the
fresh w ater lakes, usually coming to the
tidal harbours when the tide is out.
Often I have seen them fooled by
the ti. They have the normal
feeling of flight to feeding grounds
just as the shades of night cover the
flats. Often and often the tide is
full at this time—but the webfooted
ones come just the same.

We have not seen the Wood duck
here. One fine big flock of Great
Scaup, the big Bluebill, lived within ,
a quarter Of a mile of my desk all the
early fall. We saw none of the Lesser
Scaup, the: little Bluebill. Many

Whistlewings live in this harbour —

all winter and they are fairly good |
birds to eat, even if they do dive for
their shellfish and snail food in salt

ty

‘ but no hooded ones.

and December.

Goose.

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water. We saw American Mergan-
sers and Red Breasted Mergansers,
Both Widgeon
and Pintails were seen in small
flocks and we saw Green winged teal.--
No Red Heads or Canvas Backs were
seen, but quite a number of Buffle-
heads called “dippers” here; live inthe
harbour during October, November
There are) big
flocks of ““Old Squaws’’, or ““Coween”’
here all the fall and early winter.
Then comes the “Seaducks” or
*‘Shellducks’. These include the
Surf Ducks, American, Whitewinged
and Surf. But the one which comes
inside the harbour is called “‘The
Yellowbilled Coot” or “‘Butterball.”
This is the American Scoter. It is
eaten by all the residents here and
claimed to be.a good table bird.
One different habit the women have
here when cooking—they parboil all
game birds, even the excellent Canada
This takes off any coarse

taste from a coarse duck; but it must
take away a lot of richness from the

Canada Goose. We always roast
these birds without parboiling.

Then we have the rest of the sea
ducks. The new law prohibits the
killing of the Eider Duck. One
reason for this is that the all year
winter dwellers along the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, and the Islands of the
Gulf, and the shores of Labrador kill
such numbers of these birds for food.
During the summer their dogs kill
all migrants and nesting birds within
a wide circle of the villages, so that
even the coarse eating Eider is
beginning to show in lesser numbers
each fall. There are numbers of these
Eiders, Northern, American and
King Eider all along this coast in the
winter, as well as the Shellducks,
Mergansers. All of these birds live on
the immense beds of Mussels exposed,
or showing at low tide, all along the
ocean beaches.
wonder to see one of these big Ducks
in every yard of an oncoming rolling
surf, diving through its huge onrush-
ing: transparent billow and slipping

1. Our decoying hide on a rough shore.

2. The last shot,was a direct hit.

It is a sight of;

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out at the back safely—while the
roller crashes into foam upon the
shore. These birds all swallow
mussels that are as large as great
basting spoons. You can see the
course of the shell plainly down the
black throat—and down dives the bird
for another. The digestive Juice of
these Seaducks is so strong that the
hard shell is dissolved into limeflour
in a few hours. But it is a thing of
wonder how these birds live through
the cold hard winter with the terrible
storms that beat along the wild
Atlantic coast. All the ducks! have
to run the gauntlet of the eagles
which roost along this coast. We
know of about a dozen which live
in this harbourin winter. I have
counted eight eagles, each sitting
on the body of a dead goose, while a
circle of hungry crows advanced and
dodged and retreated; getting a
discarded morsel occasionally, but
having to wait until the so-called

king of birds (cowardly thing that it~

is!) finished its meal. Then as it
jumped and» sailed away some of
the crows chased and picked at it,
while the others hopped in and gorged
themselves (it seems a shame that
the law prohibits the hunters rowing
out and killing these wounded geese.)
Great numbers are wounded as they
fly high over the ‘Goose Hills’.
I would think twenty are wounded
to everyone that is killed.. Finally
many of these are unable to get on
the wing again and have to swim or
dive to dodge the eagles, until some
day the big savage bird drives its
claws into the wounded birds’ headas
it sits dozing on the ice edge.

It is remarkable how well a black
duck can dodge a pursuing eagle.
One poor ‘“Blue-Wing’”’ essaying to
pass down the harbour attracted a
Baldhead. From the high course
it was on, the eagle swooped down—
with a rush of air like the exhaust of
a whale—it curved onto the lower
line of flight in a most wonderful
manner and instantly. set off in chase
of the swiftly flying Blackduck.—
Now the rush of the pursuer is heard
close behind and the duck alters its

course so rapidly that the bird of prey

loses a bit of its advantage—Off curves-

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the duck turning and twisting and
escapes that time. Untiringly the
eagle keeps on pursuing and curving
and dropping but, praise be to the
power that fashioned that long black
wing; the poor harried duck plung-
es into the water and dives away from
the hanging talons which clutch forit.
At other times the duck takes a head-
long dive right into the spruce forest
and makes'a clean escape. I wonder
how badly it damagesits flight plumes?

It was just as the tide started to
run out that Laddie and yours truly
started, off’ the big ‘Herald brothers
Rice Lake Canoe’. (We carry one
of these all over the continent. They
are made to last a lifetime) We

.*

headed east for Boyd’s Rocks half —

way out towards the mouth of the
harbour. The December air was
as mild as October in midcontinent.
The main difference we find here is
that the decoys are either in arushing,
flowing tide, or high and dry on the
sands. Laddie does all the paddling
now, the old man has earned a rest.
We go very cautiously as there is a
great smooth swell rolling in from the
ocean, and many a glacier-carried-
rock hides below us in the rushing
water. It is odd to slip up these
great smooth slopes and glide down
the other side—I need a mouthnet to
catch my heart sometimes—but there
is no danger unless we hit a rock and
they only lie about as thick as plums
in a pudding. As we approach the
huge ice smoothed Boyd’s Rocks a
flock of Bluewings leap calling, and
many a Whistlewing or Bluebill,
or big wing Whistling “‘coot’’ (Ameri-
can Surfduck) leaps up and wings
out into the harbour.

It takes big rock anchors and hard
paddling by both of us to get the
decoys out in the six feet of scurrying
water. Then we have to drag the
canoe over the rockweed covered
ledge and hide it with seaweeds.
Many a cushion is thrown into the
rift in the rocks; for they are very
cold to rest on. Our hide in frontis
a tide wrecked lobster trap, now
burlap covered.

The decoys bob and dart in the
tide and the ducks begin to fly back.
It is a very odd thing but we rarely

ie

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get the birdsto decoy here as they do
in Ontario or the Prairies. I have
tried many bays and rivers, spits
and ledges in both the Atlantic and
the Pacific, but the birds never
decoyed as they do in midcontinent.
True that we get the few we need, but
they are snap shots at swiftly flying
ducks which saw the decoys and
they edged off. I think it is because
each and every bird has a pet feeding
- or drinking or sanding spot.

To-day Laddie is giving me the
shooting unless, unlikely thing, a
duck flops into the decoys. The tide
is running out swiftly and seal are now
climbing out on all the appearing
ledges with angry barks and loud
cries. “Look!”’ hoarsely whispers
the boy. A “Golden Eye” is coming
‘out of the bay. It sees our decoys,
curves in to within fifty yards, and
swerves. I give it the right; then
pour in the left asit fails to drop. The

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last shot hit it and away it falls, taking
a long drift before it splashed in,
right in the heavy sea outside the
rocks. We see it sitting there and
say “‘lost bird,” as I dare not risk the

d out there with the tide now
running.

Right behind this bird came a
female and, as it passed over, I[
managed to hit it, so that when it
struck the water and floated breast
up, that large crimson spot dyed
the breast and told that it was
mercifully killed instantaneously. I
was feeling quite well!—thank you!
Two birds down for two chances, so
promptly missed several others that
came, or “slobbered them” and saw
them fall out in the rough water.
It is too hard shooting forme. These
birds day after day, tear off overhead
in a swiftly curving line. So I have
more misses than dead birds—well!
I always: did have for that matter.

3. Right behind this came a female whistler and I managed to knock it dead as a stove-nail.
4 e rarely used decoys.

392

The Sandflats are showing all around
the rocks and we open the lunch and
pass the thermos. There is not a
scrap of wood on these rocks save our
lobster trap and that is too valuable
as a hide, to break up—thus the
thermos.

By one o’clock the tide is out and
all about us is hard dry sand on which
the decoys sit—looking as if they
didnot belongthere. Weseea Buffle-
head swimming in the channel and
put out in the now calm scene and
kill it, and pick up—or rather drag—
the canoe and decoys over the sand
to the retreated waters’ edge and
paddle happily home. We never
need more than a couple of ducks,
or four plover or a few shorebirds.
The climate is mild and we do not
try for a winter string of ducks to
hang up and keep’frozen. There is
always a big Canada Goose to get
between this date and Christmas.
I will tell you that two or three of
these look so big on the wall that
a man does not think of killing any
more for himself.

No one uses decoys here save us.
The black ducks are killed by lying
in wait on some of the points and
killing a number as they swim in—as
many as forty have been killed this
way, at one double. shot and one
and two dozen to a single barrelled
gun. The favourite way is to creep
down at night when the tide is coming
in, and the heavy rafts of Black Ducks
are feeding along the advancing edge
of it. Then a charge of number ones

or double B. B’s, poured in at forty *

to seventy yards, creates trouble for
that poor hungry flock. We cannot
do this way, I am almost sixty years
old now and too old a dog to learn
new tricks; even if my heart would
allow me to kill the birds we are so
fond of, during the dark hours of the
night.

But the sum total of the ducks
killed in this harbour during one
season, are not as great as I have
seen in the pictured bag of two
“duckshooters for the space of one
week on midcontinental ducking
- grounds.

It is May when I finish writing this;
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bird bigger than the Yellowleg, is
here. Some Surfducks in the Channel
some Semipalmated Plover, Curlew
on the barrens, all else gone north
to breed. a
The Black Duck is a better flier
than either the hawk or the eagle.
I have just watched a Duck Hawk
after aBlack Duck. It easily outflew
it. I would judge it was going full
ten miles per hour faster and even
on its curves the bird of prey failed
to gain much advantage. Finally
the bird swooped down to the water
and dipped below. The Hawk simply
curved upand flew off. The eagle
gives the Black Duck harder chase.
One morning just as dawnarushing
mass approached the point I was on—
soon a second dark body. hurtled
past—never seeming to gain. Over
the ledges the first and smaller bird
led the latger one. Back and forth
in long swelling curves. One would
think that the great eagle behind
had much the better chance. Not
at all! The.Duck led whither it
wished, flying full speed and at
last, dived into a clump of spruce
and disappeared. Again while I
was photographing from a tall rock
I heard an approaching flight. Three
teal dashed over my head and simply
passed out of sight beneath the salt
water of the harbour—right on their
course—as closely as if it had been
their shadows swept a Duck Hawk—
and no matter how often he upset,
or curved down, the Teal were
always submerged at his close ap-
proach—and up at his swift departure.

A chum of mine hunting in Illinois -
had just got his well painted Mallards
out to his satisfaction; his blind all
arranged and his seat comfortable
when in in swept a duck hawk. It
swooped, curved, backed and threw
its sharp claws into the soft cedar
of one of the decoys. :
*Can’t stand for that!’ said the
gunner and a swift mass of sixes
confounded the robber.

Once when I was intently watching
a Bluewinged Teal course like a
humming bird over the tops of the~
yellow giant grass in the marsh I
espied a second black object coming.
The Teal came nicely within range

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but I held my fire, it crashed straight
into the tall yellow stalks with a
rending noise—and the hawk curved
swiftly up into a stream of fine shot.

I had an odd experience last sum~
mer. I was visiting a neighbouring
harbour looking into the duck shoot-.
ing results for my coliimns when I
was attracted by a group of sailors
arguing. There were five men in
the altercation. The tallest one was
the captain—an American from the
old fishing town of Glouchester,
Mass. e and the mate and two
others were U. S. citizens. The fifth
man, a slim dark looking chap
wearing a mackinaw was a Canadian
from.one of the fishing villages along
As I saun-
tered along I heard him say—

“Canada is no good!,—I hate the
King and all the Royal Family.
Hurrah for the good old Stars and
Stripes!’

“Where in the States were you
born?” asked the captain.

“Oh! I was born in this rotten
country!’ said the Canadian sailor.

“How long have you lived in the
States?’? continued the captain.

“Off and on for ten years.”’

“Taken out your papers?’ ques-
tioned the captain.

“No!” grunted the sailor.

“Well! all I’ve got to say is that
youre a traitor to Canada so you
would be a traitor to the States.
We Americans have no use for a
chap that runs down his own country.
A turncoat is usually of no account
anyhow. You. just step aboard and
get your kit and hike. You'll have to

stay in what you call “this rotten’

country’, and if ever I catch you on
an American vessel I’ll have the
crew dump you—now git”. And
he got. “It’s a dirty bird that fouls
its own nest’ called the captain.

A word to my old friends the
duckhunters of Rice Lake. While
there I often picked up, especially
in the springtime, many dying wild
ducks, all diving ducks such as
Bluebills, Whistlewings. The al-
most pure white tongue and mouth
led me to believe they were dying
from old age. Now comes the sol-
ution from the Western States where

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there had been enormous amounts
of lead shot from one special point.
The ducks were dying there in
numbers and when examined were
found to be dying from lead poisoning
from the shot picked up as gravel for
the digestive tract.

/

“Oh for tricks that are naughty
and ways that are vain the Heathen
Chinese is peculiar’’so is the market
hunter.

Ihave seen in Fulton Market
in days gone by blackbirds and
robins marked Reedbirds. In
another place ““Marsh Rabbits” were’
plainly our old friends the muskrat.
Coarse shellfish eating surf ducks
masqueraded under the name_ of
Black Ducks. In one place they
had evidently been short of boxes to
ship them in and the results were
redskinned ducks as square as a
brick.

But some of our Canada and
Maine market hunters are using new
ways that are decidedly peculiar.
These men have been procuring the
non-residénce tags from hunters who
are allowed two deer but“have only
taken one. These tags are used for
shipping and the U. S. Fish and
Game Waxdens are wise to this new
fangled way. Five dozen carcases _
of deer were shipped by one man,
A: dozen arriving at one time. The
deer were instantly carried into cold
storage under false owners’ names
and later found their way into the
market. Even the name of citizens
dead and gone have been used—
and a prominent Bank President had
his name used as a shipper. %

It pays well to do this work as
the profits on a carcase will run all
the way from $35 to $50 apiece. But
they were not even satisfied with
this—they had to kill the goose that
laid the golden eggs—they neatly
and carefully, but not too carefully!
filled the carcases with wild ducks.
Yes! I know it comes hard on
many a dweller in the long narrow
harbours of Nova Scotia and Maine,
who used to make fifty to a hundred
dollars out of Surf Ducks and Eider
Ducks, but the New Federal Laws say
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earcase held some old Squaw Ducks,
““Coween”’ we call them on the big
lakes, and to fill out evenly some one,
evidently a joker, had stuck two

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cabbage in a big deer’s paunch. In
this last haul the deputies seized
eighteen deer and twenty-five wild
ducks.

Rivetting Its 250th Link to the Chain

ATHENLNEY EvANs

URING the first week of May, pages of
Manitoba history were turned back
into the years of long, long ago. Upon

Monday, May 2, there was presented a
drama, its scenic basis portraying contrast
of peoples, modes of clothing, transportation
facilities, other features of historical record.

The Hudson Bay Company on May 2,
celebrated the 250th. anniversary of its
connection with the fur trade, life, character
of Rupert’s Land, the once unknown huge
territory lying to the westward of Great Lakes.

The scene of a jubilee with its array of
spectacular accompaniment, was Red River.
Upon the bank of this muddy streamstands
the City of Winnipeg, once trading place of
Indian and trapper, they who swapped the
pelts at the Great Company’s store. And
Winnipeg was the starting point of the
jubilee proceedings which were staged to
occur at Lower Fort Garry, an establishment
of the H. B. C. on Red River bank twenty
miles distant from Winnipeg. At Lower
Fort were assembled for the anniversary
ceremonies, a representative gathering of
Indian peoples, «the chiefs of Ojibways,
Blackfeet, Crees, and Karriers. From
that vast domain of the Great Silences
leagues northward of Lake Winnipeg, came
forth a company ifto the land of palefaces.

A flotilla of 17 canoes, a dugout, two York
boats contained the plainsmen and voyagers
Punctually at 9.30 o’clock, the navy manned

by sturdy Indians left Provencher bridge, *

a structure twixt Winnipeg and St. Boniface,
amid the aecclamations of many thousand
sightseers lining the river banks. Among
the crowd, might have been observed natives
tenanting lake shores and tamarac woods of
Northern Ontario’s fastnesses.. The destin-
ation of the river voyageurs was as stated,
Lower Fort Garry. No place of greater
suitability for the auspicious occasion could
have been selected, for Fort Garry was one of
the Great Company’s oldest trading posts,
and likewise, even until recent years, the
residential quarters of the Commissioner and
his family. As the craft proceeded along
Red River, the millinery and wearing appar-

el of sightseers seemed tofade into insignifi-
cance before the gorgeous head feathers and
beaded jackets of Indian chiefs and their
attendants. And thus was there visibly pic-
tured a canvas depicting a Manitoba un-
known to an outside world, verily a panorama
enacted wherein no essential of early war
history appéared but was accurate in every
detail.

Arrival of the flotilla at Lower Fort Garry.

shortly after one o’clock, was announced
with discharge of a cannon, the signal that
historic scene would shortly be | presented
within the Fort walls. The many thousands
of visitors before whom the old time drama
was rehearsed, will ever retain within their
memories the details connected with the
Great Company’s anniversary. The initial
proceeding at Lower Fort was an address
of welcome delivered by Sir Robert M.
Kindersley of London, Governor of the
Husdon Bay Company, and various orators
of the Indian tribes made suitable response.
This feature concluded, smoking of the pipe
of peace,an instrument four feet in length
and specially made for the occasion by a
Sioux Indian, was observed with much cere-
mony. Following this event, presentation
of medals to the chiefs occurred, and this
function coneluded, a great pow-wow around
the flagstaff between the Governor and his
Neche guests was fittingly carried out. As
shades of nightime approached, the Indians
gathered together in small groups, and
an old time “burst forth’’ of drone, oftom tom
and chant of the forefathers, continued
several hours. Not a few of those who
participated in this revel, were making an
acquaintanceship with the civilization of their
paleface brethren for the first time.

The Hudson Bay Company to-day stands
at the threshold of greater prosperity than
has ever marked the Company’s history and
record of 250 years. Within this present
Summer the foundation of a huge store
costing upwards of five million dollars, will
be commenced on Portage Avenue, Winni-
peg. This building will be utilized for the
Company’s extension of retail trade.

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F. V. WILLIAMS

pitch knot burst in the campfire in front
of us and sent a cloud of spark® in all
directions and from across in front of
the tent where my partner sat smoking a
solemn pipe came the query, “Crystal gazing?”
It would have made anyone laugh the way he
put it, if we remember rightly the last picture
ofa person we had seen Crystal gazing was
of a very much advertised actress posing
with the famous glass globe held in front of
her, and a very saintly expression on her face.
It was a good photo, but ye Gods, Crystal
gazing? Say our thoughts were a long, long
way from Crystal gazing, (Rod and Gun will
have a Crystal gazing story later). We were
thinking of the hundreds, yes perhaps hundreds
of thousands of people, both old and young,
women and men, who every year are seeking
rest, “Rest” mind you, in trying to outde
someone else in the rush for pleasure.
Its a real tonic they need, and do you know

-where to find it? Well take it from us it is
‘not where the crowd is rushing and shoving,

where brick walls blot out thesky and shut
off its blue, and it is not under the glare of
electric light and in the company of painted
baby dolls. It’s out where the Great Spirit
has made paintings that some artists endeavor
to copy but never get just the effect that the
Great Master of All has put on his canvas.
Real Tonic! Oh Boy, try it once Mr.

‘Man whose stomach is getting a little bit too

large to suit your shoulders, only don’t let
the first rainstorm or first mosquito‘ bite
turn you back to your dissipations and hard
work, until you have soaked up two weeks,
or two months if you have the leisure, of this
Real Tonic, a trip to the Lake Country of the
Big North Woods.

There’s a fire built between two logs, said
logs are lying parallel across the foot of a
big tree, a tent in the back ground, supper
dishes all put away and everything about
camp made tidy for the night, off to the 1ight
as we, partner and I, face the fire is an arm of
the little lake, and asplash denotes the feed-
ing of a pike, or maybe acurious muskrat. A
pitch knot bursts in the fire and sends a shower
of sparks into the air and half closing my
eyes and taking the back trail a few years
we see two fellows starting out from a little
mining town in a Fraser river skiff, grub for
two weeks, rifles, blankets and “‘old Nigger’,
the big black curly dog, of what breed we
know not. An old gentleman is helping the
boys stow away their belongings abroad this
boat, and is plainly very anxious about their
comforts, one of the boys tells him they will
be back in amonth, the other says two weeks,
and the old gentleman with the smiling face
finally answers his own questions by remark-
ing that they will probably be back when the

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grub gives out, a good guess, evidently he had
been a boy himself.

The way leads out of the harbour at
Nanaimo through the channel between
Newcastle Island and the main Island,
through Departure Bay and out into the
Gulf of Georgia and then on up the Coast
line of the Island, it is coming on dark and
threatening rain when we get our flat bottomed
centre board skiff around in the lee of a tiny
island off Nanoose Bay. It is quite dark by
the time we get the fire lighted and prepar-
ations made to spend the night, completed.

We had depended for drinking water on the
many fresh water streams along the way and
now that we had landed on our little island,
partner said he knew where there was a
dandy water hole on the highest part of the
island. It was very dark and we carried no
lantern but that made no difference as our
large camp fire threw a goodly light and my
pal disappeared into the blackness with our
large stew kettle and the coffee pot only to
return some fifteen minutes later with both
brimming full of clear fresh water.

We made a stew off boiled potatoes and
a duck that had gotten within range on our
way up, a few onions and some slices of bacon.
Pilot bread and tea finished the meal off,
and we made a rousing fire and crawled in
under the low branches of a dwarfed cedar
with our blankets and had a sound sleep
that lasted ’till daybreak and we were up and
about with the first of the daylight. 1 took the
coffee pot to get a new supply of fresh water
and made my way to the water hole that
partner had visited the night before and filled
that very naccessary utensil and was about
to turn away when something black attracted
my attention at the far end of the pool, and
there lying in the water was a dead scoter,
how long the fowl had been there would be
hard to say, but at least a week judging from
appearances, and, well, that water, was it
fit to drink? We had drunk it the night before
from this same pool, so before throwing it
out I returned to the beach where partner
was storing the last rolled blanket in the
boat and everything was ready but the coffee.
1 told him what I’d found, he grinned good
naturedly. ‘We drank, it last night, we’re
still alive, and if we don’t drink it this mor-
ing we go without coffee. its breezing up
and it will take us an hour to get to other
water. The pool looked all right otherwise
didn’t it?”” he remarked, and I had to admit
il did, and as the dead duck was lying some
twelve or fifteen feet away in the very shallow-

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est part of the pool we decided to take a
chance, the water was boiled, coffee made,
and as partner remarked we'd probably drank
lots worse coffee in the restaurants many a
time and judging by the flavor, we sure had.
Moving out from the shelter of the little island
that morning our sprit sail caught the first
of that fresh coming breeze.
three hours with almost a fair wind, and
a wind that was steadily increasing in strength.
It finally began to rain and with the rain the
wind becameso strong that we were afraid
the mast would go, so we took out the sprit
and just let the old skiff slide along with a
leg o’mutton sail as driving power, and with
the wind we had, it was a plenty large canvas.

An hour after we had taken out the sprit
we were racing along with the wind like a
scared fish, and away on our left on the shore
I saw a settler’s cabin and a group of people
about the door and what was evidently the
man of the house watching us through a
telescope.

The water was becoming much rougher and
I looked back at my partner who was seated
in the stern steering, he looked a bit worried
and just then the skiff was lifted on a huge
wave and sent forward as if shot from a
catapult, the wave did not break but ahead
of us about a half mile I could see there was
a regular mass of breaking seas, shallow water,
and we were going at the speed of an one
train straight for it.

In the bow was a good anchor and about
one hundred and fifty feet, perhaps more,
of good salmon net line, I made the anchor

fast to the line and coiled the line under the

bit of a deck forward. It took but a few
moments to do this and then I glanced back
again.

Old Nigger the dog, was lying flat in the
bottom of the boat, he sure knew we were

headed for trouble and he acted like it, we.

had kept too close inshore when the breeze
had freshened and now we were in such rough
water that there was but one thing to do.

_Ahead of us was a long point running out into

the Gulf, we could not pull our craft by the
wind even with the centre board down—we
had been running with it up, and hoped to
crawl around that point to shelter, the old
skiff would not hold up to windward, and
even if we had been able to do this the chances
are the seas would have rolled us over, even
with a better sea boat. There was just one
thing to do and partner was sure doing that,
he was: steeering straight for the smoothest
looking spot on the shore in front of us, once,

We ran for -

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twice, three times the seas lifted us up and
hurled us forward, the last time the water
slopped in over the sides and left some four
inches in the bottom of the boat, and then,
Ye Gods, the sheet tore loose from partner’s
grasp and the sail went smashing and flopping
off to leeward, as useless as a broken wing
on a wounded duck. We were slidin’ down
the windward side of the last big sea, and in
the distance I could see the one following it
sure to break, there would be ten or twenty
seconds perhaps before it reached us and I
threw over the anchor. It seemed an hour
before the skiff began to move up into the
wind,—I had snubbed on the line as soon as
I thought the anchor had a hold.

We were about 60 yards off the beach when
that first big white topped comber hit us. It
was like shooting the Chutes, the way we
raced skyward and went through—I say
through—because the skiff was too heavy to
go over the very crest of the wave—the top
of the big wave and shot down on the other
side.

I gave slack on the anchor line enough so
that we were carried some ten yards closer
the shore, partner by this time had recaptured
the loose sail and had it securely lashed in
place, and then another, and another of those
big waves hit us. Say, I was not frightened,
I was just plain scared, and I am not ashamed
to admit it, and all the time I was thinking,—
If we get rolled over here or get swamped,
I’m going to loose that rifle,—I had purchased
for this trip a new 38-55-Marlin,—Well it
would not have mattered much about the
rifle for I think had we keen swamped «that
Nigger would probably have been the only
one to get ashore as those seas were too big
and too heavy for such poor swimmers as my
pal and I.

Well at last I was at the end of my rope, we
were as near as I could judge about forty
feet from the shore. I looked back and part-
ner and the dog were sitting there waiting
for something.to happen. I think old Nigger

_ would have jumped, but the hand on his

collar held him back. I yelled back that we’d
have to let go, and I saw them get ready and
now we shot into the air again on the top-of
a bigger sea than ever, right at the crest, just
as it broke to go shooting shorewards
I let go the rope and turned round, and
say, Ob Man, Oh Man, the way we went at
that beach. The minute we struck, over the
side we both went and held the old boat stern
on to the seas, she was about 28 feet long and
very heavy, and we were unable to drag het

ford

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more than a few feet out on the rocks. We
simply stuck there and held her until the next
big one came, it nearly threw us off our feet,
it filled the old boat brimfull, and we were
in water to our waists, but the weight of water
held her on the rocks and we got a double and
single block tackle rigged to an old tree and
every time the sea hit the boat we got her a
little further off the beach until finally we
could take out the bailing plug and let the
water run out, then we got the old craft up
out of the seas reach, but it makes me laugh
to think about it. We were as wet as arainy
night, not a dry blanket, or stitch of clothes
on us.

It was the work of two hours to get up a
tent improvised from our sail and get the
blankets spread. It had let up in the rain for
awhile but now it started again, we had dry
matches and we lighted the big bubbles of
pitch on a big fir tree and got a fire started,
and that was some fire. The reflected heat
soon dried out the interior of our tent and in
spite of the rain the blankets dried, and then
we piled diift wood with which the beach was
covered—for an all night fire.

We were to have fried onions and potatoes
for supper and as we had a dandy side of
bacon we chopped off a goodly chunk for us
and lay the larger piece on a convenient slab of
drift wood, the supper nearly ready we looked
about for our large piece of bacon as we inten-
ded putting it away on the sheltered branch of
a treefor safe keeping. The bacon was gone
and so was Nigger, and he did not turn up
till after we had eaten and were preparing to
turn in for the night. No amount of coaxing
or threats would make him reveal where he
had buried the bacon, no sir, not he, the
picture of absolute humility he would simply
lie down when threatened with’ a whipping and
stick a very beseeching set of legs in the air,
when coaxed to show us the way he would
simply trot a few steps over toward a creek
where we got our water and then turn back,
well we gave it up and after fixing the fire
turned in. :

Along about three a.m. my partner woke
me up, he sure was mad, he was cussin’ mad,
and he wanted to know if I smelled what he
smelled. I told him I didn’t know what he
was smellin’, but that what I did smell was
the most obnoxious stink that I’d ever had
the misfortune to run into. We both raised
up carefully on our elbows and looked out the
front of the sail tent, this being open. It
was raining a little and the fire had burned
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objects plainly for twenty five or thirty feet.
I could see nothing strange, old Nigger was
curled up asleep inside the entrance to the
tent. Before I could stop him my partner
had grabbed one of his heavy boots and sent
it hurtling at old Nigger’s head, it missed his
head but hit him in the ribs and with a yelp
he bolted out into the rain. “Too bad to
send him outside in the rain a night like this”
T remonstrated.

“Too bad nothing,” retorted my mate,
“he’s not satisfied with swipin’ our bacon
he has to go and roll in a lot of that dead
salmon and then come crawling in here to
sleep.” Next morning we found this to be
true, old Nigger had evidently found a dry
spot under some tree, as he was both dry, and
considerable puffy looking about the stomach.
I imagined this was caused by our stolen
bacon, but Oh Boy, the smell of him, he had
a long black curly coat and we shortly after-
ward discovered that he must have had the
notion that this coat of his needed perfume.
He had found a few dead salmon on the bank
of the little creek, they had been dead quite
sometime, and, he had rolled in them until
his eoat was thoroughly perfumed. Well we
just sent old Nigger in swimin’ in a little cove
where the sea was not so bad, we sent him
fetching sticks until his coat was well washed
out by his own efforts in the water, as his
perfumed coat was a long way from being a
pleasant addition to camp.

It was morning of our first day on the beach,
and it still continued to blow and throw a
bit of rain at us. We had our breakfast and
started out after deer, the trails were full
of deer tracks, fresh ones, but there seemed
to be mighty few deer. and afterward we were
told that the wolves had been running the deer
and that the tratks we saw were of deer that
had been travelling at night and had probably
swam out to some of the smaller islands
to escape the wolves. We were told this by
a party of line men whom we met one day on
the road. They told us that day as they ate
their lunch a large wolf had come out in plain
sight and sat down about two hundred yards
from them, and looked them over, and then
trotted off into the bush.

It was the third day of our stay on the beach
and we took a different route for our hunt.
We left a bit of a natural clearing and started
through heavy timber on the edge of a swamp,
there were a number of old trees blown down
and on one of these, a tree some four feet in
thickness, we started to cross a marshy spot
in the ground, partner was ahead, Old Nigger

came next and I brought up the rear on our
log foot bridge. Half the length of the log had
been passed when my partner stopped and
pulled up his rifle, taking a careful sidestep on
the rough bark, I peeped by his shoulder and
saw the rifle he was carrying pointing straight
at the biggest buck’s head I have ever seen,
before or since. He was sure a beauty, he
was standing in a little swamp looking directly

at us and about 90 yards away, not more than -

that, perhaps the distance was a little less, at
any rate I saw the muzzle of the rifle drop
slowly down until it looked as if partner was

going to try for a chest shot and not take’

chances on shooting at the head.

I had seen’

him shoot before and knew he was a good shot —

and as the rifle cracked I was amazed to see

that big buck give a tremendous bound and

go smashing away through the huge skunk
cabbage leaves of the swamp. Well, I
flopped off that log and took a running shot,
and missed.

We followed the big fellow’s tracks fora
half hour in order to ascertain for cértain if
there were any signs of blood; there was not, so
it is safe to believe that the big fellow got
away without a scratch, as far as my shot
was concerned I know he did, as I saw the

twigs fly from a branch a foot to one side of —

his tossing white flag as he made a quick turn
to one side in his flight. I shall always believe
however that my partner’s miss was due to
defective ammunition, as later one of the same

lot of cartridges blew out at the head in such |

a way as to jam the action of his rifle and

put it entirely out of commission for the trip.

At the end of our,half hour’s trailing we

discovered we were a bit hazy as to our

whereabouts and as we did not wish to retrace
our steps we started straight away for what
we thought was the direction of the beach,
after an hours’ hunting,—we were travelling
about 50 yards apart,—and moving slowly, in
hope of getting another chance at deer, we
came to a dense thicket of small firs; they were
only four feet high, but they had grown so
thickly together that passage through them
without lopping a trail was out of the question
so we skirted the edge. We followed this
for another couple of hours and of a sudden

emerged from the timber onto the Government _

road within a mile of our camp for which —

spot we at once headed.

Out of bread at camp, we decided to call at

a settlement which we knew existed somewhere
a short distance, perhaps two miles to the
south of us. We arrived there about 1 p-m.
and inquired at two or three houses about

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buying bread, they had none to sell. Then
we tried to buy flour, they had no flour to
sell, and finally as we crossed a small bridge to
try a house on the other side of the creek
a white man accosted us and asked where we
were going. We told him we were after some
flour or bread, and he told us plain and blunt
that we would buy no food around there.
“That’s my woman over there” he remarked
pointing to an Indian woman busily engaged
in digging potatoes. ‘““Them’s my two boys,”
indicating two half breed boys, man grown
that were loafing under a tree a short distance
away, “‘and we ain’t got no grub to sell” and
the look of him as he said it was a threat in
itself.

“Oh well’? remarked partner **we know
where we can get grub and that’s about three
miles up the river at a settler’s place.” The
fellow in front of us was astudy. He did not
know whether to order us off or let us go on.

It’s like this” he remarked “there age bear
traps set along the trail up the river and you
fellows are liable to get into them.”

Partner looked at me and I looked at him,
and we suddenly decided the thing for us to
do was to go back the way we came. The
man in front of us evidently had reasons for
not wanting us to go up the river and the half
breeds and Indians we had talked with also
must have had their reasons for not wanting
to sell us grub.

Well my partner had left his rifle at the
camp, I had mine with me, there were other
little things about that camp that would very
likely be stolen if these people knew the place
was without a guardian.

“Bear traps up the creek? we didn’t
know that,” I remarked, “perhaps we'd better
think it over before tackling that trail partner,
hey?” and I was almost sure partne: would
agree and he did.

We walked back to camp after thanking
our friend at the bridge and spent a half
hour talking it over. My pal knew the settler
he spoke of and was sure we could get food
from him and so much of our stuff had been
spoiled by thesoakingit got when we landed
that we sure had to have grub.

Everything ‘‘stealable’’ we hid in the brush,
oars, camp equipment and all movables were
hidden, the surf still ran high on the beach
with an onshore breeze, so there was little
chance of anyone stealing our big skiff.
We each took our rifles and lots of spare
ammunitionand started back for that bridge
and sure enough our “friend” was waiting
forus. I could see he was sizing us up and we

watched his every move, and so did old Nigger,
who by his actions did not like him at all.
He beckoned to his two sons and the three
of them came up and stood across our path.
“TI see you have made up your minds to
go up the river,” he remarked with a scowl.
“Well, remember this, if anything happens
to you you have been warned.” “Don’t

worry there won’t be anything happen but.

what we will be able to account for,” returned
partner and he smiled at the fellow who stood
to one side and let us pass.

It was a long hike up the river, but we
made it without sign of a bear trap. We
found the man sick in bed with a cold and
his wife and two children doing the chores and
taking care of him, and he was so glad to see
Ys that he insisted on sitting up in bed for a
chat. In the course of the conversation we
mentioned about the fellow warning us not
to come up river, and our host informed us
that the people at the settlement were very
jealous of anyone who came into the neighbor-
hood as they always suspected them of being
spies of some mining syndicate, spying on
their claims of which they had a number in
the neighborhood. We were mighty glad to
find out about this as we determined on the
way back to set the man’s mind at the bridge
at rest cegarding our business.

Our hostess seemed worried that she had
nothing more in the way of refreshments to
offer than bread and milk, but she looked more
at ease after seeing the manner in which
partner and I cleaned up those bowls of rich
milk and home made bread, and when we were

ready to depart she sold us three large loaves”

of bread.

The next morning partner’s gun was about
useless and in trying to extract the broken
shell he converted it into a piece of junk as
far as shooting was concerned, I started out

alone and got one partridge and saw one deer, —

—too late to shoot at. \

We made a stew of onions, potatoes and
partridge, and as the wind was dying away
decided to make a break for home, and by
noon we were ready, we passed out’ over the
piece of water that we had nearly been drowned
on a few days before, now as calm as the old
mill pond—I forgot to mention that at low
water the day following our landing that we
managed to discover our net rope and after
a little wading recovered the anchor and all
complete which goes to-show that we came in
over a regular sand bar—that’s what made
the tremendous surf. Had the tide been a
little lower the old skiff would probably have

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struck bottom and filled on us while in the

trough of the sea.
A light beam wind favored us for-two or
three hours and with the centreboard down to

keep our craft from making too much leeway

we made fairly good time, then the wind died

- out, and we took to the oars and in another
_ two hours we were rowing against a head
_ wind. \ F

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From two in the afternoon until one the

ext morning we struggled against the wind

and rising sea and at last we crept in under the

- Jee of the little island we had camped on a few
' days before.

It was pitch dark and sprinkling
Fain again, we lighted a piece of wood covered

_ with balsam and got our old camp fire going

intending to spend but an hour or two and keep
on toward home, after we had eaten we dis-
covered the beat to be nearly aground in the
little cove and we were so plumb all in we
simply pulled the boat farther into the cove

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got our blankets and crept under the shelter
of the cedar branches again.

The rain woke us up about five a.m. splash-

ing in our faces as we slept, as the wind had
shifted and it was driving into our shelter.
Up we got and drank the last of our coffee and
the last chunk of bread old Nigger took at a
gulp. ’
Head wind and head sea drove us to shelter
again, by noonday we landed hauled out our
skiff, covered our dunnage and with our rifles
and blankets walked home.

What say? Oh yes 1 guess it is time to
turn in, and as I turn to follow my partner
to the tent I glance up at the new moon, look
across the quiet little arm of the lake and the
stars reflected therein and fifteen minutes
later am asleep under the canvas.

Rough stuff! Did I hear some one say?
Perhaps, but Rough stuff or otherwise it’s all
‘Real Tonic’.

~ Boosts Rod and Gun

Ediior, Rod Gnd Gun In Canada

For a long time my father has been a sub-
scriber to your valuable(magazine and ever
since I haye come to the city I have been a
regular source of nuisance to the bookstores
because I am around every month looking for
a copy of the Rod and Gun. In my opinion
I have no choice and I think nobody else
should have any choice between the various

_ sporting magazines. I think I have read

nearly all the sporting magazines and I al-
ways find something wanting in all but the
Rod and Gun. This magazine should come
regularly into the homes of every true born

‘Canadian, because Canada is (especially

northern Ontario) the sportsman’s paradise
and what people don’t know about the natural
life of Canada can be placed in their minds
through the influence of the Rod and Gun.
Often as I have just firlished reading a remin-
der by Robert Page Lincoln, I would sit for
hours and think (or rather dream) of the

- delightful hours and months I have spent

with nature in that wonderful northland,
canoeing, hunting, fishing, motorboating or

’ roaming through the woods and over the’

rocks near home, and now I think of the
foolish young people who crowd to the city

“to see life’ as they call it, and “to live.”

During my whole winter in the city I have
never spent one really happy, contented hour. *
There is the roar of the street cars, the whirr

of an automobile or the alarming clang of
the fire reels as they rush to extinguish some
unruly fire. Even as I go to the parks on
Sunday and see the beautiful trees and the
squirrels, the running streams, I do not even
see nature, for wherever you look there is the
everpresent automobile purring or rather
roaring along the finely paved highway.
Only when I sit alone in my room and pull up
the easy chair and get absorbed in the fas-
cinating paragraphs of the Rod and Gun can
I see nature as it really is. I believe the part
that interests me most is the stories of nature,
but I spend a great deal of time also in reading
the columns. of the Guns and Ammunition
section so full of good advice that no sports-
man can afford to pass by it without reading
it through several times. I have had friends
say to me, “If you studied half as hard at
school as you do the Guns and Ammunition
column of the Rod and Gun you would be a
clever man.”

Well I guess I should not waste your val-
uable time by asking you to read stuff like
this, but I can’t help letting you know how
much I appreciate the magazine which has
told me and others too a lot of things they did
not know before. } :

Wishing you every success in your excellent
work, I remain,

Yours truly,

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Belt and Scabbard Making

Asuiey A. HAINES

ROBABLY a more appropriate title for
P this article would have been “‘Belt and
Scabbard Making by an Amateur,” but

we will let it stand as written and briefly
endeavor to explain why it is desirable, at
times atleast, for the gun crank to know how
to make his belts and scabbards. If one lives
near the big cities, or is so situated that he
can obtain exactly what he may require in the
line of rifle and revolver cartridge belts, knife
sheaths, axe scabbards, and other leather
goods which every hunter is certain to have
more or less use for, then, provided the
leather goods enumerated above line up with
the gun crank’s tastes, he would be wasting
his time (and probably much good material)
learning how to make the above mentioned
articles for his own use. If, however, he,
like the writer, has lived most of his life in
sections remote from the big cities where the
things mentioned are not easily procured, or,
as is usually the case, if he has ideas of his own
which may, and probably doy differ from those
who have designed and made the leather goods
regularly offered over the counter, he is
certain to attempt making these things as
nearly as he can to suit his, possibly, peculiar
notions. It’s possible, of course, that some
who may read this may know some harness or

‘saddle-maker who will carry out one’s ideas

to the letter and; if so, one is certainly for-
tunate in knowing such a workman, but if,
as is too often the rule, these expert leather
workers are only interested in turning out
standard goods, our gun crank who may be
also a crank in other lines, will find it ex-
ceedingly difficult to have made the cartridge

a _ * belt or revolver scabbard which he desires to

differ in at least some respects from the
regular goods of this line. 4
There are plenty of excellent belts and
scabbards on the market, but that is not ad-
mitting that they will suit all of us in every
respect. Take the writer as an example.
What type of cartridge belt do you suppose
comes the nearest to suiting him? ‘‘Why,”
someone will say, “the combined cartridge
and money belt, of course.” And why do
they say this? Simply because it represents ,
the best in high grade cartridge belts. But
is it 100 per cent. perfect? It may be of very
best material throughout, the stitching of the
highest order and ornamentation the most
artistic, but there has always been at least
two features about such belts which never

suited me which will explain why I began

spoiling leather years ago in an effort to make

‘what I could not buy regularly over the

counter. ‘And the two undesirable features I
had in mind was that the regular combined -
cartridge and money belt, which means a
belt of the folded type, hasits edges brought
together at the side and almost invariably
the cartridge loops are spaced too far apart—
so far, in fact, that stitches are almost in-
variably seen between the loops when belt
is filled with cartridges. I have seen and
owned belts of this type which sold at fancy
prices where there were but five cartridge
loops where six could have been placed and
this without crowding. Which would you
prefer, a belt in which not a single stitch
would show between loops or one with loops
so closely spaced that no stitches were to be
seen? Remember, now, the belt of my choice
would be the oné with loops closely spaced

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but the loops must not be so closely spaced as
to hold the cartridges too tightly thereby
making their removal difficult in the slighest
degree. And the belts I make for my own use
(none for sale, remember, though often they
find their way into hands of other cranks)
have loops closely spaced on the body of the
belt, and yet the cartridges are easily re-
moved when desired.

‘But what's wrong with the folded belt

Three seamless cartridge belts made by Ashley A.
Haines. Belts are of the combined cartridge and
money belt type, but are made to appear seamless.
Very soft and very pliable.

you have mentioned above due to the edges
being brought together at one side? That's
the way they are all made; what's wrong with
them, I’dlike to know.” Nothing especially,
except the edges of the belt, in my opinion,
should be brought together at back of belt at
centre and sewed with what I, for want of a
better name, will call the base-ball cover
stitch which will be dwelt upon farther on.
Due to the fact that a belt so constructed
could not be purchased regularly, and that
none could be had with loops as closely spaced
as I desired, explains why I, years ago, began
making belts for my own use. “Such belts,
properly made, suit me muck better than the
standard belts. Both features tend to greatly
improve the belt in appearance while the
cartridge-carrying capacity is increased,
though I do not consider this last feature of
much importance, under usual conditions, as
one seldom cares to carry a belt full of cart-
ridges. But a belt in which the loops are so
clogely spaced as to prevent stitches being
seen between loops, which permits rims oJ}

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cartridges like the .25-35 Winchester touching
each other when belt is held up by one end,
and one in which both edges, heavily and
neatly creased, but each devoid of a seam or
stitching of any kind—a belt, in fact which to
all appearances when on the wearer is seam-
less at-all points, is the belt that I very much
prefer to the regular factory product.

When properly made, one of these belts I
refer to can be held up by the end and it will
hang perfectly plumb without any pucker
due to loops being too close together, the rims,
as I have mentioned, of such cartridges as the
.25-35’s touching, no stitches in sight and each
of the neatly turned edges of the belt ab-
solutely the same in appearance. To produce
such a belt one must have the right material,
have spaces in body of belt exactly right as
well as the spacing for the loops themselves.
The leather for these loops, remember, must
be thin—much thinner than is usually found
on the factory belts or it will be impossible
to space for the loops as closely as we shall
desire. f;

I have not referred to the ordinary single-
ply cartridge belts, which are almost in-”
variably made of thick, stiff leather, some-
times sewed with the abominable chain
stitch, simply due to their being unworthy of
notice. The belt we are interested in is one
made of the finest of soft, pliable, but never
spongey, russet calf skin. Some times I have
heard this called California calf skin and
several other names but right to-day I do not
know what a man should specify \to get the
leather I should want., Sometimes I am
lucky and get the superior article and then I
am doomed to land something quite inferior.
But nearly any one should be able to select
exactly what would be required if permitted
to inspect the leather when purchasing in-
stead of ordering by mail. Often this leather
is quite light in color, but this should worry
no one as almost invariably it will be darket
when made up and usually takes a rich russet
with use and the longer it is used the better it
will appear. The best of this leather [ am

‘writing about, usually has an almost damp

feel and slightly sticky to the touch as though
slightly oiled. This is the leather L very
much prefer though have made up some belts
from a similar leather except it seemed per-
fectly devoid of the damp, sticky, oily feel. —

In selecting leather for one of these belts, —
I would most earnestly caution against
choosing the thick hides. Remember, this
perfect belt of ours is to be wo ply of leather
and even when made from the thinnest leather”

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the finished belt will be thicker than the
average person would imagine at first. Here
_ is what I usually like to do when making these
* belts. Have at least two hides on hand but
_ both thin. Nowit’s almost certain that they
will differ at least slightly in thickness. For
the body of the belt, cut from the heavier hide
using the other for the cartridge loops but do
not split the leather for any purpose unless
absolutely necessary as might happen if the
leather to be used for the loops. varied con-
Fe. siderably in thickness when I would have that
, _ Jeather run through the splitter and brought
down to a uniform thickness its entire length
but nowhere thinner than the thinnest end
was in the first place.

I prefer belts varying in width from 214
_ to 334 inches depending on the cartridges
' which they aretocarry. The cartridge loops
- will have a width varying from 34 inch for the
horter revolver cartridges up to 114 inches
for the longer rifle cartridges. We will
- suppose we are going to make a belt for,the
" .25-35 Winchester cartridge. A belt of three
_ inches for cartridges of this length appeals to
me very much though one of 234 inches
seems almost as attractive. We will consider
a belt of three inches in width, however, and
the loops for cartridges of 114 inches.

First get your leather. Cut lengthwise
for everything. The body of this belt should
be cut from the back or not lower down than
an approach to the flanky parts. The
average calf skin when body of belts are cut
from it, will afford leather for about three

‘belts. Remember this means an eighteen-
inch strip the entire length of the hide for,
for each belt, it requires a strip six inches in
width to make the body of one of these three-

“inch folded belts. If you care to splice cart-
ridge loops, leather suitable for the purpose
ean be cut from best parts of leather remain-

“ing but if you have two hides, one thinner
than just cut up for body of the belts, I would
~~ cut my cartridge loops from it and dodge the
loop-splicing stunt. But if desirable to save
leather, I never hesitate to splice loops though
when I have other use for such leather I
prefer to use a single piece of leather, if
) possible. for the cartridge loops. One can
make all kinds of leather sacks for various
A uses from the best parts of hides remaining
i after parts for belts are cut out though I
__ never have found any pleasure or satisfaction
- in using the spongy partsfor any purpose.
Judging from some of the stuff let out by
some factories, however, they seem to have
no difficulty infdisposing of it.

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Now take the six-inch strip of leather and
dip in water to dampen it. Don’t soak it,
merely hold in water until it is dampened.
Some leather absorbs water sufficiently for
our purpose very quickly, other leathers, not
so. porous, probably, more time is required.
Now spread this leather, rough side up, on a
smooth board which for convenience will be
on a table. Draw a pencil line through its
exact centre the entire length and fold edges
till they meet this line and press down edges
firmly. The creaser may be run along the
edges if desired though this is not necessary
if the edges stay pressed down fairly close.
Now turn belt over and crease heavily by
running creaser along the edges. I believe
you can obtain these creasers at almost any
harness shop (I have made two of mine) or
can get from C. S. Osborne & Co., Newark,
N. J. or any. other maker of harness and
saddler’s tools. In creasing, see that the
edges keep together and when properly
creased a very neat appearing belt will appear
in prospect though we have not finished the
job by along ways.

Turn over and run a crease along each edge
which will be a guide for the holes for the base-
ball cover stitching which later will be em-
ployed{for uniting the edges but which will

Belt and scabbard for single action Colt, and belts for
the .38-40 and .25-35 Winchester made by Ashley A
Haines. Belts seamless as described in article.
never appear to the observer when belt is
being worn. Take pair of small dividers and
set as desired for spacing for stitches for this
sewing. Be sure (thisisimportant, remember)
that this spacing is uniform so that same
number of stitches appear on each edge of the
belt that no drawing, or puckering of belt
tesults later on when edges are finally brought
together permanently.

Turn belt over, spread out and punch

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holes, a3 spaced by dividers, for sewing. To
punch these and all other holes for belt or
scabbard work I lay leather on soft’ pine board
and punch holes letting awl run into the board
nearly its entire length. I might mention
here that it requires about a solid ten hours
for me to make one of these “seamless” belts
of mine. ‘The various parts are all laid off
with try square and dividers, all holes punched
before a stitch is taken, after which they go
together like a machine-made gun and without
any further use of the awl.

Turn belt back and fold to three inches
wide and place cartridge on belt to determine
where you want your loops. To determine
this point have rim and point of bullet equal
distances from their respective edges on the
belt. Set dividers to draw faint line for upper
edge of loops where cartridge rim is and after
this line is drawn, draw another 1}4 inches
lower down for the lower edge of loops. Again
adjust your dividers to run another faint line
half way between the other two.

Now set your dividers with points same
distance apart as rim of the cartridge. This
will almost invariably be the right distance
for spacing for cartridges on the body of the
belt and twice this distance almost invariably
right for the cartridge loops, though with
different leathers the spacing in both cases
may vary slightly. Also I might mention
here that this spacing is for the average run
of rimmed cartridges, the .25-35 Winchester
being here takenas anexample. Rims of such
cartridges, when in the belt, should touch
when belt is straightened out, but it must be
remembered that in making belts for cart-
ridges having slight rims like the .45 Colt
revolver cartridge, or for the rimless rifle
cartridges, different allowances must in-
variably be made.

With dividers set as mentioned, space along
upper line on belt for the loops marking with
paint of divider and then with try square
mark across the three lines. Before spacing
for the loops, however, it is well to determine
exactly how many loops you are to have on
the belt and then find the centre of where
these will be on the belt. After that space
each way half the number of cartridges you
intend to make the belt for. Fifty or sixty
loops will usually be about right—fifty for
the average length belt suiting me best.
Spread belt on the soft pine board and punch
the outside and centre holes for the !oops
and three holes between each of the outside
and centre holes. This will make nine holes
for the body of the belt for the cartridge loops

while seven wil! be required for the loops
themselves. The loop leather is cut to re-
quired width, dampened, and creased along
each edge, spaced with dividers twice as ‘far
apart as on body of belt, marked with points
of dividers and then squared carefully with
try square, the seven holes punched after
which the loops are ready for sewing to the

body of the belt. Between the upper holes —

for loops on body of belt, however, two more

holes must be punched for sewing across pes q

one loop to the next.
In all sewing I use a single needle. (Here

. the expert harness or saddle-maker will grin, —

but never mind. Also he will grin again when
I state I have no stitching horse, that I have
made many of my stamps for ornamenting
work with, and several of the few tools I
happen to have). I start in at upper edge of

cartridge loops and sew twice around edge of —

loop for this is the part where the greatest
wear and strain comes. In using a single
needle half the holes are skipped but are filled
in on the return trip. When back to next to
last stitch at the top, sew across to the next
loop and keep at it until all are on. With all
holes punched before beginning sewing,
everything progresses rapidly and it isn’t long
until one is ready to sew on the buckle straps.
These are cut to required width, shaved down
fairly thin at edges to give surface a crowned
appearance when sewn on belt, carefully
creased (and stamped if desired eat have
made both ways), and with belt spreag out
placed on the proper places and two split
rivets driven through and clinched after which
holes are punched for sewing (I like two rows
of stitching around edges of buckle straps
though often use a single one; but believe the
double row presents the neatest appearance)
and after this has been done the edges of belt
at back are ready for uniting with the base-
ball-cover-stitch. To do this in the way that
seems easiest for me, I would suggest be-

~ ginning at the strap end and sewing towards

the buckle end of the belt. Enter needle
from inside of belt always and pull out,'chang-

-ing hands for every stitch. In a short time

you will find you are making great progress

Mm.

and soon become about as handy with one —

front foot as the other. When you get to

where slot in leather will be cut forbuckle-
strap, fasten your thread and punch holes
with your leather punch for each edge of the

strap and cut out leather between being care-
ful that you do the work properly. Then
finish out the short remaining distance to be
sewed, sew across end of belt at both ends and

*

with animal oils.

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vour belt is ready for oiling. I know that
most belts never see oil or grease of any kind
but I believe they should be oiled just the
same. Some leathers are not improved in
appearance by oiling though others are, but
all leather is better for being oiled with suit-
able oil and I would strongly recommend that
they receive some attention of this nature.
So far as being of benefit to the leather is
concerned, Neatsfoot oil, probably, is used
more than any other, and for scabbards, etc.,
I would advise its use always but for belts—
cartridge belts, I mean—lI believe vaseline

the best as I have found it far less liable ta

corrode cartridges than when belts are oiled

Belts, scabbards and sheaths made by Ashley A. Haines.

I do not believe in soaking
the belts but never hesitate to use liberally
on all scabbards.

There remains much that might be written

- concerning belt making, but something must

be said concerning revolver scabbards and
knife and belt axe sheaths so will have to
dispose of the belts for the present with a few
more remarks only. One of these belts when
finished, or ten years after, for that matter,
is very soft and pliable but never spongy for
we can select the leather that enters into it,

‘and cut the choicest parts from the hide, or

hides, used, take all the time we require in
laying it out properly, be just as fussy as we
like in seeing that loops are uniformly,
evenly and squarely spaced, make every
stitch an honest one, and see that that stitch
is with best linen thread and properly waxed,
and when we have finished know that we have
a belt that can be tied in knots without damag-
ing and one that will wear as long as the owner
and while it may not in some respects (at
least those of our first attempt), line up with
some of the factory stuff in appearance, we

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know that it will sive the satisfaction we had
hoped for from the beginning.

The advantage of laying the work off with
dividers and try square is that every cart-
ridge loop is evenly spaced and also squarely
placed on the body of the belt. Thismeans
that all cartridges must of necessity appear
squarely on the belt when in the loops. Also
it means that all cartridges fit the same in the
loops and that the belt will not be like somany
we often see, some of the loops squarely placed
on the belt and others not, some holding the
cartridges with a bull dog grip and others so
large that they all but fall through. And
why? The work could not have been uni-

Marble
axe No. 9 with hatchet shaped handle, the author’s favorite, been
used by him for probably eight or nine years.

formly done; that’s the only explanation I
can give. But some will wonder why we
cannot get this work done by some very care-
ful leather worker. I have tried this and
secured the finest results possible except in
one way. Each loop was sewn around a

cartridge: Result, some were loose, others
tighter, but no two exactly alike. After
using awhile all loops were too loose. Few

were squarely or evenly spaced on the belt.
By making for oneself all these undesirable
features can be avoided.

It would be easier for me to make a belt
than to properly give the necessary details in
an article for making one. But I’d rather any
time make two scabbards than attempt ex-
plaining how to cut one pattern. But I
shall offer some suggestions which may be of
some assistance for the man who may desire
to make his own scabbards. I would suggest
using the revolver as a guide and cutting a
paper pattern before puttingtheknife in the
leather. Use heavy, tough wrapping paper
for the pattern. Spready on table, laying
revolver on it and marking around the re-

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volver under barrel and guard about where
you think it should be cut. Remove revolver,
cut to line and then fold and cut the other
side to match the first. Now mark for the
curve you think you would want for front side
of holster above cylinder and around trigger
guard. When you think you have it about
right, cut off top of pattern to marked line
and wrap pattern around revolver and see how
it is likely to suit. You may have to cut
several patterns before you finally get one that
exactly suits you though you may know
perfectly from the first exactly what that
pattern should look like if you could only
make the thing you can so plainly see. When
cutting this pattern, which is of the Mexican
style, for no other type we long ago decided
would anywhere near suit us, allowance for
the back part which doubles back and
through which the scabbard proper is shoved
after the scabbard has been creased, stamped
and sewn, must be made. Allowance must
be made forsthe belt that is to be used with
the scabbard, and I would suggest that one
be sure not to stint themselves for belt room
for the part that forms the loop through which
the belt runs must be sufficiently wide for the
belt to run readily and smoothly. I know
that I made many scabbards with insufficient
space for the belt and would guard any
against an error of this kind.

When making calculations for the way this
scabbard pattern will appear when together,
one must see to it that the scabbard will hang
squarely on the belt and that the part that
forms the loop for the belt is same width at
both sides. In cutting out backing of this
scabbard which makes the straps which appear
on the front of the finished scabbard, one has
to be careful that they are so cut as to appear
perfectly square across the scabbard when
same is run through the straps. When you
lay off for these straps, take your leather
punch and make a hole at the ends of each
cut—or that is where each cut will be—and
cut true to the mark made perfectly straight
by aid of the try square. The inside edges of
the scabbard should be shaved down fairly
thin so as not to appear too thick when edges
are sewn together. Rest of scabbard should be
edged properly by aid of edging tool, scabbard
creased and stamped, if stamping is desired,
though a very neat scabbard results if same is
neatly creased. When ready for stitching

I fold edges together, having previously

these nails being very small lath nails and
always placed where the stitches will come and

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about every inch and a half or two inches.
Next thing in order is punching the holes for
the stitches after which the scabbard is taken
from board and sewed. After trimming, and
finishing up edges as sometimes is necessary,
the scabbard proper is shoved through the
backing and after oiling and being thoroughly
dried it is ready for insertion of the reyolver
it is to house.

Before it slips my mind I might hand out a
word of caution for the benefit of those who
may have had little or no experience at leather
work. New leather, dampened, takes an
impression easily—even the print of a finger ~
nail is indelibly stamped in the leather when
damp—so it is well to be careful when working.
Whenever possible, I handle the leather very
little after it is creased and stamped until it
has dried somewhat. Usually this is easily
possible by arranging so that one can be busy
at some other part connected with the belt,—
should it happen to be a belt one might be-
working on.

The knife sheath shown is for my pattern
hunting knife made by the Marble people
and though I seldom carry a hunting knife on»
ordinary hunts I know that others do, so will _
briefly describe how sheath is made for this
or any other hunting knife. Some of these
sheaths I have made in three pieces; others
in two. When made from three pieces of
leather the front and back part of scabbards —
are same shape, the third piece that forms the ~
loop for the belt is rivetted to top of the
backing and swells out towards the top some- —
what similar to shape of the knife handle.
The two-piece sheath has a front exactly like
the three-piece one but the back not only
forms the part that helps to form the scabbard
proper but also answers as the loop for the
belt as well. In both types, a thin strip of
leather is placed between scabbard at back
of blade and a thinner one at the edge, the
inner edges of the sheath at this side being
shaved down somewhat before sheath is ready
for the sewing and copper rivets which hold it ~
together. This sheath is so simple and easily -
made that a pattern can easily be.made by
any one, care only being necessary in making
proper allowances for stitching and rive’

Photos of the axe scabbards shown are for
the No. 9 Marble axe, and while Tseldom
carry the hunting knife on hunting’ trips, I
desire to state right here that one of these —
little Marble tools travel with me whenever —
in the timbered districts. One can “worry
along without many things when in the
timber, but next to my rifle on a hunt, the

j spaced for the stitches, nail to soft pine board,
"
n

Marble No. 9 is the most important tool
_ imaginable. The scabbard is from a single
- piece of leather as shown by the photo shown
_ herewith. A strip of leather is sewed and
rivetted in between edges of scabbard where
edge of blade rests while other strips, of suit-
able lengths, are sewed in at bottom of sheath
at each side of the handle. This can be
; earried on the belt or on outside of pack, or
% inside, as one may desire but wherever
carried there is no possible danger of the blade
cutting anything, yet when wanted is easily
emocured. The flap is held down to place by a
cathe keeper in which the strap fits rather
snugly. This I prefer very much to any
Riuckle or snap.

(Photo of this scabbard will be shown in
i (ne number, )

, -A rough sketch of a rifle scabbard is shown
‘ as its shape, I have found from plenty of
i experience, is better for excluding rain and
‘snow than the ordinary factory scabbards.
This, of course, is not a full length scabbard
‘but is for carrying attached to the saddle
with stock exposed enabling quick and ready
withdrawal when desired. The great ob-
jection I found to the usual run of factory
rifle scabbards was due to their shape per-
" mitting them to gap open and let in snow and
water. Made as shown by rough sketch,
and carried as I always carried mine sewn
edge of scabbard up (which means the rifle
sights would be at lower edge of scabbard)
and at nearly a 45 degree slant, the stock of
rifle would be just above horse’s neck making
' it impossible for the rifle being injured by its
head being turned sharply at any time as can
easily happen if carried as some do. In
making this scabbard, or any other I have
mentioned, including the knife and axe
sheaths, I would suggest for benefit of those
_ who may never have made anything) of the
kind, that care be taken that scabbards are
_ made plenty large. From this don’t get the
idea that I advocate any of them made un-
“necessarily large. Merely see to it that a
good, fairly close fit is secured but rather a
bit loose than too tight. .

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Should any one reading this decide to
attempt making their own outfits such as has
been considered here, I sincerely hope they
o not waste as much good leather as I did
before they get a really satisfactory belt or
scabbard as the case may be. But by work-
ing slowly and carefully I firmly believe many
ill produce what they want without any
rious difficulty, and when once they have
at they long have wanted it is my opinion

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they will appreciate it far more than had they
invested in the regular run of factory goods.
By keeping oneself supplied with a quantity
of surplus leather, one will find a rainy day
occasionally in which to work it up and at
the end of said rainy day have something
worth while to show for his efforts.

In reading over the foregoing I notice that
I have overlooked several important points,
one being the kind of leather best suited for
making revolver scabbards, rifle scabbards,
knife and axe sheaths and straps for the belt
buckles. The best, of russet saddle skirting
will be what you ‘will want for all these pur-
poses. Some of it may be rather light in
color but usually it becomes darker with age
and can nearly always be depended on to take
on arich russet color which all gun men like
for their favorite scabbards or belts.

Some of this saddle skirting.may be too’
thick and require splitting. With no leather
splitter available, the next best thing will be
to lay leather on smooth board and work
down to required thickness by a good car-
penter’s plane. To do this it will be necessary
to nail end of leather nearest to you to the
board to hold it in place while being worked,
but it will be necessary to see th® nail heads
are sunk, below the surface of the leather that
the plane may pass over without being
dulled on the nails. Adjust the plane to cut
very thin shavings and if you manage the
thing properly you will have no difficulty in
working that leather down to the desired
thickness and in short order.

I have said nothing concerning shoulder
and pocket scabbards as this was briefly
mentioned in a former article but sufficient
details were given to enable any one to make
without difficulty. The most difficult scab-
bard for the beginner to make will be the
Mexican pattern but once the first perfect
one is made one will, if he saves the pattern,
have no difficulty whatever in making others
for that particular arm it was designed for,
nor will it be as difficult in cutting patterns
of same design for other calibres and models.

The one desirable feature connected with
one’s learning to make their own belts and
secabbards is that they can work out any
pattern for scabbards they prefer and vary
them as crank notions dictate. The Mexican
style pattern shown herewith would have to
be cut lower at trigger guard to suit the
“quick-draw” specialist but this, of course,
can easily be made lower or any other way one
may desire. Although I have shown but a
few photos of belts and scabbards, I might

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say there are few American arms for which
I haven’t made belts and scabbards for my
own use the past twenty years and though I
have but few of them now, I expect to make
others as needed and, when I can corral the
time, find a deal of satisfaction and real en-
joyment in making these things which cannot
be had in any other way as my notions run
a bit different than those who design the
standard factory product.

Others may, and I know many do, harbor
similar peculiar notions and if they so desire
there is no earthly reason why they should
not learn to make these belts and scabbards
for their own use though I predict that many
of them will without doubt improve on my
methods but I doubt very much if they pro-
duce anything more satisfactory for their use —
than I have happened to produce for
myself.

Getting Ready for the Hunting Season
C. S. LANpIs

with hunting is the month’s long job

”

O™ of the greatest pleasures connectéd

known as “getting ready.”’ Some of us
begin planning, collecting and repairing
equipment the day after the previous season
ends. Others wait until after the best of the
trout and bass season is over. A good many
put it off until September, and every now and
then we find some fellow who waits until the
week before he goes on his annual shooting
trip. This unfortunate seldom gets all of his
outfit together in time, never is able to get
the exact loads he wants to shoot and usually
turns up at camp considerably out of patience
and with two or three necessary items for-
gotten. The chances are that in two or three
days he is lame or has a bad cold because his
shoes and clothing were selected in the last
few minutes before he left home and because
he forgot to take the necessary changes and
shoes that fit him.

There are a thousand reasons why we
should get ready in time but the real reason
why most of us who have reached the “crank”
stage begin so early is because we simply
cannot stand it to wait any longer. We have
come to the point where most of us exist ten
months to live two. Ask-any fellow who has
the hunting craze badly and he'll tell you the
same thing.

As soon as the leaves begin to turn red or
brown in late August or September it’s all off
with the usual pursuits of life. A steady job
seems like a life sentence about the time the
hunting season begins and the fellow who can’t
get off on some kind of an excuse feels that he
has drawn the worst kind of hard luck,
However, he is better off than the fellow who
went but who didn’t go right, and as a result
spoiled his vacation and the months following
because he blamed himself for being several
different. kinds of the same type of an in-

dividual that P. T. Barnum always had in
mind. ;

The first thing that most of us do in getting
ready is to clean the guns because it’s the
most logical thing to do. Besides it gives one
a chance to shoot a couple of imaginary deer
or ducks before bedtime. If the rifle or
shotgun is rusted, an application of coal oil
and a soft steel or good tough brass brush
will get most of it out. Ifit’s a high power
rifle possibly nickel fouling is present and
should be removed. This can best be done by
a half hour’s bath in 26 per cent. ammonia
obtained from the druggist. Plug the barrel
with a rubber cork, fill it full of ammonia and
keep it full as some will evaporate and if
allowed to evaporate in the barrel it will
cause the steel to rust. Then pour it out, dry
and grease the barrel.

Loose or broken sights are another thing to
watch for. A piece of paper placed under the
sight will often tighten it and filing the
remaining part to shape and blueing it will
sometimes do if a new one cannot be obtained
by the time it is needed. The sighting of
every rifle should always be tested before the
opening of each hunting season for someone
may have moved or Joosened one of the sights.

The trigger pull may need smoothing up.
Possibly there is sand, mud, or fine steel or
wood shavings between the sear and trigger
or hammer. A fine oilstone and oil, a drift
pin or two and a serew driver will usually be
all the tools required. Go easy and test the
pull offen. 7

Broken, cracked, badly chipped or seratch-
ed stocks are one of the most frequent fields
for repairs. Soft iron or copper wire like
broom-makers or jewelers use, and tape will
do the trick very often on a cracked or broken’
grip. Coarse and then fine sandpaper or
steel wool will take out scratches in a few

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minutes. Linseed oil well rubbed; in for
several applications finishes the job. Heavy
gun oil is a fairly good substitute if linseed
oil is n6t available.

Manufacturing and transportation facili-
ties of all descriptions are badly tied up all
over the world. One should not wait too long
ordering a new gun when it is needed, es-
ecially if it is made to order. It takes

months to get it made and may take weeks or
- even months to get it to you. I have been
_ Waiting four months on a new rifle at this
_ writing and it hasn’t even left the factory.
_ It will take at least two or three weeks to
| reach me after it is finished. One of the
its largest firearms plants in the States has been
- working on a new rifle for over a year and it
| isn’t on the market yet. Production isn’t
4 producing like it used to and sportsmen must
y keep this in mind in ordering hunting equip-
ii “ment.

Shells, cartridges, powder, primers and
llets or lead should if possible be ordered
_ months in advance to insure delivery in
enty of time.
ie powder, ask for it in time to enable your
dealer to get it for you.
at all lacking from the equipment order it
now if you can do so.

unting clothing is another important
1 item that needs attention. Last year hunting
coats were practically unobtainable in many
_ sections. As an illustration I was unable to
buy a Duxbak hunting coat in a city of
- 110,000 population with its corresponding

number of sporting goods stores. All wool

clothing | and all types of underclothing are
- very high i in price and sometimes hard to get
_ in-the better grades. The logical plan for
this year, therefore, would be to order all
| clothing early.

ue Hunting shoes, pacs, moccasins and other
_ types of footwear are the most imrortant
part of any hunting outfit and usually the
he least attention is paid to them by most
hunters except a few of the seasoned veterans.
Almost all shoes or other types of footwear
‘get hard and out of shape when not used.
Nearly every worn pair needs to have the
heels straightened, new soles put on, a seam

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heels. In past years I have been very
be unfortunate i in having nails work up into the
heels and cut into my feet miles away from
~ home, usually on bird hunting trips where
constant tramping was necessary. As a
‘ ‘Tesult I never start out for a day’s trip without

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ff you want a special shell :

If there is anything .

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carefully examining the inside of my shoe
soles and heels.

Nothing is more tiresome than walking in
shoes that are badly worn off on one side.
This is especially so when travelling on hard
or slippery surfaces. Yet in spite of this
thousands of hunters will wear their oldest
shoes, often old worn business shoes, on their
only huriting trip of the year for which they
have planned for months and for which they
have spent from $50.00 to $100.00 and up
for new equipment, ammunition and carfare,
and spoil the whole thing the first day out by
a pain of blistered and stone bruised feet.
Under such circumstances “Barnum was
right” every time.

If I now had to choose between a new gun
or good shoes, and a spare pair always, I
would shoot the old Fox a year longer be-
cause I have spoiled too many hunting trips
in the past by spending all of my spare cash
on guns and neglecting the clothes and shoes
that were needed to complete the outfit.
The chances are that I have plenty of com-
pany in this department because everyone
gives first choice to his hobby and mine never
ran to shooting clothes. Besides, I nearly
always hunt without dogs, beat the briars
pretty close, am not any too particular about
getting bloodied and muddied up and as a
result my shooting outfits are usually hardly
up to snuff for looks. But my guns are bright
inside. Are yours?

Each type of country and hunting pro-
vides its own special set of conditions. For
years I used shoe pacs and thought there was
nothing better for general use but lately I
have discarded them for the Munson last
army shoe of good grade, because they do not
break down in the arches and let the heels
tramp off behind like the ‘‘pacs” always did
for me. Nothing is harder to walk in than a
badly out of shape pair of pacs, especially on
hilly or rocky ground.

Good shoes or other footwear are one of the
most expensive and by far the most im-
portant and necessary part of the hunter’s
equipment and yet they are usually the most
badly neglected. Don’t forget that a house
is designed, built and worn out from the
foundation up, not from the top down. When
a fellow. is ten miles from nowhere and dead
tired and footsore, it’s not his head, but his
feet that drag. :

When ordering new shoes it is well to re-
member that a fancy looking upper or two
dollars off the price will never make a shoe

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made over a “D” last fit on a “EE” foot,
especially when that foot is filled to the
swelling point with blood at the end of a
day’s tramp. The drop and length of the

Queries and Answers

-24 Bore.
Edifor, Gans & Ammunition, Dept.

I notice an inquiry in your May number of
Rod and Gun In Canada relative to the .24
bore, 32 inch barrel, flint lock gun. It may be
that it is one of these guns used by the
Labrador Indians for shooting small game for
the pot. Many of those people live a long
way from the Hudson Bay stations, and where
powder and shot is hard to-get. The smail
bore would mean a great saving in ammuni-
tion.

Some few years ago the Hudson Bay folks,
sent a number of those guns to St. Johns to
be sold. They were 32” barrel, and 24 bore;
well made English guns and I have been told
that if held straight, could compete with
many large bore guns. They were, however,
cap guns but I think, judging from the date
of his rifle, or rather smooth bore, that those
earlier small bores would be flint and steel
locks. Some time later, one of the other
companies sent up,a lot of short barrel,
breech loaders, barrels 18” long, smooth bore
and carried round ball or smal] shot. They
looked like the old horse pistol of the days
of “Dick Turpin,’’ A stock made of heavy
wire fitted into the stock of the gun. These
were used to shoot ptarmigan and other

small game for the pot, and also to kill any '

fur-bearing animal caught in the trap.
W. A. B. Sclater,
St. John’s, Nfld.

The .30 and .35 Newton Rifles.
Editor, Guns & Ammunition, Dept.

Am contemplating a trip into the moun-—

tains around the head-waters of the Finlay
River in northern B. C. and,although I have
managed to cut down my choice of rifle to one
make, and two calibers I would like your ad-
vice concerning them. I have used the
Newton chambered for the 30-06 cartridge
for some time and consider it one of the best
on the market today and my present difficulty
lies in choosing between the Newton .30 and
oD:

I understand that there are grizzlies.in the
upper Finlay region and for them would pre-
fer the .35, but do not know whether the

. sight and Lyman peep tang sight.

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gunstock are vitally important in wing
shooting, but not one-half as important as —
the fit of the shoes that are giving that gun ay
day’s ride outdoors. \

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same shell would have sufficient chookiiey
power for long range work on sheep and
goats. "

I would appreciate it very mutch if you”
could straighten me out on these particulars,”
and if you can without too much incon-
venience, I would like to get in touch with
some Canadian sportsman who has hunted
the Finlay country or some of your subserib-
ers who live close enough to give me definite
data on various questions. Ng:

L. D. Kelly,
Detroit, Mich.

Reply—I would choose the .30 Newtén in
preference to the .35 Newton, because it is a
much more pleasant gun to shoot. You will
find the .30 Newton is amply powerful for
grizzly and you will have less difficulty in-
obtaining ammunition for it.

Mr. A. Bryan Williams, Vancouver, B. G
can give you the information on the hunting
possibilities in the section that you mention.
I would suggest that you would write to him.

Unless you are very much accustomed to
shooting a rifle with a very heavy recoil, I
would suggest that you do not choose a rifle
that uses as powerful a cartridge as the .35
Newton; because, it gives a very heavy recoil
in such a light weapon, and asa result. you.are
almost sure to be bothered with flinching,
and therefore lose more in accuracy than you
would gain in shocking power.

Editor.
The .25-20 Marlin. 89°
Editor, Guns & Ammunition, Dept. ~~
I have a Marlin, Model 27, 25-20

pump actian repeater with 24” octagon steel
barrel which is fitted with ivory bead front
I have
found out that by putting it together every
time I use it, it changes the sighting. Some-
times it seems all right, other times it’s out,

. just the way you happen to screw the gun

together. 4
There are two blank screws oh the Te=)
ceiver at top in front of the hammer when gun
istogether. Is that forasight and what kind
and what model, open or peep? I fail to
find a sight for these in any of the gun sight

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catalogues. If that is\meant for a sight, it
would not change the sighting as it comes off
with the barrel. \
D. Moyer,
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Reply—tThe screws that you mention on
the top of the receiver of your .25-20 Marlin
‘are for the purpose of mounting the Marlin
receiver sight, that was formerly listed in the
Marlin catalogue.

I would suggest that you write to the
manufacturers and also to the Lyman
Gunsight Corporation, Middlefield, Conn.,
who may be able to supply you with a similar
sight. The trouble that you mention is
common to nearly all take down rifles, after
_ ‘they have seen considerable use.

\

Editor.

ae The 1905 Ross Rifle.

Ediior, Guns & Ammunition, Dept.

Could you tell me what caliber is a Ross
rifle, dated 190]? I think they were used
during the war. a

Will the law permit them to be used now?

Please give me your opinion of the 250-3000
as an all around rifle.

C. W. Osier,
Strathroy.

Reply—The Ross rifle that you have is
very likely the .303 British caliber.

There is no law, that I know of, to prevent
you using it.

The .250-3000 Savage makes a nice all
around rifle, provided you do not shoot game
heavier than deer; in such cases it would be a
little light. The rifle, itself, is beautifully

-balanced’ and finished, has practically no
recoil and a very fine rifle to carry in the
woods.

Editor.

The .25 Standard Rifle.

Editor, Guns & Ammunition, Dept.
Will you please give me a few details con-
cerning my own rifle, as it is a new type to me

and have found no one who can tell me much)

about it. " 4 f
Before going overseas, I used a .303 Savage,
and found it to be a very nice gun; but, upon
my return to Canada last summer found
them practically unprocurable, except at
exorbitant prices. Just before deer season,
I dropped on to this little rifle I now have, a
-25 slide action rifle made by the Standard
Arms Co. The man from whom I bought it,
had got it in a trade of some kind and didn’t
- know much aboutit. I got my deer with this

or a

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rifle last winter but neither shots (it only
took one per deer) were hard shots and not
much of a test. I have tried it on rocks
showing in a river, at varying distances up to
300 yards and find it shoots very true, and
carries up well. Intend trying it at varying
ranges this summer with target and measured
distances.

I find the ejector works fine on unfired
shells, but sometimes works hard on the
fired shells. Is this caused by expansion of’
shell case? Is there a remedy? I am using
factory loaded U. M. C. .25 rimless, the same
cartridge as is used in .25 Remington rifle.
Can you give me any information concerning
this rifle? Muzzle velocity and energy,
trajectory at different distances, etc.

If you could compare it with the .303
Savage, with which I am more familiar, it
would give me a good idea of its ability.

L. A. Warren,
Houston, B. C.

Reply—Y our rifle was made by the Stand-
ard Arms Co. of Wilmington, Delaware,
U.S. A., who have now gone out of business.
It takes the regular .25 caliber rimless shell
and the ballistics are the same as that given
by the .25 Remington rimless rifle. The
figures for which can be obtained in the
Remington, U. M. C. catalog, of which, you,
no doubt have a copy. It is practically the
same as the .25-35. The .303 Savage is a
more powerful rifle and is somewhat better
for big game shooting» I always liked the
appearance of the Standard rifle, excepting
the receiver, but for some reason it never
became very popular, and the Company
ceased operations. —

The trouble from sticking shells is always
greater with fired than with unfired shells in
any rifle in which this trouble is encountered.

Editor.

Editor, Guns & Ammunition, Dept.

Could you advise me the make and calibre
of the following gun. It is stamped with a
“B” with a star over it and also “BELGIUM
A”. The .45 Colt cartridge is too big while
the .44-40 Calibre revolver bullet is a trifle
too small in diameter but shoots straight.

Will you please tell me if it will harm a
weapon to shoot the .44-40’s in it?

Where can I obtain a .22 Calibre Model
1897 Marlin?

M. McDougall,
London, Ontario.

The .44-40 bullet has a diameter of .424”,
the .45-Colt a diameter of 454”. As your

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revolver has a barrel diameter between these
two it is very likely chambered for the .44
Smith & Wesson Special or the .44 Smith &
Wesson Russian whieh have a diameter of
429". The continued use of the .44-40
cartridge would undoubtedly lead to gas
I would suggest that you try the
cartridges for the .44 Smith & Wesson
Special and the .44 Smith & Wesson Russian
and see if one of these do not fit. Most of
those cheap Belgium make revolvers shoot the
44-40 cartridge and it may be that your gun
is intended for this cartridge and is bored
very large.

I understand that the .22 Calibre Model
1897 Marlin is no longer manufactured.
You could probably obtain one of them by

placing an advertisement in Rod and Gun.

Editor.

A Stock for a Webley & Scott Pistol.

Editor, Guns & Ammunition, Dept.

I have had the misfortune of breaking the
rubber grip on the right side of my Webley &
Scott .32 Automatic revolver. Could you
give me the address of the firm in England
or where I could get one made in this country?

L. B. Tapson.
Bowmanville, Ontario.

Reply—The address of Webley & Scott is
Weaman Street, Birmingham, England. I
do not know where you could obtain the extra
piece for it in Canada and would suggest that
you write to the manufacturers.

Editor.

An Old Gun’s History.

Editor, Guns & Ammunition, Dept.

Seeing an inquiry concerning a certain old
Flintlock gun, of which a Mr. Fraling is the
happy possessor, I would say that it is a trade
gun, and being a Flint-lock is most likely
meant for the African trade as gun caps were
scarce there. The Barnets were a good re-
liable firm of gun makers from the time of
King Charles the First and Second. They
made many guns for the African trade.

The little gun is likely a good one and a
good shooter for either ball or shot, and will
likely stand a fair charge, about the same load
black powder of course as a 20 bore breech
loader providing it is perfectly clear of rust
inside ‘and out.

The .24 refers to the proper size for the
bullet mold, making 24 round balls to the
pound. I think it is scarcely likely that
here is much choke bore about it as I do not
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date, unless the Greeners had two ideas about
it. The gun loaded with balls will kill deer,
wolves or bear if the owner is a good shot and
the bear not too big. .

The Hudson's Bay trade gun was the same ef}
bore and a good one with barrels ranging
from 30 to 40 inlghes, though I think the-
commonest length ‘was 36 inches stocked te—
the muzzle, and flintlock in the early days. 1

It was made in three grades. The best
grade was a well finished gun called the -
“Indian Chief’ engraved brass mountings ©
and a large silver piece on the small of the —
stock. [had one of these at one time andam
very sorry that I ever parted with it though
it was to get arifle. In my collection of old |
guns, I have a Hudson Bay trade gun with 30
inch barrel partly brass mounted, with the
usual brass flying dragon on the left side from
the lock which is the same as the old Enfield
rifle lock marked 1866 ‘‘Parker, Field & Son,
London.” I got it when among the Indi

s “Church Missionary Teacher” and value
it veryshighly as it belonged to “Nickshon
Nah—We—Gah—Bow,” a descendant of old
Louis the Spaniard after whom the Spanish_
River is named. I shot my dinner with it
more than once. It is a percussion lock.
It hangs on the wall beside an old flint musket
that saw service as one of the guns of the old
Fergus Company that was out at that time. —
A Sabre crossed on its own sheath hangs
between them and a Bowie knife and sheath

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- squeezed in between all very peaceably and

several other old guns more or less serviceable.
One, an old Springfield rifle, was taken from
a dead Kanaka near Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands, by a Colonel Volney Ashford, Cana!
dian Diplomat and Intriguer. There are
eight or ten more old guns to tal about but
perhaps I have said enough.

The curious word “Plas Tyrion” is Welsh
and means “Pleasant Place’ as my lowly
but pretty home is to me.

Hope this will interest Mr. Fraling, you
and your readers.

Je G Ross, ol
Advance Post Office, Canada. : bers

The B.S. A. .22.
Editor, Guns & Ammunition, Dept.

Would you consider a B. S. A. No. 12.a good
gun for seat hogs, crows and other small
game in the .22 line? I would not mind the
fact that it is somewhat heavy. ;

Could I obtain one chambered’ for the long é
or short instead of the long rifle? Would —
the sights be satisfactory for this shooting? _
Blyth, Ontario. Cecil Lyddiott, *

Reply—The B. S. Awe 12 is one of the
best .22 calibre rifles that has ever been made
for the purpose you ment It would be as
satisfactory as any .22 that you could pur-
chase.

=. I would not consider the purchase of a .22
for any ‘other cartridge than \the long rifle,
because the short is not accurate beyond
about forty yards and the long is not very
satisfactory at long range. Careful shooting
will show that the long rifle will make the
same scores at 50 yards that the, short will
make at 35 or 40 yards on a 1” bullseye.
_ This will show you how badly you would
' handicap yourself to choose any other cart-
* ridge than the long rifle in a .22) calibre.
I would suggest that a .25 calibre rifle would
be more satisfactory for killing woodchucks
__ and crows; but, it has very little advantage
"+ for squirrels or smaller animals. I have done
__a great deal of this small game shooting with
arifle. Have been doing it for ten or fifteen
_ years, as it was my especial hobby, he 2
believe that I am safe in saying that a .22
rifle is practically wofthless over 60 yards
for actual game shooting, provided you
expect to kill a large percentage of the game
that you shoot at. A .25-20 will do very
good work up to 125 yards and up to 80
yards it is almost a sure thing on the same
game that the .22 will bring in at 60. The
front sight on the B. S. A. No. 12 is not
adapted to game shooting. “You could use
it for that purpose by making the front sight
white by the aid of Chinese white which can
be obtained from art stores. Your best plan
would be to have a small ivory bead or gold
bead to set into this front sight. ‘ Very likely
you could get a special piece made for this
purpose. The rear sight is as good as you
can secure. If you have the six hole
aperture, ream out one or two of the holes
quite large like a regular 1-A Lyman sight
and use this size aperture for hunting es-
pecially when the light is poor. This B. S. A.
No. 12 will make you a beautiful weapon
for any purpose to ee a .22 caliber is ad-
. apted.
; Editor.

Various Inquiries.

Editor, Guns & Ammunition, Dept.

How does a .32 Colt Pocket Positive com-
pare with a .32 Smith & Wesson hand ejector
model?

Is a .32 Remington automatic a good gun
_ for moose? If so, at what distance is it
_ effective?

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Does the Remington Company make a
25-20 repeating rifle?

Is an automatic pistol or a revolver ‘the
better for use in hunting deer in the brush?

How can a pitted shotgun barrel be cleaned?

How far will the .22 Long Rifle cartridge
shoot so as to take effect on small game such
as crows?

Can .25-20 cartridges be reloaded to ad-
vantage?

W. Bowell,

Toronto.

Reply—The .32 Colt Pocket Positive and
the .32 Smith & Wesson Hand Ejector models
are very similar and both are thoroughly
reliable. They have the characteristic dif-
ferences that are present between the Colt
and Smith & Wesson arms.

The .32 Remington Automatic is a fairly
good gun for moose. It is about equal in
power to the .32 Winchester Special. The
.35 Remington would be a better weapon for
this purpose.

The Remington Company has never manu-
factured a .25-20 Repeater but they have
made .25-20 single shot rifles in past years.
These rifles were very accurate and depend-
able arms. \

As a general proposition I do at consider
an automatic pistol or revolver of practically
any use in deer shooting. Choose a rifle or a
shotgun loaded with a single ball.

A pitted shotgun barrel can be cleaned with
a good stiff brass or steel brush and coal oil.
The application of ammonia will help con-
siderably in preventing further pitting but
must not be allowed to dry off of the surface
of the barrel.

The .22 Long Rifle cartridge would kill
crows up to 500 yards provided you hit them.
Because of an excessively high trajectory it is
of very little value beyond 60 yards for
hunting.

It is very easy to reload .25-20 cartridges.
They can be reloaded very successfully with
either black powder, bulk smokeless or
dense smokeless rifle powder.

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Editor. .

The .25 Stevens Rim Fire.

Editor, Guns & Ammunition, Dept.
I have been a book stand subscriber to
Rod and Gun in Canada for over two years

and I find the Gun Department very in-

teresting. I recently purchased a new twenty
five caliber rim fire Stevens Rifle Model 1915.
Taking it for granted you know Stevens
rifles I shall not take the time and space

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necessary to describe it bat I would like some
information about it.

What are its possibilities as to range and
accuracy? I have had it in the field only
once since I got it and in this instance I
didn’t get very good accuracy. About 234
inch groups at 25 yards, was the best I could
do. No doubt it was partly my faultfor I
have not had much practice lately and again
the factory sights of this firearm are not very
well adapted to fine shooting, to my way of
thinking. It seems to me a small game rifle
ought to group into a two inch circle at fifty
yards. What do you say, Mr. Editor?
Will the average Stevens do this?

The .25 Stevens seems to have plenty of
power up to about 75 yards to kill small
game. The trouble lies with the bullet. It
drills a hole its own size clear through a
ground hog from side to side or end to end for
that matter without mushrooming the least
bit and for this reason the game doesn’t get
the full benefit of it. Where can I get some
hollow point bullets for it? So far I have
been unable to buy any for it. At one store
they told me that hollow point bullets for the
.25 were not being made any more. Do you
know if this is so?

I have a Winchester catalog No. 81 and I°
see them listed in it. Do you know if they
» still have them and would they sell direct to
me? In case I cannot buy any could I drill
out the point of the solid lead bullets myself?
These are the chief faults of the .25 as I saw
them. Can you help me or offer any sug-
gestions? Will you kindly answer these
questions?
What would be a good set of sights for it?
Is it’ worth a scope sight? If so, what
power?
Where in Canada can I get the book en-
titled the “American Rifle’’?
Herbert Lowe,
Toronto.

Reply—The .25 Stevens Rim Fire should
make better than 2% inch groups at 25
yards. In fact, it should make better groups
than this at 50 yards. You are perfectly
correct in your assumption that a smal! game
rifle should group in a 2 inch circle at 50
yards. If you can obtain cartridges loaded
with uncrimped bullets you will very likely
get much better accuracy. I understand that
this cartridge is still being loaded with
hollow point bullets. Write to Remington
or Winchester or Dominion Companies for the
name of the nearest dealer who handles .25

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bullet as these companies make them.

I would not feel like putting expensive
sights on a rifle that would not group into —
less than 24 inches at 25 yards, but in case _
you are sure that you can improve the —
accuracy of the rifle or get more,accurate
cartridges then I would choose a good set of —
sights (Lyman or Marble). Lyman No, 1A
and 5 would be a good selection. I would not
mount this rifle with a telescope sight until
you can be sure that the rifle issufficiently
accurate to be worth it. Then get a Win-
chester ““5A’’. It would be cheaper in theend
to sell the rifle and buy another caliber such
as the .25-20 which would likely be more
accurate and which could be loaded with —
either hollow point or solid bullets.

“The American Rifle’ can be purchased
from Rod and Gun, Woodstock, Ontario, at |
the price of $6.00. F

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Rim Fire Cartridges loaded with hollow point /

Editor.

A New Deer Rifle.
Editor, Guns & Ammunition, Dept.

What is the difference between the .30-30
and the .303 Savage in velocity and power, «
if any?

Which would be the best for deer, bear,
etc., of .303 Savage, .250-3000 “ Savage
(1920 Model), Remington, .32 Special, or
the W. .30-30? ; :

I used a .30-30 last year and had to trail
one deer for a day and a half after shooting
it in the side, so I got rid of the gun.

R. Hamilton.
West Westminster, B. C. y

Reply—The .303 Savage is slightly superior
to the .30-30 in velocity and power. Various
makes of ammunition are loaded somewhat
differently. The Remington U. M. C.
Figures are as follows: .303 Savage, Muzzle
Velocity 1952 F. S., Muzzle Energy 1658 foot
pounds with the 195 grain bullet. The .30-30
has a muzzle velocity of 2020 foot seconds with
a muzzle energy of 1540 foot pounds. This is
obtained with a 170 grain bullet.

There is very little difference between the
.303 Savage, the-.32 Remington Rimless and ~
the Winchester .30-30 in energy. The .250-
3000 Savage bolt action shoots a_ different
type of cartridge which has a flatter tra-
jectory and a much lighter bullet. I would —
prefer it for deer provided you were not —
shooting them in very thick brush but I
would prefer any of the others for bear shoot-
ing. It is not uncommon to lose a’ deer

after being shot in the side by a single bullet
from any rifle and in my estimation one failure
of this kind would not be sufficient cause for
condemning a rifle.

I firmly believe in the high power rifle for

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game shooting, provided it shoots a heavy
bullet, but I do not recommend the use of a
light bullet at either high or low velocity for
the killing of the larger varieties of big game.
Editor.

A More About the Too Abundant Crow

I dealt with the question of the “Too
Abundant Crow.’ The article was
writtenin a beautiful little country town, one
of the most beautiful in Ontario. This article
is written in one of the largest cities in On-
@ _ tario and whereas I dare say that my views
about the crow—the destroyer of the eggs
and young of game birds, poultry and song
birds everywhere—were received with
approbation in the town, they were still more
approved of inthecity; andfor this reason,—
The crow in winter has taken to flocking

2 in great and audacious numbers to the out-
< skirts of the big cities and has become a
veritable scourge. I said a scourge—not a

— scavenger, which is the last merit his mis-
guided friends claim for him. Ask any
poultry farm man near Hamilton, Toronto,
London or Ottawa what he thinks about the
crow; ask any farmer anywhere in older
Ontario who grows corn or rears poultry,
and you will probably get a somewhat vigorous
endorsement of my very feebly stated views
in the article above referred to. You might
3 - hear from some of these citizens’ remarks

[ a former article of mine in Rod and Gun

in which pity was mixed with amazement
concerning an exhibition of my “Too Abun-

REGINALD GOURLAY

dant Crow” article by a gentleman who
committed himself (in print) to the extra-
ordinary statement that he did not believe
anyone in Ontario ever shot a crow with
shot gun or rifle. I remember reading this
to a good old farmer in Prince Edward
County, Ont., as we were hanging up in his
cornfield the fourth crow we had shot that
morning and saying, apropos of this state-
ment, that Shakespeare with kindly tolerance,
classified this kind of writer thus, “Oh
that a man should sit down and with infin-
ite pains and assiduity, write himself down
an ass.” To which he replied, (he was a
Scotchman) “N’er Min’ Shakespeare. A
friend of mine has his house’ gaun into last
week, and the puir skilpit crater that did
it left a full bottle of Scotch whiskey on the
dinin’ room table an rinned awa. I said
this is simply the work o’ an eediot.””, Hun-
dreds of crows have been killed by shotgup
and rifle in Ontario this year and their numbers
don’t diminish.”

To return to my proper subject. There
is no doubt that the crow whether by nature
or “acquired experience’, Herbert Spencer’s
way of accounting for most, if not all know-
ledge —human or animal, is a very wary

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Ishamelite, and hard to get a shot at, at

most seasons of the year. He is almost as
wary us the wild goose, wild turkey, upland
plover, and some kinds of wild duck, but

he has his weak points,

One of them is, that he can’t resist circling

round a wounded member of his species, or
a tame crow trained to call his

still better

wild relations. N.B. The decoy enjoys
this fratricidal sport intensely, just as
tamed mallards enjoy calling wild ones.

I had a tame crow once, who was an adept
at this business. I found him dead one day
on the veranda with a lot of feathers scat-
tered round: him betokening a sudden and
violent death. I always suspected my Irish
water spaniel Rex (who was of a jealous dis-
position) of this particular murder, but
never could bring it home to him. I suppose
this was what romantic people call,
justice.”

The best time to thin out the crow is in
the leafy month of June when the young are
just able to fly, while the parents have
not yet deserted the charge of their sooty
youngimps of darkness, and are consequently
careless. It would amount in any sports-
man’s eyes to a crime to write this about any
other kind of bird than a destroyer of the
eggs and young of game birds, poultry and
song birds, as the crow undoubtedly is.
Some years ago,
vincial Naturalist, and a true bird lover, said,
“that the crow was getting too plentiful
in Ontario ard that something should be
done to check his numbers.’ Since that,
the crow’s numbers have increased enorm-
ously—for the simple reason that his prin-
cipal enemies, the great eared or ‘Eagle
Owl”, the greater hawks, etc., have been
principally (or rather, practically) extermin-
ated, while his food supply, at least near
cities and towns, in the shape of duck eggs,
hen’s eggs, elc., and the tender young of
these poultry birds has greatly increased.
A small bounty sufficient to cover the cost
of gun and rifle, cartridges, would, in my opin-

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ion, result in getting many people to shoot
this obnoxious bird in the summer months
when shooting him is comparatively easy, or
even at other times when there is more sport
in it. The smal! boy, with his .22 rifle for
instance, might be induced to turn his rapidly
increasing talent for “Hitting things” and
his almost Indian instinct for getting near
them, from tame chickens and other domestic
fowls, to the elimination of his partner 1
iniquity, “The Too Abundant Crow.”

Don’t imagine I mean to be hard en that
much oppressed creature, the small boy,
with whom I have considerable fellow feeling
and sympathy. I am merely pointing out
how he can turn his genuine but often mis-
directed talents to legitimate uses, while
at the same time I ensure him a great deal
more exercise and excitement than he would
get (even while being pursued by an irate
member of the F.A.U. across plowed land
and pasture) after a more or less suecessful
shot at one of the aforesaid agriculturalist’s
barn door beauties, sold soon at $1.09 a pound.
Besides, he would be serving his country,
tho’ judging from the experience of the returned
soldier, that seems to pay less than “making
your pile’ while better men fight to enable
you to do it.

One thing, I feel pretty certain of and that
is, that if the crows numbers are to be thinned,
or even prevented from rapidly increasirg,
it must be mainly by the use of the shot gun
or small calibre rifle.

Poisoning has been advocated, and even
carried into practice with some effect, I
believe, but it has the serious objection that
it kills quite as many, if not more, game birds,.

_ poultry and smaller beneficial or harmless
birds, than it does crows. A hen or chicken
has the same fatal facility for finding and
_ picking up poisoned corn as a very young
_ child has for finding out a cistern or any
, Particularly dangerous place for it on the
_ premises. Geese and turkeys are not much

better. I have never yet seen one of the

many so called “scare crows’ that after the

first day or so had-the least terrors for this
-*sagacious criminal and _ robber.
I think they are rather an attraction to him.
T have seen an old crow perch on the ordinary
-old coat and hat “scare crow” cawing loudly,
evidently calling out to his mates. “Come
‘on fellers. These imps have rigged up
scarecrows here. There must be some blame
good feeding.”

I say, calling his fellows, for crows can
certainly talk to each other in a way. They
have several distinct calls or notes, like
_ many other birds, each with its own distinct
- meaning. They have the gathering cry, the
dispersing cry, two different alarm cries,
_ one prolonged, meant to be repeated down

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4 I is conceded by all fair-minded citizens

that wist laws well enforced do congerve

game aii sport. It is conceded by all
well-thinkigg and well-meaning sportsmen
that game in Ontario have for some years
been sliding down the toboggan into oblivion
and that the old devastating and “easy”
methods of “‘getting’” game cannot continue.
_ The sportsmen of Ontario will not permit it.
_ All conscientious sportsmen conservationists
“how are studying ethics of sportsmanship
afield and the application of science in game
hunting: This means that thousands of
true Ontario sportsmen are willing and pre-
pared to sacrifice former notions and favored
- methods of ‘‘stealing’’ game and forget, for
. the present at least, their early culture
and education by the Indian and cave-man
who are gradually approaching civilization
but need encouragement by the white man.

It is conceded by all familiar with the
habits and requirements of various forms
of economic wild life that the early establish-
ment on the vast wilderness places of Ontario
of many sanctuaries for big and small game
and fish is essential to continuation of sport

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“the far flung line’, one loud and insistent,
something like “Awk, Awk, Awk,”’ betokening
immediate danger. They have of course,
their discordant mating cries, and their cries
to their young, but they hAve also conversa-
tional or speech making caws which they
use at crow councils, or parliaments, which
have a grotesque resemblance to our human
ones. Above all,, they have a_ peculiar
impish cry of triumph often heard when
they succeed in getting away with something
good, such as a young duckling from under
the nose of the farmer’s wife.

I have seen the sentinel crow in a corn-
field, perched on the usual old cgat and
hat scarecrows, emitting discordant squawks,
whether of warning or derision, I know
not. Even the suspended remains of
their executed brethren lose their terrors
in a few days. We must fall back on gun-
powder and a small bounty if we want to
cope with the far too rapidly increasing
numbers of the already “Too Abundant
Crow.” > :

Wise Sportsmen Conserve Their Game and Sport
E. R. Kerr

with rod and gun in Ontario. What true

sportsman among us could stand guard at ,

the wire boundary of a big game sanctuary
and laughingly and joyously observe his
blood-thirsty hounds howling through and
over that sacred territory to arouse from
their peace and quietness and drive out into
the open that kindly and motherly doe
and offspring? What sportsman among us
could lift his rifle and shoot when the mother
and baby passed out into the open hunting
area? Will any Ontario sportsman admit
that to be’sport? Every sane and construct-
ive method must now be applied to save on
a sound and continuing basis the red deer
and sport of Ontario sportsmen.

It is highly gratifying to the Essex County
Wild Life Conservation Association to know
that they have but very little if any oppo-
sition. This proves conclusively that the
great majorityeand vast army of Ontario
sportsmen, who have made up their minds
to save Ontario game, are in sympathy with
the policies promulgated from time to time.
It is highly gratifying to learn of the recent
organization of the Northern Ontario Out-

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fitters’ and Guides’ Association for the con-
servation and culture in Northern Ontario of
big and small game, fishes and fur-bearing
animals. Thiswillfillalongfelt want. Long
may they live and’ prosper to assist or lead the
way in cultivatingin the minds of men that
keen desire so essentialto the conservation of
economic wild life and sport with the gun
for the present and future generations of
Ontario sportsmen. It is the keen desire,
of men in official life and our sincere hope

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that’ other sportsmen of Ontario, in every

county, will organize a competent and trust-

worthy association to co-operate with the
game officials and legislators of this Premier
Province, the Sportsmens’ Paradise, to the

end that the wisdom of thoughtful persons 4

may be permitted to prevail until the increase
in all game and fishes, certain to follow,
alone will convince our innocent but con-
scientious minority of the errors of their
ways.

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District Chairman Lorne Fleming of Grant
has just returned from the Arkansas Hot
Springs. He reports that he will be forward-
ing thirty applications from his section in a
few days.

“Bill” Clarke, District Chairman of Hearst
is now getting busy and is sending in applica-
tions in half dozen lots and reports that all
are keen for better and more efficient game
laws.

District Chairman Laird reports that his
district is coming along in very good shape,
and will appoint a District Secretary when
they have a few more members enrolled.
Chairman Laird has made some very good
suggestions in connection with the holding
of our next annual meeting advising that
Mr. Cunningham, M.-P. P. of that riding has
suggested. that we hold our next annual
meeting before Parliament goes into session.
This will enable us to lay our recommenda-
tions before the House when in session.

Chairman J. J. Spillett of Oscar is now busy
with his fox ranch at Rossport, Ont. He has
purchased an island out from Rossport in
Lake Superior and has some of the finest
strain of Black Foxes in Ontario in his pens.
He has made requisition through the Presi-
dent’s office for twenty Non-Resident hunting
licenses, twenty Resident moose licenses,
fifteen deer, and twenty trappers’ licenses,
beaver and otter coupons series, and guides’
licenses and the matter is being taken up
with the Department of Game and Fisheries
for this supply to be issued him.

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He further reports that he has been too
“busy to patrol his territory but will cove
same within a week or so, and states a Game
warden is required for his district but as yet
he has not sent in any recommendations.

District Chairman G. Howe of Hornepayne
is busy on the job, and has forwarded in his
requisitions for twenty guides’ licenses,
twenty non-resident fishing licenses, fifty
residemt moose licenses and fifty hunting
trMping licenses. : ‘

Chairman Howe suggests that the President
compile a list of all Outfitters giving name

and address and their charges, and mail :

same to each Outfitter member, believing
this would assist towards arriving at a
standard rate. aS:
The list of streams suitable for restocking
with speckled trout in Chairman Howe’s
territory to date is as follows: Shekak,
Nagagami, Stoney and Pagwauchuan rivers.
These all have excellent gravel bottoms, and
clear cold water, and if kept up to standard
by re-stocking each year, they would un-

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doubtedly prove to be the best speckled trout ~

waters in Canada, : -

Many of the District Chairmen are inquir-
ing about obtaining free transportation
over the railroads which traverse through —
their respective districts. President Arm-
strong is in receipt of a letter today which
we believe will interest the different members_
in connection with free transportation, quot-
ing part as follows.

“Replying to your letter inquiring as to

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the possibility of obtaining transportation
covering the territory under the jurisdiction
of the different District Chairmen of the
Northern Ontario Outfitters and Guides
Association. ¢
f “T fully appreciate what an aid free trans-
- Portation would be to the District Chairmen
‘in furthering the organization work in their
respective territories for the benefit of all
interests, but am rather doubtful whether
the railways would be permitted by law to
a grant transportation for such a purpose.

some years ago, and was staged in the
valleys and forests around the City of

St. Thomas, now known as the Flower City of
Ontario. St. Thomas is surrounded on the
north and west by the valley of the Kettle
* River, and is beautifully situated from the
"standpoint of scenery. The Kettle Valley is
deep and wide, being about 200 feet deep and
i £ a quarter of a mile wide in a number of places.
_ The hillsides are gradually sloping and
; "covered with small timber and bushes among
which the wild flowers bloom in great pro-
- fusion in the spring time, making it a thing of
be ‘great beauty. Talbot Street runs east and

x west and at the west end descends the hill,
erosses the Kettle River and ascends the
ioe side into the township of Southwold.
Pies west end of the City was in days gone
Phe. the most important from a business stand-

| ie celebrated bear hunt took place

se point and all the stores, hotels etc. were ‘

located there. One of the important hotels
__was the Lisgar. House, situate on the south
3 ‘side of Talbot Street and facing the north
-___-valley of the Kettle. The Lisgar was a three
a. story old brick building, and the bar-room
Was right in the front on east side of main
- entrance. A window opened off the street
into behind the bar, an done very hot summer
_ day as the bar-tender was sitting on a chair
almost asleep he heard a noise at this open
window and looking around saw a very large
black bear slowly coming in through the
window. The bar-tender beat a very hasty
retreat and locking the door after him went to
get some help to expel theintruder. It did not
take long for Mr. Bear to entirely wreck the
bar in his search of sugar or something to his
liking, and the litter and destruction he left
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“As the matter is one on which a ruling
is necessarily required for the guidance of
all railway lines, it has been listed for con-
sideration at the next meeting of the Advis-
ory Committee of the Canadian Passenger
Association—an association regulating
conduct of the various Canadian Railways

on all questions of thiskind. The Northern

_ Ontario Outfitters and Guides Association

will be advised in due course what decision
is reached.”

The Bear Hunt

RosBert T. MILLER

window again to the street was awful to be-
hold. When he did finally leave the hotel
there were a number of men and boys, wha@

had hastily been organized into hunting

parties, ready to pursue him, The members
of these parties were armed with all kinds
of weapons of destruction from the old flink-
lock to pitchforks, in fact anything that could
be loaded and fired off with any degree of
safety was brought into action. The bear
upon leaving the house went straight across
the street and down the hill and across the
river, on up the other side into the woods.
As he crossed the river the hunters had
arrived at the top of the hill behind him and
shooting began in earnest, it was a regular
fusilade and the inhabitants of the quiet
town thought that the Fenians had invaded
the Country or Indians gone on the warpath.
The bear escaped however, seemingly unhurt
and none the worse for all the efforts made to
kill him. The hunters followed him up the
other side and into the woods, keeping to-
gether in small bunches for safety and com-
pany sake. The hunt went on all the after-
noon until near dusk of evening. A great
deal of country was covered but bruin could
not be found and the tired hunters returned
in straggling parties, hungry and disgusted,
to the hotel to swap stories of their adventure,
greatly magnified, while sitting around the

bar-room and incidentally consuming a con-

siderable amount of beer and whiskey at the
expense of the house to celebrate the mighty

hunt. Some days later it was learned that
an old Indian had come across the bear
unexpectedly a few miles from St. Thomas
and had killed him with an axe, so ended the
great bear hunt. :

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The Gentle Craft of Angling

ROBERT PAGE LINCOLN

are innumerable is to repeat a common

assertion, a truism. The pleasures
of angling are many and lasting; if this were
not so then angling would soon be forgotten,
or would, in all events, have but a few en-
thusiastic followers who would yearly go
out to try their luck along the streams;
as a matter of fact the angling contingent
amounts to a veritable host. Great men of
all ages have extolled the pastime. Its
storehouse for reflection is never exhausted,
for the very reason that its charm is endless.
We may search far a-field for other enjoyments
to engage our attention; we may experiment
with the faltering and transitory splendors
of so-called happinesses, but alt of these, save
angling. we shall discard because they do
not answer man’s -practical as well as his
spiritual needs. The process of angling
is no brazen side-show; it does not consist
in bluster and loud words. The true angler
does not: boast of supremacy in the matter
of the number of fishes butchered. Rather is
angling a key that opens the door on a Greater
Quest. It mirrors new ideals and greater
achievements. It paints a ripple of laughter
on the face; miellows the prospect; takes the
ragged edges from one’s deliberations and
makes one truly the envy of his fellow-men.
It augurs well for any man that he loves ang-
ling—angling such as is temperate and
happily administered. Its purpose is simply
to erase obnoxious wrinkles in one’s temper-

f by say that the pleasures of angling

ament and kindle in the consciousness a
strange, sweet worship of streams and fishes;
and thereby a worship of Nature; to which —
it leads. Angling proclaims to the world its —
spirit of hope, by those inner resurrections,
rising anew with the dawn of each season.
Angling, to the angler, (be his interest truly
heart-felt), is a veritable well-spring’ of
happiness, feeding the stream of Life as it
rushes on to be swallowed up in the Ocean of
Immortality! : ‘
Angling, it may be said, is the most honored
pastime known to the world. It has claimed
recognition for centuries; it has been dealt
with both in prose and in poetry. From
the time of Dame Juliana Berners, the ex-
quisite prioress of the Nunnery of St. Albans,
(1486), up to the present day there have
been innumerable volumes put forth upon
the subject. Holder states that “The Com- —
pleat Angler” is a classic “which stands —
out clearly in ten thousand or more books
of angling.” However true this may be,
nevertheless there have been many books
on angling and there is reason to believe there
always will be as long as streams flow, fishes
live in them and men have the patience to
angle. There is a reason for this, I say,

for during the whole life of angling nothing
has been proven against it to show that it
is destructive, insincere or detrimental to
good thinking and constructive impulses.
It is through reason of this that it will always

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be with us, to enliven our days, and make
beautiful our contemplations.

“Fishing,” says John Hubbard, “has a
tendency to bring to the surface the best
there is in man. The great outdoors makes
men whose standard of morals and whose
obligations to society is so profound that
it is seldom ever shattered. The true type
of fisherman (the angler), is, perhaps the
only type of human who has really conquered
life.’ And, says Bruce Barton,: “If one
loves life and would continue long in it, lef

-him fish. Fishermen grow in wisdom as

they grow in years and how many of the
ideas that have made men truer and nobler
have come out of long days on the bank, when
there were no bites! Fishing is human life
epitomized. There is the water, calm,’

inscrutable, impenetrable,—the symbol of

fate—into which every man casts his line.
What lies at the bottom of it for him no man
may see. The tiny minnow of misfortune
which nibbles away his bait may be followed
the next moment by a monstrous catch of
good luck, sweeping him almost off his feet.
What happened yesterday in this very spot
is no augury of what may take place to-day.
Always theré is the hope that the next fling
of the line will bring the reward; always the
lure of the one more try. And as one grows
older in fishing, even as one grows older in
living, there comes the same consoling
truth—that one need not catch big fish in
order to be happy. That the spirit of the
fishing is more important than the size of the
catch: that he who fishes well must fish
with a calm and tranquil soul, drawing his
reward from the joy of his fishing rather
than the weight of his fish.”

Angling is not, however, a pastime for
youth alone. Ah, the pastimes, the pleasures
that hold their own only so long as the limbs
are double-vital and the body is fresh and
new and building. How often they demand
excessive muscular strain, swiftness of action,
and the need of much disturbing and mind-
harassing concentration. But angling holds
its own from the cradle to the grave, one

might truly’say, and following its pleasurable

route one grows old gracefully, drinking in
much of the sunlight and the air from cool
woods and splashing water-falls, silver-
flashing to the sunbeams. ‘Truly, age is no
discouragement to the angler. Rather it is
an impetus to a greater zeal. How many
men just begin to live at sixty years I do
not know, but I am willing to wager that
many an angler at sixty is of the confident

opinion that another sixty years will not see
his book of life closed. We may suspect
that some anglers never die, but live on
forever, which is not in the least strange
considering the godliness of the art of
angling, which is healthiness and cleanliness,
each personified! It is the version of Charles
Hallock that:

“Be a man ever so old, he can still plod,
and still can fish. Whatever other functions
fail, this remains. An angler may outlive
all his usefulness, but he can never outlive his
longing for the old haunts and the enjoyment
of fishing, albeit his joints are too stiff to
play the struggling captive home Thanks
be to the Creator who has se ordained the
laws of Nature that the longest and best
lives are vouchsafed to those who find their
chosen quest, and pleasure in the open air.
No tree of evil grows in the Eden of the
angler; but vigor of mind, elasticity of limb,
amiability of manner, loving kindness, con-
tentment and healthful introspection cluster
and hang like grateful fruit upon all the
branches everywhere.” And again, he has
said: ‘““The subject of Angling stands as
it was four centuries ago, unchangeable,
fixed, eternal. The same interest invests
it now as then; the same enthusiasm is
kindled in old and young alike. In infancy
it is the initial out-of-door pastime. I
one age one can still fish; and even after the
mortal coil is shuffled off there gleams a
constellation in the heavens, beyond the
dead line, to illuminate the angler’s path of
glory! Thus from the beginning of antiquity,
when the waters covered theface of the earth,
until the ultimate end of time, the art and
the subject are alike illustrated and ennobled.
The pride of his calling dignifies the angler
while topics less scaly fail to win equal plaud-
its for the pen!”

Angling is a recommendation of unself-
ishness; of preservation. Angling is intrins-
ically more than fishing merely for the sake
of catching fish. In its greater aspect it is
a looking about one and seeing Nature in
her perfectidn, something to be guarded,
not destroyed. No day on a stream or
lake a-fishing is a failure, though the finny
reward be small and even though the day
be not of the best. As W. Floyd Messenger
pleasingly states:

“What matter it that I am wet; that
I am tired; that I am hungry and that I
have no fish to exhibit? The tired feeling
will soon disappear, and I am thankful it
is genuine, natural tiredness and not unnatural

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fatigue. I can soon dry myself. Have
Inot spent the day in God’s grand out-of-
doors? Have I not heard Mother Nature
talking in the running brook, themurmuring
trees, the green grasses and the singing birds?
Have I not, therefore, seen the handiwork
of God? Yes, even in the great dark clouds
as they pass overhead, flashing their light-
ning and roaring with their thunders, shower-
ing down upon me their refreshing rain!
These things will be lasting memories.”
Occasionally it is a large fish that we net
during our days on the stream, and it lives
as a red-letter performance. But usually
one is content with a little, being supremely
pleased just to be out, close to the heart

of things, re-vitalizing the mind and accum-~

ulating wisdom and energy for the. days to
come. “The whole arcana book of trout
fishing,’ writes immortal John Harrington
Keene, “consists in rather the mental con-
struction of the angler than in the manner
and method of the process. The fish is a
convenient peg, so to say, on which to hang
the dolce far niente, and render the day’s
sport, in its pursuit, haleyon and superlative,
The sport itself may be insufficient, but
there is always some recompense in the
effort madeand intheclose communion with
dear Nature’s self. Not always do large
bags and great results crown the angler’s
desire. Too often it is far otherwise, and
yet the true angler never feels like giving
up fishing because of poor sport.”

The very perfection of angling lies in its
apartness from anything catering to stress
or excitability; it is truly the great moderator,
the quieter of unreined spirits. Life cannot
be pursued along lines of stress, pressure of
business and so forth without some relief
from the humdrum part of living. Merely
to live is no enchantment. Merely to roll in
wealth and the luxuries that wealth will
bring is not a complete realization of the
joys and pleasures of Life. Wealth has
nothing to its credit save that it provides a
few more things to wear, a richer grade of
food to eat and sumptuous habitations to
live in. Pleasures that money buy are so
common that they reek in their emptiness,
their superficiality. But the pleasures of
angling may be partaken of by the poorest
man to the very height of its appeal. The
beauty and simplicity of angling cannot
be purchased in mere gold. There is some-
thing far more necessary!

Izaak Walton has stated that angling
affords “habits of peace and patience in

those who prefer and practice it,” and it
was his belief that ‘‘no life can be happy, or
so pleasant as the life of the well-governed —
angler, for when the lawyer is swallowed
up with business, and the statesman is
preventing or contriving plots,

there we —

sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and

Possess ourselves in as much quietness as—
these silent-silver streams, which we ow see
glide by us.” Walton, the Father of Angling,
was indeed a contemplative:man. He did
not pose as a great fisherman, through a

crude impression that to be prominent as” —

ananglerone must show great spoils as the
result of one’s day abroad; he was content to
idle “profitably” along a pleasant stream
in his beloved Staffordshire, taking a fish .
occasionally, of course, but spending the —
greater portion of his time in serenely viewing
life and speculating upon the varied blessings
that are inits train. Some hold that angling
is but an excuse to get out into the quiet
nooks of Nature. for a peaceful sojourn,
away from the strife of a competitive world;

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to forget the clangor, the dust, the ery and~

the fashionable conventional things that
are not, in any sense of the word natural but
which are held asrules to go by, It is no
doubt to get away from just such scenes
that Walton repaired to the country and its
pleasing environs and there found solace, as
we. may find solace, likewise—in a natural
manner—befitting and beautiful.

Men need to go out into the quiet place
of Nature, to the streams and waters to take
from their beings the sourness of disposition
that business battles “bring upon them. It.
is the firm conviction of William W. Walsh
that: Doctor Johnson and Doctor Young
would have earned but scanty praise had they
sung their cynical lines to those who, by
long communion with green fields and clear ~
streams had found something to enjoy,
beyond the spheres where Christians thirst
for gold. And so, these men, (whose teachings
I would emulate), wore away their days
tranquilly, into the nineties. They saw
their fellows pursuing intangible spectres,
the curse of avarice and the tawdry sham
happiness of wealth, under which, (in the
heyday of manhood) they, sank out of sight
and recollection. How many have denied

themselves a day’s outdoor recreation when —

their system’s required it, simply because
they were idolators of the few dollars it
would cost them. The human system is like
unto a bow, which, in order to preserve ©
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which “becomes a worthless thing when its
elasticity is no, longer apparent.’ And,
adds this entertaining writer: “I have known
the struggle with the wary genii of the stream,
and the sensations which awoke my every
nerve when the hook has pierced his lip.
The fears of losing him and the hope of safely
landing him, a prey to artful skill, the quietude
of mind and rest of body I have experienced
in a day so spent have altogether made me
equal to many an exigency of the daily
> task. That is why I am an angler.”
“Whether overladen with good fortune,

or suffering under the shocks of adversity,”
says Genio Scott, picking up the endless
thread of argument, ‘forget not to take the
magic wand and repair to the murmuring
waters; and, while accumulating physical
energy, your souls will be charmed and your
minds soothed and tempered by the melody
of birds, the sights of Nature, and the sounds
of inferior animals, above, around, and beneath
the enlivening waters. With rosy dreams
and bright streams, breezy morns and mellow
skies, a light heart and a clear conscience
may God speed ye well!’’

A Jewel of the Waters

E all know the sunfish. The sunfish
] is no brook trout in any sense of the
Be word. A sunfish simply—is. There
_ is much more, however, to be said about
the sunfish. It has not the pink flesh and
_ dainty-flavored taste of the brook trout,
_ but brook trout are few and far between.
_ The brook trout is a luxury, not to be _par-
taken of at one’scall. On the other hand the
_ sunfish is common and is your home fish, to
be had practically when you want it. A
fish as food is considered from the viewpoint
“of flavor first of all: it may be here stated
_ that many fish that we eat have only a
‘small portion in them that we have a longing
for. We tire of some fish at one sitting,
while of certain others we are reminded and
the desire is continually recalled.

The flesh of the sunfish is firm, sweet of
flavor, and entirely free from bones in the
fleshy area. Rolled in cracker and bread
crumbs, dipped in egg, and done to a golden

_ brown the sunfish cannot be surpassed as a

_ tasty morsel.

s The common sunfish, orpumpkin seed, is

the mo&t familiar of the sunfish species.
It is found in the lakes and rivers in the
region east of the Missippissi from Maine to
Florida, taking in the Great Lakes region and
the Western part of Manitoba. Some of the
largest specimens of this fish, the pumpkin
seed, are taken from these waters, some
weighing up to two pounds, with a very
desirable length. The average so-called big
sunfish ranges ‘far below that however.
An eight ounce pumpkin seed may be con-
sidered pretty big.

This member of the species is very beauti-

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fully colored. In fact he is not excelled in
beauty by many other fishes. The lower
fins are yellow, and the dorsal fin is blue and
yellow. he belly is tinted with orange.
The back is bluish purple, while the sides
are of a lighter shade, with blotches of orange.
The surroundings or feeling of the sunfish
promote changes in color. Fading of color
takes place when the sunfish is taken from
the water, due most likely to separation from
its own species.

Next in importance in the sunfish family is
the bluegill, which is found in the Great Lakes
region up to two pounds in weight, some acquir-
ing the length of one foot.

Sunfish, or bream, in the South is an exten-
sive market fish. This is also true of many
locations in the north where the large lakes |
supply the city markets.

One may easily distinguish a bluegill by
its so called velvet black ear. This is however
no source of hearing.‘ There is nothing
especially exciting about landing a sunfish’
by rod and line. The sunfish. is for the
stillfisher with a cane pole, a cork float, and
an ambition, only too often, to catch all the
fish in the lake in the shortest time possible,
with the intention of using the surplus for
fertilizer.

Much sport can be had, however, by going
out on a still morning or just at dusk on
an August evening with light tackle, using
a fly tied on either a Number 10, 12, or 14
hook. The fly should be dark colored on
light days and vice versa on dull days and in
the evenings. Three flies on a leader in place
of one would work better, catching more freely
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twitched so as to give them the appearance
of life. A three ounce rod should be used,
with a light open framework single action
reel.

One should locate the feeding place and
make a cast, dropping the fly lightly to the
surface. The result following will provide
one with asmuch excitement as when fighting
with that born fighter, the small mouth bass.
In the evenings of hot summer days sunfishing,

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is fine near shore as this is their feeding ground.
One may catch sunfish up to ten o'clock at
night.

Yes, the sunfish, dear old sunfish, you still
remain an undaunting knight of the waters.
It is you that recalls the sweet memories of
boyhood. The barefoot boy, an alder pole,
a can of bait and a string of fish of your ~
own kind. Your colors will never change.
You will always stay in our memory.

After Deer in the Trout Lake District

C. E. GorDoN

Y companion and I having decided
at the last moment to get to the bush
for the remaining ten days of the hunt,

hurriedly got together our camping outfit
and left Midland, Ont., 2.50 p.m: November
8th for Coldwater Junction, where we had a
wait of eight hours to catch a C.P.R. train
to Paget, our getting off place.

At Coldwater we met “‘Mac’’. Mac is a
prominent business man of Toronto, whose
diversions are exploring the wilds of On-
tario, preferably by canoe and who prefers
hunting wild duck to that of deer. However,
he was going to join a party from our town
who were camping very near our destination
and would this time try for deer. He had a
new Ross rifle most elaborately equipped
with sights and shock absorbers, which he
had been testing out just outside the town of
Coldwater and stated that he was making
a most beautiful pattern on the opposite
side of a perfectly good stump about four
feet through when he was stopped by a farmer
who had some ‘sheep about one half mile
away and had an idea that Mac had mistaken
them for deer and was trying to bring one
down. Well, we spent the time waiting for
our train discussing guns and ammunition,
Mac being well versed in the respective merits
of different rifles, their striking power,
velocity and trajectory of bullets, etc., time
soon arrived to get our train, our lug-
gage having gone to the junction earlier,
all we had to do was pack our knapsack and
guns and climb into the stage at 11.15 p.m.
arriving at Coldwater Junction four minutes
before time. We checked our baggage and
and canoe for Paget and upon arrival of
train helped to get same into baggage car.
When all pieces were in and train ready to
leave. writer discovered canoe still on plat-

form and hurried to get it on board. A
16 foot canoe is rather awkward for one to
handle with any speed on a station platform,
so I had to discard my rifle and knapsack,
dropping them on the platform succeeded
in getting canoe on board just as train moved
off taking me with it in the baggage car and
leaving my rifle and knapsack behind.

Well I hurried after Mr. Conductor, ex-
plaining matters to ‘his lordship and he
promised to see what he could do. About
one hour afterwards he came back to us.
and stated that my rifle and knapsack would
be brought on by freight arriving at Paget
the next afternoon. This allayed all our
anxiety and we settled down for a few hours’ —
sleep. Charlie, my companion, got busy
at once and slept right through to Paget.
Mac and I had a try but the lure of the bush
was too rampant within and we soon gave
up the idea of sleep and instead talked over
previous hunting trips, and experiences
attending them, until we arrived at Paget
5 a.m. where we hurriedly unloaded and ~
made our first portage about 4 mile, which
we had accomplished by daylight. ;

Here I suggested that Charlie unsling
his rifle as we often saw deer while making
into camp. Charlie was busy fér some
time when he exclaimed, “Well if that don’t
beat the —” when asked for an explanation,
he said he had no shells to fit his rifle. It
seems that he had just acquired a rifle that
he had previously owned before going away ”
with the Canadian Siberian forces and with
it a box of shells which he had never examined
until now, only to find them of different
calibre. Surely we were well equipped:
he had a 351 automatic and no shells, I had
plenty of 30-30 shells and no rifle. How
the deer would suffer!

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We decided to make camp the first thing
we did, and see what could be done with the
shells afterwards. Our camping place was
about 2 miles from R. R. and included one
more portage. We made camp by 9 o’clock
and were all settled and dinner over by 12.30.
After dinner we decided to go 5 miles down
Trout Lake to the camp Mac was’ headed for
and sée if shells could be had for Charlie.
After a 2 hour struggle against a head wind
we arrived and were overjoyed by securing
a box of 50-351 shells which fixed Charlie
out O.K., now all we needed was my rifle
which I had to go to the station for the
next morning (Monday).

Sunday night we had a good rest which
was needed having been in harness more
than 32 hours and I without any sleep the

night before, that combined with the work

of getting baggage and canoe to camp made
our solid rock bed covered by a few spruce
bows and plenty of blankets, very inviting.
Monday morning early I started for Paget
for my rifle and knapsack returning at noon,
Charlie in the meantime getting acquainted

_ with the bush surrounding our camp.

We were now all equipped for the hunt.

a J had my rifle, Charlie had shells, and after

a hasty lunch we got in our canoe and started
down the lake about 1 mile to someold
hunting ground that I was familiar with,
_ having © hnated there last year. We put
in two o> three hours mooning through the
bush and Charlie was rewarded by seeing
three flags which he took a couple of shots at
without any damage done. We had not yet
acquired the Indian tread and made too

- much noise to get very close to game. We

returned to camp feeling in fine spirits and

satisfied that plenty of game was at hand.

The next morning, Tuesday, we were back

_ bright and early and after about 2 hours of

_ careful stalking the writer got a shot at a

small deer which he succeeded in bagging
with the one shot. This was hung up and
lunch eaten. In the afternoon both flushed

game, but on account of the dense bush

secured no shots. The deer seemed to be
staying close and mostly in heavy swales,
which were very thick and wet making them
hard to work through with any degree of
caution. Tuesday night rain set in and it
grew much colder. During the night a
heavy wind came up and blew the side walls
of our tent loose, the rain pouring in on our
faces quickly awakened us, and Charlie
lighting the lantern slipped a mackinaw coat
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his underwear for more warmth after taking
off his hunting suit and hurried out to pile
rocks On side-walls and flaps of tent. After
much time he returned soaked and said he
guessed the tent wouldn’t blow away now.
A little later that same night I had to crawl
out and fix a guy rope from top of tent and
had to go several rods to find rocks enough
to tie to, Charlie having previously gathered
them all and piled on the side walls of our
tent which had quite the appearance next
morning ofa stone foundation to a cellar.

Rain and snow and sleet continued for
several days making it almost impossible
to do still hunting and making camp life
anything but pleasant. However, Friday P.M.
we decided to try the bush any way and
had not been out of camp more than 15
minutes when Charlie put up a fine big doe
and while he missed her the first shot, he
dropped her in her tracks the second, having
made a very good shot under difficult con-
ditions.

Now we had our count and the hunt was
over, the next thing was to get our deer to
camp, and then to the R.R; Charlie’s deer
was less than 144 mile from camp and after
letting the deer hang over night to get rigid,
we. snaked her to camp by placing two ropes
over the deer’s head and front feet and each
getting into the loop of his rope the same as
we played horse in school-days. The other
deer weighed only about 100 Ibs. and we
took turns in carrying it on our shoulders to
the lake. Here the weather turned colder
and sleety, covering the lake with iceand
making it almost impossible for us to get out
with a canoe as we had to cross two small
lakes on our way to Paget and they would
be frozen pretty hard, so we decided to wait
over two or three days for the weather to
grow milder or until our other party broke
camp, they having large punts with out board
motors could break through ice without much
difficulty. The delay would give us time
to take some hikes into bush and get better
acquainted with the country «which we both
desired.

Saturday morning early we started out
for Moose River to che North, taking light
lunch and the camera. After a three mile
tramp through swales and over rock ridges
we reached the river, where we found plenty
of signs of deer and some old bear and moose
signs. Beaver dams made it impossible to
explore the river on foot because of the
overflow of water. These beaver dams were
very interesting and proved the genius of

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this most intelligent little animal. One
dam especially interested us, being about 150
feet long and 9 feet high in the centre
covered too much surrounding lowland, but
the cuttings of poplar and white birch
would indicate a very large colony of the
little workers.

After following along the course of the river
for some distance we started back for camp;
taking a slightly different direction by the
compass. On our way, while passing through
heavy swales we put out 3 deer on one occa-
sion and 4 on another. We were making
lots of noise and did not get close enough
to see more than a glimpse of flags as they
made their getaway. We struck the lake
upon return about 1144 miles east of camp
as I saw it first having come out of a swale
upon a cleared piece of high rocky tableland.
I whistled to my companion to join me and
while waiting for him to come up a bull
moose walked out of the bush into the
opening about 114 miles away and next to
the lake. He remained stationary until
my companion arrived and we had a fairly
good look at him. We decided to try for
a close up view and a possible snap shot,
not having licence to kill moose that was as
far as Wwe could go into the shooting line.
My companion made for a high point near by
and in the direction which the nioose appar-
ently was headed. I made a detour about 44
mile to be able to come up wind on him.
About three quarters of an hour hard work,
I arrived close to where we had seen his
majesty, with the wind in my favor, I spent
another half hour in trying to make a careful
approach alternately crawling on all fours
and wiggling through the under-growth
and over rocks and arriving in sight of the
spot only to find our moose had vanished
and no trace of him to be found, other than
where he had been standing while watching
us, nor had my companion seen anything
further of him. He had simply vanished
which seemed almost impossible without
one of us havgng seen him, however, I felt
quite certain he was killed two days later by
a member of a hunting party from Bradford,
as a member of their party killed a fine
two year old bull on Monday that weighed
about 600 pounds.

We arrived at camp just at dusk pretty
tired but well satisfied with our days’ exper-
ience. The next day Sunday, we straightened
up camp and packed what we would not use
again preparatory to breaking camp Monday.
This work occupied all the morning; during

the afternoon we visited a couple of beaver

dams near by camp and inspected their
houses, which only means that we pushed -
our canoe around their home and had a good

look, and particularly noticed how well they’
had camouflaged their dwelling, especially

from the side towards the open lake. Once

out onthe lake one would never suspect that big

rock sticking up out of the marsh near

shore was a home for a family of beaver

and made of mud and sticks.

Monday we broke camp and canoed our
outfit across the lake to our first portage, the
other party having made one trip through
and broke the ice, the weather remaining
cold and sleety. Making the portage would
have afforded a good comic movie. Here
were 15 men hustling with a few thousand
pounds of camp outfit done up into all sort
of packages, 5 canoes and 15 deer, some
going for a load, others returning for another,

- here would be a man with a deer on top of

him, then a man fast under a canoe having
slipped off a rock, which were covered with
sleet and very slippery. The writer in
making one trip with bothhands full of small
baggage, such as lattern, rifle, supperlunch,
box and etc., slipped on a rock which was
very slanting and ran out into the lake, both
feet went up intothe air and landing with a
thump on that part of my anotomy, half
way between the cellar and the attic, I.
btgan a very speedy descent towards the
lake scattering my load in all directions
but succeeded in keeping out of water by a-
narrow margin. All the articles were re-
covered except the lunch which had-incon-
sistently taken to drink.

It was dark by the time we had made
our portage and reloaded our baggage and as
we only had about 1 mile further to Paget~
Station with plenty of open water, we decided —
to make it in one trip instead of two as we
had been doing. So we loaded tent, tent-—
poles, stoves, rifles, dunnage bags, blankets
and bread box containing cooking utensils
and balanee of grub, folding table and chairs,
and our two deer along with ourselves into —
our 16 foot canoe, we made it, but never
again. e

Arriving at Paget we got all our baggage >
and deer to R. R. siding by 9 P.M. then sat
down to eat with our friends; our own pre-
pared supper being back in the lake for the
fish to feed on. Here we waited for the
hunters’ special to take us home, which arriv-
ed 3 A.M.., killing time telling our experience
of this year and our plans for next.

2 Se"

= HE red fox has been a figurein history,
Ah in literature and what-not from time
Ff immemorial. It has been termed in
‘this excerpt from the work of a very early
Writer as “the embodiment of quadrupedal
ltreachery,” and the early English poet
’ Chaucer, dipping his goose-quill in ink,
said of him:“O false morderour, reeching in thy

len’? :
__ Reynard, the red fox,has been celebrated
in verse and in prose apparently from the
beginning of Time. Red Fox has been a
_ figure in fact and in fiction. as far back as
we can read and that-is prominently, too,
the reason he takes such a prominent place
in the annals of sport, particularly the merry
chase; for fox chasing with the hounds is
one of the oldest institutions in the world.
If we were to delve into the history of the
fox: if we should choose to lay hands on
everything, past and present that pertains
‘to the subject, we would have a library in
elf, for men have never ,and will never cease
extolling the craftiness of this keen-nosed
ittle creature. The fox is not only found

a and Australia amounts to over a million
a half specimens. This inthe face of
Tush of civilization and the ever-increasing
ulations ever on its trail to lay it low.
e red fox owes its immunity from extinc-
tion to the fact that its cunning, its innate
‘artfulness (often amounting almost to human
intelligence) has safe-guarded it against
‘destruction”at the hands of Man. The red
“fox is possessed of an astonishing sagacious-
s. It will resort to innumerable devices
where by to foil its pursuers. This is nothing
new; it is history, tradition. There is
hardly a fox hunter who has not met up
vith just these wonderfully keen-minded
specimens. It is not, therefore, an extra-
ordinary thing to find foxes quite numerous
in and around the confines of civilization,
in districts quite well populated. The red
fox may not always pay a visit to the hen-
_coops but he often does. As he is rarely seen
his presence may not be suspected, and it is
doubtful if one out of every hundred could
tell a fox track from that made by a dog.

; ; | ‘The Red Fox

' RoBERT PaGe LINCOLN

It is for that reason that foxes often raid
chicken-coops and are not suspected; though
chitken-stealing is rather an exception to the
rule than a common occurence. Says Will-
iam Temple Hornaday: “Many defenders
of the red fox have arisen, who stoutly declare
that to their positive knowledge, based on
many years’ experience, the red fox is not a
destroyer of game birds and poultry, as has
been charged in the indictments against him.
Certain it is that grouse and quail, and

‘other ground-nesting birds, never were so

numerous as in the days when the foxes of
the United States were most numerous.
It would almost seem as if it is the way of
the fox to live upon the lame, the halt and
the blind among the upland game-birds, and
by catching and consuming the weakest.to
promote the survival of the fittest.” The
answer to this may be that the fox seize the
halt, the lame and the blind, not to help
along the laws of nature, but merely because
these are easy to obtain without undue exer-

tion; the same as a preying fish will lay low

a disabled minnow or‘fish. In either case
the crippled specimens were easier to acquire.

Four distinct species of the fox family
are represented in North America, out of
the twelve species known to the world. We
have with us on this continent these species:
the red fox, the gray fox, the swift fox and
the famous Arctic fox. These are not listed
as varieties; they are considered quite gener-

ally as distinct species. As regards the red

and the gray fox, it is said upon eminent
authority that the red fox has been the cause
of the downfall of the gray fox; that it has
been known to kill this other member of the
fox family. They are, what might be said,
sworn enemies, whereas the red fox has been
known to mate with wolves and with dogs!

The Arctic Fox has been considered by
some as being nothing more nor less than
the Blue Fox. However Napoleon Comeau,
distinguished outdoor man and naturalist of
well known standing presented Dr. Merriam
with skeletons of various foxes and vigorously
holds that there is a vast anatomical differ-
ence between the Blue and the Arctic Fox,
to the extent that they should be considered
each as a separate species. Another writer
states that the fur of the Blue Fox never chang-
es color, and is the largest of all the foxes,

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whereas the Arctic Fox is the smallest, and
while one variety of the Arctic Fox is known to
be grayish-blue in the summer, nevertheless
in the winter its fur turns white. Other
points to be recognized are that the white
foxes are quite numerous while the blue foxes
are quite rare. Northern trappers classify
the foxes they catch as follows: The Red Fox,
the Cross Fox, the Double Cross Fox, the
Silver Cross Fox, the Silver Fox, the Black
Silver Fox and the Black Fox. In this
category, however, only one distinct specie
is represented,—that being the Red Fox,
(VULPUS FULVUS). The others are but
varieties. The Cross Fox, the Black Fox
and the Silver Gray Fox are but rare occurenc-
es in breeding. Close investigation into
the subject has led to all of these being
found represented in a Red Fox !itter. In
line with this, says one authoritative writer:

“A Cross Fox, nearly black, was frequently
seen in a particular dover. We offered a
high premium for the animal in the flesh
and the fox was accordingly chased and shot
at by the boys of the vicinity. The autumn
and winter passed away and still the fox
was at large. Inthe spring we dug for the
young foxes that had been'seen at the burrow,
which was known to be frequented by this
same Cross Fox we had never been able to
capture. There were seven of them. Three
were black, and the rest were red. The
blackest of the young whelps was retained
by us; and we frequently saw at the house
of a neighbor another of the litter which was
red, and differed in no respect from the
common red fox. The older our little pet
became the less it grew like the black, and
the more like the Cross Fox. It was, much
to our regret, killed by a dog when about
six months ‘old, and, as far as we can recollect
was nearly of the color.

“The following autumn we decided to
try our hand at procuring the enchanted
fox, which was the parent of these young
varieties, as it could always be started in
the same vicinity. We obtained a fine pair
of younghounds and gave chase but with no
success. On the third hunt, however, we
took our stand near the corner of an old
field, at a spat we had observed it to pass.
A good aim removed the mysterious charm.
We killed it with squirrel-shot. It was nearly
jetblack, with thetip of the tail, white. This

fox’ was the female which had produced the
young of the previous spring, that we have
already spoken of, and as some of them, as
we have already said, were Cross Foxes,

and others Red Foxes, thus has settled
the question in our minds, that both the
Cross Fox and the Black Fox are mere
varieties of the common Red: Fox.”

The above may be a gredt surprise tomany;
and comes from none other than Dr. Bachman,
the associate of Audubon, whose work has
been lost to the world, yet whose findings
I have resurrected. If the above is true
(which we must believe) then the question
as to the origin of these various foxes is
settled; that they are not species, but variet--
ies of the red fox, ( Vulpus fulous). :

The tricks of the red fox when hounded ~
are many. His greatest delight in point of
fact is to outwit the hounds upon his trail;
he is never hurried or flustered; even when
at close quarters. He is always at his ease,
pausing, listening, and then going forward ~
again, often through the densest of thickets,
thus to give his pursuers all the trouble he
can think of. Not the least of these tricks
is his back-tracking stunts, which are con-
ducted with every exhibition of human
intelligence. Having gone over the snow
for some distance he will suddenly turn
and follow his tracks back, when suddenly,
at a convenient point he will turn and leap_
far to one side, away from the trail. The
on-rushing hounds will keep on straight ahead,
and will not only lose time but will have to
go back over the trail anew and find the place
where the fox jumped and where he landed.
In the meantime the fox is miles away,
leisurely loping along. He is particularly
fond of running up the sides of slanted trees
and leaping far from them, and is even known
to wade the water of streams to throw off
the scent of his trail and so deceive the hounds.
In another instance a nimble-footed fox led
a hound out on ice that was thin and yielding.
When quite a ways out the fox turned back
and at an angle made for shore. » The blund-
ering hound, heavy of weight and wild for
blood came on. Though the ice sank under
foot the hound did not pause, his lust for
gore over coming all his instinctive “reas-
oning’’ which should have told him he was
“treading on dangerous ground’. The
result was that the ice went in, and so did.
the hound. The hunter found him there’
dead, some hours later, and by adding two
and two together he found that it made four —
—and the fox was safe! -

Without exaggeration the fiction of foxes
is out-done by fact. There is hardly a fox
hunter who has not heard of the relay system
foxes practice when chased. Because this

+
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_ is common to many, new to others I offer it
at its worth. We willsay that a fox is run
and when practically tired out, meets with
- another fox. The first fox runs away to rest
up while the second fox boldly goes out into
- view of the hounds, which, seeing him and
* mistaking him for the first fox leave the trail
-and take after him. In this manner a fox
will out-wind the hounds. I simply give
this, not exactly as believing it myself,
but which is a story common among the fox-
chasing brethren, many of whom vote it
Tue in every respect.

- The trickiest method of a fox eluding his
‘pursuers that Ihave ever heard of, and which
we may believe is true, was that of a hunter
with a pack of hounds who entered a certain
tretch of country purposely to hunt out a
sertain crafty fox with the result that no luck

“After a chase of an hour,” says this writer,
“just enough to blow the dogs and the horses
_ well, we would invariably lose the fox as a
y given spot, at afence corner. The frequency
and certainty of this event became the
‘Standing joke of the country around. Fox
hunters from other neighborhoods would
_ bring their packs for miles, to have a run
put of this mysterious fox, in the hope of
_ clearing up the puzzle, once and for all. But
ho. They were all baffled alike. We often
amined the ground critically, to find out,
f possible the mode of escape but could
discover nothing that in any way accounted
for it, or suggested anything in regard to it.
That it did not fly was very sure; that it
“must escape along the fence in some way was
aps so. My first idea was that the an-

» such a distance before leaping off

ditor, Rod and Gun In Canada

Now that the war is over, this Department
attempting to build up our zoological col-
tion, and Have outlined a plan of main-
ning a representative collection of Cana-
an birds and animals, which will be kept in
natural surroundings as possible at High
k, Riverdale Park, and the Island.

I am writing to ask your assistance by
ing publicity to the above fact in your
ublication, in the hope of obtaining dona-
ms from some of your many readers, who

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that the dogs were entirely thrown out of
whack. I accordingly followed the fence
with the whole pack about me, clear around
the whole patch it took in, but without strik-
ing the trail again, or making any discovery
whatsoever. The affair now became quite
serious.”

Finally the hunter decided to post himself
in the vicinity of the fence where the trail
always disappeared and so watch the reynard
when he came along, and thus endeavor to
solve the problem: doing so, the hounds
were released one day. In due course of
time the fox was spotted coming toward the
fence. Now he was seen to pause and listen
as the baying, of the hounds became more
distinct; then running lightly ahead, the
fox leaped to the top rail of the fence and
moved along its length, “balancing himself
as neatly as a tight-rope walker.’’ For a
distance of two hundred feet he went inthis
manner, the hunter following after, though
always in hiding and as noiselessly as poss-
ible. Suddenly the fox stopped at a certain
post. Interested, the hunter speculated on
what was next tohappen. As suddenly as
that fox pivoted on that post heleaped upward
through the air some tem or fifteen feet,
landing in a tree leaning at anangle of forty-
five degrees, whose gnarled, deformed top
gave ample foothold to receive him. Nor
was this all. Once having landed there the
fox crawled down into the tree’s hollow pur-
posely to stay there until the hounds were
called off. *

“The tree stood at such a distance from the
fence” says the writer, ‘that no one of us
dreamed of the possibility that the fox would,

or could, leap to it; it seemed impossible, but.

practice and the convenient tree-top had
enabled Reynard to overcome it with ease!”’

Toronto Parks Want Live Animals and Birds

may from time to time have different ani-
mals and birds in their possession.

I think if people realized what good use
would be made of the amimals or birds which
might be donated, they would be only too
glad to present them.

‘Anything you may be able to do for us in
this matter will be greatly appreciated.

Yours truly,
C. E, Chambers,
é€ Commissioner of Parks.

Home Brew and a Bear

ELEANOR M. BREMER

Coast is an Arm of the sea, stretching

back into the mountains. At the very
finger tips of this particular Arm lies a lazy,
drab, little village which has been in a state
of torpor for endless days., The pinch which
roused it into sitting up and rubbing its eyes
has come from the discovery that it is the
very heart of a district rich in silver. Pros-
pectors’ dreams are now coming true and the
little village is only eighteen miles from mines
which are now in full operation.

So it is that people who might have died and
rested in absolute peace without hearing of
the existence of the little village are urged by
those human dreams of wealth, to» come.
Among the visitors to the place was Miss
Scott, who had come from Toronto to visit her
brother—a doctor at the mines. She, of
course “put up” at the splendid Village Hotel
and was left entirely to her own resources
while her brother was away at the mines.

It seemed to her that she knew the Arm
only too well. She watched every ship or
boat come and go. She threw stones at the
salmon lodged in the river from which they
could not pass. She knew the Arm when the
tide was in and when the tide was out; when

A const the many inlets of the Western

‘the gulls were screeching and when the gulls

were still. The unfortunate thing was that
Miss Scott, who was fond of walking, could
not walk. Given, a long arm of the sea with
overhanging mountains, thick-wooded and
snow-capped, where is a lonely human to go?
Up and down the track leading to the mines
she walked, until she was in*grave danger of
becoming lop-sided. Walk up a track and
see if you don’t miss a tie with the same foot.

At last, it was too much for her. She de-
cided in spite of her brother’s warning to do a
little exploring on her own initiative. She
would leave the track and follow a mountain
trail if there was one. to be followed. It was
on her after-dinner walk one evening that the
desire became irresistible. She had only
gone a short distance on the track when she
eut into the woods and began feeling her way
in the underbrush on the mountain side.
After this scrambling and pulling, she was
delighted to hit a trail. So happy was she to
sWing into her old gait that she walked on and
on, forgetting time. The trail seemed well

beaten and angled in such a way that the
difficulties. of climbing were reduced to a

minimum. Time had passed so quickly that

before Miss Scott realized it, night as the
poets say was thickening. With the thickening
of night, came a thickening of events for just

as she came over a little ridge, a huge tree lay

across the trail and blocked her way. At

this moment, she became conscious of the ~

darkness around her and with this, came a

feeling of fear. Everything was so hushed,

so silent that-she could only stand peering

into the darkness, remembering then her
brother's injunction. As she stood looking
around, she realized suddenly that the tree
before her was hollow and so an ideal residence
for a bear.
few seconds to flit through her mind: She

All thesé thoughts took but a~

was about to turn when to her horror, she saw

looming from behind the log, a dark figure. _

For a moment, it stood upright, then reeled
and fell.

Miss Scott did not take time to investigate
as her one desire was to melt into the shadow.
Anything to be away from that bear. She
ran, only stopping when she had fallen and
only halted when she reached the track. She
was still panting upon her arrival at the hotel

and it was between gasps that she told her

story to the men. They looked very grave,
particularly when they found out about the
hollow tree and the path she had taken.

About an hour later, when the moon iia i

"behind a mountain, two men ‘‘padded”

this very trail, talking in low voices. — “Yeon
it must be moved. If Murphy—Murphy was
the village policeman—gets a hold of her yarn
and he will, for- women will talk, the devil will
be to pay.’ Upon approaching the tree
sure enough there was Miss Scott's bear
lying in a profound stupor. It had stolen a

march on the men and Mike, an Austrian ~

muoher from the mines had lit up his gloomy —

existence by imbibing very freely from the
Cache in-the hollow tree. That night, while
Mike blissfully slept off the effects of his “all- —

umination,” a keg of very potent home brew y

was moved to another hiding place lest that —
man Murphy pick up Miss Scott’s clue.

Meanwhile Miss Scott writes to Toronto
about her bear.

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days begin to grow hotter than ever;

often intense and penetrating. The
last two weeks in July are apt to be scorching
ones. All things are now growing - well;
in the fields the corn is coming along very
nicely. The dust on the much-travelled
highways is becoming powdery and the
wayside vegetation, the trees and the bushes
The late
summer flowers are now brightening out
everywhere. There is-ripeness in the very
air. The asthma victims are seeking the
safe northern retreats. On the lake the sun
beats down menacingly during the mid- day
hours and on the smaller lakes the moss and
the weeds have come up so thick in places
that it is impossible to push a boat through.
Often a green scum coats the water. Under
this flowering mass the sun-fishes revel by
the apparent millions and the snapping sounds
that arise everywhere tell of the multitud-

Bos the close of July, the summer

inous small mouths that are eagerly picking

up parasites and water seeds. Now and then
Bytbere will be a shocking rise far down the
‘Shore and a large pickerel ‘will leap out of

_ the water after something or another. Tur-

;

tles bask in lazy splendor upon the logs,
sliding off as you come near. The hint of
life on the water is great. It seems one
living mass. and the shore partakes of the
same appearance. The water growth has
now reached its height, and is at the surface
of the lake. The seeds have ripened; they
are separating from the stems and are drop-
ping to the lake bottom, there to fasten and
form new plants for the coming season.
Upon these seeds the fish feed abundantly
as the green coating inside of their mouths

_ show.

As the temperature rises the shallow waters
become unbearable to the larger fishes and
so they betake themselves to the deeper
waters of the lake. Out there along the
sand-bars you will find them, moving along
the sides of these; and if the lake be spring-
fed from the bottom be sure\to find the large
mouths and the small mouths arownd the
springs.

Fish at this time of the year have a dis-
tinct tendency to soreness of the mouth.
This is true of the sunfishes; and more than
true of the pike and the muscallonge. The
gums of the pike are found to be lacerated
and bleeding—and the teeth loose. In
some specimens the gums seem to have
swelled so they almost cover the teeth:
The teeth of the muscallonge too are loose
and some men are prone to state that this
great fish sheds its teeth during this month,
and ave replaced by others during the month
of September. The more likely thing, how-
ever, is that they do not lose their teeth, but
that they ate loose, and grow firm in place
again with the coming of autumn and the
hardening of the gums. Large pikes; ang
muskies noted ty the late part of August
have been found in an emaciated condition,
very thin and haggard-looking. The mouth
disturbance and the fasting is no doubt

the reason of this general condition. The ,

basses, however: the small mouth and the
large mouth do not seem to be in a bad way
and will often take the lure of the angler,
if it is rightly applied, with the same avidity
as noted in the fore part of the season.

Two thirds of the sons of Walton have
now put away their rods. ‘The intense heat
is one reason; and, furthermore, men argue,
the fish won't strike anyhow. so what is the

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use of wasting time at mere fishing. Sport
at this time of the year has been termed
“dog-day” sport, hence a sport without
attraction. There exists a hallucination that
fish taken in this season are mushy and
unpalatable—and bid to remember, please,
that this season often extends into the middle
of September. Admitted, of course that
the weather is of a decided torrid nature,
yet the fish are not the less worthy. The
angler in August and September will do
well to have a goodly riece of ice in his live
box in the boat or in the receptacle wherein
he keeps his catch. To let fish lie in the sun
at this time will soon make them a useless
article, and for that reason, undoubtedly,
exists the belief that fish taken now are—
unpalatable. However if kept @ool after
being taken, a fish is just as firm of flesh
and savory as a specimen taken earlier in
the year, though of course not the same as
in Autumn. Ice, coupled with the angler’s
catch at this time of the year is a most re-
commendable idea, as fish may thus be
preserved during the hottest portion of the
day. To further safeguard a catch if the
fish are bled, cleaned, salted and tucked
away in leaves and,wet grass they will keep
just as well as ever. .

Another strange belief that seems to exist
in spite of considerable proven fact is the
notion that fish, at this time of the year,
are full of worms—that the flesh is crowded
with parasites. And while it is true that
some fish in the summer have muscle worms,
and other parasitical types, as betokened
by the small specks that show up plainly
on some fishes’ sides, nevertheless such a
condition is not general but may be taken
as comparatively rare.

I have always said that to discover .a
sandbar in the middle of a lake is to discover
a place, where, in the late summer and
autur»-yuu can always expect good fishing.
Strictly speaking fishing off of the bars and
deep down to reach the spring-holes is live-
bait fishing pure and simple, in spite of
what the purists say. Here is where the
long Henshall bait rod comes in for especial
mention. It is the ideal rod for the work.
Silvery glittering shiners are used as lures
and these are worked gently around here
and there (the boat being anchored to the
bar) to attract the large fellows. Off the
bars you find the croppies and the largest
of thesun-fishes. Often alarge croppie or rusty-
colored sun-fish will seize the minnow and give
you the timeofyourlife. The possibilities of

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bar-fishing aré many; and may be fraught
with many surprises. One does not know
whether a pickerel, a croppie,a rock bass, -
a sun-fish or a large mouth is going to take
the minnow. This perhaps, is the greatest
fascination contained in minnow fishing
off the bars in the month of August, and
holds good, too, way into Qctober.

And what of the basses (the valiant
bronzen warriors) the small mouths and the
more common large mouths? The small
mouth is a clear-water loving fish. If he,
can escape the weeds and the pads he is in
his element. He loves to haunt the deep
lake waters, in and around the spring-holes;
where the waters bubble up cold and fine.
In those lakes of the north where there are
rocky reefs and holes in the walls of miniature
buried mountains there they will be found, —
although the line may have to be sent down
a great ways to reach them. Nor does it
matter if the sun is baking hot above; in
the deep holes all is cool; and one may have
just as good luck fishing in the middle of
the day as in the legitimate feeding hours.
I may add that the sport in playing a large
bass up from the spring holes is a sensation
to say the very least. To find these deep
water abiding places may be a puzzle; it —
may take patience and time and sounding ©
with lead. But when this general get-to-
gether meeting place of the basses is found, ©
that place may be spotted and will successful- —
ly give up a well-proportioned finny bounty ©
year after year.

In fishing off of the bars the minnows are —
not the only means toward an end, when we
consider the question of a suitable lure. —
Theie are too the helgramites (or Dobsons)
and the small soft-shell crabs, one or two ©
inches in length; not to forget the common ~
angleworm and the srub-worm. Both the —
helgramite and the crabs are said to be the
native food of both of the bass varieties,’
therefore, as a natural lure, they cannot
be equalled. The helgramite are very hardy
and one specimen will last a long time if
it is attached to the hook in the right manner.
To pierce the helgramite with the hook will
soon contrive to end its usefulness in this
world. Rather procure a number of tiny
druggist rubber snaps. Take one of these
snaps, and make two or three turns around
the bend of the hook with it. Then slip
the helgramite into the loop and snap the
rubber tight. This keeps it properly alive
and active. The same may be done with
the grub worms. By driving the hook into

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the body, as is common knowledge, the
body bursts, whereas if you use the snaps
this will not occur. Be sure to take a couple
turns with the rubber around the bend of the
hook so that it will not come off.

During the great heats of the day the
largemouth bass clear out of the shallow
waters and betake themselves to the depths;
but as the coo! of waning afternoon comes on
many of them come into the shore waters to
feed, and then, in the pads along the shore,
youywill find them. But to fish those pads—

that is the rub. The average bait-caster,
using many-hooked artificial minnows, passes
it up, for even though a bass be hooked in
among those pads to get that fish to the boat
or to net that is the question; and rather
than even try to answer it, such fishing is
Jeft to itself. Right there is’ where the
fisherman makes a mistake as I shall prove.
Let us go a little deeper into this unexploited
field.

You have been wont, we will say, to fish
outside of the outer edge of the pads, casting
inward to their edge, that is to say, their
ouler edge, not the inshore edge. From the
outer edge of these pads to your boat, we

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will say, there is from twenty to thirty feet
of space. Your bait drops in a pocket at
that edge and is reéled toward you. The
only place you are liable to get that bass is
in that pocket; the space from there on to
the boat is, what might be said, fishless.
Therefore you waste energy and use up valu-
able line in merely casting; for the bass are
not in the open water between your boat and
the pads; simply—they are in the pads and
if one would be successful fishing for them
in the late summer he must fish the pads.

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How to do this? I will explain my method.
This method I call “fishing the rise’’ the
same as “fishing the rise’ identified with ~
trout fishing; that is to say, casting to a
fish that is rising. Simply: during the feed-
ing hours of the trout the angler will watch
the waters; when a feeding trout rises that
fish is marked down and a fly is floated —
down over it especially to get that fish for
that fish is hungry and is the most liable to
strike. This not only works out well in theory |
but in practice as I have proven time and~

again, not in one water but in practically
all waters; and the very same with the pad-
abiding black bass. Let me employ an ex-
ample. The method of “rise” fishing is
restricted to work in and around the pads |
and while one may use the boat it is best to
leave it at home and wade the water along ~
shore casting oufward. You may elect to get

sloshing wet; a pair of old shoes upon your
feet, or you may use light wading-boots —
or wading-trousers if you have such. The /
best time for this sort of fishing is from four
in the afternoon until past dusk. The good
points about fishing the pads in-thismanneris —
that you have some of the best bass fishing

in the lake practically within twenty feet of ~
you. Watch now for the rising fish; and wade
the water with extreme care. I have written
time and time again that caution is one of
the prime requisites in bass fishing the same
as in any fishing. The more noiseless your —
progress the better will be your sutcess. —
Push along a step at a time and watch for
bass rising among the>pads for insects or —
minnows. It is, however, a mistake to
believe that because a bass rises at a certain —
spot that he will be there three or five minutes —

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Team members shown in this photograph are as follows:

Standing, Left a Right: Gace George C. Shaw, U.S.A., Team Captain; Col. Wm. Libbey,Liaison
V. D. Sm U.S.M. Team Coach; Maj. O.F. Snyder, U.S.A,. Pistol Team;

1cer ; aj.
ey W.F. Leushiner, UA: Sat- Maj. E.G. Lindroth, U.S.A;
S.N.; Capt. Fred S. Hird, U.S.A.;

Commar. C. eh Osburn,
and Sot. Morriss Fisher, U.S.M.C

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Center Row, Kneeling; Lieut. Perry S. Schofi eld, UsS.A.; ide ‘A. D. Rothrock, U.S.A.: Mr,

Joseph T. Lawless, Civilian; Lieut. ene |

W.A. Lee,
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U.S.N. and Lieut. Joseph Jackson,

M.C.
Front Row, Sitting: Lieut. T. G. Brown, U.S.A.; Gy. Sot. O. M. Schriver, U.S.M.C.; Supply
Sot. H.L. Adams, U.S.A.; Sgt. Ralph Henshaw, U.S.M.C.; Mr. Lawrence Nuesslein, Civilian:
and Sgt. Dennis Fenton, U.S.A.

Not Shown: Lieut. L. S. Spooner, U.S.A.;

Capt. Paul W. Mapes, Adjutant;

Major Wheeler,

Supply Officer; and Lieut. Commdr. McDonnal, Naval ‘Medical Officer.

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The course of fire at the try-out consisted of
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ten shots prone at 300 yards, and twenty
shots prone at 600 yards followed by ten
shots standing, and ten kneeling at 300
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three times and the high twelve men and
five others of the competitors were chosen
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later. The impression one will have is that
fish is lying still and rises up; takes an insect
and then sinks back to a stationary position.
Not so. The next rise of that fish may be
ten feet further down the shore; the reason
being tfiat the fish is constantly on the
move or preparing to move. If you know
in which direction the fish is moving (and one
is often able to see the fish in question)
cast a foot or two to one side of him. Do
not slam the bait down, but try to place it
in the water with ease, with as much care
as possible. The good points about shore
fishing, and wading, especially, is: First, you
do not stand so much ofa chance of being seen
wading as when ina boat. You are brought
lower down through reason of wading and
the fishes’ range of observation is thus cut
off. Second, you are within close proximity
of the fish all around you. In “fishing the
rise’ for bass you are liable to take one ten
feet from you, and sometimes they will
follow the lure right up to your feet. That
is, of course if you use caution, pushing for-
ward with the feet, instead of stepping.

For shore-fishing it is hard to equal the
Henshall rod, as a rather longer rod that
ordinarily in use is a demand. This rod has
arecognised limberness that aids tolightly flick
thelure to its destination noiselessly, where the
short rod would come blundering in with a
resounding splash that may unseat your luck.
To aid in smooth casting the ree] must work
smoothly—so one selects his best winch.
And as to the hooks; there we have another
thing to give our attention. After much
experimentation the result stands as follows
as the best: To the end of your twelve pound
test light silk line is attached a one foot and
one half mist-hued gut leader, or, better
yet, a Telerana Nova leader which leads
over all not only for strength but also as
to invisibility in the water. If possible you
use three inch minnows, either very active
chubs, or, best of all, stream shiners. Men-
tion has previously been made in the chapter
devoted to spring trout fishing how the hooks
are attached to the leader. One is ‘tied-in
an inch above the hook attached to the end.
Thus the upper hook is caught into the lip
of the minnow; the end hook in the side,
toward the minnow’s tail. The method of
James Henshall in merely hooking the minnow
with one hook) through the lip is not as sure

as the double-hook affair, for, this reason:
The bass will often nip off the minnow by
not striking to reach the hooky By having
two hooks the bass cannot do this and get,

away from the barb, of one of the hooks at
least.
Now then for the fish. As youmovealong
there is a curling tumble in the pads and the
water rocks; a large bass has risen for some-—
thing. Quickly the minnow is placed there
in that open spot one foot from the rise.
No sinker is on the line for the cast is short
and the smooth working reel will do the work
to perfection. You may have a strike, and
you may not. If not you cast again, giving
the minnow animation by a series of light
twitches to the rod. This will often fool the @
wisest of them. Presume you have a
strike; now comes the treachery of it all
and the swift work is on. The hook is set
and the work at reeling begins. He will dart
into the pads if you are not swift. Quick!
Bring him into the two foot open place of
that pocket. ~ Now high up over head with @
the rod and get out to him with the net as _
fast as possible. After a few seasons of bass
fishing in this manner you are able to get
out most every fish you catch. ,
If a two hook affair be used it is not,
however, necessary that the minnow be
living, and a dead minnow will do as well,
since, being pretty well fettered,a live minnow
so hooked will show no animation. The rod
will do that well enough. Minnows that
you wish to preserve and use for fishing i
this manner are allowed to die in a little
water when they are placed in a bottle and
covered with a ten per cent solution of
formalin. Another method of prese :
these minnows is to boil about a quart of
water, and when it has cooled off, add all
the salt the water will take up. Whei §
the salt and the water have been mixed to
form a very strong brine, then as much
corn-meal as the water will moisten up is §
stirred in. After this the mixture is set #)
away for a matter of a week or two when@
it is taken forth and thoroughly powdered
by rubbing it thus to erase out all the lumps.
The minnows, allowed to die in a little wate
are now dried by placing them on a blotting
paper; a tin box is used to keep them in.
A layer of the corn-meal and salt-mixture is
laid on the bottom of the box; then a ro’
of minnows; over them a layer of the mixture,
etc. Minnows thus preserved will keep firm
and fresh and may be had whenit is absolute
impossible to get them at all,

Generally, however, the little streams give
up shiners and chubs for use right along.
The strong-finned chubs and shiners of the
streams are the best, as they are the stronger,

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““As you move along there is a curling tumble in the pads and the water rocks.“

the most active. Unknown to many fisher-
men, however, shiners and chubs are to be
found in the very lakes they fish, but, for the
reason that these little silvery sprites are
never seen it is generally supposed the lake is
barren of them. Nof so. On these min-
nows the bass and the other large preying
fishes, feed; therefore to procure them is a
means toward anend. Itis to be remembered
that the bass shift, in as the minnow schools
shift. One goes down to the sandy beach
some night, where there is shallow water.
A fire is built at the water’s edge, or a strong-
burning lantern is placed there. The shiners,
etc., seeing this light are lured in. One hour
later a long minnow net is circled around the
light-showered space and is drawn toward
the shore. The result will generally be
enough minnows for several days’ fishing.

In “‘fishing the rise’ for bass in the pads
therefore one either uses a dead minnow or
a live one. Success by using the dead min-
now depends upon the animation you are
able to put into it with your rod; on the
other hand the live minnow on a single hook
does his own advertising, but if it is as sports-
manlike as the former method it is hard
to say. The live minnow is hooked in back,
slightly forward of the tail though
not to hurt the back bone and is allowed ta

swim around. Naturally a bass seeing this
is inspired to strike, especially if the minnow
is placed right near to the point of rise. The
reason the cane pole fisherman gets so many
bass is simple and it does not take much
study to discern the reason of it. He, too,
fishes the rise; he watches for the rising
fish along the pads. When he sees a big —
fellow moving around he merely reaches ©
down in his frog -bucket, takes out a bright-
green, spotted frog and hooks it on; he
drops it in at the edge of the pads and allows —
is to sink to the bottom to kick around and
push along on the bottom as well it may.
Obviously a large bass that is feeding cannot —
resist the temptation to lay such a fine meal
away where it will work the best so he is
caught. But it is in no sense of the word
a sportsmanlike method. As that great ~
Waltonian sage, Robert H. Davis puts it, it
is like taking the crutches away from one’s
grandfather.

As the summer heats come on one of the
first of the finny fellows to take tothe deep >
water is the lake trout, for, being a charr,
it is a charr characteristic to hunt out cold
water. Therefore the deepest holes are
sought for and there you will find them,
and to such depths you are forced to go if
you will have any luck whatsoever, As

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an idea to what depths the lake trout will go
I may state the case of one of my correspon-
dents who wrote that near Winnipeg there is
a lake said to be 850 feet in depth; fisher-
men are stated to have had out five hundred
feet of line; but he wanted to know accurately
how deep to go and what sort of method
touse. Generally speaking, lake trout fish-
ing is deep trolling pure and simple. Either a
live bait is used for a lure or a spoon of some
sort is the means of attraction. The method
of lake trout trolling is, however, worthy of
close attention’ as it is somewhat different
from the regulation method. Simply, to the
end of your strong line is connected (by
means of a swivel) a dipsey sinker having a
weight of eight ounces, or more, according
to how deep down you go. If two hundred
feet or one hundred feet the eight ounce
sinker is recommendable. ‘To this main line
another line, or branch line, of three feet is
attached, also by a swivel so as to prevent
kinking of the line, three inches above the
sinker. To this branch line by means of
a cooper snap is attached the hook and the
lure. When you let the line down you will
find that it will be almost straight up and
down in the water, or at a certain angle.
This is as it should be; the main line is
merely to hold the small branch line which
goes horizontally in the water with the lure
while the main line is at an abrupt angle.
One must ascertain by sounding with lead
as what “depth the lake, and especially
in the holes being fished. If one is uncertain
he goes back and forth over a place trolling
at various depths, first high up, then lower
down, till the lake trout level is struck.
In this way, sooner or later, the grey fellows
are met with.

The reason of so much failure at trolling
for the lake trout is the inability to reason
out that they are in the deepest portions
of the lake. Ordinarily a fisherman will troll
at a depth of fifty feet when the trout may be
one hundred feet down, or even two hundred.

Many fishermen take the burr off of a
Number 5 or Number 8 spoon-hook and in
place of it slip on a double-hook affair which
may be purchased in any sporting goods
establishment. This double-hook is much the
same in principal as is the double-hook
spoken of that is used in fishing the rise for
bass, only it is connected by a wire, soldered
together, to be exact. To the hooks is attach-
ed a large perch or a large shiner. This

is let down to the required depth. The
twirling spoon and the lure are sufficient
attraction and a catch is always to be expect- -
ed; and if a good hole (a spring-hole) is
struck, you may work back and forth over
it and catch as high as ten of the fine fellows,
some of large size, with always the chance
held out that you will run into a large lunker
that will give you the time of your life. :

Generally the Archer Spinner is connected
a great deal with lake trout trolling, but we
are not to forget the spoon lures which have
proven their worth on any number of occas-
ions. No spoon has proven so successful
on the lake trout as the so-called wobbling
or darting spoons of which there are many
types on the market. The darting spoon
is unlike the ordinary spoon in that it does
not whirl around in the waterin one given and
continual way, but darts and wobbles in the
water, one might say. ‘‘asthe fancy strikes it.”
This wobbling and darting motion fascinates
the fish. It is supposed to imitate a shiner
minnow or some other finny creature that
is the food of the preying ones, that is wounded
and is trying to make its way, through the
water as best it may. These spoons range —
in length from two to four inches; in all of |
them the hook or gang of hooks are not on a
special shaft, as in the regulation spoon-hook
lure, but are connected directly to the spoon.
Many of these spoons revolve; others do not
and when trolled dart erratically through the
water with a sidewise motion that is danger-
ously attractive to the fish. The so-called
Old Lobb spoon (an old stand-by) is an ex-
ample. The wobbling and darting spoons
are examples of the first of the spoon-hook
inventiveness in this country. You will
remember that the first spoon-hogk was
made by young Buel a long time ago. Hay-
ing dropped a silver teaspoon in the water he
had seen the glittering affair whirl down
through the water, but it had but gotten
half-way when a large trout seized it with
intent to kill. There a brilliant idea awoke
in the inventor’s mind. So he cut off the
handle on a thin-bladed silver spoon, made a
hole in the larger end, and, by the aid of a
wire, fixed on a swivel. Then he soldered
on asingle hook, at the tapering end and the
spoon was ready to use.

Remember: Go deep for the lake trout and
for the basses in the late summer, from the
middle of July to the end of August! v4

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Big Game Along the
Canadian Pacific Railway

This trans-continental ‘trail’ taps wonderful big’game country
between Nova Scotia and British Columbia. Here is the catalogue
—what is your inclination ?

« NOVA SCOTIA—Moose, caribou, deer, bear.

NEW BRUNSWICK—Moose. deer, bear.
QUEBEC—M ose, deer, bear.
ONTARIO—Moose, caribou, reindeer, deer, bear.
MANITOBA—Moose, caribou, reindeer. deer.
SASKATCHEWAN—M ose, caribou, deer.
ALBERTA—Mountain sheep, mountain goat, moose, caribou,
\ deer.
BRITISH COLUMBIA—Mountain sheep, mountain goat,

moose, deer, bear, mountain lion.

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Montreal, Canada, for literature and full information.

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deep silence has fallen on the woods and

the marsh. Trill and carol, caw and

quack are hushed. Save for an. occa-
sional call of parent or, note of warning, the
vocal chords of the feathered tribes are in
abeyance.

The heavy labors of brood-rearing are
over for the season, the old birds are resting,
the young ones have not yet learned their
parts.

The mating season is over, many birds
have made their annual divorce, there is no
need for resounding challenge or triumphant
paean, the silence is born of peace and rest
surely?

Only in part as a greater reason is the
desire of every August bird to pass unre-
cognized by friend or foe, particularly by foe.

The retirement is not altogether in shame,
although if thé strutting of Spring be conscious
vanity, this skulking of August may be due to
a sense of abjectness, as some ancestors of
ours hid themselves in the bush in the cool of
the day, rather than be seen in the degrada-
tion of nakedness.

The cause is almost the same, for feathers
are falling, gorgeous plumes are broken by
gaps, spreading tails are lacking in vanes,
wings are toothed, and the airy, silky fronds
of the body are replaced here and there with
unopened pin feathers.

It is the Autumn moult, and _ bird-life

would prefer to be neither seen nor heard.

Whether or not shame goes with the bird
to the cover, it is certain that safety de-
mands this seclusion, for at no other time is
the bird so much at the mercy of its enemies.

Were it not that the birds are at this time
strong numerically, with all the host young
ones just stepping out into life, the fate of our
songsters and game birds would be sad in- |
deed. But their enemies furred andfeathered
both, find the awkward “squads” ofybush and
lake such easy hunting, that the old ones are
hounded less hardly, and many a nestling
reared with anxious labor and affection, is
sacrificed on the threshold of the new life it
has but faintly glimpsed and has saved by
its death the parent who gave it life.

Moulting is a serious business for the birds.
The snake sloughs off his skin in one wrig-
gling operation, when the new undergarment
is ready to take its place. Animals can shed
hairs one by one and still retain a good coat,
while changing, but feathers have so many
important differences.

They do not grow from each point on the
body like the hairs of an animal or the scales
of a fish. They spring from well defined
areas above and below, in rows and patches
that allow for the freest movement, and are
built on different patterns so that the whole
body may be adequately covered. These
feather tracts can be noted on nestlings, while

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_ yet in pin feathers, one main band down the

back frem neck to tail, a divided line down the
breast, and others on legs and wings. Water-
fowl have the whole surface of the skin
covered with down additional, down packing
feathers so close that it is next to impossible
to shoot some birds, gulls for instance, when
flying towards the gun.

The feather tracts are a well defined means
of classification among birds. Strangely
enough, the higher the development the
fewer the feathers as the daughters of Eve
in the highest circles are now accused of
wearing less than ever!

In the perching birds—the most highly
specialized creatures in feathers,—the tracts
are very narrow, the feathers lying to the
right and left to cover well the spaces. In
the ostrich the body is practically covered,
the spaces being scarcely definable.

With some birds the process of moulting
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bille. :

The hawk and swallow must continue
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on their wings for sustenance must keep in
flying condition. So one quill at a time is shed
from each wing, the balance is maintained
and the flight but little impaired.

The ducks and geese drop all their quills at
once, remaining hidden in the lake paneee
until the new feathers develop.

This is the second moult of the ducks, ighe
put on new suits, nuptial and gorgeous,
before starting up from the south in the
spring.

Ptarmigan also take two suits a year, but
they will defer the fall change until snow is
nearer.

The mottled brown and white that now
harmonizes so perfectly with rock and moss
and Alpineshrubbery will give place leisurely

feather by feather, until all are pure white as

the hurtling flakes of November, which re-
new each autumn the perpetual mantle of the
mountains.

Not content with feather for feather, the
mountain grouse like Mercury, would feather
his feet. Not to give him better flight, but to
make easier walking on the soft, new-fallen
snow. When man in his cleverness devised
the snow-shoe he again complimented himself
on his ingenious invention, but he was only
copying this game bird of the snow-fields.

The young birds, if they think at all, must
be perplexed by this ‘constant change in their

appearance. Feathers and down are but
fleeting things to them.

At this time they are following their mother
over moss, pink clumps and beds of mountain
daisies, white with orchid and arabis, blue
with lupine and gentian, in the world’s
original Alpine garden, close to the glaciers
that are melting for ever yet never grow less.

By nature’s alchemy berries and butterflies
with grubs of the bogs are transformed by the —
chicks into pin feather and quill.

Both they and their parent, so unused to
the hurtfulness of man in these virgin hills,
will wander about his feet in a mild curiosity,
if only he lie quiet. Then he may see that
the downy covering they brought out of the
shell, is being pushed off in small tufts at the
point of each pin feather. The feathers
follow the down from the same roots in the
skin.

A brood found on the next ridge were a few
days older, and were well covered with
speckled brown. Soon that will change again
to match the snows of winter, that they may
more safely elude the preying gaze of hawk
and fox.

The coloration of young birds is an in-
teresting study, from the new-feathered robin
that resembles a speckled thrush, to the gull
and bald eagle who will be years before at-
taining the livery of their parents.

Where the male and female of a species
differ in color, the young as a rule, take the
color of the female in their infancy. In the
one or two exceptions, the male is more
soberly clad, and here the chicks resemble
their father.

The reason for this law is obvious. The
male,be he drake or peacock or regal pheasant,
swaggers in rainbow hues to attract attention,
the aim of the mother bird is to avoid all
notice, and how well she succeeds is readily
seen when she squats with her chicks.

Where the parent birds are nearly alike, as
in the common instance of the robin, the
young resemble neither in color, but differ
to the great confusion of amateur bird-lovers
and to the mystification of early ornitholo-
gists who discovered new species of abounding :
confusion.

Why this is so is not so evident but in most
instances, particularly with the birds most
highly evolved, it affords many clues to the
lines of their evolution, the young seem to
pass through a cycle of agesin the few weeks
they grow from an embryo to an adult, and
this not only in feathering and coloring, but
in beaks and claws, as witness this rufous —

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Success in Game Shooting Shooters Who Know

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UCCESS in game shooting depends, to a “THE TRAPPER
large extent, upon your load. It goes with-
out saying\that the best results will be obtained ;
when you are using the best loads.
The loads here tabulated are recommended with
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give satisfaction. They are for 12 gauge guns.
SMOKELESS | SMOKELESS | “BLACK ounces aes
Drams Grains Drams
Large Ducks. .... 8, 34 or 8% | 24, 26 or 28 34 134 or 14 4,5,60r7
Smail and
Medium Ducks ..| 3, 3X or 3% 24, 26 or 28 3% 146 or 1 6,6, 7o0rg
oe, Teese 8 or 34 24 or 26 BX “Xs heaps
Doves, Pigeons. - 3 or 34 24 oF 26 si Ls 8. 7or 8 “Wen I go for shoot dose
Quail........ ‘ _ 4
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Dupont Powders always”
Squirrel, Rabbits |.

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be loaded with Du Pont powders—for, after all, a game
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humming-bird of the coast, which is born
with the short wide beak of swift and swallow,
and attains the long and sensitive tube only
when needing it to reach the flower bases for
nectar.

The fall of the feather, an event that is
yearly or even more frequent, has an his-
torical bearing worthy of note. There seems
no doubt that our ground birds once lived in
the trees. Once they had powers of flight
equal to the others, but for generations they
have lost it.

Nature makes a condition with all her gifts,
it is that they shall be used.

Refuse to walk, and the legs grow limp and
feeble, as is seen after a long illness. When
some of the birds found circumstances easy,
food plentiful and enemies scarce, they lazily
kept to the ground, for wings are given for
two purposes, escape from threatening enem-
ies and the procuration of food.

See how dependent on wing power are our
swifts and swallows, or the long pinioned
night-hawk that wakes the twilight with his
screaming “peet,” and startles the dreaming
birds of the day with his whizzing “boom”
as he dives down near oe earth and suddenly
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These all are master fly catchers, but the ~

birds of that name just dart from a perch
and return when an insect is caught. i

Grouse or turkey can but run for theirs, the
weak winged butterfly can easily ape
them. But what they lose in this way they
gain in another, for they can unearth the
crawling worm or sleeping grub.

They kept to earth for easier living, grow
ing plumper and weaker in wing, they would
rather scratch than fly, so muscle was taken
from them. They “fell” as feathered crea-
tures and lost much wing development?
The domestic fowl! specialized by selection is
even less able to fly than the pheasant and
if turned out in the woods would soon be as™
extinct as the dodo.

However “degenerate” the ground bird
may be from the evolutionists’ standpoint,
he measures well up to the standard of the
sportsman who though losing in breast meat
that is found in duck, gains in th and
drumstick where the scratching muscles have
been developed and is well content to have his
sport varied by difference of season ‘and
landscape both,—the one for the marshes and
the other for our wooded uplands.

The Gordon Pasha Lakes
C. J. WHITE

E have all read that trite saying “It

is not all of fishing to fish,” which

really should be called an axiom not

a fisherman’s text and all fishermen agree.
The man who thinks otherwise is a market
fisherman whefher the fish are for purposes
of sale or for purposes of consumption and as
such are expected to eliminate the necessity
of buying something else and when 'the pros-
pects of a good haul are dim he will stay home
and spend his outing expenses on store meat.
In British Columbia the Rev. O. Smith,
or whoever it was that fathered that remark,
would find it possibly truer than in the east.
Here we have all the beauties of foliage,
flowers and ferns which the Easterner has,
maybe more, our bars of sand glitter just as
‘brightly in the morning sun and our riffles
sparkle and murmur just as beautifully and
just as sweetly as theirs, and added to all
that the fisherman has but to raise his eyes
to the hills which surround him and if their
lofty summits snow-clad and white at this

time of year, their slopes sown with evergreen
trees and furrowed with canyons and hollows
does not complete his enchantment, then of
a truth, he must be a misfit in the scheme of
nature. Shakespeare has said that the man
who is not moved by a concord of sweet
sounds should not be trusted and the man
whose inner being is not touched and whose
spirit is not lifted above the sordid strife of
daily existence by such a combination of
sweet odors and lovely vistas is also not a
man to be trusted and well fitted by. nature
for “‘treasons, stratagems and spoils.””

Yet while I must confess that I have per-
mitted hours of good valuable time to go by
unheeded when absorbed in drinking in the
beauties as seen on some stretches of our
streams, still I like on’ occasions to feel that
thrill which comes from a strike of a fighting
fish, and especially in the spring, our fish are
all fight from the very tip of the
nose to the fast point of the tail,

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that is the finest possible tribute to their
gameness. The cut throat is here and no one
ean belittle the fight he puts up when taken
on appropriate tackle; the Dolly Varden is
strong and no quitter evenif a bit slower and,
fighting as he does here, at the bottom of the
pool, less spectacular; the aristocratic rain-
bow leaves his native haunt only when
absolutely exhausted, the sea trout when
fresh run are usually as good as the best; the
steelhead is not only game but with his
weight makes an interesting session, and the
spring salmon will delight the heart and tire
the arm of the fortunate fishermen who may
connect up with him.

In the vicinity of Vancouver the fishing
is not what it ought to be although the
number of beautiful rivers we have should
make it that the careful fisherman could
under normal conditions have something in
his creel but owing to the total neglect of the
subject of game fish by the authorities, both
Federal and Provincial, much improper
fishing is carried on. When British Colum-
bia came into the Federation the control of
the fish was left with the Federal Govern-
ment and while laws regulating the limit to
eight inches were passed no one has ever
tried to enforce them. The Federal au-
thorities say that they have jurisdiction
only over commercial fish, while the legal
fraternity say that the Province has no such
control as will enable it to say to’the fish hog
“Thou shalt not’? no matter what he does.
That condition may be remedied soon as the
Ottawa authorities have faithfully promised
the B. C. Conservation Board that the
necessary steps will be taken at once to place
the control of. game fish effectually in the
Board. May that day come soon is the
ardent prayer of all true anglers. When it
does there is little doubt that proper planting
of fry will soon follow and then we can
reasonably expect that our fishing will be
of the finest kind.

With the idea of getting away from the
throng and also of gathering in a trout or two
I decided that I would spend the Easter
week end out of town and as I had frequently
heard of the Gordon Pasha Lakes I decided
to make that my objective. These lie up the
Coast from Vancouver a distance of some
sixty miles and consist of a chain of three or
four lakes, not very large, possibly each four
miles long by one in width.

Old age and an eccentric disposition usually
drives me forth on my rambles all alone and
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too, as I can fish when I like, how I like and
where I like and am not subject to an im-
pelling or compelling force other than time ~
and the elements, and as for the latter I do
not pay much attention to the threatening
clouds or the rain. Familiarity breeds
contempt and we in B. C. have ample oppor-
tunity of becoming familiar with both. Then
too if I come on some exceptionally beautiful
spot I can pause and drink in the delightful
combination of waterfall and foliage, sun-
light and shadow, which a prodigal nature
has lavishly flung around. If the fish are
biting who needs stop for lunch. All that is
necessary is to fill the old briar pipe takea
hitch in my belt and go on, while if I had a
companion we might spend half the time in
brewing tea and talking of the things we fled
from in town. Maybe the attitude is selfish, _
but it is the sort of selfishness which lets a
man come home feeling more charitable
toward his fellow and believing of a truth
that there is good in everything.

The trip is by boat and this time it was the
““Chesina’” one of the Union Steamship
Company’s boats, which was honored. There
was quite a heavy southeaster blowing’ and
the Gulf of Georgia was fairly rough. The
first bit of excitement was off Gambier
Island when a gasoline boat hoisted an in-
verted shirt as a signal of distress. Our
Captain is one of the best and most obliging
seaman that plies out of Vancouver and he
responded promptly. There were three
young fellows in the boat and their diffi-
culties were due to engine troubles and
sea-sickngss. Talk about chalk. not all the
talcum powder in the world would have
obliterated a particle of color from their
faces. They had none. Adrift for three
hours without a rag of sail or even any oar
and tossed up and down in the trough of the
sea they were just about ready to quit when
the “‘Chesina’’ took them in tow and left
them safely in Cowan’s Bay. The rest of
the trip was as usual, all the spots famous as
summer resorts such as Sechelt, Buccaneer
Bay, and Pender Harbor were passed in due
course and many others between, leaving
a box of provisions here, a few bales of hay
at the nest and a few boom chains or wire
cable for a logging engine at another.

It was late, after six, when we reached
Lang Bay and it was not long before I was
settled in the beautifully situated summer
cottage of Mr. R. L. Maitland, another
member of the legal fraternity, who loves the

out of doors, but who lives in it de luxe, and
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N. McDOUGALL, PORT ARTHUR, ONT.

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anyone who visits Lang Bay with its clean
shiny beach and ample cottage grounds will
agree I think, that it is a spot where the
weary from the City may rest and recuperate
amongst surroundings that would make
Long Beach, or any of the Southern seaside
resorts seem hot and monotonous ever after-
wards.

That night it rained as it had done on
several nights previous and it continued
until morning. I expected that the water
would be high and with this in addition I
felt that chances on the River would be poor.
However, I got away fairly early and reached
Eagle River, which is the outlet of the Gor-
don Pasha Lakes, in half an hour’s walk.
Commencing at the: Government bridge I
worked down avoiding the canyon but had
not the semblance of a strike. On emerging
from the woods there is possibly 150 yards of
fishable water between there and the sea and
it looked like a likely place for steelhead.
Putting.on a shrimp I worked it all over
until the last riffle. It was still raining a
little and the wind was high and mighty cold
so that I had dreams of reaches further up
where there was some shelter. It seems that
the fish know when to take chances and while
I was carelessly retrieving my line after an-
other fruitless cast I got a man’s sized strike
but failed to connect.’ Putting on a fresh
shrimp and going up stream a little I worked
over the same spot and this time I was
watching. , The tackle was fairly light for a
fish of that weight and soon I was oblivious
of rain, wind or anything else except that
fish and after running the gamut of all the
thrills which a steelhead can furnish I finally
landed him, nine pounds of trout in ice cold
rapid water. My trip was a suecess if I
caught nothing else.

As no other strikes rewarded my efforts
even if much renewed I felt the beach and

“ worked up stream, but not being familiar

with its geography I lost considerable time.
It rained intermittently all forenoon and the
water Was away above normal so the expected
happened, I got no more strikes. On about
two o'clock Jupiter Pluvius, merely to try
out his sprinkling apparatus turned on the
tap fairly full, and how it did come down for
a couple of hours making fishing impossible.
Part of the time I sat under a cedar whose
sloping branches made a fair tent and smoked
and caught my big fish over again. There is
something attractive, too, about a rain storm
in the woods when you are warm and com-
fortable, the beating of the rain on the leaves

and the purity of the air rather tends to
make me feel as if nature was trying to
commune with me and I believe I respond
more wholly than when all is sunshine and
brightness.

However, the rain passed and the sun came
out soI continued up stream until finally I
came to the outlet of the Lake, where using a
small spinner with a garden hackle I caught
six nice trout about three quarters of a pound
each. They were all cut throats and very
dark. This point is the home camp of a big
logging company and I got in touch with one
of the machinists, Mr. James Brook, who
was a good Samaritan and he kindly offered
me his boat for the purpose of trying my
luck on the Lake. It was eight o'clock
(according to Parliament) when I left and
before I reached my starting point of the
morning it was dark and the Tain had again
setin. With nothing but an unfamiliar path
to travel on I can’t say that I enjoyed the —
balance of the trip home, but)I got there in -
the course of time and when there prepared
myself a man’s sized spread which was the
most appreciated of anything I had had for
many a day. '

On Monday I went back to the Lake and
securing the boat of my new found friend and
a few pointers as to the best points to fish
I startedout. Previous to the recent rain
some few had been taken of the fly although
rather early for the fly but the lake was now
up and fly fishing was out of the question.
The weather was cold and windy with inter-
mittent rain so decided to try a small spinner,
and I tried consistently with a small Hilde-
brandt with various flies attached, but only
secured a couple of fish. I then put ona plain
hook with worm instead of the fly, retaining
the spinner, and my luck improved. By
rowing a piece and then drifting with the
wind casting from side to side I kept landing
one every now and then and by four o'clock
I had my legal limit, twenty-five trout,
practically all cut throat and of a very
uniform size of about three-quarters to a
pound. Most of these were not so dark as
those taken from the river previously, and
the explanation given me was that they live
right in the mud at the bottom all winter and
that later in the summer they would regain
all their color and beauty. ‘They needed no
return of activity as they were certainly the
gamiest fish for their size that I ever had the
pleasure of catching. Later, in the season
larger ones-are taken and in the second and.
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One wonders if citizens fully appreciate the debt of civic gratitute they owe to the hotel
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Travelling men and tourists are the best press agents any town ever had. They
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larger on the average than on the first Lake
In the latter part of May and June the fly
fishing can’t be beaten, with such old favor-
ities as Paramachene Belle, Seth Green and
Silver Doctor as leaders: Some day I'll

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wander back again and then I'll stay for a
week, but this time the call of work made the
trip very short and I was forced back to my
“‘whereases and aforesaids’’ for another
period of indefinite duration.

The Tragedy of the Forest
A. E. Jay

upon the woodland, the sun had already

dipped beneath the western hills,
silence reigned supreme. A lone hunter,
weary from the days’ tramp through the
wooded fastnesses was wending his way to
the peaceful tent nestling among the scrub
spruce, and jack pines. He walked with
sluggish steps; giving more heed to picking
out the easy places to walk, than to the search
forgame. -He knew there was a warm supper,
and cheery fire awaiting him. He knew his
companions would soon become anxious at
his absence. Quietly skirting a small knoll,
he was brought from his reverie, by the
snapping of a twig. With a hunter’sinstinct
he stopped dead still, and listened. Mechan-

fig chill of night was stealing down

ically his rifle slid forward without a sound,

the thumb of his right resting on the hammer,
while his index finger caressed the trigger.
He had not long to wait. There was a snort,
a rustle of leaves, and the white flag of a
deer, showedfor a very brief period. Quick
as the eye, the gun leaped to the shoulder,
a glance down the barrel, a flash, and a report.
Then the retreating chug, chug, chug of hoofs
in the soft earth told him he had missed.
The ground was covered with a light snow

sufficient for tracking, but it was too dark. ,

Reloading the hunter stepped forward to-
where thegame had started from, and a
careful scrutiny told him he had scored,
tufts of hair and crimson stains were suffi-
cient evidence. He followed the trail to
the river, and saw that the deer had crossed.
Once more he took up his campward direction,
and soon arrived. Al! hunters are familiar
with the habits of deer, and will tell you its
best to allow them time to lie down before
following them if they are wounded. Day
came fair and crisp. Breakfast over, three
hunters took the trail. They crossed the
river on a fallen tree, and plunged into the
thick forest. The track was well marked
with the blood of the fleeing animal. They
had gone perhaps a mile, when the Parson

’ first to break the spell.

who was leading stopped, and examined the
trail very carefully. “We're too late boys,
the game is lost,’’ he said, and pointed into
the snow where his sharp eyes had discerned
the broad, padded footsteps of a lynx. The
beast had held the trail like a hound, and
inside of another half mile the chase ended.

The doe, for such it proved to be, had lain
down exhausted from loss of blood, and
upon bejng aroused by the approach of the
big cat, had gallantly striven to continue
the fight, but was soon overtaken. The
deep imprint of the cats’ claws showed where
it had made the spring which landed it on the
neck of the frightened doe. The struggle had
been very brief and all that remained of the
once beautiful animal, was scattered bones,
and hide. In the deep silence of the forest
stood the three men, silently gazing on what
had been a tragedy. The Parson was the
“T’m going to camp,
Boys, I’ve shot my last deer.” And the Par-
son kept his word.

PRETTY FAMILY OF DUCKLINGS

Editor of Rod and Gun.

Please find encloseda snap of a family of
Wild ducks that I got last summer with the
camera in hand.

Am putting it mild w hen I say that I enjoy
your magazine.
Yours very truly,

Souris, Man. Hector McLean

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GEORGE GooDWIN

URING this past summer I have noticed
D in magazines and also in the Kennel
Department of Field and Stream edited
by that eminent canine authority, Freeman
Lloyd, that there has been quite an enquiry
for springer spaniels or for such a dog, one
useful for any kind of bird work whether it
be of the chicken family, long bills or ducks.
In a recent number of one of the above
magazines I see where a western U. S. fancier
has, or is about, to import, a pair of English
springer spaniels, the article going on to say
what a useful breed this is and that this will be

an opportunity for U. S. sportsmen to secure.

dogs of this type in the future. Had Mr.
Lloyd or the U. S. readers of the above maga-
zines been readers of Rod and Gun also they
might have learned that such dogs have been
used in Canada for many years. Field
spaniels both springer and clumber have been
imported to Canada in years past and for a
great many years a few Ontario breeders have
been breeding a useful gun dog of this type,
evolved from the different types of working
spaniels eventually getting a_ selection
of the best practical workers, a spaniel which
while perhaps not a typical Springer of the
show type yet very similar and equally as good
or perhaps better for work in this country.
They have been tried for work here, net for
bench show purposes.

Several years ago a Toronto gentleman
imported a pair of Field Spaniels from Eng-
land, and they have been shown at many
Canadian dog shows as well as the big N. Y.

show. The dog Lord Bertie is now a Cana-
dian champion and has been admired by many
sporting dog judges as a beautiful specimen
of the field spaniel. However, I have
not heard of this pair being used in this
country as practical workers. They are
not as suitable a type for this country as the
springers.

Irish water spaniels have been imported and
all across Canada one will find dogs of this
breed, bred in the west, large and in the east
smaller to suit the local shooting conditions;
a few English water spaniels are occasionally
seen, these are an admirable little dog for
snap shooting from a duck boat, but they
must be bred in this country, bred and trained
to the local conditions.

The springers imported, both English and
Welsh have not in the past, been bred as
much as they should have been to introduce
this well set up working spaniel. Besides
being a very handsome dog he is a properly
built one for an all round bird dog and having
the natural bird sense.

I was greatly pleased when last year, I
learned that Robt. Smith of Port Hope Ont.,
had secured a pure pair of these Springers,
imported from England. Mr. Smith comes
from a fdmily of Canadian pioneers and
sportsmen. He himself has handled a gun
since a boy and for the past 20 years has been
breeding shooting spaniels for himself and
others. He has tried out the different types and
alsocrossedthem and fora great many years
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1—Liver and white field spaniel.

called a Canadian springer. He has not bred
to a certain type as a show dog but as prac-
tical workers and that he has succeeded,
the many owners of his dogs throughout
Canada and also the States, can attest. Mr.
Smith can’t nearly fill all the ordershe gets for
shooting dogs. On a recent visit to his Kennels
he showed me a whole stock of letters which he
had to work “Future orders.’ Asa shooter
myself I was greatly taken with alertness of
his dogs especially their keeness when he
brought out his gun and put them through
hunting manoeuvres. They might not be
winners on the show bench but they certainly

‘ would in the field.

2—Pure bred Welsh springer. 3—Black and white field spaniel.
All females. 1 and 3 are Mr. Smith‘s own breeding.

His imported springers
are, however, good enough to win on the show
bench and he intends showing them at the
Canadian National Exhibition dog show.
As Mr. Smith has this pair also properly, broken
and trained ,his success is assured for it must
be remembered that in breeding spaniels
for work it is advisable to select a sire and
dame whose abilities in the field have been
tried and proved, otherwise disappointment
will probably be the result, no matter however
painstaking the breaker of the future pup may
be. :

2 Brantford Kennel Club

Members of Telephone City Kennel Club
held a very successful picnic and open air
dog show at Mohawk Park on Civic holiday,
Aug, 2nd.

The entries were 62 and what tney lacked
in number were made up by the very high
class of the exhibits.

A. Patterson was easily first with a great
entry of the Popular Russian wolf hound. A
very noticeable feature of the show was the
predominence of the Sporting dogs, Mr.
H. Nolan and Fred Howie having as good an
exhibit of beagles as willbe seen atany of the
fall Dog shows. The Wainwright Kennels

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in show.

The President H. B. Charlton showed his
ability by winning Ist prize for Terriers of any
breed and 2nd. to Alex. Patterson’s wolfhound,
best bitch in the show, with his four months
Boston puppy “Charlton Gipsy Queen.’

An interesting feature of the showwas the
exhibition of “Ju Ju’, a daughter of the
famnous Airedale champion “‘Normanton Tipit”
handled by Mrs. C. M. Smith against the
owner of ‘Brant’? Kennels, with a grand-
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of the club which has made that province
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Club is one of the very oldest in existence.
The meeting this year will be the thirty-fourth
in its history. From all indications, this
year’s trials will be one of the old time kind.
Nearly all the prominent handlers will be
there, the grounds are in the best of shape,
and prairie chickens plentiful, which is
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seasons no shooting having been allowed
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multiplied to a wonderful extent. The

Manitoba Trials will open with the old age
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Immediately following the Manitoba trials,
the Irish setter stake for dogs of this breed
exclusively, whelped on or after Nan. Ist.
1919, will be run. This stake is under the
immediate charge of Francis A. Walsh, who
is also the secretary of the Manitoba Club. It
is Mr. Walsh who is mainly responsible for the
institution of this stake, but it has been an
uphill undertaking to impress Irish setter
lovers that this is one event of paramount
importance to breeders of the red Irishman.
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become possessed of a fine specimen of the,
now extinct, Passenger Pigeon. This is one
of a large and interesting collection of moun-
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property of Mr. Dunsmore, and the handi-
work of his father the late J. MacArthur
Dunsmore M.D.C.M. at one time of Mitchell,
Ont.

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ed ability. The specimen above referred to,was
procured and mounted by Dr. Dunsmore, at
least fifty years ago and is in a fine state
of preservation.

With easy play upon the imagination, as
one looks upon this beautiful, sad eyed spec-
imen of a one time great family of birds, one
can fancy it making this appeal:—

“Out of love and anxiety for my numerous
cousins and friends, the many families of birds,
who though sadly reduced in numbers, yet
survive, and who if unmolested would again
multiply and perform their function in life;
out of pity for you, poor, bind, cruel humans,
who should have been our best friends, but
have proven to be our most deadly enemies,—
and, out of regard for the well being of this
old world in which I once lived, I shall unveil
the past, for me a sad past—and recall to
your memory the history of my race. These
painftl memoirs I here review in the earnest
hope that all who read may, not from selfish
motives only, but rather through love of the
beautiful, and sympathy for the defenceless,
become the friends and chapipions of the
feathered race.

I belongéd to a family of birds which, in
point of numbers, not to speak of beauty of
plumage and grace of motion, was the greatest
in all the Bird Kingdom on this North Ameri-
can continent. For centuries we lived and
multiplied. True, Father Time took his toll
of us as of all animate things, and the native
Red Men of the continent also took what
they required, but only so much astosatisfy
their own personal wants, and we lived and
prospered. Prospered until the coming of the
White Man, and the coming of him who should
have been our friend and protector, marked
the beginning of our great persecution and sad
fate.

As indicating how numerous we were

A tes? ss the generosity of Mrs. Duns-

-habit of congregating in great colonies in

then, some of your white Men have written
in books, telling of the single flights of us, that
were so dense the sun was darkeged, and
the flight a mile wide by two hundred
and forty miles in length. We were what is
known as “Colonial Birds’’ that is, we had the

some extensive wood, for the rearing of our
families. Some of our colonies covered
areas of from sixty to one hundred square
miles of wooded territory, and so dense was
our population, that there would be as many
as one hundred of our homes in a single tree.
In these colonies for centuries we had lived
happily together and reared our families each
year, going south for the winter and ba Se
in the spring.

Then, as I have said, to our continent came
your white man,’and they came in ever in-
creasing numbers spreading out over the face
of the country, cutting down woods and plant-
ing fields. True, we took a toll of their planted
seeds, but we and all the other birds’ families
devoured countless numbers of the insect
pests, which, without birds to hold them in
check, would have increased so enormously
that they would have devoured the White
Man’s living. These things however, he was
too ignorant to understand, and our persecu-
tion began. He followed us to our colonies,
he came in thousands: he came with clubs and ©
bags, he came with shot gun and with swivel
guns, with nets and with snares, and our
destruction was frightful.

We mother birds loved our young- as your
human mothers love their babes, and we
could not desert our children, so were sacri-
ficed. Our children could not yet seek safety
in flight so we and they were slaughtered in
great numbers, were packed in barrels, load-
ed on trains and shipped to the great markets
where we were offered for sale, and when the
markets became glutted by the immense quan-
tities of us offered, we were carted off in
wagons and fed’ to the hogs. Year after
year this ruthless slaughter went on, and even
when in the year 1897 the Senate of Ohio,
appointed a select committee to investigate
and report to the Senate upon the advisabil-
ity of placing some restriction upon the.
wholesale slaughter, this committee of
enlightened(?) men brought in the report
that:

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wonderfully prolific, having the vast forests
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ling hundreds of miles in search of food it
is here today and else-where to-morrow, and
no ordinary destruction can lessen them or
be missed from the myriads that are yearly
produced.”

What is the result? To-day not a single
specimen of our once innumerable family re-
mains. We have been completely exterminated,
and not all the ingenuity of men can replace
so much as a single feather of one of our
race. Oh, Man, I have broken my sleep of
over fifty years to warn you, that unless you
too awake from your lethal slumber, and
turn protector where here-to-fore you have
been our relentless enemy, then your best
friends, the Wild Birds of North America,
already sadly depleted in numbers will,

family after family, follow the fate of the
Passenger Pigeon, and the ravages, already
alarming, of the gopher, the grass-hopper, the
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control, and you will by your folly have en-
compassed your own ruin.”

I had not expected my Passenger Pigeon f

to make so long a speech, but he had a mes-
sage which he felt he must deliver, and just in
closing may I in support of his very strong
concluding statement, quote two of the fore-
most living authorities on birds in their
relation to agriculture. Frank M. Chapman,
author of several books on birds, and a
curator in the American Museum of Natural
History, is reported to have on a recent
occasion used this language; “Without the
service rendered by birds, the ravages of the
insects and animals they feed upon would _
render the earth unhabitable.””

H. W. Henshaw, Chairman of the Bureau
of Biological Survey for the United States is
thus quoted; “If birds were exterminated it
is believed that not only would successful:
agriculture be impossible, but the destruction
of the greater part of all vegetation would
follow.” .

Valuable Information About the Rabbit Plague

Ediior, Rod and Gun In Canada.

Seeing the remarks in the last few issues of
Rod and Gun, regarding the rabbit plague,
and the desire for a general discussion, I
thought I would write what I have observed,
hoping it will throw a little light on the sub-
ject. I have been living in the North for
the past ten years, spending most of the win-
ters trapping, and was following that game,
in the winter of fourteen and fifteen, when the
plague hit the rabbits, the rabbits dying off
the following spring.

I think if any (whose opinions are that
the rabbits migrate), had been here then, they
would have seen enough dead rabbits lying
around, to relieve their minds for all time, of
the possibility of the rabbits migrating.

The fact that they do not become scarce,
until this disease hits them, and I for one who
have seen them, know that they are in no
condition, then, to migrate.

For two or three years after they died off,
I did not see a rabbit, and only an occasional
track on the snow in the winter, but this
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Personally I do not think they are ever
free from this disease, I think that only a few
of the strongest survive, and even those have
this disease in a mildform. I killed three this

them home for her pups.

winter, to see what condition they were in,
and the seeds of this disease were there, and
at this stage, I am sure many would pass it
by and not see it, as the rabbits were in fine
condition, otherwise, and quite fat. These
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them, they ooze thousands of these microbes.

In the Spring of fifteen there was quite a
boom in little foxes, and I dug out several
young ones from their dens, which I fed on
rabbits, but the rabbits became so corrupt
with this disease, that I could not skin them,
-so I turned the foxes loose.

I noticed when digging out the foxes, that
wherever there was a den with foxes in it, -
there were from ten to thirty dead rabbits,
piled around the mouth of the den, which the
young foxes were eating. It was rather
unusual, so many dead rabbits, but it was so
easy for the old fox to catch them when they
were dying off, and naturally she would take
The following
Spring, a friend of mine was digging fox dens,

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_ but had no luck, he said there were young
foxes, but they were dead in their dens, which
looks as if they depended on rabbits for food.

Foxes used to be very plentiful here, and
I caught several, the winters before the rab-
bits died off, but they became scarce, and this
winter I never saw one track. Twice this

' winter I have seen questions asked in a Mont-
real weekly paper regarding this same disease,
in the rabbits, and on both occasions, they
were told it was tapeworm, and would be
fit to eat, if thoroughly cooked. In no,stage
of the disease did I see anything that resem-
bled tapeworm, and can only say, ‘‘Deliver
me.’

The rabbits here seem to live most entirely
on small brush, which in the winter they cut
off above the snow, and when it falls over
they eat the top branches.

Now I have noticed that when the rabbits
become very plentiful, as they are the year
before dying off, this small brush is nearly
all consumed, and in fourteen and fifteen,
rabbits girdled large tamarack trees, as far
above the snow as they could reach, the only
time I have ever seen them girdle large trees.

‘Early that same fall, the rabbits raided
the farmers’ green-feed fields. doing consider-
able damage, I also saw a hay stack; which
had much the appearance of a huge mushroom
in shape, eaten away in, all around the bot-
tom, by the rabbits; ane morning early I
counted over fifty rabbits around this same
hay stack.

One other thing I noticed, while trapping
during the winter of fourteen, was that the
rabbits themselves turned cannibal eating
their own kind. I laid out several dead rab-
bits, along the trap line, to see if they would
be molested by fur-bearers, and was greatly
surprised the first time, I saw two rabbits
eating! the carcass of a dead one, though it
became a common sight, from then on till

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watched them for a quarter of an hour, while
they nibbled away, a queer part of it being,
that they eat fur and all.

Of course this has no bearing on their

disappearance, at least not here, as the dead -

were very much in evidence, in the Spring,
but I think it is a fact of which very few know,
at least I have never heard anyone mention it.

I cannot account for Mr. Hodgson, seeing

no dead ones around, and can only say that’

the crows can get away with a lot of carrion.
I recently noticed a beef carcass, ({ had out
for coyote bait this winter)pretty well cleaned,
and its only about a week since the first crow
put in an appearance. Dead rabbits are also
dainty morsels, to the skunk, after his winter’s
fast, and I don’t believe a bear would pass
them by when he first emerges from his den
in the spring.

Now it’seems to me, that if the rabbits all
over the country have this disease, that it
is probable, that they do not all die off at
the same time, which might account for
the disappearance of the lynx, after the rab-
bits die off, as they are great travellers any-
way, and would probably ramble till they
found a good hunting ground. [ notice in
this question in the Montreal paper, the
enquirer states that the rabbits are covered
with blisters, (that is the stage when they
will soon be dying off,) while the rabbits I
opened here this winter, only had the discase
in a very mild form; so you see the rabbits
will be plentiful here, when they are dying
off where the enquirer wrote from.

Well I for one would like to see a further
discussion, in regard to the rabbit plague, I
think everybody in the North country knows
that the rabbits die off every seven years, but
I think they are very few who give it any
study, one has to be a true lover of Nature,
and the great out-doors to do that.

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J. W.

Although the attendance at the Ontario
Rifle Association Matches this year did not
come up to the expected mark, the shoot was
a decided success, and general satisfaction was
expressed by both officials and competitors.
The entries numbered 220, as compared with
about 190 last year. The weather throughout
was fine with the exception of the first day
when rain fell, but the program was completed
according to schedule. The actual shooting
conditions were extraordinarily good, a feature
being the almost entire absence of wind
during the five days. The only trouble
experienced was caused by mirage and changes
in light, but never to a great extent:

The result of these conditions was that
scoring was high, and in some individual
causes quite phenomenal. The marking and
register—keeping was all that could be desired,
credit being chiefly due to the Range and Butt
officers. With such names as Col. W. But-
cher, Col. J. I. McLaren, Lt.-Col. S.J. Huggins,
Lt. Col. Av Elliott, Lt. Col. W. Wallace,
Maj. W. C. King, Maj. E. H. Price, and Capt.
A. Pain in charge of the arrangements, it was
a foregone conclusion that the matches would
be a success.

Whilst there was some difference of opinion
concerning the new rifle, it was generally
conceded that it was doing satisfactory work
as a target weapon. Marksmen are apt to
blame their rifles for off-shots when they
themselves are really to blame. It must be
remembered that the distance between the
backsight on the Ross was about half as long
again as on the short Lee-Enfield. ‘ Therefore,
it is more difficult for the marksman to detect
deviations from the line of sight with the latter
rifle than with the former. With the smaller
sight radius, great care is necessary on the
pull to have the foresight at a uniform position
in the U. of the backsight for every shot,
otherwise, an incorrect line of*sight is the
result.

Amongst those who attended, Staff-Sergt.
H. Morris, wlte has been shooting for 47 years,
was a conspicuous figure. From this year’s
Bisley Team, three members were present,
Sgt. W. A. Hawkins, Capt. J. H. Vincent, and
Pte. W. J. Irvine. Other well-known marks-
men noticed were Mayor F. Mortimer, Lt.-
Col. W. O. Morris, Sgt. G. Russell, Sgt. M. H.
Lee, Lieut. W. L. Dymond, Capt. W. Swaine,
and the two Steele brothers of Guelph.

% Space will not permit a detailed description
of each match. but a few outstanding facts of

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marksmanship must be mentioned. First
and foremost is the wonderfully consistent
shooting of Sgt. Kawkins, who won both
aggregates with ease. Hawkins certainly
demonstrated in a remarkable way what could
be done with the new rifle. In the single
events, Pte. R. Storrar’s score of 69 out of a
possible 70 in the Duke of Cornwall and York .
Match was a splendid feat, as was Lieut. Spr-
inks’ 101 in the Tait-Brassey, and Lieut. °
Humphries’ 68 in the Banker’s. The classic
event, the Lieutenant Governor's, was won
by Major Mortimer, although closely pressed
‘by another competitor. Both men scored
49 in the final stage at 600 yds, and tied for
the Gold Medal, the Major winning easily
in the resultant and shoot-off.

Leading scores are as follows:—

City of Hamilton Match.
Scores—
Range, 500 yds., Rounds, 7, deliberate.

1. *CGapt. BR: Cross; 38thas.c... eee 34
2. Pte. C. W. Morgan, W:O:R....c eee 34
3.-Pte. C. Tyers; G:G.P Gin hee... ce eee 34
4. Maj. R. J. Davidson, 38th.... . ae
5. Mr. E. Water, St. Helena R.A 33

_ 6. Staff-Sgt. W. Yates, A. & S.H..... Biot
7. Mr. W. Webster, St. Helena R.A............ 33
8.~Cadet-Lieut. H. Minter, Ottawa C.I..... 33
9..Set.G. Hall, 48th Hie .c0. eee 33

10. Pte. H. Cannon, Irish R¢gt........ Paes
11. Staff-Sgt. J. Bryant, R.€.0.G:.......... 32

* Medal.
. Teams (5 Men).
1.38th., Ottawa...) sce eee 150

2. St. Helena R.A......... bossa eu Cle a 145-
3. 91st. Highlanders, Hamilton.................. 126
4. York Rangers, Toronto.3. gn 90

City of Toronto Match.
First Stage, seven rounds at 500 yrds.,
seven rounds at 600 yds.
Second stage, ten rounds at 600 yds.
. *Sgt. G. Emslie, 48th. H......)c-- 115
. Sgt. J.T. Steele, C.A.S.C...

1
2
3)
4,
5. Pte. W J. frvine, G.G.F.G... Sen
6. Pée./A) Emo, R:G.....0......)0 ee
7. SgtuH. White, BiG...
8
9
10.
11

. Lt. Col. W. O. Morris, C.E.F...
. Mr. A. J. McCusker, Irish R.A
. Pte. F. R. Allen, W.0.R.4.

, Q.M.Sgt. W. Davidson, 48th.H..............110

1%. Sgt. W. Hawkins, 48th.H.............110

A3. Lieut. W. D. Sprinks, Y.Ro...00 0. oe 109
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14. Lieut. A. R. Humphries, C.A.M.C.........109
15. Capt. W. Kaufman, Oxford R................ 108
16. Capt. C. Gibson, 13th.........00....... pe LOS
17. Maj. G. Mortimer, G.G.F.G....................108
18. Sgt. P. Lunn, 103rd. by ee ee KS
19. Lieut. L. Johnson, G. G. FG.. epee U3
20. Set. W. Jaffray, RuGh.... eek oe LOB

* Gold Medal.
Teams (5 Men).

1. 48th. Highlanders, Toronto............. 318
2. Royal Grenadiers, Toronto......................309
3. Governor General’s F.G., Ottawa..........307
5 Guelph R,A:; Guelph inertness 305
. 38th.Batt. O.R., Ottawa .. ye ABS

Range 500 yds. Rounds, seven, in one +

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minute.

1. Sgt. W. Dow, Q.O.R....... Re a ee
2. Spt. Ji De Steele GAS Cag. cen 33
3.,|\Set. A. Lucas, Q10.Ren cis beens 33
4° Lt.-Col..W. Or Morris,G. BP... 3... oe
5. Pte. W. J. Irvine, G.G.F.G...... en Seay
6% Pte -Avemo RiGee ae aes wot
7. Maj, A. Jackson, Duff. Rifles................. 31
8. SetG Russell? GiG_b Geis. sew ee oe
9°°Capts TG. Marsetts slate era oe
10. Pte. J. Templeton, Q.O-R........... 31
11. Pte. A. Whitehead, 38th........... Paes Wis 31
12. Maj. G. Mortimer, G.G.F.G................4. 31

Duke of Cornwall and York Match-

Ranges 500 yds. and 600 yds., seven rounds

at each range.

*Pte. E. Storrar, 480K. sn... 69
#Pte. G. Tyers, GiGE.Gens cnn: 67

. Sgt.-Maj. T. Easterly, 13th............

C.Q.M.Sgt. W. Davidson, 90th
Pte, Gi Gallahon sR Getieens state
Maj. G.Mortimer, G.G.F.G......000.......

~sORt. Gr raussell) GG IESG! cures
. Pte. R. E. Leake, 103rd
. Sgt. J. P. White, Q.O.R........
» Sgt. G. Hall; 48th...
. Pte W. Reid pRiG ee ena cteeaatee

: Sat. J. Brown, ish Bn; ORR oie eee 65
3 M3j. J. Jeffrey, R.M.C. Father Be 65
» Set Pybunns1l0Srdie Seren ee ene 65
.- Capt! We Swaine: (GM CHa aceon

Q.M.Sgt. W. Davidson, 48th... 65
. Capt. R. Cross, 38th... ane GS

* Silver Medal. +t Bionze Medal.

Bankers’ Match.

Ranges 500 yds. and 600 yds, seven round
at each range.

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2.

3.
4,

Lieut. A. R. Humphries, “GAIMEG... 68
Sgt. H. White, R.G....... LL ERS ee tts 67
Lieut. J. A. Steele, CASS Geers tenes: 67
Sgt. W. A. Hawkins, 48th.H............ 66

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1. *MajorG. Mortimer, G.G.F.G..........:. 116
) 2. fGorpl. J. W. Smith; W:0.Rs aoe
3. Maj. J. Jeffery, R.M.C............
4. Lieut. A. Martin, Ist. Cal. R..
5. Sst. W. A. Hawkins, 48th.H.............-.....
6.) Maj. W. King, 46th...:,0.. dic once
7. Pte. R. Storrar, 48th.........
8. Pte. H. Whitehorn, R.G..
9. Pte. A. Wilson, 38th....i.2.0-c-ace nee 111,43
10. Lt.-Col. W. A. Morris, C.E.F..........-. 1
11, Sst. White; R.Gick..u.inoi ae TIO
12, ‘CS:Mil. J. Trainor, R:G/Ry.. eee 109
13. Pte. A. Whitehead, 38th................ccteus 109
14. Pte. W. J. Irvine, G.G.F.G.. snc 109
15..Sgt; .P: White; Q: OsR.. vi eee 108
16..Sat; G. Russell; G.G.FiGi eo eee 108
17. Lieut. W. D. Sprinks, Y.R.. wee 108
18. Lieut. S. Annand, 103rd.......... et LOS
19. Maj. R. J. Davidson, 38th........2...thc.0e 108
20. Pte R: Ex Leake; 10Srd..:.)...en eee 108
* Gold Medal, + Silver Medal.
Tait—Brassey Match. ?
Ranges 200 yds., 500 yds., and 600 yds.,
seven rounds at each range.
1) Raeut: W. D..Sprinks)Y) Ro... 101
2. Set. W. A. Hawkins, 48th.H.......ccceen 100
3. Col. J. 1. McLaren, 4th. Inf. Brig. «....... 99
4, Pte. A. Wilson, 38th..........050..00c00 see 99
5. Maj. G. Mortimer, G.G.F.G,.......0 99
6. CorplJ. LoWry, 30th. .......cccecseecreees 99) a5
7. Sgt, Bs lawson; G.GSF: Giz. nee 98
8. Capt. W..C. Butler, W.0.R........ccese 98
9. Staff-Sgt. D. McInnes, 19th.................- 98
10; Soe) Lunn, 103rd..2.i..aiic eee 97

5. Capt. W. C. Butler, W:0.RB....3.....00..0.. 66
6. Capt. J. W. Smith; W.O:R..........208..3. 66
7; Lieut W. D. SprinksY.Riulcs.c ea 66
8: SgtsG. Emslie,; 48th Bi.....5.-2hccenctee 66
9. PteaRy Storrar, 48th-eH. (nc 3....5u. nee 66—
10. Pte. H. Whitehorn, R.G.....:..........;sccccens 66
11. Spt ook Steele G.ASS.C. ...4 ocean 65
12) Rte we Carey, Y- Bi. 5s..c-- een 65
13 Pte JeLawry; 30th... 2.....:e:.seccekeeen 64
14. Staff-Sst. D. McInnes, 19th.A.D........... 64

15. SgtuR:Menzies,'Q.0.R.....:.:....2 ae 64
16. Lieut. A. Martin, Ist. Cal. B......000...0. 64
17. Lieut. W. L. Dymond, C:S. of M........... 64
18. -SeeeP. Lunn, TOS td tis. c.,.cen ees 64
19. Maj. A. Jackson, Duff. Rifles.................. 64
20. Sgt. R. Chamberlain, 103rd..............0- 64

24, Sat: A; Lacas, Q.0°Rikk.. ste ... 64

Lieutenant-Governor’s Match.
Ist. stage, seven rounds at 500 yds., seven
rounds at 600 yds.
2nd. Stage, ten rounds at 600 yds.

11. Sgt. H. White, BaGetic. RPL, 97
12. Maj. R. J. Davidson, 38th PEATE Ys 96
13: SebG. Emslie, 48th.Hy...:../2 cases 96

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14. Pte. R. Storrar, 48th.H.... oo... 95 8. Maj. G. Mortimer, G.G.F.G.............0. 332,
15. Sgt. G. Russell, G.G.F.G...... 2 95 9) Pte. At Wilson, 38fh.vc.2io.cckon ee 332
16. Pte. C. Tyers, G.G.F.G........... -.t.- a) 9D) AO Est, Lunn, 103rd... ieee =o OO
Teams (5 Men). 11. Lieut. J. A. Steele, C. A: S.G;.,.. 25¢ee 331
1. Governor General’s, F.G., Ottawa .....566 12. Lt-Col. W. O. Morris, C.E.F............... 330
2. 48th. Highlanders, Toronto..................-. 559 13. Pte. W. J. Irvine, G.G.F.G. ..... Reais!
3. Royal Grenadiers, Toronto......................546 14. Sgt. Bug. R. Williams Q.0.R.... {oe
4. Western Ontario Regiment, London 545 15. Pte. A. Whitehead, 38th..............000hm 328 _
5. 38th. Batt. O.R., Ottawa....... i530) 162, Pte/C: Tyers, G.G.F.G......,.:<.\caetece
Mackenzie Match. 17: Gapt, W. C. Butler; WiO:R:..4.3 eee
Range, 600 yds., seven rounds. 18: Pte. H. Garey, Y Rocce 325
1. Corpl. J. Barrett, 5th. FB... 35 19. Sgt. G. Russell, G.G.F.G........ me
2: Set-Ri Clarke BiGe eo ope eae 20. Lieut. A. Martin, Ist. Cal.Bu.c... cca 324
3. Sgt. H.E. Smith, W.O.R... ‘ 21. Sgt. R. Chamberlain, 103rd.R............... 324
4. Pte. R. E. Leake, 103rd...... * Silver Medal.
5.Pte::ASWilsonSthicearas ck meee 34 Mercer Militia Aggregate.
6. R-S.M. AvStonesigthit 23 3.0. eA For highest aggregate in City of Toronto —
7. Capt. W. Swaine, C.M.C.C..... (1st. Stage only), Duke of Cornwall and York,
8. Pte. J. Steadman, Y.R............ Bankers’, Tait-Brassey, Mackenzie and Oster |
9:. Capt: Wi. FowlersVeR® ..:..0:s-..0n aie Matches.
10. Corpl. J. Lowry, 30th... 1. *Sgt. W. A. Hawkins, 48th. H......cns
11. Pte. J. Templeton, Q,.0.R................ 2. +Sgt. G. Emslie, 48th.H............ "
12. Sgt. T. Angear, Ist. Cal. R.........:.... 3, {Sgt.H. White, RiG....\.... ae
43. \Lt:-Gols, Ws. Bead ss0th. ee eee 4. jLieut. W. D. Sprinks, Y.Re.cecccocsncc-s
Tyro Aggregate 5. $Q.M.Sgt. W. Davidson, 48th.H....... .. 399
1. *Ptex GiDyerssG. GPG: tice 493 56. {Pte. A- Wilson, 38th..........n0eeeeeenee 398
2. Maj. R. J. Davidson, 38th..................... 413 7. Lieut. J. A. Steele, C.A.S.Ce..cccccccceee0 398
* Silver Medal, + Bronze Medal. > _ 8. Maj. G. Mortimer, G.G.F.G..00.
Oster Match. 9. Sgt. Bug. R. Williams, Q.0.R...

Ranges 200 yds, and 600 yds. Rounds
seven at 200 yds., and ten at 600 yds.
. Sgt. W. A. Hawkins, 48th.H................... 82
2. Sgt. G. Emslie, 48th.H...............
3. Sgt. Bug. P. Williams, Q.O.R...........
4. Sgt. J. T. Steele, C.A.S.C...........
5. Sgt. W. Lennox, 48th.H. ...
6. Sgt. P. Lunn, 103rd.............
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8.

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Maj. J. Jeffery, R.M.C......

Miient) Wels SprinkssYebes ones
9. Q.M.Sgt. W. Davidson, 48th.H.
10. Pte. R. Storrar, 48th.H................. 4
12;, Pte: GC. Gallahon; RiG: sonnets 78
13. Pte. A. Wilson, 38th
\4. Sgt. H. White, R.G......

5: Pte: J dbbilis, Fi Gia kiese tear
All-Comers’ Aggregate Match.

For highest aggregate in City of Toronto
(1st. stage only), Duke of Cornwall and York,
Bankers’, Lieutenant-Governor’s (Ist. stage
only), and Oster Matches.

1. *Sgt. W. A. Hawkins, 48th.H...........,...... 345
2..S8t. Hi. White, (RiGs. Seaneee ss te 340
3. Sgt. H. Emslie, 48th. H...... ete Ree
4. Set.J<T. Steele GE 3A SiGe ger casscet 00
5. Q.M. Sgt. W. Davidson, 48th. ‘i. ae n 336
6. Pte. R. Storrar, 48th.H

7. LIGHT Wat Din SDIinks GVaEt a saad vrieccin ns 332

10: Sgt. Jt T. Steele, C.A.S:G,).. Pie,
11. Pte. R. Storrar, 48th... "ee
123) Pte. C.-Tyers, G.G.P:G...... eee
13. Capt. W. C. Butler, W.0.R......
14. Pte. W. J. Irvine,G.G.F.G .
15. Pte. A. W. Fagan, 38th...........
16. Lt.-Col. W. O. Morris, C.E.F...
17. Sgt. G. Russell, G.G.F.G...........
18. Sgt. A. Lucas, Q.0.R.............
19. Sgt. S. Dawson, G.G.F.G......
20. Lieut. G. F. Mackenzie, 98th...........
* N.R. A. Silver Medal and Cup., t Silver
Medal, tBronze Medal.
Pellatt Inter-Provincial Match.
die FAlbertans. 22.005. 556.
Bey OUtanio. chia. 4. .te eo 535 |
7Pellatt Cup.
Gzowski Skirmishing Match.

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1. Queen’s Own Rifles*, Toronto

2. 48th. Highlanders, Toronto....................

3. Governor-Generals, F.G., Ottawa........ 300
4. Western Ontario Rest., London............ 294 |
5. Irish Regiment, Toronto.........................290

Extra Series 200 Yards.
1. Maj. G. Mortimer, G.G.F.Gooceeceehae. 75
2. Lieut. A. R. Humphries, CAM... ieou
Garb te. Ho Gareycy. Ry ances aber So 73
Extra Series 300 Yards.
1. Pte. W.J. Irvine, G.G.F-G.... pone 425

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Those Carp in our August Issue

Theillustration showing a fisherman with
a mess of fish and light tackle in our August
issue brought forth plenty of comment.
We offered a years’ subscription tothe person
guessing the kind of fish and how they were
caught. Mr. R. W. Fairman of Toronto wins
the subscription as they were German Carp
and were shot. We have awarded Mr. A.
Johnson a six month’s subscription for his
clever remarks. The printer's “devil” remarked:

“Dat guy oughta get six months for dat cast.’’-

We have pleasure in publishing the firstcorrect
answer and a few other representative replies.
First Prize.

Editor, Rod and Gun in Canada.

I notice in thismonth’s magazine a guessing
contest as to what kind of fish Old Doc
Hemlock is holding.

ist. Guess—Carp. .

If not caught with cornmeal stewed in
honey or sugar. They probably get in low
water and were cut off from shore, and were
just gathered up by hand, speared, shot or
snared with snare wire on the end of a pole.

R. W, Fairman,

. ° Toronto.

Gets Six Months.

Editor, Rod and Gun, in Canada.

The fish shown in the photograph in your
recent issue are “German Carp” and I guess
they were caught—-sleeping. ,

Yours truly,
A. Johnson.
Windsor. Ont.
Close Don’t Count.

Editor, Rod and Gun in Canada.

Here goes for a cast at those fish in the
August number. Am a sure shot the first
cast so will only take one as to what kind
they are.

Cast No. 1—Carp caught through a hole
in the ice.

Cast No. 2—Hooked with some bait or

hook on that~casting rod the fellow has. -
Cast No. 3.—Caughtfon hook and line
with bait such as dew worm or dough ball.
Cast No. 4.—Speared.
Cast No. 5.—Caught stranded in shallow
water.
Hoping I’ve struck it
last four if not in the first.
I am , Yours truly,
Bruce S. Brown.

somewhere in the

Port Rowan, Ontario.
Right Kind of Fish.
Editor, Rod and Gun in €anada.
On page 332 of August “Rod and Gun”
1 see a prize offered to the person who guesses
the name of the fish this angler caught.
My guess is that they arecarp. Ihave caught
them myself, using a steel pole and gut hook
baited with soft crab.
Yours truly,
J. Finley.
Meaford, Ont. ,

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The Virginia deer head shown in our last
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Rev. J. G. Scott and Mr. Roger Miller of
Ingeroll, Ontario favored us with a record
White tail deer head. It isone of the heads
shown in the souvenir booklet of Albert's
Buckhorn Saloon, San Antonio, Texas. This
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in McCullough County, Texas in 1899.
Mr. Miller who spends his winters in the far
southern State has frequently seen this
record head which is only one exhibit in one —
of the finest collections in the world." “

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Open Seasons for Game ;

Compiled by Grorce A. Lawyer, Chief U.S. Game Warden, and FRANK L.
EarNSHAW, Assistant, Interstate Commerce in Game,
U. S. Department of Agriculture.

THE OPEN SEASONS HERE SHOWN
ARE INCLUSIVE OF BOTH DATES.
When the season is closed for a fixed period
the date terminating the closed season is
given.

The term rabbit includes “hare’’; quail,
the bird known as “partridge” in the South;
grouse includes Canada grouse, Sharp-tailed
grouse, ruffed grouse (known as “partridge”
in the North and “pheasant” in theSouth),
and all other members of the family except
prairie chickens, ptarmigan, and sage hens;
introduced pheasant is restricted to the Old
World pheasants.

PERSONS ARE ADVISED to secure
from Provincial game commissioners full
text of game laws in Provinces where hunting
is contemplated, as provisions of minor im-
portance are omitted from this poster.

Deer.
Alberta—Nov. 1-Dec. 142.
British Columbia *a (a).
Manitoba—Dec. 1-Dec. 10x.
New Brunswick—Sept. 15-Nov. 30a.
Northwest Territories a—Sept1-Apr. Iza.
Nova Scotia—Oct. 16-Oct. 31za.
Ontario.—See Additions.
Quebec—Sept. 20-Dec. 31a.
Saskatchewan—Nov. 15-Dec. 142a.
Yukon—Aug. 1-Mar. Iz.

Moose.
~Alberta—Nov. 1-Dec. 142.
British Columbia*a—(a).
Manitoba—Dec. 1-Dec. 102.
New Brunswick—Sept. 15-Nov. 30z.
Northwest Territories a—Sept. 1-Apr. lva.
Nova Scotia—Oct. 1-Nov. 1l5zxa.
Ontario—See Additions.
Quebec—Sept. 20-Dec. 31xa.
Saskatchewan—Nov. 15-Dec. 14xa.
Yukon—Aug., 1-Mar. 12.
Newfoundland—No open Season.

Rabbit.
British Columbia*a.—
Northwest Territories a—
Nova Scotia—Dee. 1-Jan. 3la.
Ontario—Oct. 15-Nov. 15a.
Prince Edward Island—Nov. 1t-Feb. 1.
Quebec—Ocet. 15-Jan. 31.
Newfoundland—Sept. 20-Jan. 1.

-

Squirrel.
British Columbia *a.
Ontario—Nov. 1-Noy. 15.
Prince Edward Island—

Quail.

British Columbia *a—(a).
Manitoba—Sept. 15, 1927.
Northwest Territories a—
Ontario—Nov. 1-Nov. 15.

Grouse.
Alberta—Oct. 15-Oct. 31.
British Columbia*a—(a).
Manitoba—Oct. 15-Oct. 22.
New Brunswick—1921. ‘
Northwest Territories a—Sept. 1-Jan .1.
Nova Scotia—Oct. 21, 1922.
Ontario—Oct. 15-Nov. 15.
Prince Edward Island—No open seas on.
Quebec—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Saskatchewan—No open season.
Yukon—Sept. 1-Mar. 15.5 ~
Newfoundland—Sept. 20-Jan. 1.

Prairie Chicken.
Alberta—Oct. 15:Oct. 31.
British Columbia*a—
Manitoba—Oct. 15-Oct. 22.
Northwest Territories a—Sept. 1-Jan. 1.
Ontario—Oct. 15-Nov. 15.
Saskatchewan—Oct. 15-Oct. 31.
Yukon—Sept. 1-Mar. 15.

Introduced Pheasant
Alberta—Oct. 1, 1925.
British] Columbia*a—(a). ‘
Manitoba—Sept. 15, 1927.
Northwest Territories a—
Nova Scotia—No open season.
Ontario—Nov. 1.-Nov. 15.
Prince Edward. Island—

Wild Turkey.

British Columbia*a—
Northwest Territories a—
Ontario—Nov. 1-Nov. 15.

MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS**

(The season here shown are the times
when migratory game birds may be hunted
without violating either Dominion regulations
or Provincial laws). :
Ducks, Geese, Brant, Coot, Gallinules.

Alberta—Sept 1-Dec. 14. :
British Columbia a—Sept. 4-Dec. 19.

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Manitoba—Sept. 15-Nov. 30.

New Brunswick—Sept. 15-Deec. 31.
Northwest Territories—Septi-Dec. 14.
Nova Scotia—Sept. 15-Dec. 31.
Ontario-Sept. 1-Dec. 14.

Prince Edward Island—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Quebec-Sept. 1-Dec. 14. ,
Saskatchewan—Sept. 15-Dec. 31.
Yukon—Sept. 1—Dec. 14.
Newfoundland—Sept. 20-Jan. la.
Black-Bellied and Golden Plovers, and

Yellewlegs.
Alberta—Sept. 1-Dec. 14. ©
British Columbia a—Sept. 4-Dec. 19.
Manitoba—Sept. 15-Nov. 30.
New Brunswick—Aug. 15-Nov. 30.
Northwest Territories—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Nova Scotia—Ausg. 15-Nov. 30.
Ontario—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Prince Edward Island-Aug. 15-Nov. 30.
Quebec—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Saskatchewan—Sept. 15-Dec. 31.
Yukon—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Newfoundland—Sept. 20-Jan. 1.
Wilson Snipe or Jacksnipe.
Alberta—Sept. 1-Dec. 14. wm
British Columbia a—Sept. 4-Dec. 19.
Manitoba—Sept. 15-Nov. 30.
New Brunswick—Sept. 15-Nov. 30.
Northwest Territories—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Nova Scotia—Sept. 15-Nov. 30.
Ontario—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Prince Edward IslandSept. 15-Nov. 30.
Quebec—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Saskatchewan—Sept. 15-Dec. 31.
Yukon—Sept.1-Dec. 14.
Newfoundland—Sept. 20-Jan. 1.
Woodcock.
British Columbia a—
Manitoba—Sept. 15-Nov. 30.
New Brunswick—Sept. 15-Nov. 30.
Northwest Territories—
Nova Scotia—Sept. 15-Nov. 30.
Ontario—Oct. 15-Nov. 14.
Prince Edward Island—Sept. 15-Nov. 30.
Quebec—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Rails.
Alberta—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
British Columbia a—Sept. 4-Dec. 19.
Manitoba—Sept. 15-Nov. 30.
New Brunswick—Sept. 15-Dec. 31.
Northwest Territories—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Nova Scotia—Sept. 15-Dec. 31.
Ontario—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Prince Edward Island—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Quebec—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.
Saskatchewan—Sept. 15-Dec. 31.
Yukon—Sept. 1-Dec. 14.

“Alaska—Aug. 21-Dec. 31a.

Dove.
British Columbia a—
Manitoba—Sept. 15, 1927.
Ontario—No open season—

» OTHER GAME.
(Season closed in Provinces not mentioned)
BIG GAME
Antelope.
Manitoba—Dec. 1Dec. 10z.
Bear. '
(Unprotected in other Provinces)
Quebec—Aug. 20-June 3...
Caribou.

Alberta—Nov. 1-Dec. 14.
British Columbia*—(a).
Manitoba—Dec. 1-Dec. 102.
Northwest Territories—Dec. 1:April 1a.
Nova Scotia—Sept. 16-Oct. 15za.
Ontario—See Additions.
Quebec—Sept. 20-Dec. 31.
Saskatchewan—Nov. 15Dec. 14a.
Yukon—Ausg. 1Mar. Iz.
Newfoundland—Oct. 21-Jan. 31a.
Elk.
Manitoba—Dec. 1-Dec. 102.
Goat.
Alberta—Sept. 1-Oct. 31.
British Columbia*—(a).
Northwest Territories—Sept. 1-April 1.
Yukon—Aug. 1 Mar. Iz.

Sheep.

Alberta—Sept. 1-Oct. 312.
British Columbia*—(qa). £
Northwest Territories—Dec. i la.
Yukon—Aug 1-Mar Iz.

GAME BIRDS

Ptarmigan.
Alberta—Oct. 15-Oct. 31. ;
Manitoba—Oct. 1-Oct. 20. .

Northwest Territories—Sept. 1-Jan. 1._
Quebec—Nov.1-Jan. 31.

Yukon—Sept. 1-Mar. 15.
Newfoundland—Sept. 20-Jan 1. ‘
DAYS EXCEPTED.

All hunting prohibited on:
Sundays.—In all Provinces east of the 105th
meridian, except Quebec.
*Laws of 1920 not received.
t+Local exceptions.
tCertain species.
aMales only.

**Under the regulations for the protection
of migratory birds the season is closed on
band-tailed pigeons, swans, wood ducks,
eider ducks, auks, auklets, bitterns, cranes,
fulmars, gannet, grebes, guillemots, gulls,
herons, jaegers, loons, murres, petrels, puffins,

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shearwaters, terns and all shorebirds (except

woodcock, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, black-

bellied and golden plovers, and yellowlegs)

in the United States and Canada.

aADDITIONAL PROVISIONS AND EX-
CEPTIONS.

British Columbia.—Open seasons on big
game and upland game fixed annually by
Order-in-Council, which may be obtained
from Secretary, Game Conservation Board,
Vancouver, B. C. Waterfowl, rails, Wilson-
snipe, black-breasted and golden plovers, yellow
legs, in Northern and Eastern Districts, Sept.
4-Dec. 19, and in Western District, north of
51st parallel, Sept. 11-Dec. 26; goose, brant,
Western District, south 51st parallel, Nov.
13-Feb. 28. Other migratory game birds, south
of 51st parallel, Oct 16-Jan. 31.

Northern District includes Atlin Electoral
District, and north of main line of Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway and east summit
Cascades.

Eastern District, east summit Cascades and
south Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.

Western District west summit Cascades
and south Atlin Electoral District.

New Brunswick.— Deer, on Grand Manan
and Campobello Islands, no open season.

Northwest Territories.—Additional season
on caribou and sheep, Aug. 1-Oct. 1. Female
caribou, mountain sheep, or mountain goat

with young atfoot, and their young at foot,
no open season. Governor General in Council
may; by regulation, alter seasons.

Nova Scotia.—Big game, on Cape Breton
Island, no open season. Caribou (male),
in Inverness and Victoria Counties only.
Rabbit, on Cape Breton Island, Dec. 1-Feb.
28.

Ontario.— Deer, moose, reindeer or caribou:
open season, in that part of Ontario lying
south of the French and Mattawa rivers,from
the 5th day of November to the 20th day of
November, both days inclusive.

Moose, deer, reindeer, or caribou, in that
part of Ontario lying North and West of the
French and Mattawa Rivers from the 25th day

of October to the 30th day of November, both —

days inclusive, other than the district lying
North of the Canadian Government Railway,
formerly known as the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway where the Open Season is from the
1st day of October to the 30th day of Novem-
ber, both days inclusive.

Quebec.— Deer, bull moose, in Pontiac and
Temiscaming, Sept. 10-Dec. 31.

Saskatchewan.— Deer, moose, (males only),
Caribou, north of Township 34, Nov. 15-Dee.
14; south of Township 35, no open season.

Newfoundland.—Caribou, also Aug. 1-
Sept. 30. Geese, unprotected

Deer of North America

Rod and Gun In Canada

In your issue of Oct. last in answer to a
request from “‘Reader’’ of Saskatchewan you
give a description of the various species of
deer, quoting from an article in the Geo-
graphic Magazine by E. W. Nelson.

In this article he gives a very good descrip-
tion of the Mule deer and says distinctly that
the Mule and Black Tail are two different
species, while Ernest Thompson Seton in his
book ‘Wild Animals at Home”’ says they are
the same deer.

Seton also says they are called Jumping
deer in Canada. Now in this part of Mani-
toba what we call Jumping deer have a bushy
white tail with no blackyon it.

I would like to have your opinion as to
whether Nelson or Seton areright, also the
opinion of other hunters. I have never seen
any Black Tail as described by E. W. Nelson,

but have been told by hunters that they are
common in some parts of Canada. ‘
The Virginia or White-tailed deer described
by Nelson is I think the same as we call the

Jumping deer in this part.
What is the difference between the White-

tail and the Ontario deer?

Thanking you in anticipation,
I remain yours truly,
Manitoba Hunter. -
There are practically two kinds of deer
in North America. Unless we include the
Wapiti—Elk and the Moose which is the true
Elk, and the Caribou. The two kinds are: —
1. (a) O-Americanus —Virginia or Red Deer.
(b) O-Macrunus —Subspecies of above. ,
In reality, all varieties of same species.
2. O-Hemionus—Mule Deer, Wild Ass, or
Black Tail.
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PARKER H. CuRRIER

OW about it Park,” were the first

words that greeted me as I drove

into the doctor’s yard, on a Saturday
afternoon*just in time for a plate of steaming
beans and brown bread, and to spend the
week end.

“Good ”’, said I, “if we can all arrange to
get away at thesame time.” Our party was
to include the doctor, his wife and halfsister,
my old-time hunting companion Bert and
his wife, the author and his better half.
After having supper, and lighting up our
pipes, through the clouds of smoke we planned
our hunting trip.

I had already seen Bert and he proposed if
agreeable to all, that we camp on the old
camp ground, at Boyd’s old place, on the
head waters of the Swan-creek, in Queens Co.
N.B.

This agreed upon, the next thing was to
set a date , and after studying the calendar so
as to have moonlight nights, we decided to
all meet at Upper Gagetown on the twenty-
eighth of September, and proceed to the woods
by team on the following morning, as the
once good road is now so grown up with weeds,
that in most places they meet making: it.
impassible for cars. It was tiresome wait
ing for the appointed date but in due time
it came around, and along in the afternoon,

the cars, one after another, pulled up at the
writer’s home.

After unloading the good things that were

to go to the bush with us, the cars were
stored away for a week’s rest.
Arrangements for a team had already been
made, and when the morning came, nine
o'clock found us all packed aboard Bennie’s
hay rack, and on our way to the woods.
We had about seven miles to go, and arrived
at our camping ground in time for a late
dinner. It seemed at first sight that we were
not to be alone on the trail, as we found
our old friend McDonald and party from
Fredericton boiling their kettle for lunch.
In talking to them we found that they were
breaking up camp, and informed us that they
had received answers to their calls in differ-
ent places, which sounded encouraging to us,
but they had not been lucky enough to
get a shot. ;

After having lunch, Bennie complained of
a bad tooth, and said he wished the doctor
could take it out. “I'll do that for you”
smiled the doctor, producing a pair of forceps
and using the fence for a dentist chair, the
tooth was soon removed, and Bennie started
for home delighted to think he would lose no
more sleep with that tooth. .

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ish around handy to camp. I spent the
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lots of fresh tracks, as the old hunting ground
never fails. On returning to camp I found
my comrades there with the good news that
they had spent a half hour sitting ona fallen
tree, smoking their pipes, and watching
a cow and calf feeding on the opposite side
of the valley.

After dinner we decided to rest, as spending
a good deal of time in a car one feels the
effects of along tramp. It takes a day or so
to get into shape. Wednesday, we tramped
through the old Broom-pole road, and in
the afternoon, with the wind blowing a gale,

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I decided to go through an old swamp against
the wind, to see what I could see. The
doctor while cutting wood, had hacked his
foot, and was staying close to camp, so
leaving him and his good wife to prepare
supper, the rest of the party went with me.

When we got into the swamp, signs were
plentiful and with Bert paralleling me at
about fifty yards, just so I could see him,
and the ladies directly behind me about
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sprang up three moose from their mossy
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first shot rang out, the women on looking
in the direction of the retreating moose which
sounded like a hay rack going through the
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before he dropped. We all proceeded to
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at him, we could hear the distant crashing
of his comrades as they sped away to safety.
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was to back it out. It was drawing near
night so we turned into’ camp. Sitting
around the fire that night it was fun tohear
the women folk talking about their experience.
Theythought it would have been nice to

Trying a shot

have had the calf for a pet. As they viewed
it gracefully trotting away through the ferns
it looked not unlike a pony. I informed
them that the same calf would prove an
unruly chap if it was gotten on the end of
a rope. .

Thursday the ladies accompanying us,
we visited the old salt springs on the Swan
creek branch of the main stream above the
old county line wood, and found where the
moose had wallowed in the mud not long
before. The afternoon was spent in fishing
onthe Tranta-Wantabranch ofthe S vanereek.
It was not good fishing it being the wre g time
of day, but in spite of that we got enough for
a mess.

Friday morning we were awakened early
by the tap, tap, of the rain on the tent, but it
did not last long, and was cleared off by
nine o'clock, so Bert and I strolled down
to the old Jack field in quest of deer. We found
fresh tracks, but as there were not many
leaves off the bushes so early in the season,
one might be handy to them and never know
it, as they have a habit of disappearing from
sight like a ghost.

The afternoon I never will forget backing
the moose out of that swamp. We quartered
it up and the first two trips seemed easy,
but by the time the last of it was hung up,
out by the old county line road, we were
some tired and sore, as the trail was rough

and muddy and the oftener we went over it
the worse it got, We decided then and there,
that never again would we shoot a moose in
a place like that.

Saturday morning as usual, we were .
awakened early by the chatter, chatter, of a )

family of squirrels that lived close by and
were around early to get their breakfast of
apples which grew on a tree right by the tent.
They would race up and down the fence
and make a terrible time, as we would watch
them, and it was fun to see them, with a good
sized apple in their mouth, running along

. the fence at break-neck speed and up into a’ ,

tree, where they would set up on their haunch-
es and bite off the skin and eat the inside,
or else wedge it in the fork of alimb for some
future time.

After breakfast we went for along tramp out

the old count- line rcad, taking our time and
climbing a ciee onthe top of a hill, now and
then, to get a look at the surrounding country.
We must have followed the old trail out
about five miles or more, for it was late when
we sot back to camp. Bennie was to come
back Sunday morning at ten o’clock for us,
and as we could hear the rattle of his wagon
a half hour before he arrived, we got busy
packing up, and while his horses fed we
loaded up, saving room in front for ourmeat

Back from the trail.

which was to be taken aboard, up on the other.
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In due time, we were away and after getting
our moose aboard we sat back in comfort-

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got ahead of us without our knowing it.
When we started again we drove slowly for
a few miles waiting for him, then we decided
to make a stop thinking he might be broken
down, after waiting half an hour and no
sign of him, we decided to make a start as
dark was coming on and leave him, not
paying much attention to the thought of him
being in the lead. When we arrived at his
place at Glenwood there he was as big as life
unloading his car. He sure had the laugh
onus. I guess he did it to get even with us
for his having to stay around camp with a
cut foot while we were out on the trail.

We all agreed that we had had a very
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steak frying would bring happy memories
of it to our recollection in after days.

There were quite a few partridge around,
but as it was close season we had to pass them
by, with the happy assurance that they are
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one has while camping. I left Bert at his
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ALBERTA PROVINCIAL TOURNAMENT.

The Alberta Provincial Tournament was held on
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high gun and is representing Alberta at the Grand
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day and 143 x 150 2nd day.

Chris. Irgens won the doubles with soore of 45 x 50.

The Handicap found Chris Irgens and Walter
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Jack Brown made a very good showing and won the
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The scores:—

Shot at Hdep. Doubles

300 100 25 pr.
W. Holmes... P 92 41
DroRover.t. .\:. 82 _
M. D. Cardwell.... 7 —
R. G. Robinson...... 76 28
H. Simpson 88 43
AS Deas.2 2. 82 40
W. Wood..... .... 87 37
W.Elliott...... 84 38
W.Freeman.:.... 77 38
AGs rena? nie 92 45
FE Dardeys oc i5-2- 73 41
W.E. Clark 86 37
A.H.E 76 —
Cou t 84 40
J.Bowen....... 82 —
J.W.Holmes..... ; 84 37
P. J. Harwood. ........ 91 —_
A.A. Hill. Saka teeteas 5 —- ——
P.R.Campbell. ..... ¥ 84 _—
M. Esdale......... Rey eee 79 —_—

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Class A—W. Holmes.
Class B—J.~ Bowen.
Class C—P. R. Campbell. “

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A very successfultournament was held at Rock Lake,
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professional with 142 x 150. The Miss and Out
Competition was won by W. J. Sanders of Killarney
with the whole Avery family giving him a hard race,
Jeff Avery staying till the last. The Championship of
the club resulted in a tie between P. J. Harwood and
Jeff Avery. _

Chicken dinner was served by the famous chef of
Rock Lake to the satisfaction of all the shooters. The
scores:—

ae. Shotat Total
Dr. H. 0. McDairmid, Brandon Man... ......55 37
A.B. Kelly, Brandon,Man......... 40 24
Capt.Poroby’ Brandon, Man........ 135 84
T. G. Breen, Winnipeg, Man.. resveh Oo) 74
Dr. Doran, Brandon, Man..... ‘ ..90 42
P.J. Harwood, Brandon Man., “ 150 28
T.N. Williamson, Brandon, Man.. 150 90
J.B. Langhton, Brandon, Man.. nine 150 125
Wm. Crozier, Brandon, Man.... PS Xt) 120
W.R.Gibbs, Pilot Mound, Man................150 116
Dr. McDougall, Winnipeg, Man.. . eo 0) 66
Jeff Avery, Glenora, Man......... ; 150 115
L. J. Carter, Brandon, Man......... 125 79
Jos. Avery, Glenora, Man....... 150 132
J.J. Lott, Winnipeg, Man........-.. 90 AA
Geo. Cowderoy*, Winnipeg, Man... . 150 142
W. Mickle, Pilot Mound, Man...... 150 105
R. Mickle, Pilot Mound, Man. 150 105
J.A. Davidson, Winnipeg,Ma 25 8
M.E. Cadwell, N. Battleford,>ask...... 150 119
C. Avery, Clearwater, Man....... paar s ft) 96
Bert Campbell, Brandon, Man......... 150 100
R. T. Comess,Crystal City, Man........... 150 11
W..J. Sanders, Killarney, Man.. ..................150 107
R. Robinson, Winnipeg, Man......... 29 5
D. J. Cline, Glenora, Man...... . F 95 81

A. R. Cline, Glenora, Man... ....2...:...-1c0--reneees 55 29

J.Snydal, Winnipeg, Man......... 40
Dr. Carbett, Crystal Cit 18
A. Fowler, Baldur, Man.... 14

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This shoot was heldunder the auspices of the Moose
Jaw (Sask.) Gun Club, and was a decided success.

There was $1,000 in cash added to the regularevents,
besides several beautiful trophies for special events,
and few shodters went away without aslice of the
money or a trophy

First Regular Day

Thursday, July 22nd, was the first-regular day.
There were 100 16-yard targets, a 50-bird, two-m
team race, and a 50-bird four-man team race on the
Drapeau: The first 100 targets decided the winner
of the Saskatchewan Provincial championship, and also
consted as the first 100 on the Divisional champion-
ship. : : é ,
At 9o’clock, starting time, a heavy rain was falling,
anda high wind was Diners argets in alldirections.
The rain let up later in the day, but the wind continued
to make life miserable for the target busters. Charles
Leslie, of Regina, won_ the championship of his Pro-
vince, on a score of 85. Jack Smith, of Nebraska,
turned in an 85 score also. R. W. Phipps, of Colfax,
Wash., was high with 86.. Max Cowderoy led the
salesmen with 87. Of the sixty-seven entries only ten
averaged better than 80 per cent., which wil give an
idea of the weatherconditions prevailing. :

The two-man team race was won by O F. Molicke
and P. G. Schwager, of Dundurn, Sask., with a scgre
of 42 out of 50.

The Moose Jaw team, composed of Mead, Burke,
McDonald and Roush, won the four-man team race
on ascoreof 84 out of 100.

The scores, at 100 tar, <a

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8 F-.Derbys 67
.77 C.W.Skinner. .. 66
77 E.W.Battleson 65
ree 77 H.W. Taber. 65
D. Coolidge. 77 H.G. Knapp. 64
W. Holmes. 76 A.D.O’Brien.. 62
Bob Mitten. .76 C.O. Wilson. . ..60
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His score of 89 from the 22-yard mark was exceptionally
good under the conditions. His nearest competitor
was O. F. Meilicke, who broke 86 from 20 yards.
P. G. Schwaker (21 yards), H. A. Pomerenke (20
yards), J. W. Holmes (20 yards), and Ed Roush (19
yards), tied for third on 84.
The scores, at 100 aie

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J.R. Pence. ......., R. L. Hutchinson » fs
C.F. Meilicke.. R.C. Mitten. ... =
P. G. Schwager...... O. A.Sempf.... 73
Ed Roush......... A.L. Allen: ..... 73
C. H.Parker.. M. Ganshour ... 78
C. Leslie... D.Coolidge.. 72
C. Burke GOR Perryyit....:.an 70
C.L.Brutch A.S. MacDonald 70
C. Nielsen Mrs. Coolidge. .... 68
ReDUl ow C.H. Schrank. . 67
A. Von Ferber. J.R. McCurdy ..66
W. Holmes P. Cordogan 59
H. Mead. .. A.E. Andrews .... 58
C. G. Haight J.W. McCulloch............ 58
A.W. Chapin C.E. Harris ..... ..20
H. A. Simpson *W. Owens. .. 87
Cc. 0. Wilson FCAIWEI ONES, |. Fiver sancceve 85
H. A. Pomeranke .......... 8
The scores at 100 targets. handicap:
A. R. Chezik.............. 22°89 Capt. Saunders 22 75
i R. W. Phipps............ 22 74
“. C. Lester ...... 20 74
W. Holmes 20 84 J.R. Pence 22 73
P.G. Schwager .22 84 Lee Huyck 17 71
Ed Roush..... .19 84 C.H.Parker.. wenn
C. Neilsen... 17 84 A.W.Chapin . 19 70
R.C. Mitten. ..18 83 Hutchinson. . 19 68
D. Coolidge. ............. 18 83 J. MacRae... 20 67
H. A. Simpson 22 82 C.E. Harris .. 17 66
2 McCulloch....... 66
A.S.MecDonald 63
T.E. Andrews . 62
A.L. Allen .....
C.O.Wilson
*C.W.Jones

A. Von Ferber.
H. Mead..........

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H.A. Simpson. 91 A.W ‘ x:

C. Kahle .....;...... « C.H.Schrank. . A

H.A. Pomerenke 83 W.F. Rogers...... 78

O.F.Meilicke. ... 88 E.W.Battleson .... 77

J. OMUCN. sy. 0 88 A.S.MacDonald ..........77

P. G. Schwager 87 G.Mavhew............. ?

C.H. Parker... 86 C.G. Haight

D. Coolidge. . LeeHuyck..........

Ed Roush .... C. Nielsen .......

S.F.Dorton Mrs. Coolidge

W. Holmes... J.Harcourt 7

H. Mead. .. C.O. Wilson ... 6
R.G. Robinson 5

H. W.Tabor..

“ H. Crabtree .. 9

-A.Sempf.. Bi Mrs. Mayuew . 49

R. C. Mitten. 81 *C.W. Jones... 91

B.F. Curtis... 81 *W. Owens. ..... 89

Sharon. ...... 81 *C.L. Burtch . 8
Cie. Harris ieee ist 80 *J.McRae
*Professionals. :

Mr. H. Mead, president

of the Moose Jaw Club,

and proprietor of the Royal George Hotel, served a

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banquet to the shooters that more than offset the bad
weather, and the fellow that had dropped a lot of
targets soon forgot his troubles after the refreshments
were brought on. Mayor Hamilton made a snappy
address, in which he extended the freedom of the city
to the visiting shooters, and expressed the wish that he
would see them all next year.

The 1921 Saskatchewan shoot was voted to Saska-
toon. Mr. Paddy McGill, of that town, has donated a
case of Scotch to go the high American shooter—(that
looks like some shoot!)

The Divisional tournament will be shot next year at
Brandon, Manitoba. ‘

Jack Smith.

Moose Jaw, Sask.
—Sportsmen’s Review.

MONTREAL GUN CLUB.

A good crowd attended the Montreal Gun Club’s
shoot, held on July 8thand 9th. C. R.Newton turned
in a good score, busting 163 out of 170, while onthe
second day he did notscoreaswell. F. Kerr was right
on his heels with 162, and R. Lewis with 161,

On the second day S. G. Newton broke 164 out of
170 and E. Doerken, 163.

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McIntyre .
Corfield ...

Hadley. . 148
Payan... 145
Griffin . 144

Wright..... 144
W.Thomson.. 142
Heney. -.... aul
Seoger. .. 139

McCrea.....
C. Thomson

, : Miss Doerkin. 123

S.G. Newton ......150 Southwood. 120
Second Day.
S.G.Newton. 164 Brodie . 149
Doerk n .163 Lonsdale . 49
Sanford 162 McCurdy. AT
*Morris 62 Bogue 147
Kerr. 5... 59 Draper. 144
O’Conno 5 Heney yi
Murdoch.. 157 Butler f
C. R.Newton 154 Sibbitt 143
B.R.Clarke . 154 Watt... 138
Wright....... 154 Cockburn. 138
Carfield .. 154 iffin ..... 134
Hadley... 153 MelIntyre. .132
Osborne .. 151. Miss Doerkin. 127
McCrea... 150 C.Thomson 125
Southwold. 150 Seoger. ..... 119
Joselin .... 150 Payan 103
Maxcey .. i
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HAMILTON GUN CLUB.

The Hamilton Gun Club held its regular shoot at
the local traps on Saturday afternoon, August 14th,
when a fair-sized crowd of shooters were on hand an
put up a very exciting race.

The scores: Shot at Broke.
50 46
50 39
50 45
75 66
75
100

50 45
A. Smyth... 50 39
H. Fletcher... 50 35
J. Moyer..... 125 111
J.Griffiths. ... 50 35
75 74
25 15
50 32
75 66
oe 100 89
T. Gardiner. 50 41

H. Lennox......... 50.

H. Kretschman. 100 —
Dr. Greene. .... 50 AS
G. Stroud 100 92
E.H. Sturt... 100 92
H. Smyth. 25)... 25 19

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Ontario. 93T

GINSENG $15. GOLDEN SEAL $6. Grows like
weeds. Now, this Fall is the time to plant 200 seeds of
each and instructions postpaid, only $1. M. Twitchell,
West Milan, N. H. 91T

DON’T MARRY until you send for our Latest Mat-
rimonial Nas a containing Names, Addresses, Descrip-
tions, Photos of girls and widows wishing early marriage.
Send $2.00. International Club, Dept. 49, Box 563, Los.
Angeles, California. 9-TF

STAMMERING.

ST-STU-T-T-TERING and Stammering cured at home.
Instructive booklet free. Walter McDonnell. 151 Poto-
mac Bank Building, Washington, D.C. 6-6T

TAXIDERMY AND TANNING

Lifelike Taxidermy. Latest Museum and Moth-proof
Methods used. Game heads and rugs a specialty. Satis-
faction guaranteed. D. C. Tait, 1116 Broadway West,
Vancouver, B.C. 3-6T

_FOR SALE—Moose Head, fine specimen excellent con-
ue: Apply Box L., ROD AND GUN, eeusioee
nt.

496 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA

A Reliable
Shot Gun or Rifle
adds much to
the Success of
a Good Day’s
Shooting

REMINGTON
REPEATING
SHOT GUN 12-GAUGE

6975 _

Delivered

WINCHESTER
REPEATERS
1894 MODEL

Winchester Re-
Peating Rifles,
1894 Model, 26-
19-707 inch round barrel; bead
frontsight; open rear sight;
walnut stock and fore-end.

10A Remington Repeating

Shot Gun, 12-gauge only. 19- “708. 3 32/40 calibre. 4 75
Price, delivered..........
Standard grade hammerles® 19-709. 38/55 calibre. .

take-down model, repeating pump | Price, delivered
action, 30-inch blued steel barrel; walnut 19- O. 32 Winchester Special.
Delivered’. 9.75

stock. Six shot. Price Pe
delivered........ Dy siieiswh, =, aa 69.75 od 33247: £ . _ 80,30 Winchester. 49 75

12-GAUGE
DOUBLE BARREL

eee
Delivered
10-702 ay eke Double Barrel Shot Gun, with 30-inch barrels of armoury steel, heavy breach, will

ot easily shoot loose. Pistol grip stock. Right barrel modified, left full choke.
Patent fared: stock and fore-end are checkered. Price, delivered.........---++e-e+00s 35.75

SINGLE 12-GAUGE
BARREL 30-IN. BARREL

SHOT GUN

fill
Delivered

19-700 Single Barrel Shot Gun, 12-gauge, 30-inch barrel of armoury steel, fitted with automatic
ejector, top snap. . Stock 44-pistol grip style, rubber butt plate; heavy breech. Guaranteed

to shoot smokeless powder.
“T. EATON Cowes ,

TORONTO - CANADA

Price, delivered

13.50

This is a Big Value

The Indispensable Boat

Very often your favorite fishing or hunting ground can only be
reached by a boat trip: the ideal boat for all sporting or pleasure
purposes is the

Disappearing Propeller Boat

‘which will carry you anywhere, and do anything a row boat can.

Can be operated in shallow water or run over obstructions, such as
submerged logs, sandbars, etc., with automatic yupclias protection.
Can be pulled up on wharf or beach.

The engine is the celebrated “Dis-Pro” Marine Motor equipped with
maxim silencer which cannot be heard thirty yards away.

That the Disappearing Propeller Boat is the most satisfactory motor
boat ever produced is conclusively demonstrated by its ever-increasing
popularity—used by seven Government Departments and hundreds of
Canadians.

Send for Illustrated Catalogue

showing boats and engine in natural colors—or if in Toronto visit our
showrooms.

Disappearing Propeller Boat Co., Limited
Largest Builders of Motor Boats in Canada
92 King St., West - - Toronto, Ont.
U.S. A. Offices: 1231-35 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich.

All boats are manufactured at Port Carling and thoroughly tested on
the Muskoka Lakes.

RIFLES

AND

METALLICS

‘emington U . rifles are superio “hang”, action and accuracy and have the
R gst UM¢ fl uperior in “hang tion and uracy ay tl

rugged strength that comes from the finest materials. You can be sure you are
getting the best rifle you can buy. Remington UMC experience—100 years old—

guarantees that kind of a rifle.

Ask the Remington UMC dealer to show you our Remington UMC _ metallies
High Power slide action Repeater—6 shots, solid made in 450 sizes and every
breech, hammerless, safe. And our Autoloader— caliber. Have a wonderful
5 shots, simply press the trigger for each shot. reputation, earned in the field,
Solid breech, hammerless, positive safety devices. for uniform high. quality and
Beautiful weapons! And look over the Remington reliability. Made to suit
UMC .22’s—three models, autoloading, repeating every known type of firm

and single shot irm.