356 A BOOK-LOVER'S HOLIDAYS 



were frosty. Fall was in the air. Once there 

 was a flurry of snow. Birch and maple were 

 donning the bravery with which they greet the 

 oncoming north; crimson and gold their ban- 

 ners flaunted in the eyes of the dying year. 



Antlers of moose shot September 19, 1915, with Springfield 

 rifle No. 6000, Model 1903. 



This rifle, now a retired veteran, is not heavy enough for steady use on heavy game; 

 but it is so handy and accurate, has such penetration, and keeps in such good order 

 that it has been my chief hunting-rifle for the last dozen years on three continents, and 

 has repeatedly killed heavy game. With it I have shot some three hundred head of all 

 kinds, including the following: 



Lion, hyena, elephant, rhinoceros (square-mouthed and hook-nosed), hippopotamus, 

 zebras of two kinds, wart-hog, giraffe, giant eland, common eland, roan antelope, oryx, 

 wildebeest, topi, white-withered lechwe, waterbucks, hartebeests, kobs, impalla, gerenuk, 

 gazelles, reedbucks, bushbucks, klipspringer, oribis, duikers, steinbok, dikdik, monkeys. 



Jaguar, tapir, big peccary, giant ant-eater, capybara, wood-deer, monkey. 



Cougar, black bear, moose, caribou, white-tail deer. 



Crocodile, cayman, python. 



Ostrich, bustard, wild turkey, crane, pelican, maribou, ibis, whale-head stork, jabiru 

 stork, guinea-fowl, francolin. 



