JACK MINER— NATURAL NATURALIST 



By WiUey S. McCrea 



In dreams of the night I hear the call 

 Of wild geese scudding across the lake, 



In dreams I see the old convent wall, 



Where Ottawa's waters surge and break. 



— Drummond. 



(5 1 HE subject of this sketch occupies a decidedly 

 ^' novel position in the wild game-loving world. 

 Bom in the State of Ohio, he went with his father, 

 who took a large family and settled in Canada about 

 twenty miles southeast of Windsor when Jack was a 

 lad of 13. That was isome forty years ago when that 

 section of Ontario was a dense forest. The Miner 

 family started to hew out a home in surroundings that 

 were absolutely ideal for any sport-loving boy. He and 

 a brother some years his senior aided in every way to 

 help change a wilderness into a prosperous farming 

 country. As a means of helping they soon began shoot- 



