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 lech we, 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. 



