8 AN ANGLER'S REMINISCENCES. 



are filled with melted maple sugar while inverted, and are carried by a buckskin 

 thong, which is passed through the point of the cornucopia before it is filled, the 

 end being knotted so that it will not slip through. When hard the sugar holds it 

 immovably. Killikinnik is the inner bark of the red willow, which is mixed with 

 tobacco for smoking. Shaganappi is untanned hide.) 



This exhibit was the primitive forerunner of the many better like shows which 

 have been presented at sportsmen's expositions held in Boston, New York, Chicago 

 and elsewhere during the subsequent twenty-five years. 



It is an interesting fact, attesting Mr. Hallock's mechanical ingenuity, versatility 

 and general knowledge of backwoods craft and aboriginal belongings, gathered 

 during his forty years' previous wanderings, that he set up this entire exhibit quite 

 unaided, carpenter work and all. He set up his tepees, costumed his lay figures, 

 painted their faces and wigged their heads, made his imitation snow and water 

 for winter and summer seasons, laid out his wild rice paddock, fitted up his camp, 

 posed his groups, rigged his dog teams, etc. One group represented squaws in 

 canoe beating out wild rice in situ; another two Indians in canoe spearing fish. 

 There was a home camp with squaws and papoose in standing cradle ; a Canadian 

 traveling carioJe with fur-clad occupant and driver behind on snowshoes ; a tepee 

 with its furniture, fire and primitive cooking apparatus; a Red River cart from 

 Northwestern Minnesota, peculiar to the fur trade half a century ago. Of the 

 quality of this primitive exhibit, it may be remarked of the figures in the fishing 

 canoe that they were so close to life that they engaged the discussion of a Mississippi 

 "cracker" and his wife, who finally settled the question by prodding the spearman 

 with the point of a cotton umbrella to see if the figure was real. As a droll 

 sequence to this episode they afterward tested the living group of the dignified Gall, 

 wife and son (who formed part of the Dakota exhibit), in "the same way, with a 

 recklessness which would have cost them their hair had the contretemps occurred 

 on their native prairie a few years sooner. 



Associated with Mr. Hallock's exhibit was a reproduction of Minnehaha Falls 

 in real water, about half size, by Prof. N. H. Winchell, of the Minnesota University. 

 The whole was viewed with great interest, and elicited a full meed of praise from 

 the newspapers of the period. 



THE DEAN OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



"Honor to whom honor is due" should be the motto of every American citizen, 

 and it is gratifying to note that the devotees of gun and rod, especially those show- 

 ing keenest interest in the literature of out-of-door sports, show proper appreciation 

 of services rendered by that distinguished gentleman now recognized as the Dean 

 of American sportsmen. A Washington correspondent, writing to the editor of the 

 SPORTSMEN'S REVIEW on this subject, makes the following appreciative comments : 



"There is a well-preserved old gentleman, seventy-five or seventy-six years of 

 age, who is frequently seen in the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution at Wash- 

 ington during the cooler months of the year, occasionally entering the offices of the 

 various departments, and any one whose attention is attracted to his presence will 

 observe that he is everywhere received with a familiar courtesy which betokens 

 respect tempered with personal regard. Whenever he enters he seems to have a 

 special errand, though he invariably deprecates intrusion upon busy men in busy 

 hours. When his mission is accomplished in this or that department, and he moves 

 to take leave, he is almost invariably escorted to the door by the chief of the bureau. 

 The oldest officials seem to know him best, those of middle age are less demonstra- 



