KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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bottom of the bag. Your pants 

 have now become a first-rate pack 

 sack. Articles may be put in and 

 taken out through the fly, and the 

 legs form the shoulder straps. 

 And if anything should happen to 

 the pants you have on, you need 

 only rip out a few coarse stitches 

 to make the extra pair available. 



A MINNOW BUCKET 

 TRICK 



BY Louis J. J. TANSEY 

 Sink a small baking powder can 

 in your minnow bucket, laying the 

 can on its side in the bottom of 

 the bucket so that the minnows 

 can hide in it. When you want a 

 minnow, lift the can out quickly 

 and you will find two or three in 





it every time. They always ap- 

 pear to be the largest and best 

 ones in the bucket, too. This 

 saves chasing the minnows around 

 or spearing at them with a little 



dip net whenever you want one. 

 (Courtesy R. D. V.) 



A CAMP CANDLESTICK 



BY V. J. NICHOLS 

 A candle holder in camp ? Sure 

 thing. Take a split stake, a bit of 



birch bark, and there you are. The 

 diagram shows the combination 

 better than words. 



IMPROVING THE MODEL 

 1914 SAVAGE .22 



BY WM. GUNRICH 

 In the fall of 1915 I bought my- 

 self a 1914 model Savage rifle, 

 .22 caliber, tubular magazine, 

 which I fitted with Marble's peep 

 rear and Vicker's Maxim front 

 sights. I now thought that I had 

 an ideal rifle, and this it really 

 proves to be. 



But my troubles began when I 

 went out hunting. Going along 

 an old logging road one bright 

 morning I was surprised to see a 



