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the waves to break with fish. As the combers break the 

 lads dash into the boiling surf and rake the ocean for fish. 

 Frequently the waves dash over the boys' heads, but they 

 never lose their footing and the danger of the work does not 

 excite more than passing attention from the old women 

 weaving baskets. 



During the day the Indians at La Push village average 

 fully a ton of fish caught with dip nets. The older men 

 help with the curing when their day's work is done, but it 

 is the boys' task to capture the fish. 



With each tide thousands of smelt are driven ashore. 

 Each lift of the dip. nets from the surf generally brings a 

 basketful of fish. 



There are now 250 men, women and children in the lit- 

 tle settlement, and each did his or her share with fishing, 

 war gardens and other activities to help win the war. 



HISTORY OF HUNTING LICENSES: 



How many sportsmen, I wonder, are familiar with the 

 early history and development of the hunting license, its 

 objects and limitations? There are some sportsmen, no 

 doubt, who even think the hunting license that has to be pur- 

 chased before they are allowed to hunt is unnecessary and 

 unjust ; others, perhaps, think licensing game-hunting is O. 

 K., but they are of the opinion the hunting license is a mod- 

 ern device, and so to set all these gentlemen right in their va- 

 rious opinions and beliefs, let us briefly consider the facts 

 as gleaned from trustworthy sources. 



First, it is a fact that although most of the present laws 

 have been enacted during the last ten or twenty years, even 

 a hurried review of the subject will suffice to show that the 

 system originated at a very early date in the United States, 

 and was really an outgrowth of a discriminating attitude to- 

 ward nonresidents. Hunting licenses were required in 

 some of the colonies, particularly Virginia, more than two 



