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Thru tear a bit of dry cotton cloth with fluffy edges (a hit 

 of lining- from your clothes if nothing else is available), fill 

 this loosely into your emptied cartridge. Put the shell 

 into your gun and fire straight into the air. The cloth will 

 drop close to you and either he aflame, or at least smoulder- 

 ing, so that you can easily hlo\v it into a blaze. Drop this 

 quickly into your tinder and your fire is made. 



Accidents from the handling of 'firearms, much are they 

 to ])e regretted, are bound to occur so long as there remain 

 so many careless handlers of the gun. If you have a boy, 

 make him a present of a gun early in life, but instruct him 

 carefully lunv to handle it, and he will have no trouble all 

 through life. It's just a matter of getting started out right. 

 One of the highest accomplishments of a man's life is to 

 know how to shoot well, and this is another argument to be- 

 gin early. 



The California -Fish and Came Commission tells what 

 to do with a deer: 



To transport a deer on a saddle horse throw a rope 

 across the saddle, pulling a loop of it forward through each 

 cinch ring. 



Place the buck across the saddle and put the head 

 through one loop and the haunches through the other. 



Draw the ends of the rope tight, make a loop in one, 

 reeve the other through it and make fast. 



To skin a deer head for mounting, cut the skin around 

 the neck well down on the shoulder and breast. 



Then cut along the upper side of the neck to the top of 

 the head. Thence make diagonal cuts, one to each horn. 



( 1 ut off tlie ears close to the skull, turn them inside out, 

 and cut away the meat, leaving the cartilage. Skin care- 

 fully around the, eyes. Cut the lips close to ihe skull, leav- 

 ing 'them attached to the skin. Split them i com the inside 

 and fill the cut with salt. 



.Rub plenty of salt into the flesh-side of all parts of the 

 skin and let it dry slowly in the shade or roll it up hair side 

 in and ship at once to a taxidermist. 



