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FOREST AND STREAM. 



437 



pie f irorkmanshii 



r, n-iK,i we bear, i 



fun siz,- r.u us.- <ui iiu 



i, V ,i.i..- I. .:,,., ...ei.o 



in S 



lire 



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\lH 



11: Vice 



stp 



ng; Trc 



l.\ MM.-' IN NKW XbAbANb. U All 

 if canoes, niosth ..r the l;..T> Rovpalte 

 •.llli.es mi Nautilus lines. 'I'lie sport is be 



.-.- be ;•■:■!.' m 



of Statin , 

 bed in ilii.s jonr- 

 .lusi Hie kind of 

 l>v waters. This 

 fork. 



.i for i ■■-■.- 

 ' 



- M Arm 



there i i quite a Boei 



h o two sailing 



- blsliieiuiblo. 



$n8ww$ to (j^orrespoMlcnts. 



('. A. M . Stkou began. Ste.— See next issue. 



G. A. B., Allegheny City. Pu.— Rabbit skins ni'e not. strong enough 



tOt gloves. 



1'. S. M C. ]■.:■! ttni.n. Me.-r »s's 'Key to Nm-ih ': ,;, ,., 



Birds" is out of print The price was $7. 



c. S., Marion, O.— For dimensions of the Creeduioor nn,l Massa- 

 chusetts targets see answer in issue Of fee. 14, 



W E. B..Oakdale. b. T- Wild rir, nnv !.. houghl of Mr ('has. 

 Gilehrist.lY.it Hope. ..int.. orK Pall 



C.H. P.,Danvers. Mass.- ,., 



S,"V?iS. 



carp for stock 

 A ns. Write to 

 Thi ii o ■_ 



E. ft. K., Steele, D. T.— Try Hatty's "How to limit and Trap. 1 ' 

 priee Sl.Wi; or Gibson's "Tricks of Trapping " price *1. v\v can 

 supply either. 



VV, 13. B . WayneslHirgli, Pa,- The gun is perhaps suflloicnt: manv 

 And ir so A repeating rifle would he the best arm for Rocky 



I. ¥., l.vnn. Mass.- Can 

 log. and "will he be likely 

 ■Training ts. Breaking,'' 



Tunas taonntEB.— The ■ 



■ease the pace of an 



cp riei • ins. Read 



ifojmation roil wis] 

 vhich you innuh ■.- is a 

 purchase. There, are 

 ■on cannot expect to 



final color of the fur 



out. tor general use 



lUtck. The long iiair 



aa1 price Ban 1 l>nj 

 jsbeak and crossbills 

 tated in "Bonaparte's 

 ice 50 cents. 2. Their 

 ic bird'6 rtgof begins 



mouth of 

 you will 

 (.'oast is 

 k\ to be 



.out ii :- 

 loader! 



1 place 



Lay ship lo. will, driver flat and jib a weather, jumped into skift. 

 picked up duck after mueli chasing, and returned to sharpie. Ar- 

 rived h n.or.i.sv latnily. and have heel) nursing an in! eresl ine 



Influenza ever since. • Thomas Clapham. 



r Ff,i 



„_ the pi, 



enjoyed by the 

 tilth insl. IJpor, 



and rising the poli 

 inakeiro ol I he pro:. 

 little books, a signa 

 appeared to be the 

 all gilt and brass 

 breasted sack coat 

 lake." Mr, A. B. F 

 enmmittee. Mr. P. 



OSWEGO Y. C. 



ntest occui 



ifflc. 



liters had s 

 .uld have t 

 he America 



ol the following: Schooner 

 ra, 12: Katie Gray, 11: Fasei 



and C, K. Ballard 

 Rhoda, 30 Brown and George 

 nation. 11: were ordered to pu 



a Lapthorn & 

 ■ion bestowed 

 by a singular 



i ■;>.,; to a d 



T. C, Ws 



■vhich 1 she 





ic-fieial effect 



ntificatioii 

 think it a 

 Kay, pine 



■osbeak or pine bumnoli 



this journal for an ac- 

 Ink. Have any others of 

 on Long Islands 3. NO 



ieaterl 



FACT AND FANCY. 



J. b. Shiriay, ol Dallas County, Texas, went out hunting, 



and, forgetting to take a supply of wads, used paper in lien 



of them. Becoming interested in the sport, lie forgot, that he 

 had SoOll in paper money iu the same pocket with his wadding, 

 and, after shooting away over -soil in bills, found that he was, 

 perhaps, the only man in the country who used greenbacks 

 for wads. 



Statistics are published in India of persons and 

 animals killed in 1881 by snakes and wild bra ' - 

 and wiia beasts killed by men. Suako- '■ ■ ■ ■ i ,i year arc 



were "taken by snakes and mid animals. The number of* 



oaa - 15,974 



One of the heroes, we should say heroines, ol Tel-el-Kebir, 

 is an old Irish setter named Juno, belonging to the 1st Battai 

 ion. Gordon Highlanders. She " rushed the intreiiolrraent s at 

 the head of the troops amid B rain of bullets end came oil 



.-:.■, .-.■ 



and whe 



othe 



hi ih-' Erie, where 

 tide never turns 



K. Ii. 

 o-.-'u Inland seas 

 1,-s of moderate 

 o the clubs will 



BEDOUIN.— An interview in the ttn-ahl 

 the nonsensical tale.-- about Bedouin's being 

 uncomfortable angle in the tseavanhaka i 



.-..•■ '.Wool niucli. ,r little beam YAW L POP, BUFFALO. Mr C 



be decided upon considerations of ■ maker of the besl model vaehis 

 ■...mo:, ,,r rig. limiial.ioiis lo.lraft 1 little van 1 to Mr. C. M ( 'ord'.-II. ol 

 . m; .1: .( which uiueh evidence „f I bandy little cruiser. The model i 

 n in : I lias 7>^lbs. lead on her keel. She 



slarled afresh 



Old miners have a great reaped tor rats of the lower levels, 

 ,,av3the Virginia I 'itv i.N'ev.i '/,'., '.,-,. ,-.,,,.. '1'hev neither kill 







the rats nor suffer them t. lie killed by green hoods. In 



er thoroughly 



the first place, were there no other reason, a dead rat left 





underground would scent up a whole level, ami, in the second 



ny and nol a 



place, the living rats devour any lit s, scraps of meat or 



1 "Jnnds 



fragments of other food left in the mines, which would, by 



hit We 1 '1VO 



, vip. ii..- the air, generally hoi and unpleasant 





best. Bats also give warning Alien s eavV3 is about to occur. 





' -• i i the pressure, of the settling ground even b i ■■■ flu 





cracking of the timber.- is heard, and cunc bath upon the 





i ., ,1.1 scamper uneasily about by scores. For these and 





other reasons the miners have a friendly feeling fcowardthe 





rata . o admgand pi itingthein. In aearly everj minetlie 





men have one or more ol the little amino!,- ,,-. pet*, and lhe-e 





arc quite tame, coining. mt of llicir holes to lie fed at lunch 





time. When rats come int.. a new drift or oroSSOUt it is con 





sidered a. good sign— is thought to mean that, the men will 



match open 



Strike ore. The oilier day. while the men were at work in 



oval Thames 



the fa. f the new west crosscut on the >.?no level Oi Hie 



1878 the nmu- 



Sierra Nevada mine, a rat came to them, traveling along the 



500 fa the 



line of the compressed air pipe. Some of the new bauds 





wanted to kill it, but the old miners would not allow it to >>e 



known a~ the 



hurt; They said it would bring hick t.. the ..•>•.— .-m, Sothev 





tixed up in the roof of the drift a box as a house for the rat, 





and placed food uear at hand, in Order that ii might find its 



ry handsome 



new quarters profitable as well as comfortable. There is 



