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THE GAME BREEDER 



winters. Some birds in exposed situa- 

 tions can be trapped and brought in for 

 the winter. 



H. J- Montanus, of the Middle Island 

 Club, wrote a short note for the Game 

 Breeder, telling how they brought their 

 quail through a severe winter by using a 

 snow plow and finding many covies on 

 the line plowed. 



Mr. Baldwin, of the Montana Game 

 Commission, wrote an article about how 

 the bobwhite had been introduced and 

 made abundant in his State. We can 

 send you this article if you would like 

 to have it. If the quail thrive in Mon- 

 tana they should do so in your State. 



Quail have been introduced in England 



but we believe they did not do well there. 



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A Parson and a Wood-pigeon. 



Owen Jones says : "I know a parson 

 who is very keen on shooting wood- 

 pigeons. He is fond of telling how one 

 day he was out after pigeons in a thick 

 fog, and a pigeon actually settled on his 

 clerical hat, when he had stopped to 

 light his pipe. There is a credible wit- 

 ness of this part of the story ; but it is 

 said that his reverence was so surprised 

 that he put his pipe in his pocket alight, 

 thinking it was an olive branch." 



A Hawk and a Club Warden. 

 Mr. Jones' story of the parson reminds 

 me of one told by a club warden at the 

 Ottawa Club in the Sandusky (Ohio) 

 marshes. He said he was seated one day 

 watching the ducks when a big hawk lit 

 on his head, giving him quite a thump. 

 He thought a companion had approached 

 from behind and struck him on the head 

 in order to surprise him. Turning to 

 remonstrate, the hawk took wing and he 

 shot it. 



♦ — 



Free Chicken Irresistible. 



August Silz, chairman of the poultry divi- 

 sion of the Liberty Loan Committee, is giving 

 a chicken luncheon to every person who sub- 

 scribes for a bond at his travelling army 

 kitchen. 



The kitchen, with Mr. Silz's French chef in 

 charge (Mr. Silz himself came from France 

 long before he discovered and popularized the 

 guinea hen as a game bird), left his place 

 of business at 416 West Fourteenth street 

 yesterday and rolled its appetizing way down 

 town. Before it stopped for the day it had 

 tickled the palates and touched the pocket- 

 books of many hungry patriots in West Wash- 



ington Market (the live poultry centre), 

 Washington Market and Wall Street. 



All that was necessary to get a good feed 

 of stewed chicken (the recipe is Mr. Silz's 

 French chef's secret), bread and butter and 

 coffee was to dig up for at least one bond for 

 Uncle Sam. 



In Washington Market alone $36,000 was 

 subscribed. The quota for Mr. Silz's division 

 for the fourth loan is $500,000. Its quota for 

 the third loan was $225,000, but through Mr. 

 Silz's efforts $400,000 was subscribed. 



We wonder how many bonds Quail on 

 Toast would have sold. The man who 

 popularized the guinea hen may remem- 

 ber that protectionists thought seriously 

 of putting the hen on the song bird list. 

 We hope and believe that soon the bond 

 wagon can serve quail on toast. We can 

 supply some of the birds before long. It 

 is a safe bet that quail on toast is coming 



back. 



♦ 



OUTINGS AND INNINGS. 

 Hopelessly Under Suspicion. 

 "I had terrible luck in that poker 

 game,'' exclaimed Piute Pete. 



"I understand you won some money." 

 "What's money when your reputation's 

 gone? I held four aces three times in 

 half an hour, and there ain't nobody that 

 kin ever explain nothin* like that to his 

 feller-citizens in Crimson Gulch." — 

 Washington Star. 



A Friendly Arrangement. 



"Are you going to make a garden 

 next year?'* 



"No," replied Mr. Crosslots. "I made 

 a garden this year and my neighbor kept 

 chickens. Next year it's going to be my 

 turn to have the chickens." — Washington 

 Star. 



Left Behind. 



Preacher (earnestly) — Remember, the 

 millionaire cannot take his money with 

 him. 



Returned Vacationist — No, indeed. He 

 leaves most of it at the railway station 

 when he buys his ticket, these davs. — 

 Life. 



Precocious Kentucky Babies. 



In addition to wholesale births in Pen- 

 dleton County the babies are now report- 

 ed born with teeth. They seem to forget 

 this is the Hoover age, not the Fletcher. 

 — Cynthiana (Ky.) Democrat. 



