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stating what they will give. Our postage 

 on this "stunt ' will be tremendous, so we 

 hope many will write at once, stating 

 about what they can give. We wish to 

 make up a preliminary estimate as soon 

 as possible. Let us show the opposition 

 what game breeding has accomplished 

 and what the breeders can do. 



Cat Disdains Shells, Dog Shows 

 Terror. 



The Daily News correspondent at 

 Antwerp quotes a refugee from Alost, 

 when the German attack was at its 

 height, as follows: 



"A dog and a cat followed us down 

 the street and as the shells burst the dog 

 went dodging about from one side of the 

 road to the other, but the cat never 

 turned a hair. It minced along behind 

 us, seemingly unafraid. 



"The men and the dog made me ner- 

 vous, but the cat was reassuring. Fur- 

 ther down the whistle of shells followed 

 us again, trying to pick up the Belgian 

 retreat ; but before the boom came that 

 time I managed to break in the door of 

 a shop and get inside. 



"It is surprising what one will do in 

 emergencies like that. Fortunately for 

 the cat and dog it was a butcher's shop, 

 and I thought they might as well have 

 some meat as the Germans, so I handed 

 them down a leg of veal and left them 



eating it when I came out." 



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OUTINGS AND INNINGS. 



Snakelets. 



The following short stories about 

 snakes, sent to the editorial department, 

 division of publications of the Game 

 Conservation Society, have been referred 

 to the vermin committee of the Game 

 Guild. 



Transcripts were ordered sent to Dr. 

 Allen S. Williams, president of the Snake 

 Society, for special study and report. — 

 Editor. 



Snake Uses False Teeth. 



Ludio, Cal., Oct. 27.— While Cynthia Stone, 



spinster, was hauling a bucket of water out of 



her deep well her false teeth fell in. They 



were appropriated by an old and toothless 



water snake which, though somewhat of a pet, 

 has learned how to use the teeth and is gnaw- 

 ing away the wall of the well, letting the 

 water leak away into the sand. Workmen are 

 afraid to give it battle. 



"The Parson Told the Sexton and the 

 Sexton Tolled the Bell." 



Laurel, Del., Oct. 27. — A six-foot blacksnake 

 fell from the belfry of the Riverton (Md.) 

 Methodist Church onto the shoulders of Sex- 

 ton Benjamin F. Kennerly, while the latter 

 was ringing the bell. After a lively chase the 

 snake was cornered in the church auditorium 

 and killed. It evidently had made its home in 

 the belfry and fed on birds which roost there. 



All persons intending to buy game 

 should place their orders with those who 

 advertise in The Game Breeder and thus 

 support those who support their publi- 

 cation. 



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(Continued from page 21.) 

 ing and storing of wild fowl eggs in the 

 North for food purposes. There should 

 be some common ground for settlement 

 which would result in the protection of 

 game in all its forms. Incidental to the 

 main purpose, each State should adopt 

 the plan of licensing the breeding and 

 sale of now protected game. Already 

 many thousand pheasants and mallard 

 ducks are being produced annually by 

 game farmers, who find a minimum of 

 trouble in raising these birds. The plan 

 is delightfully simole. Serially numbered 

 leg tags are issued to producers to be at- 

 tached to slaughtered birds sent to the 

 market, a record to be kept of the sale 

 in a book open to the inspection of the 

 State Fish and Game Commissioner and 

 his deputies. In this way the food sup- 

 ply can be added to in large quantities 

 and delicious tit-bits placed in reach of 

 the ordinary purse. Under present con- 

 ditions there is no incentive to propagate 

 these birds which are left to precarious 

 chance. If it were now permitted to raise 

 quail for the market the producers would 

 have seen to it that the rigorous winter 

 did not kill most of the coveys, as was 

 the case in Ohio during the past cold sea- 

 son. Through the licensing system the 

 desires of both hunter and bird lover can 

 be gratified and the stock of game in- 

 creased. — Cincinnati Enquirer. 



