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as no bait is really used. The average fox 

 terrier will strike, vigorously and unfail- 

 ingly, at a chunk of lead, or a piece of leath- 

 er, and will hang on as persistently as a 

 channel catfish. He is as gamy as a black 

 bass or brook trout, and if of good size, will 

 test your striped bass tackle, or your tar- 

 pon tackle, to the utmost. Some anglers 

 use much lighter tackle in " fishing " for 

 fox terriers; but in many instances, fine 

 rods have come to grief. 



One attractive feature of this sport is that 

 it requires no wading, no walking, no long 

 hours of sitting cramped up in a boat. In 

 fact it entails no hardship of any kind. You 

 simply rig up your tackle, go out on the 

 lawn, call your fox terrier, make the 

 best cast you can and send him after the 

 lead. He will not require a second bid- 

 ding; but will go like a bolt from a cata- 

 pult. When he takes the " bait " he will 

 endeavor to run with it, and you must ex- 

 ert all your skill in order to hold him, or 

 to " land " him. If you can do this you 

 may well consider yourself an expert, and 

 your tackle good for a ioo pound fish of 

 any kind. 



The frontispiece of this issue of Recre- 

 ation illustrates this new sport. If you do 

 not believe there is fun in it, call out your 

 fox terrier and try it. 



I am having a good many inquiries as to 

 how to outfit for the Alaskan gold fields. 

 In general the equipment for camp life and 

 for hunting in Alaska would be the same 

 as in the mountainous districts of Wyo., 

 Mont., etc. The check lists printed on 

 pages 488 and 489 of June Recreation 

 may, therefore, be consulted, to advantage, 

 by persons going to Alaska. The supplies 

 for actual mining, would perhaps best be 

 obtained in some general supply store in 

 Tacoma or Seattle. These dealers also 

 keep special leather clothing, adapted to the 

 more rigorous winters of Alaska. Some of 

 these garments are made of sheep skin, 

 with the wool turned in. Others are made 

 of various other skins, with or without fur 

 or hair. For sluice mining, hip ruboer 

 boots are almost indispensable. For work 

 in quartz mines, heavy cowhide shoes or 

 boots are usually worn. 



I commend to all readers and writers of 

 hunting stories the delightful paper of Mr. 

 Wilmont Townsend, which opens this issue 

 of Recreation. Here is an instance in 

 which the instinct of the naturalist was 

 stronger than that of the sportsman; in 

 which a man's love for the bird was strong- 

 er than his love of sport. Mr. Townsend 

 tells how he spent the whole afternoon sit- 

 ting in a duck blind and studying the habits 

 and the domestic affairs of a pair of willets. 

 He refrained from shooting at the ducks for 

 fear of disturbing the willets in their pater- 

 nal duties. 



Stories of the killing of game are all right, 

 in their way, and I like to read and to print 

 them, but I would rather read this story 

 of the life history of the willets than to have 

 read of the killing of 20 ducks. 



I trust Mr. Townsend, arid other students 

 of nature, will send Recreation many 

 such delightful studies of nature's bright 

 creatures. 



Some of the leading features of Novem- 

 ber Recreation are, " Memories of a Quail 

 Hunt," by G. E. Brown; " Drifting on an 

 Ice Floe," Samuel J. Entrekin; " Elkland," 

 Ernest Seton Thompson; " Deer in the 

 Coast Range," Daniel Arrowsmith; "Speed 

 Skating," A. M. Anderson, and " His First 

 Bass," Dr. F. C. Kiriney. 



The discussion of " The Wolf Question " 

 continues to grow in interest; there will 

 be a lot of matter of special interest to 

 Canoemen; the Gun and Ammunition De- 

 partment will have many valuable papers 

 and all the other sections will be full of 

 interest. 



PUZZLE CORNER. 



Whoever will solve puzzle No. I., and 

 send solution to Recreation, stating on 

 what page of this issue the " ad " is found, 

 will receive, in return, an order on a store 

 for 50 cents' worth of goods which, to 

 many people, will be worth its face value. 



HIDDEN LETTER PUZZLES. 

 I. 



There are just 7 letters in 



My trisyllabic name, 

 Three vowels and 4 consonants, 



And only 2 the same. 

 My 1st in tennis and my next 



In tramping can be found, 

 My 3d in wheeling and my 4th 



In rowing make their sound, 

 My 5th in sailing and my 6th 



In golfing plainly show, 

 My last in fronting may be seen; 



My whole is comme il faut. 



II. 



My name of 13 letters has 



3 syllables complete, 

 4 vowels and 9 consonants, 



And 3 of them repeat. 

 My 1st, 5th, 7th. 10th, nth, 13th, 



In Bobolinks are found; 

 My 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, 8th and 12th, 



In Partridges abound; 

 My 9th in Herons leads the rest — 



How many have my total guessed? 



Each person who may solve puzzle No. 

 II. will receive, as a prize, a beautiful col- 

 ored picture, well worth a place in any 

 home or office. 



Ask all your friends to answer the puz- 

 zles in Recreation. The more the better, 

 for all concerned. 



