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RECREATION. 



Above my desk hangs the head of a ma- 

 jestic elk which was killed by Mr. James 

 D. Husted, of this city, on the Continental 

 Divide, in northern Colorado, in 1887. The 

 main beams are 54 inches long, 13^ inches 

 around the burr and 10 inches around the 

 horn, just above the burr. The spread of 

 the antlers, at the tips, is 39 inches, and at 

 the widest point 42 inches. There are 5 

 natural, or regular prongs on each antler, 

 and a very peculiar feature of this head is 

 that the right antler has an extraordinary 

 palmated formation between the second 

 and third prongs, counting from the tip ends, 

 resembling that of a moose. This measures 

 13^ inches in circumference. Extending 

 backwards from it are two peculiar prongs, 

 one of which is 12 inches long and the other 

 5 inches. The brow antlers are remarkable. 

 The right one droops downward, somewhat 

 like that of one species of caribou, and at the 

 point turns up abruptly, in a sort of hook. 

 Bruno Hobbs, Kansas City, Kas. 



Our boys' club held its annual rifle shoot, 

 on the range yesterday, and although the 

 wind blew briskly, some good shooting was 

 done. Harry Boynton won the silver cham- 

 pionship medal from Guy Gannett, last year's 

 champion. 



We have just returned from our summer- 

 vacation, with fair records." In June Stan- 

 ley Morton and Guy Gannett caught 40 

 bass at Cobasecoutte lake, in a week, the 

 largest fish weighing 3 pounds. Later in 

 the season Guy caught about 200 more small- 

 mouth bass. My brother and I camped out 

 2 weeks on Sebastacook lake. We shot jack 

 snipe and English snipe, but ducks were 

 scarce. We caught about 75 pickerel on 

 this trip. 



Bert Dunton, Augusta, Me. 



How much further will a 10-gauge kill 

 a bird than a 12-gauge? I am about to 

 buy a new gun, and am in doubt as to what 

 to get. Will a gun with 32-inch barrels do 

 better than one with 28-inch barrels? Is 

 there any better American-made gun than 

 the Parker, for long distance and hard shoot- 

 ing, and for all-round work? I have refer- 

 ence to guns priced to $125, or thereabouts. 

 1 would like to hear from some of the read- 

 ers of Recreation in regard to these 

 matters, with all prejudice laid aside. 



W. H. F., Alpine, Tex. 



The shooting around here, on ruffed grouse 

 and woodcock, has been very poor. In fact, 

 I have not seen a woodcock this season. 

 Hope to run across one or two on the flight. 

 The pot-hunter is getting in his work all the 

 time. He does the most execution by track- 

 ing game on the snow. The owl, hawk, fox, 

 skunk, weazel, etc., have to be fed, also, and 

 prefer game to anything else. Only a hard 

 worker and crack shot can get half-a-dozer? 

 grouse a day, now. 



"Velveteens," Shelburne, Vt. 



"Bill" Smith, the hermit of the North 

 Woods, was found dead in his bed recently, 

 near Saranac lake, by some young peo- 

 ple who had driven 40 miles to see him. 

 For 40 years Smith had lived alone, with his 

 dogs, on the "Oregon road," the most lonely 

 of Adirondack trails. He was a giant in stat- 

 ure, measuring 6 feet 6 inches in height, and 

 had a wonderful growth of hair and beard, 

 the former reaching the floor when he stood 

 erect. He taught himself to read and was 

 a close student of the Bible, but never saw 

 the inside of a church. He was 69 years old 

 and was buried near the log cabin he built 

 38 years ago. — Watertown, N. Y., Standard 



The annual migration of deer has com- 

 menced. We are only half a mile from their 

 principal crossing-place, in the pass to the 

 Salmon River, and it is no more trouble to 

 get a deer than it would be to get a pair of 

 big sleeves in 23d street. Billy was out 

 about an hour on Sunday, got 3, and could 

 have got 2 more. I think there were 12 or 

 15 mule deer killed within a mile of here 

 last Sunday, and nearly as many yesterday, 

 Bear are numerous around here now, and 

 there will be plenty more as soon as there 

 is more snow to drive them down. 



E. A. Jackson, Warrens, Tdaho. 



The North German Lloyd Steamship 

 Company, 2 Bowling Green, New York, has 

 just issued one of the most beautiful book- 

 lets ever put out by any steamship line. It 

 is entitled " To Far Away Vacation Lands." 

 The book is written by Mr. Frank Presbrey, 

 well known as a descriptive writer, and is 

 very freely illustrated in exquisitely grouped 

 half-tone engravings. The company sends 

 it out gratuitously. Write for a copy, men- 

 tioning Recreation. 



Keene, N. K. 

 The readers of Recreation, everywhere, 

 doubtless will rejoice with all loyal Granite 

 Staters at the recent summary justice meted 

 out to violators of the New Hampshire 

 game laws. In the Nashua police court, 

 October 9, Greenfield and Lyndsboro pot 

 hunters were fined heavily for snaring ruffed 

 grouse, commonly known as partridges, in a 

 wholesale manner, and for shipping them 

 out of the State. One man's fines aggre- 

 gated £221. 



Edw. W. Wild. 



Few men have sufficient self-restraint to 

 hold a gun on a buck for several minutes and 

 then voluntarily let him escape; but that is 

 what W. H. Fairbank, of the Grasse River 

 Outing Club, did last September. As it was 

 his last night in camp, he wished to get a 

 good-sized buck to bring out with him, 

 so he mercifully spared the little fellow that 

 showed up first, and gave him a chance to 

 get another year's growth. 



