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RECREATION. 



no one will be misguided by nor give 

 any serious thought to Mr. Morley's argu- 

 ments, for with possibly one exception they 

 are ridiculous in the extreme. In my 

 opinion when a man becomes too lazy to 

 do honest still hunting he should keep out 

 of the woods. I also advise the same 

 course for those who shoot or recommend 

 the shooting of deer in warm weather. 



J. G. Dillin, Radnor, Pa. 



Here is an item from the Cincinnati 



Commercial Tribune : 



Circleville, O. 



"William Patton, a young man of this city, was 

 probably fatally injured this afternoon by being 

 shot in the groin. In alighting from a buggy 

 in which he was riding, his gun was discharged, 

 the load passing through his groin and shattering 

 his right hip. This was the second hunting 

 party that was broken up to-day in this vicinity 

 in a similar manner. 



"The first accident occurred this morning, when 

 Delano Hunley was instantly killed " by a gun, 

 discharged accidentally in the hands of his com- 

 panion." 



This looks to me like another case of 

 "served 'em right." I can not imagine what 

 birds they could be hunting lawfully on 

 February I, Thos. Peter, Cincinnati, O. 



Sunday, August 31, a homing pigeon, 

 with rings on each leg bearing No,. 1 5801 J., 

 came to our place and is being taken care 

 of until we can hear from owner. 



We have had one of the best squirrel sea- 

 sons ever known in this part of the State. 

 I had 3 mornings' sport and had my wife 

 and sister-in-law out on" the last trip. I 

 killed the limit, which is 10, by 8.30 a. m. 

 and came out of the timber with squirrels 

 barking in all directions. 



I killed my 10 squirrels with 11 shots. 



I have been a constant reader of your 

 magazine and can not do without it. 



O. H, Kirby, Lamartine, Ohio. 



Mr. George M, Houghton, traffic mana- 

 ger of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, 

 writes me under date of August 1, 1902, as 

 follows : 



'T am sorry to announce that one of our 

 trains last week killed an entire family, 

 a moose family, consisting of father, 

 mother and son. Every effort was made 

 to stop our train, but as it was heavy and 

 on a curve it could not be done and all 3 

 were killed. We are sorry, of course, to 

 have anything of this kind happen, but it 

 was one of the cases that was purely ac- 

 cidental." 



What do you think about this? March 

 15, 1901, I bagged 121 quails in one day's 

 hunt, and killed 8 or 10 more that I failed 



to find. Had it not been such an awfully 

 windy day no doubt I would have got twice 

 as many. Quails were plentiful and there 

 is no telling how many one of your hogs 

 would have bagged. 



Geo. D. Davis, Brownwood, Tex. 



ANSWER. 



What do I think? I think you are either 

 a liar or a game hog. Most likely the 

 former. — Editor. 



1 send you newspaper clippings telling of 

 the arrest of 3 members of the Audubon 

 Gun club, of this city, charged with cruelty 

 to animals in having shot live pigeons at 

 the trap. Two of the prisoners were dis- 

 charged. The third was fined $10, which 

 he paid. The fine would have been larger 

 had it not been understood that the de- 

 fendant would appeal, and thus secure an 

 authoritative ruling on the pigeon law; but 

 he concluded he was well out of it for $10. 

 Alfred C. Fox, Chicago, 111. 



I did not see half the game in Wyoming 

 last season that I saw in former years. Its 

 winter range has been entirely destroyed 

 by sheep. If the desert North of Big San- 

 dy river could be made a game preserve, 

 elk, deer and antelope could at least hold 

 their own in that part of the State. As 

 it is now, if one wants antelope he can go 

 down there, hide at a water hole and kill 

 all he cares to. 



J. B. B., Portland, Conn. 





On page 43 of July Recreation some un- 

 known person using the name of Jasper 

 Smith writes you of my killing 68 coots 

 and old squaws. The story is false from 

 beginning to end. I was out with, a party 

 who killed that number, but not one of 

 the ducks spoiled. I have done and shall 

 continue to do all I can to protect the game. 



A. Van Wicken, Port Washington, N.. Y. 



Small game has been abundant here the 

 past 2 or 3 years. Quails are exceedingly 

 plentiful. However, we get but little shoot- 

 ing. The law requires sportsmen to obtain 

 written permission from owners of lands 

 on which they hunt, and most of our farm- 

 ers refuse permission to all but their 

 friends. E. P. Pettit, Marietta, O. 



My experience teaches me that cougars 

 kill more deer than do all other wild ani- 

 mals. They will never be exterminated in 

 this region until each rancher keeps a pack 

 of trained couerar dogs. Lynx, also, do 

 much harm. I have known them to kill full 

 grown deer ; but I think this is unusual. 

 G. S. Weeks, Chesaw, Wash. 



