120 RECREATION. 
Game here is scarce owing to the num- 
ber of game hogs. I shot 35 gray squirrels 
during the open season and am satisfied. 
One of my neighbors killed 110 and is still 
hunting for them. 
EF, ©: Dean Contlands N.Y, 
Your neighbor should go to ‘Vancouver 
and form a combine with Webber. 

It makes me mad to see how the game 
is being exterminated. If the use of shot- 
guns could be prohibited for 10 years, game 
would increase rapidly. 
Should like to hear from other readers 
of RECREATION on this subject. 
Bob, Kishacoquillar, Pa. 

Should like to hear, through RECREATION, 
from men who have hunted in Tehama 
county and the Shasta mountains, Califor- 
nia, regarding the game. What animals are 
found there and in what number? 
©. HK. Jamaica Plain. Viass: 

About the only game here is foxes and 
they are killing off what little there is of 
other game.’ Last fall. got /3)sminks 95 
muskrats, 2 gray squirrels and one grouse. 
C. Kimball, Wolfboro Falls, N. H. 

The Cuvier Club had 2 men arrested 
for shipping game before the season 
opened. When you shoot game hogs load 
with salt, so it will hurt : 
Thos. L. Smart, Cincinnati, O. 

Game prospects are good. Quail and 
deer are plentiful. Bear are numerous. 
Oystermen tell me the bays are alive with 
geese, Swans, brant and ducks. 
John W. Rusk, Belhaven, N. C. 
We are going to have a hard fight with 
the game hogs and pot hunters, but you 
can rest assured we shall rumple their bris- 
tles before we have finished with them. 
J. S. Estill, Savannah, Ga. 

Deer, elk, bear, blue grouse, quail, and 
ruffed grouse are plentiful here this year, 
but Chinese pheasants are scarce. 
W. H. Boren, Camas Valley, Ore. 

How can I trace wild bees to their tree 
in the woods. I should like to try it and 
see them work. 
F. S. Tufts, Winchester, Mass. 

“More power to you,” you are doing a 
great work and are doing it manfully and 
fearlessly. 
Jas. R. B. Van Cleave, Springfield, Ill. 

Keep up your crusade, Coquina. You 
are building even better than you know. 
The game hog must go. 
Idaho, New York City. 

Game is scarce in our county; only a few 
bear and deer left, but plenty of game hogs. 
Mrs. R. O. Baylor, Lone Fountain, Va. 

Chickens and quails plentiful ; 
and deer scarce. 
A. C. Cooper, Fort Sill: Ok. 
turkeys 

Red squirrels are thick here. I have shot 
over 20 with my .22 Winchester repeater. 
F. M. Agge, Boston, Mass. 

The Lobo Hunt Club, under the leadership of Crow 
brothers, secured 12 foxes last season. The pack is com- 
posed of 4 fox-hounds, and they are clippers to run.—Lon- 
don, Ont., Advertiser. 
MISTAKEN. 
MARY A. DICKERSON. 
She looked so sweetly startled when I kissed her unaware, 
That I murmured, half repenting, “‘ Forgive me, ‘twas not fair. 
You should not be so charming. And, yet, for friendship’s sake, 
I beg of you to pardon my unfortunate mistake.”’ 
She stood there, proudly silent, till my speech was blundered through, 
Then answered, shyly raising her eyes of laughing blue, 
“What very strange excuses for a gentleman to make! 
I might forgive the kiss, sir—if ’twasn’t a mistake! ’* 

