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The hunt continued until dark and we 
drove home by moonlight, tired out and 
happy. When we counted our bag we 
found we had 128 birds, and had Suffolk 
and Scrub Hog done a reasonable amount 
of fair shooting we could have run the 
number to 200. 
This ts’ a fair statement of facts and a 
fair sample of the way we shot on the 
greater number of days during the open 
season. This shoot did not take place 
during the sixties or seventies, when the 
country was alive with game; but was of 
RECREATION. 
comparatively recent date. We had not 
read RECREATION in those days, and did 
not stop to think of what we were doing. 
We were called cranks because we insisted 
that no game should be shot out of sea- 
son, in that section, and we thought we 
were true sportsmen. We protected the 
game during the close season, but gave 
it no mercy in the open season. I wonder 
how many old shooters can look back, 
as I can, and see the mistakes they have. 
made in being Scrub Hogs when they had 
a chance. 

AN ADOPTED FAMILY. 
The cat shown in the photo I send you 
to-day had a litter of kittens in a house 
on the farm of I. E. Glidden, of this city, 
and after they were 2 weeks old his Llew- 
ellyn produced a litter of 10 pups. As 
soon as the cat discovered the pups, she 
took one of them in her mouth, carried it 
to the house and placed it with her kittens. 
The pup was returned and she then went 
to the barn, deserted her kittens, and be- 
gan mothering the pups. She actually let 
“Now, Tom,” she 
the kittens die from want of care. She is 
perfectly at home with the puppies, and 
they suck her as though she were their 
mother. The dog also seems to think it 
all right, and allows the cat in the nest 
with the pups, without making any ob- 
jection. 
Do you think this unnatural nursing will 
affect the puppies in any way? 
T. M. George, Hallock, Minn. 
Not in the least. EDITOR. 
pleaded prettily, 
“promise me that when you leave the club 
tonight you won’t go anywhere else, but 
will come straight home.” 
~ Wil) ‘come Was. gstratcihitesas sgl Gale any, - 
dear.’—Somerville Journal. 
