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RECREATION. 



ably 4 times that amount was spent by 

 them among guides, hotel men, outfitters, 

 railways, etc. — Exchange. 



talk to game hogs, and I hope this may 

 tickle you to death.— Editor. 



TWO POINTS OF VIEW. 



Every month I plank down my little 

 10 cents for the best magazine in the world, 

 because I like the way you talk to game 

 hogs. They deserve it all and more. 

 Game birds are scarce here because the 

 hogs have killed them off. Squirrels are 

 scarce for the same reason. I went out 

 with my 10 bore just before the season 

 opened, and, though I tramped all day, I 

 saw but one squirrel. I shot it, but it got 

 away in a hole. That disgusted me so 

 I have not been in the woods since. 



We have lots of fun with rabbits. I 

 spent 2 days hunting them at a place called 

 Slack-hudde, Southwest of here. I had 

 a good dog, but though there were plenty 

 of rabbits they went right to their holes 

 and I did not get one the first half day. In 

 the afternoon Henry, the son of the far- 

 mer with whom I was staying, said he 

 would get 2 boys to come with us who 

 had ferrets. So the 4 of us started with 

 the ferrets and 3 grain bags, and by dark 

 we had 37 rabbits. 



There was a light fall of snow that night. 

 When Henry called me in the morning 

 he said he had built a lath box, 4x3x2 

 feet, on a sled, and that we would take 

 that along to hold the rabbits. We were 

 all off by 8 o'clock. I never laughed so 

 much in my life as I did that day. We 

 dropped the rabbits alive into the box, 

 and the way they tore around was a cau- 

 tion. By 3 o'clock the box was so full 

 we could not get another rabbit into it. 

 When we reached home we started in to 

 kill the bunnies, but found two-thirds of 

 them dead. There were 202 rabbits in the 

 box. We sold them all for about $9. 

 There is no law here on rabbits, but, you 

 see, they furnish lots of sport. 



Eben Kelsey. 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The point of view is everything, in sport 

 as in other matters. While you may have 

 found it amusing to watch those rabbits 

 dying in a box from fright and suffoca- 

 tion, it could only be because there exists 

 somewhere in your mental make-up a 

 throw-back to Dyak head hunters or 

 Malay cannibals. To people whose savag- 

 ery has been even glossed by civilization, 

 your work and that of your companions 

 will seem sheer, amazing brutality. _ Then, 

 too, I can not commend your shooting the 

 squirrel before the season opened. If there 

 are many of your kidney in Grand Rapids, 

 the scarcity of game thereabouts is no 

 mystery. I am glad you like the way I 



HE SWORE TO A LIE. 



Vancouver, B. C. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I enclose you a clipping from the Daily 

 Province which I am certain will interest 

 you : 



Mr. Tyson was up in the Police Court today. 

 His counsel asked leave to withdraw the evidence 

 of the defendant and his assistant given at a 

 previous hearing, and to withdraw the plea of not 

 guilty, previously entered, stating that the defense 

 wished to plead guilty instead. 



Mr. Macneill, for the prosecution, stated to his 

 worship that he had the evidence to rebut every 

 statement sworn to by the defendant. He said he 

 had 8 witnesses to prove that the defendant had 

 offered pheasants for sale to them, and that he 

 had made a business of it. 



His worship said he found it difficult to char- 

 acterize the conduct which the defendant, by his 

 pleas, admitted. He found it difficult enough to 

 deal with irresponsible parties, but when a man 

 like Mr. Tyson, supposed to be a reputable busi- 

 ness man, entered a plea of not guilty and by 

 the most emphatic statements in sworn evidence 

 strove to establish his innocence at one hear- 

 ing, and then came with a request to with- 

 draw that evidence and enter an entirely opposite 

 plea, he was at a loss to express himself ade- 

 quately or to find fitting terms to apply to such 

 a course. 



He would attach the full penalty of $100, with 

 costs, and all witness fees. He added: "If there 

 is any way in which I can add to the costs and 

 thereby increase the severity of the penalty, I will 

 do so." 



In conclusion, Magistrate Russell said he by no 

 means wished it to be construed that any action 

 he had taken in allowing the application of de- 

 fendant to withdraw his evidence and change the 

 plea in any way prevented a charge being entered 

 "on the much more serious and criminal offense 

 which, as admitted, by implication, has been com- 

 mitted here." 



Pheasants have been sold here in open 

 violation of law at all seasons of the year, 

 and for some time our Club has been try- 

 ing to catch and convict those doing so ; 

 but, until now, without success. 



Mr. Tyson is a fish and game dealer, 

 and was arrested for offering pheasants 

 for sale. They were found by the aid of 

 a search warrant. At the first hearing he 

 denied all knowledge of their being in his 

 store, or of offering them for sale. An ad- 

 journment was asked in order to procure 

 witnesses to show that he did know they 

 were in the store, and that he had offered 

 them for sale. When the case came up a 

 second time he saw he was caught red- 

 handed. Then he withdrew his plea of not 

 guilty and pleaded guilty, thereby acknowl- 

 edging that he had sworn to a lie at the 

 first hearing. 



Law breakers will soon realize that the 

 game of this province is to be protected 

 and that there are persons here ready to 

 see the law enforced. 



M. H. 



NOCTURNAL GOOSE HUNT. 

 Several of Wichita's sportsmen got up a new 

 scheme for shooting geese at night. J. W. Mus- 



