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of course, does not necessarily connect Mr. 

 Blagden with their running ; nor afford a 

 reason why I should have refrained from 

 stating a probable fact. 



My "illegal fishing," about which Mr. 

 Dodge makes moan, does not weigh heav- 

 ily on my conscience, since it occurred be- 

 fore I knew the pond was preserved. 



I regret I can not recall Mr. Dodge as 

 the man who saw me miss a deer at 20 

 steps ; probably because I have never yet 

 been lucky enough to get such a chance. 

 The man who scored that miss is 6 feet 

 high, a yard wide and weighs 180 pounds ; 

 while I, alas ; am not so husky. That I 

 do not here dilate on the wickedness of 

 "implicating innocent persons" is Because I . 

 hate twaddle. 



I think Mr. Dodge will be on the right 

 track if he recalls me as the chap who 

 met him when he was carrying a combina- 

 tion gun and the hind quarters of a fawn. 

 Even after his touching exhortation against 

 the sin of making statements, I can 

 not keep from saying that it was a mighty 

 small fawn. As I remember, he told me 

 he had missed the little beast, standing, with 

 the rifle barrel, followed it into the brush 

 and blistered it, again standing, with buck- 

 shot. Or perhaps he missed with buckshot 

 and scored with a rifle ball ; I am not posi- 

 tive on that point. Anyway, it was a glo- 

 rious achievement, and doubtless warrants • 

 Mr. Dodge in assuming the lofty moral 

 tone he so freely uses. 



G. A. Mack, Pleasantville, N. Y. 



A PATHETIC REMINDER. 



Weatherford, Texas. 

 Dear Sir: — 



I have a letter from you addressed to 

 my husband who is not here. He is in the 

 State Legislature. I will answer it for him. 

 We are getting Recreation in a club 

 through an agency. You need not waste 

 time urging us to subscribe, for we shall 

 take Recreation as long as we have a 

 dollar. 



I do not belong to the L. A. S., but I 

 have always tried to protect the game, as 

 my father did. He could stand in his door 

 and kill his deer, yet he predicted, then, 

 that it was only a question of time when 

 the countless herds of buffalo and deer 

 would be gone. I have stood in a street 

 where I could see over a mile and was 

 not able to see either end of the wagon 

 train loaded with buffalo hides. That was 

 in the early 70's, when our Western plains 

 swarmed with wild animals that are now 

 gone forever. 



I do hope you may have the strength to 

 fight for what are left. I never bought a 

 stuffed bird for adornment in my life, and 

 I hope to see the time when no woman 



wiU * Mrs., H. S. Moran. 



The fact that you are a woman does not 

 bar you from the League, by any means. 

 We have many members among the fair 

 sex and would like to have thousands 

 more. I take the liberty of handing you 

 herewith 2 blank applications for mem- 

 bership and trust you may fill out one with 

 your own name and the other with that of 

 your husband and send them in. 



We are working up a strong division 

 in your State, of which Prof. S. W. Stan- 

 field, of San Marcos, is chief warden. We 

 should have had 1,000 members in that 

 State long ago if the sportsmen there had 

 done their duty by us, but we have less 

 than 60. 



I am proud to hear you say you have 

 never worn bird plumage for ornament, 

 and wish all women could say so. — Ed- 

 itor. 



BIG GAME IN AFRICA. 



Can you give me any information in 

 regard to big game shooting in Northern 

 Africa? Are there lions in that part of 

 the country? Could I run over from Eu- 

 rope with a probability of shooting one in 

 a 4 or 6 weeks' trip? Can you give me 

 an idea of the expense of a trip of that 

 kind? Is any other part of Afriga con- 

 sidered preferable for big game shooting, 

 and, if so, how much time must I allow 

 for a trip? 



C. B. Tiley, New Haven, Conn. > 



ANSWER. 



I think it might be barely possible to 

 find lions in Northern Africa in a 6 

 weeks' trip, from Europe, reaching Kas- 

 sala by the new British military railway 

 through the Soudan, to the Nile, the one 

 built by Lord Kitchener. This whole 

 country is well described and pictured in 

 James' "Wild Tribes of the Soudan." 

 (Dodd, Mead & Co.) I think, however, 

 the Soudan is a poor country to hunt in, 

 for many reasons; expense, heat, little 

 game, no fine scenery. A much better 

 hunting country can be reached in a few 

 more days' travel by steamer, by going" to 

 Beira, and up the new railway which now 

 runs to Salisbury, the capital of Rhodesia. 

 That road taps excellent hunting country. 

 See W. H. Brown's "On the South African 

 Frontier." Animals obtainable there : Buf- 

 falo, sable antelope, eland, sasseby, zebra, 

 duyker, wart hog, black rhinoceros, lion, 

 leopard, hyena. Nowhere else can a good 

 game country be reached so easily; but it 

 will not last long! For a trip after big 

 game to the Beira country, I think 4 

 months should be regarded as the mini- 

 mum time in which it could foe accom- 

 plished.— Editor. 



