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'RECREATTUN. 



Saturday night, for Sunday certainly be- 

 gins at 12, and if a day ends as soon 

 as it begins, then Sunday is dead and out 

 of the way at 12.01 a. m. So men may 

 shoot, fish, swear, dig potatoes, swap 

 horses, or lick their wives at any time on 

 the day we call Sunday without violating 

 any law of God or man as to the observ- 

 ance of the Sabbath. Again, if a day is 

 ended as soon as it is begun, so is a cen- 

 tury. Then the 20th century must have 

 ended at 12.01 a. m. Jan. 1, 1901, for the 

 almanackers tell us it started at midnight 

 of Dec. 31, 1900. 



Likewise, if a day is ended as soon as it 

 is begun, why not a human life? Then, 

 on Dogberry Hubbard's line of reasoning 

 it would seem that he and his disting- 

 uished pal should have been buried 50 or 

 60 years ago. And I'll bet 10 to one 

 every true sportsman in Iowa is wishing 

 that they had been. — Editor. 



you foots slipped, eh? But it bees too 

 bad you loss you gun and shells. 



Don't ffrrgeet to tell me 'bout dem ducks. 



Erick Bjorkson. 



MR. BJORKSON WANTS DECOYS. 



Meester James Brown : 



Bill Jones he say you bees a good faller 

 and dat you keep some tame wild ducks 

 what you put in de water when you goes 

 shootin. Bill he say dey jabber and 

 splash and call odder ducks, and a faller 

 can yust ploog dem like tunder. Aye tank 

 aye would like some of dem ducks if you 

 don't want much for dem. Aye vant von 

 he duck and von she von, and if dey don't 

 geet shooted and dey like each odder, aye 

 might geet more bimeby, eh? 



Aye are not use to shootin, but aye 

 tank aye could kill ducks what sit still. 

 Aye would like dat fun. Aye could kill 

 dem all if dey wait long nough. 



When aye geet dem ducks aye take dem 

 where dey bees no odder fallers huntin. 

 Lass year aye was up at Yuniper lake and 

 hide in de reeds. Bimeby long come a 

 duck and light in de water. Aye was 

 yust goin to shoot heem when up jump 

 some fallers on de odder side and holler 

 "Look out, Dutchy!" and fire dare guns 

 bang, bang, bang, yust like a fort-o-July 

 in dis country. Aye like a leetle yoke my- 

 self, but aye tank dey might shoot my legs 

 without callin von Swedenman "Dutchy." 

 Yah, aye tank dat bees a mean yob, by 

 yimminy ! When aye goes to Yuniper 

 again aye make a blind of cordwood. 



Let me know by return cars for how 

 much aye can have dem ducks and aye 

 will come and geet dem. Aye tank Bill 

 would take some, too. 



Bill bees a good faller, eh? He say 

 when you was at Spring lake makin a 

 blind, you fall in the water what was tain 

 foots deep and he pull you out heemself. 

 He say you loss your gun and shells and 

 you standin as a sport. Dat was when 



ENFORCE LAW PROTECTING ROBINS. 



I enclose a clipping from the Beaver 

 Falls Tribune, which proves that Squire 

 Piper is made of the right kind of clay, 

 and that the L. A. S. has done something 

 toward rousing public sentiment, the most 

 powerful enforcer of the game laws. I 

 wish we had such men as the Squire in 

 every community where game laws are vio- 

 lated. N. F. Covert, 



Beaver Falls, Pa. 



The clipping to which Mr. Covert refers 

 is as follows : 



Jacob Pulaski, a resident of Beaver Falls, has 

 changed his opinion as to the right of killing 

 robins. He was arrested by Constable Barton, 

 charged with having killed a robin. When he was 

 taken before Squire Piper and heard the charge 

 read to him, he expostulated and said he would 

 kill all the robins he wished, as they stole his cher- 

 ries and mulberries. 



Squire Piper looked pityingly at him and said: 



"Mr. Pulaski, we will fine you $10 and costs, this 



" being your first offense, but should it occur again 



we will have to give you the full extent of the 



law." 



Pulaski stood bewildered a moment and then 

 produced the $12.60 necessary to release him. He 

 concluded that robins at such a price were dear. 



There are many other men who ought to 

 have a taste of Justice Piper's medicine. 

 There was one at Richfield, Mich., named 

 Fred Hamlin, who also made a boast, some 

 time ago, that he would kill all the robins 

 he found around his cherry tree. A neigh- 

 bor of his informed me of that statement 

 and I wrote Mr. Hamlin, questioning him. 



I asked him to think the matter over and 

 in case he decided not to violate the law to 

 pledge me that he would not do so. I 

 have not heard from him, and have there- 

 fore arranged with some League members 

 in his neighborhood to prosecute him in 

 case he kills a robin. In that event I 

 trust he may land before a justice who will 

 give him as good a lesson as Judge Piper 

 gave Pulaski. — Editor. 



HOTEL MEN SHOULD LEARN. 



The following correspondence explains 

 itself : 



Manhattan Beach Hotel, 

 Manhattan Beach, N. Y. 

 G. O. Shields, President League of Amer- 

 ican Sportsmen, New York : 

 I have before me your letter in relation 

 to the game laws of this State, of which 

 at the time you kindly sent me copy. If 

 there has been any recent legislation, either 

 Federal or State, amending or affecting 

 this law, I should like very much to have 

 copy of the same. Will you kindly favor 



