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not carry them, so I had to get the team 

 to take them to camp. 



G. W. Davidson, Mt. Pulaski, 111. 



GAME NOTES. 



One morning in October I started for the 

 Bitter Root, reaching Hamilton about 8 

 p. m. From there I took the stage for 

 Wiles Springs. 



While awaiting dinner a farmer and the 

 bartender got into an argument about an 

 antiquated 45-90 rifle, and adjourned to the 

 backdoor to settle it. They used a knot in 

 the ice house for a target. The first shot 

 was about 14 inches too high, the next about 

 8 inches, and the third a foot to one side. 

 The ice house was 15 feet distant. I no- 

 ticed a solemn silence about the accuracy of 

 that particular rifle. 



Next morning at Wiles Springs I girded 

 on my cartridge belt, took my 44 cali- 

 ber rim fire Henry rifle and started. 

 After climbing over hills for 2 hours I 

 shot a pine squirrel to prove that the rifle 

 was still accurate. Just as I got back old 

 Doc Wiles came up with a string of fish 

 and an invitation to supper. 



The second evening I traded my little 

 Marble axe for a large deer head and 

 started home. I had to go to work again. 

 The natives told me deer were scarce, but 

 there are all kinds of small game in that 

 country. 



D. R. C. T., Anaconda, Mont. 



One night last October we decided to 

 have an old fashioned coon hunt. The 

 day had been damp and rainy and just the 

 right sort for the purpose. The moon was 

 bright when we took our hounds to a tama- 

 rack swamp and liberated them. Old Fox, 

 the leader, with Nig, Tommy and 7 more 

 black and tan hounds bringing up the rear, 

 soon struck the trail of an old coon that 

 had evidently passed early in the evening. 

 After an hour's chase the coon treed in an 

 old snag 30 feet high, giving us a hard 

 chase through the swamp and over wind- 

 falls. When we cut down the tree 4 coons 

 fell out and started in as many directions, 

 but were caught and killed by the hounds. 

 One of these coons weighed 38 pounds. 

 This did not satisfy Fox, for he started 

 out again, and in a few minutes the whole 

 pack was streaming by us, making a racket 

 like the song of a calliope. They treed the 

 coon in a bunch of tamarack 40 rods away, 

 and there we added 2 more coons to our 

 already heavy load. 



P. R. K., Avon, Minn. 



A notice in the last issue of Recreation 

 related to hounding deer. There is one 

 citizen in this neighborhood who does not 

 tolerate this practice. This gentleman is 

 Geo. W. Blackwood, of Luzerne. About 



a week ago 2 hounds chased a young buck 

 on to the ice of the Hudson river at Lu- 

 zerne, and Mr. Blackwood at once killed 

 the hounds and rescued the buck. Mr. 

 Blackwood should be commended for his 

 act. If other people would treat the 

 hounding practice in the same way they 

 would aid greatly in the preservation of 

 the noblest of our game animals. Mr. 

 Blackwood will ask permission of the game 

 warden to keep the buck and domesticate 

 him. 



Morgan H. Fish, Glens Falls, N. Y. 



Mr. Blackwood is all right, and I wish 

 every man in the State who sees or hears 

 dogs running a deer would deal with them 

 as Mr. Blackwood did with those hounds. 

 —Editor. 



I am' an old timer and hunt for sport 

 more than for game. I am in a country 

 where squirrels and quails are more than 

 plentiful, where duck shooting is excellent 

 in season, where there are a sprinkling of 

 deer, turkeys and prairie chickens, and a 

 class of people who know no game law. 

 Fawns are shot from the doe's side, quails 

 are shot from posts and nests, squirrels are 

 shot with their young, and there is no way 

 to stop it. We are under the Arkansas 

 law, but have to look to Federal officers for 

 justice, and we look in vain. I have been 

 here nearly 2 years and have argued 

 and preached against the indiscriminate 

 slaughter of game and against using nets 

 and dynamite in the streams. The only 

 good I have done is in regard to quail 

 shooting; I have a few of the bris.tlebacks 

 won over on that point. I fear by the time 

 we get legislation to protect our game we 

 shall have none to protect. 



Jack, Guthrie, I. T. 



726,277.— Goose Call. David S. Fuller, 

 Chicago, 111., assignor of one-half to 

 Watts De Golyer, Chicago, 111. Filed 

 January 2, 1903. Serial No. 137,503. 



Claim. — 1. A goose call or the like com- 

 prising in combination a mouthpiece mem- 

 ber consisting of a sleeve, a radially ad- 

 justable set screw therein, and a telescopic 

 call member adapted to be inserted into 

 one end of said mouthpiece member, reeds 

 carried by said call member and projecting 

 into the path of said set screw, and a 

 wedge interposed between said mouth- 

 piece member and said call member to 

 secure the latter removably in place. 



