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RECREATION. 



air and learning something of God's creatures, it 

 would do you good. You would then make grang- 

 ers in a better sense of the word. 



What is your opinion, Mr. Sporting Editor? 

 B. C. W. in Maine Paper, Somerset County. 



SOME MISSOURI PORK. 



Here is a clipping from a Chicago paper 



which will certainly interest you: 



Oscar Long, of Nevada, Mo., recently killed 14 

 ducks at 4 shots. A year ago he killed 18 quails 

 at one shot, only one of the latter getting aw<iy. 

 They were bunched up at the root of an old peach 

 tree. — Chicago Blade. 



Will you please give this man what he 

 deserves? He is a low mugwump, and 

 any editor who would laud such a cow- 

 ardly duck and quail hog is worse than the 

 hog that drops on the quail when huddled 

 beside a log to escape the winter blizzard. 

 A Sportsman, New York City. 



I wrote this long bristleback, asking him 

 if he had been correctly reported, and he 



says in reply : 



The report you saw relative to my shoot- 

 ing is correct in every detail. If you care 

 to use the matter, and desire a better pic- 

 ture of me, if you are willing to pay $1 

 for the photo, as the editor, of the Blade 

 did, I will send you one of my good cabi- 

 net photos to use. I am not familiar with 

 your magazine, but suppose you wish the 

 best photo you can get. 



Oscar Long, Nevada,. Mo. 



No, Oscar, I do not care for your pic- 

 ture. The fact that you sold one to the 

 Chicago editor and that it was reproduced 

 there, together with the record of your 

 butchery, indicates that you are a shame- 

 less braggart, and I do not care to illus- 

 trate you. Bob Ingersoll used to say that 

 there was no such place as hell. If he had 

 lived to know you, he would have changed 

 his mind. If there is not a literal hell, 

 there must be some place a good deal hot- 

 ter than the old orthodox hell ever could 

 have been, for such brutes as you. Number 

 899 in the game hog pen is yours. — Editor. 



IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY. 

 Recently, while I was engaged at Miram- 

 ar, a few miles from Santa Barbara, a large 

 spike buck came tearing through the fields 

 just below the Miramar cottages, crossed 

 the railroad track, and plunged into the bay. 

 Two young men who were near him re- 

 ported him bleeding badly and his tongue 

 hanging out. They watched him until he 

 had swum out near the kelp, then lost sight 

 of him. The next morning he was found 

 .dead on the shore below Miramar. I have' 

 since learned from Game Warden Able that 

 it was one of 2 deer run by hounds owned 

 in the foothills. Our county has a law 



prohibiting the running of deer by hounds 

 and the warden compelled the owner of the 

 hounds to get rid of them. Santa Barbara 

 has a large .game protective association 

 and among its members are some of the best 

 people in .the county. Game Warden Able 

 is the right man for the place, and no 

 guilty man escapes. This is a hard county 

 to patrol, being over 100 miles long, with 2 

 ranges of mountains. We have one of the 

 finest preserves in the State, on Guadaloup 

 lake, 90 miles above Santa Barbara. The 

 Guadaloup gun club has the lake leased for 

 a term of years and enjoys some of the best 

 duck shooting in the State, mostly canvas- 

 backs. 



Quail shooting in Santa Barbara county is 

 good almost anywhere outside the city lim- 

 its, and quails can be found by thou- 

 sands in the Northern end of the county. 

 There are plenty of deer, and the fishing, 

 both trout and salt water, is all one can 

 wish. Our hotels are good, and a visiting 

 sportsman will always find a warm welcome 

 in Santa Barbara county. 



C. A. Loud, Santa Barbara, Cal. 



ELK AT BIG PINEY. 

 In commenting on a letter in a recent 

 issue of Recreation, M. O. Newton says, 

 in the March number, "No elk have been 

 seen at Big Piney, Wyo., in 10 years, 

 though there are a few 100 miles West of 

 there, near the Park line." Mr. Newton 

 is lost and should get out his map and 

 compass. One hundred miles West of 

 here is the Bear river country, and that is 

 130 miles Southwest of the Park line. He 

 is also wrong regarding the elk. They 

 were seen on every hillside in this region 

 last winter, having been driven from the 

 mountains by the deep snow. There are 

 also thousands of antelope in this country. 

 Our wardens are doing all they can to pro- 

 tect game. We have a few poachers, but 

 they are being closely watched and will 

 eventually come to grief. 



Frank Bedier, Big Piney, Wyo. 



If Mr. Newton will come out to my 

 ranch, I will convince him that he is some- 

 what a "dreamer" himself. Elk are abun- 

 dant here, though still weak after the pri- 

 vations of a long and severe winter; but 

 this is no place for a man who wants to 

 hog game. We propose to protect our elk 

 to the limit and our wardens are wide 

 awake. 



J. E. Fredell, Big Piney, Wyo. 



Mr. M. O. Newton, who calls Mr. De- 

 kalb "a dreamer of dreams" for saying 

 there are elk in Big Piney, is himself a 

 veritable Rip Van Winkle. He should 

 wake up and study the map. Big Piney is 



