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RECREA TION. 



Enclosed find answers to the three puz- 

 zles in April number. 



I also deem it a privilege to enclose ioc. 

 for Recreation's fresh air fund. This is a 

 noble charity and will meet with the re- 

 sponse it deserves, I am sure. 



The flight of geese, brant and ducks, to 

 the North, so far, is hardly worth mention- 

 ing — very unlike 10 years ago, when, at this 

 season the air was alive with them. The 

 game hog, and the market hunter, have in- 

 deed been killing the bird that laid the 

 golden egg, so far as their business, and 

 the sport of others is concerned. I have 

 heard but one defense of spring shooting, 

 viz.: " Every one else does it; " and this is 

 not true. 



M. B. C, Garner, la. 



*Walter and Frank Dexter killed 2 moose, 

 a cow and a calf, one afternoon, being only 

 3 hours absent from town. On the same 

 day 2 other men struck it lucky in the 

 Western part of the County. E. A. Bower 

 and Peter Michael, an Indian, left Clyde at 

 2 p.m., tramped io miles in the direction 

 of Barrington, and in the woods known as 

 the " Musquash country," killed 3 moose, 

 and were back at Clyde at 8 o'clock the 

 same evening. Hugh Williamson, of the 

 Big Meadows, shot a fine moose near Blue 

 Hill the same week. Joseph Warrington, 

 of Birchtown, killed 2 good sized moose 

 at that place, about half a mile from the 

 road. 



Shelburne (Canada) " Budget." 



Frank Ailing, Tacoma, Wash., who is 

 known all over the Northwest as a true 

 friend of game birds, and a sportsman who 

 takes more than usual interest in their 

 propagation and care, recently received 2 

 coops of oriental pheasants from Canton, 

 China, and turned them out on Fox island. 



These make 92 pheasants Ailing has im- 

 ported and turned loose on his Fox island 

 preserve. It is the aim to stock Washing- 

 ton forests with this prince of game birds, 

 and he says if the legislature will only aid 

 him in his work he will, in time, make that 

 State a sportsmen's paradise. 



We have as fine fly fishing here as can be 

 found in the country. We often land fish 

 weighing up to 8, 9 and 10 pounds, and lots 

 of them. The country is full of deer. No 

 trouble to get one any time, and as for 

 ducks and grouse we have them galore, all 

 within 5 minutes' walk from home. Bear, 

 cougar and wolves roam our forests in 

 large numbers. 



A hunter caught a 2 year old bear, in a 

 No. V/2 Newhouse trap the other day, 

 which speaks well for the maker of the 



traps. I see they are advertised in Recrea- 

 tion, which is a welcome guest in my den. 

 I was deeply interested in Bert Cassidy's 

 letter on " How My Wife got Her First 

 Elk." I gloried in the little woman's spunk 

 in having the bull elk to shoot at. 



F. C. McL., Cowichan Lake, B. C. 



Some 20 years ago 16 men were hunting 

 deer in the Turny mountains, Centre Co., 

 Pa., and U. S. (Uncle Sam — that's me) was 

 one of the party. It was raining — a cold, 

 dreary morning, and the boys were enjoy- 

 ing themselves as best they could in the 

 tents — most all in the large A tent. I was 

 nearest the door. A small snake, probably 

 warmed by our genial fire, came under the 

 tent in front of me. I pulled my feet back 

 to let him go by. The next man did the 

 same. The snake made the full rounds of 

 the tent and started out, when the darky 

 cook saw him, and dispatched him. Hold- 

 ing him up one of the boy said, " I thought 

 that looked like a snake." All of us had 

 seen it crawl around the tent, but never a 

 word was said till then. Why? Well, you 

 can guess. 



The sun came out by noon, and before 

 night several nice bucks hung in camp. 



U. S., Ashland, Pa. 



I have taken other sportsmen's papers, 

 but like Recreation better than any of 

 them. Am especially interested in the ar- 

 ticles on " Who makes the best gun." I 

 use a " Parker " and am well satisfied with 

 it. 



The way some people, better known as 

 " game hogs," kill deer here is a shame. 

 Recently the police of this city made a raid 

 on a shed, where it was said deer were kept. 

 They found 11 deer carcasses and the man 

 who was in the shed, at the time of the 

 raid, was taken to police headquarters. He 

 was given a sentence of $440 fine, or 330 

 days in jail. His partners were to shoot the 

 deer and he was to dispose of them by ship- 

 ping them to cities out of the State. I hope 

 this will serve as a warning to others, who 

 kill game indiscriminately, in season or 

 out. W. W., Superior, Wis. 



The annual field trials of the Continental 

 Field Trials Club will be held at Morris, 

 Manitoba, Wednesday, Sept. 1, '97. In the 

 Blue Ribbon Stake (Derby) for pointers 

 and setters whelped on or after January 1, 

 1896, entries close May 15, 1897. Purses, 

 $125.00 to first, $100.00 to 2d, $75.00 to 3d, 

 $50.00 to 4th. The trials will be run on 

 Chickens and under the rules of the Con- 

 tinental Field Trials Club. 



The all ages stake will be known as " The 

 Excelsior Stake " (all aged) and will fol- 

 low the above event. 



