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of my few friends, but I see and also read 
about it in the Boston papers. 
V. Tasseriani, Boston, Mass. 
Your friends who are congratulating you 
on your beastly, brutal slaughter are as 
scurvy a lot as you are. If any of them 
were decent sportsmen, they would tell you 
to your face how contemptible you are. 
You ought to be locked up in the cellar of 
the county jail, instead of being patted on 
the back. Your number in the game hog 
book is 1,004.—EDITOoR. 

ONE ROBIN COST $95. 
Justice M. E. Sell, of Windber, had 3 Italians, 
Benjamin Benmarte, John Pisoni, and Charles 
Minote, before him Saturday morning, charged 
with 3 separate violations of the game laws and 
with breaking a borough statute. 
Constable 5S. McMullen caught the men 
Friday evening. They had killed a robin and 
had it with them when arrested. Before the 
Justice they denied the charges, but having the 
goods on them, each man was fined $25 and costs, 
the whole amounting to about $95. The defend- 
ants were charged with hunting out of season, 
hunting without a license, as they were un- 
naturalized foreigners, killing a song bird, and 
shooting within the borough limits.—Johnstown 
(Pa.) Tribune. 
If the unnaturalized foreigners in Penn- 
sylvania should all learn to read and then 
put in some time each month reading 
RECREATION, they would save themselves a 
lot of money, but as long as they can be 
induced to pay money into the State Game 
Protective Fund at the rate of $25 to $35 
each, and that for killing only one bird to 
3 men, it is at least more profitable for the 
State.—Enbrror. 

GAME NOTES. 
Answering your inquiry, will say that. 
R. H. Montcastle and I killed 81 quails and 
II doves in one day. 
Cary F. Spence, Knoxville, Tenn. 
You and your friend killed at least twice 
as many quails as you should have killed, 
and I trust that by the time you have read 
RECREATION a year you will agree with me. 
The time was when a man might reason- 
ably kill 40 or 50 quails in a day, but that 
time is long since past, and all good sports- 
men are content nowadays to quit when 
they get Io to 15 each. 
The dove should not be considered a 
game bird at all and should never be killed. 
It is protected at all times in many North- 
ern States, and the time will come when all 
Southern sportsmen wil agree with us in 
this matter.—Ebrror. 

TI am sending you a copy of the new game 
law of Georgia. Richmond county is in the 
van for game protection. I never miss a 
copy of RECREATION. 
A. H. Mieqel, Augusta, Ga. 
Why don’t you and your friends join the , 
RECREATION. 
L. A. S.? Then you would be in touch and 
co-operation with the other sportsmen of 
your State, and with those of the entire 
United States. As everyone knows who 
has investigated, this League is the greatest 
game protective agency ever organized, and 
all friends of the cause should be members 
of it—Ebrror. 

Game is plentiful in this region. Ruffed 
grouse, prairie chickens, ducks and rabbits 
are numerous. Quails are increasing and in 
a few years will afford good sport. Our 
game laws are being rigidly enforced and 
many arrests have been made. We have 
plenty of bass, pickerel, suckers and sun- 
fish in our lakes, and good fishing can be 
had almost any time. Wolves are numerous, 
but as a bounty of $7 has been placed on 
them, they will no doubt decrease in num- 
ber. Of fur bearing animals we have coons, 
muskrats, and mink. 
A. E. Flint, Norden, Minn. 

You remember the entertainment we pre- 
pared for you at the L. A. S. meeting in St. 
Paul in the shape of a seizure of 11 saddles _ 
of venison and over 600 ruffed grouse? 
Well, the grand jury failed to indict, the 
first term, but we brought the matter up 
again and got 2 indictments. Mr. Ertz has 
just been tried on the first indictment and 
paid a fine of $500 in cash. The other in- 
dictment still hangs over until next term. 
Such fines as these will make some of the 
law breakers think the business is not all 
profit. . 
S. F. Fullerton, St. Paul, Minn. 

I have always taken REcREATION, and like 
it ever so much. I like the way you pound 
the game hogs, and I like the lovely pic- 
tures you print. The other day it rained 
hard and as that is the only time one can 
kill ducks here on Washoe lake, I thought 
I would try to get some. I went out with 
my brother. He killed 3 ducks. I killed 2 
at 2 shots with my single barrel gun. I 
am not yet Io years old. I used to shoot a 
Remington rifle when I was only 8, and 
killed lots of rabbits. 
Johnnie Bath, Franktown, Nev. 

A neighbor of mine, Tom Boettget, at 
Callicoon Depot, found a dead carrier 
pigeon near his barn the 5th of February, 
1904. There was an aluminum ring on its 
leg numbered, N. H., 3,424; also an in- 
scription reading “Patter’ or “Potten.” 
The ring will be returned to the owner if 
he can be found. 
Charles St. John, Callicoon Depot, N. Y. 

