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several high bred dogs. Presently a farm- 

 er's boy named Reed McBride joined the 

 party, more as a sightseer and student than 

 as a shooter. He was armed with a single- 

 barrel shot gun and chaperoned by a pug 

 dog. He was in the act of climbing a 10- 

 rail fence when a quail got up in front of 

 one of the good dogs. The shooter whose 

 turn it was fired first his right and then 

 his left barrel at it. The bird went on. 

 The boy, who was astride the top rail 

 at the time, took a shot at the bird and 

 dropped it, and the pug retrieved it in good 

 shape. The dog, who seemed to be well 

 versed in the matter of courtesy, delivered 

 the bird to the city sportsman who had tried 

 so hard to kill it. The boy patted the dog 

 on the back and said O. K. The city chap 

 in turn passed the bird over to the farmer's 

 boy and said to his friend that this was the 

 first pug he had ever seen trained to re- 

 trieve birds. 



Game and Fish Commissioner Harris, of 

 Colorado, has made another big haul of 

 law breakers. This time the victims are 

 Indians. Mr. Harris went to Meeker in 

 October last and organized a posse of 8 

 men. including Sheriff Amick, Deputy 

 Sheriff Aichers and 5 cowboys. All the 

 men armed themselves with Winchester 

 rifles and 6-shooters, mounted themselves 

 on good horses and raided a camp of Ute 

 Indians who were slaughtering deer on 

 White river. They captured 4 bucks, a 

 contingent of squaws and pappooses and 

 200 deer hides. The Indians were turned 

 over to Sheriff Amick, were lodged in the 

 County jail, and will be dealt with accord- 

 ing to law. Mr. Harris is doing splendid 

 work, and if the sportsmen and other tax- 

 payers of the State will stand by him he 

 will certainly break up the vast army of 

 game hogs, white and red, that have for so 

 many years been slaughtering the game 

 of that State. 



John R. Goodall, a commission merchant 

 in San Francisco, Cal., was arrested 

 over a year ago for having quails 

 in his possession during close season. 

 He was convicted and sentenced to 

 pay a fine of $20. He appealed to 

 the Superior Court, and in the trial 

 there the judgment of the lower court was 

 affirmed. In August last, Mr. Goodall filed 

 a petition for a rehearing. This petition 

 came up in court Oct. 12 and the motion 

 was denied. This was the last resort for 

 Goodall, so he walked up to the captain's 

 office and settled. It is safe to estimate 

 that his lawyer's fees and other expenses in 

 this case have aggregated at least $500, so 

 Mr. Goodall will probably deem it wise to 

 k«ep on the safe side of the law in future. 



The American Copper Extraction Co., of 

 Rahway, N. J., was recently fined $100 for 

 discharging poisonous chemical matter in 

 the Rahway river. The company fought 

 the case openly, and the fact that the court 

 sustained the complaint of the State Fish 

 Commission and punished the offenders es- 

 tablished an important precedent in the 

 interest of fish protection in New Jersey. 



Major John Dunlop, Dr. Brinkman, and 

 Dr. St. John, of Hackensack, N. J., went 

 to ixew Brunswick last fall and had an in- 

 teresting hunting trip. Major Dunlop 

 carried off the honors of the trip by killing 

 a moose and a caribou. The heads were 

 shipped to a taxidermist in Bangor, Me., 

 to be mounted and will later be on exhibi- 

 tion at the major's home. 



I am informed that a moose head ex- 

 hibited by the Ontario Government at the 

 Pan-American Exhibition has a spread of 

 67 inches. Can any reader of Recreation 

 verify this statement? The moose is said 

 to have been killed at Powassan, Ont. 



Traveling man to Kansas farmer. 

 "Where do you get water?" 

 "Up the road about 7 miles." 

 "You haul water 7 miles for your fam- 

 ily and stock?" 



;;Ye P ." 



"Why in the name of sense don't you 

 dig a well ?" 



"Because it's jest as far one way as the 

 other, stranger." — Exchange. 



WTien Tillie used to cross my path, 



Afoot, or riding on a wheel, 

 Her passing-by an aftermath, 



A breath of violets, would reveal. 



But in her auto, she, to-night, 

 So fast that it could not be seen, 



Rushed by me ; and though failed my sight, 

 I knew she passed — by gasoline. 



I have taken Recreation several years 

 and always read the advertisements as 

 eagerly as the stories. When **I get 

 through with it I lend it to at least a 

 dozen of my friends, all of whom say it is 

 one of the best of sportsmen's journals. 

 J. E. Kirkbride, Boulder, Colo. 



She: You don't know what it is to love. 



"I don't, eh? Haven't I been to every 

 play, read every popular novel in the last 

 six months, got into debt hopelessly, had 

 my appendix removed, and all for your 

 sake ?"^-Exchange. 



