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RECREATION. 



A FREAK DEER HEAD. 



I have just returned from my first deer 

 hunt of the season with my 3 deer, and I 

 have earned them 3 times over. It is no 

 small task to travel miles to jump a deer, 

 and then pack the carcass 3 or 4 miles to 

 camp, over windfalls, blowdowns, up hill 



and down, through muskeags, etc. How- 

 ever hard was the work we thoroughly en- 

 joyed the outing, and are looking forward 

 to the time when we shall meet again on 

 the same ground in Northern Minnesota. 



I found the raven, moose bird, ruffed 

 grouse, 3-toed woodpecker, pileated wood- 

 pecker, hairy and downy woodpecker, red- 

 bellied nuthatch, hawk-owl, horned owl and 

 chickadee common in Ithaca county. 



I enclose picture of deer head I mounted 

 last season. You will notice that the 

 branches cross by about i J / 2 inches in the 

 front, and there is an extra parallel lower 

 branch. I have had many heads, but this 

 is the most remarkable one of all. 



H. W. Howling, 

 Minneapolis, Minn. 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY D. W. HALLAM- 



WILD RICE CROWN BY CHAS. GILCHRIST, 

 PORT HOPE, ONTARIO. 



THE BUGLER FROM THE PEAKS. 



RICHARD BURTON. 



What is this cry that sudden seems to 



shake 

 The keen, still mountain ether wide awake, 

 Until the vast and candid snows of night 

 Sound vibrantly on every doming height ? 

 Hark, how it swells! The very stars do 



hear! 

 This upper fastness reads the message 



clear ; 

 Her ancient language Mother Nature 



speaks: 

 The bull elk bugles midst the topmost 



peaks ! 



— The Criterion. 



