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RECREA TION. 



The Peaks of Colorado, 

 the Alps of Switzerland, 

 are merely bowlders 

 compared with the 

 overwhelming grandeur 

 of mountain scenery 

 on the Canadian Pacific 



For Literature illustrative and descriptive of the most marvelous scenery on the American continent, 

 address, D. McNICOLL, Passenger Traffic Manager, Canadian Pacific Railway, Montreal, Canada. 



Can any of your readers beat the follow- 

 ing record? 



I left Boston on the night of Se*ptember 

 26th and reached Arthurette, N. B., the fol- 

 lowing Tuesday night. On Wednesday we 

 walked into camp, about 15 miles from the 

 Tobique river, and Thursday morning 

 went to the top of a little hard wood ridge 

 back of our camp where Duncan D. Wright 

 gave the call of the cow moose. We had 2 

 answers, one coming straight up the ridge, 

 and the other from the left. The bull on 

 top of the ridge got there first, and 2 shots 

 from the little Savage rifle, .30-30, dropped 

 him in his tracks. He was a large one with 

 a fine set of antlers, measuring a little over 

 51 inches. He was dead in 30 minutes from 

 the time we left our camp, at the foot of the 

 ridge. We walked out to the Tobique 

 river in the afternoon and sent a team in 

 Friday morning for the moose. The men 

 returned Saturday night and Monday morn- 

 ing I started for Boston. On the entire trip 

 I had just 30 minutes' hunting. Unfortu- 

 nately, owing to the carelessness of the Ex- 

 press Company in keeping them 24 hours 

 overtime, the hide and head were spoiled. 

 B. R. Houghton, Boston, Mass. 



About 2 weeks ago an Indian brought 

 here for sale, 4 skins of heads of caribou, 

 which he killed up Cedar creek, about 15 

 miles from here. They, of course, had no 

 horns and were practically valueless. On 

 being asked what he did with the hides 



and meat, he said " too heavy," and 

 shrugged his shoulders. The gang to which 

 he belongs are camped on the Slocan river, 

 about 12 miles South of this town, and are 

 killing deer for their skins. They are said 

 to be from the Colville reservation, and if 

 so, have no business here. 



Will H. Udall, Slocan City, B. C. 



Small game is apparently holding its own 

 in this locality. There may be fewer quail 

 than formerly, but of grouse I think there 

 has been a full crop. Woodcock have been 

 in fair numbers. We got but few of the flight 

 birds. A man told me he saw, just at dusk, 

 one evening in November, more woodcock 

 flying in one bunch than he ever saw in his 

 whole life before, all put together. Whoever 

 struck the spot where they stopped to feed 

 was in it. 



H. F. Chase, Amesbury, Mass. 



I learned by a sad experience that animals 

 can run some distance after being shot 

 through the heart. While hunting with a 

 little Scotch terrier, I fired above and to 

 one side of her. She yelped, ran 30 or 40 

 yards and fell. When I reached her she was 

 dead. A single pellet of No. 4 shot had 

 passed between her ribs and through her 

 heart. She had been my constant compan- 

 ion, and I felt so badly over her death that 

 I gave up rabbit shooting that season. 



R. L. Walker, M.D., Carnegie, Pa. 



