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on the yacht " Sybilla," owned by Mr. John 

 F. Betz, of Philadelphia, for whatever sport 

 we can get. Last year we brought home 

 only 100 trophies. I have the honor to be 

 the leader in the way of bagging game, and 

 Mr. Fred. Betz comes a close second. The 

 rest do not take so kindly to lying out all 

 day in a sink box, but still do a fair portion 

 of shooting and contribute their share to 

 the showing. I write this in haste to let you 

 know that you are correctly informed con- 

 cerning our game, or nearly so. 



John Leary. 



HE WANTS TO KILL IT ALL. 



Schroyer, Kan. 

 Editor Recreation: I see the L. A. S. 

 is still growing. It is all right in one way 

 and in one way it is not. You not only 

 want to limit the killing of game to the 

 open season (which is all right), but you do 

 not stop there. You go so far as to limit 

 the number of birds in one day, no matter 

 how many more one gets a chance to shoot. 

 I am not a game hog by any means, and 

 do not want to be known as one, but when 

 I go out for a day's hunt I go for all there 

 is in it, and the more game I kill the better 

 I like it. The bag of large game, such as 

 deer, elk, and moose, should Joe limited. 



C. J. Cook. 



You should read the replies to Webber, 

 now being printed in Recreation, and see 

 how unpopular your " Kill-all-I-can " doc- 

 trine is among decent sportsmen. If you 

 kill 50 quails or 100 ducks or chickens in 

 a day, the real sportsmen will vote you a 

 game hog, whether you like it or not. 



PLEASE CONFIRM MY REPORT. 



Rutland, Vt. 



Editor Recreation: Will some of your 

 readers please give, through Recreation, 

 the height of the large California jack rab- 

 bits, from ground to top of head, and top 

 of ears? Also length and weight, and num- 

 ber killed in some of the large drives held 

 in Tulare, Fresno and Kern Counties? . 



Also size and weight of some of the big 

 grizzlies there? 



I was out there 11 years, and on coming 

 back here and telling about what I had 

 seen, even to the big trees, 20 to 30 feet in 

 diameter, I was called one of the biggest 

 liars* in town. I have seen the old grizzly, 

 " Monarch," belonging to the San Fran- 

 cisco " Examiner." Will some one give 

 his size and weight? I take this means of 

 proving some of my stories. 



Keep on hitting the game hogs and give 

 them no peace. C. Wright. 



the C. C. C. & St. L. R. R. There we took 

 a team and drove i l / 2 miles North where 

 we found a cornfield full of weeds and 

 burrs, or rather a field of burrs with a little 

 corn here and there. There was about 2 

 inches of snow on the ground. It had 

 thawed some the day before and had now 

 frozen a crust hard enough to bear the 

 weight of a rabbit, and this gave them good 

 sprinting facilities. After encircling the 

 field — only 35 acres — several times, and 

 making 2 trips to the sled to unload our 

 game, we decided we had enough, and 

 started home at 2.10 p.m. We had killed 

 43 rabbits in 2 hours and 10 minutes. It 

 was one of the most enjoyable trips any of 

 us had for a long time. 



O. K. Baldwin, Danville, 111. 



GAME NOTES. 



I am delighted with your method of 

 handling the game hog. No man on earth 

 loves to shoot any better than 1 do, but 

 I am glad to find a man who has the cour- 

 age of his convictions. Your criticisms 

 are at times somewhat caustic, but none 

 too much so for the occasion. No doubt 

 we have all killed more game in days gone 

 by, than we should. I have, and at times 

 have been heartily ashamed of myself for 

 doing so; but we should call a halt, and 

 when a man goes at the work of reform as 

 you have, all fair minded sportsmen should 

 support him. It has been my pleasure to 

 hunt and fish on almost every part of this 

 continent, and I have seen wild fowl and 

 other game slaughtered in the Northwest 

 by just such men as Webber until the sight 

 was simply sickening. You are right. You 

 have given him sufficient rope and he has 

 hung himself. We have a society here for 

 the protection of game. We have been 

 negligent in regard to these matters for 

 some time, but you have stimulated us to 

 the extent that we are now going to look 

 after the swine. I hope soon to be a mem- 

 ber of the L. A. S. 



F. E. Hall, Laconia, N. Y. 



A GOOD DAY FOR RABBITS. 



A few days ago Will Hacker, Colonel D. 

 C. Williams, L. Polhemus and I went to 

 Fithian, a village 14 miles West of here, on 



In the fall of '96 a party of 6 of us went duck 

 hunting on one of the Illinois river lakes. 

 My brother went ahead of the rest of us with 

 our camp outfit to locate before our arrival. 

 At Meredosia he got a boatman and they 

 loaded everything into a cranky 12 foot boat. 

 They then started for a place 7 miles up the 

 lake. They were all right until they struck 

 the first bay, which is 2 miles wide. Waves 

 were very high, and they were overloaded. 

 A large wave broke into their boat and she 

 sank at once, turned over and came up 

 bottom side first. 



A fisherman saw the afTair > and came to 

 their assistance just in time to save them. 

 It was a cold day and the boys went to a 

 farm house to get dried. They felt very 



