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of information, ideas and thoughts on all 

 goods in these lines, and it will remain 

 suck until further notice. 



WHO WOULD KILL HIM. 



Mr. R. W. Trussell, who lives at Nepon- 

 set, Mass., called here the other day and 

 told me an interesting story of a gray 

 squirrel that lives in his village. He says 

 there are a number of them that are tame 

 and that are regularly fed and cared for 

 by the people, who love and appreciate 

 them. Mr. Trussell recently sat at his 

 front window reading, when one of the 

 gray squirrels came into a tree within a 

 few feet of the house and began eating a 

 nut he had picked up. Mr. Ti assell took 

 an English walnut from the table and 

 tapped on the window pane with it. The 

 squirrel looked a moment, and evidently 

 identified the morsel ; for he leaped from 

 a branch of the tree in which he was sit- 

 ting to the roof of a neighboring house, 

 ran down to the eave-trough and hid the 

 nut he had. Then he came to the window, 

 took the proffered lunch from Mr. Trus- 

 sell's hand, and returned to the tree again, 

 where he ate it. 



Is it not strange that after knowing how 

 thoroughly, and how easily, these beauti- 

 ful animals can be domesticated, some 

 people still persist in killing them at sight? 

 I trust all sportsmen may soon learn that 

 this animal is not a legitimate object of 

 pursuit, and that we may soon hear tne 

 last of squirrel shooting. 



GET THE NAMES RIGHT. 

 Once more I beg my good friends to call 

 things by their right names; especially 

 ruffed grouse and mule deer. As I have 

 said before, these creatures are sadly and 

 habitually misnamed by nine-tenths of the 

 people who hunt them. I cut out of man- 

 uscripts that come to this office the words 

 "pheasant" "partridge" and "blacktail 

 deer," some hundreds of times each year. 

 If writers would only learn that there are 

 no pheasants in this country except such 

 as have been imported from Europe ; that 

 there are no partridges here at all, and 

 that the blacktail deer is found only on 

 the Pacific slope, North of the North line 

 of California, it would save me a lot of 

 work and annoyance, to say nothing of 

 the valuable educational work which my 

 good friends might accomplish in their 

 conversation with others. The deer found 

 throughout the Rocky Mountains, and 

 which is called the blacktail by 99 per cent, 

 of the people who talk of him, is the mule 

 deer, and there are no blacktail deer in 

 that region. 



breakers. The chicken season opened in 

 that State September 15, but, as usual, a lot 

 of shooters were too previous. As a result 

 Mr.. Fullerton and his associates rounded 

 up 14 men who were shooting chickens be- 

 fore the legal date, and confiscated their 

 guns. He also got one dog. It is worthy 

 of remark that only one of the 14 guns 

 was worth more than about $7. This indi- 

 cates that most of the men who violated the 

 game laws are of the class who do not 

 appreciate good guns, or good sportsmen's 

 literature. If these men had been reading 

 Recreation for 2 or 3 years past, they 

 would have waited for the open season 

 before going into the chicken country, and 

 would now have their guns. No doubt 

 they regret the loss of them, even if they 

 were made of gas pipe. If Sam will kindly 

 send me the names and addresses of these 

 men, I will send each of them a sample 

 copy of this issue of Recreation. 



Dr. B. W. Evermann, who for years past 

 has been the Ichthyologist of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission, has recently been ap- 

 pointed Chief of the Division of Statistics 

 and Methods of Commercial Fisheries. 

 This is a new position and one for which 

 Dr. Evermann is especially fitted by his 

 long study and training. It may be con- 

 fidently expected that he will, within the 

 next few years, collect and compile a valua- 

 ble fund of information regarding the com- 

 mercial fisheries, not only of this country 

 but of the world. Dr. Evermann still re- 

 tains his old position of Ichthyologist, in 

 which he is doing such splendid work. 



Deputy game warden Kirmse, of San- 

 dusky, Ohio, recently went to the house of 

 Ferdinand Bork, a wealthy farmer, with a 

 warrant for the arrest of Bork's sons for 

 shooting squirrels out of season. When 

 the warden stated his business, Bork imme- 

 diately made an assault on him with a corn 

 cutter, inflicting 2 serious wounds. Ward- 

 en Kirmse drew a revolver and shot his 

 assailant dead. It would have been just as 

 well for Bork not to have interfered with 

 the officer in the discharge of his duties. 



That stalwart game protector, Sam Ful- 

 lerton, of St. Paul, is still after the law 



Howard Gray, of Hughesville, Pa., went 

 hunting squirrels September 20th, which 

 was before the opening of the legal season. 

 He killed 7 squirrels and on his way home 

 he met constable Flick, who escorted him to 

 Justice Kahler's court. There Gray was 

 assessed $73.12. Gray was unable to pay 

 his fine and was locked up in the city pen. 

 Some friends came to his rescue later and 

 he was turned out to grass. It is hoped 

 he will remember this experience a long 

 time. 



