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RECREATION. 



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For every deer hunter who spends a 

 few weeks of each year away from civiliza- 

 tion, there are 20 sportsmen whose great- 

 est delight is to tramp for quails or grouse. 

 Such men may not have the means to in- 

 dulge in the expensive sport of big game 

 hunting, and many of them would not if 

 they had. To them a day afield with dog 

 ranging the stubble, the sudden stop, the 

 cautious advance and stiffening into a rigid 

 point, the whir of wings, the successful 

 shot and the retrieving of the birds, have 

 more charms than an all-day hunt with one 

 shot at a deer. 



What woodcock shooter would ask for 

 deer when the cock were rising in front of 

 his brace of cocker spaniels? To him, the 

 metallic whistle and darting forms among 

 the bushes are more fascinating than the 

 bay of hounds and a leaping buck. 



Again the sportsman is among the wild 

 hills in pursuit of the lordly ruffed grouse. 

 He slowly makes his way down a ravine, 

 its steep sides covered with pine, .birch, and 

 hemlock, while the knowing old pointer 

 searches out every spot likely to hold a 

 hiding bird. 



Suddenly the dog comes to a point in a 

 thick clump of pines, but before his master 

 has taken half a dozen steps, a roar of 

 wings is heard, and the bird is gone. All 

 the hunter sees is a streak far up the gully, 

 but he follows, in hope of a second rise. 

 Soon the dog strikes the scene behind a 

 fallen tree. The wily old bird rises on the 

 other side of this and sails off at such a 

 height the sportsman rightly concludes 

 he has taken to a tree. 



These disappointments only arouse the 

 ardor of our friend. On he goes, making 

 plenty of noise, which has the desired ef- 

 fect. The grouse dives out of a pine and 

 flies toward a patch of thick brush, some 

 hundreds of yards ahead. By this time the 

 intelligent pointer is as anxious as his mas- 

 ter, and makes straight for the cover. 

 • Time after time the grouse rises out of 

 range, but the patient hunter follows, until 



finally the demoralized bird lies close in 

 some brush heap. When kicked out, he 

 gives an easy straight-away, and as the 

 hunter presses the trigger, a puff of feath- 

 ers floats away on the breeze, while the dog 

 eagerly darts forward to bring in the bird. 

 Was not the successful finish well worth 

 the trouble? 



There is no other shooting so fascinating 

 nor so difficult; yet few writers tell of 

 their experiences with grouse and quails. 

 If more sportsmen from different parts of 

 the States and Canada would write of their 

 observations of the haunts and habits of 

 game birds, it would be a great help to 

 beginners. J. A. MacKenzie. 



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The Bristol rod and case came and they 

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Chas. A. McNeill, Lebanon, N. H. 



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F. N. Dutcher, St. Albans, Vt. 



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