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and practice the yell in unison and sec how 

 much noise you can make with it and, when 

 you have got it down fine, spring it on some 

 •of your friends and startle them. Also use 

 it on all occasions of triumph, or as an ex- 

 pression of approval for anything that has 

 happened, but, to be effective, it must be 

 shouted in unison by a number of voices, 

 and shouted with vigor and enthusiasm. 



HE WAS NOT A SON OF DANIEL BOONE 



Keyport, N. J., Nov. 26. — While handling 

 a shotgun on Saturday afternoon Clinton 

 Walling, 17 years old, son of John H. Wall- 

 ing, of Centerville, about two miles back 

 of this place, shot and instantly killed his 

 cousin, Mabel Walling, daughter of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Wyckoff Walling. Miss Walling would 

 have been 17 years old to-day. The shoot- 

 ing occurred at the home of the young man 

 while Miss Walling was making a call. The 

 shot entered her neck and went up into her 

 head. 



This could not have happened had the boy 

 been a Son of Daniel Boone, for our boys 

 train themselves so as to never, under anv 

 circumstances, point a gun, with or without 

 a load, at anyone. 



ANTELOPE CAN JUMP 



Editor Recreation : 



Some of the discussions in your magazine 

 puzzle me extremely. The antelope, that 

 pretty bundle of springs, does jump. I killed 

 one with an arrow while it was in full flight 

 over a clump of lull-berry bushes fully ten 

 feet high. I have seen one take a shed, nine 

 foot, sloping to six high, and eight feet wide, 

 like a hurdler. I owned a fawn that cleared 

 a piano box used to close (as a gate) a yard 

 made of chicken wire three feet high. The 

 fact regarding wire fences is that the an- 

 telope does not understand them, but will 

 try to push through, like a fly on a window- 

 pane. 



This same fawn was "rushed" by the 

 town's pack of greyhounds while in the yard. 

 The picket fence it understood, as well as a 

 six-foot tight board fence fifteen feet beyond. 

 It hopped over both these and went down the 

 dusty road like a ricochetting rifle ball. Even 

 when the hounds straightened out they stood 

 no chance whatsoever. The fawn led them 

 a mile chase for the fun of the thing, and I 

 had time to put her in the safety of the barn 

 before the first dog appeared. 



An antelope can beat the best dog that 

 ever lived a hundred yards in a mile straight- 

 away. After that it's different. We used to 

 course antelope, deer, jack-rabbit, coyotes and 

 gray wolves constantly. The jack-rabbit's 

 speed is overrated, while the antelope's un- 

 doing, I 'believe, is entirely due to fright, 

 lack of gameness, and, most of all, to the 



tremendous burst he makes ;il the Start. Time 

 and again I've seen them fly clear of the 

 dogs like bouncing bales of linl in a hum 

 cane. And they will assuredly jump any 

 solid obstacle in their wnv. 



Speaking of the wire fence and antelope, 

 another curious lack of understanding, com 

 mon to all animals, is that of a missile 

 thrown by hand. It isn't until the throwing 

 motion has been followed by the pain of be 

 ing hit many times that even so intelligent 

 a beast as a dog translates cause and effect. 

 Of course, in many instances, the rapid mo- 

 tion of the arm will scare a brute. If not, 

 it will calmly watch a stone (or whatever) 

 while it is on its way, making no attempt 

 to dodge or evade it. 



I noticed this first in the case of a small 

 puma watching me from a ledge about sixty 

 feet above the creek. I didn't like to pass 

 him, so, to get him out of the way, I "pasted" 

 at him with a stone the size of a lemon. He 

 looked fixedly at the stone. I yelled "Look 

 out !" at him as though he were a man, but 

 there he lay until the stone thumped him 

 squarely on top of the head. He was half 

 way up a hill a thousand feet high before I 

 had gotten more than twenty feet up my 

 tree. 



This further proves that the mountain lion 

 is a cowardly brute, and that people who 

 live in deep gulohes shouldn't throw stones. 



"Lakota," Richmond, N. Y. 



IS IT TRUE? 



Even missionaries can draw a long bow 

 when telling hunting stories, for one of them 

 says, "A Hottentot, while asleep on the top 

 of the thick spreading boughs of a White- 

 stone tree, rolled over in his sleep and 

 fell kuflunk upon a lion which was snoozing 

 beneath. The lion was so alarmed that he 

 fled in dismay, while the Hottentot climbed 

 up to his roost and went asleep again." 



The killing of deer and antelope in 

 western Nebraska during the closed season 

 is being investigated by the State Game and 

 Fish Department. Recently word was re- 

 ceived that a deer had been killed in Hooker 

 county and an antelope in Keith county. 

 Sheriff Rector, of Hooker county, has re- 

 ported that no deer have been killed in 

 Hooker this year, and from Keith comes 

 word that the antelope was killed during the 

 open season, which closed November 15. 

 Other reports of deer and antelope killing 

 are being investigated. Several herds of 

 deer and antelope exist in the northwestern 

 part of the State. They are protected during 

 all seasons of the year by the government 

 foresters and ranchmen and are increasing 

 rapidly. 



