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notches that you finally cover the gun with 

 paper all around until you can't see it at all. 

 Try for this. 



BLACK BALLED. 



As to the black balls. In the large clubs, 

 voting is done this way: A box with a par- 

 tition in the middle is placed on a table; in 

 one side are black and white balls. The 

 other is empty. Each member goes up and 

 takes out either a black or a white ball and 

 votes by dropping it in the empty side. When 

 all the members are through, the teller ap- 

 pointed for the purpose can tell who is elect- 

 ed by the kind of balls in the box. If there 

 are no black balls, the person is elected. If 

 there are enough black balls he is not. So 

 you see the black balls are votes against him. 

 You boys need not vote this way. You can 

 use a hat to hold the votes and slips of pa- 

 per can 'be used instead of marbles. The 

 term "black balled" is a club term, and means 

 that the votes are against the party. 



Editor Recreation : 



Would you find out a little more about 

 the rabbit through Recreation? — whether it 

 can walk and if there is any other animal 

 with its forelegs fastened to its body the same 

 way. 



Ivan Korman, sAllemans, Pa. 



This rabbit letter would make it appear as 

 if some future talks on the construction of 

 animals might be appreciated by the Sons of 

 Daniel Boone, and it has set us to thinking 

 upon this subject because we want all the 

 young pioneers not only to love and treat 

 with respect all living creatures, but to have 

 a common-sense fundamental understanding 

 of the general relationship of these little crea- 

 tures to each other and themselves, and when 

 they find how closely even a toad or a bird 

 resembles in construction the human form 

 there will be still greater hesitancy on the 

 part of the boys to unnecessarily injure their 

 little cousins or deprive them of life. But, 

 boys, do not misunderstand me. When it 

 is necessary to do so your Mother will send 

 you to the barnyard to wring the neck of a 

 chicken, and if you are alone in the woods 

 and run out of supplies it is perfectly proper 

 and right for you to shoot any game animal 

 to supply your taible ; but that does not mean 

 to kill these creatures, like the Borneo head- 

 hunters, so that you can decorate your head- 

 house with rows of their craniums stuffed 

 with excelsior and sawdust and with glass 

 eyes inserted in empty sockets. 



That is, we believe, with The Ancient Mar- 

 iner, — > 



"lie prayeth well 



Who lovelh well both man ami bird and beast, 

 lie prayeth best who loveth best, 

 All things both great and small, 

 For the good God who loveth us, 

 lie made and loveth all." 



Easton, Pa., Jan. 26, 1906. 

 Dear Founder: 



I received your letter on Jan. 26. You say you 

 wrote the addresses down in the Daniel Boone book. 

 The boys say they can hardly wait till they come. 

 Our club was playing the F. A. C. club, and we beat 

 them 7 to 3. Our sport is just coming in. You 

 ought to have seen us make our schoolmates look 

 when we gave them our Dan Boone cry. Their eyes 

 nearly fell from their sockets. Nearly all of us have 

 our suits. The pattern works all right. We can 

 hardly wait for a gander plucking. We had an In- 

 dian and Boone chase. The lower room were the 

 Indians and some of our room. About 25 Indians 

 were trying to catch us 1 1 boys. But us Boone boys 

 were too slick. There is a 50-acre woods about a 

 half of a mile from our club. We all have a board 

 nailed up against the fence and trying to hit the line. 

 We are throwing from the distance of fifteen feet. 

 We cannot throw it yet very good, but every time 

 ' e practice we are doing better. Hitting the mark 

 is it. We can make it stick, but to hit the line is it. 

 Now I will close. From yours truly, 



George Styers. 



1810 Buttler Street. 



THE DAN'L BOONES ARE COMIN'. 

 BY J. P. B. 



Sez the Bear, "Watch out! for the Dan'l 



Boones are comin\" 

 Sez the b'loomin' little Beaver, "I'll go down 



and see my plumbin'." 

 And for forty miles around you can hear 



the Pa'tridge thrummin', 

 For the Dan'l Boones are comin' thro' the 



trees. 

 And the great, big gun — that the tally man's 



a-carryin' — 

 Is an awful thing to see, 'but it's never used 



for harryin', 

 And the Beasts grow friendly, where they 



always felt so scary, an' 

 They join the Boones, as happy as you 



please. 

 For confidence will come if you treat 'em 



right, and show it, 

 And it's fun for boys and beasts alike, and 



every beast will know it, 

 When it's once built up, men, not beasts, will 



overthrow it, 

 As you and I and every Boone agrees. 



