THE REFERENDUM 



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TR£E5 t&,, ..^NWEICHT 



in anyjh 



quintessence of grace before they 

 are killed and upholstered. 



In the old baronial balls of Eu- 

 rope are some heads of stags killed 

 hundreds of years ago by the iron 

 tipped shaft from a cross-bow. 

 These heads are in magnificent 

 state of preservation, as no at- 

 tempt was made to preserve the 

 skin of the defunct animal. This 

 should give us a hint. Unless 

 within reach of a reasonably good 

 taxidermist, it is better to be con- 

 tent with saving the antlers and 

 skull instead of trying to preserve 

 the skin for future mounting. In 

 very distant expeditions this is 

 sometimes the only way of saving 

 anything. In this case, however, 

 the antlers must not be sawn off 

 the skull, nor must the skull be 

 sawn longitudinally for conve- 

 nience of packing, as is permissi- 

 ble when the head is to be mount- 

 ed with the skin on. 



The skin having been removed, 

 the flesh should be cut and scraped 

 from the bone, and the brain and 

 eyes removed, the containing cav- 

 ities being most carefully cleaned. 

 The lower jaw may or may not be 

 saved. A few hours' shade expos- 

 ure of the cleaned skulls to the 

 antiseptic air of the northern for- 

 est, or mountain, will make the 

 heads fit for transportation. Later, 

 All that is then necessary is to hold on to when they are _ to be mounted on a shield, 

 the rope and the current will do the rest. they may be boiled in strong lime water until 



If the water is swift but shallow one can all the shreds of flesh peel off easily, and the 



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HOW TO RAFT ACROSS A SWIFT STREAM 



wade, holding "on to the rope. If the water 

 is deep and you have a good deal of dun- 

 nage you must first see that the rope is per- 

 fectly secure on the other bank, then make 

 a raft, put your dunnage on it, make the rope 

 fast, and pull off. The current will then 

 swing you across. 



But in all fords remember that it is the 



bone, when dried, is bleached. 



Nor' west, Calgary, Alberta. 



WHAT IS A CINNAMON? 



Editor Recreation : 



The books say a cinnamon bear is merely 



an accidental variation of the black bear. In 

 fool who never turns back. If the water other words,, it is no more a species than is 

 feels too strong, return while you can, for a a black fox. 



glacier stream has no mercy. 



Belmore Browne. 



HOW TO CLEAN A HEAD 



Editor Recreation: 

 A good taxidermist is an artist; a bad one bear and the cinnamon appear to be similar, 



hence the contention of the scientists is, as 



Hunters are quite as positive that the cin- 

 namon is a species. 



Which is right? 



Each side has excellent arguments to ad- 

 vance for its faith. Anatomically the black 



—well, a bad one is too bad even to think 

 about. Some of the terribly grim moose- 

 heads and deer with swelled parotid grands 

 and faces like manatees, found hanging on 

 the walls of sportsmen's dens are not cheer- 

 ful things to look upon, and although the 

 owner is more lenient towards their short- 

 comings than any of his friends or acquaint- 

 ances could possibly be, even he, at times, 

 must feel shocked when he looks at these 

 absurd parodies upon animals which are the 



far as they are concerned, unanswerable. On 

 the other hand, the color of the cinnamon 

 and its very different nature, seem to sustain 

 the opinion of the frontiersman. Most hunt- 

 ers would as soon face a grizzly as a cin- 

 namon, having found by experience that the 

 one is just as likely to put up a fight as the 

 other. Neither the grizzly nor the cinna- 

 mon is, to-day, as vicious as it is said to be, 

 yet, either will give a lot of trouble occas- 



