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FOREST AND STREAM, 



I Feb. 21, 1884. 



■jMt lead, but also omi perhaps that may be successfully used as such 

 by the adaptation at less powder and more lead, as lias already been 



proposed by rue iu former letters. 



Third We have not a rifle intended expressly for heavy frame 

 shooting, noras a "bone-braker," "pa.ralvzer,"or'for grrizzlies, tigers 

 or elephants, but a ritie thai, probably would be able to Rive a good 

 account of itself even against heavy game, when any emorgeriov 

 arose to make it necessary for the hunter to defend his life. 



And generally wb have iiot a gun that is expected to fill all the 

 requirements for a taunting gun against all kinds of came, but a 

 "eon. promise" that fills the bill for as much as may he for the. gen- 

 eral hunter or target shot, leaving the specialists either on large or 

 small game, and the long range target or taunting shots to select for 

 themselves from the guns already on the market, or to "evolve'' 

 some new gun more suited to their requirements than either this gun 

 or those to be now had elsewhere. And may success attend such 

 "evolution." C. D. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Ttae great length of the shell of course hinders its effective use in 

 rides like the 'Winchester or Kennedy, but could not the Spencer be 

 used for that length of cartridge without using too much of the weight 

 and losing too much of the "strength, that it would in the Win- 

 chester, The only objection to the Spencer is its unhandy manner 

 of loading by v. 'it lidrau-ing the spring; now if that could be'obviated 

 by merely using an opening like the Winehester.it would, I think, 

 make it the best of actions for the desired .•lU-iitl. Hawkkye. 



"north Granville, In. Y. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



111 September last I provided myself with a Hotctakiss (.45-70), sent 

 it to the factory, had the triggers eased to ;!!,', pounds pull and put in 

 clean condition generally .and on the irttta of the month started for 

 Southwestern Colorado. 1 arrived at my sons cattle ranch about 

 the 1st Of October. Here I found two friends of the young men who 

 had anticipated my coming and had come over to engage with us in 

 the hunt. They were well skilled. One sported a .-10-70 Martin maga- 

 zine, and the other a .40-90(1 think a Ballard single breechloader). 

 Of course, I was a ''tenderfoot. 1 ' The glare of the sun so affected 

 my eyes and ttae high altitude (7,000 feet) my breathing that for a few 

 days I was not of much account. Soon, however, I began to get used 

 to ttae situation and concluded to venture out. but from long want of 

 experience with a rifle hardly dared then to trust my chances to that 

 weapon. Game, especially deer, was very plenty. I taad a good 

 10-bore, 10U pound Parker, and cartridges loaded 4J£ drams powder 

 and 12 buckshot. !' to the ounce. 



The boys fixed me upon a gentle old mare (which was wonderfully 

 corpulent with grass, and was nursing a four-months colt), the first 

 time I had been astride of a horse in nineteen years. Two of the 

 boys, also mounted, started off at the same time at right angles to 

 my line of hunt, and left me to climb a mountain toa plateau about 

 a mile away. On reaching the plateau I hunted around among the 

 scrub oaks for some time without success, and finally concluded I 

 would turu Lack. I had. not proceeded on ttae back track far when, 

 like a cotton-tail, up jumped a deer not forty yards, running straight 

 away. I leveled the gun, got sight just below ttae flag and 'blazed 

 away. The old mare may have dodged a little, but the first thing I 

 knew I w T as wallowing in the brush, heels up, and a confusion of 

 horse's feet and stirrup straps was disappearing among the scrub 

 oaks. Ttae fact was the old mare had taken in her dimensions to that 

 degree that the einehos were all slack, and bearing a little harder on 

 the off stirrup the saddle turned with me. On getting up, adjusting 

 my torn corduroys, and getting my gun in shape, I attempted to trail 

 the mare, but soon lost track. My only course appeared to be to go 

 back and report. I could see nothing but the destruction of the mare 

 and saddle. On reaching the foot of the mountain I met my sou and 

 the man wtao had started with him at the time I did. We returned. 

 I mounted on my sou's horse, and in five minutes after getting ttae 

 track the mare was found quietly picking the grass, without a scratch 

 and nothing broken but one stirrup strap. Of course the saddle, 

 lariats, etc.. hung suspended from the emaciated belly of the beast. 

 Ttae deer was also as easily found dead not over fifty yards from 

 where I last saw it. This was the only deer I killed with the shot- 

 gun. 



1 saw so many deer- out of range of shot I concluded to go into 

 practice with my Hotchkiss. The first shot I fired from it was at a 

 hawk sitting on a tail pine 130 yards away. Standing on one knee 

 and resting my elbow on the other, I let loose, and the hawk came 

 tumbling down through the branches dead. The shot was a dead 

 center. 



The next day, going out with my .40-70 friend, he pointed out to me 

 a large buck lying on an opposite hillside a distance of 80 yards. He 

 gave me the shot. The ball struck in the throat at ttae point of the 

 jaw. and passed up through the opposite side of the head, tearing 

 out the eye. Tie next day I concluded to try it. as the fellow went 

 to get married, "afoot and alone." On hunting around awhile, I 

 struck fresh tracks iu the mud, and on ascending a slight rise, I 

 looked up and before me saw the head of a deer, with ears erect and 

 eyes bulged out, trying to solve the situation. I stopped a little, ran 

 to the top of the rise and saw an old doe taking rather a wide circuit 

 80 yards off, while the tails of two well-grown fawns could be seen 

 bobbing up closer under the hill. I opened lire and gave the old doe 

 two shots, running to the right, when she tacked about and I got in 

 three shots, running to the left when she dropped. I had bit her 

 every time, and each shot was a fatal one. From this time my exhi- 

 bition of nerve was not so good, scoring many misses, and I must say 

 many good hits considering my long years of inexperience. Five of 

 us in eight days hung up oil deer. 1 grizzly (silver tip), 1 cinnamon, 2 

 turkeys and a number of sedge hens, prairie chickens, grouse, jack 

 rabbits, etc., with little hunting, the deer sometimes running within 

 two rods of the cabin door. 



Let me now introduce our friend of the .40-90 B. B., who proved 

 the angel of Leadville in the winter of 1818. That year ttae rush was 

 great to that place, and winter setting in early, found the ti.OOO or 

 8,000 Inhabitants with little meat. In their distress R. B. descended 

 on ttae town witta a burro train of thirty asses at a time, loaded with 

 elk. During the winter, he assured me, be killed with his own Sharps 

 rifle 161 elk and many deer, and marketed them in Leadville. He in- 

 formed me that in his eight years' experience as a Rocky Mountain 

 hunter^ he had owned several good guns, but his .40-90 was the 

 strongest shooting gin; he had ever seen; and it required the least 

 adjusting of sights. lie almost always made his own bullets and re- 

 loaded his shells. He assured me tiiat lead alone would upset to 

 about tie form "f an ordinary haystack and generally turn over, but 

 that with 1-14 tin and well swaged, the balls would go as straight as 

 a gimlet, and the trajectory was very small up to .'100 yards, while with 

 his habit of eyeing his sights his point blank was about 125 yards. He 

 got bis .40-90 in iSSL J ; and that fall he killed the first seventeen deer he 

 shot at without shooting a second shot at any one of them. While 

 with us, he let us do the most of the shooting, and busied himself 

 about the ranch. During my stay of five weeks he only shot six 

 deer, but they were scored at consecutive shots, and the nearest he 

 came to a miss was when lie broke the back of one at 150 yards 

 after sunset. 



He thought we were killing too many deer and would not hunt, and 

 soon we all thought so too, "When I left, there were about fifty deer 

 hung up to cure. The hams were cut out, then the shoulders, next 

 the rump was severed, the tenderloins taken out and the carcass 

 split. These were rubbed w it h salt and Mexican chilly. Our friend of 

 the .40-10 killed both the bear -, the grizzly giviug him a pretty lively 

 racket with a ball through its lungs, notwithstanding be rode a smart 

 horse; but a ball through the head just forward of the ears settled the 

 brute. This bear weighed fully 700 pounds. I taave the skin. 



This region of which 1 write is a hunters' paradise. We saw fully 

 100 deer cross the fiat in front of the. cabin in one day iu small bands, 

 and there were but two shots fired at them. Just before the storms 

 of fall come on, these deer come down from The high table lauds 

 where they have been bred, into the lower pine hills for shelter, and 

 on those occasions the woods will be alive with them. 



It was It. B.'s opinion that a strong magazine gun, taking six or 

 eight shells. .40-90, would excel any gun now made for bear, elk and 

 deer, and the Marlin or Winchester action he regarded the best. My 

 opinion is that the missile which presents the, largest surface to con- 

 tact of equal weight, convevs ttae greatest shock and consequently 

 kills the deadliest, consequently a truncate kills deader than a pointed 

 missile, and a .15 caliber than a .40, provided ttae missile is driven with 

 force enough to go through. M, R. 



NewahJS, N- J. 



Editor Forest and Streeton* 



In your issue of Jan, 24 the articles by J. W. Shurter and J. Duane 

 are very near my ideas on the subject indorsed by my past experi- 

 ence. Mr, Shutter has made a "bullseye." There is a happy medium 

 in all things, but in this world we poor mortals seem inclined to rush 

 to one, extreme or the other. It is within the memory of all prob- 

 ably who take any interest in these matters ttaat originally ttae ma- 

 jority of breech loading rifles were of very large caliber, ,50 ami more. 

 Now' ttae fashion seems DO be to rush to the other extreme, and many 

 advocate .40 and .38 and even .82 caliber. Are we not going too fast? 

 Mv experience lias been that a .11 or .45 ball is superior to a .50-Cali- 

 ber with the same amount of powder. Yet 1 would not argue that 

 the .50-caliber with enough powder to carry it would not be more de- 

 structive; but then there is increased weight, recoil, cost of ammu- 

 nition, etc., to be considered, without any great gain, for if we can 

 obtain all that is needed in power with an engine of certain horse 

 power, why taave a larger one? Therefore, why a large bore rifle if 



one smaller will do? Methmksl hear some advocate of small bores 

 exclaim, "There, now, we've got him] Why he admits the small 

 bore is best, and why a .11 or .15? Why not a .40?" Softly, my good 

 friend, "too much of a good thing,"" etc., and too small' a bore in a 

 rifle likewise. T thmk this matter easily adjusted, and am bigoted 

 enough to believe that others will think so. too, when they look at it 

 in the right, light. 



We can sum up the requirements of those who shoot a rifle for 

 game into two classes— those who want a rifle, for grouse, squirrels, 

 turkeys and the like, and those who, though ihey may not "tackle" 

 anything larger thau a doer, want to be prepared for anything they 

 might "run on to." The majority of sportsmen, while they might 

 not be eager to open hostilities with "Old Kphraim," would ho doubt 

 feel more con ten ted if the arm thev earned were capable of coping 

 successfully with "Eph," if a good opportunity offered. Now. 

 while I do not, want to say that the .40-ealiber is not the thing. I will 

 ask its advocates if, for the purposes named above, would not a ,86 

 or even a .32-caliber do just as well and cover all required points 

 as regards lightness, slight recoil, handiuess (as regards size and 

 weight), ammunition and small cost of same? If such is the ease, 

 does not the .44 or .45-caliber more nearly fill the other requirements 

 of a powerful missile than the smaller '.40? If these two points are 

 admitted, why the need of ttae intermediate caliber for all practical 

 purposes? The point has been advanced that the length of the 

 cartridge of the .40-90-500 is against it, I think it well taken, as, 

 aside from the increased length of the. action of the rifle, too long a 

 cartridge would be unhandy. By increasing caliber we eet increased 

 powder capacity with less length of shell. Then, again, the ball. A 

 500-gruin .40 caliber ball is too long for practical purposes, or at least 

 some of your correspondents so prove ; and there is no question but 

 that a ball weighing from 350 to 405 grains (the government ball) 

 would do as good work as the .40-caliber long ball for wb at would 

 be gained by length (unless we expect ball to strike sideways) in 

 killing power and for hunting distances, will not the other ball be 

 long enough to have a steady flight. 



Let us have a .45-caliber repeater, with 90 to 120 grains of powder, 

 and ball from 350 to 405 grains, straight shell. Then at a "pinch" 

 the government shell could be used as a single-loader. And as most 

 of our heavy game is shot in the West, this fact will cause the rifle 

 to be popular in that section. With such an arm, with an action that 

 will stand the "racket" and always work, the tie plus ultra of an all- 

 round sporting rifle will be reached for the present. What, the future 

 has in store for us, judging by the improvements in the past, "We 



iliim:} t-*Jll 15 PuiTDir tlAr' 



Pbairie Doa. 



dinua ken." 

 Detroit, Mich. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The men of leisure and means want to have the inside track all the 

 time. They are not satisfied witta any reasonable battery, nor will- 

 ing to take chances witta the hunter wtao can only afford one gun. 

 Ttae cry is for a costlier and deadlier weapon that will kill every 

 thing before it. The big-duck guns were seized and broken up, be- 

 cause forsooth they killed more ducks than the- fine-haired city swell 

 could with his Greener, sinkboats, decoys and all. Game protection 

 is right and should have been thought of long ago; yet it should be 

 in spirit what it pretends to be in form— for ttae preservation of the 

 game, for the benefit of the masses, and not for the favored few. 

 There seems to be an envious under-current in this matter of game 

 protection. Sportsmen who only have a yearly vacation are, of 

 course, anxious to kill all the game possible in' a, certain limited 

 time. They are to some extent jealous of the gentleman sportsman 

 of means and leisure alike unlimited ; and he in turn of ttae back- 

 woods hunter, wtao, with the faithful old muzzleloader, kills more 

 than both of them. Ttais is all wiong. Ttae game is not confined by 

 meets and bounds but falls to the man who can stand the toil of 

 tramping day after day, or stand shivering on a runway for hours 

 in the hope of one chance at a fleeing deer. The present taunting 

 rifle is good enough, far too good for our supply of big game. Give 

 the game a little show. Only a little while and game shooting will 

 be a thing of the past. Manufacturers of guns are killing ttae "goose 

 that lays ttae golden egg." What would you think of a man carry- 

 ing a 4-bore, 10-drams powder, 3-ounce shot on quail? Explosive 

 bullet, hollow r express balls that cut a deer in two, extreme long- 

 range rifles with "great smashing powers." Though carried on large 

 game, should be classed in the same category as No. 4 on quail— mm - 

 derous. We won't need guns much longer. 38-Long. 



Editor Forest and. Stream: 



Whether there is sufficient demand for a .40-90 repeater to justify 

 its manufacture is a question yet to be determined. I, for one rifle- 

 man, doubt it. 



I have mentioned before the advantages of using in our .45-caliber 

 rifles more powder and less lead. Iu your issue of Jan. 17, your cor- 

 respondents W. Milton Farrow and "C. D." mention this. 



Mr. Farrow speaks of putting his shots thirty-two inches higher 

 with a .45-85-205 shell thau with a .45-70-405 shell from the same rifle. 



The government shell can be loaded with 85 to 90 grains powder 

 and a 300 grain ball, and will give about the same result, and for 

 hunting purposes, deer especially, is much more satisfactory. It 

 will catch a. deer's back along midrange that the regular ammuni- 

 tion would overshoot. Most of the reloading tools for the government 

 shell will seat a 300-grain ball just as perfectly as the regular ball. I 

 know that ttae tool formerly manufactured by ttae Providence Tool 

 Company will. Sportsmen who use the .45-75 bottled shell in their 

 repeaters should by all means try a 300-grain naked ball with ah the 

 powder the shell will hold. 



This ammunition is so much superior to the 75-350 load, that I be- 

 lieve no deer hunter will return to the latter. Make the balls toler- 

 ably hard and they will follow the grooves. By using a 24-inch load- 

 ing tube, at least 90 grains of Hazard FG powder can be put in 

 this shell, and you will find the balls do go down the range in a hurry. 

 The recoil is but slight, and the blow- out-behind theory is all bosh. 

 Would the shell taold it. I would not hesitate to use 150 grains in my 

 repeater (the new Whitney Kennedy), and believe it would stand 

 much more. * 



I also find the trajectory of this rifle a little flatter than others in 

 which I have used the same ammunition. I prefer the solid boll, and 

 believe 300 grains heavy enough for all game but buffalo and grizzly. 

 Of the first we have no more, and but few hunters comparatively look 

 after grizzly. 



Ttaeu again, this ammunition is used in a 9 to 9J4 pound gun, which 

 is about as heavy as a man wants to carry all day. I would sight the 

 rifle with the Van Dyke sight (described in his "Still-Hunter"), for 

 100 yards. 



These sights are certainly worth a trial, and any one can make and 

 put them on. Big Imjih. 



Delana, III. 



Editor Fares/ and Stream: 



I read with pleasure the article by "Drociddep," iu your issue of 

 Jan. 17. 1 can heartily agree with him in thinking that a .25-caliber 

 uould he popular aruong those wdio bunt small game. I have been 

 using a .83-caliber Remington, for some time back, but I have long 

 thought that a smaller bullet would answer my purpose just as well. 

 if not better. I think that, a .22 is too small and that a .32 is larger 

 than is necessary inhunting small game. II, J. R. 



Hamilton, N.Y. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



As it now seems to he in order for sportsmen to express then' 

 preferences for sporting titles 1 wish to suggest, still another pattern 

 which, in my opinion, would become a great i.< v or ire among that Class 

 of sportsmen who have given some attention to glass-ball aud wing- 

 shooting with the rifle, I am a believer iu the capabilities of many 

 sportsmen to kill birds on the wing with a rifle, and for those who 

 hunt for sport, recreation, and health, and not for "meat," one bird 

 killed in that manner must certainly afford more satisfaction than 

 dozen killed with a shotgun. Of course considerable practice is re- 

 quired to hit rapidly moving objects with a title, but it has been douc 

 by hundreds, and can he by thousands more. Where game is plenty 

 sufficient practice can be liad with little inconvenience after one has 

 acquired some proflcienc-y at old oyster cans, -lass balls, and the like. 



The rifle best adapted t'o this style of shooting, or "snap" shooting 

 as it is called, is the .22 -caliber. Now the rifle I want to suggest Is a 

 .22-ealiber magazine gun with underneath lever action similar to the 

 Winchester or Marin and shooting the run fire cartridge, either the 

 short or long will do. 



Ttae object is to get two or more shots at single or double bails, or 

 as many as possible at hying or running game without removing the 

 gun from ttae shoulder. 



The .22-caliber rifle is pre-eminently the one for practice and for 

 many kinds of work in the held, and 'for the following reasons pref- 

 erable to the larger calibers: Fist, it is sufficiently accurate for all 

 practical purposes; second, makes little or no report to frighten 

 game; third, no smoke to obsciu e the vision when a second or third 

 shot is necessary; fourth, does not tear the game into strings; fifih, 

 can be used withom danger or without disturbing any one near tow n. 

 or even in a large city, for target shooting or snap shooting at sta- 

 tionary objects. Only a plank four or six inches [luck an 

 square is necessary for a butt and a back yard is sufficient range. 



Perhaps the most potent recommendation is the trivial cost of the 

 ammunition, a thousand rounds of the short costing only about £8, 

 the long about §3, while the ,32 and .38 caliber center fire cost in the 

 neighborhood of S 1 2 and gl5 per thousand respectively. For a person 

 using one or two hundred a day ttais margin is an important item, 

 unless his bank account is very plethoric. To become expert requires 



lots of practice, and a per,; m practicing should never be haunted 

 with the feeling th.it In- cannot afford the eSjp 



In conclusion, the killing power is quite sufficient Eor ail birds tike 

 quail, doves, grouse and duces, and for such animals as squirrels 

 rabbits, muskruis. badgers, etc, I even know of on. 

 a yearling buck, mule deer, wa.s kilUd viih ., , ; 



rifle using the long cartridge. He was shoi through the b . 

 about fifty yards, and, starting ' hot, v. hie 



struck bis backbone, bringing him to grass. Bdl h bnllete in I his e.: 

 passed clear through, making four holes through the slim. 



1 am very desirous of seeing such a rifle from some of our icliabir 

 makers placed on the market, which fact must he nlv apo 

 this intrusion on your own and readers' patience. 



Fort Bidwisu., Oal. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



About five years ago I purchased a Sharps mid-range rifle , 1) cSfll 

 bar, using the 2Jg-inehS ttaight shell (66-380; mainly for use on the 



tlu 



range, and having no oth 

 the ordinary ammunitior 

 ordinary bunting distanc 

 finding my game after ' 

 place. About this tim 

 Hon. It did not take w 

 bullet, and the first oni 



good success, only the 



after two or three eta 

 chamber without fceai i 

 too much of a cylinder 

 with the bullet taperin, 

 250 grains, which 1 aftt 

 sized copper tube mad 

 . 40-caliber express bull 

 ting wad, would use BO 

 this ammnnmilion 1 0a 

 trajectory is compara' 

 1 don't think this can ta 

 For so! 



utingrifle . 

 id no troubli 



I did have < 

 Ot as 1 did t 



id to 



di resolved to 



The trouble 



..- this with 

 jv game at the, 

 uueta dii'liculty 

 up in the firs 

 i attract attei 

 try the expn 



n season wit] 

 r when loading 

 t get ir into the. 

 was that it was 

 ; new mould made, 

 iglir. The first was 

 us. to take the small 

 i I think it the best 



talk about double 

 hiaexperiei 

 nerof questions, pew 



any answered. Among the dif- 

 e, tiled the Messrs. I). <tJ. FlflseK 

 as makers of Express rifles, and 

 nd of rifling that very much re- 

 very flat trajectory. I placed 



Klgrains if the shells would hold it. With 



get excellent targets at 800 yards, and the 

 Sly Hat; for a singleshot deer hunting rifle 

 >eat much. 



lave been wishing for a double express ririe, 



but on account of the heavy import duties kept putting it off till a 

 more convenient season (when the duties would be lower.. I bap 

 penedto be m New' York during the International Military Match of 

 1881 and became acquainted with some members of the British team, 

 among others Mr. McVittie, w itta whom I 'lis ' 

 express rifles and their makers. On aeeoun 

 sporting arms, I of course plied taim with all i 

 taining to those arms, which he ki 

 ferent. makers of repute, he rccorni 

 of Edinburgh, Scotland, very highl, 

 said they were using an improved 1 

 duced recoil and fouling, and gave 



an order witn them for a. double express" .45-caliber, using 1 IU grains 

 C. <£ H. powder and 280-grain bullet, which iu due time came to 

 hand. They call it^a double grip, tin er lever, with extern 

 Damascus steel barrels, back action, rebounding locks. The barn-Is 

 are. twenty-eight inches, the whole gun weighing a little Less than 

 eight pounds, and when compared witta our ten and eleven pound 

 guns it is a seeming toy. The sighting is perfection, if such a tiling 

 can be. It seems just as easy to use it in the thickest hemlock woods 

 as in the nicest gray light, and I have yet to see a .sportsman who 

 has handled it that was not at once captivate. 1 ; with the sights, and 

 in fact the whole gun. I did not get the gununt.il late iu October* 

 and have not had a full season with it yet, and cannot report fully, 

 but from the few deer I got this fall with it, 1 am satisfied it will 

 prove a very superior weapon . 



Now in regard to the choice of a hunting ritie, I am willing to 

 admit there are some kinds of game where a solid bullet, is better 

 than an express, at least I judge so from the tone of many letters 

 from Western correspondents, but for all-round hunting I consider 

 the express system as far iu advance of the solid bullet as the breech 

 loader is ahead of the muzzleloader. I have used the solid bullet 

 ataout ten years and the express about five, aud am well convinced 

 that lhe express system has only to be hotter understood to be more 

 generally used. E>. McG 



Harrisville, Mich. 



£*wjp Sw Sfofowgz- 



"That reminds me." 



104. 



FIVE of us went into camp iu the Indian Territory, and 

 we drew lots to see who should begin to conk. Dr. 1>. 

 drew the black bean and cooked a very deeen I supper all 

 hour after we located camp. Sitting; around the tire before - 

 bedtime arranging plans for the coming lime weeks of camp 

 life, and swapping such glorious shooting and fishing lies as 

 only honest sportsmen know how, the happy thought si ruck 

 iue"(\vhat would our lives be without the cleat old "happy 

 thought?") that one man should cook till some other fellow 

 found fault, and then the faultfinder should cook till he in 

 turn was found fault with. When [proposed it everybody 

 consented, none more cheerfully than Dr. B. : who hnovv 

 too well what an abominable cook he was and felt sure of 

 being relieved soon. Day after day passed and no word of 

 complaint came from any of us, though the Doctor seemed 

 to take a fiendish delight in serving up such feaifttl mixtures 

 as made us leave cam]) sorrowing. Finally, getting des- 

 perate at the prospect of spending the rest ot his days over 

 the pots and kettles, and believing we had secretly banded 

 together to keep him there till camp life ended, lie dumped 

 a quart of salt into the dough for the breakfast bread one 

 morning, and when it came on the table smoking hot he sat 

 back to watch the effect, with a diabolical gleam in his eye. 

 Judge M. was the first man to help himself, and as lie swal 

 lowed a piece of Dr. 13. ? s bait he heaved two or three times, 

 and yelled out, "Je-ru sa.dem crickets! that bread 18 sail; 

 but, 'Doctor, its good, don't you forget it" 

 St. Loins, Mo. _______^__— 



J. W. M. 



CRITICS' CORNER. 



Editor Forest nntL'Stn am ' 



Now that we have a critics' curuer aud-every one is doing a little 

 growling and giviug hints, 1 would like to do my share with the rest. 

 Add to f»e liide.r Expturgatovvus "yanked^'hr "takyn in out of the 

 wet." I also put in a plea for angler instead of lishernian. Though 

 1 know of no exact authority for this, yet v, e all ie, : ,,ei,ize that n 

 fisherman is one who gams his living by lishmg and an angler one 

 Who Bfiheri for spoil. Whe ever beard of Mie "31.'0 I li ic»d 

 anglers," And I chink we have all tired I i ■■" 



sious as "feathery lure" for fly, the "pliant red" and oilers too 

 numerous to mention, but whicli every o- . ratine 



will recognize. Let us strive to titti lor, more cone, 



style and give more facts and less fancy. 



If anglers iu writing accounts of their trips would give accurate 

 information, as to when f,iu\ v.enl .i unless they wish to keep this a 

 secret), how they got thtre, where the-, put up, what sort Of Sn 



medanous and access to the water they had, what time oi ye&r. I 



what kind ot weather U was, what sort of bait or ii bneyi ed, the 

 condition, depth, etc., of the water, how many ftgh tliev tool id 

 approximate average weight, the kind or fish and any particular 

 incidents or other details they can give, and . their 



accounts of their journey would not onh i Hug but very 



valuable and we w ould soon accumulate an invaluable 1 1 mes, oi Infot 

 ationon angling matters, ubieh we now, to a g*reat degree, lack. 



rr:wjvv_4L. 



Professor Skeat notes in the London Aeailemy that in Iiovt 

 and Ward's ' Oyclopiedia of Practical Quotations' 1 there, is at 

 least oue which has found its way , w It h comical effeet. 

 strange company. The words of Pistol in "Ueury V.' : !' 

 — "Trail'st thou the puissant pike"— arc given under the head 

 of ' 'Angling." 



