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Parlor Games for the Wise and Otherwise. By H. E. H. 

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Readt About; or, Sailing the Boat. One of the Boat Builder 

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Annual Report op the Division op Forestry for 1886. B. 

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; His Life, his Works and 

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Second Annual Report of the Forest Commission op the 

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A List op the Mammals op Manitoba. By Ernest E. Thomp- 

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Forestry Division Bulletin No. 1. Report on the Relation 

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 the cause of their decay in the wood-bed; on wood preservation: 

 on metal ties, and on the use of spark arresters. Compiled by the 

 Chief of the Forestry Division. Washington: Department of 

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It was reported that a son of Baring, the English banker, 

 was lost in the West while on a hunting expedition. A dis- 

 patch from Lethbridge, Northwest Territory, says the young 

 man has returned there. He was snowbound ten days.— 

 Ottawa (Canada) Free Press. 



MAN AND OTHER ANIMALS. 



Perhaps it may be interesting to your readers to hear how 

 Mr. Ira Waterman got the best of the proverbially sagacious 

 and crafty crows. I will try to tell the story as he told it to 

 me. Although he is chiefly interested in raising big corn 

 and rare kinds of grain, yet he enjoys a tilt with the wood- 

 chucks and crows; and has a happy way of setting off his 

 prowess with the gun. After looking over his fine farm one 

 day and listening to views upon the comparative merits of 

 Russian and Japanese oats, I ventured to inquire if he was 

 ever troubled by crows pulling his corn. "No, sir." he re- 

 plied, "the crows don't trouble as much as they did. The 

 crow families about here have dwindled a good deal since 

 last year. George and I got a snap on them last spring that 

 discouraged them some, and they havn't visited us much 

 since." "You poisoned them I presume," said I, remem- 

 bering my own experience and recalling the painful fact 

 that the crows had not been much discouraged on account of 

 my own efforts with a gun. "Yes, sir, I poisoned them with 

 lead, cold lead. I'll tell you how it was. We had been 

 troubled for several years by crows and they had got pretty 

 plenty about here. Well, last spring we had a dead calf and 

 kept him until he got just right, then we took him out in 

 the gully there back of the barn and left him on the snow 

 about six rods in front of that bank you see there. The snow 

 had drifted over and made a steep bank about 10ft. high. 

 We commenced well back toward the barn and dug under- 

 neath the snow till we got to the bank, then we made a room 

 several feet long and high enough so we could stand up and 

 move about comfortably. We bad two port holes arranged 

 so that we could see the carcass and know what was going 

 on. If you had stood three rods from that bank you couldn't 

 hear what was going on inside. We could talk as much as we 

 pleased and the crows could not hear it. George had a double 

 barrel gun and I a single one, and when the crows got to 

 coming we went down and entered our fort. We could see 

 dozens of them, cawing and strutting about; we could not 

 see our calf; nothing but crows as thick as they could stand. 



I told George to take the right hand side and I would the left. 

 I counted one, two, three, and we fired. You never saw such 

 a fluttering and jumping; crows everywhere. Some flew and 

 dropped more than half a mile away. We got sixteen at that 

 one blast. Two or three times after that we got fifteen at a 

 lick in the same way. I killed ten at one shot with my single 

 barrel, and once we knocked over fifteen at once and one hawk. 

 My son stuffed him, I wish you could see him; he is a big 

 one." How many did. you kill in all, I asked. "One hundred 

 and ten in sixteen days. Can any of your breechloaders 

 beat that ?" I admitted that I was generally satisfied if I 

 got one down at a time, and that I frequently failed to do 

 even that. But didn't they get shy at last, I inquired. "No, 

 sir, a crowisn't afraid unless he can see something, and don't 

 you see there wasn't anything to be seen, so they kept coming 

 till the snow melted and then our jig was up." — W. in Lake 

 Grove (N. Y.) News. 



Canvasback duck shooting will begin on the Havre de 

 Grace flats in Chesapeake Bay on Nov. 1. The migration of 

 wildfowl from the north during the past few days of cooler 

 weather has been unusually large. On Monday an almost 

 unbroken flight of coots passed down the Jersey coast. Old 

 gunners watched them flying by all day. Already the flats 

 at Havre de Grace are covered with fowl, mostly canvas- 

 backs and redheads. It is greatly to be deplored that means 

 cannot be taken to stop illegal shooting of the night gun- 

 ners, who, with their big punt guns, drive the fowl away. — 

 Lancaster (Pa.) Examiner, Oct. 19. 



Several of the largest landowners in West Prussia have 

 formed a society to promote the breeding of wild turkeys, 

 which are not only very good game, but they are also excel- 

 lent at table. There was a flock of wild turkeys, which was 

 estimated at 2,000, in Richmond Park up to the reign of 

 George H., and the Duke of Cumberland bred them in Wind- 

 sor Great Park. There was also a flock at Holkham early in 

 the present century, and it was there discovered that a brown 

 Norfolk turkey may be made to resemble the wild bird by 

 fattening it with walnuts soaked in water some days before 

 killing. — London Trutn. 



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