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pheasantries; lowest prices on application. — Mansel 
Lewis, Stradey GaStle, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire. 
THE "MARKOVER" GAME FARM, STONEY 
Green Hall, Great Missenden, Bucks. — Capt. A. E. Will- 
iams has six hundred vei-y fine one-year-old hen pheas- 
ants (first cross with black-necked Hungarians) to sell 
for stock, — Teleg ranis "Markover," Great Missenden. 
PHEASANTS' EGGS (ORDERS NOW 
booked). — Capt. Freeman, Manor House, Beckford 
Tewkesbury, continues to guarantee eggs from his patent 
pens, which arc moved twice weekly. -Not only 90 per 
cent, fertile, but to produce as easily reared poults as the 
best wild eggs do; highest testimonials on application. 
Fall-wing pheasants for sale. 
Those who think that because ^we have never done the 
thing we never can do it will doubtless oppose the Lacey 
bill, and all similar attempts to make our silent covers 
thrill with whirring wings. Many people, for generations 
to come, will doubtless look upon anything connected 
with sport as tomfoolery, unworthy the consideration of 
grown men. Such people do not rcid Forest and. 
Stream, and what is therein said will have no direct 
effect upon them. But to any one who knows aught of 
game and shooting in other lands dian our own the 
argument that game birds cannot be artificially intro- 
duced, on the same general principle as fish are intro- 
duced, will have no weight. There are plenty of French- 
Canadians in Quebec who curse the Government fish 
hatcheries, and who believe they are the cause of the 
diminished fish supply. An old man in Tadousac once 
said to me: "W'en I was leetle boy, de feesh hatchery 
was no here. De saumons was plenty more as dey is 
now. Den we all net, we all spear, Ave all sweep de 
pools ind de seine. Plenty saumons! Now we can no 
net, no spear, no sweep de pool. De dam hatchery come 
and spoil all de feeshin'." 
It is on such logical grounds as these that some people 
would oppose the fostering of game birds. 
Frederic Irland. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
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A Question of Survival. 
My mail to-day brings me a letter from "J. F. of 
Beloit, Wis., who brings up in course of his comments 
on an article published in another paper the question of 
the survival of the sports with rod and gun. That 
is to say, the writer whom he criticises seems to think 
that such a question exists, though in reality there is no 
question at all as to the survival of these sports. They 
will endure so long as the wind blows, and the water 
runs, and the sky is blue and inviting, and so long as 
man is man. A good many fellows try to make us think 
sometimes that human nature is not human nature, but 
none the less old human nature keeps right on doing 
business. The correspondent in question goes on to 
remark: 
"In looking over an old 'Advance,' a Congregational 
paper, of the date of Aug. 27, 1896, I find an article en- 
titled 'A Word for Vacation.' The writer, a W. G. 
Gannett, says: 'Fishing and shooting for fun will be 
among the total abstinences of the twentieth- century/ 
Again he says: 'Think what latent barbarism lies im- 
plied in the careless question: "Do you enjoy fishing?" 
Meanwhile, in this vacation, as you take the struggling 
trout from the brook or the dog lays the wounded bird 
at your feet, let the question drift in: 'Am I enjoying m\'- 
self?' 
"Is Mr. Gannett a pot hunter.^ He does not go fishing 
for sport. Does he go fishing to get a big string or 
doesn't he go at all? Does Mr, Gannett think that we. 
who go hunting and fishing, go simply because we desire 
to spill blood; because we- arc brutes? Long live the 
sport of fishing and bunting, and last, but by no means 
least, the Forest and Stream. And let me ask if Mr. 
Gannett ever took a 2J/2 or 3lb. black bass on a goz. rod, 
with 75 or Soft, of line out?" 
Singing Mouse No. 8. 
^Mr. J. L, Davison, of Lockport, N. Y., has discovered 
yet another singing mouse, to be added to the Forest and 
Stream gallery. Under date of Jan. 28 he writes me, "I 
presume you are an authority on the singing mouse sub- 
ject. I have just read your note about mouse No. 7 in 
this week's issue. It would have been No. 8 had I not 
been delayed in reporting the following incident: 
"Recently, while visiting my son in Buffalo, he told me 
of a singing mouse he heard in the Delaware Avenue 
Methodist Church one evening during the summer. He 
was sitting opposite a heat radiator in the floor of the 
aisle, from which came the singing, and it could be heard 
all through the services, excepting when the organ was 
being played and choir singing. His wife was one of the 
choir, and when he told her that he had never heard such 
singing as he had that evening, she supposed that he 
was complimenting her, little thinking that it could be 
construed to a different meaning, and still less, that the 
singing was of that dreadful thing, a mouse." 
Singing Mouse No. 9. 
Mr. B. E. King, of Saginaw, Mich., is still later with a 
singing mouse story. Under date of Feb. i he writes me 
as below regarding the ninth and tenth instances of a 
singing mouse which has come to my personal knowl- 
edge. When I wrote my book, "The Singing Mouse 
Stories," I had known of but two instances of this quaint 
little animal, and I did not know there were so many 
in the world as we have been hearing about since that 
time. Forest and Stream is a great developer in the 
fields of natural history. Mr. King goes on to say : 
"Something over a year ago I had occasion to make 
some purchases one evening at a small corner grocery 
near my residence, and while being waited upon I was 
attracted by singing similar to that of a canary, that 
seemed to come from back of the goods on one of the 
shelves. On closer inspection we discovered it was pro- 
duced inside the wall, between the studdings. The young 
man tending the store and I listened to it for some ten 
lir fifteen minutes, when it stopped. I waited and listened 
|uite a while longer, hoping to hear more, but was dis- 
.ppointed, 
Ji. have inquired a number of times since at the store, 
but they tell me they never heard anything like it be- 
fore or since. The tones were very clear, soft and 
sweet, and most pleasing to hear." 
Singing MouseNo. JO. 
"On going home that evening," continues Mr. King, "I 
mentioned having heard a singing mouse to my wife, and 
she told me of one her mother often spoke about that used 
to come out sometimes evenings and sing on one of the 
dressers in a bedroom at her old home in Utica, N. Y. 
"This was a very small, little mouse, and he would sit 
up on his hindquarters and sing very sweetly after eating 
his fill of dainties placed there for him ; but he soon dis- 
appeared, no doubt a victim to the enterprise of the 
family cat," 
Footwear?and['Mackinaw [Clothes. 
I have been relating something of the trials of my 
friend, Mr. McChesney. in trying to get himself and 
friends a few pairs of leather-topped rubbers for snow- 
shoeing, I sent him a letter from a gentleman out in 
Eau Claire, Wis., who said the leather top was an Eau 
Claire invention, and could be obtained there. I have yet 
another letter on this same head from Dr. W. M. 
Waterman, of Chicago, who writes: "The best rubber 
shoe with leather laced top, with roll edges, etc.. I have 
obtained from Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, a wholesale house 
in Chicago. These are lighter than the Gold Seal rub- 
ijers. I must call and relate my trip after deer and 
moose in Minnesota." 
Meantime I continue to hear wails from Mr. Mc- 
Chesney, who says that he has .sent to St. Paul for his 
rubber shoes. He has seen some other rubber shoes which 
he thinks will fill the bill, and is out after duplicates of 
that pattern. More than this, Mr. McChesney is in 
trouble about some Mackinaw clothes. He writes me very 
feelingly as below: 
"There is another item of woods rig that I wish you 
would get for me. or put me in the way of getting, and 
that is a Mackinaw suit, jacket and trousers. You know 
the rig well enough, but we cannot get them here. Last 
year I had quite a correspondence with the Peerless 
Manufacturing Company, of Detroit. They sent samples 
of goods, but none were suitable for a hunting rig, as I 
had no desire to put on mourning, neither did it seem 
proper to dress as the bounding zebra or wear colors 
that outdo the rainbow. A couple of years ago a friend 
secured for himself in Alpena, Mich., a jacket of light 
snuff color. It did have some red spots, but they were 
not large or bright enough to spoil it as a shooting coat. 
You know as well as anyone what colors in brown or gray 
would be suitable, and if you can have a suit of proper 
shade sent me, I will wear it in memory of you._ Coat 
40 breast measure ; pantaloons not less than 33 waist and 
about 33 leg, inseam, or over. This, you may guess is not 
my normal size, but is an estimate of growth caused by. 
sufficient layers of shirts. My ordinary old clothes are all 
right in ordinary weather, but sometimes, as you know, 
one wants many la3'ers of non-conducting substance over 
him, and a jacket over all. I want to try the Mackinaw 
if proper colors can be had. Jack Monroe had a good 
gray color last spring. I nearly said good suit, but it 
had really passed its prime.'^ 
In regard to wool clothing for wititet" Wear, it is good 
advice to get it big and get it with a 'belt. I shall never 
forget the trouble experienced by Mr. McChesney out iii 
the Blackfoot country. He had brought along an old 
pair of trousers, which he thought would serve his pur- 
pose admirably, but which he found so small that he 
could only get two or three of his heavy shirts inside of 
them. His other shirts he had to wear hanging down 
outside his trousers. I have some very interesting photo- 
graphs of him so clad, of which I will sell copies at rea- 
sonable rates. We had to send out to Kalispell, Mont., 
to get Mr. McChesney the Mackinaw suit he wanted. I 
could not find the right color here in Chicago, and I do 
not wish to offend my friend's aesthetic taste. But now, is 
it not strange that some of our sporting goods dealers 
do not take hold of and handle these very two articles 
over which we have been having so much discussion, 
Mackinaw clothing and snowshoe rubbers? These are 
goods sold mostly in the pine woods and mountain coun- 
tries. I fancy a dealer might do some trade through 
the advertising columns of Forest and Stream if he 
should offer these very' useful articles for winter outdoor 
wear. If Mr. McChesney does not get outfitted by next 
Fourth of July in these particulars, I shall be very 
much troubled, but will keep on trying. 
E. Hough. 
A Woods Sleeping Cabin. 
This structure is one of a group of three similar ones 
erected in the Adirondack Mountains, and forming a 
summer camp. The central building is used for dining 
room and kitchen. The wing buildings, similar to the 
drawing shown, are placed at either end and separated 
each from the other a small distance. The outer build- 
ings may be easily joined to the dining room building 
by a small connecting passage. The dining room and 
kitchen building we will illustrate in later editions of 
our journal. 
The building here shown may be used as an inde- 
pendent lodge or connection with some dub house. If 
not large enough the bunk space and sitting room space 
may be proportionately increased in length. 
The frame is tnade of logs, put together in the usual 
simple fashion, the spaces between the logs filled in with 
jy>\n. thick planks. The planks are toe-nailed to the 
sill or plate Pieces, or other timbers, and covered with 
