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Being the history, general characteristics, pe- 
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REMINISCENT TALES OF A HUM- 
BLE ANGLER. 
By Dr. Frank M. Johnson 
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FISHING WITH A BOY. The Tale 
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JIST HUNTIN’ By Ozark Ripley 
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IN THE ALASKA-YUKON GAME- 
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With an Introduction by Dr. Wm. T. Horna- 
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CASTING TACKLE ANDMETHODS 
By O. IT. Smith 
Fishing Editor of "Outdoor Life" and author 
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FOREST AND STREAM 
well on a shotgun for clay pigeons, or 
even for ducks. One noted shot is now 
using a Lyman peep with excellent re- 
sults. In a double barrel, at the targets, 
it is above all necessary to know where 
the barrel you are shooting puts the cen- 
tre of the load, and a lateral adjustment 
might be of great importance, it being 
my experience that 90 per cent, of double- 
barrel guns are not properly adjusted to 
make up for the wide difference in the 
central axes of the barrels at the breach 
as compared with the muzzle. 
Try a few ball cartridges in your 
double-barrel gun, and you will find in a 
majority of cases that the left shoots a 
foot to the right at thirty-five yards and 
the right quite as much to the left. In a 
pumpgun it is quite different. 
Wm. M. Ellicott, Maryland. 
MAKING A FIRE 
Dear Forest and Stream : 
I READ on the front page of the Octo- 
^ her 14th issue of the Buffalo Evening 
Nezvs — under the heading, “Lost in Big 
Woods Two Weeks, Starving for Want 
of Matches” — an article giving the ex- 
perience of a Toronto physician who was 
lost two weeks, and, although there were 
plenty of partridge and he had a good 
supply of ammunition, he refrained from 
shooting any, as he had no fire or means 
of making a fire by which to cook them. 
It seems to me that every man who is 
intelligent enough to make out a hunting 
license report would learn a few of the 
old Indian tricks of making fires. There 
are a number of ways. Any man who 
possesses a jack-knife and a shoe string 
can build a hon-fire in five minutes. With 
the use of his gun and a few cartridges 
he can make a fire in two minutes. With 
his jack-knife or hatchet and a small 
piece of flint he can make a fire in thirty 
seconds. 
Every Boy Scout and Girl Scout head- 
quarters in most every large city in the 
United States sell little Indian wood-fric- 
tion fire-making sets. They are com- 
posed of a bow, a drill, a leather thong 
and two blocks of wood. It would be a 
good idea if every hunter, hiker, camper 
or outdoor man would familiarize him- 
self with one of these fire-making sets, 
even if they do not care to purchase one, 
just to get the idea in case of emergency. 
It seems a shame that a physician and 
intellectual man should be obliged to go 
two weeks without a fire when any Boy 
Scout could have built him a roaring fire 
with the use of his jack-knife, a piece of 
wood and his shoe string inside of five 
minutes. 
This physician could have made a fire 
with his cartridges in the following man- 
ner: Withdraw the powder from three 
shells by cutting into the side or digging- 
out the wads. Mix this powder with a 
handful of dry, shredded leaves, bark tin- 
der or dry grass. Withdraw the lead or 
shot from another shell, replace light 
wadding over the powder, put shell into 
gun and place gun on its side on the 
ground with the muzzle flush with and at 
one side of the pile of tinder and powder. 
All that is necessary then is to pull the 
trigger. The flash from the discharge 
will ignite the powder mi.xed up with the 
dry leaves. 
to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will 
January, 1922 
There are many other ways of getting 
fire from a gun, such as shooting through 
cloth, etc. A watch crystal or both lenses 
from a pair of eye-glasses will make fire ■' 
from the sun. » 
There is absolutely no need for any ’ 
hunter to be without fire over ten min- j 
utes if he is without matches. Let them f 
get in touch with their Boy Scout organi- f 
zation and learn this simple Indian trick. 
M. H. Recktenwalt, New York. j 
WINTER WOODCRAFT 
{Continued from page 2\) * 
remember that hooks, cords and a good 
many other handy things are procurable 
in the woods. A twig so cut as to leave 
a short stub near each end, pointing , 
toward each other, is often useful ; you 
can, for instance, hook one end in the 
handle of a cooking-vessel and hang the j 
other end to the bar you have placed 'j 
above the fire — when cooking on open * 
embers. Several kinds of bark make I 
good “rope,” especially the moose-wood, j 
sometimes called “leather-wood.” j 
SCARCELY need to tell you that in 
winter camping your bed means a 
great deal indeed. Doubtless the best 
portable camp bed is the folding canvas 
cot, and if your camp is to be permanent j 
and is not too far away you would be | 
wise to depend on it. But you may with j 
entire safety go without any kind of ‘ 
bed; you can build one in camp. A. T. i 
Strong, an expert on camperaft, gives j 
the following methods, which I heartily j 
endorse : U 
“Construct a framework by driving ^ 
four stakes, roughly, three inches in : 
diameter, into the ground and nailing j 
upon the tops of these two cross-poles 
of the same original size, but flattened 
on the upper and lower sides, and as 
long as the intended width of the bunk. - 
(Thirty inches is a convenient width for 
a single and forty-two inches for a 
double bunk.)” Small, straight, springy 
poles should then be nailed lengthwise 
and about an inch apart until the bunk 
is entirely covered. A better job will 
result if the little poles are alternated, j 
butt up, butt down, as most saplings are j 
considerably heavier at the butt, and lay- 4 
ing them all one way would cause the * 
bed to finish unevenly. Next, put two ) 
more short poles, about two inches in ■ 
diameter, across the ends of the long 
ones, nailing them in place ; then, on 
either side, place a two-inch rail (to 
hold bedding in place), and nail these 
also. The bunk is now complete and 
ready for the .“feathers.” 
The browse or other softening may 
now be put into the bunk — which has . 
previously been covered with an old , 
blanket, strips of burlap or other avail- j 
able material, to prevent the browse from ? 
sifting through the poles — and topped I 
off with the blankets. Or even better is ^ 
a tick or sack of a size to cover the k 
bunk, which may he filled with browse. J 
But in either case, if care has been ex-| 
ercised in selecting only very small, lively i 
poles for springs, a cozy, comfortable I 
and exceedingly warm bed is the result.! 
L. E. Eubanks, I 
Washington. I 
identify you. I 
