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THE FIRST OUTDOOR JOURNAL' PUBLISHED IN AMERICA 
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Vol. XCII. CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1922 No. 9 
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Hunting Alaska Sheep and Natural History Notes .397 
Moose 387 
By Robert H. Rockwell Editorial Comment 398 
Opening the Season on Rail. . . 390 nessmuk’s Camp Fire 400 
By George S. Broion 
Boating AND Boat-Building.... 392 Letters, Questions and An- 
Part III — The Shackboat swers 402 
By Dwight S. Sinryson ^ 
Open Seasons for Game i.n 1922 404 
A Wnisp OF Cape Cod Plover. . 394 
By Stanley T. Williams Black Bass i.n Louisiana 406 
Fishing at North Point of Shoreeird Shooting 410 
Beach • 395 By C. S. Landis 
By Leonard Huht 
The Metal-Bodied Fly Minnow 396 Training a Pointer — Part II... 430 
By Louis Rhead By G. R. Hawilton 
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