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FOREST AND STREAM 
March, 1922 
A Reel Investment 
Pays Dividends 
in Fish Caught 
MEISSELBACH 
* Fishing Reels of Quality’ ' 
As Typified by the 
Greater line capacity than 
any reel of its size. Longer 
life for the price paid and 
more “reel satisfaction” than 
just words can show. 
Like every Meisselbach reel 
it can be taken apart and put 
together in less than five 
seconds. 
For detailed description con- 
sult your dealer or write us 
for catalogue D-3. 
Sold By All Reel Dealers 
A. F. MEISSELBACH MFC. CO. 
Otto Heineman^ Pres. 
25 West 45tK Street New York 
and can give anyone desiring to go witli 
them a tip-top time, and their prices are 
very reasonable, compared with prices 
charged by most professionals in Florida. 
His brother, Mr. D. R. House, has 
been with me and my party and I also 
think he was with Dimmick in previous 
years. He is a particularly good man, 
and while I do not know Lloyd House, 
he must be all right from what I hear. 
W. B. Bogert, 
Virginia. 
THE OUTLAW OF 
HEMLOCK HOLLOW 
{Continued from page 105) 
On he came but to me, out of all gun 
range, was forced the part of an on- 
looker to the play. On through the cat- 
tle, out to the wall beyond the pasture 
he doubled back and headed for the 
highway that split the valley north and 
south. As he flashed through the bar- 
way, across the stillness of the morning 
came the sharp smack of smokeless pow- 
der and I saw the tall form of the old 
Colonel rise abo\'e the stone wall. The 
hounds by now were crossing below me 
and were racing here and there, while 
the Holstein cattle were standing wild- 
eyed and curious about the pasture, in- 
nocent of the part they had played in 
the tragedy. 
I RACED across the meadow and ar- 
^ river on the scene while yet the 
gasping breath of the Colonel's victim 
was reddening the snow and beheld the 
most magnificent red fox I had ever seen 
with a mask across the eyes, black as a 
raven’s wing. I saw the erect form of 
the old Colonel standing with his gun 
across his arm. The bright rays of the 
morning sun were just slanting across 
the hills and the music of the hounds 
came to me as they were now once more 
driving on the straightened trail. 
Old Stonewall was avenged and si- 
lently the Colonel and I shook hands 
across his victim. 
Taking a gold piece from my pocket 
I extended it to him. “There was a 
price upon his head you know. Colonel,” 
I said, “its yours. Let me keep the pelt — 
villain he was, but I’d hate to see it 
double-dyed to grace the shoulders of 
some lady fair.” 
The old man, holding the gold, looked 
seemingly out across the hills into the 
past. “You know, sah,” he said slowly, 
“we do not shoot the fox in our coun- 
try, but this one, sah, I consider an out- 
law and ’twas for Stonewall. I’ve seen 
the days, sah, when at a kill I’d have 
scattered this gold amongst my niggahs, 
sah !” 
Fox across my "shoulders and hounds 
at heel, I took up the trailing road for 
home. The race was ended. As I 
passed the old Poor House gate there 
was a rejoicing cackle from the hen 
3 ’ards at the rear and a voice called 
shrilly; “Colonel, the wood box is empty, 
I wisht you’d l)ring in a armful for the 
kitchen stove.” 
SPECIAL STOCKS FOR 
RIFLES 
{Continued from page 109) 
on the fancy grades of the lever action, 
tubular-magazine Winchesters and Mar- 
lins. Then there is the curved-bottom, 
or shad-belly, type common on high- 
grade Winchester and Stevens Schuetzen 
target rifles and on the Model 1899 
Savage. This looks well with big 
Schuetzen butts or with rifle butt plates, 
l)ut not with shotgun butts, especially if 
they arc small in size and very flat. The 
curves of this style require a curv'cd butt 
to set them off properly. 
Also there are beautiful sporting and 
military stocks, hand-made somewhat 
along the graceful lines of the old squir- 
rel rifles. Superb’ examples of these are 
made by Frank Hcjffman, of Fredericks- 
burg, Va., and others. They usually 
have rather thin combs, with the combs 
well up on the tang. The lines are 
graceful when well caiwed. 
The new Remington bolt action 
.30-1906 is, and the .280 Ross was, reg- 
ularly fitted with well-designed examples 
of sporting stocks. 
There are also the heavy, rounded- 
comb stocks similar to the best designs 
seen on single or repeating trap-guns. 
They are large and perfect-fitting and 
work out best on remodeled military 
rifles such as the Model 1895 Winchester 
and similar weapons of good size and 
weight. They arc particularly w'ell 
adapted to the use of the long-armed 
man who demands a full size rifle, stock 
and all. James Webb, of West Fair- 
view, Pa., turns out beautiful models of 
this type. 
Then there arc the plain, crude, and 
sometimes poorly designed types made 
by hunters who lack the experience or 
ability of the stockers in the large arms 
companies or the expert private work- 
man. What they lack in looks they often 
make up in effectiveness because they fit 
the shooter. 
Special made-to-measure stocks, there- 
fore, may mean anything from the two- 
dollar beginning to the hundrcd-dollar 
work of art. They all help in that they 
enable the rifleman — be he expert or be- 
ginner — to place his shots nearer the 
center of the bull’s-eye. 
FISHING WITH A BOY 
OTEWART KIDD CO. has recently 
^ brought out a book entitled “Fish- 
ing With a Boy,” by Leonard Unlit. 
Price, $2. 
It is a talc of compelling interest and 
has to do with the rcju\cnati(m of a man, 
broken in health aiul low in spirits, who 
regained his physical fitness and renewed 
his confidence in life by close association 
with a healthy country boy while on 
many fishing excursions to the ponds and 
brooks of the neighborhood. 
Mr. Hulit has woven into the story 
much practical advice on the taking of 
many kinds of fish and has told his story 
with the keen enthusiasm of a true fish- 
erman. 
The book should have a strong appeal 
to all anglers, both old and young. 
In n’rHtng to Adverlisas mentwn Forest and LUreiim. It will identifg you. 
