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FOREST AND STREAM 
T wo Guns in One 
Change from Rifle to 
Shotgun in One Second 
At last, the all-purpose gun — 
something you’ve always wanted. 
Strap Marble’s Game Getter Gun under 
your coat, put it in your suitcase or 
canoe and you have both rifle and shotgun. 
Upper barrel, .22 cal. rifled— lower barrel, .44 cal. and .410 
ga. smooth bore, for shot, or round ball. 12, 15 or 18 jn. barrel. 
A more accurate .22 cannot be found. For rabbits, birds, etc., it 
almost equals a 28 ga, shotgun. 
Sold by dealers who handle Marble’s axes, knives, gun sights, cleaners, 
etc. Order direct if your dealer can’t supply you. Ask for catalog. 
Prices irrclade No. M21— 12-in. barrels, complete with fine leather holster....$27.50 
Revenue Tax, No. M21— 15-in. barrels, complete with fine leather holster.... 29.15 
f.o.b. factory. No. M21 — 18-in. barrels, complete with fine leather holster.... 30.80 
MARBLE ARMS & MFC. CO., 526 Delta Avenue, Gladstone, Mich. 
KfARBLE’S hame g etter 
Catalogue Free 
Double guns for 
game $37 50 up 
Single barreluap 
guns $75 up. 
ITHACA 
GUN CO. 
Ithaca. N- Y. 
Box 25 
Robert H. Rockwell 
ITHACA WINS 
A. Stuart Boa, of the 
Dominion Cartridge 
Co., won high pro- 
fessional average for 
all Canada and H. 
W. Cooey won 
high amateur 
average of 
Canada in 
1921. John 
S. Boa,‘ a 
cousin of A. 
Stewart Boa, 
had previously 
won the Can- 
adian Profess- 
ional Champ- 
ionship four 
times and Sam 
Vance won the 
Amateur Champ- 
ionship of Canada 
four times All 
sh ot Itha cas. 
REISING 22 AUTOMATIC 
THE GUN THAT YOU HAVE 
HEARD ABOUT 
It is the three-part target and small-game gun 
that shoots with deadly accuracy. 
Cleans from the breech — the correct way. 
Takes down in three seconds without tools — 
only three parts. 
Shoots inexpensive, but extremely accurate .22 
Long Kifle R. F. Cartridges — Lesmok, Smokeless, 
or Semi-Smokeless. 
Ask your dealer. He carries 
this new small game gun, 
or can get it for you promptly. 
Without tools. 
It’s in 3 pieces, in 3 seconds. 
The Reising Arms Co., Inc. 
7 Jefferson Ave., Hartford, Conn. 
THE COMPLETE DOG BOOK $3 
FOREST & STREAM Book Dept 9 E. 40lh St, New York Cily 
J. KANNOFSKY GLASS-BLOWER 
and manufacturer of artificial eyes for birds, animals and 
manufacturing purposes a specialty. Send, for prices. All 
kinds of heads and skulls for furriers and taxidermists. 
1440 East 63rd St. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
328 CHURCH ST., Near Canal St,, NEW YORK 
May, 1922 
on the rock with the bait in his beak, 
and then made off rapidly with it. The 
faithful machine snapped him at just the 
right moment, and the accompanying 
photograph is the result. 
1 
T here now remained but one chap- 
ter in the photographic program 
which I had set for myself. I had yet 
to make a portrait of a crow in the air. 
A well-known habit of the crows now 
came to my assistance. They invariably 
combine in large numbers to drive cer- 
tain carnivorous birds (and possibly 
small mammals) out of the countryside 
whenever seen. They are particularly 
savage in the nesting season. In Penn- 
sylvania in April I have seen them at- 
tacking a vulture which sat on the 
ground in a circle of his black tormentors 
making clumsy lunges. Further north 
I have often observed them attacking 
hawks. 
I remember, as a very small boy, steal- j 
ing upon some crows in the pine woods, j 
Hiding behind a rock, I banged upon an- ! 
other with a stick. Evidentaly taking me 
for some bird or small fur-bearer (for 
it was almost dusk), the crows swooped ^ 
near me in a great flock, and I was thor- 
oughly scared by their threatening out- 
cries. 
Last May, remembering what I had j 
heard and seen of this habit, I took a j 
stuffed great horned owl and stuck him 5 
on a pole thirty feet from a little window 
in my blind. It being the height of the i 
nesting season, the hungry calls of the | 
young, still in their nests, were audible 
from the distant pines early every morn- 
ing. Having set up my fierce-looking 
effigy, I hurried into the blind, my wife j 
retiring to a hiding-place a quarter of 
a mile away, where she surveyed^ the ' 
little drama with field-glasses. This is 
what we saw : ; 
In five minutes a crow discovered the ' 
owl and became violently excited, caw- 
ing loudly and swooping at it in the air 
in great curves, but never alighting near 
it and never touching the moth-eaten j 
feathers or the ferocious yellow glass - 
eyes. In another five minutes thirty ex- , 
cited crow were swirling and circling : 
over the poor dummy. A moment later 
almost all had flown back into the woods. ; 
I have not the least doubt that each went c 
straight to his nesting mate, and by a i; 
sort of language of tone (without syl- ' 
lables) communicated his agony of ex- 
citement (one can scarcely call it fear). 
Certain it is that this flock was gone only 
a moment when it returned double hi 
size. In twenty minutes from the dis- 
covery of my arch-imposter, I had used 
up all the plates that I had, and my ears 
were almost deafened by the concerted 
cries of about sixty birds, wild with ex- 
citement, swooping close above my head. 
A' single agonized “cr-r-r-a-a-a-h” liter- 
ally shouted out, beginning to the south 
or west of the blind and dying away 
some distance to the north or east, 
marked the curved flight of the more 
timerous attackers. The majority cir- 1 
cled about higher overhead, or were 
“talking it over” on a mud-flat one hun- 
dred yards away, like a serried flock of 
I noisy black pigeons. A small group 
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