we went after it; we would see it sink 
and then we’d wait for a lon^ time and 
see it at length way off somewheres 
ahead. Really it was uncanny, the way 
that bamboo eluded us. We’d approach 
it gently and I’d reach my hand over 
( the stern as my freind backed me up to 
it — I’d just about have it when — plop ! 
under it would go. Well, we chased that 
pesky thing for hours I think, but it was 
no use — it plopped under for the last 
, time and, wait as we would, we never 
did see it come up again — I often wonder 
what was at the end of it. 
Correct Feeding Is the Secret of 
A Happy, Healthy Dog 
F loats are not always used atop the 
water either, as you salt water ang- 
lers probably know, when the crabs are 
on the job, how to tie a cork above your 
bait so as to buoy the luscious clam, 
bunker or squid up off bottom, out of the 
way of most of those reaching claws. 
If you never have tried this and have 
cussed those pesky bait thieves, buoy 
your bait; you’ll find corks aplenty on 
the beach and it’ll help a whole lot. 
I don’t know if there are any floats 
on the market made of balsa wood, but 
I had a lot of fun making them from 
[ this extremely light material — light as 
i thistledown are these floats, even when 
varnished, as they should be, as the wood 
' is porous. This should be good material 
' for all sorts of fishing tackle, I should 
imagine, especially for hand grasps or 
where lightness in the extreme is desired. 
These were some of my thoughts as I 
loafed on the rip-rap and watched my 
float, my pipe smoke and the little white 
clouds floating in the air. 
I A. F. Westervelt, New York. 
HUNTING COONS IN 
MISSOURI 
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sections in these parts. Soon after 
striking the river bottom, “Rock” opened 
on a very cold trail about one-half mile 
ahead of us near the river, and started 
working down the river, crossing from 
one side to the other, with the trail get- 
ting warmer all the while. We followed 
as fast as possible through brush and 
briars, over fallen trees, through water 
and mud, until we reached the last place 
we had heard the dog. 
After listening for a while and not 
hearing the dog, we had about decided 
that the coon had won the race and had 
gotten away, when we heard a faint 
barking coming from almost a mile up 
a deep gulch. We lost no time in wad- 
ing across and getting to where he was. 
When we got there we found he had Mr. 
Coon cornered in a deep gulch under a 
shelf of rock where he could keep out 
of the dog’s way. We got him out in 
the open, and after a good fight he was 
killed and proved to be the largest one 
we had caught this year, weighing 26 
pounds. We decided we had a good 
hunt and started for home, expecting to 
return some other night to try our luck 
again. 
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