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interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, 
or other securities than as so stated by him. 
T. H. MEARN.S, Business Manager. 
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[Seal] JEANNE VOLLENHOVEN. 
(My commission expires March 30, 1924.) 
In writing 
and followed. The growth was thick 
and waist-high. Close to a creek bank 
Jane started trailing. Three of us 
tagged after. The setter was on the 
other side of the creek. For a quarter 
mile we followed that airedale, caution- 
ing her all the time, and finally had 
about made up our minds that she was 
spoofing us, when one of the boys saw 
the bird cut across a clear space under 
some cedars not more than ten feet 
ahead of the dog. We closed up expect- 
ing it would raise out. Jane went in un- 
der while we stood around and waited, 
and came out at a high creek bank, but 
no bird raised. Jane said that was the 
end of the road. I told them I believed 
that bird hopped off the creek bank and 
flew across the creek. We couldn’t see 
below the bank because of the brush. 
The setter man on the other side said : 
“Didn’t. I was coming all the time. 
I’d a’ seen it or a’ heard it. That dam 
Tarry dog lost it.” 
He brought his setter over, and we all 
combed that stuff again. No bird. He 
took the setter back across the creek and 
killed the bird about twenty yards ahead. 
It had run a quarter mile just ahead of 
Jane, then sailed across the creek into 
some windfall where the setter found it. 
\Y7E found grouse in all kinds of 
cover, and in the open. My first 
shot was in late afternoon. Jane found 
a hen bird we had been following under 
a clump of cedars at the top of a steep 
knoll. It raised only two feet and flew 
straight down hill, parallel to the 
ground. A brown bird so close to brown 
leaves, in shade, in late afternoon was 
not easy though a straight-away shot. 
The next one came over from behind me, 
on top of a mountain, clear above the 
tree tops, going fast. Another was 
found in a bunch of briars, in an open 
pasture raising into an easy shot. Many 
tore out through the evergreens and 
laurels. Everybody could hear them but 
no one saw one or got a shot. 
For a week’s recreation this sport is 
unbeatable by any form of hunting. 
The mountain air is fine; the tramping 
hard, but not too strenuous. No matter 
what your condition on arriving, you 
will eat three big meals, and sleep all 
of nine hours after your second day’s 
tramp. The country itself is beautiful. 
Mountains, hills, valleys with creeks and 
trout streams full of trout. On our last 
day out we ate our lunch on the bank of 
one of these. A fingerling drifted down 
as we sat there. We offered him bread 
crumbs which he took. He rose to apple 
skins but refused the fruit course. An 
apple core tossed in carelessly drove him 
under a stump, hut in a minute he was 
hack again, as hungry as ever, as much 
fun as a begging pup. But the most 
wonderful of all the wild life observed 
were the grouse themselves. In spite 
of natural enemies, hawks, owls, foxes, 
cats, mink, skunks and men, these birds 
are increasing. 
I killed one “varying” hare (snowshoe 
rabbit), cars were then gray, body a rich 
vinegar bronze, white underneath, as it 
was in early November before any 
Forest and Stream 
snows. Several cottontail rabbits were ‘ 
picked up each day. The country up 
there is full of both varieties, and it ' 
seems strange to me we do not stumble t. 
over more of them in a day’s hunt. The I 
natives -gun for them in preference to ' 
birds, as the bag usually contains more 
meat, for the average shot on rabbit than 
bird. The best shots are the men who \ 
hunt each season and swing and pull I 
from where they stand when the bird 
jumps. We had with us a trap shooter 
of excellent local reputation, and years 
of experience. He has uniformly bad 
luck at grouse, but in spite of his years 
he makes the hard trip each season, so 
great is the fascination of the sport. 
The worst luck I fear for my vacation 
is not to be able to spend part of it in 
the woods of our own state, among the 
gamest birds in existence. 
HOW TO SKIN AND 
MOUNT A FISH 
(Continued from page 539) 
trout was sent me by Alex Walker, of 
Butte, Montana, and, to quote his letter 
in part, he says: “I send you the skin 
and head, etc., of a six-pound rainbow 
which I was lucky enough to capture 
last Sunday in the Big Hole River. 
“I caught this fish on a blue quill dry- 
fly No. 10 hook, using a Halford, 1912, 
rod. Corona line, a ten and half foot 
tapered leader. So you see it was caught 
according to the strictest rules of dry- 
fly fishing. The fish gave me thirty 
minutes of real play before he rolled 
over on his side.” 
To anglers like myself — who fish our 
Eastern streams — -this shapely fish ap- 
pears a giant, ’out this famous river 
(which I hope soon to visit) contains 
rainbows up to twenty - two pounds 
weight, which feed, and I believe are 
only caught on large - winged helgra- 
mites, live and artificial, also on the live 
muddler minnows 
I have just acquired a magnificent 42- 
pound muscalonge 52 inches long, mount- 
ed and set up at Alexander Bay on the 
St. Lawrence, where it was captured. 
This particular specimen exactly proves 
my method of setting up a fish is better. 
Although stuffed with sawdust (which is 
perhaps the best they could do with such 
a monstrous long fish), the fastening 
of it to the board by a hook upon which 
the lower jaw rested, then nailed in two 
places near the tail made the long belly 
sag down with a considerable bend in 
the back which to be correct should be 
perfectly straight. Not only that, the 
outside jaw, exposed to view was badly 
pulled inwards to utterly destroy the 
snake-like litheness of this otherwise 
wonderfully attractive fish. Before re- 
mounting on the painted background 
board, I removed part of the sawdust, 
inserted a block of light Balsa wood 
upon which the entire body skin would 
rest, then screwed the block on the 
wood, making the fish perfectly secure, 
and effectively retaining its natural pose. 
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