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FOREST AND STREAM 
December, 1920 
“The Gun That Speaks For Itself ” 
Winner of the Grand 
American Handicap 
1919-1920. 
SMITH GUNS 
has much to say these autumn days. It will 
answer your desire for real pleasure in the real 
out of doors. It has made its message under- 
stood during a third of a century — each year in 
a more distinct tone — each year with the in- 
creasing emphasis of perfection, 
The Smith has balance, poise, a well rounded perfection of mechanism 
and pattern and range that affords outstanding Smith Distinction. 
Your dealer has a Smith Gun that will speak impressively in your hands. With 
Hunter One Trigger it’s the complete gun. 
THE HUNTER ARMS COMPANY, Inc. 
31-51 HUBBARD STREET FULTON, N. Y. 
MCDONALD & LINFORTH, 739 Call Bldg., San Francisco, Calif. 
Pacific Coast Representatives 
THE SPORTING GOODS AGENCIES, 33 St. Nicholas St., Montreal 
Representatives for Eastern Canada 
NAVY 
BUYS 
ITHACAS 
The U. S. Navy buys 
100 Ithaca double 
barrel shot guns at a 
time for Navy Men 
to use when on shore 
leave the world over. 
An Ithaca won the 
Championship of the 
U . S. Navy three years 
ecession. Uncle 
buys the best. , 
Catalogue Free 
Double guns for game 
S45.00 up. 
Single barrel trap guns 
$75.00 up. 
Ithaca Gun Co. 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
Box 25 
ROBERT H. ROCKWELL 
1440 E. 63rd St. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
WEISS 
Alpine Binoculars 
Write for special offer 
Weiss 
Instrument Co. 
1733 Arapahoe St. 
Denver, Colo. 
PAT. 
(APPLIED 
FOR. 
MADE IAS 
WILBUR SHOTGUN PEEP SIGHT, 
deadly addition to the modern shotgun. Makes good 
shots of poor ones. Fast enough for snap shooting, 
ducks, or at traps. Automatically shows how to 
lead correctly — No More Guess Work. Made of 
blued steel, clamps rigidly on breech of gun barrels. 
12, 16, 20. 2s gauges. Double guns only. Postpaid, 
$2.50 including booklet “Wing Shooting Made 
Easy." Booklet alone sent on receipt of ten cents. 
Teaches the art of wing shooting. 
WILBUR GUN SIGHT 
116 West 39th SI., P.O.Box 185, Times Square, New York 
Shoo£WiihoutNoise 
Cut out that unnecessary report 
noise. Don’t scare away all the other 
game. Use the new Model 1920 
MAXIM 
SILENCER 
PRICE, .22 Cal. $7.00 
Send 6c in stamps for catalog 
and booklet of astonishing 
i of Silencer users. 
GENUINE 
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THE SEAL OF (H'AlITV 
Made In England of Australian Wool 
KHAKI— GREY— WHITE— BLUE-SCARLET 
Will Shed Water Color Guaranteed Fast 
Finest Made for Outing Purposes 
Point Size Weight 
3 60"x72" dble. 8 lbs. 5 oz. 
3'A 63"x81" dble. 10 lbs. 
4 _ 72"x90" dble. 12 lbs. 
ASK YOUR DEALER 
THE' 
D.PfKEG®„ 
4 CLIFF ST., NEW YORK CITY 
REAL HARRIS, LEWIS, AND 
SHETLAND HOMESPUNS 
DIRECT FROM THE MAKERS 
The Aristocrat of Tweed for Sporting Wear. 
Patterns and Prices on Application. 
London Office. 643 Belfast Chambers, Regent St. W. 
State shade desired and if for Gent’s or Ladies’ Wear 
she can’t carry you. We should have 
waited till her hoofs could just touch 
hard bottom.” 
“Well," I grinned, “I’m sorry for Mrs. 
Moose, but I don’t see how I’m going to 
let go now either.” 
But as I saw her struggle, I took a 
chance, and slipping off her back, still 
clinging f o a handful of her mane, I 
warn alongside, just between the power- 
ful front and hind legs. So for a couple 
of minutes we went on, both canoes 
right at hand to help if needed. 
“Now," said Charlie, “she’s touching- 
hard bottom; you can get on again.” 
I made a desperate attempt to get on 
her back again, but with my trousers 
ballooned out with water, and my boots 
on, I couldn’t seem to jump. So I began 
to scramble and climb up her back legs. 
I made only the beginning. Then I 
elt those massive haunches bunch under 
ne, I felt those powerful legs tighten- 
ing, and with one kick that felt like a 
ton of steel spring uncoiling, I was 
lifted almost clear of the water, and 
sent rolling backward. 
So far as I was concerned, that ended 
|the ride. The others told me she rose 
and fairly leaped forward when she was 
free of me. They told me she went 
hundering in a pother of foam through 
the shallows, cleared the beach with one 
mighty bound, and went crashing 
through the woods like a drunken giant. 
I didn’t see that part of it. For when 
I got on an even keel again, and spat 
the water from my mouth, and shook it 
from my face,— Charlie’s, canoe was 
within a yard or so, and I grasped it. 
Even then I couldn’t get aboard, — so 
we went along till the water shoaled and 
T could climb awkwardly m. 
As we stepped ashore, Charlie came 
at me with his hat, “Wait a minute, you 
ought to see your back. It’s all covered 
with moose-flies.” 
“Your’s is too,” I said as I glimpsed 
his broad shoulders. There, covering 
both of us like swarming bees, were 
thick deposits of moose-flies, gray, green, 
hanging on in stillness. Not even as we 
batted them with a felt hat and slew 
them shamelessly did they fly away. I 
had noticed them clinging in thick 
bunches to the mane of the moose as she 
swam. I had seen them lying in patches 
on her long nose as she turned her face 
sideways to us. Deciding that she was 
no longer to furnish them a refuge they 
had transferred themselves to us -while 
we struggled there in the lake. And 
never having been forced to dodge the 
slap of human hat, or tail of almost 
tailless moose they sat tight. 
Five minutes later I was in a change 
of dry clothes and ready for the wel- 
come dinner call. 
That night was formed a club called 
“The Moose Riders of the Nepisiguit.” 
There are about six men known to have 
fulfilled the conditions, namely, to ride 
a wild moose in the presence of relia- 
ble witnesses. Some day I would like to 
meet the other five, and compare notes, 
— for of all the queer thrills that I got 
in the wilds of New Brunswick, this rid- 
ing of the moose brought the most in- 
teresting of reactions, a real joy of con- 
tact with the wilds. 
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