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was held up by a band of yelling In- 
dians, in war paint and feathers, much 
to their surprise and dismay. There 
were the usual features of broncho 
busting and feats of horesmanship by 
the cowboys, and exhibitions of shoot- 
ing at targets and glass balls, with 
rifle and shotgun. 
One evening I sat next to an English 
gentleman who was evidently a sports- 
man, judging from his comments on the 
shooting, which he said was quite 
clever. Annie Oakley, then our premier 
American shooting star, was one of the 
attractions of the show. A prominent 
feature of the program consisted of the 
figure of a spread eagle, the widely dis- 
tended wings of the bird being outlined 
or bordered with thickly studded glass 
balls. The huge bird was suspended 
by a rope, and when it was set swinging 
from side to side, Annie Oakley, with a 
repeating rifle, proceeded to break the 
balls, one at a time and in regular suc- 
cession, and without a miss, as the 
eagle continued to swing to and fro. 
My English friend was very enthusi- 
astic over the performance, and de- 
clared that it was the best work he had 
ever seen done with a shotgun. When I 
assured him that Miss Oakley was using 
a rifle and not a shotgun, he could 
scarcly believe it until I convinced him 
that a shotgun would have broken sev- 
eral balls at each shot, instead of but 
one. He then exclaimed: 
“My word! Oh, I say, this is just 
ripping! She’s a wonderful shot! How 
does she do it? It’s extr’ord’nary ! Just 
fancy! Good Lord; it’s unbelievable!” 
A FEW days later I left London for 
Liverpool and engaged passage on 
the Cunard liner Etruria for New 
York. It proved to be a good voyage, 
as the sea was not at all rough, though 
there was considerable fog, but not- 
withstanding that the Etruria made the 
record run for twenty-four hours, a dis- 
tance of 190 knots, if I remember cor- 
rectly. I began to feel at home as soon 
as the lightship off Sandy Hook hove in 
sight. Passing through the familiar 
Narrows, Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty, 
which had been erected a year before, 
loomed up, and as our National Goddess 
held her enlightening torch aloft three 
hundred feet above the water, she 
seemed to welcome me home! 
The next day I went to the office of 
Forest and Stream where I met my 
friends, Mr. Reynolds, the editor, and 
the angling editor, Fred Mather, who 
gave me a warm welcome and congrat- 
ulated me on my safe return. Mather 
insisted on my going home with him to 
Cold Spring Harbor, on Long Island, 
where we sat up until a late hour that 
night talking of fish and fishing, at 
home and abroad, and of the less ab- 
sorbing topics of everyday life and of 
the affairs of the nation. At last we 
turned in with the comfortable feeling 
that God was still in his Heaven, and 
that all was right with the world. 
The next morning we were at the sta- 
tion waiting for the train for the New 
York ferry. Mather introduced me to 
a fellow angler, the rector of the village 
You Can Play and Land Your Fish 
in the Weeds as in Open Water 
IF YOU USE 
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An Open Weedless Hook, Invented and Patented by 
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CHICAGO’S ALL ’ROUND CHAMPION FISHERMAN 
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THE STANLEY 
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I am in a position to tie any quantity of 
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