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Baylor had fired and re-loaded his 
double barrelled shot gun, but before 
he could cap the piece this Indian was 
on him. He said every time he drew back 
to shoot the arrow he would dodge to 
the opposite side of the horse and at the 
same time jam his gun in the savage’s 
face, desperately trying all the time to 
cap the gun. 
Finally the Indian fired just as he 
dodged and shot his belt off, and broke 
and ran, but it was too late, for Baylor 
capped his gun and filled him full of 
buck shot. His brother, Gen. John R. 
Baylor, was Indian agent for the Co- 
manches before the war, and learned 
to use the bow to kill buffalo, and went 
with the warriors on their big hunts, 
armed with this weapon. 
A. Y. Walton, Texas. 
FLY-FISHING FOR SUNFISH 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream : 
S EVERAL years ago my brother and 
I obtained some specimens of 
sunfish from the government fisheries 
and planted them in a small pond near 
our home. We waited about two years, 
as the fish sent were very small, to al- 
low them time to grow up, spawn and 
propagate their kind. 
When fishing for them was begun, 
very small results were at first ob- 
tained, so, thinking that perhaps the 
proper kind of bait was not being used, 
I wrote the Department of Fisheries, 
where the specimens had been secured, 
in regard to it. They promptly an- 
swered, recommending a white grub (I 
had hitherto fished principally with the 
ordinary earthworm) , but made no men- 
tion of any kind of artificial bait. 
One afternoon, while still-fishing with 
the kind of bait suggested, I had been 
having pretty fair luck for awhile, but 
for the sake of experiment, when the 
biting had somewhat subsided, I tried 
trolling my hook, with a grub attached, 
a few times across the surface. Almost 
immediately they began striking. I con- 
cluded that if they would strike this, 
they would doubtless strike a fly, so I 
made some, and obtained from them 
very satisfactory results. 
For this purpose I use a very small 
fly, some of the most successful being 
made from the hackle of a cock. In no 
case have I seen them strike a spinner, 
but on some occasions I have had suc- 
cess with a small rubber frog. 
S. H. Gantt, South Carolina. 
BIRD LIFE IN MANITOBA 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream : 
■"THOSE of us who are familiar with 
the prairies are likewise familiar 
with the prairie chicken. In the cen- 
tral part of Manitoba the tameness 
which these birds have attained is re- 
markable. By law they are protected 
eleven months of the year and, more- 
over, during the one month of open 
season there are so few hunters that 
the greater part of them are never 
frightened by a gun shot. As I have 
walked through fields of wheat I have 
discovered two or three flocks in the 
course of an hour. In each flock there 
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