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FOREST AND STREAM 
August, 1921 
ITHACA WINS 
1920-21 Tennessee 
Championship 
John Noel won the 
championship of 
Tennessee two 
years in succes- 
sion with 
an Ithaca 
John says 
any man 
can break 
more tar- 
gets with 
an Ithaca. 
Double guns 
for game $45 up 
Single barrel 
trap guns $75 
up 
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HOW TO DEVELOP A 
BIRD DOG 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 352) 
a short time you will have him so well 
in hand that he will know better than 
to commit these faults. 
Be very gentle with him at all times; 
carefully study his disposition, and 
learn all of his ways, that you may 
the more readily understand just how 
to manage him. You should be in per- 
fect sympathy with him and humor all 
his whims and notions, and endeavor to 
teach him that you truly love him. In 
a short time you will find that this 
love will be returned ten fold, and 
that he is ever anxiously watching for 
your coming, and never so happy as 
when in your presence and enjoying 
your caresses. 
After a few days you may begin 
to train him; but do not be in a hurry 
about it, as nothing is gained by haste. 
Be very careful now, and do not ruin 
all by an undue haste; go very slow, 
carefully feel your way, and, above all 
things, exercise an unwearied patience; 
and if at any time you find the strain 
upon your nerves growing a little too 
tense, leave him at once and wait until 
you are perfectly calm before resuming 
the lesson. 
There is one thing, of the utmost im- 
portance, you should particularly im- 
press upon your mind before going any 
further. Do not allow yourself, under 
any circumstances, to speak to your 
pupil in anything but your ordinary 
tone of voice. There is nothing more 
annoying when out shooting than to 
have a companion continually yelling 
at the top of his voice at his dog, and 
generally without any effect. Such 
yelling is worse than useless, for if 
your dog is properly trained in the 
first place; he will readily mind your 
slightest word. For your own comfort, 
then, and for the pleasure of whoever 
may accompany you upon your shoot- 
ing excursions, use nothing but gentle 
tones when you issue your commands. 
When this very disagreeable habit of 
shouting is once commenced, you will 
soon find that a still louder tone is 
demanded; and had you the lungs of a 
Stentor, it will not be long before 
your resources will be exhausted, and 
you will vainly sigh for thunder tones 
to voice your words of command. 
T HE first thing to teach a puppy, 
after you obtain his love and con- 
fidence, is to stop at the word 
Ho. This is a very important point, 
and comparatively easy to teach him. 
(continued on page 380) 
CANOE CRUISING 
ON SALT WATER 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 343) 
teen has not only too long spars, but i 
unreefable and a dangerous sail befor 
the wind in a heavy blow. The Canadiai 
Club, shown in our illustration, has com 
paratively short spars, a good flat lead 
and is easy to reef and stow. The dimer 
sions given are right for a fourteen-foc 
canoe; a larger sail can be carried buj 
you vy ill have to reef it most of the time! 
A single set of reef points in mizzen an 
mainsail gives you canvas for a heav 
blow, while reefing her down to her bal 
tens will give you a rag that you ca 
navigate a gale in, like the time I crosse 
Greenwood Lake, N. J., in ten minute 
in Waterat IV, the present represent! 
tive of the canvas-covered decked sailin 
canoe in which I navigate. 
Taken all in all, sail canoeing is 
great sport and one that appeals partici 
larly to men and youths who have th 
adventurous navigator’s spirit in ther 
I have sailed everything from a ful 
rigged ship to a canoe, and to this da 
I still keep three canoes in my fleet < 
pleasure craft, one of which, Wateni 
IV, is still the unbeaten crack of th j 
section ! 
The two big conditions in salt wat< i 
canoe cruising are, sand and mosquitoej| 
All the shores and forests that border oi 
great bays are of sandy soil, usually wil i 
pine forests and blackjack scrub oak f< 
the principal hardwoods. On the ocea 
side you have the dunes, and the be 
plan is to run the canoe ashore and can 
on the surf beach, sleeping in the cam 
if you have no tent other than the coc. 
pit tent that goes over the canoe cockpi 
Barnegat Bay, in which I have done mo 
of my salt water cruising, offers ju 
such conditions. On the mainland si< 
there are a number of large rivers whi< 
form estuaries or sounds, a mile or i 
wide and seven or eight miles long, reac 
ing back into the pine country, aft 
which the fresh water begins. T1 
shores are all of pine forest, wan 
drowsy, free from mosquitoes in the d; 
time, and there are bass and pickerel 
be had by casting from the canoe, ai 
black ducks to be shot in November, 
have canoed down most of these rivei 
from the headwaters down to the bay, 
open canvas canoes, but there their us 
fulness ended unless you happened 
have a spell of calm weather. In t 
lower parts of the rivers emptying in 
the bay, the sailing canoe was the thin 
for you could go anywhere and sail f 
miles, with no more fatigue than t 
pleasurable excitement of sail canoeir 
All along the shore there were liti 
bays, surrounded with pine forest, a: 
here one could haul the canoe up, ba: 
up sand around her, run a ridge ro 
across from main to mizzen mast, gu 
ing down the ends to pegs driven in t 
sand, and then, over the rope w 
stretched the cockpit tent and lashed f£ 
to cleats on the outside of the cock] 
coaming. Then, half an hour’s scratc 
ing in the deep pine needles served to 
the muslin mattress, which was put 
the bottom of the canoe, and you w« 
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