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FOREST AND STREAM 
THREE S GUNS for the PRICEofONE! 
The Target pistol alone, $22.50. 
complete with three barrels, receiver 
Fiala Combination arm 
and butt stock 
$ 32.50 
Fiala Combination Repeating Pistol and Rifle, 
Caliber .22, Model 1920 
The Fiala Combination Repeating Pistol and Rifle, 
Cal. .22, Model 1920, is an accurate, well-balanced 
target pistol which can be easily changed into a long- 
range, fine-shooting rifle, or a pocket weapon of defense. 
It is fitted with a folding, adjustable peep and open 
FIALA ARMS and EQUIPMENT CO., Inc. 
342 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK CITY, U. S. A. 
As a Rifle 
Robert H. Rockwell 
1440 East 63rd St. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
SPORTSMAN’S FOOTWEAR 
COMBINING 
COMFORT and DURABILITY 
Our experience, knowledge, and 
reputation insure foot comfort 
for camp, dress, or street wear. 
ARMY STYLE (Munson Last) $0.65 
HIKING SHOE .... 
OFFICERS’ STYLE (B lack orTan) SC. 85 
ROSENWASSER MAKE %/= 
These shoes measure up to all Army standards 
and specifications in both material and style. 
Prices include (insured) delivery charges to any part 
of the United States. 
In Ordering State Size and Width 
ADDRESS 
CHAS. HOLTZ STORES 
155 Greenwich St., New York, N. Y. 
Next time try Pyramid 
Solvent to dissolve smokeless 
powder residue quickly, easily. If 
your dealer can’t supply you, send 
us 30c in stamps for handy 3-oz. can. 
Three-in-One Oil Co., 165 P Broadway, New York 
Contains 
moisture. 
May be left 
> in gun. 
SOLVENT 
H.P. BRIDGES 
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Address: H. P. BRIDGES 
MUNSEY BUILDING - - BALTIMORE. MD. 
<(SENT BY RETURN MAIL UPON RECEIPT OF f | 
THE 
Reliable Pheasant Standard 
The Recognized Authority 
By F. J. SUDOW 
A practical guide on the Culture, Breed- 
ing, Rearing, Trapping, Preserving, 
Crossmating, Protecting, Stocking, Hunt- 
ing, Propagating, etc., of Pheasants, 
Game Birds, Ornamental Land and 
Water Fowl, Singing Birds, etc. 
Valuable Recipes for Poultrymen. 
“The Secret to Make Hens Lay in Winter” 
Price $1.10. Postpaid in U. S. and 
r Canada. 
Third Edition. Enlarged. Profusely 
illustrated with colored plates. 
FOREST & STREAM (Book Dept.) 
9 East 40th Street, New York City 
In Writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will 
December, 1921 
ing that must be taken into consideration. 
There are great risks in ascending moun- 
tainsides in the spring and the physical 
stress of scaling the heights is very great. 
The dangers are perfectly obvious to him 
who has witnessed the awful power of a 
snow slide and to him who realizes the 
many perils that lie hidden by a cover- 
ing of snow. The strain of climbing a 
mountainside overlaid with snow is ap- 
preciated only by the man who has under- 
taken such an exploit. It requires great 
strength, vigor, agility and above all a 
calm, cool head. The realization of my 
own limitations makes me doubt the pru- 
dence of undertaking it. For the young 
man possessing the powers essential to 
such work hunting the slides is the sur- 
est road to success, but even for him 
there are lurking pitfalls. 
I MEET many men who have a sincere 
* longing for the hunter’s unusual vaca- 
tions; men who, in enjoying the beauties 
of Nature, would forget her discomforts. 
But they defer the realization of their 
desire from year to year until it may be 
too late. That brilliant essayist, Richard 
Jefferies, personifies the wheat at har- 
vest time, and tells the little boy, Guido, 
most realistically why pleasures are 
missed by many people: “If your people 
do not gather the flowers now and watch 
the swallows and listen to the blackbirds 
whistling, as you are listening now while 
I talk, then Guido, my love, they will 
never pick any flowers nor hear any 
birds’ songs. They think they will ; they 
think that when they have toiled and 
worked for a long time, almost all their 
lives, then they will come to the flowers 
and the birds and be joyful in the sun- 
shine. But no, it will not be so, for then 
they will be old themselves and their 
ears dull and their eyes dim, so that the 
birds will sound a great distance off and 
the flowers will not seem bright.” 
I take my hunting trips that I may 
pick the flowers and hear the birds’ 
songs; that I may enjoy Nature, un- 
touched by the hand of man. And this 
I must do before my ears are dull and 
my eyes are dim. Sir Thomas Browne 
tells us that art is the perfection of na- 
ture and that nature is the art of God 
and that though in a wilderness a man is 
never alone. The mountains, the gla- 
ciers, the strong waters, the cascades, 
the birds and the beasts have taught me 
these great truths. 
HOME-MADE SKIS 
( Continued, from page 549) 
night in the form or vise. The next 
morning they will be ready and will re- 
tain the shape in which they were bent. 
A convenient form can he made as 
shown in the drawing, using boat clamps 
to hold the steamed ski in place until 
thoroughly dry. If you desire a good- 
looking and well-finished ski give their 
tops a coat of varnish or shellac. Some 
persons prefer to paint the tops of the 
skis with a desired color, and also paint 
narrow stripes of another color near the 
edges for their entire length. 
'"THE object of leaving a sixteen-inch 
* length of the original thickness of 
the strip near the center section of the 
identify you. 
