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Forest a x d s t r e a .ai 
April, 1919 
Mullins Steel Boats Can’t Sink 
A MULLINS is the safest boat that floats. Large 
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cannot sink. 
Built like a Government torpedo boat 
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so necessary to wooden boats. 
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THE W. H. MULLINS CO. 
THE FLY ROD WIGGLER Se-rp 
rod. Handles easily on any ordinary fly rod. Has the slow wrig- 
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finished in Silver Shiner, Red Side Minnow. Yellow Perch, Red Head, 
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by adding small sinker. 
Price each 50c. Four in compartment Box $2.00. 
Send stamp for catalog of Baits, Flies, Lines. Hooks, etc. 
W. J. Jamison Co.. Dept. $, 736 S. California Ave., Chicago. Ill 
No. 2 Open showing equipment 
AUTO-K AMP- KOOK -KIT 
The most dependable gasoline Outing stove 
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Xo. 2 Closed — equipment packet inside 
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Substantial, Durable, Efficient 
WILL BURN IN ANY WIND 
We make other sizes; write for prices. 
PRENTISS-WABERS MFC. CO. 
Grand Rapids, Wis, 4 Spring St, 
Instructions for 
Net 
All kinds of fl-sh 
nets, may be easily and quickly made, with my illustrated 
Instructions before you. 21 photographs show you how. 
Once leametl never forgotten. Also gives more informa- 
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Pend to-day. Price 25c postpaid. 
W. E. CLAYTON. Altoona. Kansas. 
FISHING TACKLE 
Deal Direct With the Manufacturer 
The anglers who know all agree on 
Edward vom Hole Tackle no mat- 
ter how widely they may differ on 
the styles and patterns to use. 
When the question of quality 
comes up our competitors (if we 
have any) are relegated to the rear. 
On the job with surplus energy 
since 1867. We know how and we 
make good use of our knowledge 
Catalog No, 106 sent on request 
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112 Fulton Street New York City 
THOMAS 
The Thomas hand made split bamboo 
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THOMAS ROD COMPANY, 
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^ A. 1 .. Eels, Mink, Muskrats and 
I .21 TP II l*iqil other fur-bearing animals 
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all sizes. Write for descriptivejpriee list, and onr 
free booklet on best bait known for attracting fish. 
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From Patterns and printed 
instructiuns. Save cost. 
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611 Perry Si.. Albion. Mich. 
THE GULF RANGERS 
PART VI 
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padded smooth by many hurrying animal 
feet. There were tracks of panther, 
coon, wild cat and bear. 
For a half hour before supper, Hendry 
and John went for a cruise in one of the 
glade boats. Obviously, the guide had 
“something up his sleeve.” That this 
was true developed soon afterward, when 
Hendry reached for the pole and put his 
finger to his lips. At the same time he 
pointed to the shore a short distance 
away. 
A sleepy old ’gator was lying, half in 
water and half out, his jowls resting in 
the muck. His eyes were closed. Noise- 
lessly, the glade boat ran up alongside. 
It was a dangerous thing to do and one 
that invited real peril, for ‘gators have a 
way of putting up a stiff fight when cor- 
nered. 
Hendry handed John the three-pronged 
fish-grail. 
The boy accepted the tip and, leaning 
over, gave a powerful jab at the ‘gator’s 
back. 
Hendry, ready with rifle, was aston- 
ished to a degree when the slimy prey 
gave one or two convulsive movements 
and lay quite still — dead! John’s lucky 
stroke . . it happens one time in a thou- 
sand — had penetrated the alligator’s ver- 
tabrae. An eight foot skin hangs in a 
certain young sportsman’s specimen room 
at home. 
As the glade boat eased back to the 
point, Tipley and Captain Flynt were ob- 
served at its far extremity, hands behind 
backs and poses ruminative -And there 
against the evening sky was silhouetted 
the same glistening white flocks of heron 
and egret. 
(to be continued.) 
BYGONE DAYS ON 
CADDO LAKE 
(continued from page 157) 
place welcomed us and we were almost 
pushed into comfortable chairs by the 
servant who was commissioned to pull 
off our waders, get our shoes and dry 
socks and as soon as that was done, a 
waiter of clinking glasses was held be- 
fore us and a good old southern toddy, 
added to the great w'armth of the fire, 
made you feel like one of the blessed. 
The few years given to our honored 
and much loved brother sportsman to 
enjoy such fine shooting and fishing on 
Caddo was of course shut out when the 
dam was destroyed, but since he has been 
called to cross the Great River, it doesn’t 
matter much to him. 
The old ones who used to read Forest 
and Stream and other sportsmen’s jour- 
nals way back in the eighties should 
remember his many good articles telling 
of the shooting had on Caddo. His nom 
de plume, was “Jacobstaff.” It will never 
be possible to meet another man like 
him nor will it ever be our good fortune 
to have such wild-fowl shooting again, 
ns we used to have on old Lake Caddo. 
