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April, 1919 
Trap Shooting Becomes of 
World -wide Importance 
•pVERY man wlio makes trap skooting one of lus recreations 
therety contributes botb to bis own pleasure and success in 
life and to tbe success and security of bis country. 
Xbe present great world demand for American leadership raises 
tbis long popular, valuable and distinctly American pastime of 
virile men to greater-tban-ever importance. 
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WOOLWORTH BUILDING NEW YORK 
A SPRING BEAR HUNT 
IN CASSIAR 
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How I wish I could describe it! You 
can imagine its queer noises, like the 
breaking and tumbling of great piles of 
ice and rocks, mingled with crunching 
trees and brush, sometimes in a low mur- 
mur and sometimes increasing until it 
sounds like thunder. We spent a whole 
day in the presence of this wonderful 
river of ice and I was greatly impressed 
with the majesty of its power and the 
grandeur of its beauty. 
Otter, Goose and Grouse 
W E saw two otter as we drifted 
into camp and I missed one with a 
twenty-two automatic rifle at not 
more than thirty feet. An expensive 
miss too for their skins are worth twen- 
ty dollars each. The presence of otter 
caused us to camp and watch for them. 
And, although we saw one of them a time 
or two, yet we never saw the two to- 
gether and it may be that the one I shot 
at was hit. The one we saw was too quick 
for the precise aim necessary for rifle 
shooting; a shot-gun would have been 
the thing. 
At this camp we saw a wild goose on 
her nest, and she permitted us to come 
within a boat’s length before leaving it. 
The five eggs in the nest were almost 
ready to hatch. The nest was on a little 
bare spot on an island in a pond far from 
any brush or cover and was composed of 
the feathers she had plucked from her- 
self. This wise mother goose could so 
distribute her ungainly self over her nest 
as to be unnoticeable until one was within 
a few yards of her. 
This was the mating season of the 
grouse family and the ruffed grouse were 
drumming all the time. We had frequent 
opportunity to observe this interesting 
manifestation. Often a single bird would 
keep it up all night within a few yards 
of our tent. 
I had never heard the blue grouse 
booming but I heard them this time al- 
most continuously for four days and 
nights. They seemed to be everjw^’here; 
on the mountains, on both sides of the 
river and dozens at times were booming 
forth their peculiar challenge. Each bird 
utters the note about every three min- 
utes, the sound lasting about ten seconds 
and resembling a combination of the hoot 
of an owl and the rapid beating of a 
small bass drum. With a great number 
of them at it this sound would be con- 
tinuous for hours and at a distance i1 
sounded quite like the droning of an im 
mense hive of bees. I could not realizt 
what this sound was until my companioi 
told me and I had investigated it for my 
self. 
The Grizzly Bear 
A fter setting up our tent for th 
last night out w'e were driftin 
down the stream about eight in th 
evening looking for beaver. I had almos , 
forgotten about bears. The sound of th 
splash of a beaver’s tail upon the waU 
near the opposite bank arrested our a ; 
tention. This splash is an indication « 
alarm and is a warning of danger 1 
other beavers within hearing. 
