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FOREST AND STREAM 
June, 1919 
will Le "ill' 
1919 a 
ampions • 
f 
W HO in 1919 will prove worthy of 
the laurels won so sensationally 
by Fred Plum at Atlantic City, 
and W. H. Heer at the Grand American 
Handicap, last year? 
Plum, who missed his second bird and 
then went ahead for 154 straight hits, 
knew that he was “right” — that his gun 
“right” — that his ammunition was 
His mark of 197x200 and his 154 straight 
are both records for this 
event. Of course, he used 
Peters Shells! 
was 
“right”! 
Heer, who tied for first place 
in the amateur championship 
at singles at Chicago, went 
ahead and proved his wonderful 
ability by winning the shoot-off. 
His mark of 98 x 100 also showed 
perfect confidence in himself, 
his gun and his ammunition. 
He, too, used Peters Shells! 
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of spectacular matches — who 
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they are preferred by a majority of the leading trapshooters. 
Watch the men using Peters Shells if you want to be 
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as members of the party. In this case, 
it was a young pig and a rather husky 
looking Rhode Island red cockerel. The 
rooster loudly protested the intrusion, 
and tugged at the string attached to his 
leg, which, in turn was hitched to a peg 
driven in the ground. The porker was 
occasionally reminded that he was not 
at liberty, when his own cord strained 
to its limit and tightened about the plump 
belly. 
C HARLIE TIGERTAIL would con- 
verse only with Hendry, of whom 
he had heard and whose tongue fell 
easily into the indian’s own vernacular. 
Even Youman, for all his experience in 
that section, could not prevail upon 
Charley to “open up.” As a matter of 
fact, Tigertail was a Seminole of distinc- 
tion — a head-man, of long record and 
honorable following. His forty years of 
Glade life, however, had creased his rug- 
ged face and seamed his long hands un- 
til he resembled a mummy. 
“He on way to Chokoloskee for a few 
things and then new camp — Tommy Os- 
ceola cypress,” translated Hendry, “he 
say Glade land now not much good for 
planting any more. Trees die — he go to 
Big Cypress hammock. Game much bad. 
Rain, rain all time. Unhappy in old 
home.” 
But Charley did confide the interest- 
ing information that the pine island and 
its surrounding hammocks w'ere alive 
with wild cats. His ammunition was 
now so low that he dare not waste any 
of it on them. 
This tip was a good one, as the four 
had occasion to learn not long after- 
ward. Hendry and Youman, discussing 
mutual topics had led the way from 
Tigertail’s camp, and Mr. King, with 
John, followed some two hundred feet in 
the rear. 
As soon as the pine was passed they 
entered a strata of luxuriant cypress, 
spliced together by vines, low shrubbery 
and rich, black sandy loam, with oc- 
casional slabs of rock protruding, the 
surfaces of which reached areas of from 
one to three square feet and were level 
w’ith the soil, indicating that this ground 
was entirely awash in wet weather. 
The guides were both out of sight and 
John was w'ell in advance of his father, 
when the boy spied a cat at the base of 
a cypress. In a wink it had raced up 
the irregular trunk and out upon a low 
limb. The animal growled, spit and 
whined, alternately, as he glared down 
at John, trying to anticipate his next 
move. 
For a moment the lad wms too heflus- 
tered to act. Recovering, he carefully 
aimed his rifle and fired. 
The -cat was a large one, full-furred 
and snappy. He gave no indication of 
wanting to either climb higher in the 
tree or beat a retreat into heavier un- 
dergrow'th — and John’s first aim went 
wrong, for all his care in marksmanship. 
Up went the rifle again and once more 
a shot echoed through the cypress ham- 
mock. Amidst much clawing and 
spitting, the cat dropped to the ground. 
