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FOREST AND STREAM 
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S ET the forward sprocket In place by 
using a bearing made of %" x IVi" 
flat iron bent down on inside of 
boat and screwed fast thereto. Then 
make a smaller clamp bearing, with ad- 
justment for chain tightening, made by 
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slotting the holes IVi* long. The “crank 
hanger” should be what is known in 
“bike talk” as a one-piece hanger. Re- 
move all parts except crank and sprocket 
and hack-saw off the outside pedal crank 
(the one near sprocket). Provide a 
wooden handle or cut away the frame of 
the bicycle pedal and wind the remainder 
with tire tape. This maks a ball-bearing 
handle and worP- fine. Make the clamp 
bracket, which holds the sprocket crank 
axle in place very nice in its fit with 2 oil 
holes. Give the entire apparatus 2 coats 
of red iron enamel and touch up the rivet 
and holt heads with aluminum paint and 
it makes a very neat and mechanical-look- 
ing job. Put a pair of foot-rests in front 
of operator in a convenient position as 
this helps a lot when any speed or hard 
pulling is needed. 
To locate the fi’ont driving sprocket 
center, sit naturally in position and 
stretching right arm forward find the de- 
sired points. 
The total cost should not exceed $10.00 
as nearly all the material can be bought 
second hand and is just as good as new. 
Tlie Rifles ' of Our 
Forefathers 
(Continued from page 646) 
going off. Three-iu-one oil, it may be 
mentioned, cannot be xised in oiling a flint 
lock rifle. The old-timers used deer fat, 
but the other ingredients in the modern 
oil soak, into the steel in tbe priming pan 
cover, so that thej’ ruin tiu' flint and it. 
ha.s to be ground down again before it 
will stril:c sparks. 
All these rifles, it should be mentioned, 
without exception have both set and hair 
triggers, it being the favorite with our 
old riflemen who did not have ammuni- 
tion enough to study trigger release and 
had to make their one shot count. 
Another rifle of Simon’s that will bear 
mention is a Johnson of 1865, .38 cal. very 
light, about 8 lbs., and with short, 27i/i 
Inch barrel when long barrels were the 
usual thing. This rifle had the rear sight 
set 15" from the eye, in spite of its short 
barrel, and this rear sight was a pet of 
Johnson’s, a plain semi-circle, about 3/16 
diameter, in which you centered the front 
sight by eye. The sides of the rear sight 
were horn, much like buckhom of today. 
As I said before, it was an unusual piece 
of good fortune to be able to really load 
and shoot the old Kentucky and Pennsyl- 
vania rifles of our pioneer forefathers. iL 
Simon has preserved for us all the 
methods and accoutrements used by them, 
and it Is a privilege to set down here in 
print the actual experiences we had with 
them. For they are now but a memory, 
to even the oldest of us, and little was 
written at the time about how these rifles 
were used, by the men who used them. 
We have fables, in plenty, of remarkable 
shots made at unheard-of ranges, but it 
is safe to say that beyond a hundred yards 
these old timers made variable groups; 
but also, inside of that range, they made 
exceedingly accurate ones, with a very 
flat trajectory. Where, at a hundred 
yards, a modern .44 will merely flatten its 
bullet against a rock, the Kentucky rifle 
shot so hard as to split it to powder, and 
game, shot with its big .43 cal, ball, went 
dead and stayed dead at the first shot 
Trapping m SoutLern 
Pennsylvania 
(Continued from page 643) 
seen; the former about two inches ahead 
of the latter. The tracks of the right aud 
left feet will he 2^^ to 314 inches apart 
with the mark of the tail between them. 
Along the stream where the banks are 
steep one will see places leading up from 
the water to the top which have a used 
appearance and whei'e the ground, roots 
and grass are worn. These are their 
slides. It is hard for a muskrat to walk 
down a steep embankment. 
He prefers to slide. He therefore starts 
at the top and toboggans, so to speak. 
At other places one will see where they 
have gone up the hank to eat roots. Often 
times no tracks can be see but a general 
used appearance tells the tale. 
Under the surface of the stream one 
will sometimes find holes in the bonk. 
Often these are under roots of trees and 
difficult to find. Back from the stream 
you will often find where the surface of 
their burrows have caved in. 
Sometimes one will find well-defined 
trails leading from the stream back to a 
field where they go in search of food. 
On partially submerged logs and rocks 
will be seen their black oblong droppings, 
tiiree or four in number aud about the 
size of a navy bean. 
Muskrats will often travel long dis- 
tances in search of food. While doing so 
they will swim along the bank and ot>* 
