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FOREST AND STREA 
Outdoor Books for 
Children 
Books on Camping, Hiking, 
Wookcraft, Etc. 
B«ard, Dan C. 
SHELTERS SHACKS AND SHANTIES. 
Scribner. $1.35 
Otct fifty plans and pictures and iull direc- 
Ifcms for making everything in the line of shel- 
ters lor Boy Scouts. 
OUTDOOR HANDY BOOK. Scribner. $1.75 
Among other things, tells how to make an 
umbrella canoe and all kinds of kites and stilts, 
how to build the “get-there” sled and double 
mnners, how to play tipcat, munibly peg, hockey, 
Indian games and all kinds of ball games. 
FIELD AND FOREST HANDY BOOK. 
Scribner. $1.75 
A book lor the benefit of all who are living 
idose to nature in field or forest. 
HANDICRAFT FOR OUTDOOR BOYS. Every 
Boy’s Library. Urosset. 75o 
Jost about everything to make is suggested. 
Designs by the author with simple directions. 
BOAT BUILDING AND BOATING. 
Scribner. $1.35 
A book for hoys who would like to know 
bow to build craft in which they might navigati? 
the ponds, lakes and streams near their liomes. 
HANDBOOK FOR BOYS. 
Boy Scouts of America. 35o 
Official handbook. Boy Scouts of .\tncrioa. 
Treats of scoutcraft, woodcraft, catjiiicratt. 
health and eaidnrance, chivalry, patriotism, aiul 
good citizenship. Fine reading for any boy, 
even if he is not a Scout. 
Grinnell & Swan 
HARPER’S CAMPING AND SCOUTING. 
Harper. $1.50 
Show.? boys how to prepare for camping, what 
they should wear and cat and select as outfit, 
how to live in c.iinp and take care of canip, 
how to cook, make and put up tents and other 
shelters, how to fish, handle a canoe, and how 
to deal with accidemts and illness. 
THE BOOK OF V/OODCRAFT. 
Macmillan. $1.50 
Some of the chapters (23 in all) have to 
do with path-finding, use of compass, route 
sketching packs, marksmanship in the woods, 
axemanship, sholt'ers and cabin building, knots, 
lashings, etc., pelts, lantdng, edible plants, acci- 
dents and emergencies, etc. 
Kephart, Horace. 
THE BOOK OF CAMPING. Slacmillwii. $1.50 
'fells of all types of tents and kinds of camp 
equipment, provisions and camp cookery, nearly 
half the book of 400 pages being devoted to 
that subject. 
Brunner, Josef 
TRACKS AND TRACKING. Macmillan. $1.00 
Shows bow to follow iutelligently even the 
most intricate animal or bird tracks. 
Cave, Edward 
THE BOY SCOUT’S CAMP BOOK. 
Houbleday. 60c 
Mr. Cave has told all the interesting iliings 
in a way to make one long to test his advice. 
THE BOY SCOUT’S HIKE BOOK. 
Doubleday. 60o 
Gives advice on walking, outfit, emergencies, 
tents and tent making, rations, etc. 
Corsan, G. H. 
AT HOME IN THE WATER. 
Associated Press. $1.00 
By means of scores of illustraiions it demon- 
strates how to become an e.vpert swimmer. 
Eastman, C. A. 
INDIAN SCOUT TALKS. Little. $1.25 
From this book one may learn how to make 
friends with wild animals; how to build Indian 
canoes; how to make and to follow a blazc-d 
trail; how lo start a fire without matches and 
cook without pots. There is good advice about 
fishing and trapping, the camp-site and portage 
and the language ot footprints, and other phases 
of Indian woodcraft. 
CAMP COOKERY. Macmillan. $1.00 
Every step is traced — the selection of yjro- 
visions and utensils, with llie kind and quantity 
of each, the preparation of game, the building 
of fires, the cooking of every conceivable kind 
cf food that the camp outfit or woods, field or 
streams may provide. 
Miller, W. H. 
CANOEING, SAILING AND MOTOR BOATING. 
Doran. $2.50 
Divided into three parts it discu.sses sailing 
and boat building, canoeing and cruising and 
motor boat management ami construction. 'I be 
building, rigging and sailing directions arc clear 
and adequate and the many illu.strations lielfi 
the directions. 
Bertell. Luigi 
THE PRINCE AND HIS ANTS. Holt. $1.35 
A remarkably successful child’s science book. 
Information about ants, wasps, bees, etc., in the 
guise ot a fairy tale. Usually authors who try 
to do this sort of thing fail miserably. 
Cheney, C. E. B. 
FEATHERS, FURS AND FINS. Page. $2.00 
Many slioit stories of common animals. 
Comstock, A. B. 
THE PET BOOK. Comstock. $2.00 
A good book Idr every family of youiig chil- 
dren. How 10 house, leeii and care lor cvciy 
sort of I'cl. 
Dole, C. F. 
CRIB AND FLY, a tale of two terriers. 
Heath. 32o 
About two dogs who were very clo.-c I'riend.s. 
Jackson, Helen Hunt 
CAT STORIES. Lillie.. $2.00 
Tliroc stories: “I.cttrrs From a Cat. •‘.Mammy 
'I'ittlebaek and Her Family, I'hc lluntor Cals 
of Comiorioa.” 
May. G. M. (C.) 
SO-FAT AND MEW-MEW. Heath. 2Eo 
Adventures of a cat and a dog. 
Miller, 0. T. 
FIRST BOOK OF BIRDS. Uouglilon. $1.50 
Simiile accounts of bird life and habits. 
LITTLE FOLKS IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 
Dutton. $3 00 
Nearly one hundred true stories of the smaller 
aniniaks. 
Complete Catalogue of Childrens Out- 
door Books Sent Free on Request 
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FOREST AND STREAM 
Cook Department 
9 E. 40th Street, N. Y. Citv N, Y. 
M December, 1919 
though making slow progress therein, we 
judged that it was a bull ■with a great 
spread. 
We found wildcat tracks around the 
partly devoured carcass of our first por- 
cupine which had been turned on its back 
by the cats in order to avoid the quills. 
It is a mystery why many dogs other- 
wise intelligent will repeatedly altack 
porcupines and fill jaws, tongues and 
gums full of quills in biting the back. 
With pincers I once extracted nearly 
four hundred quills from one of a pack 
of twenty-three dogs in Colorado and 
while thus engaged another victim crept 
up and sheepishly rested his muzzle on 
my knee in mute appeal. If extraction 
is delayed about a half hour, many of the 
quills break off aj]d the barbed tips move 
internally. 
Despite the two dollar bounty, wild- 
cats, which kill deer are increasing for 
they are harder to trap than lynx, which 
can be caught by almost any amateur. 
Bob is an expert moose caller but it 
was too late in the season to afford op- 
portunity to show his skill. Some guides 
call bulls from a distance, but fail to 
bring them closer when the latter become 
suspicious. Sometimes the guide has de- 
cided the problem of selecting the big- 
gest hull from among two or more that 
wore coming to the call at the same time. 
To get the big one without causing 
starlled smaller hulls to frighten him 
away requires skill, quick thinking and 
versatilUy, for conditions are seldom 
alike. 
On the da}' that we came out of the 
woods, the driver of the able team 
arose at four drove seven miles to 
camp and arrived back at Bob’s house at 
seven P. M. Upon reaching his home, the 
driver did all the choi’cs, as there was 
sickness in his family and thus compIet(-“d 
an eigliteen hour day, one-half of which 
was in darkness. 
As the hunting season had closed. 
Bob's work as a guide was ended -for the 
year, hut in a short time lie was back 
again in the great wilderness engaged in 
felling trees, instead of big game. 
Trapping in Soutliern 
Pennsylvania 
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traps of the same size as yo'.ir number 
ones for use where the water is 'oo shal- 
low to drown the animal. 
The greiit advantage of these models It 
the fact that even if the animal should 
amputate his leg front below the trap still 
has a firm grip on what renwins. 
Tltn hist ’wn model t iiirniioned have 
file additional Hlvaufage if not being 
likely to break the liones ar.d they take a 
li’gh grip cn the ’.eg. 
In all thi’O’.' ■nod’'! ■ 'hut pari of th^ 
leg tJ'.nt remain-: ;ii 'ho (’’ap will swril 
and " ill irakc ’b" grip iluit uiueh surrr. 
A doulile-jtiwcd trap I’au stand ami 
rho"hl a stronger voi'inrr tpan ibe 
eorrcapondiiig sized single .spring trap. 
Unfortunately they do not always Irave 
(.ills. Springs vary in strength in the 
