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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 21, 1906. 
THE ROBERTS SAFETY LAUNCH AND YACHT BOILER. 
Nearly 1500 in use. 250 pounds of steam. Handsome catalogue free 
r- ki a aa WORKS; RED BANK, New Jersey. 
Cable Address ; Bruniva, New York. Telephone Address: 599 Cortlandt 
THE ROBERTS SAFETY WATER TUBE BOILER COMPANY, 39 and 41 Cortlandt Street, New York. 
Mullins Steel Boats 
Motor Boats, Row Boats, Hunting and Fishing Boats 
built of steel with air chambers in each end like a life boat. Faster, 
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absolutely safe. They can’t sink. No calking, no bailing, no 
trouble. Every boat is guaranteed. Highly endorsed by sportsmen. 
The ideal boats for pleasure or sport. Catalogue describing our com¬ 
plete line of craft sent free on request. 
The W. H. Mullins Co., 1 26 FranKlin Street, Salem, Ohio. 
2 H. P., 75 pounds. 
illustrated descriptive 
IF YOU ARE BUILDING A NEW BOAT, 
and want the greatest possible speed, as well as comfort and 
pleasure, or if you have a boat which has not developed the 
pace you expected, buy a new iqo6 model 
CUSHMAN ENGINE. 
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CUSHMAN MOTOR COMPANY, - - Lincoln. Neb. 
Manual of the Canvas Canoe. 
By F. R. Webb (“Commodore”). Many illustra 
tions of designs and plans of canvas canoes 
and their parts. Two large, full-sized work¬ 
ing (24x38) drawings in a pocket in a cover. 
Cloth, iis pages. Price, $1.25. 
This interesting manual of how to build, cruise 
and live in a canvas canoe is written by one of the 
most enthusiastic of the older generation of canoe¬ 
ists, who has had a long experience of cruising 
on the Shenandoah River, and of building the 
boats best adapted to such river cruising. With 
the help of this volume, aided by its abundant 
plans and illustrations, any boy or man who has 
a little mechanical skill can turn out for himself 
at trifling expense a canoe alike durable and 
beautiful. 
Contents: Practical Construction. Cost. Specifics 
tions. Working Plans and Patterns. Putting on the 
Canvas. Painting. Finishing. Camp Equipment. Hints 
on Cruising and Camping. Hints on Camp Cooking. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Ca.noe Handling and Sailing. 
The Canoe: History, Uses, Limitations and Va¬ 
rieties, Practical Management and Care, and 
Relative Facts. By C. Bowyer Vaux(“Dot”). 
Illustrated. Cloth, 168 pages. Price, $1.00. 
New and revised edition, with additional 
matter. 
A complete manual for the management of the 
canoe. Everything is made intelligible to the 
veriest novice, and Mr. Vaux proves himself one 
of those successful instructors who communicate 
their own enthusiasm to their pupils. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Houseboats and Houseboating 
. 
BY ALBERT BRADLEE HUNT. 
A volume’ devoted to a new outdoor field which 
has for its purpose three objects: 
First—To make known the opportunities American waters 
afford lor enjoyment of houseboating life. 
Second—To properly present the development which 
houseboating has attained in this country. 
Third—To set forth the advantages and pleasures of 
houseboating in so truthful a manner that others 
may become interested in the pastime. 
The book contains forty specially prepared articles by 
owners and designers of well-known houseboats, and is 
beautifully illustrated with nearly 200 line and half-tone 
reproductions of plans and exteriors and interiors. A 
most interesting chapter is devoted to houseboating in 
England. 
The book has been carefully prepared by Mr. Albert 
Bradlee Hunt. 
The work is printed on extra heavy coated paper, and is 
bound in olive green buckram. The price is $3 net. 
Postage 34 cents. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Small Yacht Construction 
and Rigging. 
A complete manual of practical Boat and Small Yacht 
Building. With two complete designs and numerous 
diagrams and details. By Linton Hope. 177 pages. 
Cloth. Price, $3. 
The author has taken two designs for practical demon¬ 
stration, one of a centerboard boat 19ft. waterline and 
the other a cruising cutter of 23ft. waterline. Both de¬ 
signs show fine little boats, which are fully adapted to 
American requirements. Full instructions, even to the 
minutest detail, are given for the building of both these 
boats. The information is not confined to these yachts 
alone; they are merely taken as examples; but what is 
said applies to all wooden yacht building according to the 
best and most approved methods. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
A Mongol Fable. 
Two geese, when about to start soQthward 
on their annual autumn migration, were en¬ 
treated by a frog to take him with them. On 
the geese expressing their willingness to do 
so if a means of conveyance could be devised, 
the frog produced a stalk of strong grass, got 
the two geese to take it one by each end, while 
he clung to it by his mouth in the middle. In 
this manner the three were making their journey 
successfully, when they were noticed from be¬ 
low by some men, who loudly expressed their 
admiration of the device, and wondered who 
had been clever enough to discover it. The 
vainglorious frog, opening his mouth to say 
“It was I, lost his hold, fell to the earth, and 
was dashed to pieces. Moral: Don’t let pride 
induce you to speak when safety requires you 
to he silent.—Gilmour’s Among the Mongols. 
An Enemy of the Mosquito. 
An article in Chambers’s Journal draws atten¬ 
tion to a foe which appears to have kept the 
mosquito in check. In the Barbados many of the 
waters abound in a small fish known as “millions” 
—presumably from the great numbers—which 
feed on the larvae of the mosquito. It is said that 
in the parts where the fish abounds there is im¬ 
munity from mosquitos and that malaria is al¬ 
most unknown. Experiments are to be tried by 
introducing the fish into other islands of the West 
Indies. Ihis plan of introducing a natural enemy 
has proved successful in a number of cases and 
the mosquito-eating fish might be introduced into 
other districts. If this fish really feeds largely on 
the larvae of the mosquito, and if the latter have 
really become extinct in the districts, we have 
(he unusual case of species exterminating its own 
food supply. 
They were cooting at Brant Rock, and one of 
[he party, probably venturing too far in the surf 
m order to secure his game, had filled his rub¬ 
ber boots. At night, as all hands sat around the 
stove, the boots were brought forth and the ques¬ 
tion arose as to which was the best way to dry 
them. Various methods were proposed by the 
company, one of which was to fill them with hot 
beach sand and leave them over night. This being 
gravely suggested by one of the oldest of the 
party, and sanctioned by all present, was imme¬ 
diately carried into effect. I don’t think he 
looked more thunderstruck when he came to see 
those boots in the morning than Charlie Bickford 
did when he rowed out to Manomet Point coot¬ 
ing, and got into line only to find he had left his 
gun and shells op the beach. When the boots 
came to be emptied, out came stuffing, linings, 
everything but the outer skin. To cap the whole, 
they were borrowed boots. Sassa-cus. 
WINNERS, 1905 
Free on Request. 
An attractive booklet giving names of clubs, officers, 
races,entries; winners and owners,of yachting season 1905 
EDWARD SMITH (Si COMPANY. 
Varnish Makers and Color Grinders, 
59 Market Street, 45 Broadway, 
Chicago, Ill. New York. 
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