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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 27, 1906. 
THE ROBERTS SAFETY LAUNCH AND YACHT BOILER. 
Over 1500 in use. 250 pounds of steam. Handsome catalogue free 
„ 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 “Get There” g&’EttSg 
Unequaled for use in very shallow water or through 
tangled grass and reeds. Thousands are in use, and 
endorsed by sportsmen everywhere as the lightest, most 
comfortable and safest duck boats built. 
Length 14 feet., beam 36 in. Painted dead grass 
color. Price $20.00. Send for complete catalogue of 
the celebrated Mullins Steel Boats for Hunting and Fishing, 
Row Boats, Motor Boats, etc. All orders promptly filled. 
The W. H. Mullins Co., 126 Franklin St., Salem, Ohio. 
DAN KIDNEY SON, West De Pere, Wis. 
Builders of fine Pleasure and Hunting Boats, Canoes, 
Gasoline Launches, Small Sail Boats. Send for Catalogue. 
KNOCK DOWN BOATS 
Launches, row and Of all Descriptions. 
sail boats. 
Canoes and Hunting 
boats. 
Send for Catalogue. 
American Boat & Machine Co.. 3517 S. 2nd St.. St. Louis. Mo. 
FOR SALE. 
Fine Property for Club. 
Good fishing (6 kinds of fish), hunting, boating, bathing, 
etc. 14 buildings. Present capacity, 50 guests. 600 acres. 
14 hours from Chicago. Pure water, pure air also, 
Chalybeate Spring. M. E. Asire, Marquette, Mich. 18 
Houseboats and Houseboatin# 
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 for 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. 
Gas Engines and Launches. 
BIRDS AND THEIR SONGS. 
Dr. Luther H. Gulick is quoted by the New 
York Tribune: 
The singing of birds has been commonly re¬ 
garded by psychologists and physiologists as a 
mental reaction, entirely automatic. Given cer¬ 
tain surrounding conditions and the song of the 
bird would issue from his throat necessarily, 
without will power on his part. Experiments, 
however, with birds hatched in incubators and 
brought up by machinery, disprove this theory, 
to some extent. Such birds will not sing, though 
they have inherited the instinct and ability to do 
so, until some example is set them by one of 
their kind. There is a well authenticated case 
of a blackbird hatched in an incubator and raised 
by machinery which refused to whistle under con¬ 
ditions that never failed to bring forth a whistle 
from the throat of a bird that had been regularly 
mothered. Hearing frequently the crow of a 
rooster in a neighboring yard, it began one day 
to crow lustily itself. This would indicate that 
every bird inherits the instinct to express its feel¬ 
ings vocally, but its manner of doing so depends 
upon the early example set by its kind. 
~ *A JOURNAL OF OUTDOOR LIFfc 
TRAVEL NATURE STUDY, SHOOTING, FISHING YACHTING 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
The Forest and Stream is the recognized medium of 
entertainment, instruction and information between 
American sportsmen. The editors invite communications 
on the subjects to which its pages are devoted. Anony¬ 
mous communications will not be regarded. The editors 
are not responsible for the views of correspondents. 
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Building Motor Boasts aavd 
Managing Gasolene Engines 
are discussed in the book 
‘'HOW TO BUILD A LAUNCH FROM PLANS” 
A complete illustrated work on the building of motor 
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motors. By Charles G. Davis. With 40 diagrams, 
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The author is a builder and designer of national repu¬ 
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by every individual who operates one. The book is well 
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FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
HORSE AND HOUND 
By Roger D. Williams, Master of Foxhounds, Iroquois 
Hunt Club; Keeper Foxhound Stud Book; Director 
National Foxhunters’ Association; Official Judge, 
Brunswick Hunt Club. 
“Horse and Hound” is encyclopedic in all that per¬ 
tains to foxhunting. It has chapters as follows: Hunt¬ 
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Breeding and Raising Horses. The Kennel. Scent. The 
Fox. Tricks and Habits of the Fox. In the Field. 
Hunt Clubs. The style is clear and crisp, and every 
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profusely illustrated. Price, $2.50. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Their Principles, Types and Management. By Francis 
K. Grain. 132 pages. Price, $1.25. 
Here is a pocket manual indispensable to every man 
who uses a motor-boat. It deals in simple untechnical 
fashion with the running of the marine gas engine, and 
with the difficulties that the marine gas engineer is likely 
to meet with. These engines are described, some pages 
are devoted to launches in general, with practical advice 
to the man who contemplates purchasing a power boat. 
The main feature of the book, however, is a clear descrip¬ 
tion of the difficulties met with in running a gas engine, 
their causes and how to remedy them. In this discussion 
all technicalities are avoided, and the author has boiled 
down a vast amount of practical knowledge into small 
space and into every-day language. The amateur power 
boat man needs this book, for it will save him much time 
and trouble, and probably not a little money. 
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 22ft. 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. 
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