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FOREST AND STREAM 
Oct. 25, 1913. 
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superior to the sight point target method. How¬ 
ever, the writer does not know enough about 
target shooting to criticize it. Anyway, “Rovers” 
is a dandy archer game. 
One of us arrows was lost one day in this 
way. The archer shot at a wheat shock at ex¬ 
treme long range, the arrow striking the cap 
bundles and—just disappeared. He shot the rest 
of us as Shakespeare says, “In the self same way, 
the second arrow to find the first.” Strange how 
arrows do get lost sometimes. Old archers, 
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however, will tell you of target arrows “snak¬ 
ing” and being lost even on closely mowed lawns. 
A wounded rabbit carried another broadhead 
into a hole in the rocks. One by one they have 
all disappeared as the years have gone by until 
I am now left alone. My feathers have been 
worn off and replaced several times. At present 
I have two badly worn red gander feathers and 
a turkey feather. They are glued and wrapped 
with silk and varnished over wrappings and glue 
joints, but my shaft is scraped and the feathers 
ragged as those of a game cock after a hard 
battle. My nock is split and my original steel 
blade is many miles from here buried in the 
limb of an oak. For all that, my master says 
that I am the most valued piece in his archery 
cabinet. 
As an arrow—a hunting arrow—I could tell 
many little stories of adventure. I have rode 
many a mile in a hunter’s quiver, and helped kill 
some or most every kind of game in this coun¬ 
try. Besides that, I have contributed—it will 
never be known how much—to the health of that 
hunter, for he has carried us many a tramp over 
hill and valley, through woods and meadows, 
along rocky cliffs and by mountain streams. 
When the weighty problems of life assail him, 
his thoughts have turned to his hobby—to us. 
And when the day's toil and grind is done, he 
has taken us and gone forth into the shadows of 
evening for a precious hour of peace and quiet 
in the forest near the school or the meadows of 
the old home. 
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far as help and other fixed charges are con¬ 
cerned. By adding the energy of an increased 
advertising appropriation earnings may be in¬ 
creased far beyond the amount of the addi¬ 
tional advertising outlay. 
Three native species of larch furnish timber 
in the United States. One grows in New Eng¬ 
land and the Lake States, another in the Pacific- 
Northwest, and the third in the high mountains 
of the Northern Rockies. European larch has 
been planted extensively in the prairie States. 
A growing scarcity of willow, generally used 
for wooden shoes in Europe, is leading to an 
adoption of poplar. 
CAMPING ALONG THE OLD NORTH¬ 
WEST TRAIL. 
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granite boulders in a drop of some thirty feet in 
about one hundred yards, forming a very beauti¬ 
ful rapid. 
After an hour's hard work, we were safely 
launched on Newton Lake. This is a small lake 
about two miles long, and after a short paddle, 
portage No. 2 was located. Here the river 
shoots down a series of rapids and empties into 
the south arm of Basswood Lake. This is a 
long portage "about eighty rods.” However, 
owing to a mistake made by the advance ex¬ 
ploring party, composed of Boarch and Leo, who 
were sent ahead to locate the trail, only about 
one-half of the portage was made, as they 
claimed that a faint trail opposite an old cabin, 
and leading down a 60 degree hill, was the right 
trail. Finally after much slipping, sliding and 
holding back, we got all our duffle down, and 
all the time we were speculating as to how on 
earth we would ever get back up that hill, until 
after paddling around the first point we saw the 
real end of the portage, which we very thank¬ 
fully made use of on our return trip. It might 
be mentioned that here on portage No. 2 the 
writer met with the greatest misfortune of the 
whole trip. It being a very warm day his only 
coat was temporarily deposited on a stump at 
the top of the hill, while the portage was being 
made, and right there it stayed until picked up 
twelve days later on the return journey. This 
little piece of work necessitated the shivering 
around on several cold rainy mornings with only 
two shirts to keep out the cold wind. 
The south arm of Basswood Lake is about 
eight miles long and is dotted with many islands 
which are covered with virgin forests, and the 
shores in many places are composed of granite 
rock, which rises sheer from the water’s edge 
to a height of thirty or forty feet. The main 
shores are heavily wooded, especially at the 
southern end, the woods thinning out toward the 
north end where it joins the main lake. 
The scarcity of timber in this section is due 
to forest fires and the operations of lumbering 
companies. A four hours’ paddle with the wind 
at our back brought us to a little island about 
one mile from the outlet of Basswood Lake. 
Here we made our second camp. There were 
practically no trees on this island from which 
to secure bedding, so it was a case of sleep on 
the hard ground or rather granite rock, as the 
shores in this locality Are nearly all composed 
of granite, it being practically impossible to find 
a place to drive a tent stake. 
The next morning Walter and the writer 
awoke with a raging attack of fishing fever, and 
it not being our morning to wrestle with the 
pots and pans, the necessary tackle v'as rigged 
up and our luck tried with the result that after 
a half hour’s troll, four nice ones were landed, 
the largest running a shade over ten pounds. 
This proved that our troubles in supplying the 
camp with fresh fish when necessary were en¬ 
tirely eliminated. The fish in the large lakes of 
this district are nearly all pike, there being two 
kinds, the Canadian, and what is called the great 
Northern pike. The latter are more numerous 
and attain to a weight of fifteen or twenty 
pounds. They resemble very much the masca- 
longe, except the coloring, which is black and 
white. When hooked, they fight every inch of 
