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FOREST AND STREAM 
Dec. 20, 1913. 
Tenth N. A. A. Mail Match. 
The rigorous winter weather held off just long 
enough to allow this last mail match of the series to 
be shot on the 29th of November. The only note¬ 
worthy things about the York Round was the high 
score of Dr. Hertig, in keeping with his consistently 
excellent work, and an end at 100 yards made by Mrs. 
Dunlap. Four of us Wayne Archer’s shot through the 
100 and part of the 80 of a York Round but on ac- 
■count of darkness and cold could not finish. At one end 
Mrs. Dunlap made 99,773=5—35. If no evidence is 
presented to the contrary I think she is justified in 
considering this a woman’s record for the year. Indeed 
I doubt if many women have ever beaten it. 
York Round. 
Dr. Hertig . 50-232 40-206 24-148 114-586 
B. P. Gray . 33-139 26-106 20- 96 79-341 
:S. W. Wilder .. 24- 92 19- 71 19- 81 62-244 
American Round. 
J- .Tiles . 30-172 30-156 30-206 90-534 
Dr. Elmer .28-138 30-192 30-202 88-532 
Janies Duff . 28-152 29-169 29-183 86-504 
F. W. Clay - 22-110 25-135 30-166 77-411 
A. Pettit . 10-26 21-91 25-109 56-226 
G. W. Watt . 12-40 12- 54 21- 93 45-187 
H. Bennett - 10-36 17- 65 15- 63 42-164 
At last Sir Janies has done it. Every reader of 
Forest and Stream will rejoice with him in his con- 
•quest of the elusive 500. Sooner or later that grim 
Scottish determination was bound to succeed. 
Mr. Watt had not been able to shoot since the 
sixth mail match so that he deserves great credit for 
raising his record from 55 to 187. This was only the 
.second time in his life that Mr. Bennett had shot. 
Hertig writes “I have only dropped 3 arrows in 350 at 
•60 yards. In the old English round of 144 arrows at 60 
yards I made 143-867. The English record is 142-840 
made by Rev. Rimington.” 
Team Round. 
Hertig . 95-563 
Jiles . 94-524 
National Round. 
.Mrs. Dunlap . 24-84 19-55 43-139 
Mrs. Powell . 9-33 9-29 18- 62 
ROBERT P. ELMER. 
(Continued from page 789.) 
I invaded my home town that afternoon and made 
straight for the drug store, where I bought sev- 
-eral varieties of cold cures and took two doses 
•out of one bottle before leaving the place. Then 
I wended my way up the street toward the bak¬ 
ery that Clem’s father owned. It was my in¬ 
tention to tell Clem’s parent that my beloved 
companion was lost in the impenetrable forest, 
and that the coroner’s services would in all proba¬ 
bility be needed. 
I shall never forget how the town boys 
laughed when they saw me shuffling along the 
street, on snowshoes. I needed showshoes no 
more than I needed a string of pink beads around 
my neck. My home town was 500 miles south 
of the snowshoe belt. But I was a real outer, 
and I took no notice of their scoffing. 
With halting step and slow I approached the 
bakery. The big windows of the shop were so 
•coated with frost that I could not see within. 
A big lump came up in my throat as I contem¬ 
plated the sad news I had to break to Clem’s 
parent, but I nerved myself for the ordeal and, 
lifting the latch of the door, I opened it and 
stepped in. 
The first person I beheld was Clem. He was 
behind the counter, tying up a loaf of graham 
bread 'for the village dressmaker. He offered 
no explanation, nor did I demand one. Our eyes 
met, and in that glance Clem was a self-confessed 
piker. 
“Send a drayman out to haul in our outfit, 
and I’ll pay the bill,’’ he remarked, as he sprinkled 
salt on the steel base of the door-frame, to melt 
■off the ice. “I have a terrible cold. If I had 
stayed out there in that camp another night the 
folks would now be singing slow music over me 
-down at our house. How about you?” 
“I am going home to doctor up my cold,” I 
replied; “and I don’t want anybody to mention 
the glad, free life of the big woods to me again 
in the dead of winter. If you ever mention the 
subject to me again I’ll present you with a year’s 
subscription to the outing magazine that locoed 
us! Do you understand?” 
“I follow you,” was Clem's reply. 
And we journeyed back to the tall uncut, 
never again! 
Kimberly Pets 
I HAD just turned into my bunk, at Kimberly, 
one night, thoroughly used up, by a hard 
day’s work, with pick and shovel, when my 
attention was attracted by the repeated meows 
of a cat, at the entrance to my shanty. Softly 
getting up, and pulling the door slightly ajar, in 
order to get a peep at my tormentor, I was sur¬ 
prised to see the animal dash through the narrow! 
opening, leap upon the foot of my berth, and 
curl itself up as if preparing for a full night’s 
rest. I concluded not to interfere with it, and 
she shared my couch with me for the night. The 
next morning, when I arose and was encasing 
myself in my mining suit, it sprang onto the 
floor, and with continual purring, kept rubbing 
against my legs, and finally allowed me to take 
it up into my arms and pet it. At that time I 
was in the habit of taking my meals at an eating 
house, kept by a native of Erin’s Isle, who served 
capital beefsteaks and mutton chops, but vegeta¬ 
bles were somewhat scarce on his table, as it was 
a grazing country, supporting immense herds of 
cattle and flocks of sheep, but vegetables were 
scarce articles. Carefully fastening the door of 
my shanty, so as to prevent the new arrival’s 
escape, I hurried off, had a bite, and soon re¬ 
turned with a fine bit of a mutton chop, for the 
especial delectation of kitty. I kept her closely 
confined for several days, when I determined to 
take her with me to my evening meal, which, 
with the miners, was the principal one of the 
day. Taking her up into my arms, I carried her 
to the eating house, where she was received in 
the kindest manner by its customers, and instant¬ 
ly christened Splints, which was the local name 
for imperfect diamonds, numbers of which were 
in the hands of the miners, for as buying ex¬ 
perts had not yet reached Kimberly, consequently 
there was no sale for them. Of course, she was 
given various tidbits by several of them, and sev¬ 
eral took an especial delight in petting and feed¬ 
ing her. She got into the habit of passing entire¬ 
ly around the table on the laps of the guests, 
stopping for a short period with each one, who 
petted and fed her. For a month or two matters 
went on smoothly until, one night, as I was pass¬ 
ing along, as usual, I was startled by the 
sudden rush and grunt of a Chacma babboon, 
which had been purchased by a miner, and 
chained alongside his tent. My pet sprang from 
my arms and ran full tilt back to my shanty, 
and I was never able to get her to accompany me 
to the eating house again; and about a month 
subsequent, on my return from my claim, I 
missed her, and was never afterward able to 
locate her whereabouts. 
A short time subsequently, through the as¬ 
sistance of a young Boer friend, I managed to 
secure a pair of suricates—Boer name meerkat. 
In my wanderings I had often seen these animals 
sitting at the entrances of their burrows, along¬ 
side the roads. The pair which I purchased were 
quite tame, and had been kept about the house 
for the purpose of destroying the rats and mice. 
They were of a yellowish brown color, with 
darkish bands across the back. The head was 
whitish, with black ears, and the tail tipped with 
black. Their fore claws were strong and they 
were expert burrowers, and able to secure va¬ 
grant rats which happened to come within their 
reach. As I did not dare to give them their 
liberty, for fear of curs and reprehensible bipeds, 
I was forced to construct a rough den, of aban¬ 
doned wire sieves, at the back portion of which 
stood a decent-sized box, filled with dirt, for the 
purpose of allowing them to form their burrows. 
Of course, such an unsual addition to my family 
was soon noised about, and I had numbers of 
visitors, particularly on Sunday afternoons. 
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These visitors soon learned that rats were titbits 
for the little fellows, and on that day they were 
usually gorged with them, while their combats 
with their prey excited the admiration of the 
visitors and caused them to make renewed at¬ 
tempts during the week to capture fresh victims 
for slaughter. 
Some two or three months subsequent, my 
young Boer friend informed me that he had 
learned the whereabouts of a secretary bird, 
which had been so completely tamed that it was 
not confined, but allowed free range, and proved 
a safeguard against the intrusion of venomous 
reptiles, etc. Some little time elapsed before I 
became the possessor of this intersting pet, but 
at length I did so by the kind assistance of my 
Boer friend, and the payment of what was con¬ 
sidered an inordinate price for it. Of course, I 
feared to give it the range of the entire mining 
camp, and was forced to construct an enclosure 
for it, which was accomplished principally by 
the use of damaged and worn out sieves, which 
had been used in sifting for diamonds. My new 
addition was about four feet from the tip of the 
bill to to the end of the tail, and of an ashy 
gray color, with a bare yellowish space around 
the eyes. A long crest of blackish feathers pro¬ 
jected from behind the head, which gives it its 
name. Very naturally the new arrival excited 
great interest among my regular Sunday visit¬ 
ors and there were numerous additions to the 
usual attendance. Allowing the secretary to be¬ 
come thoroughly accustomed to his new environ¬ 
ment, I did not hasten to exhibit his manner of 
slaughtering his prey, but when I did so the 
excitement and applause was extravagantly be¬ 
stowed. A clique was immediately formed for 
the purpose of capturing some of the most ven¬ 
omous snakes of the locality in order to test my 
pet’s fighting qualities and also to see how he 
would act in overcoming his victims. Some lit¬ 
tle time elapsed before their efforts were crowned 
with success, but finally one of the party con¬ 
ceived the idea of noosing their booty, which was 
accomplished by using a loop made of strong 
tape and attached to a long pole. So soon as the 
serpent was noosed, it was lifted up and shaken 
into a bag, and then carried to the secretary 
without danger to its captor. The secretary in- 
