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FOREST AND STREAM 
For Sale. 
SHOOTING ON A VANISHED LAKE. 
GAME BIRDS 
Hungarian Partridges, Quail, lting-neck, Pheasants, Wild 
Turkeys, Capercailzie, Black Game, Wild Ducks, Decoys, 
Beautiful Swans, Faucy Pheasants. Peafowl, Cranes, 
Storks, Ornamental Ducks and Geese. 
“ EVERYTHING IN THE BIRD LINE 
FROM A CANARY TO AN OSTRICH" 
I am the oldest established and largest exclusive dealer 
in land and water birds in America, and have on hand 
the most extensive stock in the United States. 
G. D. TILLEY, Naturalist 
Box “ F” DARIEN, CONN. 
RAINBOW TROUT 
are well adapted to Eastern waters. Try stocking 
with some of the nice yearlings or fry from our 
hatchery, and you will be pleased with the results. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT COMPANY 
Colburn C. Wood, Supt., Plymouth, Mass. 
Small-Month Black Bass 
We have the only establishment dealing in young 
small-mouth black bass commercially in the United 
States. Vigorous young bass in various sizes, rang¬ 
ing from advanced fry to 3 and 4 inch lingerliugs 
for stocking purposes. 
Waramaug Small-Mouth Black Bass Hatchery. 
Correspondence invited. Pend for Circulars. Address 
HENRY W. BEAMAN - New Preston, Conn. 
Brook Trout CX 
ages for stocking 
and lakes. Brook 
trout eggs in any quantity. Warranted delivered 
anywhere in fine condition. Correspondence solicited. 
THE PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT CO. 
Plymouth, Mass. 
ADIRONDACK BROOK TROUT 
We have a million brook trout ranging from one 
to six inches. 
To reduce stock we are selling at reduced rates. 
Order now for spring delivery. 
DRUMLIN TROUT HATCHERY, Barneveld, Oneida Co., N.Y. 
Ten Thousand Yearling Brook Trout 
5 to 6 inches 
ong, for sale at a low price; also 40,000 Fingerlings, 
deliverable October 1 st. 
M. G. CRAFT, Bevans, Sussex Co., N. J. 
RED CUBAN DANES 
Beautiful, Deadgame, and 
Fighters; as well as high class 
layers. Send jor price-list 
and testimonials at once. 
GEORGE W. MEANS 
Concord, North Carolina 
To Form a Hunting Club. 
Wanted to form a hunting club on my South Caro¬ 
lina plantation. Best ducking and deer hunting in this 
region. Plantation can be purchased by club and paid 
for by subscriptions. Would accommodate twenty men. 
Fine building for clubhouse. Ask for full information, 
no obligation. Address: Hunting Club, care of this 
office. 
A REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH 
Copies of unusual photograph of partridge on 
best, cover illustration on January 17 th Issue 
of Forest and Stream may be had from me. 
Original 8 x 10 photograph sent post paid on 
receipt of 75 cents. 
C. A. HOOKER EVART, MICH. 
(Continued from page 370.) 
window and note where they were working so 
as to he in shape for Monday’s business. In the 
afternoon, too, with Nelson’s help, some old 
lumber was sawed and loaded into the boat for 
blind building early Monday. 
This blind was an experiment, and with one of 
the boys to help it was constructed in the dim 
dawn of the morning. First, four stakes were 
driven in rectangular form, even with the water. 
To them a platform forty inches square was 
spiked. Upright strips were nailed to three sides 
of this, and around them, but open in the rear, an 
oval blind like a muskrat house was built. Close 
to the platform and back of it two solid stakes 
were driven a little higher than the four, and 
across their top a board for a seat was nailed; 
so the gunner sitting on it, when birds were 
coming, had only to stoop over and rest on his 
shell box on the platform, to shelter the upper 
part of his body in the blind, then with the water 
reaching his knees there was little to attract at¬ 
tention—just something resembling an ordinary 
rat house like many others in the lake, of which 
the ducks had no fear, and on which they would 
often sit and sun themselves. The blind was 
finished when some pieces of cord wood were 
sunk as a foundation to stand on. Everything 
completed, the boy took the boat away, after get¬ 
ting instructions to return at noon. Tally of 
ducks killed was kept by dropping, for every 
clean kill, an empty shell into a compartment of 
the tin box. Warmer weather had caused the 
return of many strange ducks—earlier visitors 
to the Minnesota grain fields—but, stranger or 
veteran, none saw danger in that old rat house, 
and all worked perfectly to caller and decoys. 
They often came too close and sometimes a flock 
would swing back a second time. 
The gunner was in good form, and when, soon 
after noon, he got into the boat to help pick up 
the dead birds, about a hundred and forty shells 
had been used, and there were ninety-two emp¬ 
ties in the kill compartment. Ninety-five ducks 
were found, three which were supposedly crip¬ 
pled and not scored having been cleanly killed. 
It was hard work, as hard as a man could do. 
The pound of six drams of black powder, the 
wading after birds where the boat could not go, 
the constant watchfulness and excitement, soon 
would tire a person not trained to it by years of 
experience. There is more real enjoyment, more 
true sport in killing twenty-five hard-flying ducks 
a day than in getting two hundred where the 
gunner exhausts himself in shooting and after¬ 
wards in gathering a lot of birds that come close, 
where little skill is required, and where it seems 
like murder to pull the trigger. 
This day, after fifty-five more mallards had 
been added to my score, I was satisfied to call 
the hundred and fifty a day’s work and quit. 
Tired? Wet? Yes, so tired and wet I could 
eat no supper that night—had barely strength to 
undress and tumble into bed, not even reloading 
my shells, and next day’s campaign was started 
with two hundred cartridges charged with smoke¬ 
less powder, the first I had ever used on water 
fowl. 
Three easy shots in succession were missed at 
HUNTING KNIVES FOll SALE 
Twelve, imported I. X. L. George Wostenholm & 
Sons, Limited, Sheffield, England, Hunting 
Knives, with seven inch blade; perfect condition, 
all knives new with stag handles, beautifully 
finished, of best workmanship. Three, six inch 
Hunting Knives, same type. Two, five inch, same 
type, also with stag handles. Each knife has fine 
heavy leather sheath, English make. Two, six 
inch Marble wood handle Hunting Knives. One, 
six inch Non-I.X.L., Joseph Allen & Sons, Shef¬ 
field, stag handle Hunting Knife. 
REVOLVERS FOR SALE 
I 45—New Service Colts’, entirely new, with soft 
pliable leather holster of fine leather, sYi in. 
Barrel. I 44 S. & W. Special Mod’o8, new 6J3 in. 
Barrel, with fine pliable leather holster, and cart¬ 
ridge belt, entirely new. These Revolvers are blue 
finish, and have never been used. Guaranteed 
strictly as represented, otherwise money cheer¬ 
fully refunded. Address, GILBERTT.SMITH, M.D. 
Box 91 , Stamford, Conn. 
Oakland Hotel 
OAKLAND, FLA. 
On Lake Apopka, second largest lake In 
Florida. 
The best shooting and fishing in the State. 
Plenty of Quail, Duck and Snipe, Black 
Bass, Bream and Trout. 
Teams, Guides, Dogs and Boats Furnished. 
For further information address 
OAKLAND HOTEL. 
NAVAL ARCHITECT 
Designer of 
All Classes of Sailing: Yaclits and Motor Boats 
V Bottoms, swift, handsome, able, a specialty 
J. L. FOSTER 
Orcas, Washington 
Winter Sport with Rod and Gun 
Sportsmen, spend your winter vacation here. Good shooting; 
thousands of ducks; plenty of quail. Both fresh and salt 
water fishing can be had within a short distance of the house. 
Correspondence invited. Address 
THE RENDEZVOUS, Homosassa, Florida 
To D. BRIGGS, Proprietor 
Hunting in Colorado and Wyoming 
Handsome 32-page book containing informa¬ 
tion on the best hunting districts in Colorado 
and Wyoming, a digest of the game laws of the 
two states, map and twenty-eight intimate pic¬ 
tures of wild life in colored half tones. Any 
one of these pictures, mounted, would be worth 
the price of the book. For 10 cents we will 
send it postpaid. 
W. S. BASINGER, General Passenger Agent Union Pacific 
It. R. Co.,Room 30, Union Pacific Bldg., Omaha, Neb. 
Wanted Situation as Game or Fish Keeper, life 
experience in (England), Solley, 333 East 49th street, 
New York. 
THE BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS® 
of BERRY, KENTUCKY 
Offer For Sale—Setters and Pointers, Fox and Cat 
Hounds, Wolf and Deer Hounds, Coon and O’possum 
Hounds, Varmint and Rabbit Hounds, Bear and Lion 
Hounds, also Airedale terriers. All dogs shipped on 
trial, purchaser alone to judge the quality. Satisfaction 
guaranteed or money refunded. 56-page highly illustrated, 
interesting and instructive catalogue for ten cents in 
stamps or coin. 
the start, then an old greenhead fell, spinning in 
the air like a top, with unclosed wings. He was 
head shot, which caused 'the writer to realize how 
much quicker nitro powder was than black, and 
made him, instead of leading his easy shots a 
foot, hold for the bill. Then he killed the next 
ten without a miss, and with less than a hundred 
