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that the men worth while were always ready to help their brothers? This is particularly 
characteristic of sportsmen. 
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advertised in its columns to sportsmen telling the best story or contributing the most useful 
advice on fishing, hunting or camping subjects. 
To the second best will be given a copy of Nessmuk’s great book, Woodcraft. 
IN CLOSE QUARTERS. 
FTENTIMES in the hurry to get to the 
fishing grounds we are apt to forget to set 
up the rod before starting, and then the 
problem of setting the rod confronts us just 
when we are in a crowded boat or canoe. How 
to do this; especially with a ten or eleven footer, 
and do it without injury to the rod, scaring the 
fish or falling overboard then becomes somewhat 
of a proposition. 
If you have any kind of a rod, and the rod 
should be the choicest part of your equipment— 
it is up to you to keep it in shape. And the 
mere fact that you are in the crowded quarters of 
a boat or canoe and needs must set up this im¬ 
portant implement, is no reason why you should 
push it over or under the benches by the fragile 
tip. The rod, much less the tip, is not meant 
for this purpose and the sooner you learn this 
and rid yourself of this foolish habit the longer 
will your rod last to go with you to many an¬ 
other fishing tour and give you the pleasure you 
are after. Now there is a way to do all this and 
not knock the guides into kingdom come, scrape 
the varnish off or break the tip. It’s just a knack. 
Proceed as follows: place the reel on the reel- 
seat and run the line through the guides of the 
butt section, drawing through about eight or ten 
feet. Arrange the sections of the rod in order of 
their position on the rod on the bench in front of 
you, guides all the same way, run the line through 
them in order being careful not to turn them, 
and as each section has been taken in turn, pull 
your line through a few more feet so that there 
will be considerable line beyond your tip joint; 
set the tip in the second joint, then the second 
and tip joints together into the butt section, see¬ 
ing that your line is in proper running order 
through all guides. 
Your rod is now set up minus the leader. A 
few false casts, letting out line, will soon bring 
the loose end of the line to your hand and you 
can then put on the leader, flies or hook. 
This certainly is much more easier than the 
old method and there is no danger of doing any 
damage to that rod. It’s time tried and found 
to be the goods. 
THE VAGRANT DOG IN THE GAME FIELD. 
FACTOR in the maintenance of the game 
supply of a region is the vagrant dog which 
is permitted to run at large in the cover in 
close season. It makes no difference whether the 
animal is well bred or a cur. A dog, when per¬ 
mitted to wander ab^ut at will, exercises many 
of his wild traits of a predatory nature. He has 
no perception whatever of property rights. He 
will chase rabbits with unbounded enjoyment. 
He will rob the nests of game birds, kill and eat 
the young quail and partridges, and betimes he 
will harry and kill sheep. 
Hounds in particular are conspicuous offenders. 
They have an insatiable appetite, are eminently 
vagrant and predatory in their habits, and from 
their keen sense of smell, great endurance and 
skill in pack work, have superlative powers of 
predatory destructiveness. In the South the 
vagrant cur is particularly and offensively de¬ 
structive. 
No owner has any right to permit his dog or 
dogs to run at large, and the more offensive or 
destructive vagrant dogs become, the less value 
will dogs have in the eye of the law. The va¬ 
grant dog is one of the chief problems which 
game preserve owners have to meet, but there is 
no doubt that, when it becomes serious enough, 
it is as a rule fully settled, and not at all to the 
advantage of the dog. 
These remarks apply more directly to regions 
and localities which do not enjoy regular super¬ 
vision, but the vagrant dog is the same in any 
locality. Laws against him are becoming more 
stringent as his possibilities for evil are realized. 
Remember also that the veneer of civilization 
that the dog has acquired is very thin. The well 
mannered companion that you know at home is 
apt to be an entirely different animal, once he 
shakes loose from control and goes faring afield 
on his own account. 
