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may furnish a clue that will lead to a closer 
answer. 
LEM IS MISTAKEN JUST THE SAME. 
Horse Hollow, Ky., July 3, 1916. 
Guessing Editor Forest and Stream: 
Lemuel Hangover, one of our more or less 
esteemed citizens, who has seen stranger things 
in natural as well as unnatural history than any 
man, woman or children in this county, says your 
question is easy. He met that duck one night 
this spring. Lem was proceeding slowly home, 
about midnight, and so strongly did the beauty 
of the evening impress him that he mistook the 
location of the town bridge, and walked straight 
into the deepest hole in the creek. Lem’s enemies, 
not counting his wife, swear that he fell off the 
bridge, but let that pass. At any rate Lem 
grabbed frantically at the first thing that offered, 
in order to save himself, and succeeded in laying 
hold of a fluttering object, that in its effort to 
escape, dragged him to shore, where Lem, in a 
sportsmanlike spirit, released his hold and per¬ 
mitted his rescuer to fly away. 
Lem’s powers of observation, while a little 
confused by the events just mentioned, were clear 
enough to picture in his mind’s eye a large piebald 
duck, mapped exactly like yours. Lem insists, 
however, that when he saw the bird it was glow¬ 
ing all over like an automobile searchlight. 
Probably this is a scheme of nature to enable 
the duck to hunt at night. Your picture, no 
doubt, was taken in the daytime, when the light 
had been turned off—at least that is Lem’s theory, 
and he is our only authority. He has seen even 
more wonderful things during some of his 
solitary observations on the way home nights, 
and perhaps I will be able to get him to record 
these for you in the near future. Stimulate 
Lem’s enthusiasm with a five dollar bill, give him 
a few hours’ start, and he will keep your new 
column supplied with material for a year. 
Veritas. 
FRED HALL, President AMBROSE GAINES, First Vice-President WILLIAM BRUETTE, Secretary 
ALL AMERICA FIELD TRIAL CLUB’S 
Fifth Annual Prairie Chicken Trials 
For Pointers and Setters 
to be run at Denbigh, N. D., starting August 29, 1916. 
JUDGES: Fred Hall of Detroit, Michigan, William Bruette of New York and a third judge to be announced later. 
DERBY: Open to all Pointers and Setters whelped on or after January 1, 1915. Two-thirds of nominating and starting fees 
divided 50, 30 and 20 per cent. Entries to this stake close July 29, 1916, with $15 forfeit, $15 additional to start. All 
nomination fees must be paid by August 12 or nominations will expire automatically. 
ALL-AGE STAKE: Open to all Pointers and Setters. Two-thirds of nominating and starting fees divided 50, 30 and 20 per 
cent. Entries to this stake close July 29, 1916, with $15 forfeit and $15 additional to start. Nominations 
will expire automatically unless paid by August 12. 
CHAMPION STAKE: Open to all Pointers and Setters that have been placed in any amateur or professional field trial; $300 
to the winner. Nominations close August 1, with $25 to nominate and $15 to start. No running will be 
done in heat of the day. The owner of the winner becomes custodian of the Doctor Rowe Cup, which 
must be won three times by same owner before title is fixed. 
For information and entry blanks address WILLIAM BRUETTE, care of Forest and Stream, 
128 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
DREAMING IN THE DEN. 
(Continued from opposite page.) 
Th’ Lodge Fire is a Camp One, for an hour, 
in th’ dark, 
I see th’ kettle boilin’ an’ th’ Wind blow up a 
spark. 
Then—Dawn—and Mountain quarry—Bruin snif¬ 
fin’ of th’ breeze; 
A deer comes helter-skelter, through a screen of 
slender trees, 
Or Mr. Rabbit dodges at th’ scarey sight he sees. 
Th’ guns in racks, are waitin’—there are paddles 
—there are lines, 
There are trails, as yet uncovered in the silence 
o’ th’ pines. 
(Once more I hear the rifle’s crack; 
And see a brown blurr shifting; 
A dog’s bark sounds, and echoes back, 
And snow-white smoke is drifting. 
Th’ air is sweet with growing things; 
Th’ very fir trees love you; 
And by th’ way th’ south wind sings 
You know its fair above you.) 
IT IS A SCOOTERUS MIGRATORII. 
New York, July 4, 1916. 
Guessing Editor Forest and Stream: 
Permit me to take a stagger at your Unnatural 
History Guessing Contest. 
The duck you outlined in the July Forest and 
Stream is a bird of the future, not of the present, 
but it exemplifies perfectly the wonderful scheme 
of protective nature coloration. It shows old 
Mother Nature adapting herself to modern scien¬ 
tific conservation. The coloring of the bird re¬ 
veals a map of the zones in which spring shooting 
is allowed, those designated in white being where 
it is safe for migratory fowl to linger. Thus, by 
consulting her feathers the bird will not remain 
in doubt as to the next stopping place. Let us 
bestow on this new species the name of Scooterus 
Migratorii. A. U. Dobbun. 
OUR UNNATURAL HISTORY GUESSING 
CONTEST. 
The great success attending the inauguration of 
our Unnatural History Guessing Contest induces 
the presentation of a second subject as outlined 
below. We will not spoil the contest of wits by 
giving a hint as to the probable species of the cur¬ 
rent month’s lesson, except to say that the 
friendly, open countenance you are now gazing 
upon is not a figment of the artist’s imagination. 
It is real. 
Thus far no one has won the prize offered for 
a solution of last month’s mystery but we have 
selected one or two of the best guesses, which 
