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a veritable struggle is necessary to progress and 
from which the hunter emerges disheveled, 
scratched, and minus anything not firmly at¬ 
tached. Also in mid-day the weather is very, 
very warm and such mid-day may be used in 
traveling through the brush. 
Easterners and eastern knowledge of condi¬ 
tions have nothing to do with western hunting, 
nor have eastern books any bearing so far as 
equipment goes. We did not shuck our belt and 
our knife merely to be different or merely 
through theory, or because we could not get 
along with them. We did it because we were 
more comfortable without them and found that 
the pocket variety of lock-open or ordinary 
pocket jack knife was adequate to any task fall¬ 
ing to the hunter. The standard equipment 
among the men who go out and get the goods 
in that sort of country is a pair of overalls, a 
hickory shirt, a rifle, a few cartridges in the 
pocket, and a pocket knife. 
So dolled up the hunter may not look like 
an inmate of a moving picture camp but he 
delivers the goods. 
We would suggest that “us woodsmen” con¬ 
fine their comment to articles bearing on their 
own sort of country and their own experience, 
until they have fought up a few thousand feet 
through brush and rocks and down a few thou¬ 
sand feet on the other side through brush with¬ 
out the rocks. 
We would also suggest that “us woodsmen” 
cease to labor under the impression that the 
idea of pushing a knife a bit farther to the 
rear, is a heaven-sent flash of inspiration, or 
that to figure that out requires even as many 
brains as are necessary to write a book on 
woodcraft for eastern tenderfeet. 
However, we are in hearty agreement on one 
point, that being that many articles and many 
books are worthless because of the limited ex¬ 
perience back of them or the hasty compilation 
of the ideas contained within them. 
We have in mind as direct proof of the fact, 
an interview or an article, as you choose to term 
it, in the July issue of Forest and Stream. i 
Verily “us woodsmen,” who tinker around in j 
the pleasant time of the year in the eastern 
woods, take ourselves seriously. 
Edward C. Crossman. 
Los Angeles, July 5, 1916. 
RHODE ISLAND’S SANCTUARY. 
At last there is a bird sanctua y set aside in 
the state of Rhode Island. It comprises about 
one thousand acres, with ponds, brooks and 
woodland and is one of the ideal spots in the 
state. It is situated at Middletown, bounded on 
the south by the ocean and on the east by the 
Seaconnet river. 
There are two large ponds on the reservation, 
full of sago, pond weed and pickerel grass. At 
the time of migration they are full of wild fowl, 
including wood duck and Canada geese. Pres¬ 
ent plans include killing off vermin and setting 
feeding stations for quail and ruffed grouse, 
and by patrolling and keeping up the feeding 
stations, letting the birds increase normally. 
There are three ridges on the preserve about 
three-quarters of a mile long, covered with 
cedars and underbrush and abounding in berry 
bushes and wild grape vines. In each ravine 
are brooks and natural ponds. To the south, 
behind some sand hills lies a marsh of about 
75 acres, which in the fall and spring is the 
resting place for many kinds of shore birds. 
The superintendent, Richard E. Bullock, always 
welcomes visitors to the sanctuary and takes 
special interest in pointing out the work being 
done and his plans for the future. 
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