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tached by a small brass screw through a copper 
washer to the wooden handle just below the 
position of the rivet, by means of which this 
form of net is suspended from a button that 
fastens the left breast pocket of your flannel 
shirt. And the three-foot piece of safety cord 
may be used here also. 
To prevent the net from dangling below the 
frame when folded, fasten a loop of cord to 
the bottom ot the net and slip the loop over 
the part of the wooden handle which projects 
beyond the rivet joint; it will be checked at 
the leather hanger. The loop will release itself 
automatically when the handle is extended. 
When either frame is completed a coat of 
green paint may be applied. 
Geo. Parker Holden. 
LIKE THE MAN WHO TELLS CHILDREN 
THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
“Old Camper” is getting on my nerves. He 
is always writing about things we ought not to 
do, and thus probably making us better woods¬ 
men—but we don’t want to be instructed in this 
school. Rather, why doesn’t he tell us how to 
do or make more things, for that is two-thirds 
of the fun of camping. 
It is all right to rail against the superfluous, 
but does Old Camper imagine that we are all 
setting off on expeditions such as he appears to 
love and indulge in, towards the North Pole, or 
elsewhere in the hinterland? Why, most of my 
recreation consists in tinkering around in the 
back yard, building all sorts of dew dads that I 
read about in the outdoor press. No, I will 
never use them, but it is fun, and works off 
superfluous energy. 
It was this same Old Camper, I believe, who 
broke loose in Forest and Stream a couple of 
years ago, with a story of an unexpected visit 
from a party of lost campers, including several 
ladies, all needing food. The garrulous old gen¬ 
tleman gave us an inventory of his provisions— 
I am suspicious now that he was padding his 
commissary list—and finished by asking what 
the reader would have prepared, and how. 
Many of us stewed metaphorically over that 
problem, and sent in answers, but I recall that 
Old Camper kept still. At the time I thought 
that he was pitying our crude woodcraft and 
forebore to humiliate us by a display of his own 
superior skill, but I am disillusioned now. I 
will bet a nickel against one of Old Camper’s 
soggiest biscuits that the meal he set forth was 
conjured up out of a sack of supplies that came 
as near being irreducible as some of his other 
hints to living in the woods without eating or 
work—unless you have a guide along—and that 
the visitors were led down to the lake and 
shown where they could get a drink of water. 
Nessmuk used to prowl around the woods in 
this selfsame manner, and poke fun at those 
who couldn’t extract the same comfort out of 
it, and here we have his successor on the job. 
A bas, Old Camper! Tell us how to make 
things, not how to get along without them. 
Solid Comfort. 
NO MOSQUITOES AND NO PLOVER. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Does the paucity of mosquitoes compensate 
for the paucity of plover, is a question upon 
which I have meditated considerably, since Sep¬ 
tember 1st. In this environment, the state has 
advocated the draining of the meadows, in view 
of preventing mosquitoes, and, at the extensive 
low-lands of Hammonassett, this scheme has 
been carried out so thoroughly that rubber boots 
are no longer necessary, even in the places that 
used to be the most treacherous. But the plover 
and yellowleg, as well as the mosquito, do not 
look at this improvement with favor! The law 
does not permit us to shoot during the actual 
flight of these birds, but Hammonassett has 
always been the scene of a little fun in past 
years. Now it remains to be seen how drained 
meadows will effect our ducks that used to feed 
back in the salt pools of such places. 
T. F. Hammer. 
Branford, Ct., September II, 1916. 
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