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| UNCLE NED BUCKSHAW PHILOSOPHIZES I 
..... 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
There are several varieties of the retort. There 
is the retort courteous, the retort semi-courteous 
semi-ironical, the retort philosophical (all three 
of which presuppose the keeping of the temper) 
and then come the retort snarly-ill-natured and, 
finally, the retort brutal. The only possible rea¬ 
son why the outburst of Mr. Edward C. Cross¬ 
man (of my native State, by the way!) should 
draw down upon the readers of your fine old 
magazine an answer from me, is that I might 
try to weave a little sermon out of his matter 
and general style, any personal dispute between 
the word-loving Mr. Crossman and myself hav¬ 
ing of course no interest whatever. 
It would appear in the first place that a good 
This is Uncle Ned Buckshaw-A Man Who Can 
Tame Wild Cats Naturally Remains Cool 
Under Cross-fire. 
old “Eastern” tenderfoot (that’s me, though I 
am sure my feet are not more tender than 
Brother Crossman’s amour propre!) has stepped 
rather rudely upon the only parts of his feet 
that might be tender—his corns, moral corns of 
course. Old Uncle Ned (his hair is white now) 
has been at it a long time and fancied that a 
bit of a laugh at some weakness might be in him, 
forgiven. He was wrong, he didn’t reckon with 
cross men, and he herewith abjectly apologizes. 
Mr. Crossman told of chucking away a perfectly 
good hunting-knife in its sheath because, as it 
was worn at his side, it very naturally clung 
lovingly to every passing bit of landscape. That 
was sad; one doesn’t cast away a nice knife 
(and of course so good a woodsman as Mr. 
Crossman would be carrying none but the best) 
just for that, for, as I pointed out to him, and 
here’s hoping that he appreciated the point of 
the hint more than he did that of his knife, by 
wearing his sheath-knife in the small of his 
back it wouldn’t have been in the way and he 
would still be in possession of it! 
Now when a man pokes fun at you, or treads 
on your corns, and acts as if you were a tender¬ 
foot, you have two ways open to you. Either 
you “get mad,” see red and hit out savagely, as 
does Brother Crossman, in which case you have 
as much effect as the raising of the voice when a 
foreigner doesn’t understand your language; or 
you bide your time, read up the works of the 
man who swatted you, and get back at him, al¬ 
ways ironically—-amiably, in somewhat the same 
manner in which he “went for” you. Brother 
Crossman had a fine opportunity. Old Uncle 
Ned has written much—too much—and there are 
numerous slips in his stuff that could have been 
used beautifully as above laid down. But that 
was beyond the youthful feelings of Mr. Cross¬ 
man. (He must be young, he is so impulsive!) 
He simply “got mad,” and answers my hint about 
wearing the knife by saying (i) “California and 
Oregon hunting is through the thickest sort of 
brush.” (2) “Easterners and Eastern knowledge 
of conditions have nothing to do with Western 
hunting.” (I think I understand what this rather 
odd English tries to make plain.) (3) “We 
would suggest that ‘us woodsmen’ (ah, that 
phrase hit him hard!) confine their comment to 
articles bearing on their own sort of country and 
their own experience.” I never mentioned West¬ 
ern conditions, by the way. 
Anybody can see that with these potent argu¬ 
ments Mr. Crossman completely disproves my 
assertion that, had he worn his knife at his back, 
he wouldn’t have lost it, for he wouldn’t have 
had to throw it away! A hint at attacking West¬ 
ern sportsmanship cannot be found in the inter¬ 
view that made Mr. Crossman cross. 
Incidentally he proves that there is no “thick” 
country in the East. We hunt moose and other 
game, so he possibly thinks, over macadamized 
roads. Eastern sportsmen are tenderfeet. These 
facts, coming from Mr. Crossman, should be 
known. They are too important to keep from a 
world thirsty for knowledge. 
Uncle Ned Buckshaw, 
(Licensed Guide). 
So. Milford, N. S., Oct. 1, 1916. 
STRAY CASTS FOR THE ANGLER. 
Under the guidance of Fred E. Pilling, deputy 
State game and fish warden of Montana, the 
streams in the Big Hole Country (Montana) 
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ber of trout fry. 
Edward Swanson, a member, of the Butte 
(Mont.) Anglers’ Club, has to his credit a catch 
of the biggest trout caught in the Big Hole Coun¬ 
try this season. Mr. Swanson’s catch consisted 
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eleven ounces dressed and another that tipped 
the scales at ten pounds, two ounces. 
The membership of the Connecticut Fish and 
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