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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. 12, 1911. 
Resort* for Sportsmen. 
Manual of the Canvas Canoe 
Lake Tahoe 
FALLEN LEAF LODGE offers the tourist and 
sportsmen absolutely 
the best FISHING and HUNTING in the whole Tahoe 
region Comfortable accommodations, a good table. Indiar 
guides, horses, launches and canoes at moderate prices. 
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William W. Price, Fallen Leaf, Lake Tahoe, Cal. 
NEWFOUNDLAND. 
Do you want good salmon or trout fishing? Or to shoot 
the lordly caribou? Apply J. R. WHITAKER, 
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MODERN FISH CULTURE 
In Salt and Fresh Water 
By F. R. WEBB 
Tn a thoroughly interesting and readily understood 
manner it tells how to build cruise and live in a canvas 
canoe. Contents—Practical Construction, Cost, Specifica¬ 
tions, Plans and Patterns, Putting on the Canvas, Paint¬ 
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Manual of Taxidermy for Beginners 
By C. J. MAYNARD 
A complete guide in collecting and preserving birds, 
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UNCLE LISHA’S SH0~P 
By FRED MA THER 
This book covers the entire field, including the cul¬ 
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perch, alewives, sturgeon, lobsters, with chapters on 
parasites, diseases and enemies of fish, tables of eggs, 
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Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. 
Robinson. Cloth. 1ST pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sports¬ 
man’s exchange, where, as one of the fraternity ex¬ 
pressed it, the hunters and fishermen of the widely 
scattered neighborhood used to meet of evenings and 
dull outdoor days “to swap lies.” 
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The “Game Laws in Brief ” gives all 
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trifle higher than a common high shoe and large 
enough to stand two pairs of heavy woolen socks. 
If your trip is apt to take in much portaging 
over sharp rocks, get double soled shoepacks or 
provide yourself with some especially stiff in¬ 
soles. A pair of bruised feet are not good travel¬ 
ing companions. The two pairs of socks he’p 
somewhat, but they are not always enough. You 
wi 1 not notice the heat after the first three 
minutes. 
The reason why shoepacks serve the canoeman 
ltest is that they do not slip on the faces of 
smooth rocks, nor do they keep your feet cramp¬ 
ed when you are paddling. Most canoemen pad¬ 
dle with their feet doubled up under them, and 
if they are cramped into the tightness of a leather 
boot, they will acquire painful kinks. Moreover, 
it appeals to those who have the wood spirit to 
be able to slip silently through the forest. 
Canoe luggage must be systematized, other¬ 
wise the job of getting off after a night in camp 
is a monumental task. Each man should have 
his own clothes bag, and common sense dictates 
that it shou'd be as small as possible. One 
scheme wlr'ch has been used successfully is to 
have hags for each member of the party made 
with flat bottoms and tops, measuring twelve 
inches across and five inches hiffh. These will 
fit into a big waterproof clothes bag, one on top 
of the other. The larce bags can be bought at 
any camp ou‘fitter’s, but the chances are that 
the small ones wi’l have to be made to order. 
Tf they are in different colors, they can be picked 
out more easily. 
The sleeping bags and tents can be rolled to¬ 
gether into a single bundle, done up with strips 
and carried on a “tump,” according to the in¬ 
genious Canadian fashion. The tump strap 
hangs the load on a man’s back directly over 
his center of gravity. The weight is balanced 
from a broad strap which passes across his fore¬ 
head. 
The weights which the Indians carry in this 
fashion are astonishing. They carry two, some- 
t'mes three bags of flour apiece into the lumber 
camps in tumps. That means that each man 
carries 192 or 288 pounds. 
But that does not mean that the man out of 
an office can do the same thing even after a 
week in the woods. That is why it pays to keep 
his stuff within bounds.—The Sun. 
FAIR PLAY ONLY. 
At the foot of High street in Winchester a 
narrow offshoot of the celebrated Itchin flows. 
The Itchin, indeed, flows through and around, 
and in some parts even under, the ancient city 
of Winchester, the city being built in what is 
known as the valley of the Itchin. At the lower 
end of the town a railed-off brook flows, and in 
it (always at or near the one particular place) 
swims a magnificent trout of over six pounds 
in weight. His name is “Itchin Billy”; you 
may put any fly to him you like. I am no 
slouch with wet or dry fly, but in a two years’ 
sojourn in the town I could never “rise” Billy; 
nor could any one else. The peculiar part of it, 
however, is that, though you might, and still 
may, tempt Billy by fair means, I wouldn’t give 
“tuppence” for your skin if you attempt foul 
ones! 
An enterprising London angler once, and 
not long ago, tried to get hold of Itchin Billy 
with a wire noose. In less than five minutes 
the same wire noose was uncomfortably tight 
round his own neck, and he was hoisted over 
the railings a little lower down and into the 
water where it was deep. He has not been seen 
on the banks of the Itchin since, and if he takes 
my advice (knowing as I do the likes and dis¬ 
likes of the Wintonians) he will keep away until 
he has learned to treat a respectable trout in a 
respectable manner! And I have often thought 
that a little rough-and-ready justice meted out 
to fish-poachers in Ireland—poachers and un¬ 
fair fishers—would do no harm; for it cannot 
be denied there is more unfair and illegal fish¬ 
ing done in Irish lakes and rivers than any¬ 
where else in the United Kingdom, for the 
simple reason that it is tacitly permitted here 
and is forbidden elsewhere!—Shooting Times. 
