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til 'he could no longer see his line. Next day 
he was at it again, battling against the perversi¬ 
ties of Sahno fontinalis, with which all veterans 
are familiar. The fish would not bite until good 
and ready. Then, with the declining sun, they 
were not only ready but eager. A fine string 
was the Governor’s reward, but his first trout 
was his chief pride and joy. At the boat landing 
'he went up the trail along the lake, coming back 
presently with the blue closed gentians, the card¬ 
inal flower and the white turtle head. The speck¬ 
led beauties were carefully placed in the creel 
and covered with the floral red, white and blue 
canopy. 
outing in the Adirondacks. The Governor as¬ 
serted that he would redouble his efforts to ad¬ 
vance the kind of conservation which shall raise 
the standard of life and lower the cost of living. 
On his return from the woods he ordered the re¬ 
instatement of men who had been laid off at a 
State fish hatchery because of a misunderstand¬ 
ing of the situation with regard to finances. 
During the past year, Governor Glynn said, he 
had been compelled to give most of his time to 
the solving of the state’s financial problems, and 
looking after legislation like the workmen’s com¬ 
pensation act, the primary law, and the agricul¬ 
tural bills. He is now addressing himself more 
fully to the study of conservation problems. He 
desires to assure friends of conservation that he 
will do all in his power to have the state re- 
“HEDGEHOGS.” 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream, Sir: Mr. 
Henry Chase asks us to tell him of any good 
done by the “Canadian Porcupine.” Here you 
are: The porcupine is very useful as a horri¬ 
ble example of a creature that doesn’t have to 
fight for its existence. Any beast or bird or 
other creature (including man and nations) that 
does not fight degenerates at once, and is use¬ 
less, ugly and generally disgusting. The seagull 
has to fight for about every scrap of food it 
gets, and, in consequence of this century-long 
competition, it is a very beautiful and very use¬ 
ful creature. Contrast it with the porcupine! 
With men and with nations it is exactly the 
same, the fighting not being necessarily to kill. 
Fighting, or competition, sharpens the wits and 
Scenes on Dexter Lake Where the Governor Fished. 
On a trip to a neighboring lake, the guberna¬ 
torial auto was held up by official messengers 
from Albany. Governor Glynn hurriedly signed 
the papers presented to him. Waving farewell 
to the messengers as the fishing party renewed 
its journey, he threatened a removal if they in¬ 
terrupted him again when he was going trout 
fishing on his vacation. 
Governor Glynn had already given the sports¬ 
men of the state evidence of his interest in 
forest, fish and game in his message to the New 
York State Fish, Game & Forest League and to 
the Legislature, and in his official acts; but he de¬ 
clared while at Couchsachraga that he was glad he 
had been afforded an opportunity to get in touch 
with nature as he had on that all too short 
sume the buying of forest lands for the exten¬ 
sion of the Adirondack and Catskill Parks, and 
for the reforestation of state lands at a more 
rapid rate; to solve the problem of the taxation 
of forest lands to encourage the growing of 
more trees in the farmers’ woodlots and on 
waste and denuded lands;, to have the state 
furnish trees at cost to anybody, anywhere in 
the state; to have the constitution changed so 
as to authorize the leasing of camp sites and 
the utilization of ripe and dead timber in the 
state forest preserves; to s'top the pollution of 
all waters in the state; to increase the supply of 
fish and game, so as to afford more sport for 
the sportsmen and cheaper food for the con¬ 
sumer ; and, to harmonize the interrelated in¬ 
terests of the sportsmen and the farmers. 
improves the race in every way. The nation 
that does not fight once in a while withers and 
becomes at last merely a lump of the grossest 
materialism, like the porcupine. This for the 
ultrapeace fools! 
Mr. Chase is very wrong in countenancing the 
word hedgehog, which is by no means so gen¬ 
eral as he appears to think. In fact I have almost 
never heard it in Canada, certainly not in the 
Maritime Provinces. It is therefore not at all 
like the word partridge (ruffed grouse), which 
is quite universal in the northern states and 
Provinces. 
By the way, I am glad that you gave the cruel 
steel-trap another thwack in your last number, 
which, with the grand story by good old Ness- 
muk, is a fine one. EDWARD BRECK. 
