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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Jan. 9, 1909. 
American Duck Shooting 
By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL 
N O single gunner, however wide his experience, has himself covered 
the whole broad field of duck shooting, and none knows so much 
about the sport that there is nothing left for him to learn. Each 
one may acquire a vast amount of novel information by reading this 
complete and most interesting book. It describes, with a portrait, every 
species of duck,'goose and swan known to ISlorth America; tells of the 
various methods of capturing each, the guns, ammunition, loads, decoys 
and boats used in the sport, and gives the best account ever published of 
the retrieving Chesapeake Bay Dog. 
About 600 pages, 58 portraits of fowl, 8 full-page plates, and many 
vignette head and tail pieces by Wilmot Townsend. 
Price, editim de luxe on hand made paper, bound in buckram, plates 
on India tint paper, each copy numbered and signed by author, $5.00. 
Price, library edition, $3.50. 
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127 Franklin Street, New York 
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WOODCRAFT. 
By Nessmuk. Cloth, 160 pages. Illustrated. Price, $1.00. 
A book written for the instruction and guidance of those who go for 
pleasure to the woods. Its author, having had a great deal of experience 
in camp life, has succeeded admirably in putting the wisdom so acquired 
into plain and intelligible English. 
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A Hero of Ticonderoga. 
By Rowland E. Robinson. Cloth, 187 pages. 
Portrait of the author. Price, $1.00. 
The story of stirring events of ’17 which culminated in 
the taking of Fort Ticonderoga by the Patriot forces 
under the command of Ethan Allen, and guided into the 
fortifications by the hero of the book, the boy Nathan 
Beeman. It is a well-told story, moving in well-ordered 
progress to the end. 
Contents: Coming Into the Wilderness. The New 
Home. A Visit to the Fort. The New Hampshire 
Grants. The Evergreen Sprig. The Yorkers. The Judgement 
Seat. A Noval Bear Trap. A Frontier Tragedy. Re¬ 
bellion. Escape. A Free Life. Forebodings of Storm. 
Gabriel’s Good Service. Leaders and Guide. Ticonderoga. 
Home Coming. 
FAVORITE FISH AND FISHING 
A Book for Every Angler 
The fishing talks of a practical fisherman. Dr. J. A. 
Henshall, the author, is a seasoned writer on fish and 
fishing, and an undoubted authority. 
In “Fish and Fishing’’ will be found practical helps 
for the angler, a charming narrative replete with incident 
and anecdote, a high literary quality, and a thorough 
knowledge of the game fish of American waters. Bass, 
tarpon, trout, grayling and the fishes of the Florida 
coast, all come in for attention. Cloth, handsomely 
bound, fully illustrated. 
Postpaid, $1.35 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
127 Franklin St., New York City. 
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The Season’s Most Beautiful 
CALENDAR 
Studies from nature in full color by 
Louis Agassiz Fuertes, specially designed 
for this calendar, representing the various 
birds and species in appropriate surround¬ 
ings. 
Subjects: Canvasback Ducks; Willow 
Ptarmigan; King Rail; Sandhill Crane; 
Ruffed Grouse; Wood Duck; Upland 
Plover; Bob White; Mallard, Wild 
Turkey; Geese. 
A portfolio of game birds suitable for 
framing, a splendid ornament for the den 
or library, a work of reference worth 
preserving. Size of calendar, 14 x 18 
inches, size of plates, 9 x 12 inches. 
$ 3 . 50 , Postpaid. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO. 
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