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[May I, 1909. 
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4» The “Forest and Stream” Trap Score Book 4» 
^ Meets the needs of gun clubs and shooters in every particular. The «|» 
^ 150 sheets are heavily ruled—an advantage all scorers will appreciate, ^ 
particularly when working in a dim light. The horizontal spaces are ^ 
^ numbered from i to 30. Broad perpendicular lines divide these into 
^ groups of five, which aids the eye of the scorer greatly. Similar heavy 
■e|» lines divide the perpendicular spaces into groups of six; thus the 
^ squads are distinguishable at a glance. 
i The paper manifolds easily, and carbon sheets are placed in the 
X book for that purpose. 
^ It contains the American Shooting Association Rules for Live-Bird 
^ Shooting, for Double Live-Bird Shooting, for Inanimate Target Shoot- 
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^ and the Rose System of dividing purses. Price, $1.00. X 
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Cetmp Life ii\ the Woods 
HA Mil TON GIBSON — 
A Complete Manual of Wood Life 
Handy, complete, with full explanations and directions so written that 
they are readily understood. Camp Life in the Woods is an invaluable book 
for camper, hunter, fisherman, trapper, for every one who goes into the 
woods for sport or recreation. 
Covers all details of “roughing it,” camping, shelter building, cooking, 
wood craft, canoe building and handling, trapping and taxidermy. Good 
for every outdoor man. 
Full of “the tricks” that make for success in trapping, it is indispensable 
to every one, novice or old-timer, who plans a campaign against the fur-bear¬ 
ing animals the coming season. Cloth, fully illustrated. 
Postpaid, $1.00 
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Where, When and How to Catch 
Fish on the East Coast of Florida 
By Wm. H. Gregg, of St. Louis, Mo., assisted by Capt 
John Gardner, of Ponce Park, Mosquito Inlet, Fla 
With 100 engravings, and 12 colored illustration* 
Cloth. Illustrated. 268 pages. Map. Price, $4.00. 
A visitor to Florida can hardly make the trip without ( 
this book, if he is at all interested in angling. It gives t , 
very complete list of the fishes of the East Coast of 
Florida, and every species is illustrated by a cut taker 
from the best authorities. The cuts are thus of the moit 
value to the angler who desires to identify the fish he 
takes, while the colored plates of the tropical fish shown 
in all their wonderful gorgeousness of coloring, are very 
beautiful. Besides the pictures of fish, there are etj^ 
showing portions of the fishing tackle which the authoj 
uses. A good index completes the volume. 
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Canoe and Boat Building. 
A Complete Manual for Amateurs. Containing plain 
and comprehensive directions for the construction of 
canoes, rowing and sailing boats and hunting craft. By 
W. P. Stephens. Cloth. Seventh and enlarged edition. 
264 pages. Numerous illustrations and fifty plates in 
envelope. Price, $2.00. 
My Life As An Indian 
All That the Title Implies and More 
Probably the most faithful picture of Indian 
life ever drawn from the pen of a man who 
spent years among the Blackfeet, marrying into 
the tribe and becoming to all practical intents 
an Indian. 
Mr. Schultz tells of the life of the plains In¬ 
dian, when war and hunting were the occupa¬ 
tions of every man, when the buffalo still 
covered the prairie, and the Indian was as yet 
little touched by contact with civilization. He 
describes as one who has lived the life, the 
daily routine of the great camp, the lives of the 
men and women, the gambling, the quarreling, 
the love making, the wars, the trading of the 
Indians. 
The narrative is full of intense human in¬ 
terest, and the requisite touch of romance is 
supplied in the character of Nat-ah-ki, the beau¬ 
tiful Indian girl, who became the author’s wife. 
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JxN THE DESERT. 
We were a caravan of nearly fifteen hundred 
camels when we finally left Tabonia after a few 
days’ rest at the wells and slowly marched up 
the slope to the high plateau. As far as the eye 
could see the red plain danced and glowed in 
the sun, says Hanns Vischer in the Geographical 
Journal. Little red stones covered the surface, 
the remains of former layers that have rotted 
and been cleared away by the continual wind 
which sweeps the surface like a broom. The 
well polished stones glittered in the sun, threw 
back the rays of the sun; the air danced and 
trembled, reflecting the blue sky in every de¬ 
pression of the ground and distorting every 
dark object into fantastic shapes. Every hol¬ 
low in the rock looked like a blue lake, and 
men and camels appeared as dark palm groves 
or strangely shaped hills. “Behold the devils!’’ 
said the Arabs as these mirages appeared and 
vanished as we marched along. 
As the sun went below the sky line and the 
wind dropped, the silence of the Hamada 
settled around us. The stars rose with wonder¬ 
ful clearness, one by one, over the sharp 
horizon and up into the dark blue sky. The 
moon went down as if suddenly it had been 
covered by a blackboard. Without any noise 
the fifteen hundred camels moved on through 
the silent night with an even, steady movement, 
till at last Orion swung clear of the eastern 
horizon and Sirius shone out like a light at 
sea. .A.t last the first indefinite signs of day ap¬ 
peared. A little red cloud set the whole sky on 
fire, then a brilliant yellow light threw back the 
darkness of night, and the first sharp rays of 
the sun struck the vast plain as with a blow and 
turned it all into life and color. The spectacle 
in the evening was, if possible, still more won¬ 
derful. _ All the desolation and the death of the 
forbidding rock vanished before that sunset. 
When the sun had gone down a clear white 
pyramid rose into the sky, On either side 
streaks of vivid red and gold followed the 
horizon far to north and south. Higher up 
red and gold turned with never a break into 
soft rose color, and this into light green, which 
somewhere melted away into the transparent 
blue of the evening sky. As the first stars ap¬ 
peared the pyramid sank lower and lower, the 
red and gold shut in ever closer, till at last only 
a brilliant glow remained over the place where 
the sun had vanished, long after night had 
closed over the great plain and stars and moon 
looked from afar on silent caravan. 
SINGING FISH. 
The common red gurnard of our coasts, on 
being hooked and hauled rudely out of the 
briny, will grunt loudly and indignantly as a 
fisherman will tell you. It is a strange croak¬ 
ing sort of noise, such as one might expect a 
young rook to make. 
Then there is a fish called the butterman— 
why, nobody knows—which is found off the 
Scotch coast line. This fish, which is a fat and 
'comfortable looking beast about a foot long, 
as a rule, makes a distinct hooting noise from 
the back of his throat when landed in a net or 
cauglit on a long line.' A net full of these fish 
—though they are rather rare—is sometimes 
caught, and when they are hauled in the chorus 
of sharp, siren-like hoots is very startling to a 
stranger to the coast. 
But in Ceylon there is a shellfish—a kind of 
mussel—which positively sings. In still 
weather, when the water has ebbed away from 
the mus.sel beds for a few hours, these shellfish 
can be heard producing a long low fluting 
sound. How they do it no one knows, but they 
certainly make a quite distinct attempt at sing- 
ingr and as they have no throats they must pro¬ 
duce the sound by some manipulation of their 
double shells. The sound is low and not at all 
unpleasant, but rather sweet to the ear on a 
still summer’s night. 
There is said to be a fish common in the 
lakes of New Guinea that can produce two or 
three notes, but it has not yet been vouched 
for by any reliable naturalist.—Tit-Bits. 
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