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FOREST AND STREAM 
Uncle Sam and You — 
Brother Sportsman 
€fl Nobody ever told Bill Smith that his Uncle Sam was 
interested in him as a hunter ... a strong believer in 
hunting. 
CJ Nobody ever told him that the United States Bureau 
of Biological Survey connected with the Department of 
Agriculture was looking after his interests, 
flj Nobody ever told him the best men in the Bureau 
were brother sportsmen who became naturalists and 
entered the Government service through their enthusi¬ 
asm for hunting. 
C| When he got hot under the collar, because he thought 
his Uncle Samuel was not giving him a square deal, he 
found no lack of sympathy on the street corner and 
in the newspapers. 
CJ So there has been trouble. 
Edward Cave went to Washington for Bill Smith— 
and the rest of the sportsmen who could not under¬ 
stand what Uncle Sam was up to. 
CJ Read Mr. Cave’s articles, beginning in Recreation 
for November. They will explain everything. 
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had shot a goat, not over two hundred yards up 
a ravine from camp. Then came Captain Ander¬ 
son and Doctor Parker with a goat between 
them. Soon after Thomas Albricht came down 
the shore with no game. He had had two long 
shots but had missed. 
George Dawson had not appeared but soon we 
saw a tiny light, leaping into a flame way up on 
the mountain side and concluding that George was 
unable to get down we took lanterns and made 
that weary climb again to find George had no 
flashlight and could not get down in the dark 
without help. 
Stories until eleven o’clock and then bed. A 
single bed for each of us with plenty of cover 
and never a stir until day breaks, when Thad and 
myself started up the mountain to get the goats 
shot the previous evening, that I had not been 
able to reach. But twenty-five feet was as close 
as we could get to them. After many efforts we 
were finally obliged to leave them where they 
were and go back to camp to report our lack of 
success and have breakfast. 
After eating we concluded to troll for yellow 
tail and tuna along the coast of the island and 
many an exciting fight was witnessed that fore¬ 
noon as well as one ludicrous in the extreme. 
George was trolling with about two hundred feet 
of line out and speaking of the probability of 
catching a sword-fish so late in the season, when 
he had a terrific strike and a large fin appeared 
above the water in the vicinity of his bait. With 
a cry of “I’ve got a sword-fish!” George began 
to handle his reel, but the tension on the line 
suddenly slackened and when George reeled in 
he had only the head of a large bonita on his 
hook. A shark had struck the bonita at the 
same time that the bonita struck the bait and the 
tail of that shark certainly did look like the 
back fin of a sword-fish. 
Back to the camp and dinner and the afternoon 
was spent in collecting abalones, a few of which 
A1 prepared for supper. Did you ever eat one, 
pounded on a rock and cooked in batter? One 
is all you can eat. It is a plate full and surely 
delicious. 
After supper, with regrets that we qould not 
stay longer we started back for Long Beach, to 
arrive there at two o’clock the next morning 
after a rather rough trip. 
That is an island I am going to visit again. 
The best sea fishing I ever experienced, and it is 
certainly worth the trip to eat one of A1 Shade’s 
meals. 
San Clemente lies about thirty miles beyond 
Catalina Island and is about twenty-four miles 
long, by twelve wide. It belongs to the United 
States Government and the life on the island 
consists of rodents, foxes and goats. 
The island is just a mass of mountains arising 
from the ocean with a tableland on top consist¬ 
ing of thousands of level acres which grow an 
abundant crop of wild oats and grass. 
There is one spring on the beach above A1 
Shade’s camp where fresh water can be obtained 
at low tide; the ocean covering the spring at 
high tide. With this exception the island has 
no water supply excepting the rain water caught 
in not-ho'es in the rocks but that seems to be 
sufficient for the wild life on the island. 
The shores of the island slo°e abruptly and 
flip wa*er is so clear that marine life can be 
plainly seen at a depth of one hundred feet. 
D. O. Norton. 
