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COMMUNICATIONS TO 
POBO» i» 
152-154 N MAIN ST. 
153-155 N LOS ANGELES ST 
February 15t7i, 1915. 
Ashaway line & Twine Co., . 
Ashaway, H.I. 
Gentlemen: 
As yon are aware, we have for*a number of years, 
handled various lines of your manufacture, ana we wish at 
this time to comment on the satisfaction which has always 
attended, particularly your original cuttyhunk. 
He have handled it many years, usually under 
special labels, with unfailing satisfaction. He have found it 
absolutely reliable, never varying perceptibly in tensile strength 
from year to year. This fact has been noted, and so impressed 
some of our most discriminating customers that they insist on their 
special labeled lines being made by y'-ur Company, and they usually 
seem to want the original grade. 
He ascribe their insistence in this matter to the 
scrupulous care you exercise in selecting and using only a unifomt 
grade of high test fibre, and to the scientific manner ih which 
the3e strands are twisted.together, with just enough elasticity 
to admit of the contraction, which is bound to occur in actual use, 
without cutting. 
Yours truly, 
FHT-EH HARFBR &. BZYJJOIDS CO. 
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polishing around the 
house, in the tool shed or 
afield with gun or rod 
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is a matchless combination 
Sportsmen have known it for years. 
Dealers sell NYOIL at 10c. and 25c. 
Send us the name of a live one who 
doesn’t sell NYOIL with other neces¬ 
saries for sportsmen and we will send 
you a dandy, handy new can (screw 
top and screw tip) containing 3% 
ounces postpaid for 25 cents. 
WM. F. NYE, New Bedford, Mass.^ 
Dixon’s 
Graphitoleo 
You will never know how perfectly smooth 
and easy the action of a gun can be until you 
give the mechanism an application of Graphitoleo. 
Send 15c. and dealer’s name for sample tube 
No. 52-H. 
Made in JERSEY CITY, N. J., by the 
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company 
ESTABLISHED 1827. H-7 
UNCLE NED BUCKSHAW TAKEN TO TASK. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I find in your handsome issue of the first of 
July an interview with an “Uncle Ned Buck- 
shaw,” unhappily known to me not at all, and 
therein a comment on a certain article on knives 
by a certain Crossman. The said comment goes 
on to aver that the article in question recounted 
having to throw away a sheath knife because it 
caught on the brush, and quoted said article as 
proof that reading a lot of woodcraft books 
and articles was a waste of time because they 
were thrown together. 
The said comment went on to suggest that if 
the knife had been worn in the rear of the 
person infested by it, the trouble would have 
been overcome, and the said comment went 
farther to say that such wearing would be in 
“imitation of us woodsmen,” which modesty 
seems to afford a fair index to the state of mind 
of this “Uncle Ned Buckshaw.” 
This comment goes to prove exactly the truth 
of the remarks of Uncle Ned Buckshaw as to 
the waste of time reading many magazine 
articles, the waste being greatest when reading 
the inaccurate summing up and incoherent com¬ 
ments on articles already in print—such a case 
being that of the said Uncle Ned Buckshaw. 
Being unquestionably the person referred to, 
and having refused to garner my woods knowl¬ 
edge out of books written by eastern tenderfeet 
out of the fullness of their eastern knowledge of 
western conditions, I shall be obliged to add 
somewhat to the store of knowledge of “us 
woodsmen,” and to teach at least one lesson of 
accurate reading of the articles of others before 
comment thereon is made. 
Firstly, no statement was made as to the throw¬ 
ing away of any sheath knife because it caught 
on the brush. 
Secondly, without even reading the inspired 
and entirely authoritative eastern tenderfoot 
books on outdoor stuff, we had discovered some 
years ago, in fact about five minutes after wear¬ 
ing a knife in brush, that the said knife, dis¬ 
tributed farther around the human form by a 
matter of 90 degrees, was less in the way, but 
still a nuisance. This is an instance of the 
wonderful things that “these youngsters are 
constantly discovering,” another one being that 
if a boot full of water be tipped so the open 
,end is lower than the closed one, the contained 
fluid will thereupon run out. This is added for 
the benefit of “us woodsmen.” 
The sheath knife was “canned,” as stated in 
the article above referred to, for the reason 
that the cartridge belt and every other outside 
appurtenance was also left off, the endeavor 
being to reduce the hunting equipment to the 
irreducible minimum of rifle, stuff in pockets, 
and small rucksack. Admitting this, we also 
admit that we err, as the surest sign of the 
reader of the eastern books on outdoor equip¬ 
ment, is the young sword dangling somewhere 
from the exterior equipment of the alleged hunts¬ 
men. We should hate to be taken not as a 
tenderfoot but as one of “us woodsmen,” the 
difference being that the tenderfoot is capable 
of learning, not sot in his ways, and not per¬ 
suaded that the eastern way of doing things 
must be the only and the correct way. 
As we patiently endeavored to explain in the 
article—having however evidently failed to ob¬ 
serve the rule of talking or writing to the most 
stupid one of the class knowing that all the 
others would then be sure of understanding— 
northern California and Oregon hunting is much 
of it through the thickest sort of brush in which 
