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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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I should much have preferred going across 
ith them, as they were strong, and I should 
,ve had no fear of the trip, as I had many a 
; ne crossed deep streams hanging to the tail of 
lie or the other, but I feared the herd would 
Ot follow them, and I did not want to take the 
ance of a second trip. 
After the cattle had cleared the island, I saw 
ity brother approaching in a canoe, and I 
awaited his arrival, expecting to be commended 
for work well done, but before he landed I 
learned my mistake. I was but seventeen at this 
time, and this brother for years had stood in the 
place of a father to me, but it was no fatherly 
praise I was receiving as he approached. To 
hear him talk you would have thought that I did 
not have sense enough to go in out of the rain; 
in fact, I think this was one of the remarks he 
made. From the opposite shore he had been 
trying to tell me to keep out of the river; that 
he had sent for a boat and would come over to 
drive the cattle off the island himself, but I did 
not hear him. 
So it was a sad instead of a triumphant pro¬ 
cession that led Bally into the water, and with 
his head held high out of the water, towed him 
to the Iowa side. 
Arrowhead Making. 
Central Lake, Mich., Aug. 22 . — Editor Forest 
d Stream: I should like to write you con- 
rning the methods employed by some of the 
dian tribes of Arizona in the manufacture of 
rowheads and other stone implements. It 
mid not require much space to tell just how 
2 arrow points are made, but it seems best 
f at I should tell you just how I gained the in- 
: rmation, and why I look upon it as trust- 
irthy. 
When I lived on the island of Santa Catalina, 
; e of my earliest acquaintances was one Dr. 
j shop. He has been dead for years; in fact, 
was an old man when I knew him, but he 
d lived on the island a long time and was 
dl known to all the old residents. He was 
iginally from Ohio and had been very well 
: , though at the time I knew him he was quite 
or. In crossing the continent he had passed 
me time in New Mexico and had lived at 
| agstaff and Ash Fork in Arizona, where he 
' acticed his profession. He was well known 
| long the Indian tribes near the latter place, 
d I think gave them gratuitous treatment on 
ferent occasions. He was also of substantial 
j 'vice to them during a period of famine, when 
j 'ough a personal acquaintance with Adlai 
I evenson, at that time a member of Cleveland’s 
;t cabinet, he was enabled to procure for the 
! Jians substantial help from the Government, 
i Or. Bishop and I both lived on Whittley 
I enue and 'met frequently. We often talked 
j the Indians and of his varied experiences 
ong them. I had always been a collector of 
dian relics, which he never was, but he under¬ 
od their customs and told me among other 
ngs that they would get all the information 
•y could out of a white man, but would give 
hing in return if they could help it. 
dow, the Indian men had guns and seldom 
d the bow and arrow, but the boys, who 
ely had anything else with which to shoot, 
i re constantly praticing with them. The stone 
| ids for the arrows were made by the women, 
I I Dr. Bishop finally became curious to know 
j v it was done. This he could not learn, and 
! er being put off by the men and women with 
j ious explanations which meant but little, he 
ame quite angry. He caught up his horse, 
j 1 , standing with the riata in his hand, ad- 
' ssed the tribe or such of them as were pres- 
f 
ent. He reminded them that he had always been 
their friend; that he had helped them in sick¬ 
ness and had procured them supplies from the 
Great Father when they were starving, and now 
as he could get no satisfactory answer to a 
simple question he would wash his hands of 
them; he would leave them and never return. 
This speech, which was evidently made in 
earnest, caused much commotion among the 
people and the result was that every pains was 
taken to show him all they knew about the manu¬ 
facture of stone implements. They first were 
careful to select such stones as were of straight 
grain, and in particular that would work with 
fire and water. The only implements he saw 
in use were small twigs, one of which was split 
at the end and was used to hold the stone to 
or in a small fire after this had been kindled. 
They had water at hand, and having broken or 
selected a fragment of stone such as would 
answer their purpose, they placed it in the cleft 
of the split stick and gradually heated it until 
it was hot enough to suit the arrow maker. 
Then the stone was removed from the fire, the 
end of another twig first dipped in water quickly 
applied, and a part of the stone would scale off 
where the wetted stick had touched it. 
This process was repeated again and again 
until the heated stone began to assume the form 
desired, when the applications of the stick be¬ 
came more gradual and exact and the moistened 
end of the finger was sometimes used instead. 
The arrow makers, with their experience, were 
often capable of turning out from the apparently 
intractable material with which they worked 
some very elegant specimens of their art, and as 
Dr. Bishop believed and said to me, “This is 
the only way that arrowheads can be made.” 
I know that other methods have been de¬ 
scribed by Mr. Grinnell and others and I have 
no question that there were different ways of 
doing the same thing, yet I very much doubt 
if any more successful plan has as yet been dis¬ 
covered by which an Indian, with such simple 
appliances as he is likely to have at hand, can 
more readily achieve the desired end. 
I have in my collection Indian relics from 
many regions, but except those which are made 
from copper or steel, or stone pots or playthings, 
I believe that any of them could have been made 
by the method I have described. Kelpie. 
[No doubt there were different methods of 
making arrowheads. Those described in past 
numbers of Forest and Stream have been wit¬ 
nessed by many reputable white men and suc¬ 
cessfully employed by various ethnologists. 
Chipping with the flaker was certainly practiced 
on the plains and in certain parts of California.— 
Editor.] 
Captured Woodducks. 
Milford, Conn., Aug. 22. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: One day early this week, when Will 
Ford entered his tomato patch, he was surprised 
to see a small duck on the ground walking about 
among the plants. The field is at least half a 
mile from any farm house, and the duck was 
evidently not a domestic, but a wild duck. It 
seemed very tame and acted as if it were hurt 
or weak. He thought he would try to catch it 
and crept slowly toward it and reached out his 
hand to put it over the bird, but when he put 
down his hand the bird had slipped out from 
under his fingers. He tried this again, and then 
the bird flew a little way quite feebly. This 
happened over and over again, and he chased it 
all over the lot. 
Presently it occurred to him that perhaps the 
bird was acting in this way just to tole him 
away from young ones that it might have, and 
he went back to the place where he had first 
seen it. There he found his dog much excited, 
working in the bushes, and going to the dog 
found that it had in its mouth a young duck 
dead. After a little search the dog caught and 
killed another, and then Mr. Ford drove off the 
dog and himself succeeded in catching three 
voung ones, which he brought home unhurt in 
a sack. Having no special means of taking care 
of them, he gave them to a neighbor who is 
now rearing them. They are young woodducks 
and are quite well grown, but still unable to fly. 
The field where they were found is at least 
half a mile from any water, except a little spring 
that comes out of the hillside. W here the birds 
were hatched is not known. 1 hey are thought 
usually to build somewhere near water, and not 
very far from this field there are two or three 
shallow pond holes which in wet seasons always 
have in them a foot or two of water. Last 
summer, however, and this summer, they went 
dry during the drouth. One of the neighbors 
near here says that for a number of years in 
summer he has seen woodducks in a piece of 
big woods not very far from this place. It is 
