Nov. 28, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
873 
RECORDS OF 1908 
BALLISTITE -*«>- EMPIRE 
(Dense) 
Sunny South Handicap, Texas 
25 Live Birds at Targets. 
Houston Chronicle Trophy 
Eastern Championship, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Fred J. Stone Trophy, Bergen Beach, N. Y. 
Metropolitan Championship (1907-1908) 
Arkansas State Championship 
Oklahoma State Championship 
Southern Handicap 
High Professional Average. 
Utah Shoot, Salt Lake City 
High General and First Amateur Averages. 
Idaho Falls Medal. 
Confarr Medal. 
Becker Trophy. 
Individual Championship. 
Illinois State Profe ssional Championship, Chicago 
(Bulk) 
Ohio State Championship at Columbus, Ohio 
High Professional and High Amateur Averages. 
Grand American Handicap 
Preliminary Handicap. 
Amateur Championship. 
High Score in State Team Event 
High Professional in Preliminary Handicap 
Second High Score in State Team Event. 
Vicksburg Shoot 
High Professional and 1st and 2d Amateur Averages. 
Selins Grove, Pennsylvania, Shoot 
High Amateur Average. 
High Professional Average. 
Rocky Mountain Handicap, Denver 
Rocky Mountain Handicap. 
High Professional Score. 
High Amateur Average, Targets. 
Preliminary Event (Twenty-Yard Mark). 
J. H. LAU (Si CO., Agents, 75 Chambers St., N. Y. City 
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j)ing with stones that head which was now only 
•i bloody smudge, he shouted in his ear as if 
me had spoken to a deaf man, “Look, Jean, look 
[here!” Then he hurled himself upon the 
i nonster. 
t He felt himself strong enough to overthrow 
1 1 mountain, to break stones with his naked 
; lands. The beast tried to bite him, seeking to 
ear out his entrails; but Frangois had gripped 
| lim by the neck, without even using his weapon, 
•ind he was strangling him softly, listening to 
his breathing as it failed, and to the last beat- 
' ngs of his. heart. And he was laughing, madly 
lilarious, tightening more and more his terrible 
•mbrace, crying in a delirium of joy, “Look, 
Lean, look.” * * * 
1 All resistance ceased; the body of the wolf 
I iecame limp. He was dead. 
Then he placed upon the saddle the two 
•orpses, one over the other, and he started for 
lome again. 
He re-entered the chateau laughing and weep- 
ng like Gargantua at the birth of Pantagruel, 
uttering cries of triumph and dancing with joy 
| vhile describing the death of the wolf, and 
noaning and tearing his beard while telling that 
if his brother. And often, later, when he re¬ 
called this day, he would say with tears in his 
byes: “If only that poor Jean could have seen 
I ne strangle the beast, he would have died 
nappy, I’m sure!” * * * 
My ancestor’s widow inspired in her orphan 
! 1 on a horror of the chase, which was trans- 
I nitted from father to son unto me. 
The Marquis d’Arville ended. Some one 
tsked: “That story is a legend, is it not?” 
The narrator answered: “I swear to you that 
I t is true, from beginning to end.” 
Then a woman said in a sweet, low voice, 
“That matters not—but it is grand to have such 
passions!”—From the French of Guy De 
Vlaupassant. 
WHY SNIPE TWIST. 
The snipe is a bird possessing remarkable 
| lowers of flight. In his small body the utmost 
; >ossible quantity of vital energy appears to be 
jiompressed. When flushed before a shooter 
le rises with startling suddenness, and has on 
‘full speed ahead” from the very first. If for 
Mis speed only, he would be difficult to hit, but 
i.o this he adds a remarkable zig-zag flight, 
darting to the right and left and turning at 
! harp angles like a flash of lightning. His 
tiurried call of “scape” as he rises adds to the 
j onfusion of the young or nervous sportsman, 
Und a. miss often results. Many sportsmen, 
j ays the Shooting Times, hold that the zig-zag 
5 nethod of flight is adopted bv the snipe in¬ 
tentionally, as a means of eluding the charge of 
( hot; but this does not appear to be the cor¬ 
rect view. 
| The beak of the snipe is very long—almost 
is long as his body—and thick and heavy in 
Proportion to the size and strength of the bird. 
Vhen flushed it is usually from among reeds, 
)ong gras, or other cover, and as the bird rises 
le turns his head to one side or the other to 
1 scertain the cause of the disturbance. As he 
urns his head to the right the long beak points 
So the right, and, acting as a rudder in front, 
, lie bird is carried to the right. When he turns his 
J ead to the left he is for the same cause carried 
o the left, and so on. Apparently he has some 
uriosity as to who or what has trespassed on 
| is privacy. If he kept his head turned to the 
l ight or left constantly he would be carried in 
. circle round his adversary (which would be 
P ery acceptable to some shooters); but, as his 
I atention is to get away as quickly as possible 
I fter locating the disturber, he manages to com- 
L ass his safety and satisfy his curiosity at the 
ame time. 
Anyone who will flush snipe and watch them 
| istead of shooting may convince himself that 
his is the cause of the eccentric flight. Im- 
v lediately the head turns the bird turns, though 
he direction of flight of the bird is not changed 
t so acute an angle as that at which the head 
nd beak are turned. 
1 Now, when a snipe rises of his own accord 
1 rom a bog or other feeding-place to change 
Field, Cover a.i\d Trap Shooting. 
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Habits of Game Birds; Flight and Resort of Water- 
fowl; Breeding and Breaking of Dogs. Cloth, 444 
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“Field, Cover and Trap Shooting” is a book of in¬ 
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Guns and Their Proper Charges. Pinnated Grouse 
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Shooting. Golden Plover. Curlew and Gray Plover. 
Wild Ducks and Western Duck Shooting, Wild Geese, 
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The Art of Shooting on the Wing. Shooting Dogs— 
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Danvis Folks. 
A continuation of “Uncle Lisha’s Shop” and “Sam 
Lovel’s Camps.” By Rowland E. Robinson. 16mo. 
Price, $1.25. 
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FETCH AND CARRY. 
A Treatise on Retrieving. By B. Waters. 124 pages. 
Illustrated. Price, $1.00. 
Treats minutely of the methods by which a dog, old or 
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either by the force system or the “natural method.” 
Both the theory and practice of training are exhaus¬ 
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related accomplishments of the pointer and setter in their 
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manner of dog training. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Uncle Lisha's Shop. 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By Rowland E. Robin¬ 
son. Cloth. 187 pages. Price, $1.25. 
The shop itself, the place of business of Uncle Lisha 
Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was a sort of sportsman’s 
exchange, where, as one of the fraternity expressed it, 
the hunters and fishermen of the widely scattered neigh¬ 
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“to swap lies.” 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
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