FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 28. 1908. 
874 
TU /fi B4I FfM If IIU embraces more new and valuable 
1 he /*• Mmjyk improvements than any other gun 
built to-day. A high order of inventive skill has brought its mechanism to the absolute 
perfection of simplicity and strength. The frame of the “Fox” gun holds about one-half 
the number of working parts found in other guns; hence these few parts are doubly strong 
—a fact worth the attention of buyers. The “Fox” is built of the finest materials regardless 
of cost, by the most skilled artisans in the business, and is perfect in balance and hard, close 
shooting qualities. The “Fox” gun is guaranteed —you cannot shoot it loose if you try; 
and its coil main and top-lever springs are unbreakable. The “Fox” is 
6 ‘The Finest Gun in the World” 
Ask your dealer to show it or write for beautiful art catalogue. 
THE 4. H. FOX GUN COMPANY, 4670 North 18th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
WESJtEtf 18 IS 
Not affected by climatic changes. 
Furnished in shells loaded by all 
loading companies. 
& GALES 
New York 
DALY 
SCHOVERLING 
302-304 Broadway 
N. R. DAVIS <& SONS, bock Box 707. ASSONET, MASS., U. S. A. 
DEAD .SHOT 
SMOKELESS 
A POWDER FOR -SHOT GUNS 
Dead Shot Smokeless, branded with the 
name of a house whose goods are most 
favorably known, is a powder of superior 
quality, unsurpassed in any particular. 
It is clean shooting, makes a perfect 
pattern, is of high velocity, safe, and 
unaffected by climate. 
Have your shells loaded with “ Dead 
Shot Smokeless.” Your dealer will 
gladly supply it. 
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AMERICAN POWDER MILLS 
BOSTON, MASS., U S. A. 
ST. LOUIS, MO. CHICAGO, ILLS. 
his ground, he rise like any other bird and flies 
right away in the direction he desires. Noth¬ 
ing having disturbed him, he does not look 
about for an enemy. He then carries his heavy 
beak straight to the front, with his head drawn 
close in so as to be relieved of the weight 01 | 
his feeding apparatus as far as possible. 
Though the flight of a snipe when flushed ap¬ 
pears to be a number of straight lines with j 
sharp angles every dozen yards or so, this is 
not actually the case. The lines to the right 
and left are really curves, just as a flash of 
lightning when seen by the naked eye appears 
forked and angular, but when photographed is 
shown to be a series of bends and curves or 
windings, as of a river. To paraphrase the con¬ 
juror’s remark. “The quickness of the flight! 
deceives the eye.” 
