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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Feb. 5, 1910. 
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now whimpering youngster arrived by his pro¬ 
tectors they fumbled with their trunks all over 
him to find out what was wrong, uttering the 
while a curious rumbling noise through the long 
nostrils. 
“By this time I thought it was time to re¬ 
turn. In swinging my cycle' around some dry 
twigs broke under me with sharp cracks. The 
puzzled bull stood for a moment motionless, 
with his huge ears extended like some top¬ 
gallant sails; then, as he heard the chink of 
the metal through my mounting the bike, the 
huge animal lurched forward with a grunt that 
rumbled as distant thunder down his big trunk. 
“I waited no longer, but peddalled for dear 
iife, and wonder even now how I dodged the 
many obstacles on the path. Behind me came 
a crashing of trees, I did not look back, but put 
on, as it were, more steam, until, after a retreat 
of ’ some four miles, hearing nothing more, I 
nearly came a neat cropper over an ancient 
tree stump. 
“Still a trifle flurried, I dismounted, but ex¬ 
cept the sighing of the forest and the buzzing 
of tsetse flies there was no other sound. A 
few miles behind my carriers came bellowing 
along with their peculiar swinging gait. As I 
believed the yarn of those elephants might 
frighten them further, ‘mum’ was the word. 
“However, I halted them on pretence of de¬ 
siring a rest, and after an hour’s delay we all 
started once more. My cycle enabled me to 
scout cautiously in advance, but as I expected, 
the elephants had gone to some more se¬ 
questered sylvan retreat, and nothing more was 
seen of them.”—Rhodesia Herald. 
LIVE DECOYS. 
Ducks and geese, quietly swimming and feed¬ 
ing among the sedges that line the still reaches 
of shallow Missouri River water near Rush- 
ville, Mo., present an alluring invitation of 
seeming safety and companionship for their 
feathered relatives flying along the stream to¬ 
ward the south in the late fall and winter or 
returning north a few months later. They de¬ 
scend to feed with the birds already in posses¬ 
sion. Shots are heard. Some of the birds fly 
away, but others remain fluttering in the water, 
and two huntsmen from their blind speedily col¬ 
lect the quarry. 
The astute hunters who tired of wooden de¬ 
coys a year or more ago and decided to im¬ 
prove upon the best work of the manufacturers 
by using living decoys are Fred Fenton and 
O. C. Jones, of Rushville. In shooting game 
it had been their practice to kill the crippled 
birds that they brought down, but one day they 
shot a gander through the wing, and its injuries 
were so slight that they resolved to preserve it. 
They wondered if it would not be possible to 
use the gander, which was unable to fly, as a 
live decoy. They pressed him into service a 
few days later. . 
“I think he drew all the geese in the State, 
said Fenton. One result of the first day’s shoot¬ 
ing was the acquisition of a crippled goose. 
They were mated, and now they have 123 wild 
geese in captivity. Ducks were obtained -in 
the same manner. When Fenton and Jones 
shoot they usually, use about four geese of the 
ordinary wild variety, two brant and twenty 
ducks. The star performer among the geese is 
a California pow-wow. 
“He starts making a noise almost before we 
can see the geese and keeps it up until they 
are clear out of sight,” Fenton said. “I have 
seen geese fly away past him and then swing 
around and come down.” 
“The geese feed on the prairies in the fall 
and strike the river about dusk, heading for 
the South. It’s too late then to catch them. 
When they come back in the spring, though, 
they’re generally flying in better light.” That 
is the way Jones explains the seeming failure 
of the live aid to the hunters. 
The ducks and geese are “anchored” by small 
weights on long lines. The cords have snap 
hooks, which are fastened into rings attached 
to straps about the birds’ legs. Fenton and 
Jones have a gasolene launch, and when they 
start out for the day they carry a crate of birds, 
each with its leather leg strap. It is the work 
of only a moment to take them from the coop, 
snap a weighted line to each ring and set the 
birds adrift. Not all of them have to be tied 
out. The ducks and geese are fastened, but 
generally it is not necessary to adopt the same 
means with the drakes or ganders, which swim 
about near at hand. The ducks are half breeds, 
crosses between mallards and domestic ducks. 
All the birds are fed regularly on shore, and 
when a day’s shooting is finished the drakes 
and ganders swim willingly back to the shack 
where they have learned to expect their daily 
apportionment of grain.—Kansas City Star. 
MACHINE-MADE JINGLES. 
THE FUMIGATED BAND. 
An antiseptic Baby and a Prophylactic Pup 
Were playing in a garden, when a Bunny gamboled up. 
They looked upon the creature with a loathing undis¬ 
guised, . 
For he wasn’t disinfected, and he wasn t Pasteurized. 
They said he was a Microbe, and a Hotbed of Disease, 
They steamed him in a vapor bath of a thousand odd 
degrees; 
They froze him in a freezer that was cold as banished 
hope, 
They scrubbed him with permanganate and carbolated 
soap. 
With sulphuretted hydrogen they bathed his wiggly ears. 
They clipped his frisky whiskers with a pair of hard- 
boiled shears; 
They donned their rubber mittens when they took him by 
the hand, 
And elected him a member of the Fumigated Band. 
Nowadays there are no Microbes in that garden where 
they play, 
For they bathe in pure formaldehyde a dozen times a day; 
They take their daily ration from a hygienic cup, 
The Baby, and the Bunny, and the prophylactic Pup. 
—Ladies’ Home Journal. 
ELOPING UP-TO-DATE. 
The coatless man puts a careless arm 
’Round the waist of the hatless girl, 
While over the dustless, mudless roads 
In a horseless wagon they whirl. 
Like a leadless bullet from hammerless gun. 
By smokeless powder driven, 
They fly to taste the speechless joys 
By endless union given. 
The only luncheon his coinless purse 
Affords to them the means 
Is a tasteless meal of boneless cod, 
With a dish of stringless beans. 
He smokes his old tobaccoless pipe, 
And laughs a mirthless laugh 
When papa tries to coax her back 
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