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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. ii, 1909- 
health, but let him get ill and the ancestral teach¬ 
ing returns. 
An incident illustrative of the understanding 
of the Indian of the white man’s religion oc¬ 
curred many years ago in the early settlement 
of the country. The Rev. Spalding was noth¬ 
ing if not practical in his religion. He believed 
that the way to Christianize the Indian was to 
make him work. The fur companies that were 
doing business in the country held to the same 
belief, too, but from different motives. A chief 
became converted to the new faith and one of 
the first things he learned was that he must 
pray for his needs. Being somewhat scantily 
attired, the newly Christianized savage remem¬ 
bered his religious instructions and prayed very 
devoutly for a coat. For several days he of¬ 
fered up his petitions and still the good mis¬ 
sionary with the coats did not take the hint. 
On the third day the Indian went to Mr. Spald¬ 
ing and told him that he had now earnestly 
prayed three days for a coat, without success. 
The missionary informed him that if he needed 
a coat he would have to labor for it. The sav¬ 
age thought a while, then said with great dis¬ 
gust : 
“You long time tell John be good Christian; 
pray, you get many things. I pray, pray, pray; 
come say, get coat; you say work, get coat. 
John get coat from King George man [fur 
trader] for work and no have to pray, either.” 
That is just about the conception the average 
Indian has of our religion. 
THE TOP RAIL. 
Was there any pastime so full of genuine ex¬ 
citement for the boy of a generation ago as 
standing beside an old gunsmith while he rifled 
a barrel? Has genius produced anything before 
or since that thrilled youth as did a squint 
through one of those long barrels after it had 
been rifled? Fortunate indeed was the boy who 
had so far gained the gunsmith’s confidence as 
to be permitted to actually take the precious 
barrel in his own hands and look through it 
again and again. Why, as I, who was one of 
those boys, remember, the heavy octagon bar¬ 
rel was regarded as a sacred thing. 
To-day better and far handsomer barrels may 
be seen in the armories of our great factories 
in thousand lots and an expert can hardly pick 
one from the lot that is better than the rest. 
In Belgium American machines are employed in 
boring, rifling and chambering barrels, and the 
operators are largely women and girls. 
* * * 
Can anyone confirm the report that “four- 
snag bucks” were bagged by sportsmen who 
took advantage of the recent four-day open sea¬ 
son in New Jersey? A newsgathere.r for that 
State reported in the Metropolitan press that a 
200-pound four-snag buck was shot on the Mis- 
pah road near May’s Landing; that another four- 
snag buck weighing 160 pounds was taken near 
Pleasantville; and that an Atlantic City man 
killed a 211-pound buck. How many snags this 
one possessed is not stated, but if snags what¬ 
ever that means—keep pace with weight, the 
fortunate owner should have claimed five at 
least. 
The New Jersey season was limited to the 
Wednesdays in November, and in that region 
where it was possible to overhaul deer, hunting 
in motorcars was popular; that is, the owners 
of cars raced out at dawn to the most favorable 
stands and cutting off the power and the odor, 
awaited the coming of the deer. 
What effect the smfell of superheated gasolene 
and oil has on deer has not been exploited very 
generally, but it is thought by some that the 
half-wild deer of nearby woods have acquired 
a dislike for the fumes, even as pedestrians 
have, hence in hunting in motorcars as in other 
ways, it may be worth while to approach likely 
places upwind. 
* * * 
Every conceivable thing has been employed at 
one time or another as a receptacle for shipping 
game in defiance of the law, but it remained for 
a Wisconsin man hunting in Michigan to dis¬ 
play sufficient brain fertility to deceive the game 
wardens with a new fake. Like all his tribe, 
however, he forgot that a dog might spoil his 
clever scheme, and this is what happened: 
Taking advantage, of the fact that a number 
of hunters who had been shot in the woods were 
being shipped home in coffins, he loaded a casket¬ 
like box with game birds, secured a death cer¬ 
tificate in some way, and was waiting at the 
station for a train when a game warden’s dog 
became interested in the “casket,” sniffed all 
round it, whined excitedly and began to paw 
the box. Out of respect to the supposed dead 
hunter the warden tried, but to no purpose, to 
call his dog away. The ‘ffriend” of the “dead 
man” was then looked for, but he had sloped 
when he foresaw the detection of his fraud, and 
the hundreds of game birds found in the box 
went to the hospitals. The warden’s dog is not 
for sale. 
* * * 
A party of insurance men from Philadelphia 
had an old-fashioned camp-hunt in the cypress 
woods of North Carolina recently, and they at¬ 
tribute their success as well as the pleasure they 
had, to the good management of their host, C. 
H. Boyer. The general camp was regulated by 
the following rules: 
All members of the camp shall be called not later than 
5:30 A. M., and earlier when the president so orders. 
All lights shall be put out at 10 P. M. unless emer¬ 
gency makes necessary a later hour. 
Any person bringing a loaded gun in the tent shall be 
fined $5, to be donated by the president to some charit¬ 
able institution. 
Any person who abandons the station assigned by the 
guide on a deer or bear hunt, or otherwise refuses to 
obey the guide shall be deprived of the right to accom¬ 
pany future hunting parties. 
No hunter shall be obliged to bring into camp, unaided, 
more than two deer shot by him on any one hunt. 
Every member who shoots at and fails to hit a deer or 
bear during a regular hunt shall submit to the operation 
of the truncation of the rear extremity of his nether gar¬ 
ment at the hands of the marshal of the camp and his 
assistants to such extent as the chief justice may order 
in pronouncing judgment after due trial of the de¬ 
fendant. Provided that no sentence shall be pronounced 
for a cutting of less than three inches. 
Any one who shall uselessly arouse the sleepers by an 
erroneous or fearful interpretation of the cries of owls or 
wildcats shall, upon conviction after due trial, be obliged 
to cut the wood for the assembly tent for one day. 
Any member of the camp who for the gratification ol 
his personal pride or to create envy among other mem¬ 
bers, shall walk more than twenty-five miles in any one 
day shall, after trial and conviction, be sentenced tc 
lead the pack of hounds around the encampment sever 
times seven. 
Snoring in the assembly tent is expressly forbidden 
but the chief marshal shall not be allowed to quiet th< 
disturbance by using heavier than No. 1 buckshot. 
No member shall be permitted to bring into the ten 
for his own personal amusement any rattlesnake les: 
than six feet in length, nor have more than two snake: 
at one time. The chief marshal shall be required t< 
enforce strict compliance herewith. 
The party lays claim to five rattlesnakes ant 
four raccoons, as well as to fifteen deer and ai 
abundance of small fry. 
* * * 
Here is a story that comes all the way fron 
Hacienda de la Madrugada Rosada, which i 
in California, one of the few States large enoug 
for so imposing a name; relayed, howevei 
through the kindness of Francis Clarke, fror 
the Coconino Forest region of Arizona: 
“Charles Green is a crack rifle shot. Crac 
shots often have peculiar things happen then, 
and when they casually speak of them, auditor 
frequently smile and sort of squeeze up one ey 
doubtingly. We have not the exact date an 
place for the story, but it was somewhere nort 
of Flagstaff in less time than a decade ago. M 
Green says: 
“ ‘I was walking along in the brush and sa 
a deer off about 400 yards. I drew a bead c 
him and shot. I was surprised when the smol 
cleared away to see the deer still standing ther 
I drew a more careful bead the next time an 
cut loose again. When the smoke cleared aw; 
again I'll be golswizzeled if the deer wa’n’t sti 
standing in the same place. 
“ ‘The third time I took extra precaution ar 
pulled down close and turned the rifle loos 
This time he was down for sure. John Franc 
was with me on the hunt and when we got ov 
there we just naturally found three deer, ea< 
of them dead and hit in the same spot -exact! 
It was a very peculiar thing, and it is the on 
time in my experience that deer have triplicati 
on me in such a manner.’ ” 
* * * 
In order to ascertain the sentiment regardi) 
the new license law in a nearby State, I ask 
a sixteen-year-old boy who is fond of hunti 
if he had been out since the season opened. 
“No, not yet,” he replied. 
“No? Why, I thought you were out on ope 
ing day; what’s the matter?” 
“I haven’t got my license—yet,” he repli< 
and there was hopefulness in the emphasis 
placed on the “yet.” But when we had talk 
of likely places and the probability of a day 
which we could hunt together, he cheered 
quickly and said he would go any day I mig 
name, proving that when it came to a questi 
of going or not, there was pocket money, neec 
for something else, that might go for a licen 
This is one of the numerous signs that t 
protection idea is gaining ground, for this I 
knows the country roundabout his home so w 
that it would be difficult for a warden to ca 
him if he chose to hunt without a license, 
remain out of the woods was heartbreaking 
him, but that was what he had done for nea 
a fortnight. Grizzly Kinc 
