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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Dec. 18, 1909. 
"Resort* for Sportsmen. 
HUNTERS’ LODGE! 
GOOD QUAIL SHOOTING! 
Choice Accommodation for Gentlemen 
and Ladies. Come and bring your wife. 
General FRANK A. BOND, 
Buies, N. C. 
BRITISH EAST AFRICA BIG GAME HUNTING 
As pioneers in equipping Big Game hunting parties, 
NEWLAND, TARLTON & CO., LTD., confidently in¬ 
vite inquiries from all who think of visiting the “most 
attractive playground in the world.” These words are 
applied by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to British East 
Africa, and the fact that NEWLAND, TARLTON & 
CO,. LTD., have been honored with all his arrangement* 
is a guarantee of their ability to do things well, and an 
acknowledgment of their long experience. Write for book¬ 
let to their London Office. NEWLAND, TARLTON Sc 
CO., Ltd. (Head Office: Nairobi, B. E. Africa), 168 
Piccadilly, London. Cables: Wapagazi; London. Codes: 
ABC 5th Edn., and Western Union. 
HUNTING IN AFRICA 
Shooting parties outfitted and guided in 
Rhodesia. Best English and American refer¬ 
ences. Abundance of Big Game. Address 
WILLIAM FINAUGHTY, JR.. 
Bulawayo, Rhodesia. 
BAGLEY FARM, BAG bZL mLLS ’ 
Kenbridge Station, Va. R. R. Guests are offered shooting privileges on 
20,000 acres of land, undoubtedly the best for quail, deer and turkey 
shooting in the South. Good accommodations. Guides, dogs and horses 
furnished. tf 
HUNTING IN FLORIDA. 
Birds, Turkey, Cat, Fox, etc., on plantation. Not far 
from Duck, Deer and Bear. Good board and beds; 
open fires; horses and vehicles; pure water; good R.R. 
and telegraph facilities. 
WOODLAND PLANTATION, Lloyd, Fla. 
DUCK SHOOTING. 
Guides, Boats and Decoys on Great South Bay. Best 
accommodations at Bay Side Hotel, Eastport, L. I. 
Best Duck shooting in 20 years. H. J. ROGERS, Prop. 
PINE TOP LODGE AND KENNELS, 
Yale, Sussex County, Virginia.—Do you shoot? Do you 
know a place where you can take your wife and yet have 
good quail shooting, dogs, livery and guides, good table, 
and everything conducive to a pleasant outing? 
C. & L. P. BLOW. 
EXCLUSIVE HUNTING ON 25,000 ACRES. 
Furnishing first-class accommodations, guides, livery, 
hunting lands and trained dogs for the hunting of quail, 
wild turkeys and deer. Northern references. Special 
attention to parties containing ladies. Trained and 
untrained quail dogs for sale. 
Dr. H. L. ATKINS. Hordton. Va. 
NOTICE! 
Being on my way to Africa, I hope to be in New York 
at the end of January, and would like to meet one or 
more gentlemen wishing to make a trip to that country. 
The best of sport guaranteed at the smallest cost. Apply 
JOFIN A. M. LETFIBRIDGE, care Forest and Stream. 
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CAMP & TRAIL 
A New 16-32 Page 
WEEKLY 
Devoted to HUNTING 
and allied topics. Sample 5 cents. Yearly $1.50 
A. R. HARDING PUB. CO. Box 849, Columbus, Ohio, tf 
TRAINING vs. BREAKING. 
Practical Dog Training; or Training vs. Breaking. 
By S. T. Hammond. To which is added a chapter on 
training pet dogs, by an amateur. Cloth, 165 pages. 
Price, $1.00. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Jncle Lisha's Outing, 
A Sequel to “Uncle Lisha’s Shop.” By Rowland E. 
Robinson. Cloth. Price, $1.26. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
My Life As Ai\ Indian 
All That the Title Implies and More 
Probably the most faithful picture of Indian 
life ever drawn from the pen of a man who 
spent years among the Blackfeet, marrying into 
the tribe and becoming to all practical intents 
an Indian. 
Mr. Schultz tells of the life of the plains In¬ 
dian, when war and hunting were the occupa¬ 
tions of every man, when the buffalo still cov¬ 
ered the prairie, and the Indian was as yet little 
touched by contact with civilization. He de¬ 
scribes as one who-has lived the life, the daily 
routine of the great camp, the lives of the 
men and women, the gambling, the quarreling 
the love making, the wars, the trading of the 
Indians. 
The narrative is full of intense human in¬ 
terest, and the requisite touch of romance is 
supplied in the character of Nat-ah-ki, the beau¬ 
tiful Indian girl, who became the author’s wife. 
Price, $1.65 postpaid. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., 
127 Franklin Street, New York 
MY SIXTY YEARS ON 
THE PLAINS 
Tree Pictures of a Vanished Life 
“BILL" HAMILTON 
Appropriately enough W. T. Hamilton, the 
last survivor of the old race of free trappers, 
became the author of one of the best pen pic¬ 
tures of the old life of the plains and moun¬ 
tains ever written. 
No work of fiction offers more adventure, 
more thrills of desperate bravery, heroic en¬ 
durance and hair breadth escape than this un¬ 
adorned narrative of the life of the old trap¬ 
per and plainsman, the companion of Bill 
Williams, Jim Baker, Carson, Bridges and the 
rest whose names are household words. 
“Sixty Years on the Plains” is all that the 
name signifies and more. It depicts every phase 
of frontier life, hunting, trapping, Indian fight¬ 
ing, the beginnings of Empire building. From 
the store house of sixty years of wonderfully 
full exprience, Mr. Hamilton drew the material 
for a book of splendid interest and real value. 
Cloth, Illustrated. 
Postpaid. $1.50 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
HITTING vs. MISSING. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”). Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
repute of being an unusually good shot, and one who is 
particularly successful in that most difficult branch of 
upland shooting, the pursuit of the ruffed grouse, or 
partridge. This prompted the suggestion that he should 
write down for others an exposition of the methods, by 
which his skill was acquired. The result is this original 
manual of “Hitting vs. Missing.” We term it original, 
because, as the chapters will show, the author was self- 
taught; the expedients and devices adopted and the forms 
of practice followed were his own. This then may be 
termed the Hammond system of shooting; and as it was 
successful in his own experience, being here set forth 
simply and intelligently, it will prove not less effective 
with others. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
fell from the tree, announcing there were three 
’coons instead of two. At this we became in¬ 
credulous, and real preparation began. Each 
man held a dog and stationed himself so that 
wherever the ’coon struck a reception com¬ 
mittee would be on the spot. And then, amid 
wild shouts of “Look out, they’re coming! 
Here they come!” from up the tree, two ’coons 
struck the ground and six dogs struck the 
’coons. One was finished near the tree, and the 
other was killed a hundred yards away—yearling 
’coons in good condition. But the man in the 
tree insisted they were only cubs and that up 
on the limb with him sat the great-grandfather 
of all ’coons. And it was so. It was nearly 
thirty minutes before he was persuaded to jump, 
and then for what seemed another thirty 
minutes six dogs and one great-grandfather 
’coon fought such a fight as will seldom be seen 
again. 
They tore through the brush, snarling, yelp¬ 
ing, rolling over, and fighting so fast that it 
was hard to keep up, and then the fight would 
turn, and we were nearly knocked from our 
feet as the mass of struggling animals whirled 
our way. More than once a dog backed off 
with a yelp and shook himself' before going 
back to the fight, and often a scream from the 
’coon told that a dog had secured a good hold, 
and several dogs’ noses that should have been 
black were red in the firelight. After a time a 
club skilfully used caused the ’coon to stop and 
ponder, and the dogs made use of the oppor¬ 
tunity. And when the ’coon was held up for 
inspection by a hind leg, six dogs were even 
too tired to jump after it. But the ’coon was a 
magnificent animal and weighed in the cold, im¬ 
partial light of the next morning twenty-six 
pounds. 
For the next half hour the dogs lay in the 
grass while we cooked bacon sandwiches at the 
fire and fought the fight all over again, all 
talking at once, and all supremely happy. For 
a frosty night, a full moon, a pack of hounds, 
and a bacon sandwich leave nothing to be 
desired. 
GAMEKEEPERS’ TROUBLES. 
The autumnal troubles of the gamekeeper 
have begun in earnest, for it is years, since there 
was such a heavy crop of blackberries as there 
is this year. At the same time, the oak trees 
are laden with acorns, and that circumstance 
spells trouble of a different kind. The black¬ 
berries will attract children into every field, and 
the acorns will tempt pheasants to wander off 
in all directions. For that matter, pheasants 
as well as children are fond enough of black¬ 
berries, but the keeper can see his birds so 
long as they only wander along the hedges. It 
is when they go off into the woods of his 
neighbor, who possibly possesses the finest lot 
of acorns in the district, that Velveteens, has 
good cause to complain. All he can do is to 
keep a watchful eye on his outlying coverts 
from dawn to dusk, and spare as much of his 
valuable time for “driving-in” as he can afford. 
In some parts of the country this year mush¬ 
rooms have been abundant, but the recent cold 
nights have checked the growth of the fungus 
to some extent. The mushroom gatherer is one 
of the keeper’s worst friends, for, although that 
individual may mean no harm, he often does 
a great deal of it. On the other hand, mush¬ 
rooming is a convenient excuse for those who 
desire to be on someone else’s property for 
other purposes, and one has heard before now 
of the individual who goes out to gather the 
succulent fungi with a noose of copper-wire or 
a net. The ostensible desire to fill a big linen 
bag with nuts is also, on the face of it, a good 
reason for being inside the woods just at this 
season, though cases have been known in which 
a young pheasant or a couple of rabbits have 
been found lying perdu among the industri¬ 
ously gathered fruit. Altogether, the game- 
keeper is apt to have a rather anxious time of 
it just now; for it is during this month of Sep¬ 
tember that man and bird are likely to be de¬ 
moralized by the bountiful gifts of nature.— 
Shooting Times. 
