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point’s prick. The bait, however, is cut 
in two, only the head and neck coming upon 
the ice. 
“Now’s my time,” says the patient man. 
Upon his very strongest hook and below 
a thick gimp leader, now hangs the larg¬ 
est dace from the tin pail. Down goes the 
wriggling lure and as the bait strikes mid 
water it shoots away as though frightened 
with its new surroundings. Things remain 
quiet for several minutes. The angler be¬ 
gins to fear that the big fellow’s unsuc¬ 
cessful dash made him angry or that he 
was satisfied with half a fish when the 
whole could not be safely had. 
F INALLY, the coiled line begins slowly 
to travel into the ice hole, then it goes 
still faster and the sensitive finger feels 
that a great weight and power is moving it. 
Then comes a pause. Sixty feet of line 
have slowly gone out and he is on. “Now’s 
my time,” says the fisherman. Carefully 
taking all slack in and getting the line as 
taut as possible, he gives it a firm but gen¬ 
tle pull. You ice-fishers all know just how 
much was needed. Now it seems as though 
a great sunken log was being towed about 
at first, but the vicious throbbing jerks felt 
by experienced fingers tell what is going 
on down there and what fish it is, as well 
as though in plain sight. Will that hole 
be large enough to pull that big, sulky 
pickerel through? The pocket-axe and re¬ 
volver are thrown out for use at the clos¬ 
ing move in this game between man and 
fish, which he knows will soon arrive. The 
head of the great pike now appears at 
the opening. He is hooked deep under the 
tough roots of the tongue and the leader 
has thus far escaped the razor-like teeth. 
Next time he gets it, says the sportsman, 
as the great fish takes a header and splashes 
water in the face of the kneeling man. “He 
can never be pulled out. He’s too big for 
that. Slowly floating upward and ready 
to take advantage of the slightest awk¬ 
wardness or fumble in the management of 
that detested line, comes the Kings of the 
Waters, his great yellow eyes glaring 
hatred at his foe above. 
The well aimed revolver speaks. There 
are a few moments of flurry and the hard- 
earned prize floats quiet. A few vigorous 
strokes of the axe enlarge the opening and 
an eighteen pound Great Northern pike, 
shining with his spots of gold, is drawn 
forth. 
MAKING THE SHELL CARTRIDGE 
INTO BALL. 
Utica, N. Y. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In a recent issue I read with great inter¬ 
est an article by Mr. F. T. Ford in which 
he describes a wolf hunt. And the process 
of adding tallow to bird shot in a shot-gun 
shell, thus making a load that can be shot 
like a rifle ball. 
I have taken a shot-gun shell and cut the 
paper over the wads between the powder 
and shot so that the load goes out like a 
solid slug, but I don’t consider this is a 1 
safe proposition. And if this method of 
tallowing shot is safe in a cylinder barrel 
or a moderate choke I would be interested 
in getting full details. 
R. Kingland Hay. 
A Road in the Berkshire Hills , Massachusetts 
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