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FOREST AND STREAM 
JULY, 1917 
AMERICAN 
GAME BIRD 
SHOOTING 
By George Bird Grinnell 
This large and profusely illus¬ 
trated volume covers the whole 
field of upland shooting in Amer¬ 
ica. It deals with the birds fol¬ 
lowed by the upland shooter 
with dog and gun, and gives prac¬ 
tically everything that is known 
about the woodcock, the snipe, all 
the North American quail, grouse 
and wild turkeys. This is its 
scheme: 
Part I—Life histories of upland 
game birds; many portraits. 
Part II—Upland shooting, and 
also guns, loads, dogs, clothing. 
Part III—Shooting of the fu¬ 
ture, ruffed grouse, quail, etc. 
There are life-like colored plates 
of the ruffed grouse and quail, and 
48 other full-page plates, with 
many line cuts in the text. 
The book is really the last word 
on upland shooting, and this is 
what some of the authorities think 
of it: 
“It is, I think, a model of what 
such a book should be—but so sel¬ 
dom is. It is, indeed, much more 
than a treatise on field sports, for 
it furnishes such full and excellent 
life histories of the birds of which 
it treats that it should find a place 
in every library devoted to pjrre 
ornithology.’’—William Brewster, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
“A very complete monograph for 
sportsmen and naturalists . . . 
with anecdotes, of his own and 
others . . . The book will be 
enjoyed not only by sportsmen, but 
by the general reader.’’— Sun, New 
York. 
“An important, thoroughly reli¬ 
able and well written book; a work 
that will be read with interest and 
pleasure by sportsmen. The work 
is the first complete one of its 
kind.”— Boston Globe. 
“This volume is especially wel¬ 
come—a treat to every man who 
loves to tramp the uplands with 
dog and gun.”— Inter-Ocean, Chi¬ 
cago. 
This book is a companion vol¬ 
ume to American Duck Shooting, 
and the two cover practically the 
whole subject of field shooting 
with the shotgun in North Amer¬ 
ica. 
Illustrated, cloth. About 575 pages. 
Price, $3.50 net; postage, 25c. 
For Sale by 
Forest & Stream Pub. Co. 
118 East 28th Street NEW YORK 
KEEP YOUR HUNTING KNIFE 
SLUNG BEHIND YOUR HIP 
How many outdoorsmen carry their hunt¬ 
ing knives—sheathed or unsheathed—in 
front of the leg, with the tip resting near 
the groin ? Sooner or later—-you may not be 
conscious of it—the 
leather at the point 
of the sheath will cut 
through. Innocently 
you may stoop down 
some time, and that 
piece of steel with 
which you have given 
the “coup de grace” 
to your game, may 
drink of your blood 
too. 
i It may pierce the 
large artery that runs 
down inside the leg near the groin. This 
artery—called the femoral—receives the 
blood directly from the heart. If it is 
severed or punctured in any way, and 
bleeding goes on unchecked for five or ten 
minutes, death will follow from loss of 
blood. 
So sling your knife behind your hip and 
make it stay there. 
WANT TO CLIMB A TALL 
TREE AND LOOK AROUND ? 
You’ve switched off the trail, trying to 
get “that there buck?” You want to climb 
a tree and get your bearings; but how?— 
you will ask. Here’s how. 
Look around for a rather tall tree, almost 
nude of branches except near the top. 
Open your pack and take out some strong 
rope—quarter-inch cotton rope doubled will 
do. Pass the cord around the tree about 
a foot above the 
ground and leave a 
little play in the loop. 
Tie it with a square 
knot (also called reef 
knot) or better still 
with a surgeon’s knot, 
which never slips. 
Don’t tie it with a 
granny knot; for if 
you do you may 
find yourself going 
through space with 
nothing soft to land on. 
The loop first formed is called the tree 
loop. For the stirrups, or the loop in 
which you place your foot, use a piece of 
rope about two feet long, or amply long 
enough to allow your foot to get in easily. 
Tie this in the form of a loop onto the tree- 
loop, and again use a square or surgeon’s 
knot. Make two of these, one for each foot. 
Now you’re ready to clamber up. Place 
the tree-climbers with a foot-loop on each 
side of the tree, and put your feet in them. 
Embrace the tree, and with one hand lift 
up the tree-loop about a foot or so, at 
the same time releasing that foot. Bear 
in mind that every time you lift up the 
tree-loop, you must hold it against the tree 
before you place your foot into it again. 
If you forget to do that, the tree-loop will 
move down a foot or so and not get you 
anywhere. As you go upward, the diameter 
of the trunk becomes smaller and the tree- 
loop therefore correspondingly larger. 
By this method you can reach a high 
elevation with perfect safety and say to 
yourself: “Gee, this is great fun!” Once 
you get the knack of doing this, you will 
bless your lucky stars for knowing how. 
When the writer wants to get a clear con¬ 
ception of the country he is in, he goes a- 
climbing in this fashion and jots down the 
topography of the region from this position. 
L. S. R. 
GOT NO WATER PAIL? HERE’S 
SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD 
Suppose you’ve set up your tent, laid 
yourself a foot-thick balsam bed, made a 
good fireplace, heaped 
up alongside it all the 
wood you’re going to 
use, opened the grub 
bags, gotten out the 
culinary outfit — in 
fact got everything in 
readiness for prepar¬ 
ing for a good meal 
and retiring for the 
night — only to dis¬ 
cover that you’ve left 
your canvas water-pail two portages back. 
It’s getting dark, or pretty nearly so, and 
to have to run every now and then and get 
water with your cup doesn’t sound good to 
you. You haven’t got a pot or kettle large 
enough to hold water in any large amount. 
Have you got an extra food bag in your 
pack? Well, cut four sticks about eighteen 
inches long and an inch or so thick and 
drive them in the ground to form a square 
of about the dimensions of the food bag. 
Now fetch your water in this bag—if it’s 
one of the paraffined food bags generally 
sold on the market it won’t leak—and set it 
down inside the enclosure formed by the 
four sticks. They prevent your improvised 
water pail from tipping over. L. S. R. 
