OCTOBER, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
497 
WILD LIFE IN OUR 
NATIONAL PARKS 
(continued from page 465) 
was interwoven with and largely dependent 
upon that of the wild life about him. To 
study the ways of the beasts and qualify 
himself for their capture was his chief 
safeguard against starvation. A vague 
feeling of fellowship led primitive man to 
endow wild animals with mysterious pow¬ 
ers and out of his relation with them grew 
up his mythology, traces of which still sur¬ 
vive in our folk tales. But the day of the 
hunter has in large degree passed and we 
are now developing a deeper and kindlier 
sympathy with these habitants of the wolds 
and welcome their presence as the living 
f expression of the spirit of the wilderness. 
This sympathetic pleasure in the presence 
of wild animals in the forest is shared 
alike by men, women and children, by those 
who hunt with the gun or camera and 
equally by a multitude of others, who find 
some of the most exquisite joys of life in 
the forest and in the study of its shy habi¬ 
tants. 
BAY BIRD BLINDS 
A box sunk in the sand is the most kill¬ 
ing device. The box should be long enough 
to allow the gunner to lie in it comfortably, 
and its width should be several inches in 
excess of the breadth of his shoulders. 
From 10 to 15 inches will be of sufficient 
depth. It should be made of 34 -inch stuff, 
calked and pitched on the outside and in. 
thus making it thoroughly water-tight. At 
one end, near the top, an iron staple should 
be clinched, to which a 14 -inch rope about 
7 feet in length should be fastened. This 
will be found useful in towing the box be¬ 
hind a skiff, or for dragging it over the 
sand. Other blinds are easily constructed 
out of cedar boughs, cut about four feet 
in length, stuck in the sand or mud. They 
can also be made, when the wind is not 
blowing too hard, out of long reeds cut on 
the marsh. Painted canvas screens, hinged 
so as to fold up, have been used, and one 
of Long Island’s famous gunners once 
used an umbrella painted green. The fact 
is, it depends very much upon the place, 
and, moreover, on the conditions of wind 
and weather where to stool. While a vast 
number of birds in their autumnal flight 
follow the irregularities of the coast, there 
are countless numbers who make their mi¬ 
gration far to sea, or take short cuts over 
the mainland. Those passing to sea only 
touch at the projecting points, and are 
consequently tame, while those who have 
run the gauntlet of an even shore or beach 
are wild, and less likely to stool. All 
these things must be taken into account, 
and the wilder the birds the better you 
must be hid. Sometimes it is impossible or 
inconvenient to construct a box such as de¬ 
scribed, or find suitable stuff to build a 
blind; then a rubber blanket can be spread 
on the marsh, and a few sedge bushes or 
heaps of seaweed placed around you. 
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