OCTOBER, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
503 
day he was found dead not far from his 
food dish; a distended abdomen explained 
the reason. The bear instinct had told the 
creature that those cherries were good to 
eat but it had not taught him that choke 
cherries and cow’s milk do not mix well in 
the stomach of a cub any more than they 
do in that of a child and he paid the price 
of his ignorance with his life. 
FROM A VETERAN CANOEIST 
Editor Forest and, Stream : 
Seme time ago an outdoor magazine 
published a series of articles on a 1,500 
mile canoe trip in the Carribean Sea. I 
read them with more than ordinary in¬ 
terest. I first noted the writer’s canoe and 
management of it under sail. He says he 
sailed it by steering by the sail. Now I 
thought that was going some. I ran¬ 
sacked several public libraries and wrote 
to publishers but could find no light on 
canoe sailing until you had this series of 
articles on “How to Sail the Open Canoe,” 
by Jule Marshall, in the magazine. I think 
I have mastered it now, and have looked 
anxiously for the last of the series. I 
have used your writer’s formula and find 
it correct so far. I use a wooden canoe 
called the “Kayak,” and believe me it is 
a peach. I never see any puffs for them, 
but here is one free. They are a boat 
that will stand any amount of abuse. The 
makers expressed this canoe—the “Wan¬ 
derlust”—to Greenville Jet., Maine, and I 
took it from the car and put it into 
Moosehead Lake, loaded with dunnage and 
grub to about 300 pounds weight, and 
started up the lake. Never stopped to see 
if she would leak any. I made five miles 
before I camped. Cruised five and a half 
weeks on this lake and at one time was 
out four and one-half hours when it was 
so rough that no motor boats would go, 
and still the canoe was a top-notcher. I 
rigged it with double lee boards and a 
lateen sail of about 49 square feet. While 
she sailed well, I had an idea it could be 
improved. 
After reading your articles on canoe 
sailing, following directions for size of 
lee board, balancing for the center, etc., 
then measuring for placing the bar for 
the lee board to swing on, I took it out 
on a pond near Adams, and it would sail 
any old way. I’ll admit this much, that 
I had not got the lee board quite correctly 
placed, but so near that it was a pleasure 
to sit and see her spin. I have had some 
experience with about every type of boat 
from a skiff up to the X class of Racing 
Sailing Dories, and at one time monkeyed 
with single sculls. 
If you look over your subscription lists 
around 1880 or ’81, you will see my name. 
Have subscribed ever since, and your dog 
registrations in one of those years will 
show that I purchased from N. Elmore, 
of Granby, Conn., a black and white beagle 
bitch with tan markings which I named 
Lulu. She proved the undoing of many 
fox-rabbit hounds in the heavy down- 
east snows. She could and did work the 
party when the others could not. 
I am very close to my sixty-second mile¬ 
stone, but the “call for the Wild” seems 
to grow stronger. W. A. Howland. 
Mass. 
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