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FOREST AND STREAM 
January, 1918 
A group of sport-loving business men interested in organ¬ 
izing an exclusive Florida Fishing Club have acquired an at¬ 
tractive club house and grounds on Anna Maria Key— 
FLORIDA’S BEST FISHING SECTION. 
Sportsmen wishing to spend all or part of the winter months 
where Tarpon and other game fish are more than plentiful, 
are invited to write for particulars. 
WHAT ABOUT YOUR 
HUNTING TROPHY? 
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of mallard ducks, and ask me for a pair 
of them. He did this in entire innocence, 
and although I scowled at him somewhat 
savagely for his presumption. I am now 
inclined to think that I was wrong and 
he was right—he was only acting under 
the old presumption that the man success¬ 
ful in the chase owed something to every¬ 
body else who had not been. Certain it is 
that with no other possession as with the 
product of his bow and spear will man be 
instinctively generous—he simply likes to 
give game to his friends. It affords him 
pleasure to do so. Why? I think we may 
find the reason why in these old pages of 
Gaston Phoebus, which contain so much 
knowledge of the foibles of mankind. 
I presume also that the guide’s fee 
which we pay for those who so often as¬ 
sist us in a successful hint is something 
which passes on a basis a trifle different 
from that of a day’s wages. In the old 
times princes, royalties, noblemen, hunted 
with many retainers and followers, who 
contributed very much to the success in 
the chase. Each of these had his bit; it 
was not denied him and not begrudged 
him. Perhaps our whole principle of hired 
guides comes down from this old custom. 
Who shall say? If so, it takes off a little 
of the curse of hiring a guide to go out 
and do most of the work on a big game 
hunt. We do not call a guide today a 
lymerer or a fewterer, but very possibly 
he works on something of the same basis 
in the hunting of the hart. 
THE FISHING CLUE 
Box 26, FOREST AND STREAM 
9 East 40th Street NEW YORK CITY 
FOR SALE 
Unusual country property, greenhouse and florist 
business in Point Pleasant, New Jersey 
The property consists of one half acre of good, rich cultivated 
soil with hardy stock, fruit trees, two grape arbors and dwelling 
house of four rooms and cellar, city water, and greenhouse 54 ft. by 
18 ft., heated by a Lord and Burnham hot water furnace. Sale price 
is $2,500. The place must be seen to appreciate its value. For 
terms and particulars address Box 252, Point Pleasant, N. J. 
H AVE then another look at the prized 
trophy on your own wall. Of 
course you know something about 
the value of one head above that of an¬ 
other. Massiveness of beam, breadth of 
beam, number of points, are all things 
which add value to a stag head or an elk 
head. But do you know the nomenclature 
of your own trophy, and are you able to 
tell why it is or is not valuable? Old 
Gaston could tell you: 
“And also their heads be of divers man¬ 
ners, the one is called a head well-grown, 
and the other is called well affeted, and 
well affeted is when the head has waxed 
by ordinance according to the neck and 
shape, when the tines be well grown in 
the beam by good measure, one near the 
other, then it is called well affeted. Well 
grown is when the head is of great beam 
and is well affeted and thick tined, well 
high and well opened (spread). That 
other head is called counterfeit (abnor¬ 
mal) when it is different and otherwise 
turned behind or wayward in other manner 
than other common deer be accustomed to 
bear. That other high head is open, evil 
affeted with long tines and few. That 
other is low and great and well affeted 
with small tines. And the first tine that 
is next the head is called Antler, and the 
second Royal and the third above, the 
Sur-royal, and the tines which be called 
forth if they be two, and if they be three 
or four or more be called troching.” 
Of course most of us value more a head 
which is even, that is to say, with the 
same extent of beam and the same number 
of points on either beam; but the exact 
