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CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1918 . 
78 
PAGF 
Our Dear Old Friend the Woodcock 573 
By Edward Wilbur. 
Combing the Dunes for Gray 
Feathers . 577 
By John Bernard O’ Sullivan. 
Double-Crossed and Diamond-Hitched 
By Newton Newkirk. 
Bee Hunters of the Southern Moun¬ 
tains . 
By A. F. Harlow. 
Playgrounds of Our Northern Ally 582 
The Great Mule Deer of Modoc 
County . 584 
By Samuel A. Horner. 
The Barrel Boring of Field Guns... 
By William Bruettc. 
The Story of American Marksman¬ 
ship . 
By Jonas E. Whitley. 
When and How to Use the Double 
Blade . 
By Jule Marshall. 
Some Things Bass Go Shopping For 590 
By Ben. C. Robinson. 
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Angling for Adirondack Frostfish.. 592 
By Edwin T. Whiffen. 
The Rapidly Vanishing Sheepshead 593 
By Leonard Hulit. 
Editorial Comment . 594 
The Biography of Billy, a Tame 
Crow . 596 
Notes on Shore Birds. 597 
By J. T. N. 
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act. 598 
Nessmuk's Camp Fire. 600 
The Sportsman's Camera and Its 
Story—Part Two. 602 
By Eugene S. Anderson. 
Woods Logic and Camping Common 
Sense . 603 
By Blackhauk. 
Questions, Answers and Letters_ 604 
Rifles and Riflemen. 608 
By Captain Roy S. Tinney. 
Fish for Uncle Sam Contest. 615 
Field Trials on the Prairies. 623 
By Rodney Random. 
