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FOREST AND S T K E A M 
November, 191 
I always leave a tube 
of Mermen’s sticking 
out of my bag in a Pull¬ 
man dressing room. 
“Use Mennen’s Shav¬ 
ing Cream, eh?” some 
man always asks, “Is it 
any good?” 
“Try it!" I say. “Builds 
up a lather in three minutes 
with the brush only—don’t 
rub it in with your lingers 
— cold water is as good 
as hot." 
About the only time I 
ever saw a man on a Pulh 
man smile before breakfast 
was just after he had shaved 
with Mennen’s for the first 
time. 
(JVlennen Salesman) 
trenn^ns 
Trade Mark 
ERHARD 
(^ARK.rUU^ 
STILL-HUNTING SIR RUFFNECK 
(continued from page 637) 
Never. Silence, craft, keenness of hearing 
and vision, patience: these alone bring 
home the bacon in the game of still-hunt¬ 
ing. Don’t crack a twig in the woods if 
you can help it; don’t talk above a whis¬ 
per; don’t shout—whistle if you have to 
signal; don’t wind yourself by going too 
strenuously, for if you do and get a shot, 
you will probably miss. Take -the sport 
calmly, quietly, determinedly. Be an In¬ 
dian. Don’t be a buffalo. 
Sir Ruffneck’s Table 
N saying some things about the prin¬ 
ciples of still-hunting, I have not for¬ 
gotten that we are considering the still¬ 
hunting of one particular game bird. I 
now return to the grouse to suggest that 
in locating him the hunter should pay close 
regard to his food. “The eagles will be 
gathered to the carcase,” and the grouse 
will be gathered to the grapes. In the 
hunting season, the ruffed grouse probably 
prefers wild grapes to any other food; and 
there is no more likely place for grouse 
than thickets overgrown with grapevines, 
or piles of boulders laced with them. The 
grouse is a prodigious feeder on acorns, 
chestnuts, tea-berries, berries of the wild 
swamp-briar, of the sumac, the green-briar, 
the dogwood, the partridge-vine, and the 
like. I have found grouse eating mellow 
apples in an old mountain orchard. In 
short, during the autumn season, the 
grouse is a fruit-eater and a nut-eater. In 
the spring and summer his diet consists 
largely of animal matter; in the winter he 
lives chiefly upon buds. 
Knowing the favorite foods of' the 
grouse in the hunting season, the still- 
hunter will naturally frequent those places 
where the bird’s food is found. Grouse, 
like quail, feed early and late; and they 
usually walk to the feeding-ground. How 
often have I sat near a tangle of grapes 
and greenbriars and heard the hesitant ap¬ 
proach of grouse. They usually come 
singly; they learn early that each individual 
must take care of itself. At such a'time 
it is not enough for the hunter to make 
no sound: he must not move his head or 
his body, for the eye of a wild thing is as 
quick to detect movement as its ear is to 
detect sound. He must let the bird come 
well within distance; then, unless he wants 
to watch it feed, or wants to take a chance 
on others coming up, he must flush it and 
shoot. I have no use for the man who 
will shoot a grouse on a tree or on the 
ground. He ought to get his recreation in 
some other way. He kills the bird and the 
sport at one shot. Some allowance is made, 
of course, for those who use a .22 rifle. 
That surely is legitimate, especially if the 
bird be taken in the head. Anything else 
is disgraceful. 
The Vital Rise 
N bagging the grouse on the wing, much 
depends on the nature of the bird’s rise. 
The intelligence of the grouse is well 
known, as is its favorite method of illus¬ 
trating that intelligence by foiling the 
sportsman by a baffling rise. Also, if there 
is a tree to be put between the hunter and 
the hurrying bird, Sir Ruffneck will put it 
there. In still-hunting, therefore, the 
hunter, having located a grouse, shoul 
look the situation over carefully; decid 
where the grouse will go if flushed, an 
where the hunter wants it to go. In shor 
one of the arts of still-hunting consists i 
flushing the bird in a manner that is ac 
vantageous to the hunter. Don’t flush 1 
random and take a chance; try, at least, t 
flush craftily, designedly, and make as cei 
tain as you can of your shot. Should th 
bird flush wild, or should you miss, don 
guess as to where he will come dowi 
Watch him to the very last glimmer of h: 
wings. Mark him down. Note partict 
larly whether he veers to right or lef 
The chances are that if his flight is hig 
over sprouts and trees, it will be long an 
somewhat wild; if through the woods 
can usually be followed with considerab! 
accuracy. And always be as tireless i 
your pursuit of him as you were patient i 
your waiting for him to come to you. 
Still-hunt Sir Ruffneck! If you brir 
him to bag, the glory is all yours. Half c 
it doesn’t belong to the dog. 
OPEN SEASONS FOR 
GAME 
(continued from page 658) 
Dec. 10; geese and brant, Sept. 16-Dec. 20. 
Wyoming.— Deer, in Campbell, Crook, Johnso 
Niobrara, Sheridan and Weston Counties, Oi 
15-Oct. 31. Elk and male sheep, in Lincoln, Pa 
and Fremont (except in Bridger National Fore 
and north of Big Wind River and south of Swe< 
water River, no open season), Sept. 1-Nov. 15; 
rest of State, no open season. Big game in Linco 
County on Fall River Rim or Crest in Cattle D 
tricts 1, 3 and 5, in Wyoming National Fore; 
Oct. 5-Nov. 30. 
CANADA. 
British Columbia.— Deer, East of Cascade 
Sept. 1-Dec. 15; West of Cascades (except Que 
Charlotte Islands), Sept. 15-Dec. 15. Moo 
(males), in Atlin, Cariboo, Columbia, Fort Georg; 
and Omineca Electorial Districts only. Waterfot 
rails, woodcock, jacksnipe, or Wilson snipe, blat 
bellied and golden plovers, yellowlegs, Northe 
District, Sept. 1-Dec. 14; Southwestern Distrij 
Oct. 1-Jam 14; Southeastern District, Sept. 1J 
Dec. 31. (See “Game Laws, 1918,” for definiti 
of Districts.) Blue and ruffed grouse, season t 
plies west of Cascades; ruffed grouse in Electoi 
Districts of Chilliwack, Delta, Dewdney, Richmor 
South Vancouver and District Municipality 
North Vancouver, Oct. 15-Nov. 14. No hunti 
permitted on Kaien Island. Colony Farm, and f 
portions of Burnaby Municipality. 
New Brunswick— Dxr, on Grand Manan al 
Campobello Islands, no open season. 
Northwest Territories.—Additional season 
caribou and sheep, Aug. 1-Oct. 1. remale caribd. 
mountain sheep, or mountain goat with young : 
foot, and their young at foot, no open seasc 
Governor General in Council may, by regulatic; 
alter seasons. 
Nova Scotia.— Big game, on Cape Breton Islar; 
no open season. Caribou (male), in Inverness a 
Victoria Counties only. Ruffed grouse (birch pa 
ridge), Oct. 1-Oct. 31; sharp-tailed grouse, At 
15-Nov. 30; Canada grouse (spruce partridge), ' 
open season. 
Ontario.— Moose, reindeer, caribou (male, 
south of Canadian Pacific Railroad, from Matta’ 
to Port Arthur, Nov. 1-Nov. 15; north of railroti 
Oct. 10-Nov. 30. Hares, also Dec. 23-Jan. 
Squirrels, in Oxford, York, Waterloo, Wentwoi. 
and Elgin Counties, no open season. Ducks, Se 
1-Dec. 14; geese, Sept. 15-Dec. 14. 
Quebec.— Deer, bull moose, in Labelle, Ottai, 
Pontiac, and Temiscaming, Oct. 1-Nov. 30. Blac 
bellied and golden plovers, ycllozulegs, Wils'- 
snipe, woodcock, in Bonaventure, Gaspe, Rimouu 
and Saguenay Counties, Aug. 15-Nov. 30. 
Saskatchewan.— Deer, elk, moose, carilf 
(males only), north of township 34, Nov. 15-D 
14; south of township 35, no open season. 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
Newfoundalnd.— Caribou, also Aug. 1-Sapt. 
Geese, unprotected. 
