January, 1923 
edges of the side boards. No. 8 screws 
are used to fasten to the frames and No. 
6 about two or three inches apart for 
the side boards. Two strips of oak \ l / 2 
inches wide and 54 inch thick for rub¬ 
bing strake cover the seams of sides 
and deck. 
By having the center of the seat come 
exactly over the center of the boat and 
the seat braces, resting on the bottom 
pieces of No. 3 and No. 4 frames, 21 
inches apart and A l / 2 inches from the 
bottom, the boat will trim just right. 
Five foot oars are about right and can 
be stowed under the deck at one end. 
Ash is best, as it is stronger to push 
with in shallow water. 
The oar-locks are about 12 inches 
from the center of the seat. A four- 
prong grapnel, such as is used for de¬ 
coys off shore, makes a handy anchor 
and is carried under the forward deck. 
A pair of small wheels on an axle that 
is fitted to the stern makes it handy to 
carry decoys, guns, etc., to the edge of 
the marsh from home, similar to a 
wheel-barrow. 
Arthur F. Means, New York. 
33 
LETTERS, QUESTIONS 
AND ANSWERS 
(Continued from page 22) 
house at Merribrooke, meditating, when 
a half-grown wild rabbit timidly hopped 
from the hedge out upon the lawn and 
began to nibble clover only a few yards 
away. Billy Airedale, coming along at 
that moment, gave a quick glance at the 
rabbit, then up at me, and made the de¬ 
duction that the rabbit belonged to the 
house; consequently, it was to be treated 
politely in accordance with the good 
manners which Billy had been taught at 
the point of a whip during his ten 
months of kennel life. He had treated 
chickens with respect ever since his ar¬ 
rival at Merribrooke. That led to the 
inference that somewhere in the early 
pages of his biography one might per¬ 
haps find a bit of painful history. 
Every evening, at about the same 
hour, the rabbit came out upon the lawn 
and nibbled clover. Billy Airedale and 
he often looked at each other. The 
rabbit, finding that it was not pursued, 
became tamer and tamer. 
Leaving out the chicken question, 
Billy now chases every living thing ex¬ 
cepting rabbits when we go for a walk 
through the woods. His quarry ranges 
from grasshoppers to cows—to say 
nothing of bicycles and automobiles. 
When a rabbit bounces out from in front 
of us, however, Billy looks up almost 
apologetically as much as to say, “It was 
not my fault that he started off in such 
a hurry.” 
In all probability nature will out 
later, but up to the present time Billy 
Airedale believes that wild rabbits all 
belong to the house and are to receive 
dignified attention only. His fidelity to 
a moral ideal causes me heartless amuse- 
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