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Forest and Stream 
—illustrating Thompson’s 
New 1923 Models 
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the finest, most famous line of 
boats we have ever offered. Beau¬ 
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at new revised prices which represent 
savings greater than ever before! 
CANOES, $45 UP, Speedy, beautiful in line, 
graceful in action—yet strong and durable. Stable 
In a choppy sea; steady as most rowboats. Respon¬ 
sive to the paddle—less liable to “drift.” Four 
lengths, three different models: ANTI-LEAK (all 
wood), HIAWATHA, and INDIAN (canvas- 
covered). 
ROWBOATS, $40 up. Roomy, handsome rowboats 
.—with trim lines. Finely built of choicest woods. 
Finished down to the last detail. Stand years of 
wear and tear and still look good. 
FISHING BOATS, $32 up. For oars or outboard 
motor. Sturdy, stable—won’t "roll” when you 
stand to cast or land a whopper. Light draft for 
the shallows. Easy on the oarsman. 
SPECIAL BOATS for Outboard Motors, $58 up. 
Special seam construction resists vibration. 'Unique 
hull design, combined with just the right clear¬ 
ance, gives speed without sacrificing safety. We 
handle leading outboard motors also. 
MOTOR BOATS, $200 up. The feature of- this 
full line is the Beach Model—the "Wonder Boat 
of 1923.” Propeller does not project below keel— 
cannot be injured if run hard aground or amid 
lurking logs or rocks. Operates perfectly in shal¬ 
low, weedy water: rides a rough sea in perfect 
safety. Equipped with light-weight motor enclosed 
in rain-proof hatch. Women or children can start 
and operate this boat. Two men can carry it. 
Four other motor boats to choose from; 16 to 26 
feet in length. 
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Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co. 
93 ELLIS AVE., PESHTIGO, WIS. 
For 16 years this organization lias 
specialized in the production of better- 
built boats. The Thompson factory is one 
of the largest in the world devoted ex¬ 
clusively to boat designing and building. 
] BETTER-BUILT1 
BOATS 
the silver-plated tie, which, as soon as 
laid, was removed, and an ordinary tie 
substituted, the spike and tie were pre¬ 
served as mementos of the occasion. 
Although several round-ups and drives 
have been held the present winter, the 
one held a Promontory Summit the 29th 
of January, 1922, was the most successful 
held so far, ’as it resulted in killing over 
eleven thousand rabbits. 
ADVENTURES IN 
COMRADESHIP 
(Continued from page 103) 
feet. Beside the dock was a crazy little 
sponger’s dory made up of the driftwood 
of innumerable wrecks. A silence as of 
some haunted and long-deserted place 
brooded everywhere. Only the sea 
voiced a monotone of protest, as if the 
Key was a bold intrusion. 
We tied the “Lucretia” to a pile and 
for the first time looked downward into 
the shallow water of the channel. 
“LOOK at em!” 
It was Sonny-Boy’s quivering, half- 
audible cry. 
And I could understand his amazed 
enthusiasm; on every side, as far as we 
could see, the channel swarmed with 
fish—large and small and of more kinds 
than I was able to count. Their shim¬ 
mering bodies at play, glistening color¬ 
fully as the sunlight penetrated down¬ 
ward and made golden patterns on the 
sandy and coral bottom. 
Here were small groupers, snappers, 
porgies, grunts and once three plump 
bonefish passed in majestic review, un¬ 
afraid. There were the most gorgeous 
angelfish as well, thin as wafers, and 
willowy with fantastically tinted plumes 
of carmine and brilliant yellow—no two 
alike, and all a challenge to the imagina¬ 
tive eye. 
The channel was a great, natural 
aquarium, so plentifully stocked that the 
fish crowded one another, and as Sonny- 
Boy threw a fragment of shrimp bait 
overboard hundreds of them made a con¬ 
certed rush for it, until a squirming, 
rainbow of color became congested at 
our bow. Now we knew why Cap’n 
Timmy had called it “All-the-Fish-in-the- 
World Key.” 
(To be continued) 
GUN PRACTICE FOR 
FIELD WORK 
(Continued from page 113) 
will enable a man to swing a gun at least 
three times as fast as he now can—and 
straight down—and still keep on aiming. 
Then there is the bird that flies al¬ 
most directly at the shooter. To some 
this is a sure miss ninety-nine times out 
of one hundred. Many a live pigeon match 
was won or lost in years gone' by be¬ 
cause a crafty trapper started a couple 
of white or brown birds directly away 
from the firing line, and then unexpect¬ 
edly trapped a sma.ll black or blue hen 
so that she flew low and directly at the 
shooter. Such a bird gets under the 
gun muzzle surprisingly quick, especially 
if the background is dark and the bird 
hugs the ground. A trick like this has 
cost many a man a thousand dollars or 
more, for they shot for real stakes in 
the old days. 
If it is a quail or a duck flying a 
trifle higher than the shooter’s face and 
is not closer than twenty yards from 
the gunner when first seen, such a shot 
is dead easy if the trigger is pulled just 
as the muzzle is swung past the head. 
In field shooting the odd and unusual 
shots are often remembered years after 
the ordinary ones are forgotten. Some 
of them are hopelessly funny. 
I am built quite short, and some 
years ago on a rabbit hunt a very tall 
fox-hound tried to follow a rabbit that 
dodged between my feet just as I 
jumped down off a stone wall. The 
dog found the archway about six inches 
too low and had quite a hard time getting 
through—hut he made it while I got the 
rabbit. But my hunting companion still 
laughs about that day’s shooting. How 
is anyone going to practice for that kind 
of a shot? It simply isn’t being done. 
This article naturally can only sug¬ 
gest a very few of the odd or unusual, 
but nearly always very practical, meth¬ 
ods of practicing for field shooting. 
Which to choose should depend upon 
the facilities available, the kind of hunt¬ 
ing to be done, and a knowledge of 
those shots which for the reader are 
the hardest to successfully accomplish. 
Long runs of consecutive hits are not 
desired in practice shooting. If they are 
obtained there is evidently little need 
for such practice. 
The thing to do is to practice those 
shots that always give you trouble and 
of which, therefore, you should have 
greater knowledge or familiarity. 
If the incomers are the hard ones, try 
incomers until you can stop them. If a 
towering shot is difficult, try shooting 
at stones—while they are traveling up, 
and then a black duck will seem a whole 
lot easier. 
The reason why standard target 
shooting is sometimes condemned is be¬ 
cause it is standard, not because it is 
target shooting. Variety is what gives 
the spice to life. 
S HOOTING of this kind will show 
the shooter a good deal more than 
he imagines about the type of load that 
he ought to use. It will demonstrate 
the fallacy of using an overload of shot 
because a load of this kind is invariably 
slow and it kicks hard. Both low veloc¬ 
ity and heavy recoil will cut down the 
number of hits that are made by almost 
anyone—and particularly by those who 
do very little shooting and who are 
usually, as a result, the most susceptible 
to the effect of recoil and are the slow¬ 
est in action. 
As recoil depends much more upon 
(he weight of the shot charge than 
upon its velocity it follows that any 12- 
gauge load containing 1 T 4 ounces of 
shot will be considerably more uncom¬ 
fortable to use, particularly in a field 
