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combine heavy storms with the invasion 
of the snowy owl and they have a horror 
of one passing over the farmhouse and 
hooting when illness is about. The snowy 
owl seems the symbol of winter, the 
spirit of winter itself. We think of it 
as a bird riding the storm; there is 
something brutal in the stern vigors of 
a strong blizzard, and to imagine the 
bird on broad wings, white as the wind- 
whipped flakes, sweeping southward, is 
a bit of high adventure. The hunting 
of the snowy owl is done by day or 
night, and fortunate is one who can 
catch the big bird in at the death of the 
kill. There is the very cold, fierceness 
and terror of the Arctic wastes ! It is 
a true hunter, preying upon birds, ani¬ 
mals even larger than its own weight, 
and haunts the icy streams where open 
waters abound to catch fish. The 
muskrat, even the fighting capacities of 
the mink, do not scare this northern in¬ 
terloper. Its quest knows no limit, and 
its heart is as hard as its cold calculat¬ 
ing eyes, this bird which is winter itself. 
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A DEER-FOOT GUN 
RACK 
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it and pushed them in the bones until but 
a little over an inch of threaded end pro¬ 
jected. Then I drilled through the side-— 
through skin, bone and flatted screw— 
with a small drill and forced a brass wire 
nail through all and filed off. Then I put 
the feet in the proper positions with the 
bones snugly fitting the holes in the 
panel. This left the brass ends of the 
screws projecting a bit at the back; over 
the screw ends I placed washers and 
brought all up tight and firm by means 
of hexagonal brass nuts. 
A FTER the panel had been sand- 
papered to a good smooth finish 
I went over it with oak stain and filler 
and, after permanently fastening the feet 
in position as I have just described, I 
went over the wood with two or three 
coats of Valspar varnish. The hoofs T 
painted black and rubbed, when dry, with 
curled hair to destroy the glittery ap¬ 
pearance. Of course they may be left 
shiny as one usually sees them when 
mounted, but to my mind they look un¬ 
natural that way. Some merely oil the 
hoofs and rub up to a finish. 
To hang the panel I found a couple of 
little flat brass curtain hanger arrange¬ 
ments that at one time had been bought 
at the “Five and Ten” and screwed them 
in at the back. I lettered an appropriate 
(at least I thought it was) line of an old 
hunting-song, “Yo-Ho! The Mellow 
Florn” upon the panel and hung her up. 
My little carbine lies in it and above it 
the well-mounted head of the buck looks 
down. I look up at the head and hoofs 
and wish that I could do a head as nicely 
as I did the hoofs—but I cannot; I am 
much better with the feet than with the 
head, so my friends tell me, anyway. I 
wonder what they mean ! 
A. F. Westervelt, 
New York. 
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