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Even the sly old game-fish which are not 
fooled by ordinary baits, won t let a good 
meal like a natural CREEK CHUB LURE 
get away from them—because of its natural 
shape, color and alluring movements. 
NEW CREEK DARTER 
FROG CAMOUFLAGE 
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Weight, % oz. Price 75c. 
Length 3 % inches. 
A better imitation of a live frog s color 
than anything else on the market. 
No. 2001 White with Red Head. 
No. 2002 Yellow spotted. 
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Flexibility to meet exact conditions of heat or 
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POLLY WIGGLE No. 1700 
Weight 1/2 oz. 
No. 1 700 Natural Polly Wog Color. Price 
$ 1.00 
No. 1701 White with Red Head. Price 
$1.00 
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LETTERS TO FOREST 
AND STREAM 
(Continued from page 382) 
blanket of snow. The crust supported 
our weight without snowshoes. Occa¬ 
sionally our progress was halted by 
one who had struck a weak spot and 
had sunk deep into the bosom of the 
fleecy white. 
Numberless grouse were sighted. 
Seeming to know they were protected, 
they saved their “whirr” until we were 
very close, thus multiplying the force 
which affects all five senses and adds 
a few extra beats to an already thump¬ 
ing heart. Once in a while a few 
feathers and drops of blood revealed 
another tragedy to be placed at the 
door of the fox or wildcat. We passed 
close by a large rock with a small 
opening at the base. No tracks to or 
from it indicated that it was the home 
of a denizen of the woods, but a faint 
trace of vapor coming from the hole 
told us Bruin was spending the winter 
there. 
Not a deer in sight! That seemed 
very queer. The last day of the hunt¬ 
ing season we saw many of them. 
Could the report that they are dying 
for the want of food be true? We 
crossed the ridge and looked into the 
once beautiful valley of Mix Run, from 
the very rock where Grant, half a cen¬ 
tury ago, first viewed the mountain 
sides, then clothed with lofty trees of 
virgin pine. 
Our eyes followed the outline of two 
seemingly endless rocky ridges twelve 
hundred feet above the tiny stream 
from which the valley derived its name. 
The brook, restlessly winding on 
through the twelve-mile valley, nervous¬ 
ly guarding its living speckled treas¬ 
ures. As we gazed on the scarred 
mountainsides a woe-begone feeling 
passed through my very soul. If we 
could only see it as Grant did. The 
biting stroke of the woodsman’s axe 
seemed to echo among the naked hills. 
The great medium of Time is unable 
to hush it—only restoration of the for¬ 
ests can gradually remove the scar. 
We slowly began our descent to the 
stream below through a mass of rocks, 
logs, underbrush and red brush, the 
latter growing to cover the evil of an 
industry. Thousands of great trees 
were felled, only to be stripped of their 
coat of bark and left tc* rot in days 
when man’s last thoughts turned to 
possibility of a lumber shortage. Those 
men failed to foresee the progress of a 
great nation. 
We trudged through the labyrinth. 
I wondered if we were treading in the 
steps of Grant and if his party had 
hurried down the hillside to drop their 
line in that beautiful little trout stream. 
A quick movement in the brush and 
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