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CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1923 
No. 8 
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By Palmer H. Langdon 
Canoeing Down Moose River. 421 Erratic Trouting Conditions. 436 
Louis Rhead 
424 Touring With Raymond Spears. 437 
Raymond Spears 
Editorial . 438, 439 
Nessmuk’s Camp Fire.: - - • 440, 441 
Adventure in Comradeship. 
W. Livingston Lamed 
Reynard of the River Swamp... 
George Hull 
426 
Sentinels of the Surf. 428 Outwitted by an Elk. 
Raymond Schrenkciscn 
E. A. Brunanstool 
Them Durn “Shirks” . 430 Forest and Stream Letters 
A. F. Wcstcrvelt 
Emerson Hough’s Wild Waters. 432 
Ben C. Robinson 
Hi jnting With a Camera. 
A. Brooker Klunh 
Where You Going to Get Your 
Musky? . 444 
Ben C. Robinson 
434 The Latest Idea of Best Trout Flies... 445 V 
Louis Rhead 
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