FOREST AND STREAM 
LETTERS 
(Continued from page 443) 
and I want to get in touch with every¬ 
one who is willing to try to raise 
money for this work and to have some¬ 
one, if possible, in every community 
in the United States who is interested 
in the welfare of dogs at work col¬ 
lecting money for our committee. 
There are three or four fundamental 
things about this matter that I want 
to call to your attention, as I have 
had questions asked me by subscrib¬ 
ers and I want to give the fullest pub¬ 
licity possible to the facts of the case. 
First, the work is being done by the 
ablest technical talent obtainable with 
unusual facilities. 
Second, a very large sum of money 
has already been subscribed in Eng¬ 
land and other countries for this 
work, a sum of money far in excess of 
anything that has yet been spent on 
this work. 
Third, the results of this work are 
to be given out from time to time, 
and whatever results are obtained are 
to be freely and fully forwarded to 
everyone. 
Fourth, periodical reports of prog¬ 
ress will be made. I shall have in 
about two weeks a preliminary report 
from Sir Theodore Cook and that I 
shall take pleasure in forwarding to 
your paper for publication, if you will 
be good enough to so use it. 
You can do a great deal for us by 
publishing this letter and by carrying 
out the suggestions which I have made 
as to opening a subscription, and all 
the members of my'Committee will be 
immensely grateful to you if you will 
do this. 
My address is: Ames Building, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass. Very truly yours, 
Charles W. Tyler. 
A. C. A. AMENDMENT 
R ULE XIII add the following: 
Section 2. In case of a tie in the 
number of points earned by any two 
or more contestants in the races for 
the Sailing Trophy, the Cruising Ca¬ 
noe Sailing Trophy, or for the Rec¬ 
ord, the Regatta Committee shall or¬ 
der an additional race by the contes¬ 
tants who are tied. For the Sailing 
Trophy and for the Cruising Canoe 
Sailing Trophy, the additional rase in 
each case shall be over a windward 
and leeward course of the same length 
and under the same conditions as the 
second race for each Trophy, respec¬ 
tively. For the Record, the additional 
race shall be over the triangular 
course of the same length and under 
the same conditions as the Record 
Combined Race. The winner of each 
of these races shall be declared to be 
the winner of each of the respective 
Trophies and of the Record. 
Rule VI. Class 3. Omit the last sen¬ 
tence beginning “the greatest beam at 
the water line, etc.” and substitute the 
following, “the greatest beam 4 inches 
above the inside of the garboard, next 
to the keel, measured horizontally, 
shall be not less than 88% of the great¬ 
est beam wherever found.” 
Rule XI. Regular Races. Revise the 
list as follows: Nos. 1 to 10, inclusive, 
as at present. 
No. 11. Mermaid Sailing Cup. Race 
for sailing canoes not more than 16 
feet over all length. Sail area limited 
to greatest area allowed to 16 feet x 
30 inch sailing canoes. On triangle 
distance 714 miles, time limit 3 hours. 
No. 12. Wilderness Cruising Contest 
for “Forest and Stream Trophy.” 
No. 13. “ All-Outdoors ” Trophy. 
Sailing Race for cruising canoes. 
No. 14. Record Combined Race. 
No. 15. Record Sailing Race. 
No. 16. Record Paddling Race. 
No. 17. Paddling Race, one man, 
single blade, !4 mile. 
No. 18. Paddling Race, two men, 
single blade, !4 mile. 
No. 19. Paddling Race, four men, 
single blade, !4 mile. 
No. 20. Paddling Race, one man, 
double blade, 14 mile. 
No. 21. Paddling Race, four men, 
double blade, 14 mile. 
Maurice D. Wilt, 
Member of Racing Board and 
Chairman, Regatta Committee, 1923. 
CHANGES IN FEDERAL 
GAME LAWS 
A MENDMENTS to the Migratory 
Bird Treaty Act Regulations 
adopted by the Secretary of Agriculture 
and approved by the President on June 
11, include a change in the season for 
hunting migratory waterfowl in Penn¬ 
sylvania from September 16—Decem¬ 
ber 31 to October 1—January 15, and 
in Oklahoma and that part of Texas 
lying north and west of the Interna¬ 
tional and Great Northern and the 
Texas and Pacific railroads from Oc¬ 
tober 16—January 31 to October 1— 
January 15, while the season in south¬ 
eastern Texas was changed from Octo¬ 
ber 16—January 31 to November 1— 
January 31. 
The open season for hunting doves 
in southeastern Texas was changed 
from September 1—December 15 to No¬ 
vember 1—December 31, and in South 
Carolina from September 1—December 
15 to November 1—January 31. 
ADVENTURES IN 
COMRADESHIP 
(Continued from page 425) 
. . . was . . . was he as good to you 
and ... as YOU are to ME?” 
I found difficulty in answering. Once 
before, that same dry, choking sensa¬ 
tion had snatched at my throat. But at 
last I was brave about it. 
“No, Son, my father was a very, very 
busy man. He was too busy to bother 
much with me. We didn’t get around 
much together . . . and then . . . 
then he died . . . very suddenly.” 
The sound of berries striking the bot¬ 
tom of a new bucket. 
“Pm sorry, Father. But YOU . . . 
you’ll keep right on living ... oh, 
forever, maybe. And are you quite sure 
I’m not in your way? Boys are a 
bother . . . now, honest . . . aren’t 
they?” 
“I’d rather have you with me than 
anybody I know” . . . earnestly . . . 
and I was glad he could not see my 
face . . . “we would have started 
this sort of thing earlier if it had not 
been for . . . for . . .” 
“Business,” Sonnyboy anticipated. 
“Business” . . . self consciously, 
guiltily. 
“But you really DO have to WORK 
... to buy clothes and food and 
things for Mother and me. It isn’t 
easy, is it?” 
“There’s time for BOTH,” I said, in 
a rather feeble attempt at appearing 
casual . . . “time for play and time 
for business. It’s wicked to allow one 
or the other to have the entire right of 
way.” 
The boy on the opposite side of the 
berry bush seemed to be thinking this 
over, digesting it. 
“I know a boy, in our block at home,” 
he continued, after some length, “and 
he never goes anywhere with his father. 
He says he’s AFRAID of HIM . . . 
isn’t that queer . . . afraid of his 
own Father. But he’s not a very nice 
boy . . . smokes cigarettes and takes 
money from his mother’s purse, when 
she doesn’t know.” 
There was a greater moral lesson in 
all this than I cared to even meditate. 
Some of us escape retribution, dire 
punishment, disaster, by a hazardous 
margin. 
Our genial neighbor from the deep 
wood drove down the lane just then, in 
his rickety wagon, appearing, I thought, 
whimsically enough, as might some gro¬ 
tesque apparition from the rubbing of 
a magic lamp. 
“Want anything down t’ th’ village?” 
he inquired. 
There were a few items which we 
jotted on a bit of paper. But Chip was 
again communicative. A good-natured 
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