Nov. s, 1910.] 
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You Can Work Near a Window 
in winter when you have a Perfec¬ 
tion Oil Heater. It is a portable 
radiator which can be moved to 
any part of a room, or to any room 
in a house. When you have a 
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you do not have to work close to the 
stove, which is usually far from the 
window. You can work where you 
wish, and be warm. You can work on 
dull winter days in the full light near 
the window, without being chilled to 
the bone. 
The Perfection Oil Heater quickly 
gives heat, and with one filling of the 
font burns steadily for nine hours, without smoke or smell. An 
indicator always shows the amount of oil in the font. The filler- 
cap, put in like a cork in a bottle, is attached by a chain. This 
heater has a cool handle and a damper top. 
The Perfection Oil Heater has an automatic-locking 
flame spreader, which prevents the wick from being turned 
high enough to smoke, and is easy to remove and drop back, so 
the wick can be quickly cleaned. The burner body or gallery 
cannot become wedged and can be unscrewed in an instant for 
rewicking. The Perfection Oil Heater is finished in japan or 
nickel, is strong, durable, well-made, built for service, and yet 
light and ornamental. 
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The Game Book 
STANDARD BIG GAME MEASUREMENTS 
Every man wants to compare his trophy with those of other big-game hunters. 
But comparisons are useless unless there is a fixed standard. 
The game book of the Boone and Crockett Club, tbe foremost organization of 
hunters of American big-game supplies this. Compiled by J. H. Kidder, it provides 
directions for standard measurements of the large game animals of America, with 
spaces carefully arranged for complete data regarding the kill, locality, time, con¬ 
ditions, etc. 
It is handsomely and durably bound pocket size. It is an invaluable record 
for every man who goes into the wild for sport with the rifle, a handy book, a 
camp companion, and a library reminder of days afield. Leather. 
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DUMB JOKERS. 
I am certain that some dogs have a sense of 
humor, said a well-known scientist lately, and 
it is more apparent in some breeds than in others. 
Does any one ever stop to think, when he sees 
the sardonic smile on the face of a bulldog as 
he noses the shrinking legs of a passerby, who 
tries to walk along unconcernedly, that the bull¬ 
dog probably enjoys the humor of the situation 
in his own way? I have seen a dog sitting in a 
dark doorway, paying no attention to any one 
who passed, till a man absorbed in thought came 
along. Then he rushed out unexpectedly, bark¬ 
ing clamorously, and startled the man until he 
nearly fell, then trotted back and waited to have 
his next joke with some other unwary passerby. 
Here is a case of a waggish dog which I saw 
myself. He was a Scotch collie, and if ever a 
dog was a humorist a collie is. With a party 
of friends I was sitting on the face of a grass- 
grown hill, sloping down to a small lake or pond 
in front of which was a beaten pathway. The 
collie, who had the Irish name of Barney, be¬ 
longed to my brother, who was in the party, and 
was lying curled up at his feet. 
A peddler came along and. coming a little way 
up the hill, asked for the time. Barney looked 
at him lazily, blinking in a sleepy way, and the 
man, when he was told the time, went down the 
path and sauntered along. He stopped for a 
minute or so and stood in a stooping position to 
look at something in the pond. 
Suddenly Barney, who had been watching him, 
wagged his tail slowly, which was his custom 
when he had an idea. He rushed quickly down 
the hill and putting his forepaws on the peddler’s 
back pushed him into the water. Barney then 
rushed back and lay down again before the ped¬ 
dler realized what had happened to him. The 
water was only a few feet deep, and when the 
man scrambled out, drenched through and wiping 
the water from his eyes, the look of astonish¬ 
ment on his face was laughable, though the 
whole thing was an outrage. We were all seated 
in the same position as- we were when the man 
looked at us first when he asked for the time, 
and Barney was apparently asleep and looked as 
if he had not moved. Thoroughly mystified, the 
peddler looked at us again, but could make noth¬ 
ing of it, and went away shaking his head. Now, 
if that dog was not a joker, I do not know a 
joke. 
I genera lv find that mongrel dogs, when they 
happen to be sociable, have a keen sense of 
humor. An aristocratic dog with a pedigree may 
have some inherited smartness, but has no origi¬ 
nality. A common yellow dog, with no ancestry 
to_ speak of. who has to gain his living by his 
wits, could give him cards and spades at his own 
tricks in two lessons. 
Once I took into the house, out of pity, a 
mongrel yellow dog who insisted on installing 
himself at my doorstep and always came back, 
no matter how often he was chased away. I 
had at that time a pedigreed water spaniel and 
I tried to teach him some tricks when I took 
bnu out along a nuiet road at times. The yellow 
doe, who made friends with him. always came 
along and beat the water spaniel at his own 
tricks without training. Then he began to play 
tricks of his own on the spaniel. When he had 
a bone he looked out for his comrade, and when 
HITTING vs. MISSING. 
By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”). Cloth. Price $1.00 
Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
repute of being an unusually good shot, and one who is 
particularly successful in that most difficult branch of 
upland shooting, the pursuit of the ruffed grouse, or 
partridge. This prompted the suggestion that he should 
write down for others an exposition of the methods by 
which his skill was acquired. The result is this original 
manual of “Hitting vs. Missing.” We term it original, 
because, as the chapters will show, the author was self- 
taught; the expedients and devices adopted and the 
forms of practice followed were his own. This then may, 
be termed the Hammond system of shooting; and as it 
was successful in his own experience, being here set 
forth simply and intelligently, it will prove not less 
effective with others. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
TO SPORTSMEN 
HOW, WHEN AND WHERE 
TO COMPLETE YOUR BAG 
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