Nov. 19, 1910.] 
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“Senor,” said the supervisor sternly, “we have 
come to collect $20 for burying your dead cattle 
in the Arroyo Grande. Here is a receipt for 
the money,” For an instant the cattle man 
looked into the icy gray eyes of the supervisor, 
then turned into the house and came back in¬ 
stantly with the money. “I want to say,” the 
supervisor went on, “that if any more careless 
shooting is done around here I’m afraid it will 
be impossible for us to keep the boys from 
hanging somebody.” 
Over in the archives of the forest service at 
headquarters one may still see Cartwright's 
diary. 
THE HUNTING SEASON OPENS. 
This is that joyous season of the year when 
the city man goes forth to the woods to shoot 
or to be shot, says the Springfield Union. 
Which will it be? The family, with the cook 
and the surgeon both handy at call, wait with 
the same apprehension as for the casualties 
from the football field with the favorite son on 
the rush line. 
The season is “on” in Massachusetts. There 
was such a rush for licenses in some of the 
towns that the clerks ran out of blanks, the 
offices were closed and some of those who ap¬ 
plied, “called witnesses to prove that they were 
acting in good faith in trying to get a license 
and then hiked for the hunting grounds, declar¬ 
ing they would explain the situation to the 
game wardens and take chances with the courts 
if the game wardens were not satisfied.” 
It was the first day in three years that gray 
squirrels could be legally hunted; the bags were 
not up to expectation. 
“John Dempsey bagged five rabbits and Hugh 
Montgomery got three. No white rabbits were 
taken so far as reported. J. Id. Neff and party 
are reported to have bagged four partridge, 
and William Cummings and S. W. Coe got one 
partridge each. Hunters report partridge as 
being scarce. The only persons to see any 
woodcock and report it are Mr. Cummings and 
Mr. Coe, who saw two, but could not get a 
shot at them.” 
The scores in Massachusetts are in favor of 
the hunter, 1 if you should not count the lone 
hunter of bass on a Cape Cod lake who was 
peppered with shot from a blind on the shore. 
In this State the despatches bring the record of 
one huntsman mistaken for a deer and fatally 
shot near North Lake in the Adirondacks. An 
old guide in Moosehead Lake region, Maine, 
had a narrow escape from death when “a rifle 
ball grazed his scalp, making a long gash where 
it followed the top of his head.” A guide in 
Idaho met his death because one of his party 
thought that he was a bear; another sportsman 
in the Northwest killed his companion, a father 
shot his son, a Colorado ranchman was killed 
because he “moved around like a coyote.” 
Thanks to protective laws, game seems plenti¬ 
ful everywhere. The oldest inhabitant says that 
there were never before in his remembrance so 
many wild turkeys in the Blue Ridge. Deer 
in Vermont and northern Massachusetts are 
overrunning the farmer’s orchards and farms. 
All. kinds of game is increasing in West Vir¬ 
ginia; quail and pheasant abound in Illinois and 
Indiana, and jack rabbits and cottontails run 
between your legs when you go for a walk in 
Kansas. Elk eat up the ranchers’ hay and 
grain in Colorado, and deer and bear roam the 
Rockies as they have not for years. 
But what does all this wealth of the wild avail 
if the hunter must himself in turn be. a target? 
It was said several years ago that the sports¬ 
man would be safe if he wore garments of a 
color that would distinguish him from the 
foliage. Yet in the report of the unfortunate 
accident at North Lake it is said the victim 
‘was wearing a black and red shirt as a pre¬ 
caution against the fate that overtook him.” 
Men go to Africa, encounter wild elephants, 
rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, venomous snakes 
and tsetse flies, and come back with great 
bundles of hides, coats of tropical sunburn and 
volumes of narratives. The city man sallies 
forth for a quail—and perhaps never comes 
back. 
The “Old Reliable” PARKER GUN 
Wins for the EIGHTH Time 
The Grand American Handicap 
Score of 100 Straight from 19 Yards. 
At Chicago, Ill., June 23, 1910. 
Mr. Riley Thompson, of Cainsville, Mo., made this record, which has 
never before been equaled in this classic event. 
The Parker Gun, in the hands of Mr. Guy V. Dering, also won 
the Amateur Championship at Chicago, June 24, scoring 189 ex 200, 
shooting at 160 singles and 20 doubles. 
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The “Game Laws in Brief” gives ail 
the fish and game laws of the United 
States and Canada. It is complete 
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afford to pay a reward for an error 
found in it. “If the Brief says so, you 
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