Dec. 3, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
885 
MICHIGAN FUR. 
State Game and Fish Warden Pierce says 
the fur-bearing animals of the State are rapidly 
becoming extinct, and that it will probably be 
but a few years when they will have passed. 
There are two reasons given to show such 
is the case. One is that prices of skins and 
hides of fur-bearing animals are constantly in¬ 
creasing and another that old trappers in the 
State are more than anxious that our State laws 
be made still more binding to protect the ani¬ 
mals that furnish a living for hundreds of trap¬ 
pers in the State. 
Despite rigid laws there are hunters and trap¬ 
pers who are constantly violating the game 
laws, and Warden Pierce has issued instruc¬ 
tions to his deputies this season to be more 
than ever on the alert for this class of violators 
who persist in trapping and hunting out of sea¬ 
son. The number of convictions seems to be 
rapidly on the increase. 
Of the various fur-bearing animals the beaver 
is the only one in the long list that is protected 
the entire year, these animals cannot be killed 
until 1913, and in all probability the Legislature 
will extend the time when the limit expires. 
According to Warden Pierce there are few 
violations of the law in killing this animal, be¬ 
cause it is generally known that they are not 
to be killed for several years to come and con¬ 
siderable difficulty is experienced in disposing 
of the skins. 
There are three fur-bearing animals that in¬ 
habit certain sections of the State on which the 
State pays a bounty. They are the lynx, wild¬ 
cat and wolf. Three dollars are paid for a wild¬ 
cat pelt, $5 for a lynx and $25 for a wolf. 
With the single exception of the beaver there 
is at present an open season on all other fur¬ 
bearing animals from April to Nov. 1, except 
muskrats, on which the season is extended 
fifteen days or until April 15. The list includes 
the bear, mink, muskrat, otter, fisher, marten, 
fox, raccoon and skunk.—Detroit News. 
OTHER GAME. 
Baron Arthur Groedal, of Vienna, insisted 
recently as the Kronprinzessin Cecilie bore him 
up the bay that his mission in America was to 
hunt big game in the Rockies and not in draw¬ 
ing rooms. “You are not on your honey¬ 
moon?” he was asked. 
“Goodness, no!” 
“Perhaps, then, you have come in search of 
a bride?” 
“Heaven forbid!” 
Then the baron turned inquisitor. He asked: 
“Are you married?” 
Many negative shakes of the head. 
“How clever,” said he, “and yet you would 
have me get married!”; — New York Tribune. 
THE COWBOY’S RETURN. 
Backward, turn backward, oh. Time, with your wheels, 
Aeroplanes, wagons and automobiles; 
Dress me once more in sombrero that flaps. 
Spurs, and a flannel shirt, slicker and chaps. 
Put a six-shooter or two in my hand, 
Show me a yearling to rope and to brand. 
Out where the sage brush is dusty and gray. 
Make me a cowboy again for a day. 
Give me a bronco that knows how to dance, 
Buckskin of color and wicked of glance, 
New to the feeling of bridles and bits, 
Give me a quirt that will sting where it hits. 
Strap on the poncho behind in a roll, 
Pass me the lariat, dear to my soul, 
Over the trail let me gallop away, 
Make me a cowboy again for a day. 
Thunder of hoofs on the range as you ride, 
Hissing of iron, and smoking of hide, 
Bellow of cattle, and snort of cayuse, 
Shorthorns from Texas as wild as the deuce. 
Midnight stampede, and the milling of herds, 
Yells of the cowmen too angry for words, 
Right in the thick of it all I would stay, 
Make me a cowboy again for a day. 
Under the star-studded canopy vast, 
Camp fire and coffee and comfort at last. 
(Bacon that sizzles and crisps in the pan 
After the round-up smells good to a man.) 
Stories of ranchers and rustlers retold 
Over the pipes as the embers grow cold— 
These are the tunes that old memories play, 
Make me a cowboy again for a day. 
—Leslie’s Weekly. 
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