of the tepee. When we met, he put the 
gun on the ground and leaned on it. 
I saw right away it was my gun, so I 
said: “Nice gun.” At the same time 
I took the gun as though to look at it. 
Then I asked him where he got it. He 
said he bought it at the St. Francis 
store. I said, “You are a d liar. 
It is my gun, and you stole it from my 
house.” He put up quite a’bluff, and 
I made up my mind that his bluff 
wouldn’t go, so I hung onto the gun 
and so did he. I “rapped” him one on 
the jaw and he went down on his back. 
Just then his squaw came out of the 
tepee. She had on the sweater that 
had been stolen from my cabin. I 
grabbed hold of the sweater, and she 
pulled herself out of it and ran back 
into the tepee. Then I took my sweater 
and gun and left without further 
trouble. That ended the first year of 
my homestead life. 


NOTES ON THE GLASS 
SNAKE 
(Continued from page 24) 
with the flat, bluntly forked tongue.” 
Taken all in all, our “glass snake” 
has a very interesting history, and it 
is deserving of our best protection as 
a friend of the agriculturist and gar- 
dener, in that it consumes many in- 
sects and their larve, which are, to say 
the least, inimical to man’s interests. 
Gray fox, red fox, weasel, 
crow, red squirrel, predatory 
cat, goshawk, cooper’s hawk, 
sharp-skinned hawk and great 
horned owl. Killers and wast- 
ers, they are outlawed by con- 
servation commissions in all 
states. Their presence in game 
covers represents one of the 
big obstacles to be overcome 
before game propagation can | 
be highly successful. Do your 
share toward ridding the cov- 
ers of vermin this winter. 

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