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Skin to the Finest fi 
Fine furs made from the skins of 
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Often we hear the subject of size of 
dogs aiscussed; one man is for a large 
dog, another for a light-weight, and 
still another for a happy medium, or 
middle-weight. As a matter of fact, 
size in a dog is of little importance. 
It is all in the fighting heart and the 
bird-hunting brain. A large dog may 
labor in cover and so also may the 
small or medium-sized dog, but the real 
hunting dog that makes good has the 
indomitable courage and stamina, and 
the love of the sport which defies 
fatigue and obliterates all hardships 
of heavy cover and bad footing. To 
such a dog fatigue means nothing. He 
will cover wide stretches of country 
merrily and work hour after hour, even 
in a country where birds are scarce 
and the cover and footing difficult and 
exhausting. 
For quail hunting, a simple garb is 
the one most suitable. No longer are 
shell vests in vogue; nearly every 
sportsman prefers to carry shells in 
the side pockets of his hunting coat, 
for they are then more accessible than 
elsewhere. During the early part of 
the season nothing approaches the 
skeleton hunting coat. The freedom of 
movement it affords is a luxury and 
it can be thrown aside when not in 
use. They come in cheap grades of 
canvas (all one needs in the early 
season), and they also come in fine 
khaki and closely-woven duck. When 
cold weather arrives very few care to 
relinquish them and find, with an old 
every-day coat or sweater underneath, 
they are both warm and comfortable. 
HE modern hunting coat with gus- 
sets, however, relieves the hunter 
of the burden of shells, and will be 
found useful in all -kinds of weather. 
They are made from the best of khaki 
or duck. Fine corduroys seen so often 
years ago for some reason are unob- 
tainable. 
Even in cold weather, medium-weight 
underwear is all that is needed. A 
person too warmly clad will suffer dis- 
comfort when hunting quail. The ex- 
ercise is sufficient to keep any red- 
blooded man warm. It is advisable, 
however, to wear heavy canvas or 
similar garments that are strong 
enough to act as burr and briar repel- 
lants. Some hunters have their cloth- 
ing reinforced on the outside of the 
pockets and knees. There is where the 
most wear comes. Leggings are needed 
when the hunter does not wear boots. 
Burrs and briars always are in evi- 
dence and cut rapidly into any soft 
cloth. 
Nothing beats a soft felt hat with a 
fairly wide brim. Though it has its 
discomforts, it saves the hunter’s eyes 
many times from injury by branches 
in the woods. 
Tt will identify you. 
The pleasant feeling of a roomy, 
about-to-be-discarded, every-day shoe 
for quail shooting cannot be exaggerat- 
ed. Light footwear is necessary. A 
new shoe has made many a hunter 
suffer tortures the first day of the 
season. Waterproof leather shoes are 
a great convenience, but in early season 
are too warm. Later when the frost is 
on and it begins to melt off during the 
first hour of the hunt, a shoe that is 
viscolized or subjected to some other 
standard waterproofing treatment is a 
real luxury. Some of the shoes ob- 
tainable at the different sporting goods 
stores are “broken in” already and are 
designed just for the requirements of 
quail shooting. 
Nothing is so important as the shot- 
gun. A man cannot be too particular 
about the fit of his gun, and if he 
shoots much, he can tell whether a 
gun fits him the instant he places it — 
to his shoulder. Don’t be fitted with 
atry gun. A few years ago the public 
was cajoled into believing they solved 
the problem of gun fitting. They have’ 
been rank failures, despite the fact 
that they did duty in promoting gun 
sales and making the buyer have con- 
fidence in the fit of his arm. The real 
facts are, that with a try gun the same 
gun fitter can obtain different measure- 
ments every time. Also, if suffering 
any ocular defects, do not take too 
much stock in “castoffs,” 7. e., in the 
stock being bent either to right or left. 
For one who has lost the sight of an 
eye or who suffers afflictions of vision, 
a stock worked off close to the butt will 
be found much easier to align accu- 
rately than with the ineffective castoff. 
As most quail shooting is done at 
close range, a double gun should be 
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ADVENTURES IN 
COMRADESHIP 
(Continued from page 96) 
panse of deep slough, water-filled and 
one brilliant maze of luxuriant yellow 
water-lily, pickerel-weed and maiden- 
cane, to say nothing of our standard- 
ized enemy, the ever-present sawgrass. 
But the dense growth of lilies was a 
wonderful spectacle in itself. And in 
between the pads we could discern glit- 
tering schools of minnows, and now 
and again sizeable fresh-water bream 
and mullet—or so I judged them to be. 
Stately limpkin stalked along shore, 
not alarmed by our presence, and there 
were sand snipe too, waddling in the 
shallows, although I was frankly sur- 
prised to see them this far from salt 
water and the keys of the larger 
waterways. The myrtle clumps, as 
tightly woven as grass mats, were the 
nesting place of many other birds in- 
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