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Ves should know. They have“every- 
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linen thread. Inside the regular vamp is a firm 
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The ‘‘Buckstrips’’also hold the shoein shape. Soles 
are tough oak tanned leather. As waterproof asa 
leather shoe can be made. Uppers are,either 
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of lighter ‘‘Glove-Like’’ leather where water 
resistance is not desired. Unusually good looking. 
Prices, $6 to $17. 



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WANTED 

Still Hunters 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
NCLOSED you will find a_photo- 
graph that was taken last October 
up in Bradford, N. H. It might be 
| interesting for you to know that we 
three fellows have been gunning to- 
gether for the past fifteen years. We 
never used a dog but just our natural 
instinct. Reading left to right we are, 
Richard Smith, Harry Crockett and 
| myself after a day’s shooting. 
A. F. Barstow, 
Malden, Mass. 
A Warning to Dog Owners 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
HE mother of “Little Peat” was a 
black and tan hound. The father 
was unknown. Before he was three 
weeks old he would wobble into the 
room where I was confined to bed and 
“bawl” for me to reach down and pick 
him up. I had to lay on my back and 
could not see the floor, but when he 
would see my hand reaching down, he 
would put the back of his neck under 
it and change his “tune” so I would 
know he was ready. 
At five weeks he was almost the color 
of old rose and if a man with a good 
sized hand placed it on its edge, Little 
Peat could stand behind it without be- 
ing seen. I had been in bed almost 
two years, so make a guess what his 
company was worth to me! 
Against my wishes, he was given the 
thigh bone of a chicken. “Just to 
suck on, he’s too small to splinter it,” 
I was told. A poodle though, was not 
too small and Little Peat, evidently, 
got a small splinter stuck in his throat. 
For two days, wheezing and suffering 
greatly, he came to my bed time after 
time for help. I could do nothing for 
him except stroke his throat to ease 
the pain, as I was an invalid. No 
one else in the house knew how to re- 
lieve him and the services of a veteri- 
nary were out of my reach. 
It. will identify you. 
The third day he came into my room, 
almost blind and barely able to stag- 
ger, and before he got to the bed for- 
got, in his pain, what he was there 
for and staggered out again. 
A dose of heroin let him sleep until 
he could be chloroformed. His death 
taught two the crime of “taking a 
chance” and feeding chicken bones to 
a dog. 
ART REPPETOE, 
Maumee, Ohio. 
Attention Cardignan! 
Wes the gentleman who wrote the 
article “Training the Beagle” in 
the March, 1924, number of FOREST AND 
STREAM kindly write this office? One 
of our subscribers is anxious to get in 
touch with him and unfortunately we 
do not have his address. 
—EDITOR. 
The Black Snake 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
HE snake referred to in “A Wood- 
land Tragedy” was undoubtedly 
from the description of a large Pilot 
Blacksnake (Coluber obsoletus). The 
writer made a mistake in killing the 
snake, as the species feeds largely on 
the small vermin which infest the fields 
and take an annual toll of the farmer 
of millions of dollars. The species is 
non-venomous and usually docile and 
well-disposed toward human _ beings. 
Unfortunately this good-natured dis- 
position has led to its practical extinc- 
tion in many areas where it formerly 
abounded, as it makes no resistance 
when attacked by man, does not try 
to escape and so is easily killed. 
It is arboreal in its habits. The 
specimen referred to had _ probably 
climbed the tree in search of food and 
so chanced upon the squirrel, which 
was the far less useful member of 
society. 
A few years ago, I had a specimen 
-of this variety, about six feet long,- 
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