
Superiority 
OR years one man has stood 
out as the world’s greatest 
automobile driver. More than 
sixty times he has crossed the 
American continent on record 
trips. His races total half a 
million miles. A wonderful 
driver, surpassing other won- 
derful drivers through almost 
incredible endurance. 
To lead year after year requires a 
definite margin of superiority. This 
is why Meisselbach Reels win the most 
tournament and fishing prizes, are the 
most popular everywhere. They, too, 
: 2 have that extra margin. 
Unsurpassed for fine run- 
ning, and with these impor- 
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Lighter and smaller for same 
capacity; in casting models 
i 7) unequalled free spool and 
level winder; instantaneous 
“takapart” for necessary 
The “Rainbow,” daily cleaning and oiling. 
A Leader for Every Use 
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“Tripart’—understudy of the “‘Taka- 
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BAY Ee DCALON MeL i ere vests larceny aia atte Gnu. isa c are asd ecole FS2 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 

which I captured near Syracuse, N. Y. 
It was sunning itself, stretched out 
among some rocks when I discovered 
it. It made no effort to get away, and 
coiled up contentedly in the bag in 
which it was carried. It lived for 
about four years in my collection, 
thriving on mice and English sparrows. 
Finally it died through failure to shed 
its skin properly. It was always good- 
natured. When the cage door was 
open, the snake would climb out upon 
one’s shoulders and then to the floor. 
iIt could climb up the corner of the 
room by bracing itself against the ad- 
jacent walls. It would readily climb 
from the top of one window to an- 
other, and would there curl itself up 
for a nap. It was called Jocko, and 
apparently knew its name. It was a 
great pet with the children, who liked 
to hold it, because of its good nature. 
There was great lamentation when it 
died in the manner referred to. 
It is to be wished that people in gen- 
eral, and sportsmen in _ particular, 
would abstain from the promiscuous 
killing of snakes. We have few poison- 
ous varieties, and they never attack, 
unless provoked. Some very useful 
varieties are already on the verge of 
extinction through the useless slaughter 
made of these creatures. Some people 
advocate laws to prohibit this prac- 
tise. They would be useful, but educa- 
tion can do a great deal. 
EDWIN T. WHIEFFEN, 
Mount Vernon, N. Y. 
Crappies 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
READ with a great deal of interest 
an article in a recent number of 
your magazine, with regard to fishing 
for the minor basses, and was particu- 
larly interested in the part with refer- 
ence to fishing for crappie, since much 
of our fishing is for this particular 
fish. They abound in the North Texas 
lakes, and in the streams of Oklahoma, 

and the sport derived from the catch- 
ing of these fish is one of the greatest 
pleasures of my life. 
To a “real fisherman” this may seem 
tame sport, but when I add that I am 
the mother of three healthy, active chil- 
dren, who are themselves lovers of the 
great outdoors, and for whom no 
ordinary excuse will suffice when my 
husband and I attempt to leave them 
at home while we slip off for a quiet 
fishing trip, I am sure that contempt 
will be converted to tolerance, at least. 
Those who have tried fishing for 
crappie when a school of them is biting, 
and have three youngsters fishing close 
at hand, know something of the strenu- 
- ous time we undergo, for there is the 
usual tangling of lines, hung-on-a-snag 
trouble, lost hook, etc. The excitement 
attendant upon the occasional landing 
of a three pound crappie or big mouth 
bass only increases the sport and things 
are lively generally. 
We hie ourselves to Medicine Creek 
in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma 
between May and October each year, 
which is to us the Elysian period for 
fishing, and have never yet failed to 
have a most delightful and successful 
fishing trip. Bream, large and small 
mouth bass, channel cat and crappie 
abound there in large quantities. 
We need no alarm clock to have us 
astir on the mornings of our contem- 
plated departure. Each member of the 
family lends a hand to the tasks inci- 
dent to getting off, such as packing the 
car, preparing breakfast, setting the 
house in order, and by sun-up we are 
usually twenty-five or thirty miles from 
home. 
The drive of seventy-five miles plays 
a large part in the pleasure we derive 
from the trip. The cool, crispy dawn, 
the beauty of the rising sun across the 
rolling prairies, that are a mass of 
wild flowers of purple and gold hues, 
the drive through Ft. Sill, which 
nestles at the foot of the Wichita 
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