











Model 330 
doublebarrel, , 
hammerless 
gun. Retail 
prices, includ- 
ing tax— 
12-16-20 
gauge, a 
$27.50. 
New.410 
gauge, 
$30.00. 
Stevens “Favorite.” 
24-inch take- 
down, .22 long 
rifle, .22 short, 
-25 Stevens and 
-32 long rim- 
fire. A favorite 
for three gen- 
erations. Retail 
price, inc. tax, 
$9.75. 

+ 
The Pe word 
in accuracy— 
Yet amazingly low 
im price 
When you buy a Stevens rifle or 
shotgun you can always count on 
three things—absolute accuracy, 
solid strength, and a price that 
you can afford. 
Take the straight-shooting little 
Favorite made in .22, .25 and .32 
calibers with a barrel rifled to less 
than a thousandth of an inch in 
accuracy! 
Now look at the hard-hitting, 
double-barrel Model 330 shotgun 
—each barrel and lug are of one 
piece, solid, high pressure, com- 
pressed steel. This gun can’t 
shoot loose. 
Last of all—shotguns or rifles— 
you can’t beat the Stevens prices. 
And remember that all through 
the Stevens line you will find the 
same remarkable values. 
Ask at your dealer’s or write us 
direct for interesting catalog. 
J. STEVENS ARMS COMPANY 
Dept 220, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
Owned and Operated by the Savage Arms Corporation 
Stevens 
60th year —largest manufac- 
turer of shotguns in the world 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
| should teach them there will be no fight, 
| for the fox will lose the pack any time 
he wishes to if there is no snow on 
‘the ground. We call it real sport to 
just hear music all night long, unless 
you start a dog fox. In that case he 
will generally hit for the next state 
right off, and then you can go home 
and hope your dogs will be able to find 
the way back home. 
The fox is surely the smartest fellow 
/under fur and he enjoys the chase just 
/as much as you do. I know just where 
to start a fox any night and can tell 
just which one is started in a few min- 
utes after he is off, or just when a 
change is made, for they change off on 
the dogs. After a fox has run a few 
minutes he gets warm and the scent 
is good and strong and the dogs run 
with heads up. Let them change and 
you hear a break in the music. The 
fresh fox is not warmed up yet and 
the dogs must take the trail on the 
ground for a few minutes; this will 
slow them up for a bit, then away will 
go your fox and maybe the chase is 
over entirely so far as the hunters 
are concerned. They never run in the 

same circle either. Generally an in- 
dividual fox will run in the one circle 
so long as he runs—it may be a big 
one or a small one. We have had them 
run in a figure eight circle. If you get 
near where they cross then the chase 
is always in hearing. 
We pick our dogs for the chase, that 
is, we know our dogs, and we don’t put 
a fast dog and a slow one together; if 

you do there is only one dog in the 
chase and you are lucky to get the slow 
dog back unless it knows the ground 
and can get home alone, or is smart 
enough to cut in on the chase. Some- 
times you find one that will cut across 
and keep up in that way. We have 
one dog, a bob tailed one, who has a 
chase all of his own when we take 
him out. He runs away from the pack 
in half an hour. 
Now for real sport just let Mr. Fox 
live. He will, if he isn’t shot, and he 
has many good points in his favor as 
well as bad ones. Then again, if he is 
a sport also, why pick on him, he is a 
good sport and believes in giving you 
your money’s worth. If it’s fun to kill 
him, don’t do it in these parts—we 
don’t believe in it. 
S. E. MAGUIRE, 
Hillsboro, I. 

It will identify you. 

A Good Home-Made Bird Bath 
DEAR. FOREST AND STREAM: 
A® the season approaches for the re- 
turn of the birds to their summer 
haunts, I am sure there are many 
readers of FOREST AND STREAM who 
would like to welcome them to their 
lawns and flower gardens. 
I have been a member of our local 
Audubon Society several years, and 
last summer experimented with a 
cement bird bath which has proven 
very satisfactory. The bath can easily 
be constructed by any boy or girl in 
a few hours. I used an old piece of 
stove pipe and a dishpan for molds; 
filling same with a mixture of sand 
and cement. I am sure any boy or 
girl who will spend a few hours mak- 
ing one will be more than repaid in the 
pleasure of watching the birds enjoy- 
ing the bath. 
PARKER P. KING, 
Williamsport, Pa. 
How Father Caught a Deer 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
ACK in the 50’s deer were quite 
plentiful in northwestern Indiana, 
where my parents had only recently 
settled. In ’51 there being but few 
neighbors and no place to go, my father 
went out one Sunday morning for a 
stroll. This was in the fall of ’51 or 
52. While strolling about he saw three 
deer move out of a grassy marsh and 
go up on a timbered ridge. Some time 
afterward on his return he saw two 
deer leave this timber and wondered 
what had become of the other one. In 
passing through this timber, he espied 
the other deer sound asleep with its 
back against a small shell bark hickory 
tree. 
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