AND 
Cottages 
How to Build and Furnish 
Them 
By WILLIAM S. WICKS 
(Eighth Edition) 
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subject ever written. Full expla- 
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Adirondack structure is included. 
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Duck Guns and Loads 
(Continued from page 6) 
terns and drive the 6s or 4s hard 
enough to take care of all average 
middle or short distance shooting. 
HEY are the usual small-town, 
farm-boy load that suits most any 
gun and the weight and skill of the 
average fair-to-middling duck hunter, 
who isn’t an 80-yard shot on wild fowl, 
and has less use for an 80 yard gun 
or load than he has for something to 
take care of the 30 to 50 yard chances 
that present themselves quite fre- 
quently at most any blind, pond, or 
sluggish stream where the ducks are 
jumped out of the grass, brush, or 
water lilies. 
Quick work and fast, accurate, snap 
shooting at black ducks and mallards 
is often as necessary as a long lead and 
a hard-hitting load on an exceptional 
shot. A duck jumps unexpectedly, it 
climbs rapidly, and it gets out of range 
in a couple of seconds. It takes quick 
work to drop a paddle or pole, swing 
around, aim, and fire to stop them. 
And speed in getting into action is 
therefore just as necessary in many 
cases as long range and high velocity. 
Light recoil and a moderate weight of 
gun are real advantages for some types 
of duck shooting. A duck can’t afford 
to spend all of his time out in a com- 
munity in the open water. He’s got to 
eat and this means a rice field, a corn- 
field, or a grown-up and overflowed bot- 
tom where there is plenty of cover that 
hides the hunter from the duck just as 
it hides the duck from the hunter. Close 
rang snap shooting is therefore about 
as common as long range deliberate 
chances. 
The ideal duck shooting combination 
of course depends upon the skill and 
physical and mental characteristics of 
the shooter, and the type of duck shoot- 
ing that he has to do. 
If long-range shooting is imperative 
nearly all the time the gun and load 
which gives the maximum range is the 
logical choice. If decoy or grass bar 
shooting is the rule, a more open load, 
faster handling, and more rapid shoot- 
ing combination will be more effective. 
It is merely a case of fitting the tools 
to the work. 

It will identify you. 
Modern Trapping Methods 
(Continued from page 13) 
things in shape a candle is in order. 
The days are short, during winter in 
the north country, the trapper is forced 
to leave camp as soon as it is light 
enough to see, in order to cover his 
route and get to the next place by dark. 
S OME men will advise you to have 
your stub lines extend from the 
main camp with the latter presenting 
a hub and the short lines the spokes of 
a wheel. This is not always practicable, 
for everything depends on the kind of 
country trapped and the amount of fur 
in it. Sometimes it is necessary to 
have your cabins all extended in the 
same general direction returning over 
the same route at the end of each trip. 
When you are building your main 
cabin and side camps, save all the chips 
and stuff, piling them in some sort of 
sheltered spot and they will make good 
wood later on. Never leave any cabin 
or camp without seeing kindlings ready 
for instant lighting. Often, in extreme 
severe weather, the trapper will get to 
his cabin feeling so benumbed in the 
hands that it is an agony to try to make 
shavings for a fire. Birch bark makes 
ideal timber, for when dried it is very 
inflammable. A small piece will start 
your fire in a jiffy and pays well for 
the little trouble.in gathering. 
We will finish this paper with a few 
remarks on the killing and care of 
game used for meats, for although lo- 
cated in a good moose and deer country, 
the tyro is more than apt to eat rab- 
bits and grouse instead of the former. 
In other words, moose and deer aren’t 
any too easy a mark for the amateur. 
When you start out to hunt one of 
these animals, remember you are deal- 
ing with one of nature’s most educated 
folks. Possessed of remarkable hear- 
ing, an amazingly keen nose, splendid 
sight and with animal instinct for self- 
preservation developed to the nth de- 
gree, either of these creatures will give 
you a race for your money. There is 
perhaps no sport to compare with the 
pursuit of these wily animals; indeed 
it has aptly been termed, ‘“‘The Master 
Wildwood Sport.” Of course there are 
times, such as during the rutting or 
mating season, when the veriest tyro 
will stumble onto the deer or moose at 
thirty yards but when the cold weather 
comes (at which time the meat will 
keep without any treatment), the ani- 
mals are the shyest of the shy. 
The habits of both creatures change 
with the seasons. In the summer they 
are bothered by the winged pests, such 
as gnats, flies and mosquitoes, causing 
them to hit for the water resorts, much 
as Mr. and Mrs. Gotrox hit for the 
watering places when it gets too hot 
for them elsewhere. In addition to 
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