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OUTDOORSMAN’S HANDBOOK 
Edited by H. S. Watson and P. A. Curtis, Jr. 
A book of useful facts and figures on the 
technology of the outdoors for the hunter, 
angler and wilderness traveler. It has been 
the editors’ aim to have each paragraph 
initialed by some well-known authority on 
the subject treated. 
320 pages. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50 
TALES OF FISHES 
By Zane Grey 
Among deep-sea fishers Zane Grey stands 
out almost as conspicuously as he does 
among novelists. 
Zane Grey writes about his fishing adven- 
tures with all the vim and color that he 
puts into his great novels of the West. He 
has fished in the Pacific, in the Caribbean, 
up the Panuco and around Catalina Island. 
267 pages. Illustrated. Cloth, $3.00 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. Co., 
221 W. 57th Street, New York, N. Y. 
560 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
During the Summer, the wild ducks 
lie asleep along the graded roads at the 
edge of sloughs, not three feet from the 
car tracks, and don’t even waken-when 
a car goes by. 
This spring there were several thou- 
sand sand hill cranes on one field, a 
couple of miles from town, and as they 
are protected it will not be many years 
until the country will be full of them. 
We also have several flocks of trum- 
peter swan each season, but they have 
not gone north as yet this year. 
The Federal bird refuge is only a few 
miles from here where hundreds of peli- 
cans, terns and gulls nest each year. 
H. H. McCumser, 
Pettibone, N. D. 

Early Days in Manitoba 
DEAR FoREST AND STREAM: 
HEé was a welcome messenger who 
came into the office one morning in 
the early 80ties to announce that the 
Senator received word from a client of 
his some 10 miles south of Brandon 
that the geese were on his place in thou- 
sands and to be ready at 10 o’clock, 
when he would be around to the house 
with the team. I might explain that 
although both he and I were brought 
up in the vicinity of one of the best 
duck rivers in Ontario and had the ex- 
perience and pleasure of all the dif- 
ferent phases of this kind of shooting 
since early youth, yet neither of us had 
shot a goose. These birds did not fol- 
low that route in their migrations 
Spring and Fall. So it was an agree- 
able change for us that day when we 
took the trail South from Brandon to 
the famous land of geese. 
The wind on that particular day was 
blowing a gale, in fact that whole 
month of April was exceptionally windy. 
Farmers in many cases had their seed 
blown out and covered and it was a 
hardship on the new settlers to lose 
even one field in this way. However, 
to resume, a farmer said the geese came 
out to feed in the early morning and in 
the afternoon at about three o’clock. 
On the way over to where the farmer 
said the geese had been particularly 
numerous, a couple of spoon bills 
jumped from a small pond a few feet 
ahead of us. I had my gun ready, when 
on account of the gale the ducks—rising 
against the wind as birds generally 
do—were unable to make headway and 
remained perfectly stationary in the air 
for a few seconds. I shot, the point of 
the gun elevated to meet the rising 
birds, but the shot of course went over 
them and did not connect, the ducks 
veered with the wind and were away 
like lightening. The Senator gave me 
an expressive look but did not say any- 
thing. What were a couple of small 
ducks when we were after the noble 
Canada goose? 
It didn’t take us long to excavate a 
hole large enough to accommodate two 
good-sized men and spread some straw 
over the newly turned soil at its mouth. 
We had scarcely gotten settled in the 
pit when we were aware of the first ad- 
vance of the thousands to follow. They 
were the wavies. It appeared to me 
like a storm of snow looking out from 
the pit. A friend had loaned me a 
goose call on leaving, so I said to the 
Senator, “You shoot first and I will 
blow on this thing.” which proved 
useless. He shot several times without 
results. They say a goose traveling in 
ordinary weather flies at ninety miles 
an hour. I den’t know, but partly fly- 
ing with the wind, the rate must have 
been very fast indeed, but after we got 
wise to it, the geese came tumbling 
down. The Canadas followed the 
wavies. We seemed to have more suc- 
cess with these. 
The Senator left, and while he was 
away a small flock of Canadas passed 
within easy shot, going toward White- 
water Lake where they congregated in 
thousands. In duck shooting, my ex- 
perience has led me to watch a small 
flock before firing. It often has hap- 
pened, while they were within range, 
that two would pass together, so that by 
firing at the moment, you get both 
birds. It so happened in the case of this 
small flock of Canadas, two came to 
earth and another turned over but re- 
covered to go some distance and fall. 
How many we shot that day, with the 
wind blowing such a gale, carrying 
them beyond our sight, would be hard 
to tell. A few days after a farmer liv- 
ing on the adjourning section, incredible 
as it may seem, said he picked up a dead 
goose in his yard. When examined, he 
said it must have been shot through the 
heart. His building must have been a 
quarter of a mile from where we were 
shooting. 
W. S. COTTINGHAM, 
Winnipeg, Manitoba. 

Thank You, Mr. Clarke 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
Pee find enclosed my check for 
$4.50 to cover my subscription to 
FOREST AND STREAM for three years 
and for the Sportsmen’s Encyclopedia 
in full leather cover. 
I consider this a very generous offer 
on your part. Perhaps this is due to 
the fact that in my opinion there is no 
other magazine of a nature similar to 
yours in which IJ take as much interest. 
The material published in it has a 
ring of truth, which I suppose is ac- 
counted for by the fact that the stories 
and articles are backed up by actual 
experiences. 
P AMBROSE M. CLarKk, 
Schenectady, N. Y. 
Tt will identify you. 
