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tn writing to Adverti&er# mention Forest and Stream. 
ing aloft a glistening bowl of silver 
water, while the moon hung like a 
great luminous lantern, lending a glow 
of almost supernatural light. The reel 
clicked, the heavy bait slashed across 
the stream into the shadow of the wil- 
lows and another sportive bass leaped 
into the fray. 
Just then I heard footsteps and 
harsh voices came to me._ I started. 
I listened. “Well, I knew we would 
catch no fish tonight,” came the voice— 
the voice of Gray with his inimitable 
droll. “But, if my hand had been al- 
right the first of the week’—he was 
saying in the eternal alibi—I started 
again. I turned over in the hay. It 
was only a dream, and the fishermen 
were at the shack door, as usual, 
empty-handed. 
Henry Braithwaite’s Tales 
of the Forest 
(Continued from page 521) 
it instantly and my man swung him 
out into the lake. He lifted him out 
of the water several times before the 
mink let go. My man then took the 
trout off the hook and put on a large 
sized bait and swung it over the mink’s 
head. The second grab the mink made 
for it the hook caught him through the 
lip and then the circus began. I got 
an old bag and we held him down and 
got it round him with nothing but his 
nose sticking out, and tried to get the 
hook out but found we had to file it in 
two before we could remove it. When 
we let the mink go, all we saw was a 
black streak making for a brush pile. 
It was bear hunting time and his fur 
was no good or we would not have let 
him take such a journey. 
HAVE often wondered from things 
I have read in magazines how the 
naturalists find out so much about ani- 
mals. I remember reading that if you 
found a family of mink and could catch 
the old male, you were quite sure of 
getting the rest. In all my experience 
I have never found the male with the 
family, for he will kill the kittens if 
he can find them, and the female tries 
to keep them hidden away. Many oth- 
ers of these kind of animals do the 
same thing. 
Still Hunting the Ruffed 
Grouse 
(Continued from page 520) 
a brook or two, the whole roughened 
and cut up with little gullies, ridges 
and ravines, swampy runs and mounds. 
Such cover being low, the birds very 
frequently top it fairly, it is .open 
enough for comfortable work gener- 
ally, and thick enough to hold the birds 
in it. In woodland I like best to tray- 
erse the bottom of ravines and along 
the base of hills, hogbacks and rises. 
This tends to force birds to fly uphill, 
with chances of catching them better 
against the light and a grouse on the 
up-grade experiences in a measure of 
course the pull of gravity to overcome 
and is a different proposition from 
swooping away on the down-grade with 
everything in his favor. 
BIRD’S first rise is very apt to 
be the farthest from the gun. He 
is out in a little open spot, dusting or 
strutting himself or gleaning for his 
appetite. He either sees or hears you 
from a distance despite all your cau- 
tion and will jump wild or lay, depend- 
ing on age and the amount of hunting 
to which he has been previously sub- 
jected, plus the degree of noise made 
as you approached. If he is too far or 
is missed on the first rise mark him 
down as carefully as may be. When 
jumped, grouse always look for a place 
to tuck away and hide and if followed 
carefully the chances are that subse- 
quent rises will be somewhere handy 
enough for you to do business. Though 
they may hear your approach, nay 
even see you, they frequently sit tight 
and close on the chance that you will 
pass them by in the game of hide-and- 
seek. Especially will they hug close in 
juniper, often not flushing till about 
to be trod upon, and if any of this 
growth is about it should be investi- 
gated first as the most likely hiding 
place. 
XPERIENCE will enable the 
shooter to divine at once when a 
bird is hit as to its likelihood of being 
a cripple. Wounded grouse, unlike 
pheasants, will not as a rule run far 
but tuck and hide away in the first 
handy spot. It is advisable to reach 
the spot where a grouse hits with the 
least possible delay however, for if but 
wing-tipped they are often dazed for 
a moment by impact with the ground 
and the shooter may find his cripple 
easily before it recovers to scuttle and 
hide. Should it not be in sight, look 
for stray feathers very often shed in 
the bird’s wake as it took to hiding 
and, lacking that, a search in the im- 
mediate vicinity will almost invariably 
reveal it. Practice in marking accu- 
rately where a bird falls and you will 
rarely lose one, unless it run down a 
rabbit or woodchuck burrow which is 
a rare occurrence. 
The ruffed grouse per se is not a 
hard bird to kill insofar as succumb- 
ing to the effects of shot is concerned. 
The hard part consists in getting the 
chance to stick the shot in. And so, 
November days become the grouse days 
par excellence. 
Tt will identify you. 
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