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Title: Rod and gun
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Fishing Hunting Outdoor life
Publisher: Beaconsfield, Que. (etc.) Rod and Gun Pub. Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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untains amongthe tall oak trees, and give very diffi-cult shots as they dart about throughthe tree tops. The open season for the large tree greysquirrel is from September 1st. Theseason for Valley quail, as I have beforestated, opens October loth. They arenow seen in every direction outside ofthe city limits and quite often within thecitv. During the early summer a paircame into our garden and made them- selves quite at home, much to the dis-tress of our retriever, who could notunderstand why they were not knockeddown and he ordered to bring-dead-bird. Regarding the sports with the rod, Iwill not say anything about them atpresent, as I have spun this out to a goodlength, but with a bumper of pureCalifornia vintage, I say Heres successto your wide-awake magazine and toye old-time friends. May your eyesnever grow dim or your trigger fingerweary, and may ye have to the end, akeen enjoyment of the sport that we loveso well. . . . Boys, lets enjoy our-selves and let the other fellow worry.
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A Catch of Salmon on the Fraser River, B.C. The Wild Things of The Swamp BY REGINALD GOURLAV. THERE is no more healthy and in-structive recreation for the intel-ligent boy (or man either, for thatmatter) than that which is easilyobtainable by studying the ways of thewild things that inhabit the swamps,woods, and forests in the vicinity of thetown in which he lives. It is good for the brain, nerves, eyeand muscles. It is good for the disposition, too, forthe more you know about any livingcreature (except beasts of prey, rattlesnakes, mosquitoes, black flies and thelike of them) the less inclined you are todo it an injury. Ignorance is the parentof cruelty. One need not seek the great forestsof the North or \\est to study wildthings and their ways, the habits of manyinteresting birds, and smaller wild ani-mals may be studied at the expense ofa not very long walk by the dweller inmost country towns both in the Statesand Canada. If he is a camera, or akodak-fiend—so much the better. In

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