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Table of Contents AFTER THE BIG CATS WITH BOW AND ARROW

By B. G. Thompson ...............................

THE 1928 NATIONAL TOURNAMENT..

POP-IN-JAY By C. D. Curtis AN ARCHER’S OUTING By Maurice Thompson GREEN)WOOD ARCHER’S TOURNAMENT ALBANY, OREGON, ARCHER’S CLUB WASHINGTON CLUBS HELP LEGALIZE THE BOW Andrew A. Burkhardt, of College Point, N. Y. asks us to call attention to the fact that a bill is to be intro­ duced in the New York legislature legalizing the use of the long bow in hunting and asks that all New York State archers write their assemblymen and state senators in favor of the bill. Our readers will remember that this measure was passed at the last session of the leg­ islature but vetoed by Gov. Smith on

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the grounds, according to a letter which we had from the governor, that this was within the jurisdiction of the game commission rather than of the legislature. If any interested archers in New York State care to send Mr. Burkhardt their names and addresses, he will be glad to keep them informed as to the progress of the measure. He would also be glad to learn the legal status of the long bow as a hunting weapon in the var­ ious states if archers throughout the country will write him regarding the laws in their respective states.

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horse apiece and two pack horses.

We were travelling light as we only expected to be in the woods a week. |We left Steamboat early in the morn­ ing of October 15 with just five days left of the deer season. We crossed Steamboat creek on a high suspen­ sion bridge supported by two wire cables. As the bridge rolled and creaked beneath the horses’ feet, it reminded us of a boat ride we had one time taken on a stormy sea. A light rain was falling and the woods were in excellent condi­ Oui- party usu­ tion for hunting. ally consists of We arrived at Dr. Geo. Cathey Perry’s ranch after shortly of Portland, Capt Styles of Los Ga­ noon and sat tos, California, down to a sumpt­ Earl Ullrich of uous meal pre­ Roseburg, P. W. pared by Mrs. Lyndon of Wald­ Wright. Needless port, and the to say we did it writer. This year justice. We were Cathey, Styles here joined by and Lyndon were the dogs, a hound unable to go, so ' Ur the party con­ and a shepherd. sisted of Ullrich, During the past known to his ten months these St: friends as “Yew dogs have treed Woo d”, Ward “Weighing Over• One Hundred and 17 cougars, sev­ C u m m in g s, a Fifty Pounds” eral bear and a new recruit, a number of cats. On the way up the good archer and a splendid fellow, river Perry informed us that a cou­ formerly of Denver but now of Rose­ gar had been feeding on the goats burg, who answers to the name of of a homesteader in the Big Camas “Judge”, and the writer. section. As this is only about 10 miles We were met at Steamboat Bridge, from where we were to camp we had the end of the road, by Perry high hopes of obtaining a cougar.

Wright, guide, packer, archer and all About half way up the river between around sportsman, with a saddle

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Perry’s place and where we were to camp, the dogs picked up a wolf

ported that he had seen track on the way in.

trail and took off up the mountain.

Perry told us to .go on and make camp on Copeland Creek and he then took off after the dogs. Long before we reached our camping place it was pitch dark. The trail was good in the (woods, but in the clearings it faded out. We were unable to force the horses on so decided to make camp where we were. It was raining hard­ er now, but the horses were soon un­ packed and a fire started. At last the tent was up and beds made. We turn­ ed in early and were up early to find

hunt with Perry and the dags each day and the other two still hunt for deer or bear. We drew lots to decide who would go first. The lot fell to me. “Yew Wood” drew the second day and Judge the third. We were up early the next morning, had break­ fast and Perry and I were on the trail shortly after daybreak. About a mile from camp the dogs picked up a bear trail. It was too cold to work out so after a couple of miles we gave it up and called the dogs off. We

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“Lucky Camp” that the rain had ceased during the crossed the summit of ringtail pine night. It was now clear and cool and and dropped down toward Fish Creek. soon light enough to explore our sur­ The old hound picked up another rounds. We found that we had trail, also cold, but was able to fol­ camped on a bluff, about 40 feet from low it. It was just slow enough that our tent was a sheer drop of from 60 we could keep within hearing of the to 100 feet. Judge took a look over dog's. The trail circled around a the bluff and said we should name the couple of swamps, headed two or camp, “Camp Lucky,” “Lucky we three canyons and led back toward didn’t go any farther.” We spent the Fish creek. It appeared to have been morning still hunting but were un­ made by some animal hunting. Perry successful. We returned to camp and remarked that he had struck a trail spent the rest of the day in getting of a large cougar here last winter things into shape. Perry came with and that it acted just like this. The the dogs during the forenoon and re­ snow was soft, going was bad and as

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darkness was coming on he had had to give it up. We had now come about 10 miles and I had about made up my mind that I needed a rest, but this remark set me going again. We fol­ lowed the trail for about 4 miles Vvhen Bess, the Shepherd, began to bark, as she barks only on a hot trail, we knew that we were about to jump something. We forgot how tired we were and started on a trot after the dogs. By following up the ridge we were able to keep within hearing of them. We had about made up our minds that we could not put one foot in front of the other another time when about a mile and a half up the creek the dogs barked “treed.” Talk about music. When the old hound opened up at the tree he had the ordinary band or oichestra backed off the map.

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When we came in sight of the dogs we found they were barking up a large pine. We took one look at the tree and our hearts most stopped beating for there, partly rapped around the tree, but standing upright about fifty feet up on the first limbs was an eight foot panther. Its mouth was partly open, with the lips rolled back in an ugly snarl and its eyes flashing fire. I never have seen a more ferocious looking animal. I fit­ ted a good broad head to the string (Continued on page 11)

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<T/ie 2928 National Tournament

Although the National Archery As­ sociation tournament held August 21st to 24th at the Westchester-Bilt­ more Country club, Rye, N. Y, was marred by rain, in many ways it was an outstanding tournament.

Fourteen states, the District of Columbia, and one province of Cana­ da were represented by the eightyfour participants in the tournament.

Scores were close in both the ladies’ and men’s divisions, keeping interest at a high pitch until the last arrow was shot.

pion, regained the crown by defeat­ ing Dr. E. K. Roberts of Ventura Calif, by the narrow margin of 2608 points to 2570 points for Dr. Rob­ erts, who is a new-comer at the Na­ tional Tournament. A. W. Lambert, St. Louis, Mo, was third with a score of 2518; fourth place went to A. L. Brush, Cos Cob, Conn, with 2440and fifth to Dr. R. P. Elmer, Wayne, Pa, with 2400 points.

The Flight championship, regular, style, ’went to Howard Hill of Mi­ ami, Florida. He established a new

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From left to right: Duff, Lambert, Frentz, Crouch, Elmer, Spencer, Rounsevelle.

After a close contest with Mrs. Geo. A. Smith of New York, Mrs. Ray Hodgson of San Pedro, Calif., was declared the champion woman archer of America with a total of 1736 points. Mrs. Smith’s score was 1702 points. Mrs. Elizabeth Rounsebelle of Pinehurst, N. C, was third with 1616 points; Mrs. G. E Mc­ Clure, Buffalo, N. Y, fourth with 1568 points; and 1556 points gave Mrs. Caleb Hyatt fifth place.

In men’s division, W. H. Palmer, Wayne, Pa, a former national cham­

record for the National Tournament by shooting' 308 yards 2 feet and la inch. To C. A. Hutchinson, Caspar, Wyoming, went the free style cham­ pionship with a distance of 340 yards.

The clout shoots, the prettiest events of the tournament from the spectators’ standpoint, went to Mrs. J. S. Stevenson, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

and Dr. Paul Crouch of Boston.

Intermediate division winners were: Girls, 1st, Miss Virginia Doug­ lass, Greensboro, N. C.; 2nd, Miss Elizabeth White, Scarsdale, N.

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Boys, 1st, Donald Mackenzie, Green­ wich, Conn.; 2nd, Raymond P. Work, Monmouth, Ill.; 3rd, James Buie, Greensboro, N C. Junior division winners were: Girls, 1st, Miss Rosamund Mackenzie, Greenwich, Conn.; 2nd, Miss Marion Rungee, Greenwich, Conn.; 3rd, Miss Gladys Rungee, Greenwich, Conn.

Boys, 1st, Lowell Cumee, Chicago, Hl.; 2nd, Stephen Douglass, Greensboro, N. C.; 3rd, Edwin Garrett, Greensboro, N. C. Dr. Roberts won the Will H. Thompson medal for most golds at any one end, making six golds. This is the first time six golds have been made at an end in a National Tour­ nament.

At the business meeting of the as­ sociation, Santa Barbara, California, was chosen as the meeting place for 1929 and the jubilee tournament of 1930 will be held in Chicago, the place of the first meeting of the as­ sociation.

Officers for this year are: Presi­ dent, Geor.ge F. Weld, of Santa Bar­ bara; vice presidents, Dr. Paul W. Crouch, Boston, Dr. E. K. Roberts, Ventura, Calif., Dr. George Cathey of Portland, Oregon; secretary, Louis C. Smith of Boston; executive commit­ tee, Gen. I. Thord-Gray, Greenwich, Conn.; Roy S. Case, Racine, Wis.; Edward-Langdran, Santa Barbara; C. B. Hutchinson, Oakland, California.

A committee consisting of Gen. Gray, Will Palmer, Judge White, President Weld, and Vice President Roberts was appointed to considerthe whole matter of archery today as a national sport; to draft a new con­ stitution; to consider the relation of affiliated clubs to the national asso­ ciation and what recognition should be given to the records of their mem­ bers, to take steps to establish a standard of amateurism, to consider methods of scoring, and the desira­

bility of barring or permitting sights and artificial point of aim.

Louis Smith of Boston and Samuel L McMeen of Pasadena, California, were voted the well deserved honors of life membership in the association.

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By C. W. Frost The Albany, Oregon, Archery Club was formed October 12th with seventeen charter members, and the following officers were elected.

President—L. C. Maxwell First Vice-President—Harry Hob­ son, Lyons Second Vice-President—Charles Trachsel, Sweet Home Mary .Secretai y-Treasurer—Mrs. E. Vandel Executive Officer—C. W. Frost The Automobile building at the Linn county fairgrounds has been secured as an indoor range, and has been wired for lights and heat. This building permits use of two targets at all ranges up to and including eighty yards, with four additional targets up to and including sixty yards.

The club’s fees are one dollar per­ quarter, and we have at this date forty paid up adult members. It is hoped to recruit at least one hundred active members within the next couple of months, as the indoor arch­ ery season is but starting, whereas the season’s activities for- the golfers, tennis players, fishermen and camp­ ers is drawing to a close.

A weekly handicap shoot for a sil­ ver arrow has been arranged for the men shooting the American round, and a similar shoot for women shoot­ ing the Columbia. Should any one archer win this arrow six times in succession it is to become his prop­ erty.

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CPop-in-Jay

By C. D. Curtis, Pembina, N. D. On Oct. 9th I journeyed to Hallock, Minnesota, which is only twenty miles from my home at Pembina, N. Dak., to attend the American Legion cel­ ebration. Amongst other attractions the Legion had advertised the pres­ ence at the celebration of one hun­ dred fifty Chippeway Indians who were to put on war dances and vari­ ous other stunts to be concluded with a bow and arrow contest. When

feet long, mostly of green willow, and the arrows merely crooked sticks cut from willows or other small tiees. I saw but one arrow with feathers and it had but two, crudely put on. So I kept very quiet about bows and arrows. However, I stood up in the bleachers and watched the Indians shooting at a square piece of paper about two inches by two placed on top of a stick a foot high

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I started from home I quietly placed two or three good bows and my quiver of assorted arrows in the auto.

It was my intention to challenge the Indians to any kind of contest in archery if it could be done without “butting in” on them or the pro­ gram. But when I saw their bows and arrows I was ashamed to even men­ tion that I had some equipment with me. The bows were from two to three

stuck in the ground. They were shoot­ ing about thirty to forty feet. Final­ ly one of the Chippeways knocked a paper off and after the cheering from the grand stand had subsided the Indians quit __ shooting which meant the close of the match. Just then I heard the announcer announcer who who was standing upon a platform just just in front of the grand stand, make the following annoucement: “Ladies —j and

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Gentlemen, we are indeed fortunate today in having with us the champion archer of Manitoba, Mr. Gelaude. He happens to have his bows and ar­ rows with him and has consented to give an exhibition in front of the grand stand if it pleases the people present to have him do so.” The handclapping and hurrahs told that they would be delighted, etc. Now I was not very long in getting down from the bleachers and making my way up to the announcer. I told him I was also an archer and perhaps it would be more interesting if two could shoot instead of one but of course I had no intention of “butting in.” But my suggestions were met with hearty approval. The announcer asked me if I had ever done anything much in archery and I replied that I had won third prize this summer at Chicago in the clout shoot which was shooting at a target lying flat upon the ground at 180 yards. The an­ nouncer immediately turned to the audience in the grand stand and hold­ ing one of my bows aloft announced that C. D. Curtis, who won a prize at Chicago this summer by shooting at a target 180 yards in the clouds was going to shoot with Mr. Gelaude, the champion of Manitoba. The an­ nouncer had understood me to say cloud shoot. However it was so amus­ ing to me that I said nothing.

There was no target available but there was plenty of space so we stood in front of the grand stand and shot three arrows each out over the meadw in a flight shoot, then recovered the arrows and shot them a second round. Many were the exclamations of surprise as the on-lookers saw the beautiful flight arrows rise and gracefully sail away out into space and come as gracefully sailing' down with a curve as perfect as a rainbow.

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home is at St. Norbert, Manitoba, a suburb of Winnipeg. He told me that they were to have an archery match at his home in St. Norbert the fol­ lowing Sunday and invited me to at­ tend. Since Winnipeg is only seven­ ty miles from Pembina I readily con­ sented and thanked him in the bar­ gain. So when Sunday came I took my high school principal, Mr. Olson, with me and journeyed to St. Nor­ bert and soon found the residence of Mr. Gelaude. Here we were met by our host and treated very kindly and introduced to about twenty archers, parctically all of whom were Belgians or of Belgian descent. I found the game they were to play with their bows was the game of pop-in-jay, a game at which Mr. Gelaude was ex­ pert as well as champion of Manitoba.

The game, which started promptly at 2:30 and stopped at 4:30, was played as follows: An artificial tree is made with branches all in one plane. This tree is about twenty feet high with branches spreading out one directly above the other. The lower branches are longest and there is a gradual tapering off to the top. Upon these branches sit thirty-seven artifi­ cial birds of different sizes, the small­ er birds being placed on the lower branches. The king bird which is larg­ est of them all is placed on the top most branch of the tree. This bird is fully a foot high and four inches m diameter, made of beautiful white feathers crowned with pink feathers.

It is a beautiful plume. The next six birds beneath are made in the same way but smaller. When all the birds are placed upon the tree it is hoisted upon the pole or tower which stands eighty feet high. This makes the top­ most or king bird a hundred feet from the ground with the lowest and small­ est birds eighty feet or more above the ground. The birds are mounted upon small wires, a single wire for

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each bird. This wire runs through a small wooden peg about the size of your little finger at the tip and an inch long. A hole is bored in this small peg and the upright wire and peg is placed upright on the limb of the tree on a pivot which fits the hole mentioned above. This sets the biid on the limb firmly and it cannot be knocked out of the tree unless you hit this small wooden peg. Now if you know how hard it is to hit a peg only an inch long and a half inch in di-

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cession now and he becomes the champion of Manitoba.

But to go back to my visit to St. Norbert. As I said before there were some twenty or more archers as­ sembled. Every one of them had a beautiful Belgian bow'. They were six feet four inches long and made of wood which resembled washaba and backed with a white wood which look­ ed like our hickory although I do not think it was hickory. Several of the bows were three and some four ply.

I A group of Archers at St. Boniface. Man. Mr. Gelaude, “King” and Champion of Manitoba, is the one with the crown on his head. Note the length of the bows, and the steel hats of the boys who gather the arrows.

ameter up in a tree from a hundred down to eighty feet in height you will know how difficult it is to knock the birds out of the tree in the game of pop-in-jay. I believe the game is very popular, in Belgium and it is the Bel­ gians who have introduced it in Win­ nipeg. There are two clubs there, one at St. Boniface and the other at St. Norbert. In their regular tournament each spring the archer who first knocks the kingbird down is the king for that year and is duly crowned as king of the club. This honor has fall­ en to Mr. Gelaude two years in suc­

.When unstrung they bent back in a reflex several inches. .Some of them were of seventy pounds pull. They were sweet shooting bows. The ar­ rows for the game are made especial­ ly for that purpose being 28 and 30 inches long, % inches in diameter at the smallest place and gradually get­ ting larger at the tip end where they are % inch in diameter, cut off squarely and the hard rubber head is three quarters inch in diameter and also same in length. The knocks are of horn and longer than the knocks in our arrows. The feathers are about

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the same as our large hunting arrows carry. The arrow is beautiful and beautifully feathered. It is of light soft wood and an accurate shooter.

The game for this day was one in which a large number of prizes, which had been donated, were to be contested for. Each wooden peg on which a bird perched had a number and this number corresponded with a number on some prize. No archer knew what prize he had won until the shoot ended and he presented his wooden pegs with their numbers. The entries had all been sent in and so I could not take part in the contest and when I understood the arrangement I saw that it would not be proper for me to do so even if they had extend­ ed me the privilege, which of course I did not ask.

As 2:30 approached the archers be­ came more and more restless and one could easily see they were eager for the fray. Lots were drawn for shoot­ ing positions. Each archer shoots but one arrow for an end, and as soon as he shoots another archer is ready. In this way the shooting progresses rapidly and often two and three ar­ rows are in the air at the same time.

They stand directly beneath the tree at the base of the support and shoot as nearly vertical as possible. This gives them a raking shot up through the whole flock and a better chance than to stand out from the base. Of course arrows are falling directly downward all the time. A small shed stands close to the tower where one may stand and be protected from fall­ ing arrows if he wishes and still watch the shooting. But the archers have become so used to dodging the arrows and also gauging them that often they do not move when an ar­ row falls within a few inches of them. Generally two boys with wide peaked steel hats collect the arrows (Continued on page 20)

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The arrow struck the cougar square­ ly in the center of the shoulder and down it came end over end.- Down into the canyon it went with Bess in hot pursuit. I drew another arrow from my quiver and slid down after them. There in the bottom of the canyon, backed in under a bank with overhanging vine maples, was the panther snapping and snarling at the dog. As I hit the bottom of the can­ yon I landed in water up to my waist and about two bow lengths from the cougar. When I hit the water the cougar swung around towards me and gave a vicious snarl. I released my arrow and hit back of the shoulder but the shot was unnecessary as the cougar was already beginning to wilt from the first arrow. It was dead in a few seconds. We dragged it out into an open glade and, after meas­ uring it, took some pictures. It was approximately eight feet long and weighed over one hundred and fifty pounds. We would like to have taken it into camp but found it too heavy so after taking our pictures we skin­ ned it out and took in only the hide and head. We examined the carcass and found that the first arrow had penetrated through the shoulder bone, cut both lungs in two and severed several large arteries. The stomach and digestive tract was entirely empty. Before we reached camp we were glad that we had only the hide and head to carry. jWe hit the hay early completely exhausted but THOROUGHLY happy.

“Yew Wood” hunted the next day and got two young cougars about five and one half feet long and weighing about fifty pounds apiece, and “Judge” the following day got a beautiful lynx cat but we shall let them tell their own stories.

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Regarded as a human document my guide looked dog-eaied, thumbed and a trifle mildewed; nevertheless, he had a gait that kept me at my best, and I was winded when we reached the rock-spiked top of the low mountain spur, and looked down

ready going back the way we had come, when I called to him: “But the birds?”

“In them woods,” he answered, again spasmodically tossing his thumb; but he neither paused nor looked back, and I felt a sudden vague touch of solitude which the clinking of his nail-bossed brogans on the loose stones seemed to accen­ tuate. From on high a dreamy in­ fluence fell, and from below came up an Arcadian waft.

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into what in the Cherokee hills is called a “pocket.”

“Yander’s the woods,” he said, with a jerk of his shrivelled thumb and a nod of his desiccated head, “an’ the still-house air jest under the aidge o’ the clift agin the hill on t’other side. W’en ye hit the little crick jest foller it up, it’ll take ye right. Good­ bye.” He turned abruptly about, drooped his narrow, bony shoulders a little further forward, and was al-

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I stood stupidly inesolute for a while, gazing at the pungled skin on the back of his scrawny neck, and it was not until after he had slouched past a point of rock and dived into a thicket of laurel that I shook my­ self and turned to face my own en­ terprise.

After all, however, there was noth­ ing very exciting, certainly nothing at all mysterious, in what I was un­ dertaking. An archer with his yew

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bow and his quiver of hunting ar­ rows may be an uncommon figure in the wild wood nowadays; but he is real, as I can prove, and he likes right well a few days of absolute freedom. So I had been for a con­ sideration led by old Ben Sims to a high place, a place of divers temp­ tations, whence I -was looking down into the paradise of the log-cock, or, in other phase, Trussler’s Cove, com­ monly called the Pocket.

A scarf of dove-gray cloud hung on the shoulder of mountain beyond where Sims had told me the still­ house, doubtless an illicit one, was hidden. To be perfectly frank, I know that the law did not sanction such a manufacturing establishment; indeed, I had had to use some pow­ erful letters of introduction in order to gain admission to the Pocket; but I had no thought of studying the secrets of mountaindew distilling. I cared only for the log-cocks and a few days of solitude.

You will understand my enthusi­ asm if words may train it upon you; for I had come seven hundred miles by rail; driven in a wagon forty-six miles more, then walked nine miles to where I now stood. And my equip­ ment vouched my sincerity, though my appearance had not impressed Ben Sims favorably at first blush.

“I reckon ye know yer own busi­ ness,” he had remarked; “but ye look to me adzactly like er dem fool.”

And likely enough I did both know my business and look a trifle as he said. The point of view, at least, deserves respect. Besides, a man dressed in loose corduroy trous­ ers and sleeve-jacket, with a pack on his back and a fore-and-aft cap on his head, a large quiver of arrows at his belt and a bow in his hand, is an object to be wondered at any­ where, and especially in the lone

P aces of the Cherokee Georgia hills. But this was not my first outmg of the sort; many a time before then I had shot -with the bow over choice out-of-the-way places by field and flood; hence my anticipations.

In my pack were five pounds of bacon, a pound of coffee, a little coffee pot and cup, threer pounds of biscuits, a large loaf of oatmeal bread, some salt and pepper, and two pounds of dried beef; all of which, well wrapped in paper, had my oil cloth and blanket round it, and these in turn were bound close with a light hammock. It was not a heavy pack; at all events I bore it lightly enough; but, as I have said, I was winded, and I sat down upon a rock to breathe awhile before de­ scending to the wood through which I could see twinkling the water of the brook, like a diamond thread, linking together the gieen masses ot foliage, and looping itself around .great jagged fragments of rock. In my hip pocket, pressing against the muscle there, I felt a book, the Odes of Horace, and I saw a buzzard sail­ ing high over the abyss of the moun­ tain’s pocket offering the whitish gleam of his under feathers when he turned from me.

Take any good topographical map of the State of Georgia, and look at its north-eastern corner, or say its whole northern end, and the Chero­ kee hills will be conspicuously mark­ ed; but gazing at those contour lines will not give you a fair impression o.f what the region offers in the way of wild and almost absolutely prime­ val scenery. You must go into the country itself, tramp the lonely fells, angle in the clear mountain brooks, sleep on a shoulder1 of some battered cliff and have a season of bow shoot­ ing in the glens; then you will know what I am trying to tell you. And

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Trussler’s Cove is without doubt one of the wildest and, perhaps, the least known parts of all the Cherokee re­ gion. Revenue officers would give something pretty to know where it is

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Would it be right for me to indicate the exact locality, the true name, or even the general neighborhood of Trussler’s Cove? Right or wrong I shall not do it; the revenue officers may do their own discover­ ing. A man who, mounted on a stumbling Confederate cavalry horse a little worse than my own, rode with me into many a cold breeze of lead during the war, is operating that lit­ tle stillhouse for the support of his family, and he has but one leg. Even at school we boys thought it bad form to be a tell-tale. Moreover, the leg-cocks are cackling down yonder, scarcely three bowshots away, and I have small interest in revenue prob­ lems.

After five minutes of rest I got me down the stony slope to wo. ere the irregular fringe of blackjack trees marked the upper line of the mountain’s corsage. A cool t.hrill came up out of the shadowy hollow, and a fruity smell from blooming haw boskets along the brookside gave my nostrils a fine whiff of welcome.

Somewhere, far over amid the foot­ hills on the other side of the Pocket, a mountaineer was calling his swine in long mournful notes, half a yodel, half a wail. From the brink of a lime stone escarpment fifty feet high, flecked with fossils and stippled with lichens, I looked down and felt as I imagine an eagle does when he poses for an artist like Tennyson. I could see between white plane-trees the spot beside the brook where I meant to camp in my own way.

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passed a wide circle, and suddenly the archer’s impulse leaped into my nerves. My bow was strung and an arrow was nocked with the swiftness of thought almost; then I leaned back and drew hard, until the strain forced the shaft’s head clean to the bow handle. A second later the old woods and hills heard the primeval note, the sharp twang which had just been heard by the Hebrew of Bible days -when he was making ready to say: “The arrow is beyond thee.”

Away like a beam of light sped my gaily feathered missle. It cut the air causing a sudden and evidently aston­ ished backing of the great wings, a rearward summersault in the air, a downward plunge, and then a rush­ ing flight for safety. And, not being an archer, you can never quite real­ ize to the full what comfort I took watching the high, long trajectory of that shaft. A whisper from the spin­ ning feathers came back to me, with the missle’s twinkle as it curved from aloft and went down amid the dark trees five hundred feet below; and then I presently heard the whack when its steel point struck into a solid bough. This was the beginning of a five days’ space of untroubled delight with Horace for my only companion, and he (an edition with­ out notes or any German nonsense at the bottom of his pages) did not ob­ trude himself when he was not in demand. It seemed meet to have an ode of choice Latin before broiling my breakfast bacon of a morning.

The spot chosen for my hammock was between two little trees hard by the brook. I swung it so that the chill water bubbled and swirled al­ most directly underneath; the rest of my properties I bestowed at the buttressed root of a grand plane-tree, whose bole had a hollow in it large enough to house a bear. I could sleep all day therein should rain come,

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Now, I should thank you for tell­ ing me how a man could have a bet­ ter five days’ lease on absolute rec­ reation than Nature there gave to me. Plenty to eat, a hammock to sleep in, a bow to shoot with, and Horace to read; but, best of all, sol­ itude in a primeval forest, and the log-cocks. I heard the birds cackling and peeking at no great distance while I was arranging my simple camp.

And do you know what a lo.g-cock is? Ten to one, if you do, you have seen only the stuffed skin of one, or more likely a picture in an illus-

the log-cocks a fine feeding ground, They hammered merrily on the rot­ ting boughs and boles, and dashed ofj great flakes of wood ■—J and bark in search of insects.

The ivory-billed woodpecker distinctly excepted, our American American log log-­ cock is the finest and most beautful bird of the woodpecker family; and down there in Trussler’s Pocket I found the bird dwelling in unsuspi­ cious freedom at home, where for un­ told a.ges it had bred, fed, and cackled, changeless in habit, it would seem, and content with its narrow mountain-rimmed world. It was that his grammatical oddities truly deco■n P-fcr -

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rated the subject. “Ye kin hear em or peckin’ f’om sun-up ter sun-down, an’ er squawkin’ permiscuous ever which ways.” There was one splen­ did specimen hammering away on an old rotten log, not fifty yards beyond the brook, and I got the gleam of his flaring red top-knot in my eyes while I was eating my first snack of biscmt and raw bacon, which if I bolted father hastily, I do not now make special note of it, ioi 1na F h Plude the thrill oi sav age” impulse when a bow stood by

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■ it was3 a small wil­ forest remnant; derness of hoary giants protected, since the earliest woody period, from the onset of hurricanes by the moun­ tain walls; and no axe had ever cut a tree from the main body of the dark, cool, and always dampish grove lands. Some of the giants had died and fallen with the passing- of the years, and their trunks and boughs lay criss-cross here and there slow­ ly mouldering into loam. In many places there was no undergrowth, and overhead the arches of foliage shut so nicely that twilight of a dewy or hydrous influence was brok­ en but at long intervals by a ray of the sun.

I had come here with my archery tackle to have sport of my own es­ pecial choosing. Aware of a certain archaic sentiment and of the ana­ chronism of my taste so intolerable to our fin de siecle period, I felt the need of absolute loneliness. A bow­ man is a solitary, belated and selfsufficient person. His craft in the pursuit of game is based upon pri­ meval cunning. He is a savage of pre­ historic days. As for myself, more­ over, I had the ancient fletcher’s art; had made my own hunting arrow, some of them steel-pointed and barb­ ed, other some ferruled with pewter, the steles all of young hickory wood, the nocks deep and the feathers broad. My bow was a self yew, made in London by Aldred, and of fiftyone pounds drawing power.

Now it may be that, in this busy, burning, materialistic world, as Prov­ idence now sees fit to let it wag, I am the only man left to care about original freedom and the unhindered impulses felt only in the ancient sol­ itude of the wilderness. Very well if it is so; the areas of untouched nature are quite few and small; one seeker after them is, perhaps, just

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enough; but I do say that there is, for me, a joy indescribable and be­ yond doubt elemental, to be had for the taking, in those favoured spots wheie artifice had never fingered even the hem of Nature’s robe.

The sense of loneliness, when it takes the form of conscious freedom, is strangely exhilarating; it opens a fresh valve of delight, and sends a new emotion through the nerves. I can think of nothing else so suggestive of what we mean by originality as the effect I am aware of when, after months of toil in­ doors, I am once more at last walk­ ing under the trees and seem to be the first man to make a track in the old haunt of furry and feathered things. Some passages in Greek po­ etry have more than a touch of this aboriginal charm which comes out of a word or phrase or verse, and goes through the blood like a magnetic curent rich with nameless perfumes, zests, and flavours. And then the bow; the old weapon adds its charm.

I am in sympathy with the theory that makes it wholesome to live a little romance by way of change and recreation; and when I grasp my bow and hunting arrows and plunge deep into some trackless wood, I have a iway of feeling emancipated for a lit­ tle season from the slavery of these iron years. You may call it a mere gloss of imagination. I deny it; but even if it is, there is a charm in it sweeter and deeper than any poem, or picture, or written romance can ever give. And if I could but dash the strange ecstasy of such an exper­ ience into a song, the world would hold its breath to listen, and every human heart would beat time like a plectrum. It is not mere bodily ex­ ercise, nor yet outdoor air, nor change of scene and diet, from which the true hygienic recreation is snatched

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How a Boy can Make his Own Hows and Arrows (Continued from last issue Before you have finished the bow you will begin making the arrows.

The arrows the Indians used were made of hard maple, or sometimes of oak if they could not get maple. The reason was this wood was so hard that, after the point had been hard­ ened in the fire, squirrels, rabbits and birds could be killed with it.

Most any kind of straight-grained wood will do. Make the arrow one third the length of the bow. If you make the arrow longer, you are apt to break the bow, for you will draw the arrow its full length. Whittle or shave the arrow round, about as large as your third finger. Take an 8-penny nail heat it red hot and burn the notch in the end of the arrow.

It is better to burn it in the end than to cut it either with a file or saw—burning makes a smoother notch, hardens and sears the wood, so it will not split so easily.

For a point, the best is a U. S. No. 6 bullet cover. If you cannot get these, use No. 32 long cartridges, filing off the rim on the brass end, emptying out the powder, and you have an almost perfect arrow point, only the point is lead. When filing the rim of the cartridge, hold the cartridge between the jaws of pliers,

with some cloth between to protect the cartridge from being mulitated, keeping both the bullet and the cap out of line with yourself and others so that if an explosion should occur, no harm will be done. With such care exercised there is no danger.

Whittle the end of the arrow so it will fit snugly in the cartridge, then taking sandpaper and a piece of glass and shave the arrow its full length until it is the size of the cartridge.

After the arrow is the right size, put on the feathers. The Indians sel­ dom used more than two feathers.

These were put on the arrow the width of two fingers from the notched end of the arrow. Paint the arrow with .glue, beginning­ the width of two fingers from the notched end stopping about the .... — - of three fingers _ width towards the point, rubbing the glue on the wood thoroughly. Then lay the arrow aside to dry.

Take a feather by the tip and strip the long vanes from it, leaving the vanes attached to a tough membrane.

Cut this, (with the vanes adhering) in pieces as long as the width of three fingers, sticking a pin through membrane close to end. When the glue is dry on the arrow, paint the membrane with glue. While the glue

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on the membrane is fresh, pin it on the arrow opposite the end of the slit. Use both pins, push the mem­ branes well down on the arrow. You (will have to wet your fingers to do so, or the glue will stick to them.

Put the feathers on the other side of the arrow in the same way and put it aside until thoroughly dry, then cut the vanes of the feathers as shown in the Archery Merit Badge pamphlet.

Before beginning to make an archery outfit, be sure to read and understand all that is in the scout handbook as well as the pamphlet on archery, for this is acknowledged to be the best instructions by expel t Do not be discouraged if archers you do not get the best results at first, for there is a. lot of practice re­ quired to make a good bow and ariow.

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(Would-be) Archer’s

Lament

By Geo. W. Blodgett, Portland, Ore. When the clans of archers gather, for a trial of their skill, On the painted targets standing in a row, Then ’tis good to hear the whisper, of the arrows in their flight, As they wing their way from off’the stout long bow.

The twanging of the bowstring, has a music of its own.

To delight the heart of every archer bold.

And the men of Merrie England, seem to gather round about, To relate the deeds of mighty men of old.

The shades of Robin Hood, Friar Tuck and Little John, Seem to mock ray feeble efforts with the bow; But perhaps they sometimes missed, (Drat that illy feathered shaft,) And wondered how it happened to be so.

My arrows all are fashioned, with rectitude and skill, And you’d not believe them capable of guile, But when 1 start them winging, their pathway down the course, They seem planning to deceive me all the while.

They hardly ever go the way that I would have them go, But appear to have opinions of their own, And instead of lighting fairly on the targets as they should; They prefer to smash themselves against a stone.

o Scout Thomas Gorlby, Fort Myers, Florida, shot a large catfish with bow of his own make. ’ (Cut used through courtesy F. Kibbe,Coldwater, Mich.)

It is said that Job had troubles; And I doubt not it is true; But his grief was such as any man may know; For Satan, “in his blindness,” overlooked a bet or two When he failed to test his patience with a bow.

There; I've missed the target cleanly, And the round’s end is in sight, And I fear I’ll be tail-ender in the score; But it doesn’t greatly matter, for I think I’ll quit the game; And not try to be an archer any more.

So I've done this fascinating’, this ex­ asp e ra t i n g gam e; And I’m going now to give my bow away; But—that last shot was a “gold”, so 1 think I'll try once more, this alluring-, most deceptive sort of play.

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during a hasty outing. Mere animals might find satisfaction within such a limit; but the human imagination demands wider room; the soul must have somewhat to do with the ar­ rangement. And he is a very narrow observer, me judice, who does not see that the human soul is at bottom, in its essentials and substantials, so to speak, just what it was when men was fighting his way out from among the beasts. When I have my bow and arrows and am quite alone in the un­ trimmed woods, I look out of a rear window of existence, as it were, and see the ancient, the archetypal im­ agination embodied and having its will of nature. I am not yet civilized.

Over there in that wild wrinkle o' the North Georgia hills I had my lit­ tle period of play all to myself, save that one morning a messenger in the form of a crisp and withered youth, whose thin hint of beard was like the down on a goslings head, came to me from Trussler bearing a bas­ ket of hard-boiled eggs, fried ham, butter, and scones of maize meal, still warm, done to a turn. The scones were thin, brittle, and deliciously shortened with cracklings slightly scorched. And there was a tiny flask of ‘mounting jew whisky seving years ole,” as the record indicated.

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Harry Perkins reports that his Archery Shoppe at Lake (Worth, Florida, was in the path of the re­ cent storm and is a complete wreck.

However, he has gone south to gath­ er up the remains and will be able to continue supplying his customers with his high-grade archery tackle.

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(Continued from page 11 but this day each archer got his own after shooting. It was a pretty sight to watch the large birds come sailing down from the hundred foot height when some lucky archer knocked him from his lofty perch. The whole com­ pany of archers would set up a hur­ rah for the marksman who had brought it down, too. After two hours of shooting the game ended and there were still seven birds in the tree, but thirty had been knocked out.

The prizes were very substantial.

I saw one archer walk off with a big smoked ham, two boxes of cigars and a large paper sack full of smaller prizes. One prize was ten pounds of butter, another a sack of flour, etc.

After the game ended Mr. Gelaude let the tower down and placed the three highest birds back on the tree and hoisted it up again. This takes about five minutes. He then invited me to try my skill at pop-in-jay. It isn’t easy standing and shooting di­ rectly upwards at a little half inch mark a hundred feet above one’s head, especially when not used to it.

Although I made no very wide shots I could not bring down a bird. I sent the arrow several times through the feather plumage but remember one must hit the little half inch peg. Af­ ter I had shot about fifteen or twen­ ty minutes Mr. Gelaude strung his trusty Belgian bow and joined me and it was but a brief time till he had bi ought all three birds down. All of his shots were accurate, none of them missing more than a few inches at most. Then I knew for certain that Mr. Gelaude was a real champion at this game of pop-in-jay. The game is fascinating and I hope to visit Win­ nipeg at some future time and join

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1928

ARCHERY SCORE CARDS—$2.50 per hundred, 75 cents for 25.

Frank Taylor & Son, Albany, Oregon.

CANE SHAFTS (not bamboo) for best flight and hunting arrows; any size or length, not straightened 50c dozen; straightened, perfect $1.00 doz.

Postage 10c doz.

State size Pope’s “Y orkshire” hunting heads are lightest and best; sample 25c, $3.50 doz. Free folder. Finest Osage bows made to order. E E. Pope, Woodville, Texas.

Tru-Flignt Metal Arrows Mr. Archer: Have you ever considered how hard it has been to get 6 straight arrows, uniform in weight and balance, that will not change due to moisture absorbtion or warping?

The TRU-FLIGHT Target Ar­ row, made from aeroplane tobing, well-known for its strength and light­ ness, fitted with hardened steel point and fibre nock, meets the require­ ments of the most fastidious. Agents wanted. .Single Arrows $1.75 6 Arrows $9.00 Tru-Flight Metal Arrow Co. Fox Chase. Pa.

“Arrow MAKING, our instruction booklet and the Case “Feathering Fixture” both for $1.00. 3 for $2.00.

In use nine years. We feather all arrows of our manufacture with it.

A trial will prove its worth. Money back if you are not satisfied. “Bow­ strings.” Can you make a double loop bowstring in 30 minutes? You can with our Whirlwind Whipper and our new system described in our booklet “Bowstrings.” $1.00 for both. “Kiska” that’s the name of the lightest, sharp­ est and cheapest broadhead on the market. 5/16” or 3/8”. 30c each, 4 for $1.00 or $2.75 per dozen. Roy Case & Son, 18th and Main St. Ra­ cine, Wis. See our ad elsewhere in this issue.

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It was becoming dark and, bidding our host and the other archers adieu, Mr. Olson and myself sped away in the darkness for Pembina over the fine gravelled road which led south­ ward towards and across the boundry.

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The fifth annual club tournament was held Sunday, Oct. 21st. A good crowd turned out as usual and com­ petition was keen in the various divisions. The members were divided into classes according to the scores they had been shooting for the past year. The champion was awarded a prize of a bow given by the Oakland Tribune and the club’s championship cup which he keeps for a year. The winner in each division was awarded a prize. The championship was decid­ ed by a single American round as we cannot get a range longer than 60 yards in our park. Elwood Perkins won the championship and then, to show that a champ can shoot any style, he won the “Indian round”.

After the American round, the clout shoot was held. This consisted 30 arrows at 150 yards shot at a 30 foot target. Dr. W. H. Dolman, ■ lust years champion, won this event.

After lunch the famous Indian round was shot off. This was 12 ar­ rows at 60 yards, kneeling, 12 at 50 yards, sitting, (I suppose this was to represent Sitting Bull) and 12 at

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40 yards prone. It was quite a stunt, especially after a big lunch.

A balloon battle was next in order, and Jessups Jabbers beat Potters Pickers by two balloons.

Dr. Dolman then brought out his latest invention. I don’t know what it is called but it’s good. A frame holding a bicycle wheel was set up at each end with a clothes line to carry a target. Each shooter got 12 shots at a slow moving target, 12 at a fast target and 12 at a dodging­ target, and “that’s where the fun be­ gan”. “Doc” made that rabbit do more dodging- stunts that a dozen rabbits could have done. Bob Knox showed that he can shoot rabbits as well as coyotes and walked off with it.

WASHINGTON CLUBS

A plan for a general exchange of team scores by mail has been pro­ posed to Washington clubs by Clark E. Schurman, vice president of the Pacific N. W. Archery Ass’n. It in­ vites team entries from clubs and scout troops, for a league schedule of 20 weeks in which each team will shoot against each other team at least once, all scores being made on home ranges, on regular club nights.

A pennant is sug-gested for the team with highest standings in the percentage of matches won, and other awards for highest total and best single match score. Individual awards will be made for high season total, best single match, most goals, test 30 arrows, etc.

The announcement suggests an Olympic Bowmen’s League, to furn­ ish entry and score blanks, tabulate the reports and return them to teams and to the daily press. The score cards are to record 90 arrows in three 30-arrow rounds,- keeping the

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detail arrow by arrow. Clubs will nominate six eligible archers each week for the next week, and these will be permitted to warm up until five minutes before the time announc­ ed for the record shooting, when the captain will name his choice of four for the night’s match.

The “Olympic Course” will be 30 yards, to accommodate a majority of indoor clubs. At this distance stand­ ard 48 inch targets will be used.

However, clubs lacking 30 yards are to be permitted 32 inch targets, with 6.2 inch goals, at 20 yards, “Not that the values are equal, but that the more bowmen, the merrier all the bowmen.”

It is anticipated that the clubs par­ ticipating in the recent Georgia Tro­ phy matches, Everett, Snohomish, Bremerton, Pt. Angeles, Beaver, Se­ attle Archery, Locksley, Seattle Scouts 65, Tacoma, Sedro-Woolley will each enter at least one team in the first season’s race. Some of these clubs have indicated that they will enter two or three teams, each under team names.

Mr. Schuman says his scouts who have placed midway in the Georgia matches, are good for at least two teams in the men’s league.

Printing and postage expenses are to be covered by entry fees of $5 per team, or $2.50 for scout teams all under 18 years. Teams defaulting two games will be subject to replace­ ment by othei- teams, and, if there is occasion for it, a second league will be arranged, starting at a later date. Correspondence for the league may be addressed to C. E. Schurman, 2203 Nob Hill, Seattle.

Cassius H. Styles ,of Los Gatos, California, reports the adding of an­ other bob cat rug to the list of arch­ cry hunting- trophies.

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UTAH ARCHERY TOURNAMENT Individual and team honors passed rapidly into the hands of Salt Lake archers in the first annual state archeiy meet held at the Utah uni­ versity stadium Sunday.

By annexing a total of 809 points, Dean Green took the feature men’s individual event, the double Ameri­ can round. Second to him placed Rex Kelly, Ogden, who scored 673.

In the women’s feature contest, the double Columbian round, Kath­ erine Rauch, with 289 points, took first prize and Von Cunningham, with 224, placed second.

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Thorne in their individual efforts hung up a total of 1375 points, well ahead of the Ogden group, which shot 1032, in men’s contests.

Girl’s team honors were won by Ellen Steele, Katherine Rauch, Eva Cunningham and Elva Lindsay, who compiled a total of 413, but lacked any competition because of absence of entries enough from other cities.

GUIDE AND PACKER. FOR ARCHERY HUNTING PARTIES

Panther, Bear, Cat and Deer in season. During the past year my dogs have treed 17 cougars, The last three of these were killed with bcw and arrows. A fine string of pack horses. Best hunting territory in the state. Write for prices.

PERRY (WRIGHT, Glide, Oregon.

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The Mosher Company makes good tackle. It specializes nariicuinrlv on arrows of exceedingly fine workmanship and accuracy Mosher arrows are plfe'and CUT feathers ThX'ii hav® tiber nock- standi'parallel and will not warp thoroughly seasoned, straight grained Orders can be filled immediately on- FanioH ar™™ -vr~ • t NoVk'seff »» »Kibe/

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A complete wing contain? kL e£CL Better get $ feathers besides any number of other feathers that^nn^'™ regular 2 rows. One of the best fletchers in Oregon assured™ T* ?se> °n ar' Z Sd us!1161'3 °Ut °f 6aCh Wirg Md that there Were ^veralmorfte

Many years ago the Port Orford cedar count™ wn<, . v terrific fire. The time is estimated from one to two hundred yfars^At that time great cedars from five to twelve feet in rliamoto, Ly ? hills. These were reduced to mere snags but todav are sound anFmake the very finest arrow squares for they are perfectly seasoned and^fat better than Norway pine, Aeroplane spruce or Douglas fir. Personally I have never yet broken a cedar arrow on our range and it is mighty rocky. I have shot them clean through a hardwood stand and they were not hurt in the least. Special selected squares 10 cents earli) S1.00 the dozen. Fine for flight or target arrows. It is not possible to get better arrow stock.

To the first man or woman from every club to order, I will make a high grade yew bow for $22.50. Only one bow to a club or locality.

These are the highest grade bow and actually worth from $35.00 to $75.00. In many cases the yew alone will be worth more than $22.50.

The balance will be charged to and paid from our regular advertising account.

It requires over $12.00 a year to properly advertise archery tackle and a high grade yew bow in the hands of a real archer will actually get more business than the best adv. I will make at least twelve bows at these prices, but after that reserve the right to reject any orders that I may receive. This is your chance to get that Yew bow you have been dreaming about. Bow linen 45c spool. Tapered dowells 10c each.

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