A BEAR STORY and Trained at That,” Retorted Quinn

trap, up on Birch hill. There’ll be USE FOR OLD A BEAR somethin’ doin’ up there this fore GOOKING VENISON IS noon.” He said no more but went off to milk the cows and (Jo the LUMBER CAMPS STORY chores. Shortly afterward Quinn emerged How many campers there are who A REAL ART ed from his cabin. pack their outfits each year and de By Dion O. Blackwell. “ Well fellers,” ” he said, “ Aint part for the woods with regretful you up rather early this morning?” goodbys from feminine and younger The sun was just beginning to members of their families, and to (True Story.) show up behind Snow Mountain and bow few of them has it ever oc Never Let Your W ife Gook During the fall of J907 my friend, a glorious sight it was indeed. The curred that these same stay-at-home Atwood and I had joined our mutual white crested mountain rising far could get just as much enjoyment friend, Quinn, at Round Mountain above the other peaks like a giant from some of the rougher kinds of the Life Out of It. Lake Camps. among pignues; the others reflect trips, were they but given a chance? Very early one crisp October ing the rays of the sun from their My own experience with a family morning Atwood and I wrere discus summits clothed in evergreens camping party in the woods without There are ways of cooking veni- white hot—not red hot, but white— sing plans for our day’s sport, when while the green of northern Frank a guide was ridiculed from its first deer and moose, when ripened just and then place the white hot spider Dion, our genial host came along, lin shone in her garb of frost and proposal by all but the members of son, the tender, juicy steaks of the on a very hot stove, cut off thick his face wreathed in a broad smile. snow, sparking as if covered witb the party themselves. So thorough enough to be fit to eat, and there slices of round venison steak and Sitting on the edge of our piazza, a million diamonds tinted here, ly successful was it, however, that are more ways of spoiling it so it jab them against the blazing spider. he gave us a wink, and said, there and everywhere with rubies, the idea deserves passing along. is fit only for outer soles to the Use no butter or fat of any kind— “ I’ve just been up to Quinn’s bear (Continued to Page 5.) All through the _ forests of the Indian tans than there are of just let the raw’ and cold meat lie Adirondacks, and, in fact, in any cooking it says the Bangor Com close against the raw and hot iron 4* <• 4* ❖ 4» 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* ❖ 4* other similar country, are lumber mercial. When the average man and sizzle and smoke and burn and camps, many of them abandoned for goes home with a delicious supper smell until it is crusted over with good, while others are idle during of venison and She serves it on the animal charcoal a quarter of an STEVENS I the summer. It is sometimes well table a little later with the heart inch deep and until it smells like ❖ all cooked out of it and the inside an old feather bed that is burning. ❖ to obtain permission to use those as white as a piece of pork, tough Repeating Shotgun No. 520 £ temporarily vacant, but otherwise “ Now flop the round steak over they are as free as the woods around and leathery enough to give a corn and repeat the process on the other fed giant dyspepsia. SIX LIGHTNING SHOTS them. The camps are often many side, by which time the spider is miles back from the nearest habita n e v e r l e t y o u r w i f e ready for another round. Throw SOLID BREECH tion, and as truly in the heart of “ Never let your wife lay profane the hot steak upon a large platter, hands on a piece of venison if you scrape off the burned surface slight HAMMERLESS the tall timber as it is possible to be without a long and difficult journ know wliat's good for you-and the ly, score the meat deeply writh a The fastest and ey. venison. There is only one way to thin knife and then pile on the but easiest operating In selecting a site, several things cook venison, and while it‘s a great ter; heap it up until itmelts and pump gun on the shoiild be borne in mind. It is us deal better for moose steaks, rich, runs down and overflow’s every pore market. “ The last ually better to choose one which has red and juicy, tender as the tend- and opening in the meat and almost word in Repeating not been occupied for a year or two. erest beef that ever was, it is floats the steak away. Each person should have a duffle not bad for deer meat as they say “After this has been done there is bag for personal belongings. Leave in some of the advertisements. nathing left to do except to eat the steak and most anybody knows how NON-BALKABLE. shirtwaists and other frills at home. Cast Iron Spider. “ Get an old-time cast iron spider to do this without a recipe. Bear, A blue or gray flannel blouse witb a Perfectly bal that is thick and big and heavy. Put in mind alw’ays that there never was short skirt of good serviceable ma anced. it into a blazing fire until it iS (Continued to page 4.) terial are the proper things for'the List Price, &25. women. Shoes should be waterproof For sale by all and rather high. For wear around progressive mer camp and in the boat there is noth ing better than rubber-soled “ sneak chants. INSIST ON ers.” * STEVENS. A couple of hammocks will be found worth while, but one can take Latest Catalog instead, about 75 feet of very strong Riñeand Pistol Cartridges and “ How ;o Shoot braided sash cord and a gimlet and In forty odd years of gun making the Winchester com Well” mailed for the ' make them on the spot. There will asking. jj almost surely be some old barrels pany has discovered many fine points about ammunition around the camp. Bore two gimlet that could be learned in no other way. That is one reason J. SEVENS ARMS & j holes in each end of every stave and why Winchester cartridges excel. Another is because they string them on the cord, about an are made in a complete plant by a modem system of manu TOOL CO. j inch apart, until the hammock is facture, under the supervision of experts. N o matter what about six feet long. Use blankets for P. 0 . Box 50 rifle or pistol you shoot, there is a Winchester cartridge covering during the day. If the CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. $ flies are troublesome swing the made for it. For your own protection, don’t simply ask r ►: hammock in the main room of the for cartridges when you buy. Be specific and camp. in default of barrel staves insist upon having Winchester make. use small saplings and limbs of beech and birch trees, tying them THE RED W BRAND IS close together on the cord. Then cov SOLD EVERY- ^ er with small balsam boughs and WHERE Mountain View House spread a blanket over the top, pin Mountain View, Maine ning it underneath. The outfit should include two or For further particulars write or address three folding candle lanterns. It is surely taking chances to carry L. E. BOWLEY, glass chimneys, but with careful Mountain View, » » » Maine- packing they can be taken safely. I have used them for nearly ten years and have broken only one. The Huntina Season Unless it is known that the camp of I9H TIM POND CAMPS contains a stove, it will be well to take a sheet-iron one which folds Is here. The territory served by the Guaranteed shots at standing deer. Excellent Partridge up. Thi$ can be dispensed with, SANDY RIVER & RANGELEY LAKES RAILROAD however, and the cooking done out shooting. Warm Camps. First class Guides. side. Other conveniences and lux Write for Booklet and Rates. is one of the best for big game hunting in Maine and JULIAN K. VILES Je SON, - - - Tim, Franklin County, Main* uries can be included, according to the difficulty of reaching the place. very easy of access. The big game shipments for the In some camps woven wire bed «4 ♦♦» ♦ ♦♦♦ season of 1910 were much larger than ever before. springs will he found. Stick them Write for hunting folder giving full information. full of the very fine tops of balsam GRANT’S SAMPS ” ADDRESS F. N. BEAL, G. P. A., PHILLIPS, MAINE. We are now booking for September Fly Fishing, Part boughs and you will have beds than ridge and Duck Shooting, and for Deer Hunting, which there are no better, eithei which is of the best. Results guaranteed. ,, for fragrance or for deep, dreamless ED GRANT (&L SONS, Kennebago, Maine ,► sleep. Where there are no springs, & h Q ELMWOOD HOTEL thick beds of boughs should be built. Running in connection with the R e d i n ^ t o n C a m u s . Delightfully ^situated in a quiet There may be an old broom about New England village, 1500 feet above sea level Three mails daily.

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