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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
one hundred eggs, and, despite thefact
that he restored them as nearly as possi
ble to their former conditions and sur
roundings, the nests were all deserted.
Nevertheless, there is one redeeming
feature about these hardy little game
birds which is of great importance ; after
deserting the disturbed nests, the timid
creatures almost invariably set about
building new ones in places more favora
ble to success and at a time when the
weather is more propitious.
The process of hatching is interesting.
The eggs are lined with a tough silken
membrane in which blood vessels form
and supply the growing embryo with
oxygen which passes in through the
pores of the shell. Through the mem
brane and the shell the chick cuts its way
with the sharp edges of its bill. His head
and neck lie in the large end of the egg,
in such a manner that the top is cut
around like the lid of a circular match
box, and when he lifts up this hinged lid
and pops out his pretty little head, he
must look very much like a fairy coming
out of a magic box.
The fact that these tops almost always
remain attached to the body of the shell,
held by the tough membrane which is
uncut, because it was behind the neck of
the hatching bird, is hard on the state
ment of those who claim to have seen the
chicks running about with apiece of shell
sticking to their backs.
Quails are terribly afraid of hawks
(several species of these birds of prey,
such as the sharp shinned and Cooper's
hawks, doing considerable damage during
the winter months), and in their fright
sometimes seem to lose control of their
wings and dash themselves to death
against some building. Foxes, minks and
small animals also do their share of dam
age, and the winter famines caused by
the sleet and deep snows frequently de
populate whole communities. Man, too,
is very destructive. Pot-hunters rake the
bevies as they sit huddled together on the
ground, and many sportsmen shoot for
the sole purpose of killing big bags.
Those mercenary fellows who supply
fashionable hotels and winter resorts
with these much-sought birds take flock
after flock in their nets and traps without
liberating a single pair for breeding pur
poses, and even when the birds are caught
for the purpose of restocking depleted
coveys in other states, careless shippers
sometimes allow thousands to die en
route from a lack of food and from over
crowding. On the other hand, it is pleasant to
know that many humane persons through
out the land protect this' valuable game
bird from its natural enemies. Injurious
hawks are shot, minks are trapped and,
when the blizzards cover the earth with
deep snow and the fatal ice-crusts form,
the. devastating famines are broken with
a liberal supply of scattered seeds and
grains. Thus in some cases whole coveys
are brought through the entire winter
without the loss of a bird. In return for
the farmer's kindness, bob-white destroys
weed-seeds in winter and numerous in
jurious insects in summer, among them
being the cut-worm moths, chinch-bugs
and potato beetles.
These social birds are partial to stubble
fields, and if these are flanked by thickets
of alder overrun with vines, where the
coveys can spend stormy days, they re
main in the vicinity of their feeding
grounds all winter. Nothing attracts
them more strongly than a buckwheat
stubble. Even in its snowy whiteness
the buckwheat field is of value to the
young flocks, affording them protection
when the wheat and hay fields no longer
screen them from their enemies of the
air. Pine thickets and sunny hillsides
covered with cedars are also valuable as
roosting and foraging grounds during the
winter. With these advantages, and in
spite of his many disadvantages, bob
white is still the "ubiquitous quail," and
long may he continue the tough and wily
little fowl he is ! We ought to do more
to encourage quail in this country. It is
comparatively easy to domesticate them,
and still easier to make neighbors of the
wild quail A. 11. M. Spaid, in Country
Life in America.
I'U L OUT OF TK.IIT HOLE.
Tli e Carolina Nine Defeats Village In
Seventh and Final Inning:.
Saturday's base ball game was a
"corker," and uncertain in its outcome
from start to finish, The Carolina pulling
out of a tight hole in the last inning,
and winning 10 to 8.
The fun began in the first inning,
when The Village team cracked out four
runs to one for their opponents, shutting
them out at the next three turns at the
bat, and adding two runs to their liberal
lead in the third. In the fifth inning,
however, The Carolina got to going for
five runs, making four, and the winning
runs in the seventh and last inning.
The score by innings :
CAROLINA 1 0 0 0 5 0 410
VILLAGE 4020 10 18
WOMEN'S TJBAItX GOLF.
Mlm IMitton' Team I,ead MIn
Check's Six Points.
Among the special golf features of the
week was a team match on the Nassau
system between teams captained by Miss
Mary C. Dutton, Boston, and Miss Ethel
S. Check, East Orange, Miss Dutton's
team winning by six points.
Miss Check,
Miss Gilbert
Miss A. McNeilly,
Mrs. Converse
Mrs. Crockett,
Mrs. Marvin,
Miss Chandlee,
Mrs. Zittel,
Mrs. B. Knight,
THE scores:
0 Miss DUTTON, 3 '
1 Miss McNeilly. 2
1-2 Miss Campbell, 2 1-2
8 Mrs. Iletherington.O
1 1-2 Mrs.G. L. Knight, 1 1-2
3 Mrs. Leslie, 0
1-2 Mrs. Ross, 2 1-2
1 Mrs. Rosenfeld, 2
0 Mrs. Waterhouse, 3
16 1-2
10 1-2
Hiding- Master Arrives.
E. N. Fawcett, of Lynchburg, W. Va.,
is here for the season as Iiiding
Master, succeeding Thomas W. Mack who
was detained in the North.
Mr. Fawcett is an Englishman by birth
and a teacher of wide experience.
Mrs. Crockett's Thanks.
Mrs. Montgomery A. Crockett desires
to thank all who so generously assisted
her in raising money last week.
TOURISTS.
Always Drink
POLAND
WATER
IT
ASSURES
HEALTH
IN
ALL
CLIMATES.
IT IS
VITALLY
IMPORTANT
FOR
ALL
TRAVELERS.
Because of its unequalled purity
and unchanging diuretic qualities,
Poland Water is the most import
ant of all dietetic factors in over
coming the attacks on health which
always menace tourists.
To drink Poland Water always is
to be free from all dangers of lo
cality always.
If you have any difficulty obtain
ing Poland Water in your travels,
we would esteem the information.
HIRAM RICKER & SONS
POLAND SPRING, SOUTH POLAND, MAINE
STATE YOUR NEEDS
BY WRITING TO OR CALLING ON
J. C. Littlefield,
TAILOR
Y2 Beacon Street,
BOSTON.
' Everything" needed in the
way of clothes by the well
dressed man:
RIDING BREECHES AND SUITS
SMART BUSINESS CLOTHES
Dress Suits a Specialty-
HOTEL GORDON
lfttli and I Streets,
Washington, - D. C
Two squares from the White House, State
War and Navy Departments.
American plan, $3 to a da j
WJH. P. KEIlffiY
RICHMOND HOTEL
17 & H STREETS,
Washington, D. C.
American Plan, $3.00 per day and upwards
CLIFFORD M. LEWIS, Proprietor.
H. W. PBIKST, PROPRIETOR,
Beach Bluff, Jffassaohusetts.
ffn Ideal Summer Resort on Jtforth S-Tior.-
Princess Anne Hotel,
Virginia Beach, Va,
Situated within 200 feet of the ocean waves. Splendid drives throno-h.th.
pines and along the beach with the best quail and wild fowl shooting in Amer
ica upon its preserves. Write for booklets.
JAMES S. GROVES, Proprietor.
The Magnolia
PINEHURST, N.C
Steam Heat, Electric Lights, Excellent Table.
J. L. POTTLE.
Blooded Dogs For Sale,
Call or address, G. Dan Morgan.
Pinehurst Kennels.
M. Stein metis,
FLORIST,
HAi,i2ic?ii, jr. c.
Rose, Carnation, Violet. Palm..
. JTern and Potted Plant.
JIuIIm for Call Planting.
Telephone and mail orders promptly executed
Ueasie OtI Hinckley,
ART NEEDLEWORK, NOVELTIES, ETC.
The Merrow Studio
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