Outing . on the high speeds willmiss and backfire and seem to suffer fromlack of fuel in somewhat the same man-ner as has doubtless been noticed whenthe gasoline supply is about to becomeexhausted. These few hints on the commoncauses of the loss of power in a newmotor should not make owners dissatis-fied with their purchases and wonder ifthey are getting their moneys worth,for leave well enough alone is amotto that could be applied to good ad-vantage to many a power, boatman whosets out to discover the source of a 746 THE OUTING MAGAZINE supposed loss of power, only to find thathis craft was d
Outing . on the high speeds willmiss and backfire and seem to suffer fromlack of fuel in somewhat the same man-ner as has doubtless been noticed whenthe gasoline supply is about to becomeexhausted. These few hints on the commoncauses of the loss of power in a newmotor should not make owners dissatis-fied with their purchases and wonder ifthey are getting their moneys worth,for leave well enough alone is amotto that could be applied to good ad-vantage to many a power, boatman whosets out to discover the source of a 746 THE OUTING MAGAZINE supposed loss of power, only to find thathis craft was doing its best in the firstplace and that his hoped-for improve-ments turn out to be serious are cases, however, in which itis very evident that the best results are not being obtained, and, in such in-stances, a common-sense investigation ofthe possible reasons for the trouble maynot only save the owner time and ex-pense, but will give him the pleasureof knowing his motor better, as PAUL RAINEY, SPORTSMAN BY GEORGE FORTISS WHILE the story ofhow Paul J. Rainey,big game hunter,naturalist, million-aire, and sportsman-extraordinary, las-soed polar bears in the Arctic has oftenbeen told, it is doubtful if the account ofhow he and his party were themselves las-soed is as widely known. The fact that itwas a few feet of the net of a Labradorfisherman that turned the trick and, asCapt. Bob Bartlett put it, ketched theketcher, but lends spice to the tale. Raineys ship, the Beothic, was an-chored off the ragged Labrador coast,near Nigger Bay. The young million-aire, who spends most of his time collect-ing specimens of big game, dead andalive, for zoological parks and his owncollection, had gone out after deer along-shore in a twenty-five foot him were Captain Bartlett, HarryWhitney, Dr. Johnson, who is now withhim in Africa, and Jack Hemment, theofficial photographer. A cold gale was blowing in from sea,and it was getting dark when Rainey and his part
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