Show NATURE FAKERS AND FACTS And now comes the Rev Theodore Wood probably the leading English naturalist and corroborates one o of the principal stories of Dr Long which was denounced by Roosevelt as a fake of the worst sort Roosevelt cited as asa asa asa a deliberate Invention Longs report of a woodcock which made a kind of mud splint for lor its broken leg Dr Wood with gentle gentie sarcasm suggests that the presidency of Itself hardly qualifies any man to deliver Judgment on questions of natural history and f proceeds as follows Notwithstanding the scorn which he pours upon the thc assertion I think there can be little doubt that snipe at any rate understand the art of binding u ut i a broken limb by means of a splint Statements to that effect have been made by many naturalists and sports sportsmen sportsmen sportsmen men and M Fatios observations on the subject were brought some time back before the Physiological society at Geneva On two occasions M 31 1 Fa Fatio Fatie tie tio had seen snipe with interwoven feathers strapped on the seat of the fracture of one of the legs A most interesting case was that of a snipe both of whose legs he had unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately broken by a misdirected shot He only recovered the bird the following day when he be found that the poor creature had contrived to apply dress dressIngs dressIngs dressings Ings and a sort of splint to both limbs In carrying out this operation some feathers had become entangled around around its beak and not being able to use Its claws claw to get et rid of them the bird was waa 1 almost dead from hunger when found In view of the fact that the English Englishman man has written authoritative books bookson on his subject and produces eminent men In corroboration of his facts one is Inclined to think that possibly he knows almost a as much about birds as the president and that perhaps Dr Long was right In intimating that the presidential knowledge on the question was only oni |