Wild Fowl Shooting

WILD FOWL SHOOTING. CONTAINING SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL DESCRIPTIONS Wild Fowl Their Resorts, Habits, Flights AND THE MOST SUCCESSFUL METHOD OF HUNTING THEM. TREATING OF THE SELECTION OP GUNS FOR WILD FOWL SHOOTING HOW TO LOAD, TO AJM, AND TO USE THEM SUCCESSFULLY DECOYS, AND THE PROPER MANNER OF USING THEM BLINDS, HOW AND WHERE TO CONSTRUCT THEMj BOATS, HOW TO BUILD AND USE THEM SCIENTIFICALLY RETRIEVERS, THEIR CHARACTERISTICS, HOW TO SELECT, AND HOW TO TRAIN THEM. BY WILLIAM BRUCE LEFFINGWELL, CHICAGO RAND, McNALLY 00, J COPYRIGHT, 3888, BY WILLIAM BRUCK LBFFINGWBLL, TO MY FRIEND, BENJAMIN S. WOODWARD, OF LYONS, IOWA 3 MT HUNTING COMPANION, AN EXPERT WILD FOWL SHOT, AND A GENTLEMAN IN THE FULLEST ACCEPT ATION OF THE TERM. THIS BOOK IS . DEDICATED WITH FRATERNAL AFFECTION BY ITS AUTHOR. CONTENTS. CHAPTER L BEVERIES. I remember A dreamy youth Anrid NatureBirds and flowers His first gun Primitive accoutrements Gentle Nell The wood cock Chagrin Success A dark shadow A woodcock f ceding Love of field sports Pleasant memories. CHAPTER II. MALLARD DUCK. Migrations Rate of speed Springtime Pin-oak ridges A mate chosen Constancy Beneath the forest trees Connubial bliss Are you coming Visitors A contrast Breeding places-Staying to spend the summer Rushes and rice Corn-fed xnal lards. CHAPTER III. WOOD DUCK SUMMER DUCK. Beautiful plumage Sweet memories In amolfg the alder and maples Where they frequent A happy pair Their tiny brood A bag A scramble Contrast between male and female Sunshine In a tree a strange sight A pastoral scene A pretty bird Rainbow colors A study Their flight. CHAPTER IV. BLUE-WINGED TEAL. In early fall Where they frequent Avoid open water Easily de coyedHow they drop in, snipe-like Their great speed One hun dred and fifty miles an hour Waiting for shot to catch up, possibly A slight blow kills them Dainty eating. CHAPTER V. SHOOTING MALLARDS FROM A SCULL-BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI. A successful way Tho weather One brief clay Something new for you A distinguished guest The dog leff, home The start Banks of the Mississippi An ideal day Our boat Look at her Un broken bluffs kk Dark shute Trimming the boat A particular man A splendid duck country Didnt you see him A drake Hurrah Got four In the overflow Thousands of mallards A neat double See them get up Blue-bills in the lake A teal Ha Hal Coffee and lunch My solace Eyes of deepest blue Scientific sculling In the river Wandering thoughts See them drop from the clouds A canvas-back A prying blue-bill My old friends Trees of the forest Turkey Slough 1 Tired out Ah-unk A Canada goose for dessert Anp y bluffs Lyons Fulton A sandbar Electric light on the river A light in the window Our welcome home. CHAPTER VL COKN-FIELD MALLARD SHOOTING. The day A dreary morning Blinds of com stalks How to decoy them. CHAPTER YIL SHOOTING MALLARDS IN A SNOW-STOKM. The start A Bright morning Sudden approach of the storm Howling winds and drifting snow Grit All quiet in the timber Where to find them during a snow storm An amateur Their re sortHarry makes frequent misses Will not hold ahead Broken promises Disgusted with clucks Hits a crow Holds ahead and kills Encouraged by his success in downing the crow Pathetic and eloquent Neighborly kindness Finale, two hunters and a dog. CHAPTER VIII. WILSON SNIPK JACK-SNIP K. The hunters delight Uncertainty of finding - them To-day here to-morrow there When they come How they come An invitation accepted An insult A 10J Ib. gun for snipe Oh I A 7 1-4 Ib. gun Alii My dog Neds idea of a snipe day Down wind An ideal spring day Scaipe Scaipe A perfect retriever Where they bored Zig-zag, a clean miss Dislocated Up in the clouds, what they do Poor Ned Only a slip A dog to point a dog to retrieve, which Difficulty in finding a dead snipe A scent He moves, he halts, he creeps, he stands entranced Too much for Ned Splendid I Grand I Neds apology Where snipe are found How to hit them A gimlet of life The vernal season, CHAPTER IX...