. Rod and gun . and flaredoutrageously. Four barrels went tolead up the marsh and we had some-thing to think over in the quiet spellsof the day and for that matter for sev-eral days afterwards. They fell a gooddeal better after this. Joe made a cleankill on a quartering mallard and I, for-tunately, got one overhead. Three blue- bills streaked by so fast that it was har4to shoot them with a camera and whileI was trying it two pintails flared upfrom the lens. Joe was about to shootand recommended me to put the thingsaway. In order to promote good feeling-I obeyed his recommendation and itwas wel
. Rod and gun . and flaredoutrageously. Four barrels went tolead up the marsh and we had some-thing to think over in the quiet spellsof the day and for that matter for sev-eral days afterwards. They fell a gooddeal better after this. Joe made a cleankill on a quartering mallard and I, for-tunately, got one overhead. Three blue- bills streaked by so fast that it was har4to shoot them with a camera and whileI was trying it two pintails flared upfrom the lens. Joe was about to shootand recommended me to put the thingsaway. In order to promote good feeling-I obeyed his recommendation and itwas well I did so, for we soon obtaineda goose that came nicely in to -our proved some weight when we cameto lift him in. A few odd canvas-backskept coming in, giving a clean thirtyyard side shot, and as a canvas-back isthe best shot carrier of all ducks we didnot object to their coming close. Somegadwall passed high overhead, turningtheir heads down in derision at our de-coys, though later in the afternoon we. A Fortunate One Overhead. 750 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA took in a pair that must have been alittle green. By the use of a little stove in the boatwe made a hearty hot lunch and at fouroclock it was a case of gather up. Whatsatisfaction we had in lifting the heavy-bodied, celery-fed birds into the boat on-ly duck hunters can know. This satisfac-tion was vastly increased by the factthat out of the whole days shoot we lostbut one wounded bird. Better far fourshots at one duck, making it a dead bird,than a fusiladc at a distant flock withhalf a dozen wounded trailing over themarsh. \\lial pleasures are to be found inshooting with a tried companion. Wehad no fuss, no confusion, no hasty slamsand misses, with birds killed indiscrim-inately far over the reeds, no head-on marsh. The suns full red orb sank slow-ly down in the yellow haze of a hundredprairie fires, the nameless odour of whichlent sleepiness to the air. Close at handthe lagoons assumed odd shapes fromthe dense shadow
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