. Prairie and forest: a description of the game of North America, with personal adventures in their pursuit. Hunting; Game and game-birds. CANADA aOOSK 255 suddenly changed from mild to severe cold, their pursuit will be found comparatively useless; but in the afternoon and morning in early winter, or at the commencement of spring, if the sportsman secrete himself in some lonely, out- of-the-way corn-field, he is almost certain to obtain numer- ous shots. Still it is very rare for a day to be passed on the praiiies wild fowl shooting without an opportunity oc- curring to fire into a flock of w
. Prairie and forest: a description of the game of North America, with personal adventures in their pursuit. Hunting; Game and game-birds. CANADA aOOSK 255 suddenly changed from mild to severe cold, their pursuit will be found comparatively useless; but in the afternoon and morning in early winter, or at the commencement of spring, if the sportsman secrete himself in some lonely, out- of-the-way corn-field, he is almost certain to obtain numer- ous shots. Still it is very rare for a day to be passed on the praiiies wild fowl shooting without an opportunity oc- curring to fire into a flock of wild CANADA GOOSE. If maimed birds are kept, or the young reared in captiv- ity, they answer magnificently as decoys; for not a flock of wild geese or wild duck will pass within seeing or hear- ing of them without leaving their course to join their ranks. An old gander, as may be expected, is tough and hard; but the young bird, on the contrary, is a great delicacy, and well worth any amount of labor it may have cost to obtain. In November, '65, in an afternoon and morning shooting, a friend and self killed eighty-five wild geese, as well as a large number of duck. The scene of this performance was a corn-field, the weather bitterly cold, with snow flying, al-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gillmore, Parker. New York, Harper & Bros.
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