Fishing and shooting sketches . ect. In point of fact, theobjects of duck shooting and its meth-ods of enjoyment are so various, andthe disposition and personal charac-teristics of those who engage in itpresent such strong contrasts, that a49 The Serene Duck Hunter recognition of their differences shouldsuggest the subdivision of this groupinto distinct and well-defined a, subdivision would undoubtedlypromote fairness and justice, and leadto a better understanding of the gen-eral topic. There are those whose only claimto a place among duck hunters is basedupon the fact that they
Fishing and shooting sketches . ect. In point of fact, theobjects of duck shooting and its meth-ods of enjoyment are so various, andthe disposition and personal charac-teristics of those who engage in itpresent such strong contrasts, that a49 The Serene Duck Hunter recognition of their differences shouldsuggest the subdivision of this groupinto distinct and well-defined a, subdivision would undoubtedlypromote fairness and justice, and leadto a better understanding of the gen-eral topic. There are those whose only claimto a place among duck hunters is basedupon the fact that they shoot ducksfor the market. No duck is safe fromtlieir pursuit in any place, either byday or night. Not a particle ofsportsmanlike spirit enters into thispursuit, and the idea never enters theirminds that a duck has any rights thata hunter is bound to respect. Thekilling they do amounts to bald as-sassination—to murder for the sakeof money. All fair-minded men must50 k. ,> I s I I I i&Vl .P Y-- -^7 ^ <* <h rvv 5^1. The Serene Duck Hunter agree that duck hunters of this sortshould be segregated from all othersand placed in a section by are the market shooters. There are others claiming a placein the duck-hunting group, who,though not so murderously inclined asthe market shooters, have such pecul-iar traits and such distinctive habitsof thought and action, as abundantlyjustify placing them also in a classi-fication of their own. These are thehunters who rarely miss a duck, butwhose deadly aim affords them grati-fication only in so far as it is a pre-lude to duck mortality, and who arehappy or discontented as their heapof dead is large or small. They havesmothered the keen delights of imag-ination which should be the cheering53 The Serene Duck Hunter concomitants of the most reputablegrade of duck hunting, and havesurrendered its pleasures to actualresults and the force of externalcircumstances. Their stories of inor-dinate killing are frequently heard,an
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