A souvenir of the village of Meadowvale-on-the-Credit, described and illustrated by HSpiers. . ; anyway, its a riskything to try to do any clubbing witha gun. Mr. Frank Sibbald will tellyou how he used to catch quail inthe barn when a boy. At the pres-ent time its a safe guess to say that its hardy worth while spending aday in the bush or field on the stillhunt for partride or quail ; they havedisappeared almost entirely. Theonly class of hunting that there isany show for at all, when the firstfall of snow arrives, is the cottontail, or ordinary gray rabbit. Theyare fairly numerous, a goo
A souvenir of the village of Meadowvale-on-the-Credit, described and illustrated by HSpiers. . ; anyway, its a riskything to try to do any clubbing witha gun. Mr. Frank Sibbald will tellyou how he used to catch quail inthe barn when a boy. At the pres-ent time its a safe guess to say that its hardy worth while spending aday in the bush or field on the stillhunt for partride or quail ; they havedisappeared almost entirely. Theonly class of hunting that there isany show for at all, when the firstfall of snow arrives, is the cottontail, or ordinary gray rabbit. Theyare fairly numerous, a goodmany take advantage of this kindof sport on a bright crisp wintersday, after a fresh fall of snow, when the tracks are plainly seen, and withgun and ferret generally bag a hunting also gives quite an ev-enings entertainment, but I dontthink it is indulged in to any greatextent. In the spring of the year, as soonas the ice is out of the river, themuskrats make their the middle of the day. if its agood sunny one, they come out tofeed, and are quite plentiful, and are. THE SIBBALD RESIDENCE, SHOWING THE CHAMBERLAIN COTTAGE SOUVENIR OF MEADOWVALE, 1904. 13 well worth an hour or so of it takes a quick eye and a goodknowledge of the muskrats habitsto secure any number ofthem. Again,noon hour is not to be compared tojust after sunset, when- they comeout by the dozen?, sometimes quiteclose under your feet. In fact, thevery great number of them bewilderscne, and altho you might catchsight of half a dozen at once, in youruncertainty which to shoot at you the winter months, their nests andfeeding grounds being readily noticedTheir fur is of commercial value,and as such the hunting of them be-comes in a nature a business. Inthe same connection may be men-tioned that both mink and skunk arealso trapped, the latter being themore plentiful, a considerablenumber of mink are seen in this lo-cality at different times during theyear, but they are sly rascal
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