Outing . with firmer footing. With us wasJoseph, a young Frenchman who workedfor our host, strong and active, a greathunter. The rest of us landed to huntthe meadow, while Joseph preferred topush the canoe through areas of off for myself, I beat throughgrass and patches of weeds. Then Icame to a small, dry elevation or islandin the marsh, overgrown with longgrass, weeds, and some low bushes, atypical place, thought I, for a ducks I was. A big duck suddenly flut-tered from beneath a rose bush, right atmy feet. First I made sure of the spe-cies, a mallard. Then I fo
Outing . with firmer footing. With us wasJoseph, a young Frenchman who workedfor our host, strong and active, a greathunter. The rest of us landed to huntthe meadow, while Joseph preferred topush the canoe through areas of off for myself, I beat throughgrass and patches of weeds. Then Icame to a small, dry elevation or islandin the marsh, overgrown with longgrass, weeds, and some low bushes, atypical place, thought I, for a ducks I was. A big duck suddenly flut-tered from beneath a rose bush, right atmy feet. First I made sure of the spe-cies, a mallard. Then I found myselfon my knees, gloating over the firstducks nest of the trip, a fine set of teneggs. My friends found another mal-lards nest with eight eggs, in a layerof drift-wood out in the meadow,washed up by some storm. Taking our eggs back to the boat, wefound that Joseph had discovered a can-vasbacks nest out in the water amongthe cat-tails, containing seven eggs, twoof which had been laid by a redhead. It. DUCKS FLUSHING FROM SMALL SLOUGH
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