Fishing and shooting sketches . l shooting. It seemsto be so compounded of wholesomethings that it reaches, with vitalizingeffect, every point of mental or physi-cal enervation. Under the prohibi-tions of the law, or the restraints ofsporting decency, or both, it is permit-199 Quail Shooting ted only at a season of the year whennature freely dispenses, to those whosubmit to her treatment, the potenttonic of cool and bracing air and theinvigorating influences of fields andtrees and sky, no longer vexed by sum-mer heat. It invites early rising; andas a general rule a successful searchfur these u
Fishing and shooting sketches . l shooting. It seemsto be so compounded of wholesomethings that it reaches, with vitalizingeffect, every point of mental or physi-cal enervation. Under the prohibi-tions of the law, or the restraints ofsporting decency, or both, it is permit-199 Quail Shooting ted only at a season of the year whennature freely dispenses, to those whosubmit to her treatment, the potenttonic of cool and bracing air and theinvigorating influences of fields andtrees and sky, no longer vexed by sum-mer heat. It invites early rising; andas a general rule a successful searchfur these uncertain birds in\ol\es longmiles of travel on foot. Obviouslythis sport furnishes an abundanceof muscular action and physicallystrengthening surroundings. These,fortunately, are supplenicnted by theeager alertness essential to the ilis-covery and capture of game wellworth the effort, and by the recreativeand self-satisfying complacency ofmore or less skillful shooting. In addition to all this, the quail200 (^^ ^> -^>^«f. Quail Shooting shooter has on his excursions a com-panion, who not only promotes hissuccess, but whose manner of contrib-uting to it is a constant source of de-light. I am not speaking of humancompanionship, which frequently marspleasure by insistent competition orawkward interference, but of the com-panionship of a faithful, devotedhelper, never discouraged or discon-tented with his allotted service, exceptwhen the man behind the gun shootsbadly, and always dumbly willing toconcede to the shooter the entire creditof a successful hunt. The work inthe field of a well-trained dog is ofitself an exhibition abundantly worththe fatigue of a quailing expedition. Itbehooves the hunter, however, to re-member that the dog is in the field for203 Quail Shooting business, and that no amount of sen-timental admiration of his perform-ances on the part of his master willcompensate him, if, after he has foundand indicated the location of thegame, it escapes through ina
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