. Rod and gun . ay;1 thought to stretch my Parkerand let drive the both barrelswhich staggered and started himtowards us at a whirlwind gait,and as he drove past, my partnerspun him to the ground with hislusty cannon, afterwards pullingout a large red bandana handker-chief. He keeps that for these,as I hope, rare occasions, for be-tween ourselves there is consider-able and lengthy argument on themerits of that cannon. After filling in the hides we wereback to camp in time to take asnap of the bag, and again packup and move for the morning flight. Thistime we struck right out on the prairietowa
. Rod and gun . ay;1 thought to stretch my Parkerand let drive the both barrelswhich staggered and started himtowards us at a whirlwind gait,and as he drove past, my partnerspun him to the ground with hislusty cannon, afterwards pullingout a large red bandana handker-chief. He keeps that for these,as I hope, rare occasions, for be-tween ourselves there is consider-able and lengthy argument on themerits of that cannon. After filling in the hides we wereback to camp in time to take asnap of the bag, and again packup and move for the morning flight. Thistime we struck right out on the prairietowards the swamp, and coming to asmall strip of fall breaking, decided tolocate there for the morning. Accordingto goose logic it was not a good place,no feeding ground being handy, but wehad lined the flight in that direction andso put our hides close down to theswampy ground on the edge of the break-ing, leaving the setting up of our decoysuntil the morning so as to better gaugethe wind. It was seven miles to any. A FULLY LOADED RIG. ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA 19 habitation, so after supper of broiledwavy steaks over a willow fire we turnedin under the rig- to suffer the keencold of a Springs nig-ht, but were comfort-ed by hearing, now and ag^ain, in lulls ofthe wind which had sprung up, the in-describable clamour of the countlessthousand wavys, as they held a socialevening far out in the marsh together. By morning it was blowing a smallgale and was considerably colder. Anindefinite haze covered the eastern sky,while to the west all was still gloom. Itseemed more a duty to be in the pits atfour a. m., than from any expectation ofsport. So confident were we of this asto leave on our overcoats, lying close tothe hide to avoid the keen wind, but suchis the way of the wavy that before we hadrealized it a tremendous flock had beatenup towards the decoys which we had setout in several close lines, three hundredstrong across the breaking, a good onehundred and fifty yards u
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