. Rod and gun . ffairs in whatevercalling, a week at a club-house, such asthe writer has enjoyed, is something notto be forgotten. Here you are away fromeverything that worries and wearies youthroughout the year, a common restingplace, so to speak, from which men comebetter physically and socially and betterequipped to pick up the struggle of life. If the object of the charter memberswas—and we think that it was—the bet-terment of their fellow-men, we mustsurely agree that their labors have notbeen in vain. Shooting Wild Geese With a Kodak BY W. A. AFTER noting the fact that Mr. Aus-ti
. Rod and gun . ffairs in whatevercalling, a week at a club-house, such asthe writer has enjoyed, is something notto be forgotten. Here you are away fromeverything that worries and wearies youthroughout the year, a common restingplace, so to speak, from which men comebetter physically and socially and betterequipped to pick up the struggle of life. If the object of the charter memberswas—and we think that it was—the bet-terment of their fellow-men, we mustsurely agree that their labors have notbeen in vain. Shooting Wild Geese With a Kodak BY W. A. AFTER noting the fact that Mr. Aus-tin Gourlay crawled through amile of thick cover to get, withthe aid of a telescopic arrange-ment, a photo of a group of wild geese ata distance of fifty yards, a very commend-able performance imder the circum-stances, I could not but smile at the easewith which I had taken half a dozen snapshots of a flock of wild geese at distancesvarying from twenty-five to one hundredfeet without anv more difficultv than I. Mr. Miner on one side of the pond, and I. with the kodak,on the other. would have had in taking as many photosof a very tame cow in a pasture circumstance is interesting as illus-trating the peculiar make-up of that mostwary and suspicious bird, the wild goose. Mr. Jack Miner, who is not unknownto readers of Rod and Gun, is a brick andtile manufacturer, residing about threemiles from the town of Kingsville, residence adjoins the public the west of it about fifty feet, andabout the same distance from the high-way, is an artificial pond one hundred andfive feet wide. To the north and west ofthis is a high brick wall, and to the westof the wall are Mr. Miners large brickand tile buildings, kilns, etc. To thenortheast are the stable and other out-buildings. Altogether the pond is in any-thing but a secluded place, and the evi-dence of mans presence in that vicinityis very real and conspicuous. It is oneof the last places one would imagine shyan
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