. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. North American (irouse. 653 will dash away, utu-rinjf their (|uick cry of "Ciuk-cliik-clulc- cliik," and iocikin;^ i^ack over their winj^s at the s|j(;rtsman, who watches their flij^dit and marks them down Jialf a mile awa). As ont; ^(jes to relri(;ve tlie dead hirds still anoth(;r and another will rise, arid it is only until one has been carefully over the field that he fe(ds secure that all the birds are up. I he driv<,
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. North American (irouse. 653 will dash away, utu-rinjf their (|uick cry of "Ciuk-cliik-clulc- cliik," and iocikin;^ i^ack over their winj^s at the s|j(;rtsman, who watches their flij^dit and marks them down Jialf a mile awa). As ont; ^(jes to relri(;ve tlie dead hirds still anoth(;r and another will rise, arid it is only until one has been carefully over the field that he fe(ds secure that all the birds are up. I he driv<,r in the mean- time, from his wa^^on, has markf-d the s<fveral birds down. Tin; j^ame that is s(;cured is placed in the wa^on, and with renewed hearts the sportsmen push on aft<rr the fujritives. A pointer dojr is considered the b<!st i\()<^ for this pursuit, as his endurance and speed are ^^n-at and he stands the heat without needinj^ water better than setters. And no one who has not tramped all day with jLCame through the prairie-j^jrass can appreciate the relief it is to have the; wa^on always at hand to carry the jfame and luncheon and also, at , llu; weary sport-iinan. Often prairi(;-fowl m(;et their fate by coming in contact with the telegraph wires, and the trackmen on the railroads constanll)- find them with broken necks lyinj^ alon^ the track. As the co)()te or prairie-wolf has disa|)|)earcd, prairie-fowl have jrreatly increased in numbers. This restless and hun^^ry marauder destroys innumerablft nests and siuin;,^ l,irds. The writer was (^nce watchini^ a coyote from behind a prairie-knoll and saw him cn(;]) to windward cautiously and then jum]j on some prey. On t^oinn to the spfjt the wolf fled, leavinj^r the feathers of a ]jrairie-hen and her broken eiL^.Ljs to mark his wast(;fulness. If the jHiblic would enforce iIkj laws a^rainst trappinL,^ the birds in winter, they would j^reatly incr<;ase. lUil it re(|uires the extinction of a valuable bi
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