. Pussy wants a corner in this book, which reviews the delights of the World's fair and contains a series of articles depicting the pleasures of field sports .. . at in snipe shooting which weans the hunter from almost any other game,and I have seen men leave the best of duck shooting to go in pursuit of the erratic methods of shooting snipe are, onemight say, as the locality demands, and,while a man uses a dog in the East, in theWest no dog is necessary, unless for thepurpose of retrieving the game. A knowl-edge of the birds and their resortslutely essential to obtain goodshooti
. Pussy wants a corner in this book, which reviews the delights of the World's fair and contains a series of articles depicting the pleasures of field sports .. . at in snipe shooting which weans the hunter from almost any other game,and I have seen men leave the best of duck shooting to go in pursuit of the erratic methods of shooting snipe are, onemight say, as the locality demands, and,while a man uses a dog in the East, in theWest no dog is necessary, unless for thepurpose of retrieving the game. A knowl-edge of the birds and their resortslutely essential to obtain goodshooting, and then if birds arein the locality a successful bagcan be made. Those sports-men who have not enjo^^edthe pleasures of snipe shoot-ing as it is to be found in theMiddle and Western Statesare loath to believethe number of birdswhich may be scoredin consecutive shots,and it is nothing un-common for an expertsnipe shot to kill tenor even twenty birds ^. without a miss, usingas he would the sec- ^ ond barrel in case - of non-success withthe first. To do that the re- 7**quired conditions of wind andweather are necessary. Whenthe warm southern winds are 73. ...>^>^^.,,X N^ 3^ -^ \^ -^, blessing the north with their visitations and the gentle rains of spring are seepinginto the earth, when the month of April has come in its annual visitation, then thecries of the jack-snipe are heard. He comes silently during the night, and flitters anddarts into those places which former visitations or instinct teaches him are the fieldshe seeks, and he inserts his bill probing for and finding the food he never tires the day is cold and raw, and the wind whistles over the meadows or makesweird music through the rushes in the marsh, when the clouds float sullenly or hangheavily throughout the sky, the atmosphere and surroundings breed a feeling of dis-content in his snipeship, and he is wild and wary and hard to approach. But let theday be preceded by a night in which the April sho
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