Outing . than usual. What once gets into thatwater had best be left there, for it mustneeds be good to be worth the troubleof getting it out. We will stand close beside these twowillow stubs. For yards around the oldpasture is firm footing, and we have thepond at our backs. We may have nochance, or more probably one chance,and we must drop the game upon theground close by. Where that tall, dark wall of trees iscleft by a great V of paling sky iswhere the river bends ; through that Vthe expected ones must presently come,if they come at all. Mark ! We are just in time. Thatchanging black line ve
Outing . than usual. What once gets into thatwater had best be left there, for it mustneeds be good to be worth the troubleof getting it out. We will stand close beside these twowillow stubs. For yards around the oldpasture is firm footing, and we have thepond at our backs. We may have nochance, or more probably one chance,and we must drop the game upon theground close by. Where that tall, dark wall of trees iscleft by a great V of paling sky iswhere the river bends ; through that Vthe expected ones must presently come,if they come at all. Mark ! We are just in time. Thatchanging black line veers like a floatingcord across the space. Get ready, theyare coming fast indeed. Fu-fu-fu-fu-fee-fee-fee — sharp quillsare cleaving the dusk in hissing —give it to them ! No need to wait longer, for there areno more to come. We wind up withfour young wood-ducks. One broodwas reared on this pond, and Ivewatched them all summer. Now, shakea leg in earnest, its five miles to dinner. 77. flHMHMMMU<0. jBlttHMttMMfciitkt J THI NATIONAL GUARD ©F THe STAT1 t$ H. H&M, n OF all her sister States Maine oc-cupies, geographically, the mostexposed position as regards dan-ger from attack by any otherpower. A glance at the map shows theState in shape as not unlike the im-mense head of some gigantic bodythrust far out and unprotected, into aforeign land. On account of its loca-tion as the most northeasterly of theUnited States, embracing some 33,000square miles of territory, and beingnearly as large as all of the otherNew England States combined, Maine,in a military sense, is the outpost of allthe States of the Union. On the northand east and northwest some six hun-dred miles of her border offer an easycrossing for the troops of England andEnglands allies, while about two hun-dred and thirty miles (in a direct line)of her coast present a fair objective forthe operation of the navies of the the most magnificent harbors onthis continent, in one of which (Port
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