Western field . HERE are times when onesthoughts revert to the broadopen prairie, where in win-ter and early spring the cryof the wild goose reverbe-rates across the emerald-tinted fields, and frost-ladenbreezes charged with an ex-cess of oxygen instill newlife into the happy sportsman who throwscare to the winds and seeks to lure the wilyansers to their doom through the medium ofa pit and cunningly made decoys. Each sport has a peculiar zest of its own,and so with goose shooting. The early fallushered in upland shooting over the stanchpoints of your setter or pointer, and as youviewed the mot
Western field . HERE are times when onesthoughts revert to the broadopen prairie, where in win-ter and early spring the cryof the wild goose reverbe-rates across the emerald-tinted fields, and frost-ladenbreezes charged with an ex-cess of oxygen instill newlife into the happy sportsman who throwscare to the winds and seeks to lure the wilyansers to their doom through the medium ofa pit and cunningly made decoys. Each sport has a peculiar zest of its own,and so with goose shooting. The early fallushered in upland shooting over the stanchpoints of your setter or pointer, and as youviewed the motionless pose of your faithfulfour-footed companions, and went in to flushthe close-lying quail whose efforts to escapewere rendered futile by your well-directedaim, you voted quail shooting the most de-lectable of sports. And then when the chilly blasts of wintersent the wildfowl scurrying south, and longlines of swift-flighted denizens of marsh andstream were seen silhouetted against theglowing horizon, and the
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