. Shooting on upland, marsh, and stream. A series of articles written by prominent sportsmen, descriptive of hunting the upland birds of America ... Game and game-birds; Hunting. PLOVER-SHOOTING. By E. Hough, Of "Forest and ;. ILOYER-SHOOTING, as a sport, yearly assumes a greater importance and attracts a more general attention. Writers of the first and second quarters of the century have recorded that this bird, then plentiful to the last degree all through the mid-continent, was not pursued by the sportsman, on account of its insignifi- cance, and was in danger only from mar
. Shooting on upland, marsh, and stream. A series of articles written by prominent sportsmen, descriptive of hunting the upland birds of America ... Game and game-birds; Hunting. PLOVER-SHOOTING. By E. Hough, Of "Forest and ;. ILOYER-SHOOTING, as a sport, yearly assumes a greater importance and attracts a more general attention. Writers of the first and second quarters of the century have recorded that this bird, then plentiful to the last degree all through the mid-continent, was not pursued by the sportsman, on account of its insignifi- cance, and was in danger only from market-shooters, who killed it for sale. To-day, the scarcity of the grouse, the quail, and other formerly abundant birds is causing shooters who love the breezy uplands to cast about them for new or practicable sport; and since the plover may be said to fit a vacant season in the shooting-year, there is a considerable and an additional interest taken in it as a game bird. As a pastime, plover-shooting can not be called wild, laborious, difficult, or dangerous, and it is there- fore lacking in much that appeals to the hardy hunter's nature; yet it has some peculiar and not uninteresting features of its own—a certain individual fascination, quite capable of winning its own blind followers and devotees, and that all-abiding and all-worthy charm of any sport or occupation which calls us away from the desky and dusty city, out into the wide fields and under the clear sky. I did never like a lawyer's brief, with long "Whereas" and "Therefore," nor did I ever fancy a book full of (197). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Leffingwell, William Bruce, ed. Chicago, Rand, McNally
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