. Ducking days : narratives of duck hunting, studies of wildfowl life, and reminiscences of famous marksmen on the marshes and at the traps. Waterfowl shooting; Waterfowl. ^tttt'Ofxitit. WICE each year with a regularity equaled only by the seasons a great flood of aquatic bird life swings with the sun over the face of our land. They are the wildfowl who constitute this ebb and flow whose pursuit and capture meant so much to our pioneer ancestors and by the same token whose pursuit and capture still mean so much to present day genera- tions, though in another way. When with the passing of winte
. Ducking days : narratives of duck hunting, studies of wildfowl life, and reminiscences of famous marksmen on the marshes and at the traps. Waterfowl shooting; Waterfowl. ^tttt'Ofxitit. WICE each year with a regularity equaled only by the seasons a great flood of aquatic bird life swings with the sun over the face of our land. They are the wildfowl who constitute this ebb and flow whose pursuit and capture meant so much to our pioneer ancestors and by the same token whose pursuit and capture still mean so much to present day genera- tions, though in another way. When with the passing of winter we note the arrowhead flocks drag- ging their harrows northward across the April skies we know them to be the welcome precursors of another vernal season; and again, when later with the dying year their ringing clangor greets our ear as they drift southward toward the land of pine and palm we know with equal certainty another winter is fast following down that flying wedge. America is blest by a wealth of feathered game beyond that of any other country in the world and her sportsmen are in proportion. And of these millions who annually follow the field it is quite within the bounds of truth to assert that the big majority are to be found and numbered in that great brotherhood of game shots known as the fra- ternity of duckshooters. Nor perhaps need this be wondered at, since no class of game birds, may it be said, so excites the admiration and stimulates the interest of the average gunner as do the 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 Morss, Charles B; Hazelton, William Chester, 1870-. Chicago : [W. C. Hazelton]
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