A souvenir of the village of Meadowvale-on-the-Credit, described and illustrated by HSpiers. . le reading circlewas the best in the county. Last season, commencing Oct.,1903, a Literary Society was formedand gave continuous meetings everytwo weeks, also open meetings forthe general public, this being quite In the Field of Sports There appears to have been novery great amount of game found inthis section of the country even inits earlier days. Still, quail and par-tridge were plentiful 25 years Holly Gooderham was fond ofhunting and shooting, and duringhis time considerable game wasbagg
A souvenir of the village of Meadowvale-on-the-Credit, described and illustrated by HSpiers. . le reading circlewas the best in the county. Last season, commencing Oct.,1903, a Literary Society was formedand gave continuous meetings everytwo weeks, also open meetings forthe general public, this being quite In the Field of Sports There appears to have been novery great amount of game found inthis section of the country even inits earlier days. Still, quail and par-tridge were plentiful 25 years Holly Gooderham was fond ofhunting and shooting, and duringhis time considerable game wasbagged. Amongst those who ac-companied him on these hunts and rabbit hunting—the big, white fel-lows. If you ask Mr. Gooderhamtoday he will tell you of an exper-ience he once had up there. It ap-pears he was watching on the out-side of a swamp, the other shootersbeing inside, when the hounds bolteda rabbit right across his path. Hetook good aim, fired and rabbit, being more afraid of itsfoes behind than in front, dashedclose by him. Forgetting for the SOUVENIR OF MEADOWVALE, RESIDENCE OF MR. F. HAINES (until recently owned l>y Mrs. Stevens)With the Trueman Cottage in the rear. moment that it was a gun he wash indhng, he made a vicious lungeat the intrepid quadruped with themuzzle of the gun, but this also fail-ed. Possibly the descendants ofthat rabbit may be laughing overthe incident yet ; anyway, its a riskything to try to do any clubbing witha gun. Mr. Frank Sibbald will tellyou how he used to catch quail inthe barn when a boy. At the pres-ent time its a safe guess to say that its hardy worth while spending aday in the bush or field on the stillhunt for partride or quail ; they havedisappeared almost entirely. Theonly class of hunting that there isany show for at all, when the firstfall of snow arrives, is the cottontail, or ordinary gray rabbit. Theyare fairly numerous, a goodmany take advantage of this kindof sport on a bright crisp wintersday, afte
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