. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TROPHIES OF A DAY'S pHUNTJ:|NEAR WILLETTS printed in type a foot long—never shoot at anything unless its identity is thoroughly established. Rigid observation of this rule would have saved a hundred homicides in the United States within the past five ; _ ,. ( THE GOOSE HONKS HIGH. Mr. Charles Burton, a farmer living near Brenham, Texas, lost a fine flock of fifteen geese recently as the result of the "call of the wild to ; One day last began to answer, responding in clear and eager tones to the piping chorus in the sky. Then, with sudd
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TROPHIES OF A DAY'S pHUNTJ:|NEAR WILLETTS printed in type a foot long—never shoot at anything unless its identity is thoroughly established. Rigid observation of this rule would have saved a hundred homicides in the United States within the past five ; _ ,. ( THE GOOSE HONKS HIGH. Mr. Charles Burton, a farmer living near Brenham, Texas, lost a fine flock of fifteen geese recently as the result of the "call of the wild to ; One day last began to answer, responding in clear and eager tones to the piping chorus in the sky. Then, with sudden and concerted impulse, the young geese raised their wings and soared away on swift pinions direct to the passing flock of their migrating congeners,-forming into position on one wing of the irregularly V-shaped line behind the trumpeting leader as naturally as could be. The last the astonished Texan saw of his "geeses" they were in full flight headed for the Gulf of Mexico. He will probably never see them again— and who could blame them?. AN UNUSUAL LIMIT BAG. A remarkable shoot was that of Mr. Joseph Ross, a well-known Antioch sportsman, recently when he bagged the limit on gadwall or gray ducks as they are often called. While this variety of wild duck is not by any means a rare bird and are frequently shot by hunters in the bay county marshes and in the up-river tule districts limit bags for one day's shoot, however, are the ex- ception. Across the river from Antioch. Sherman island has always been a favorite resort of the gad- wall. The writer has on several hunting trips ob- served them in fairly plentiful numbers1 in the ponds of Sherman island. At this season of the year they are in excellent condition. Gadwalls are classed as a table bird with the mallard and redhead, and in- deed in habit they much resemble the former, although perhaps bearing a still nearer affinity to the widgeon. They stool well to mallard decoys, and their note is very similar to th
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