Western field . f a mile from theriver, but the other could not be seen andwe located it by the great racket of theducks and geese in it. I can not possiblysay just how far below the other pond thatwas, but my recollection is that it is notover three or four miles. But it was thefinest duck pond I have ever seen east orwest. It was so large the ducks wouldnot leave it while the geese, mostly snowgeese or white fronted geese, circled aroundand stood a number of shots before theywould forsake it. Even when they left itthey soon began to return. It was indentedwith many arms, all robed in dense t
Western field . f a mile from theriver, but the other could not be seen andwe located it by the great racket of theducks and geese in it. I can not possiblysay just how far below the other pond thatwas, but my recollection is that it is notover three or four miles. But it was thefinest duck pond I have ever seen east orwest. It was so large the ducks wouldnot leave it while the geese, mostly snowgeese or white fronted geese, circled aroundand stood a number of shots before theywould forsake it. Even when they left itthey soon began to return. It was indentedwith many arms, all robed in dense tule—the highest I ever saw and everywheremaking the most perfect of blinds. And ithad a hard sandy bottom everywhere wewent, with water only about a foot deep,£0 that there was no struggling with raven-ous mud. Ducks and geese were there inregiments and brigades, about every kindof duck being present, though tlfere wereno Canada geese. The ducks circled andwhizzed about everywhere as they did in WESTERN FIELD. THE TRIP CAN BE MADE BY WAGON. the sloughs of the Illinois river when Iused to hunt there forty years ago. As wecould do nothing with them we made noattempt to make a bag, but waded aboutand watched them for a long while. There are plenty more such sloughs alongthe river though this was much the largestand best we found. But there are few whoknow where they are, and still fewer whocan tell one how to find them. The banksof the river are so monotonous it is almostimpossible to locate any place except by ref-erence to something like the mouth of TheHardy. By monotonous I do not mean un-interesting. Almost everj^ mile of the riverfrom Yuma down, for considerably over onehundred miles, is charming in its windingcareer through dense masses of green almostas bright in December as in June, withgreat flocks of pelicans sailing high in airand sandhill cranes often floating far abovethem. It is a scene that will well repayone who loves repose in nature instead ofuproar in the ch
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