. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. September iO, 1S&8. t&lje gveetiev tmo &pcwt&mmu lTfl Illinois and Kankakee rivers the doable-barrels are crack- ing. They nsed to bellow, bat that was in the old days be- fore the invention of the nitro powders. Now they have a spiteful snap, which sounds like nothing at all to old-faBh- ioned Bportsmen, who like to hear the gun. _ _ "The woodcock country of Illinois is difficult. It is marshy and grown up with underbrush. Tall willows fringe the streams or spring from the damp placeB. It is a rare thing when the shooter getB fifty feet of
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. September iO, 1S&8. t&lje gveetiev tmo &pcwt&mmu lTfl Illinois and Kankakee rivers the doable-barrels are crack- ing. They nsed to bellow, bat that was in the old days be- fore the invention of the nitro powders. Now they have a spiteful snap, which sounds like nothing at all to old-faBh- ioned Bportsmen, who like to hear the gun. _ _ "The woodcock country of Illinois is difficult. It is marshy and grown up with underbrush. Tall willows fringe the streams or spring from the damp placeB. It is a rare thing when the shooter getB fifty feet of clear space in which to center his bird. Generally the quarry is in open, un- obstructed eight for not more than twenty feet. In conse- quence, it is almost wholly snap Bhotiog. The gun is pitched to the shoulder and fired in the tenth part of a second, and the woodcock goes on about his business. Even when hard hit, he falls into some seemingly hopeless tangle of bushes, reeds »nd willows, and the nicest art of the retriever ib needed. It takes an old handâa very old handâto lose cock after cock in this way with never a crease of the fore- head or tightening of the lips. The only man in Chicago who has ever reached the point where a long day of disaster is a subiect for mirth is Rolla Organ of the MackBawba Clob who went to the Kankakee on July 15, the opening day, exploded thirty-six cartridges, loBt thirty-six birds, and has not got through smiling over it yet. Mr. Organ, how- ever, is a philosopher of so sublimated a kind that he is run- ning for Congress as a Democrat in a district that is Repub- lican by 15,000, and he is having a good time doing it. "Sometimes the Bportsmen of Cook county hnnt the wood- cock with cocker spaniels, the dog of dogs for the pursuit,but oftenest they use pointers or setters. The latter are the better for the purpose, since their heavy coat gives them more protection from the briars, and there is plenty of water for their thirst. Pe
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