Outing . e black doorway, so lowthat one must stoop to enter, a low hang-ing lamp of curious workmanship illu-mines the professional story-teller hiredby the proprietor of an Arab cafe to recitethose marvelous tales of the East, andamuse his patrons reclining upon the lowflat benches or smoking their long pipesin silent approval. All is strange, impossible, fairy-likein this moonlight glimpse, one never tobe forgotten. Long after other remem-brance of the town of the old sea-kingshas grown dim and vanished, this willstand out like a clear-drawn silhouette onthe canvas of memory. A silent shado
Outing . e black doorway, so lowthat one must stoop to enter, a low hang-ing lamp of curious workmanship illu-mines the professional story-teller hiredby the proprietor of an Arab cafe to recitethose marvelous tales of the East, andamuse his patrons reclining upon the lowflat benches or smoking their long pipesin silent approval. All is strange, impossible, fairy-likein this moonlight glimpse, one never tobe forgotten. Long after other remem-brance of the town of the old sea-kingshas grown dim and vanished, this willstand out like a clear-drawn silhouette onthe canvas of memory. A silent shadowycity whose life and laughter have beenstifled out centuries past, and throughwhose varying gleam and gloom, indif-ferent to destiny, pass, with mysteriousgliding, figures who once symbolizedMoorish grandeur or Turkish tyranny,barbarism, cruelty, and oppression, butwho now, strangers in their own land,and the servants of a hated race, consti-tute the impassive and fast-disappearingArab Algiers of r oiecoYf ©n THe Mississippi. F all the gamebirds, perhapsno other affordsthe variety ofsport that the duck does. Certain it isthat no bird is harder to hit or clingsmore tenaciously to life when heavy coat of feathers, and strong muscles of the breast tax a guns powerof penetration ; while the number andvariety of shots presented are almostendless. Jumping ducks in September, shoot-ing on overflowed lands, timber shoot-ing, evening shooting in rice lakes, andin grain fields all furnish exhilarating 134 OUTING FOR NOVEMBER. sport. But if the sportsman wishesto indulge in wild-fowl shooting in itsmost seductive form, he should ensconcehimself with one or two companions, in acozy blind, on some cosmopolitan fly-way. I have yet to see the man who, afterparticipating in this sport, did not preferit to any other kind of wing shooting ;and he may rest assured that after hisfirst outing the respect he formerly hadfor his abilities as a wing shot will havereceived a cold
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