Outing . INDIAN BOYS LEARN THE ART OF SAILING EARLY With all due respect to the prairie re-gion as a breeding ground for wildfowl,the forest country is by no means tobe despised. While it is true that ducksdo not breed in the dense forest, andlarge areas are impossible for ducks,there are vast numbers of lakes scat-tered through the north country, withconsiderable amount of marsh, meadow, or muskeg adjoining. While ducks didnot actually swarm on these breeding-grounds, I found them pretty well dis-tributed, though in scattered pairs, andthe number in the aggregate is large,especially when augm
Outing . INDIAN BOYS LEARN THE ART OF SAILING EARLY With all due respect to the prairie re-gion as a breeding ground for wildfowl,the forest country is by no means tobe despised. While it is true that ducksdo not breed in the dense forest, andlarge areas are impossible for ducks,there are vast numbers of lakes scat-tered through the north country, withconsiderable amount of marsh, meadow, or muskeg adjoining. While ducks didnot actually swarm on these breeding-grounds, I found them pretty well dis-tributed, though in scattered pairs, andthe number in the aggregate is large,especially when augmented by the youngbroods. By the last of July the early broods,particularly of mallard and pintail, are. AN INDIAN FAMILY [719]
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