. Shooting on upland, marsh, and stream. A series of articles written by prominent sportsmen, descriptive of hunting the upland birds of America ... Game and game-birds; Hunting. 218 UPLAXD SHOOTING. closed, and the earth had gone to rest. How pretty the sight! A sweeping line of graceful undulations, bur- nished by the setting sun with colors of blue and gold, whUe the purple and orange seemed to cast upon the clear sky a rosier hue. To one who has never seen wild pigeons in their flight, neither the tongue or pen of man can show its beauties, for when they skim the height* of the ancient tre
. Shooting on upland, marsh, and stream. A series of articles written by prominent sportsmen, descriptive of hunting the upland birds of America ... Game and game-birds; Hunting. 218 UPLAXD SHOOTING. closed, and the earth had gone to rest. How pretty the sight! A sweeping line of graceful undulations, bur- nished by the setting sun with colors of blue and gold, whUe the purple and orange seemed to cast upon the clear sky a rosier hue. To one who has never seen wild pigeons in their flight, neither the tongue or pen of man can show its beauties, for when they skim the height* of the ancient trees, the air is alive with flitting colors, the world is on the move, and the very sky is filled with gladness. And now they are gone! Gone never to return; they who were ubiquitous, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the ex- treme North to the Gulf of Mexico; whose familiar forms were knowTi to civilization in the East, the Indians of the West, the slaves of the South, and the inhabitants of the Xorth; they are gone. They did not meet their fate ' '- â " because of disease, because necessity demanded it, but by reason of the power Divinity decreed, that the fowls and beasts should be subservient to the will of man. Having this power, and seeing in these birds a commodity which rex'resented dollars and cents, these birds, to their destroyers, were only as meat, sought for and destioyed to bring to the pockets of their pursuers and jjersecutors moneyâjust the same as cattle or swine. It wasn't done by sports- men, for no man having the heart of a sportsman could go into a roost of pigeons and strike down the innocent fledgeling with a club, while its mouth was crying for food, and its mother fluttered and circled around it, try-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Leffingwell,
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