. The water-fowl family . hough the grass andgrain-fields on which he feeds fatten cattle andhorses fast enough. Yet he is a good bird inspite of it and always worth shooting. But thisis no easy matter, for he understands the gunabout as well as his larger cousin, can wheel evenmore quickly and get under way with less is a little more apt to make a mistake aboutthe range of a gun, but you can never rely on hisdoing so. So that about the same general methodsmust be used as with the larger goose. Whenthis goose alights on land he acts somewhat likeother geese, but when he alights in w
. The water-fowl family . hough the grass andgrain-fields on which he feeds fatten cattle andhorses fast enough. Yet he is a good bird inspite of it and always worth shooting. But thisis no easy matter, for he understands the gunabout as well as his larger cousin, can wheel evenmore quickly and get under way with less is a little more apt to make a mistake aboutthe range of a gun, but you can never rely on hisdoing so. So that about the same general methodsmust be used as with the larger goose. Whenthis goose alights on land he acts somewhat likeother geese, but when he alights in water hisstyle is wholly his own, and few things are moreamazing than the number of people who havehunted geese without ever seeing this wild coming is told afar by clangorous notes,heard even before the line of dark dots rises againstthe sky out of the horizon. Instead of loweringtoward the water the geese only seem to risehigher into the vault of blue. On they come,perhaps two hundred strong, and a thousand feet.
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