Forest and stream . uppose hethmks, as they were killed from the shore. If the facts areas he states about the number of ducks thrown away at Nor-folk and on the canal from Currituck, it was a sinful wasteof game; but it seems to me to argue that the shooting com-mences too early in that locality, . But it can hardly lie usedas an argument against box-shooting, as the abuse of a thingis no argument against its use; and is he sure that none ofthe aforesaid thousands were killed by other means than bythe use of boxes V Sagamore asks me if I have ever heardof riparian rights. I ought to know some
Forest and stream . uppose hethmks, as they were killed from the shore. If the facts areas he states about the number of ducks thrown away at Nor-folk and on the canal from Currituck, it was a sinful wasteof game; but it seems to me to argue that the shooting com-mences too early in that locality, . But it can hardly lie usedas an argument against box-shooting, as the abuse of a thingis no argument against its use; and is he sure that none ofthe aforesaid thousands were killed by other means than bythe use of boxes V Sagamore asks me if I have ever heardof riparian rights. I ought to know something aboutthem, as 1 have all my life been interested in property in thewater and now own about a mile of water-front. His allu-sion to riparian rights is annisiug when spoken of in connec-tion with sinkboat-shootiug. I wish he would explainhimself. If he mean3 that any property owner has any con-trol of where a shooter may anchor his box in waters whereit is lawful to use them, I would like to see bis ON THE RUNWAY. From a Sketch by R. H, S. Well, I Hear the Dogs at Last, but thef are a Good* Way It is evident to me that Sagamores knowledge is like thatof many men who write against battery-shooting, not derivedfrom practical experience but only from hearsay. His des-cription of the discomforts incident to the use of boxes, aswell as Ten-Bores, might lead one to think that they hadbeen using boxes as the most industrious market gunners doleful picture can be drawn of any kind of wildfowlshooting. What can be more uncomfortable, for instance,than a northwest point on a cold winters day with a gale ofwind going, spray flying all over the blind, and making iceas fast it touches one? Or a muddy point on a rainy day? Ithink my box a paradise by comparison. The whole truth about box-shooting I think is this, thatboxes, as a rule, are used by those who shoot for market,and the amateur sportsman can see no good in them for thisreason, but imagines everything evil of
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