. Wild fowl shooting. Containing scientific and practical descriptions of wild fowl: their resorts, habits, flights and the most successful method of hunting them . h was the experience and opportunities had bythis youth before he attained tlie age of lifteen. Is it asurprise then that when a score of years had been ad-ded to his fifteen that he should love to recall the daysof his youth, or that the inherited love of dogs andguns should still claim its strong hold on him ? These little scenes and incidents of boyhood are re-cited, the Avriter feeling that they will recall pleasantmemories to
. Wild fowl shooting. Containing scientific and practical descriptions of wild fowl: their resorts, habits, flights and the most successful method of hunting them . h was the experience and opportunities had bythis youth before he attained tlie age of lifteen. Is it asurprise then that when a score of years had been ad-ded to his fifteen that he should love to recall the daysof his youth, or that the inherited love of dogs andguns should still claim its strong hold on him ? These little scenes and incidents of boyhood are re-cited, the Avriter feeling that they will recall pleasantmemories to the mind of the reader, and place himtemporarily back, to the scenes of his childhood, thatlike Hood he will say : I remember, I remember,The house where I was litlle window wliere the simCame peeping in at morn ;Pie never came too soon,Nor brought too long a day ;But now, I often wish the niglitsHad borne ray breath away. I remember, I remember. The fir trees, dark and high, I used to thinli tlieir slender spires Were close against the sl^y. It was childish ignorance, But now tis little joy To know Im farther off from heaven, Than when I was a CHAP TEH IT. MALLAllD 1>UCK.(^Anas Boschas.^ Tis said, that when once a Mallard chooses her mateAnd death, or accident, destroys her lover,She mourns her loss, submits to during that year, chooses no other. Not a bird in the United States is more familiarlyknown than the Mallard. It is seen throughout theWestern States and Territories, and the chief object ofpursuit in wild io^xl shooting. Their habits, resorts andthe best methods to hunt them successfully are so fullytreated of in other parts of this volume, that it wouldbe like adding surplusage to an explanative treatise,were I to refer to them very fully here. Their migration begins in early spring; indeed, be-fore spring has actually come, they wend theu- flight 28 WILD FOWL SHOOTING toward the far distant North, in flocks of from 20 to100. Their flight is
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