WILD FOWL SHOOTING. CONTAINING SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL
DESCRIPTIONS Wild Fowl Their Resorts, Habits, Flights AND THE MOST
SUCCESSFUL METHOD OF HUNTING THEM. TREATING OF THE SELECTION OP
GUNS FOR WILD FOWL SHOOTING HOW TO LOAD, TO AJM, AND TO USE THEM
SUCCESSFULLY DECOYS, AND THE PROPER MANNER OF USING THEM BLINDS,
HOW AND WHERE TO CONSTRUCT THEMj BOATS, HOW TO BUILD AND USE THEM
SCIENTIFICALLY RETRIEVERS, THEIR CHARACTERISTICS, HOW TO SELECT,
AND HOW TO TRAIN THEM. BY WILLIAM BRUCE LEFFINGWELL, CHICAGO RAND,
McNALLY 00, J COPYRIGHT, 3888, BY WILLIAM BRUCK LBFFINGWBLL, TO MY
FRIEND, BENJAMIN S. WOODWARD, OF LYONS, IOWA 3 MT HUNTING
COMPANION, AN EXPERT WILD FOWL SHOT, AND A GENTLEMAN IN THE FULLEST
ACCEPT ATION OF THE TERM. THIS BOOK IS . DEDICATED WITH FRATERNAL
AFFECTION BY ITS AUTHOR. CONTENTS. CHAPTER L BEVERIES. I remember A
dreamy youth Anrid NatureBirds and flowers His first gun Primitive
accoutrements Gentle Nell The wood cock Chagrin Success A dark
shadow A woodcock f ceding Love of field sports Pleasant memories.
CHAPTER II. MALLARD DUCK. Migrations Rate of speed Springtime
Pin-oak ridges A mate chosen Constancy Beneath the forest trees
Connubial bliss Are you coming Visitors A contrast Breeding
places-Staying to spend the summer Rushes and rice Corn-fed xnal
lards. CHAPTER III. WOOD DUCK SUMMER DUCK. Beautiful plumage Sweet
memories In amolfg the alder and maples Where they frequent A happy
pair Their tiny brood A bag A scramble Contrast between male and
female Sunshine In a tree a strange sight A pastoral scene A pretty
bird Rainbow colors A study Their flight. CHAPTER IV. BLUE-WINGED
TEAL. In early fall Where they frequent Avoid open water Easily de
coyedHow they drop in, snipe-like Their great speed One hun dred
and fifty miles an hour Waiting for shot to catch up, possibly A
slight blow kills them Dainty eating. CHAPTER V. SHOOTING MALLARDS
FROM A SCULL-BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI. A successful way Tho weather
One brief clay Something new for you A distinguished guest The dog
leff, home The start Banks of the Mississippi An ideal day Our boat
Look at her Un broken bluffs kk Dark shute Trimming the boat A
particular man A splendid duck country Didnt you see him A drake
Hurrah Got four In the overflow Thousands of mallards A neat double
See them get up Blue-bills in the lake A teal Ha Hal Coffee and
lunch My solace Eyes of deepest blue Scientific sculling In the
river Wandering thoughts See them drop from the clouds A
canvas-back A prying blue-bill My old friends Trees of the forest
Turkey Slough 1 Tired out Ah-unk A Canada goose for dessert Anp y
bluffs Lyons Fulton A sandbar Electric light on the river A light
in the window Our welcome home. CHAPTER VL COKN-FIELD MALLARD
SHOOTING. The day A dreary morning Blinds of com stalks How to
decoy them. CHAPTER YIL SHOOTING MALLARDS IN A SNOW-STOKM. The
start A Bright morning Sudden approach of the storm Howling winds
and drifting snow Grit All quiet in the timber Where to find them
during a snow storm An amateur Their re sortHarry makes frequent
misses Will not hold ahead Broken promises Disgusted with clucks
Hits a crow Holds ahead and kills Encouraged by his success in
downing the crow Pathetic and eloquent Neighborly kindness Finale,
two hunters and a dog. CHAPTER VIII. WILSON SNIPK JACK-SNIP K. The
hunters delight Uncertainty of finding - them To-day here to-morrow
there When they come How they come An invitation accepted An insult
A 10J Ib. gun for snipe Oh I A 7 1-4 Ib. gun Alii My dog Neds idea
of a snipe day Down wind An ideal spring day Scaipe Scaipe A
perfect retriever Where they bored Zig-zag, a clean miss Dislocated
Up in the clouds, what they do Poor Ned Only a slip A dog to point
a dog to retrieve, which Difficulty in finding a dead snipe A scent
He moves, he halts, he creeps, he stands entranced Too much for Ned
Splendid I Grand I Neds apology Where snipe are found How to hit
them A gimlet of life The vernal season, CHAPTER IX...
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