DUCK SHOOTING ON THE ILLINOIS RIVER 



By William C. Hazelton 



O the fire-flash and the star-dust and the wind among the leaves, 



And the mystery of all the secret night; 

 And the beauty close about us that our mother Nature weaves, 



And the sweetness that she pours for our delight! 



— FisJce, 



EARDSTOWN, Browning, Liverpool, Cliillicothe, 

 Rome, Henrj', Hennepin, Havana and Lacon! 

 Famous towns for wildfowl on the Illinois 

 River. How many tens of thousands of ducks have been 

 brought away from these towns on the Hlinois first and 

 last ! The Mecca of several generations of duck hunters. 

 What a grand stream and what pleasant memories 

 of days of glorious sport the mere mention of the 

 magic name brings to legions of wildfowlers everywhere 

 throughout our beloved land from the days of Van Dyke 

 down to those of the latest new recruit who spent his 

 first happy days upon it during our last beautiful 

 Autumn ! Can one who has once tasted of its pleasures 

 ever forget it? Do you wonder that the veterans love 

 to go over again in memory the joys of days gone by 1 



