“Come Duck Shooting 
With Me” 
SHOOTING DUCKS WITH CAPTAIN BOGARDUS 
AND ABE KLEINMAN 
“Tf a man could be born when he’s old 
And gradually grow young, 
The wisdom he’d gain and the lore he’d attain 
Are not easily said or sung.” 
Sam WALTER Foss. 
‘“Yrs, there’s excellent duck shooting within an 
hour’s ride from town.”’ 
‘‘Do you mean to say there’s really good shooting as 
close as that to Chicago?”’ I asked. 
‘‘Why, yes,’’ said the gun store man. ‘‘The shooting 
is good, of course, not as fine as it was a few years back, 
but it’s still good. Where do you hail from?’’ he added. 
‘‘From New England,’ I replied. 
‘*Did you ever shoot ducks outside of New England ?”’ 
‘*No,’’ I said, ‘‘I never did.”’ 
‘‘Well,’’ said the gun store man, ‘‘you’re going to 
have the greatest duck shooting experience of your life. 
No one can say how many ducks you will shoot, but if 
it’s a little windy you will get a hundred shots a day.” 
A hundred shots a day! and in my Eastern black duck 
experience, if a couple were bagged between sunset and 
dark, it was something to brag about the rest of the 
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