WITH BOGARDUS AND KLEINMAN 3 
to give three dollars a day and all the ducks I killed. 
Bogardus agreed not to take his gun, but promised not 
only to show me game but to give me pointers how to 
shoot it. 
We were up at four next morning. In fifteen minutes 
each market shooter had his ducks tagged and packed 
in barrels. In two hours they would be on sale in 
Chicago. As we were paddling up the river half an 
hour later, I said to Bogardus, ‘‘How do you like 
market shooting? I should think it would be great 
fun.”’ ‘“‘Shooting is fun,’’ he replied, ‘‘but market 
shooting, while it is partly fun as you say, is after all 
work, and good hard work too. I am taking you out 
largely as a little rest. My shoulder is as sore as a boil.”’ 
“‘What is your daily program in market shooting?”’ 
I asked. 
‘‘A market shooter don’t have a great deal of spare 
time on his hands,’ replied Bogardus. ‘‘The season is 
short and there are seven days in the week for us. Up 
at four every morning. Pack and ship ducks killed 
the day before. Shooting so close to town, with an 
hour express service, we are not obliged to ice our birds 
and that’s a great saving. I average clear above ex- 
penses, six dollars a day. Then a hot breakfast and 
off for the day’s shoot while it’s still dark, just as we did 
this morning. Shoot all day. Sometimes I dislike to 
kill so many ducks, but it’s all in the day’s work. 
Market shooters have to live.” 
‘““Do you all know beforehand just where each man 
will locate for the day’s shoot?” I asked. 
“Yes,” answered Bogardus. “‘ We arrange ina general 
way the location where each man will shoot during the 
day so as not to interfere with each other. A man can 
shoot in the same place day after day if he wants to. 
