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is by far the more attractive way, viz., to secure a 

 properly appointed car and have it side-tracked 

 somewhere where the game is abundant, and, 

 with the car as a home upon wheels, to shoot in 

 every direction until a change may be desired 

 and the car be hauled to the chosen point. 



This is the wiser plan for the latter part of the 

 season, for the car is better than any temporary 

 camp can possibly be made. With it, a party of 

 good fellows may have a royal time without for- 

 feiting one of those creature comforts which, after 

 all has been said, are not characteristic of camps, 

 yet which go so far toward impressing a man 

 with the idea that life really is worth living. 

 Given such an outfit, and with birds wilder and 

 stronger of wing, as they are bound to prove as 

 the season advances, and the man who cannot 

 enjoy himself probably is one of those fellows 

 who would come out nights and " kick " because 

 his grave wasn't properly aired and lighted, or 

 who would want to go right back because the 

 celestial pavement wasn't built of the particular 

 brand of gold brick which he had handled in 

 Jersey. 



As the end of the season approaches, some- 

 times earlier, if an unseasonable chilly period 

 arrives, the scattered broods unite and form 

 packs, which frequently contain hundreds of 

 birds. They are then entirely too wild to be 



