^7^ DUCK SHOOTING. 



few minutes six alight with the decoys at the north end. 

 We go up there and kill them all. Now they shoot at 

 the new stand, then at Gunner's Point, and about a 

 hundred alight in the lake in front of us. We get out 

 the boat and pick up the game, then hustle after the 

 flyers. As we are driving them in we see one among 

 them looking rather wild. "Close in on them, boys. 

 That is a wild one," says George. It proves as he says, 

 and we had driven in a wild one. He will make a decoy 

 another season. After we got the flyers in I hear Add 

 say, ''Here comes a single goose; nail him, Fred." I 

 grab a gun, shoot twice, and the goose flew on. * * * 



After dinner we try for the flock which is in the 

 lake in front of us. Tom sees a flock of seven coming. 

 They alight with the others. After a time thirty-six 

 start to come on. They get almost near enough to 

 shoot, when they turn and swim away as fast as they 

 can. What's the matter ? We are no longer in doubt, 

 for a man comes in to the stand, having walked around 

 the shore. 



Soon we see another large flock coming, fully as 

 large as the first. They come over, and we throw on 

 them; it does the business, and they alight. I would 

 like to know how many geese there are in the lake now. 

 We drew about sixty, but could only get twenty-two to- 

 gether. Thomas gave the word, George not being 

 there. We killed twenty-one. George came into the 

 stand just as we fired, and we had the laugh on him. 

 By this time it was dark. The geese were honking all 

 over the lake. We drew on six, and killed them all. I 



