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makes good time in search of a hiding place In the 

 rushes of an adjoining island. An extra boat now 

 comes in well. A dog is nowhere. Once carried past 

 the island, he cannot swim against the current. 



The so-called white brant, which for many years 

 have spent the winter or a part of it on Delaware Bay, 

 are very wary, and are shot with difficulty or by acci- 

 dent. The most successful way of obtaining them, 

 however, is to paddle up to them among the ice. 



When the ice is breaking up in the spring the gunners 

 get into a boat on which ice is piled, the men themselves 

 wearing white clothing, or being covered with sheets 

 and keeping as much as possible out of sight. The man 

 in the stern manages the oar which propels and directs 

 the boat, which is sometimes thus sculled right in 

 among the flock. 



In the Sacramento Valley, in California, the wild 

 geese, on their southern migrations, arrive early and 

 stay late. One of the first localities to be visited by the 

 geese in that neighborhood is Fisherman's Lake, which 

 lies only eight miles north of Sacramento. Although 

 occasional small bunches reach the Sacramento Valley 

 in the very last days of August, most of them do not 

 come until about the middle of September. Usually, 

 however, by September 12th or 15th, large numbers 

 have arrived, and a record kept from 1876 to 1887 

 shows the earliest arrival noted to have been August 

 14th, while in 1880 the earliest birds did not come until 

 September 17th. 



