PIONEER HUNTERS OK THE KANK.AK.tE 

 a portable blind called a sink-tub and which is 

 commonly called tub-shooting - rather than from 

 a boat or a blind. In the fall shooting there is 

 plenty of grass, flags and marsh willows growing 

 in the shallow water marshes for a blind but 

 when the marshes froze over the grass is set on 

 fire by hunters to drive the game out and after 

 the fire has run over the ice covered marshes 

 everything is burned off slick and clean above 

 the ice so in the Spring shooting there is nothing 

 for a blind. As the days of the long, cold winter 

 were passing and the clear, sunny days of 

 Springtime had come and melted the ice out ot 

 the marsh I began to get restless, more so as the 

 days lengthened into Spring. I knew well it was 

 the call of the wild, as it gets hold of me about 

 every Spring and Fall and when I was a boy it 

 got me oftener than that. Finally I hit upon the 

 absolutely right thing in my estimation; a practi- 

 cal, sensible sink tub. It consists of a kerosene 

 barrefby sawing the top of the barrel off at the 

 bulge. Then I went to a blacksmith shop and 



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