DUCK SHOOTING IN CALCASIEU 

 PARISH. 



A FEW years ago, before a great industry 

 had been developed in the vicinity 

 of Sulphur City, La., the natural condi- 

 tions in that locality were favorable to the 

 increase of migratory game. The ground 

 was low and marshy, but generally quite 

 flat; forests of resinous pine spread over a 

 considerable portion of the country. In 

 some places the trees grew to immense size, 

 their massive trunks ascending for seventy- 

 five or eighty feet without a branch. The 

 soil in such localities being free from under- 

 brush and covered with thick layers of pine 

 needles, yielded pleasantly under the step like 

 a soft plush carpet. Currents of air caress- 

 ing the treetops imparted the sound of the 

 surf beating the shore at a distance. Stretches 

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