CONTENTS. 7 



CHAPTER XII. 

 WILD GEESE, CRAKES, AND SWANS. 



The Canada Goose and Brant Goose Mexican Geese Hutchinson's 

 Goose The White-Fronted Goose The Snow Goose Migration 

 of Wild Geese Flight of Wild Geese Habits of the Geese First 

 of the Spring Migrants Geese on Pasture-Lands The Best 

 Shooting Places Means of Concealment Shooting on the Pas- 

 tures from a Buggy Long Shots at Geese The Fall Geese In 

 Wheat-Fields and Shocked Corn The Roosting Places Times 

 when Geese Resort to Timber A Flock on the Ice Getting into 

 the River The Ague, and a Remedy Shooting Brant and Mexican 

 Geese Great Packs of Mexican Geese The Cranes of the West 

 The Sand-Hill Crane Its High Flight in Spring Feeding on 

 Corn in Fall The Large White Crane Wounded Cranes Fight 

 Hard Flesh of Cranes when Hung Pelicans and Swans on the 

 Mississippi, 198-323 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 WILD TURKEY AND DEER SHOOTING. 



Excellence and Beauty of the Wild Turkey Its Haunts and Habits 

 Methods of Shooting Turkeys The Wild Turkey's Nest Track- 

 ing Turkeys in Snow Shooting in Thick Snow-Storms Shooting at 

 Crossing Places Tracking Turkeys on the Sangamon Lost in 

 the Timber A Walk Home of Thirteen Miles The Great Gobbler 

 of the Sangamon Turkey Shooting on Shoal Creek The Cold 

 Nights in Camp Eleven Turkeys to One Gun in Half a Day 

 After a Wounded Deer Camping Out without a Tent A Heavy 

 Thunder-Storm on Delavan Prairie Deer Shooting in the West- 

 Haunts and Habits My First Deer Deer Shooting on Horse- 

 back 333-250 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE ART OF SHOOTING ON THE WING. 



The Art Easily Acquired Boys Should begin to Shoot Early No 

 Danger of Accidents Loading Guns Large Shot and Too Much 

 Shot Mischievous Guns for Boys Handling the Gun Loading 

 the Gun Light Loads at First Shooting at a Target No Shoot- 

 ing at Sitting Birds Shooting Larks and Blackbirds How to 

 Aim Shooting at Foung Grouse The Causes of Missing How to 

 Aim at Crossing Birds Long Shots The Shot Towers at New 

 York The Cartridge Company of Bridgeport, , , 251-376 



