DUCKS AND WESTERN DUCK-SHOOTING. 197 



Swamp, and on that of Salt Creek, I had no 

 blind, and did not hide myself in any particular 

 manner. In the first case I sat on a muskrat 

 house all the time ; in the second I was seated 

 on an old log while all the shooting was done. 

 It is, however, necessary that the shooter should 

 keep still ; for the ducks will see any movement 

 a long way off, and they know that stumps of 

 trees and the like do not move. In cold 

 weather, when the ducks seek the timber for 

 shelter, they fly very fast ; he who can kill 

 three out of every four shots he makes is a 

 good marksman, and will have all the ducks he 

 will want to carry far on his back. 



