WEALTH ON WINGS 



do was to go West. We went over into Canada 

 those who could afford it and we shot very bliss- 

 fully for a decade or two, after seeing the game 

 decrease in Minnesota and the Dakotas. 



For a long time we had fine goose shooting in 

 Canada on the stubbles a sport that once flourished 

 in the Dakotas, but is now not known there in its 

 earlier excellence. Then the word was passed that 

 the geese had "changed their line of flight" and that 

 it was hard to get any of the old stubble shooting. 

 Saskatchewan went on marketing her game with 

 certain restrictions. Then, little by little, even in 

 Canada and that in those portions of Canada 

 which are the very best of all the breeding grounds 

 on the whole continent word was passed that the 

 ducks were not quite so abundant as they ought to 

 be, for some reason or other. Perhaps their line of 

 flight also had changed ! 



We did not pay much attention to the general 

 question of the wildfowl supply even then. Those 

 of us who could afford it went down to the Gulf 

 coast in the winter-time and shot in Louisiana or 

 Texas. We sent back word that there were just as 

 many ducks as ever because, fatuously, we saw 

 gathered there in the sharply restricted winter feed- 

 ing grounds all the output of the sharply restricted 

 summer breeding grounds. It is just as if there 



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