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dncks, snipe and the diflferent kinds of ducks 

 the lake seemed ahnost aHve, and my sports- 

 men had a gay old time. They were partic- 

 ularly interested in the kendricks, and reg rded 

 them as a great curiosity ; they have long- 

 legs for wading and an extremely long bill, 

 generally about seven inches in length. These 

 men would not shoot at a bird except on the 

 wing, and never fired on them when the}' 

 were in a bunch, but would make them fly up 

 and selecting one bring it down. 



They kept up their sport until one of them 

 in firing at a duck on the wing happened to 

 shoot the other with bird shot, but as the shot 

 they were using was small it did not kill nor 

 seriously injure him, but it put an end to the 

 hunt, and we went back to Lakin. 



Here I found two more men waiting for me 

 to pilot them out on a hunt. They were 

 doctors from Chicago and we soon came to 

 terms. We started the next morning and 

 going about twenty came to a lake and stopped 

 for the night. Here we found aritelope and 

 killed seven. The doctors had shot-guris and 



