The Serene Duck Hunter 



agree that duck hunters of this sort 

 should be segregated from all others 

 and placed in a section by themselves. 

 They are the market shooters. 



There are others claiming a place 

 in the duck-hunting group, who, 

 though not so murderously inclined as 

 the market shooters, have such pecul- 

 iar traits and such distinctive habits 

 of thought and action, as abundantly 

 justify placing them also in a classi- 

 fication of their own. These are the 

 hunters who rarely miss a duck, but 

 whose deadly aim affords them grati- 

 fication only in so far as it is a pre- 

 lude to duck mortality, and who are 

 happy or discontented as their heap 

 of dead is large or small. They have 

 smothered the keen delights of imag- 

 ination which should be the cheering 

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