The Serene Duck Hunter 



in the least responsible for the sordid 

 and sanguinary behavior of either the 

 market shooter or the dead shot. 

 These innocent ones comprise an un- 

 doubted majority of all duck hunters; 

 and their common tastes and enjoy- 

 ments, as well as their identical con- 

 ceptions of duty and obligation, have 

 drawn them together in delightful 

 fraternity. By their moderate de- 

 struction of duck life they so modify 

 the killing done by those belonging 

 to the classes already described, 

 that the aggregate, when distributed 

 among the entire body of duck hunt- 

 ers, is relieved from the appearance 

 of bloodthirsty carnage; and they in 

 every way exert a wholesome influ- 

 ence in the direction of securing a 

 place for duck hunting among recre- 

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