The Serene Duck Hunter 



directions as he enters his blind as to 

 the arrangement of the decoys. 



How to Take Good and Bad Luck 



It is quite likely that his first op- 

 portunity to shoot will be presented 

 when a single duck hovers over the 

 decoys, and as it poises itself offers as 

 easy a target as if sitting on a fence. 

 Our hunter's gun is coolly and grace- 

 fully raised, and simultaneously with 

 its discharge the duck falls helplessly 

 into the water. This is a situation 

 that calls for no word to be spoken. 

 Merely a self-satisfied and an almost 

 indifferent expression of countenance 

 should indicate that only the expected 

 has happened, and that duck killing 

 is to be the order of the day. 



Perhaps after a reasonable wait, an- 

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