The Serene Duck Hunter 



fession of downright and inexcusably 

 bad shooting. 



In this delightful assemblage of 

 serene duck hunters there is no place 

 for envious feeling toward either the 

 slaughtering market shooter or the in- 

 satiable dead shot. They only seek, 

 in their own mild and gentle way, the 

 indulgence of the pleasures which the 

 less bloody phases of duck hunting af- 

 ford; and no censorious critic has the 

 right to demand that their enjoyment 

 should be marred or diminished by 

 the exactions of veracity or self- 

 abasement. 



Reference has already been made 

 to the scrupulous care of this frater- 

 nity for the promotion and preserva- 

 tion, at all hazards, of the shooting 

 reputation of all the associates. This 

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