Summer Shooting 



incidents of hope and expectation, or 

 of preparation and calculation, which 

 are common to all sporting excursions, 

 made to account for this especial in- 

 fatuation with shore-bird shooting? 

 I shall answer this question as well as 

 I can by suggesting that the difference 

 is one of degree. In gunning for 

 other game one knows, or thinks he 

 knows, where it is or ought to be. 

 The wind and weather, while not en- 

 tirely ignored, usually have a subor- 

 dinate place in preliminary calcula- 

 tion, and the pleasures of hope and 

 expectation are kept within the limits 

 of ability or luck in finding the game. 

 On the other hand, the shore-bird 

 hunter knows not the abiding place 

 of his game. He knows that at 

 times during certain summer months 

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