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wilderness. I Ve seen the governor bag 

 twenty canvasback and as many redhead 

 in a morning. It must have been fully 

 thirty years ago, when such sporting 

 characters as Seth Green, Ira Paine, 

 Joseph Christian, John Parker, Edward 

 Gilman, Colonel Evarts, Governor Bagley, 

 Cook Cousins, Colonel Mark Flannigan, 

 and many other good spirits of these 

 days were in their prime. Those were 

 great days for game. My father, a resi- 

 dent of Detroit, he lived there for forty 

 years, used to bag wild turkey, wood- 

 cock, grouse, and quail within an hour's 

 drive of the spot where the Soldiers' 

 Monument now stands. 



" I never shot ducks on salt water be- 

 fore to-day," continued Seth, " but I 

 like the sport, and don't think it 's easy 

 play in the battery. Many of the 

 bunches of broadbill went by at a speed 

 of fully a mile a minute, and the redhead 

 that were favored by the wind must have 

 winged it quite as fast." 



