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 hunt on Wolf Lake just as soon as the ice goes 

 out?" In less than ten minutes the trip was all 

 arranged and the start was to be made as soon 

 . as the ice was out of the marshes. V/olf Lake 

 was noted for its early duck shooting on account 

 tliat the ice goes out sooner than it does on the 

 shallow v/ater marsh, as the winter snows and 

 soft winds will soon melt it out long before it 

 does on the shallow water where there is more 

 grass and willows frozen in the ice that holds it 

 down under the water so that the sun and winds 

 never touch it. It is a long time going out. 

 These marshes have attracted the attention of 

 sportsmen from all parts of the country who 

 would pilgrimage to this region year after year 

 to shoot geese and ducks, It was very seldom 

 that a mistake was made by coming to this 

 place for successful duck shooting. The hunters 

 pulled down their birds with distressing regular- 

 ity, although it is practically prairie shooting 

 which is so deceiving to the novice. From this 

 fact that in later years the shooting is done from 



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