BARRb:L-HOlJSE BLIND 

 trees and sometimes they are called the nut- 

 hatch, but 1 have never heard where she got the 

 name. But like any hunter who kills a duck 

 and does not know the name of it he can offer a 

 guess. The wood-ducks build their nests in 

 hollow trees. Sometimes the flying squirrel or 

 wood-mice will carry a few butter-nuts or beach 

 nuts in a wood-duck's nest to crack at his leis- 

 ure and perhaps some early observers found 

 these nuts in a wood duck's nest and jokingly 

 accused the duck of trying to hatch them. I 

 have come to the conclusion that this is the 

 way that so many new names of ducks have 

 sprung up in later years. A few days later we 

 broke camp and moved out of the marsh, 

 scarcely a duck was to be seen. This was the 

 first portable blind or tub-shooting ever done on 

 the Kankakee. A year or so later there were 

 scores of sink tubs in use but of a different type. 

 They were made of galvanized sheet iron most- 

 ly instead of an old kerosene barrel, and while I 

 do not want to claim anything new in shooting 



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