WILD FOWL. 



DUCK SHOOTING. 



Proudly pre-eminent among the water-fowl of 

 the United States, for the elegance of its 

 plumage, the exquisite flavor of its flesh, and 

 the sport which it affords the shooter, stands 

 the far-famed canvass-back. Gentle reader, if 

 you have ever lain submerged in a battery on 

 Devil's Island, or in ambuscade in the narrows 

 of Spesutia, and watched them pitching, in their 

 superb way, among your decoys, or bent to your 

 oars on a blustering day, and snatched them 

 from the rough waters of the Chesapeake ; or 

 studied the markings of their winter dress, as 

 they lay upon the thw T art-board of the scow in 

 pairs of fifty at a time, and finally, if you have 

 sailed, poled or swept back to Havre de Grace 

 by the light of the moon dropped anchor and 

 gone on shore to dine upon them cooked au 

 naturel, then, perhaps, you have realized, to 

 its fullest extent, the spell contained in those 

 potent words, 



