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same sizes as the bluebills, averaging between two and 

 a half and two and three-quarter pounds. 



But to return to our duck blind; the wind had risen 

 again and was now blowing a gale from the north. The 

 mist had cleared somewhat but the rollers were piling in 

 so that we knew it would be impossible to go out in the 

 little boat beyond the shelter of the point. We refused 

 to shoot ducks that we could not retrieve so we resolved 

 to shoot none that would not fall either in the shelter 

 of the point or far enough inshore to the north so that 

 they would drift ashore. No sooner had we made this 

 decision than the ducks began to fly thick and fast, ap- 

 parently stirred up by the quickening of the wind. For 

 every one that passed within the shelter of the point or 

 inshore to the north, there were ten that passed within 

 easy range outside of the point, such that if killed they 

 would have drifted down the middle of the lake. Before 

 the sun got low in the sky, however, we managed to 

 secure two more canvasbacks and two bluebills, making 

 thirteen ducks in all, and we were ready to call it a 

 good day's sport. If we were to judge by the bag limit, 



set by law, as to what constitutes a good day's sport, we 

 would have had to acknowledge that we had just begun, 

 for the law allows twenty-five to the individual or forty 

 to the blind. Thank fortune, however, though the law 

 may encourage a man to make a "hog" of himself when 

 the opportunity offers, it cannot control his standards 

 of a good time, and we did not feel that we had to carry 

 home over a hundred pounds of ducks in order to say 

 that we had had a good shoot. 



Some day our children or children's children will ask 

 what we did with the twenty-five ducks that the law 

 allowed us to kill in one day and they will wonder 

 why we did not let a few more of them live so that they 

 could get an occasional shot at a real wild duck instead 

 of at those raised in captivity and released. Some of 

 us will feel quite ashamed of the age in which we spent 

 our youth and will try to explain it away, but others of 

 us will have to admit "It's history, my son; wild ducks, 

 wild pigeons, wild bisons, are history, first come, first 

 served." 



THE LARGEST SAWS IN THE WORLD 



HENRY DISSTON & SONS, INC., of Philadelphia, have recently finished two of the largest circular saws 

 ever made. They are of the spiral inserted tooth type, and are to be used by a well-known concern in the Far 

 West for cutting shingle blocks from the large trees of that section. Each of the new saws measures 108 

 inches (9 feet) in diameter, and in the rim are inserted 190 teeth. One may gain some idea of so tremendous a 

 saw by comparing it with a 54 inch saw, which requires for its making an ingot of steel weighing approximately 

 180 pounds and its weight when finished is about 125 pounds. The 108-inch saw started out as an ingot 

 weighing 1,140 pounds, and after reheating, rolling and trimming the remaining weight was about 795 pounds. 

 In size a 54-inch saw is apparently just half that of the 108-inch one, but actually the 108-inch is four times the 

 size of the former, as a measurement of square inches of surface will show. In the making of large circular 

 saws Henry Disston & Sons have had long experience. As long ago as 1876 they made one 100 inches in 

 diameter for exhibition purposes. Some years after they made another 100-inch saw for cutting stone, each 

 tooth of which was studded with a black diamond to give the necessary cutting edge. 



