WE TRY THE LAMP DODGE 75 



I had often been aggravated at seeing 

 great bodies of geese and ducks in the harbour, 

 without being able to get a shot at them by 

 any device known to me then; so, after 

 reading in a sporting magazine that they 

 were in some shooting resorts successfully 

 approached at night by lights, my companion 

 and I decided to try it at Port Joli. 



Having provided ourselves, at considerable 

 expense, with a powerful reflector and lamp, 

 attached to the inside of a box two feet 

 square, we proceeded to the harbour, and 

 attached it to the bow of a fisherman's 

 dory. You will notice we did not want to 

 take any advantage of our unsuspecting 

 game, so put the light high, that they might 

 see it afar. All the necessary preparations 

 completed, as we supposed for the slaughter 

 of a dory-load, we sneaked along in the 

 shadow of the windward shore, until just 

 opposite where we heard bodies of geese 

 talking. Then we lit the light, and started 

 before a fresh breeze down upon them. 

 Great Scot ! what a noise ! A tornado or a 

 dust-storm on the prairie only could equal 

 the noise of the thousands of geese and ducks 



