Summer Shooting 



the far North brings shore-birds and 

 plover both old and full-grown 

 young along our Eastern coast, in 

 first-rate condition. My experience 

 in shooting this game has all been 

 within recent years, and almost en- 

 tirely in the marshes and along the 

 shores of Cape Cod. Like other 

 members of the present generation 

 and later comers in a limited field, I 

 have been obliged to hear with tire- 

 some iteration the old, old story of 

 gray-haired men who tell of the "arms 

 and the man" who in days gone by, on 

 this identical ground, have slain these 

 birds by thousands. The embellish- 

 ment of these tales by all the inci- 

 dents that mark the progress of our 

 people in game extermination I have 

 accepted as furnishing an explanation 

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