Summer Shooting 



these birds pass southward in their 

 long migration, but he cannot know 

 whether they will keep far out at sea 

 or will on some unknown day be driv- 

 en by wind and weather to the shore 

 for temporary rest and feeding, and 

 thus give him his opportunity. Though 

 the presence on marsh or shore of a 

 few bird stragglers may put him on 

 his guard, it must still remain a ques- 

 tion whether the game in sufficient 

 quantities to make good shooting is 

 hundreds or thousands of miles away 

 or in the neighborhood of the shoot- 

 ing grounds. 



I believe the unusual contingencies 

 of shore-bird shooting and the wider 

 scope they give for hope and expecta- 

 tion, together with the manifold con- 

 ditions which give abundant oppor- 

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