A Duck-Hunting Trip 



"The Duck Hunter Is Born Not 

 Made" 



Suppose the discomforts willingly 

 endured by duck hunters were re- 

 quired of employees in an industrial 

 establishment. There would be one 

 place where a condition of strike 

 would be constant and chronic. If it 

 be said that the gratification of bring- 

 ing down ducks pays for all the suf- 

 fering of their pursuit, the question 

 obtrudes itself, how is this compensa- 

 tion forthcoming in the stress of bad 

 luck or no luck, and how is it that 

 the duck-hunting propensity survives 

 all conditions and all fortunes? 



I am satisfied that there is but one 

 way to account for the unyielding en- 

 thusiasm of those who hunt ducks and 

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