Quail Shooting 



ted only at a season of the year when 

 nature freely dispenses, to those who 

 submit to her treatment, the potent 

 tonic of cool and bracing air and the 

 invigorating influences of fields and 

 trees and sky, no longer vexed by sum- 

 mer heat. It invites early rising ; and 

 as a general rule a successful search 

 for these uncertain birds involves long 

 miles of travel on foot. Obviously 

 this sport furnishes an abundance 

 of muscular action and physically 

 strengthening surroundings. These, 

 fortunately, are supplemented by the 

 eager alertness essential to the dis- 

 covery and capture of game well 

 worth the effort, and by the recreative 

 and self-satisfying complacency of 

 more or less skillful shooting. 



In addition to all this, the quail 

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