Quail Shooting 



to shame as to seek their destruction 

 in ways most foul. A covey of quail 

 will sometimes huddle as close to- 

 gether as possible in a circle, with 

 their heads turned outward. I have 

 heard of men who, discovering them 

 in this situation, have fired upon them, 

 killing every one at a single shot. 

 There ought to be a law which would 

 consign one guilty of this crime to 

 prison for a comfortable term of 

 years. A story is told of a man so 

 stupidly unsportsmanlike that when he 

 was interfered with as he raised his 

 gun, apparently to shoot a quail run- 

 ning on the ground, he exclaimed with 

 irritation : "I did not intend to shoot 

 until it had stopped running." This 

 may be called innocent stupidity; but 

 there is no place for such a man 

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