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CHAPTER XXIX. 



BRANT, OR BRENT GOOSE. 



Are they Hutchin's Geese ? Nomenclature of the goose family Old 

 honkers Hunted same as Canada Geese. 



CHAPTER XXX. 



TRUMPETER SWAN. 



Strangers in the West Largest of wild fowl Spotless white Syno- 

 nyms of grace Known for ages Antony and Cleopatra On the 

 Mississippi Delighted hunter Two birds Habits How to ap- 

 proach them Their flight Their cries. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



CANADA GOOSE SHOOTING. 



Their ancestry Known in England centuries ago In ancient Rome 

 Where they breed Migrate in spring Still go northward to 

 Arctic Sea Easily domesticated Love home of adoption Are long 

 lived At 80 years of age mischievous An old gander What he 

 may have seen How they are shot on the Mississippi and Missouri 

 Rivers Profile decoys How they are made Dress warm How 

 to load for geese Artificial goose-calls deceptive in speed In the 

 Mississippi among floating ice How to scull them there How 

 they act on approach of scull-boat Blinds on sand-bars On a bar 

 in the Missouri river By moon-light In Nebraska, on the Platte 

 River-Regularity of going and returning to feeding grounds 

 Where they feed Shooting from pits in stubble-fields A cold 

 blustering morning Tenacity of life The prairies An army of 

 Geese Their encampment A thousand gray bodies A narrow 

 escape Our blind a success Calling geese to decoys How they 

 come from vast heights Two pair "Shake" Our visitor He 

 stut-stut-stutters But knows all about the geese 4 below zero A 

 fool goose Words of truth derived from experience. 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



BOATS. 



Hunter should own one Advantages in having a boat Checkmated 

 without one Mallards just across the stream Oh. for a boat or a 

 raft ! The great desideratum Safety A hunting boat and not a 

 skiff For general use Caught in the swift flood A maelstrom, 

 but we laugh at danger The boat as a companion Short of length 

 How it looks Sits lows, but not a drop comes in Surprised na- 

 tives Freedom of the village Skill required to build a boat What 

 one costs Good after 20 years use Watch the wagon stakes Are 

 you a farmer ? Different kinds of boats How to make a boat. 



