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Bow -Shooting. 





ALONG THE BAY. 



them nearly empty ! We threatened to trounce him roundly when he 

 got sober ; but that great black, appealing face repelled our anger, 

 and we forgave him. 



I cannot think of camp life in Florida without longing to talk and 

 write glowingly of it, but this paper must be a " practical " one. I 

 am sure of this, however : no man ever went to Florida with a shot- 

 gun and found such sport, such exercise, such exhilarating pastime 

 and recreation, as he could have found had he been an accomplished 

 archer. Much of our time there was spent heron-shooting, and every 

 sportsman knows what a wary, wild, almost unapproachable bird the 

 heron is. Let me here say that woodcraft is probably the most 

 important and most difficult part of all an archer's training. To be a 

 successful hunter with the bow, you must know perfectly all the 



