CHAPTER V 



SMALL GAME 



Small game is usually despised and overlooked 

 in a locality where big game is found, but a great 

 mistake is made in doing so, for small game can 

 afford many a good day's sport and many a good 

 hour's yarn after. 



A shooting trip can be made doubly interesting 

 in variety of sport and bag, and many a pretty skin 

 brought home for mounting, by taking into considera- 

 tion the smaller sporting creatures, such as game 

 birds, hares, and rabbits, etc., which can always be 

 found in any game country, and duck and geese on 

 the lagoons and waterholes where the big game go 

 to drink, thus passing away many an off-day when 

 one is too tired for a long tramp after larger stuff 

 and making a pleasant change from the rifle to the 

 shot-gun. 



On the safe return home, how a snap-shot of some 



bit of scenery or a camp, or a yarn of some incident 



connected with a trophy now hanging on the walls, 



will recall those days with a shot-gun and of how 



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