NORTH DAKOTA. 



A s]iortsni;m's paradise, in truth, is this 

 Whfie iiothinfT mars or meddles with hi.s bliss ; 

 Nimrod himself might envy such a spot, 

 Nor find his game unworthy of his shot. 



— IVhillon. 



t~N orP.TT.T'.SS, North Dakota is the "paradise of 



I I the sportsman " but I am not so sure it contains 



ly nothing: to " meddle with his bliss." Indeed I 



have strong evidence to the contrary which T will .spread 



before the reader a little further on. 



We wound u]) our e.<cursion in a blaze of magnificent 

 sport at Dawson, in this state. The proxiniitv of the 

 place to enormous wheatfields and innumerable sloughs, 

 ponds and lakes causes all kinds of aquatic game birds to 

 congregate here and in the greatest abundance. All the 

 duck tribe, including the red head, the mallard, the 

 widgeon, teal, black, and l)ald pate; the Canadian gray 

 goose, the beautilul white goo.se, sandhill cranes, and the 

 plump, solid-meated prairie chicken, all these are here 

 and many others, awaiting the pleasure of the sportsmen. 

 The latter come from all parts of the country— but par- 

 ticularly from vSt. Paul and Chicago— with their lo-bores 

 and t2-bores, their retrieving s]>aniels and their Irish 

 setters. 



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