The town hasn't over two hundred inhabitants, but 

 it boasts of a large hotel, which is now reaping its 

 harvest from the pockets of the lots of men who know 

 how to shoot as well as the lots that don't. 



The migratory wild fowl are now making their waj^ 

 down from the far North in countless multitudes, feedino- 

 on the wheat fields and ponds in the early morning and 

 late evening, and resting in the centre of some lake large 

 enough to keep them from out the reach of the deadly 

 breech-loader durina: the dav. 



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The flights of geese are something wonderful, and it 

 is more wonderful still that so very tew of them are shot. 

 There is no more wary or suspicious bird than the Canada 

 goose. They will not settle anywhere without first care- 

 fully looking the ground over. From the height at which 

 they fly and in the rarefied atmosphere of the prairies they 

 can see for miles, and thev carefullv avoid anv movins: 



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object, particularly if it be that of the human form. 



We had spent several days there f^efore we were able 

 to discover the fields they were feeding on. When we did 

 find the place it was literally sprinkled with their droppings 

 and breast feathers. We selected a suitable spot, dug two 

 luxurious pits, fixed the edges up with wheat stubble as 

 carefully as possible, set our decoys and jumped in to 

 await the coming of the "honkers." We had been in 

 the pits only a few minutes when we saw away off on the 

 prairie what appeared to be a man with a dog. The man 

 seemed demented, jumping and running around, and l\'ing 

 down on his back, then jumping up again and repeating 

 his operations in the most eccentric manner. We held a 

 whispered consultation from pit to pit as to what was best 



