Popular Science Monthly 



911 





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Thousands of ducks find a safe shelter and breeding place at the United States Game 



Preserve at Wichita, Idaho 



Game Preserve for Ducks 



TO protect the wild ducks and other 

 birds, besides having a general closed 

 hunting season, a number of game 

 reserves have been established both in 

 the United States and Canada. Wild 

 fowl soon learn the safety of such resorts 

 and enormous flocks may be seen in 

 these havens. The photograph 

 shows an exceptionally fascinat- 

 ing view in the Game Preserve 

 established by Uncle Sam in the 

 Wichita National Forest of Idaho. 

 These same ducks, almost 

 friendly in the Game 

 Preserve as tame ducks, 

 allowing themselves to 

 be photographed at 

 very close range, will be 

 as wild and wary as 

 hawks as soon as they 

 have left its protecting 

 borders and scattered 

 among adjoining lakes 

 and rivers. 



What Time Is It? Half- 

 Past Aunt Sarah by 

 This Watch 



IF you happen to ask 

 C. W. Humberd 



of St. Joseph, Missouri, what time it 

 is by his watch and chain he is apt to 

 reply: "Just about half-past Edith" or 

 "a quarter to Calvin" or "fifteen seconds 

 after Albert." And then, of course, you 

 are shown the watch and the mystery 

 begins to unravel itself. 



Humberd, who is a contractor, has a 

 wife and ten children, just a big 

 enough family for every hour in 

 the day. Humberd had their 

 pictures arranged — one for each 

 hour — on the dial of his watch. 

 Thus his watch has thirteen faces 

 — twelve of them smil- 

 ing. 



Humberd himself 

 starts oft' as one o'clock. 

 Then comes Mrs. 

 Humberd an hour 

 behind him. The eld- 

 est son is three o'clock, 

 followed by two other 

 sons, so that it is six 

 o'clock before the first 

 daughter appears. At 

 nine o'clock there is 

 another daughter, and 

 soon down through the 

 whole happy family of 

 children. 



nearly half-past Aunt 

 Sarah by this curious 

 watch 



