CONTENTS. 7 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



BRANT, OE BRENT GOOSIfi. 



Are they Hutchin's Geese ? — N'omenclatnre of the goose family — Old 

 honkers — Hunted same as Canada Geese- 



CHAPTER XXX. 



TRUMPETER SWAN. 



Strangers in the West — Largest of wild fowl — Spotless white — Syno- 

 . nyms of graee — Known for ages — ^Antony and Cleopatra — On the 

 Mississippi — Delighted hunter — Two birds — ^Habits — How to ap- 

 proach them — Theii- flight — Their cries. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



CANADA GOOSE SHOOTING. 



Their ancestry — Known in England centuries ago — In ancient Rome 

 — Whei'e they breed — Migrate in spring — Still go northward to 

 Arctic Sea — ^Easily domesticated — Love home of adoption — Are long 

 lived — At 80 years of age mischievous — An old gander — What he 

 may have seen — How they are shot on the Mississippi and Missouri 

 Rivers — Profile decoys — How they are made — Dress warm — How 

 to load for geese — ^Artificial goose-calls — deceptive in speed — In the 

 Mississippi among floating ice — How to scull them there — How 

 they act on approach of seuU-boat — Blinds on sand-bars — On a bat 

 in the Missouri river — 13y moon-light — In Kebraska, on the Platte 

 River-Regularity of going and returning to feeding grounds — 

 Where they feed — Shooting from pits in stubble-fields — A cold 

 blustering morning — Tenacity of life — The prairies — An army of 

 Geese — ^Their encampment — A thousand gray bodies — A narrow 

 escape — Our blind a success — Calling geese to decoys — How they 

 come from vast heights — Two *pair — "Shake "-^Our visitor — He 

 stut-stut-stutters — ^But knows all about the geese — 4° below zero — A. 

 fool goose — Words of truth derived from experience. 



CHAPTER XXXIL 



Hunter should own one — Advantages in having a boat — Checkmated 

 without one — Mallards just across the stream — Oil. for a boat or a 

 raft ! — The great desideratum — Safety — A hunting boat and not a 

 skiff — For general use — Caught in the swift flood — A maelstrom, 

 but we laugh at danger — The boat as a companion — Short of length 

 — How it looks — Sits lows, but not a drop conies in — Surprised na.- 

 tives — Freedom of the village — Skill required to build a boat — ^What 

 one costs — Good after 20 years use — Watch the wagon stakes — Are 

 you a farmer ? — Different kinds of boats— How to make a boat. 



