262 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



Some Mitchell's Lake Reminiscenses and Hunting 

 Scenes of Small Game Around San Antonio 



Mitchell's Lake, Cassin's Lake, 

 and the old Greytown Laguna de 

 los Patos, as well as the more 

 modern Blue Wing Lake, are 

 all more or less known as fine 

 hunting preserves for the fleety 

 web-foots, as well as snipe, 

 swamp-rabbits and occasionally, 



es and a number of huge forest 

 trees submerged in the lake water, 

 with some ducks and water hens 

 gathered around a tree stump, 

 (under sojne moss-laden old hack- 

 berry trees) . One of the old for- 

 est monarchs, fronting the boat- 

 house, had been felled years ago, 



Mitchell's Lake Scenery Near Old Boat House (Now Long Ago Abandoned) 

 (Photo By The Writer, Winter 1908) 



the haunts of wild geese, pelicans 

 and the long billed curlew or king 

 snipe; and .what this interesting 

 Mitchell 's lagoon looked like years 

 ago, is presented in the three orig- 

 inal photographic views herein 

 showing one of the old boat hous- 



by lightning, and remnants of 

 same are seen at Mitchell's lake 

 to this day, and it had often been 

 used as a "blind" to pop some 

 of the waterfowl close to this tree 

 remnant. This part of the old 

 lake always presented a beautiful 



