, FEATHERED GAME 
at your shoulder but you see him only dimly 
id mark his course mostly by the shaking 
vigs and so decide to wait until he tops yon 
illen tree and comes more clearly into view. 
hus you learn that you must take this fellow 
hen you can, for he knows better than to rise 
to your open view like that. Such a move 
ight do for a woodcock, but this master of 
van strategy knows a trick worth two of 
iat. He dives below the log, runs into the 
inkly growing brakes and fifty yards beyond 
zain takes wing to fly in safety into a thick 
»mlock on the side hill. You lower your gun 
ad exclaim, ‘‘ Well, I’ll be hanged!’’ (or words 
1 that effect), and a red squirrel, sole witness 
> your defeat, goes scurrying up the spruce 
‘ee at your side and jeers and chuckles and 
sasses’’ you with all the wild-wood impudence 
: his command. No opportunity should be al- 
wed to pass unimproved if you are to make 
good score. Your percentage of kills to car- 
‘idges used is bound to be small, so don’t try 
» “‘fatten your average’’ by picking shots. 
nder ordinary conditions one cannot make a 
ag of Ruffed Grouse and be sparing of his 
mmunition. It is often necessary to shoot 
