284 FEATHERED GAME 
ger where there is the greatest number of 
heads. The encore when the survivors rise like 
the scattered fragments of a bursting shell will 
hardly account for more than a pair, but usually 
the ‘‘pot-shot’’ with the first barrel has done 
grand service toward thinning the game sup- 
ply, and it is no uncommon occurrence for one 
gun in experienced hands to gather in nearly 
all of the flock. I have known a man to wait 
twenty minutes with his destroyer resting on 
the edge of the ‘‘sink”’ in order to clean up the 
whole bunch with one cartridge. Commend- 
able economy! These methods are mainly em- 
ployed by market gunners whose favorite 
weapon is, in most cases, an eight- or four-bore 
‘“‘shoulder cannon.’’ To the majority of 
shooters I believe that one duck killed cleanly 
on the wing will bring more real satisfaction 
than half a dozen thus murdered. 
Very rarely is the Black Duck fooled by any 
wooden imitation of his kind. His keen eyes 
mark the difference long before he is within the 
reach of the gun, and swerving on rapid wings 
he climbs skyward and makes off at great speed 
—going clean out of sight, returning not at all 
to such a dangerous neighborhood. 
