CONTESTS. 



CHAPTER XII. 



Wild Geese, Cranes, and Swans. 



The Canada Goose and Brant Goose— Mexican Geese— Hutchinson's 

 Goose— The White-Fronted Goose — The Snow Goose— Migration 

 o£ Wild Geese— Flight of Wild Geese— Habits of the Geese— First 

 of the Spring Migrants — Geese on Pasture-Lands— The Best 

 Shooting Places — Means of Concealment— Shooting on the Pas- 

 tures from a Buggy — Long Shots at Geese — The Fall Geese — In 

 Wheat-Fields and Shocked Corn — The Boosting Places — Times 

 when Geese Resort to Timber — A Flock on the Ice — Getting into 

 the River— The Ague, and a Remedy— Shooting Brant and Mexican 

 Geese — Great Packs of Mexican Geese— The Cranes of the West 

 — The Sand-Hill Crane — Its High Flight in Spring— Feeding on 

 Corn in Fall— The Large White Crane— Wounded Cranes Fight 

 Hard — Flesh of Cranes when Hung— Pelicans and Swans on the 

 Mississippi, 198-332 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Wild Turkey and Deer Shooting. 



Excellence and Beauty of the Wild Turkey— Its Haunts and Habits 

 — Methods of Shooting Turkeys— The Wild Turkey's Nest— Track- 

 ing Turkeys in Snow— Shooting in Thick Snow-Storms— Shooting at 

 Crossing Places— Tracking Turkeys on the Sangamon — Lost in 

 the Timber— A Walk Home of Thirteen Miles— The Great Gobbler 

 of the Sangamon— Turkey Shooting on Shoal Creek— The Cold 

 Nights in Camp— Eleven Turkeys to One Gun in Half a Day- 

 After a Wounded Deer — Camping Out without a Tent — A Heavy 

 Thunder-Storm on Delavan Prairie — Deer Shooting in the West — 

 Haunts and Habits— My First Deer— Deer Shooting on Horse- 

 hack, 333-250 



CHAPTER XIV. 



The Art op Shooting on the Wing. 



Tho Art Easily Acquired — Boys Should begin to Shoot Early — No 

 Danger of Accidents — Loading Guns — Large Shot and Too Much 

 Shot Mischievous — Guns for Boys — Handling the Gun — Loading 

 the Gun — Light Loads at First — Shooting at a Target — No Shoot- 

 ing at Sitting Birds — Shooting Larks and Blackbirds — How to 

 Aim — Shooting at Toung Grouse — The Causes of Missing — How to 

 Aim at Crossing Birds — Long Shots — The Shot Towers at New 

 Tork— The Cartridge Company of Bridgeport, , , S51-37S 



