THE GAME BREEDER ll 



tive stories told by a man who knows ters and testimonials from sportsmen who 



the birds and their foods, not only the have purchased the foods, 



waterfowl and the waders but also the The stories of big bags, of wonderful 



quail which are in the fields back of his days afield and afloat, of prominent peo- 



house and the jacksnipe and other waders pie, living and dead, including several 



which come to the vast marshes on the presidents of the United States, should 



island and to the other marshes across be written and preserved in a book, 



the Sound where the sand dunes shut One interesting story was about a live 



out the ocean. pigeon match attended by some prom- 



I knew it was too early to see the inent men, including the magician Her- 



abundant waterfowl, most of which ar- man. A bet was made before reaching 



rive a little later, but I had made up my the ground that the birds to be shot were 



mind that the next time I was in North young (squabs in fact) that could not 



Carolina I would accept a standing invi- fly. The birds flew well during the 



tation to see the preserve and to have a match, and as they were retrieved by 



talk with its owner, a man who knows a dog were placed in a basket. Later the 



as much as, and probably more, than any birds in the basket were found to be 



one about the wildfowl and their natural squabs. Just before starting for the ho- 



foods. tel, however, where some of the birds 



The trip is made from Norfolk, Va., were to be served, Herman removed the 

 on a little steamer which leaves at night, cover and all the birds flew away. He 

 running through a canal into the Sound, was urged to tell how he did the trick, but 

 and arriving about daybreak in front said he must decline to do so. 

 of Mr. White's house. Since the chan- Imagine, my worthy readers, if you 

 nel is some distance from the shore a can, the enjoyment of spending a week- 

 small motorboat came out to take me off end with a man who has a wonderful 

 and I knew from the hearty greeting fund of information about game birds 

 that it was Mr. White who welcomed me. and their foods, who has had a wide ex- 



We began a most interesting conver- perience in shooting wildfowl, who has 

 sation at breakfast and we kept it up met and shot with a large number of 

 for four days. When we went out on interesting people, and you will appre- 

 the Sound Mr. White lifted various foods ciate the good time I had during my 

 from the water and told me about them week-end at Waterlily. 

 and what the various species of ducks If you wish to have a good shoot dur- 

 preferred. We rambled in the fields of ing the fall or winter I would advise you 

 corn and cotton with a pointer and I saw to try and arrange a visit to White's 

 vast areas of good quail ground, begin- preserve. Unfortunately he only enter- 

 ning at the back door and extending tains a few at a time and you will be 

 across the island and on the mainland fortunate if you can find a time when 

 , beyond as far as the eye can reach. One the bungalow is not fully occupied. One 

 day I took a ramble to see if I could find great charm about the place is that on 

 the first jacksnipe which had arrived rest days, when shooting on the Sound 

 on a vast snipe ground at the north end is prohibited, one can ramble for miles 

 of the island and I can readily imag- i" pursuit of quail or can seek the fes- 

 ine the good shooting to be had when tive jacksnipe on the splendid snipe 

 the meadows and marshes are fully ten- ground. I hope to return for the shoot- 

 anted by these migrants. ing and it may be I can write a proper 



Mr. White knows many prominent story about the place and its owner. I 



sportsmen who have visited him and doubt much if there is a better shooting 



many he has met when shooting from ground in America, 



New Brunswick to Florida. Lately he ' * 



has furnished large quantities of wild Important, 



duck food which has been planted in Game eating is important since it tends 



ponds and lakes from New England to to keep the prices up and to make the 



Texas. He has many interesting let- people friendly to field sports. 



