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^oose. Not but what he occasionally 

 knocks over a swan, as he did a few 

 days ago, or a white brant, or some 

 Dther unwary and deluded fowl, but, 

 when you get into the innermost pene- 

 tralia of his heart you will find that in 

 it is kept a little shrine for the worship 

 Df the Canada goose ; and Jackson has 

 lad the most exceptional success in per- 

 suading these fowl to 

 tarry with him. Some 

 of the illustrations 

 that I am enabled to 

 give in this article 

 emphasize this point. 

 Moreover, Jackson's 

 terms are reasonable. 

 If you are content 

 with duck he will 

 only charge you $5 a 

 day, and, if you must 

 have geese, and lots 

 of them, he won't 

 charge you more than 

 $10, although he has 

 everything for the 

 comfort of man and 

 the discomfort of the 

 goose. 



Yet, with all these 

 advantages, Jackson 



is not a perfectly happ) 

 man. I lc confided to me, 

 after I had pul him 

 through a cross-examina- 

 tion that would have done 

 credit to Mr. Jerome, that 

 beach shooting begins just 

 four days too late. I f, in- 

 stead of allowing him to 

 shoot beach birds on 

 July 16th, the wise men at 

 Albany would consent to 

 the season opening on 

 July 12th, one of Mr. 

 Jackson's deepest sorrows 

 would be removed. It 

 appears that the small and 

 contrary feathered crea- 

 tures known as beach 

 birds, have a reprehensible 

 habit of choosing a date 

 between the 12th and 

 1 6th of July for a Southern flight, and 

 this flight Jackson, being a law-abiding 

 man, has to miss. 



He would be perfectly willing to have 

 the season end on the 1st of Novem- 

 ber if they would only give him those 

 four glorious days in July when the 

 birds are flying and his finger trigger 

 is bothering him quite a lot. 



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