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Concord, Mass.
1916.
Aug. 30
to
Nov. 4

Pheasant shooting.

favorable opportunity but with such indifferent success
that only two were brought to bag - both in the
Berry Pasture, where a small patch of sweet corn had been
grown and left unharvested, last year as well as this,
for the express purpose of attracting Pheasants. They
came to it only in the early morning and late
afternoon. Any that happened to be found there at
such hours could usually be closely approached without
much difficulty by stealing up behind a neighboring
brush pile and thence making a quick dash in among
the tall and crowded corn stalks. Birds thus surprised
while filling their crops with ripening maize might
rise at once on wing, perhaps from well-nigh underfoot,
mounting almost straight upward to a height of fifteen
or twenty feet before adopting level flight - thereby offering
me conspicuous targets which it seemed impossible to