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ish to another red-letter day — six straight ! 
misses on a lazy rabbit and seven straight 
kills on dodging quail. l 
’^HE third day was featured by a trip ' 
over the old ridge hunting ground, , 
long famous for its rabbit, grouse, and 
quail shooting; but it seemed to have 
been hunted out, for quite a lot of tramp- 
ing around was necessary before a rab- 
bit, one of those “wee but auld” kind, 
was killed in a pine thicket. It seemed 
like a shame to take the money on this 
one, but it was dead and would taste just 
as good, or better, than the big ones. 
The first shot always breaks the ice on 
the day’s luck and before long an old 
rouser of a big woods-rabbit got up about 
thirty yards ahead from the far side of a 
dense thicket of small trees, and gave me 
a chance to waste two loads at where I 
thought he ought to be after obtaining a 
glimpse of him as he cleared a pile of 
brush. 
Judging by his size, this one was the 
celebrated Reisch Woods-rabbit that had 
laughed at all the dogs and gunners in 
that section for five or six years. He 
always jumped wild, seemed to have an 
uncanny cunning and speed, and there- 
fore always gets ofif with a whole hide. 
Shooting at these big woods-rabbits is 
great sport. When you get one it is al- 
ways an old patriarch and when you 
don’t it usually is on one of these typical 
hard-luck shots and you don’t feel fool- 
ish about it. 
Nothing more turned up for a while 
until a covey of twelve or fifteen quail 
flew out of a briar thicket on the edge of 
a stubble field and I fanned with both 
loads. It seemed to be a regular habit 
to miss coveys that year. 
A single from the w'heat stubble was 
also a clean miss and a bunch of three 
got away cleanly. Another single was 
brought down and I went back to hunt 
the stubble field to see what had become 
of the remainder of the covey. 
Three of them flushed and one of them 
dropped a clean kill, to the second barrel, 
while the others flew back towards the 
briars where the covey was first jumped. 
Once more they got up and another one 
went into the hunting coat. Then there 
was nothing doing for a time, while I 
whistled to locate the singles and also to 
get a rest, because quail shooting without 
a dog becomes rather strenuous at times. 
After calling for half an hour with no 
apparent success, I got up to stretch, and 
while looking at the time, which was 
3 :20 P.M., a big quail rose within twenty 
feet or so of me and flew towards the 
woods. I kept my eye on the bird, and 
tried frantically to get the watch into 
my coat; but the flap was down and I 
could not find the pocket. So at last, not 
daring to take my eye off the bird, I 
threw the watch to the ground and heard 
it strike with a sickening whack on the 
only rock available; I then killed the 
quail as it dived into the tops of some 
hicTfory trees forty-five or fifty yards 
away. Atteff*-marking it down, reload- 
ing, and retrieving, I walked back to find 
the remains of the watch, supposing that 
I had paid a good price for that bird; 
but there lay my timepiece ticking away 
in good order. 
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