August, 1920 
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great birds would spring like rockets 
from the corn. To us old black-duck 
shooters, this was a familiar style of 
shooting. They would rise at about 
thirty yards, and by holding quickly well 
above them, we cut them down one Dy 
one until we had eleven of the royal birds 
without a miss. Then we could start no 
more and turned our steps toward the 
bridge rendezvous. As we passed down 
the gentle incline across the grain field, 
the setting sun made the whole westerly 
sky a changing glory of wondrous color. 
As we neared the bridge, Andy said: 
“Neil, when we tell the boys at home 
what we have seen today and the shoot- 
ing we have had, they will never believe 
it, but fortunately for us we have Uncle 
Billy for a witness.” 
When we reached the bridge Aleck 
was not in evidence. We were very 
thirsty so walked up the road a hundred 
paces or so to a settler’s shack and asked 
for a drink of water. The woman who 
came to the door said for us to go to the 
well and help ourselves. We did so and 
found a well peculiar to us. It was a 
bored one with wooden casing about six 
inches across. The bucket was of sheet 
iron about two feet long with a trip bot- 
tom. We lowered this bucket down the 
well with a windlass, and when we 
brought it up the water looked like the 
rinsings of a milk pail, but it was wet. 
Just as the sun disappeared we heard 
a wagon in the distance; then the harsh 
voice of Aleck singing a popular song 
of the day, “Shoo Fly, Don’t Bodder Me.” 
He was in a very hilarious mood and told 
us he had found a moonshiner’s outfit 
at King City, and to prove it produced 
a quart flask of corn whiskey fresh from 
the still, which he insisted on our sam- 
pling. To satisfy him, I took about a 
teaspoonful of it, but when that liquid 
fire went down my throat it made me 
gasp for breath. How any man, unless he 
be copper liner, could drink that fiery 
stuff regularly and live is beyond me. 
A S we wended our way homeward the 
“Queen of Night” arose in all her 
glory. Under her silvery rays the 
prairie was bathed in a wonderful light, 
a veritable land of enchantment, beauti- 
ful to behold. As we drove along, drink- 
ing in the effect of the wonderful moon- 
light, Alex stopped his horses and said 
to me, who sat beside him: “Neil! she 
that jack shettin’ thar.” And there be- 
side the road sat a huge jack rabbit. He 
looked as large as a dog in the moonlight, 
and he twiddled his big ears back and 
forth in a very funny manner. Hastily 
I reached for my gun, then in my pockets 
for shells, but just as I closed the gun, 
he galloped away and was lost in the 
shadows of the prairie. 
At last we reached the town and were 
soon home again after spending a day, 
to be marked with a red letter and laid 
away in memory’s treasure box. 
Oh! blessed gift of memory, how pre- 
cious it is. My beloved companions of 
that perfect day have been laid to rest 
these many years, but as I write this 
down I can close my eyes and see all the 
events narrated as vividly as if they had 
happened yesterday. 
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