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FOREST AND STREAM 
November, 1920 
“Good 
Hunting”! 
The old jungle salutation goes 
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“Good hunting, little brother !’’ 
The game awaits in its forest 
rendezvous — October is caking 
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mass of vines which form an almost im- 
pentrable jungle. This ridge is fairly 
alive with quail but owing to the condi- 
tions named one can kill but few. Father 
and I have secured several good bags on 
this ridge. I remember one shot taken 
at a quail here just at dusk. The quail 
got up and zigzagged through the scrub 
in a bewildering manner. I took a shot 
at it and by a lucky chance brought it 
down. I was further surprised when 
going to pick it up I found three birds 
instead of one. 
THE WIZARD OF 
THE WETLANDS 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 590) 
we, often knee-deep in the soft ooze or 
astride a quaking hummock, would 
sometimes drop a pair of birds with com- 
mendable precision, or would miss en- 
tirely with both barrels. 
O NE reads in articles by authorities 
on jacksnipe shooting that the 
proper time to fire is after the 
bird has completed his gyratory motions, 
and is going straight away, or, at least, 
is pursuing an even course. Another au- 
thority will advocate smothering him the 
instant he appears, and before he begins 
his customary dodging tactics. I am go- 
ing to disagree, however, with both ad- 
vocates. I think the knack of shooting 
jacksnipe, as with other game birds, is 
in pointing straight at them, and that 
success lies not so much in strict ad- 
herence to any one rule, as in the impar- 
tial observance of all, and that when 
in doubt as to which way the bird is 
going to dodge, don’t hesitate but shoot — 
for the bird may change his mind. 
Noon, noted by the faint, far away 
blowing of whistles in town, borne on the 
frosty air, came and found us very weary, 
very hungry, and noticeably lightened in 
our shell-pockets. We called a halt to 
rest on the one convenient spot, a nearby 
hillside which the sun had to some ex- 
tent cleared of snow, and to partake of 
lunch and the spring water that trickled, 
crystal-clear, at our feet. 
About half the marsh yet remained 
unexplored, which we vowed to work 
with better success than had attended 
our earlier efforts. Behind us the ground 
was marked with heavy wallowings that 
looked as though made by pachyderms, 
but many a glistening but empty cart- 
ridge gave mute, though eloquent, testi- 
mony of human presence there before us. 
During the afternoon we missed many 
birds, killed some, and enjoyed the sport 
as only those can who have stumbled 
upon the unique opportunity of a marsh 
populated with jacksnipe. About an 
hour of daylight yet remained as 1 
brought down the last two birds with 
my last two shells — two that I had luck- 
ily discovered in a seldom used pocket of 
my hunting coat. Each of us had killed 
twenty birds, the limit allowed by law. 
There were still plenty of birds left, but 
we were law-abiding sportsmen, and not 
a consuming love for shooting, nor the 
promise of riches hereafter could have 
lured us through that morass again. For 
we were as tired as a brace of tramps, 
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