December, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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were tew. Shortly after leaving the 
Klappan crossing a large grey wolf ran 
across our trail about twenty-five yards 
ahead of us. There was no opportunity 
for a shot. He ran with a slow, loping 
gait, and occasionally leaped high in the 
willow brush to enable him to see ahead. 
On the nineteenth there were showers 
and the first snow. On the twenty-first 
the mercury registered 16° in the morn- 
ing, but it soon turned warm and a 
steady, cold, drenching rain set in. We 
traveled on until evening. Pitching 
camp was disagreeable. A stove in the 
tent makes a dry camp; and we had the 
stove. 
There is a fascination in a big game 
hunt in the mountains that I can feel 
but cannot describe. This fascination is 
woven about majestic mountains, fast 
waters, limpid lakes, bright skies and 
the tints of the alpenglows. But the 
lure of it all is the crafty ways of the 
wary wild beasts roaming about in their 
native haunts. 
UNDER STRINGING 
GOOSE FLOCKS 
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Seconds dragged endlessly as the tame 
geese gabbled excitedly. Then, start- 
lingly close, those incomers answered. 
Black, outstretched necks and the quiv- 
ering pinions of broad wings loomed 
overhead. Directly over me two geese 
soared in, with black feet dropped down 
under gray bodies. “I’ll take the lead- 
er!” shouted Ted. At his cry, those 
great wings beat suddenly climbing. 
His gun crashed. I heard the shot 
strike. The leader’s snake-like neck fell 
limp. Flat on my back, I threw up my 
gun. As I pulled, the recoil jambed my 
shoulder hard on the box floor. My 
goose collapsed in mid air, tumbling 
almost upon me. It struck alongside, 
showering me with spatter. 
I sat up, rubbing my shoulder, and 
gazed transfixed. Three hundred yards 
away, five Canadas were rearing helter- 
skelter, away from our fusillade. Noise- 
lessly, they had been decoying while we 
watched behind. They were gone, 
driven into fading dots by fear-impulsed 
wings. Captain Jackson called upon his 
Red Gods to witness that we should 
have had all five. But Ted and I re- 
fused to grieve over any possibility 
when we each had about nine pounds 
of web-footed certainly by the leg. 
While Jackson changed some decoys, 
which, for some cryptic reason, “warn’t 
right,” we shook icicles out of our cir- 
culation. The temperature was higher, 
but the wind swept tirelessly and sur- 
charged with shivery dampne'ss off the 
sea. As we squandered hundreds of 
yards of energy upon a ten foot sand 
strip, we heard him cry, “Look at that, 
will you!” I heard the wheu-wheu of 
duck wings and eight broadbill flashed 
over like feathered projectiles. In- 
stinctively we crouched and splashed 
uselessly back to our blind, almost on 
all fours. Nothing stirred when we 
were settled again. There always was 
a certain fatality connected with leav- 
ing a point. 
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