March, 1921 
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for us to follow him. After walking 
a short distance, we came to the back 
furrow of a section line, down which he 
waved his hand and nodded his head, 
then turned and left us. So off we 
started again, down the section line. 
We walked a long distance and the 
ducks were getting mighty heavy when 
we came to a large grain stack, where 
we stopped to rest. 
Now, Uncle Billy had cut one of his 
feet very badly before coming West, 
and this foot began to give out, so 
when we started on again he said : 
“You go on boys, and I will stay here, 
as long as I can hear you, and if you 
don’t strike the place, you can come 
back and we will camp in the stack till 
morning.” 
We started on again and I was in 
the lead. After going about two hun- 
dred yards, I suddenly fell over a low 
hedge right on top of a bunch of sleep- 
ing hogs, who swiftly fled with many 
grunts and snorts of terror. 
“Its all right boys,” I called back. “I 
know right where we are. Just behind 
Old Man Scott’s house. I saw this 
hedge and these hogs when we left the 
house this morning.” And just then 
Mr. Scott came around the corner of 
the house with his lantern and gun 
to signal us, as he had reasoned out 
that we were lost. It developed that 
the road forked at the pond’s edge and 
we had followed the shore in a curve 
until we were at least two miles off 
our course. 
With a sigh of relief we piled our 
ducks and single goose on the porch 
floor, and they made an imposing sight. 
I do not now recall the exact number, 
but there must have been at least sev- 
enty-five in all. We did not tie them 
all up, and I fear some of them slipped 
through our benumbed fingers in that 
long walk. 
M RS. SCOTT had a bountiful sup- 
per prepared for us, of which hot 
biscuit and fried fresh pork 
formed a part, and I assure you we did 
full justice to the repast. After sup- 
per cigars were lighted, chairs shoved 
back, and we began to get acquainted. 
In those days newspapers and period- 
icals were few and far between, and 
these good people were starved for 
news. They asked us hundreds of ques- 
tions about the East, and especially 
about the great cities and the Atlantic 
Ocean. We in turn asked many ques- 
tions of them regarding the prairie 
country, and a very enjoyable evening 
was spent. 
We spoke of the great number of 
ducks, and Mr. Scott informed us that 
they were comparatively few to what 
they had been ten years before. He 
said: “They were in millions then, 
where now they are in thousands, and 
I can notice a change for the worse 
each succeeding year.” 
At last bed time came and we found 
Mrs. Scott and her daughters had been 
busy and had cleaned the new rooms, 
put up beds and could accommodate us 
all, muc> to our surprise and pleasure. 
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