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long stick with which she drew the bird 
toward her; then as she stooped to pick 
it up something went wrong and she 
plunged into the water head first. 
Without stopping to think that so far as 
help from me was concerned she would 
be drowned long before I could reach 
her, I started at my best speed for the 
place, but when I arrived there out of 
breath and very much blown, I was 
coolly informed that Mary was all right, 
but had gone home to change her dress 
and get the mud out of her hair. 
When we arrived at the house at dusk 
I found that she had gone to the city 
with a friend, and thus it happened that 
the “last look” I had of her was at the 
twinkling of those little bare feet just 
as they were disappearing beneath the 
yellow water. 
BIRD LIFE IN 
MANITOBA 
(CONTINUED from page 217) 
are usually twenty-five or thirty birds. 
When discovered they rarely fly more 
than a few rods at the most and some- 
times, especially in' the case of the half 
grown ones, they never take to flight. 
They are, however, very much afraid 
of dogs, and if one enters their midst 
unexpectedly a lively disturbance is 
caused. Their fear of a dog arises, no 
doubt, from his close resemblance to the 
coyote, the natural and deadly foe of 
the prairie chicken. 
The birds are somewhat smaller than 
the domestic chicken but a great deal 
more graceful in appearance and move- 
ment. Their mode of flight is not un- 
like that of our American quail. 
The upper half of Manitoba, in the 
Lake Winnipegosis region, is renouned 
for its numerous small lakes which, 
combined, form the Winnipeg system of 
lakes. In this region of many water- 
ways the wild duck hunting is un- 
rivaled. The lawful season is for one 
month only. During this period on any 
of these lakes thousands of ducks feed 
and if far from a village they become 
incredibly tame. 
On one occasion as I approached one 
of these lakes, I was surprised to see 
that the ducks paid absolutely no atten- 
tion to my presence. A man with a 
gun is such an unusual sight for them 
that they are indifferent to his presence. 
In a few days, however, after the sea- 
son opens their instinct of flight is re- 
vived, and the air is blackened in an 
instant when a shot is fired in their 
midst. Since the season is so short and 
the hunters so few, little impression is 
made upon their number. Towards the 
middle of October they begin to leave 
the chilly waters of Manitoba and to 
pursue their solitary way to the warmer 
feeding grounds of the States to return 
again to the northern climes early in 
May. There they feed and grow fat 
during the summer months, and some 
are destined to fall before the hunter’s 
guns in autumn. And so it is that the 
Winnipegosis region has justly become 
known as the great hunting ground for 
the wild ducks of North America. 
Earl L. Heck, Massachusetts. 
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