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gobblin}?, and even then it takes a most 
skillful hunter to get within shot after 
they have flown down from their night’s 
roosting place. Far easier is it to walk 
on an old fellow just before sun-up as 
he sends forth his far-sounding love notes 
from a pine limb knowing that the mem- 
bers of his harem are within hearing of 
his mellowed call. Here his mind may 
be so fully occupied with conjugal affairs 
that for the time he may neglect things 
more earthy and so fall an easy victim. 
HUNTING 
COMPANIONS 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12) 
the lazy Ohio hills. 
“Yes, they are the real bluegill, with a 
flavor unlike and different from other 
bluegills,” agreed Pardner. 
“The others are nice fish, though. Do 
you remember that big bluegill fry we 
had over in Canada when we camped in 
a pup tent on the Teal Bay Sandbar? 
That was a three day fish fry for you.” 
“How about the six days of fried 
muskellunge and bass, up in the Kawar- 
thas, in that same pup tent?” 
“Well,” said Pardner, “a beef steak 
begins to taste mighty good after fish for 
six days.” 
Whereat I remembered the story of 
Captain Vreeland as he told it to me 
down in Florida. I quote the Captain: 
“There used to be an old fellow here 
that ran a tourist’s boarding house. He 
would agree to keep his guests for two 
weeks, but no longer. However willing 
to stay they were, the old man would 
make them pay up and go at the end 
of two weeks. 
“ ‘But we want to stay longer than two 
weeks,’ chorused one party, ‘why must 
we go before we are ready?’ 
“Whereat the old man explained as 
follows: ‘All we feed guests here is fish 
and canned stuff. Now, most people can 
stand that for a week. Some of them 
can stand it two weeks, but any man 
who can stand it to eat fish for over two 
weeks, is a damn hog and I won’t have 
him around.’ ” 
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