October, 1919 
F O K E S T AND STREAM 
563 
covered him, pushing leaves and dirt back 
over him with her nose. It was a tribute 
well deserved, and was I to desecrate by 
insisting that this noble bird should end 
in the kitchen oven? No — Bess was right 
I made the grave deeper while she sat 
by, her dirt covered nose and the big 
brown eyes eloquent of the tribute she 
paid the fallen drummer. 
And so we left him. A mound of stones 
from the old wall covers him today — the 
grave of the Drum-Major of the New 
England hills. And now, each season, 
the falling leaves cover two graves in 
the corner of the wall, for when Bess 
traveled away to take up the old drum- 
mer’s trail in the hunting grounds be- 
yond the setting sun, I made her a grave 
under the apple tree, where the blossoms 
of spring, the song of the wood robin, 
the falling leaves, the woodcock’s whistle, 
the blanket of snow, and the moonlit 
gambol of Br’er Rabbit mark the pass- 
ing of time for her, as she sleeps side 
by side with her friend, the Old Drum 
Major of Mount Rat. 
A nd now as the years pass along, 
comes with each closing season the 
sad story of the disappearing 
grouse. The partridge of the high brush 
and the hills will soon be found side by 
side on the dusty museum shelves with 
the wild pigeon. You who have thrilled 
at the bomb shell flush; you who have 
followed the running bird only to be 
outwitted by his cunning in breaking 
cover at the end; you who have gloried 
in the days under the red and yellow 
leaves, hunting the greatest of all Amer- 
ica’s game birds, stand by him now. 
Help by your voice and by your trigger 
finger in protecting and perpetuating 
this glorious brown feathered ruff-neck 
of the hills and swales. 
A MANUAL OF WILD- 
FOWL SHOOTING 
(continued from page 529) 
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I season of the year on Barnegat Bay, New 
Jersey, and there abouts, without flying 
further south. 
In the early spring they start on their 
long journey to the northern breeding 
i grounds. Because they make their nests 
so very far north, but little is known 
of their domestic affairs. It is reported 
1 that they not only go to the shores of 
the Arctic Ocean, but far beyond, and 
that they must rear their young out on 
' the great wastes of the Polar Ice Pack. 
Brant are often seen in very large 
flocks. I have heard the baymen speak 
of “gangs” of brant, and this aptly de- 
scribes their appearance. They do not 
fly in long lines or in the “V” forma- 
tions as do the wild geese, but in masses, 
without order and without a leader. 
They are noisy fowl and the continuous 
“Ruck, a-ruck, a-rue, a-ruck, a-rue” 
from many feathered throats can be 
heard for a long distance. 
A GREAT flock of brant in the air 
has always been to me a splendid 
sight. They seem so strongly im- 
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