i bhells with' sad reflections concerning 
that vigilance which finds its only divi- 
dends over decoys. The advice of my old 
guide, Bill, recurred to me, “Gun over 
cl stool, lad, you can’t look ’em out o’ the 
J sky.” It had been oft repeated, and his 
i| interest was fully as keen as ours. Every 
il moment of that first morning flight was 
I tense with fresh expectancy drawn from 
I new flocks in sight Most were strug- 
I gling into the east, but scattered birds, 
westward bound, clearly indicated that 
demoralization had already wrecked the 
day’s even tenor of duck plans. 
Both of us gave warning of that first 
pair simultaneously as they swept up 
, from the left. “With eager necks bent 
to decoy and red feet extended water- 
ward, they dropped swiftly in on set 
wings. Double crashes of smokeless 
powder stopped both in mid-air to fall 
. heavily in upshooting geyser splashes. 
Out of the corner of my eye, as I reached 
for the shoving oar, I saw Pardner whirl 
to shoot again at a single, flying wide, 
.1 which had been coming — unnoticed to 
/ join those first incomers. At forty yards, 
Joe managed to pattern one pellet and 
t| that bird fell wing-broken on the island 
1 ' behind us. I pursued and despatched 
j him as gently as might be, — though that 
I humane cruelty aways was bitterly dis- 
; tasteful. Meanwhile our first two had 
|l drifted a surprising number of yards. 
Pushing out to them was easy, sailing be- 
fore the wind, but fighting back was a 
< breathless struggle which left us spent, 
1 though gratefully warmed. Three blacks 
I were these glossy fellows whose rumpled 
i feathers were smoothed and shaken free 
t of clinging drops before being stowed 
1 away. 
i X T EXT came a single broadbill, exceed- 
ingly anxious to swim among our 
' company, for he flashed out of no- 
t where and splashed among the decoys be- 
< fore we could shoot. Up I came to cover 
i him, waiting for his jump. But that 
a mad broadbill paid no heed to my sudden 
I appearance. He even found occasion to 
% peck his displeasure upon a stool which 
{ blew against him, while my muscles be- 
] gan to ache with tense preparedness. Joe 
j- thumped the boat. Instantaneously the 
I duck realized that I made a most un- 
wholesome bit of perspective. Away he 
ij shot and I punctuated his going with two 
»| wicked exclamation points, shot slashing 
I under and after, constituting two abso- 
1, lutely perfect misses. I felt inclined to 
! hurl the gun behind him, too, when cer- 
: I tain sarcastic comments heaped insult 
upon injury. Joe had not even bothered 
1 1 to get ready until too late. 
I Ducks either flew owing to mere feath- 
il ered discomfort, or, perhaps, east winds 
' work madness in wild-fowl minds. At 
I any rate, that blustering gale banished 
’ wisdom of hunter’s ways out of duck in- 
stincts. Before the sun was two hours 
old, flocks commenced to appear out of 
that same east in which, on other winds, 
they tarried whole days through; this 
time to pay toll to waiting guns. Hard- 
ly a moment passed without hollow rever- 
berations booming from distant shots, or 
the sharp cracks of nearer ones. Singles 
I and small bunches were constantly in mo- 
tion. yiQ enjoyed ^ succession of shots 
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