A “Fox Single Barrel Gira” 
always does its full share. 
Its strength, beauty and 
simplicity of action put it in 
a class without ’ a peer. 
Guaranteed not to shoot 
loose. 
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about shooting courtesy and sportsman- 
ship in general. 
Black duck, in large numbers, stirrea 
from one point to another, restless in 
that heavy chop and stinging salt spray. 
All afternoon, passing birds kept us tense 
and thrillingly warm, as they flew close. 
One pair and a single came to crumple in 
mid-flight when our guns cracked, adding 
three plump bodies to the bag stowed 
under the bow. Larger flocks swung 
around us, only to veer away under the 
urge of cumulative subtile instinct. We 
lived about fifteen tingling minutes when 
five lit in a small cove some ninety yards 
distant and commenced to work closer, 
kicking their stubby stems heUvenward 
and exploring subaqueous food supplies 
en route. Unfortunately they decided to 
accompany some intimate acquaintance 
elsewhere. 
With a slight slackening of wind, about 
three o’clock, came a fine driven, misty 
rain that quenched with its all pervading 
wetness even the glow kindled in the tin- 
der of excitement by close flying birds. 
We had mutually decided to call it a day 
when a fitting climax came to frame its 
close. Far our against the sky, a smudge 
showed, too steady for drifts of wind 
tom smoke, yet very like it. Quickly 
growing more distinct, it dissolved into 
separate dots, an oncoming swarm of 
hurtling atoms, swift growing into out- 
stretched duck shapes, as they sped as 
only broadbill going down wind can. Di- 
rected upon an unseen path, they flew 
straight on while we held close. Then, 
by the fraction of a point, the leaders 
swerved to our decoys and we rose to 
meet them. I covered one rocketing 
shape and pulled. Upon my mental pic- 
ture was registered astonishment when a 
bird behind grew limp in its fall. Three 
times I fired and snapped a fmitless 
fourth at one who limped a bit in his go- 
ing. Joe, too, was firing with lightning 
speed. I counted five doM\Ti as we jumped 
to the business of retrieving. Pardner 
jammed his gun with a damp shell while 
reloading. He grabbed mine just in time 
to shoot-over one sturdy fellow reviving 
from his shock"bf shot. These blue billed 
chaps all dive too cleverly. In spite of 
my herculean thmsts with the oar, one 
escaped our fire, kicking his sudden way 
under, to rise with no more than a black 
bill-tip showing, invisible in that choppy 
sea. How wholeheartedly I admired his 
iron courage, and my regrets with regard 
to his escape, were chiefly because he was 
hit at all. We could afford generosity. 
W E gathered our decoys and chugged 
home through driving rain squalls 
to a crackling fire, doubly grate- 
ful after that drowned world. There, 
while we puffed contentment before the 
green flares of burning drift, our day of 
days in the marshland was lived again 
with happiness untempered by even 
those flagrant misses. Fortune may 
withhold such another all our lives, yet, 
while we muse in the quiet hours, we 
have that day to build our dreams upon. 
589 Straight Run 589 
Fred Gilbert and The Parker 
Single Barrel Trap Gun make 
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Single or double lens with darkening door. 
Several types from $7.50 to $9.25. 
Candle Flame burns 10 hours. Flat Flame 5 hours on one filling of carbide, 
costing less than 4 cents. The brilliant light is due to the 3}4 inch reflector. 
PRESENT OWNERS PLEASE NOTE the 1919 double curve reflectors are aow 
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