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The Angler’s Workshop 
RODMAKING FOR BEGINNERS 
By PERRY D. FRAZER 
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Road, the most notable being those at Puttan. 
Singp'ora, Hanjvera, Haratrat, Meergrand and 
Hokra, the last-named being by far the best in 
the valley. 
It was once my good fortune to be included 
in a party of seven for the Hokra shoot; at a 
time, too, when all kinds of duck were most 
plentiful. We anticipated a good day, and we 
were not disappointed. 
The arrangement was that no one was to fire 
until a certain big duck-gun had “spoken." and 
that then the hanking and slaughter of duck 
were to begin. We all had our own little boats, 
which w'ere carefully concealed, and we were 
each attended by two or three other boats for 
the purpose of picking up dead and wounded 
birds and assisting in the work of driving. In 
the middle of the day, at a fixed hour, we ceased 
firing for lunch, after which we went on till 
quite late. 
In strict confidence, I don’t mind saying that 
every one of my 300 cartridges was expended, 
and my bag was fifty-three ducks, mostly heavy 
mallard, and I had also acquired somewhat of 
a headache from firing so many shots, often in 
a constrained attitude. When we all assembled 
to count the bag we found we had 300 birds, 
mostly heavy duck, with a good sprinkling of 
teal, golden-eye and widgeon. Altogether it 
was a delightful day, and but for the fact that 
most of us went in for very “sporting” shots, 
100 yards up in the air, I think, the shooting 
was not so bad. Had we only taken the cer¬ 
tainties, we should not have wasted so much 
good ammunition, but the bag would have been 
lighter. 
The Hokra Jheel is strictly preserved, but it 
is sometimes possible, through the courtesy of 
those in charge, to be included in these delight¬ 
ful shoots. Better practice could hardly be 
wished for, as the birds fly with great rapidity, 
after they have been for some time disturbed, 
and they come from all points of the compass, 
giving extremely difficult shots for a man in a 
small boat and in a cramped position.—Black 
Mountaineer, in the County Gentleman. 
BIRDS AND FASHIONS. 
James Buckland, of London, the well-known 
traveler, the other day delivered an interesting 
address on the traffic in plumage, which he 
illustrated with lantern slides, presenting bird 
life in different countries. Mr. Buckland said, 
in dealing with the subject of the traffic in 
plumage, that it was a too frequent mistake to 
speak of the plume hunter as though he were 
the chief offender. Although it was true that his 
was the hand which dealt the blow, he was but 
the instrument of others. In 99 cases out of 
100, the plume hunter was merely the agent of 
the dealer. In Australia, where so many 
precious species of birds were being rapidly ex¬ 
terminated in the millinery interest, the few lyre 
birds left were all that existed anywhere on the 
globe, and when the British government allowed 
its proteges, the London feather dealers, to 
barter these away, another heaven and another 
earth must pass before such a glory could be 
again. 
With regard to the egrets of Australia, which 
were killed in the breeding season in order to 
obtain their plumes, every year the harvest of 
death was reaped steadily, pitilessly, on the 
sowing grounds of life out in the silent wilder¬ 
ness where the birds had tried to hide their 
homes. And the story of the egret was the 
story of every wild bird killed for its plumage. 
Feathers that were used in millinery must be 
obtained, if they were to prove profitable to the 
dealer, when they were ripe, which was only at 
the height of the breeding season. It was. 
therefore, a self-evident fact that every wild 
bird killed for plumage was a strong factor in 
the ultimate and early extermination of the 
species. That the British government should 
encourage the destruction of the birds of para¬ 
dise by opening its markets to the sale of their 
skins was bad enough, but that it should be a 
party to the brutalization of the native races 
of New Guinea was a detestable and inhuman 
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