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only made the noise when descending suddenly 
from a considerable height in the air to the 
ground, and our correspondent’s idea is that 
the sound is caused by the air rushing through 
the quill feathers of wings or tail and causing 
them to “chatter.” A somewhat similar noise 
is caused by the wind blowing through a bed of 
dried reeds in winter-time, causing their hollow 
stems to rattle together. The most remarkable 
thing about the snipe’s “bleat” is the volume of 
the sound created, and this has led to the sug¬ 
gestion that it is produced by some internal 
organ. 
COMMON SENSE. 
The text of this brief sermon addressed to all 
who propose going afield after game, big 01- 
small, is this: Don’t leave your common sense 
at home when you set out for the hunting 
ground. And as an opening remark, don’t fail 
to cut this article out and take it with you. 
For fear that you might not see the force of 
which opening, just listen to this: The writer 
foregathered lately with a gentleman from one 
of the large cities, who is, by way of thinking, 
himself a fair woodsman and is certainly reputed 
a hunter of class. He delivered himself as fol¬ 
lows apropos of the rudimentary principle of all 
hunting, viz: 
“Don’t shoot until you know what you are 
shooting at.” 
Take your common sense with you when you 
go to hunt. It will teach you that there is no 
resemblance between a man and a deer or bear, 
and will force you when in doubt to “holler” 
and keep on “hollering” until you get an answer 
or see the suspicious object run. 
Don’t leave your common sense at home. If 
you take it with you it will interfere and stop 
you every time you start to drag a gun out of or 
through anything by the barrel with the muzzle 
pointing straight at your body or head. That 
is the method of suicide, self-mutilation, 01- 
manslaughter most favored of gentlemen users 
of the shotgun, although some do either or all 
of those acts in a similar manner with the rifle. 
Use a hammerless, do you? And so you can 
drag your gun any old way and still be safe, 
can you? Friend, there never was, and never 
will be, any kind of loaded gun that was or 
could be safe while its muzzle was pointed at a 
human being. Give your common sense half 
a chance and nobody will need to tell you that. 
If you are going io leave anything at home 
give automatic guns and whisky the preference, 
but take your common sense along every time. 
The killed and wounded during the open sea¬ 
son for deer in the three States of Minnesota, 
Wisconsin and Michigan alone wouldn’t make a 
very bad second to the performance of the rail¬ 
roads in that line during the same length of 
time, and nine out of ten of every deplorable 
happening of them all happened because some 
man went hunting and left his common sense 
at home. 
Take your common sense with you. It will 
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criminal folly of shooting at rabbits, squirrels, 
or birds with cartridges from rifles which will 
propel a bullet two miles, especially when the 
chances are strongly in favor of your hitting 
anything in the wide world except the mark 
you are aiming at. 
It will call your attention to the fact that you 
came out for a hunt and not a drunk, and that 
the less liquor in the party the better the 
party’s chance of a pleasant time and success¬ 
ful hunting. It will force you to bear constantly 
in mind the fact that you are not a “kid,” and 
so responsible for nothing, but a man who 
knows himself responsible to God and man for 
his actions, and who intends to act as one who 
fully realizes his responsibility. 
Npw, before you forget it, cut this out, take 
it with you, and read it over each day while you 
are out. If you do, Sir, common sense will be 
of the party-—and the most honored member 
thereof.—The Times. 
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