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and froze again. Jake walked the bird up- he 
was a strong flyer and went some distance’be- 
fore he rose above the alders. As soon as he 
did i hred. It was a long shot and I scored 
another miss. 
Jake picked up his bird and told me to come 
where he was. I went, and we hunted for the 
one I had just missed. We had only hunted a 
short distance before up he went in the safest 
place in the world for him—among thick alders. 
I tried a snap shot and missed; then remarked 
that we would leave him for seed.” Jake re- 
phed: "From the number of misses you have 
made I should think you intended seeding 
rather heavy. Jake now had three birds and 
I none, so I felt that I must retrieve my lost 
reputation as a fair wing shot. 
. We took the dog over to another likely look- 
mg place on the same ground, and soon heard 
a bird get up, but did not see him until as he 
came to the ground, we marked him and got 
m position. We had no sooner done so than 
he flushed wild, and gave me a left-quartering 
shot. I looked square at the bird and quickly 
brought my gun to my face,, so that I saw the 
top of the barrels on a line with the bird. Then 
I pulled the trigger, and had the satisfaction of 
seeing my first woodcock for the day tumble 
to the ground near a cedar. He had looked 
very large on the wing, but when I picked him 
up he exceeded my expectations by proving 
the largest and handsomest woodcock I have 
ever killed. Jake remarked that if he had not 
been so large I would have missed him. The 
only shot mark to be seen was a scratch on 
his lower mandible. I decided to have him 
mounted. 
After walking some distance to the next 
patch of brush, the dog went in and flushed a 
partridge. Jake had a snap shot, but failed to 
kill. Soon after this we turned, and crossing 
the creek on a slippery log, went back on the 
other side. We did not find any game until 
we arrived at the place where the last wood¬ 
cock I shot at and missed had alighted. The 
dog found him, and Jake did not see the bird 
until he,was just going by the open place below 
the clump of cedars. He fired at long range, 
and was not positive as to whether he killed 
or not. 
A search by the dog and man, however, 
failed to find a bird, live or dead, so we con¬ 
cluded that he had escaped unscathed. When 
we hove in sight of the mare we were greeted 
by a whinny which plainly said: “I am glad 
you have come; it is time to start for home.” 
WAYS OF THE SNARER. 
“One of the most important errands certain 
residents of our backwoods districts have in 
town at this season of the year,” said a citizen 
of an up-country county, “is the purchase of 
ammunition and things that may be brought 
into use along about this time of year. If any 
one curiously inclined should happen to be 
present in the stores patronized by these way- 
back folk when they are selecting their material 
he could not fail to observe that many of the 
purchases include several yards of copper wire 
not much thicker than coarse linen thread, but 
of great strength and flexibility. 
“If the curious person were a stranger he 
would doubtless wonder what part in the uses 
of a sportsman’s outfit this wire was intended 
to play, and if his curiosity should make him 
bold enough to inquire of the purchasing citizen 
what that use was he would in nine cases out 
of ten be told that the wire was to be used in 
mendin things.’ But if this curious person 
should happen to be one acquainted even slight¬ 
ly with the methods of certain backwoods 
dwellers he would not need to be told that the 
true service the copper wire was to be in the 
shape of a delicate but infallible destroyer of 
the partridge. 
“The wire is made into snares, which are set 
in unsuspected number about the places where 
this bird feeds and hides and which annually kill 
hundreds of the birds in spite of the law. These 
snares are placed on the ground in the birds’ 
favorite feeding places, and on decayed logs 
