OCTOBER, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
485 
JUMPING THE LONG- 
BILLS IN MISSOURI 
(continued on page 461) 
Down he went again at the snarl of the 
nitro. So sure was I that he was dead, that 
I took my time in getting to him. But to 
my great surprise that beastly jack got up 
again with the shrillest, healthiest “scaip!” 
that the marshes had even been forced to 
listen to. I let him have the second barrel, 
but he continued on to my left, dropping 
apparently for another rest over in a cot¬ 
ton row. 
If anything puzzled me it was the be¬ 
havior of that jack. Surely I could not 
miss him again, even though he was bear¬ 
ing an invisible plate of Harveyized steel 
around his body! 
Then I discovered that I had only two 
shells—both in my vest pocket and they 
were loaded with number 6 shot. I had 
taken them in case I saw some mallards or 
redheads at the ponds. My feelings were 
akin to those of vengeance. I put those 
shells in the breech, and contemplated the 
utter annihilation of that jack. 
The bird flushed wild this time. I drew 
feathers with both barrels, but he pursued 
his flight back to the marsh, alighting where 
I had first flushed him. Without another 
shell for my gun in the spirit of sheer 
curiosity I determined to flush that jack 
once more, and observe his antics. This 
time he permitted exceedingly close ap¬ 
proach, flushed, however, into a slow zig¬ 
zag flight, promptly towered to a height of 
fifty yards, and there collapsing, he dropped 
to the water dead. 
I met Mac at the place we had agreed 
upon. He was holding his jack out at arms 
length for my cynosure, and complimentary 
reference to his ability for marking birds. 
“I found him easily, but he was sure some 
tough bird!” 
“And here’s another,” I added smilingly, 
as I threw to him my much shot up jack- 
snipe. 
Communicated 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Edwin T. Whiffen’s reply to E. W. 
Hahn’s inquiry concerning “smellage or 
smilage,” in the September number of For¬ 
est and Stream, recalls to memory the time 
when, as a boy, I used to go fishing with 
an “old fellow” named George Garner. 
George had been on several “whaling 
voyages,” and everything had to be in ship¬ 
shape with him. He was very fussy with 
his tackle, and he never wasted his time 
fishing unless the “signs” were right. 
Whenever he used worms for bait, he 
always put some leaves in the box with 
them. The leaves were picked from a 
plant which grew near his door. The plant 
was lovage. We felt that we had the best 
luck when our bait was permeated with its 
aromatic odor. Can it be that lovage and 
“smellage” are one and the same plant? 
Fred W. Lumis. 
Mass. 
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