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CAUGHT DUCKS BY THE LEGS. 
After hearing “Charley” Biederman te 
some of his early day duck hunting stories li 
friends concluded that time, while dealing gentl 
with his physical well being, has impaired som< 
what his memory. Or perhaps the vetera 
hunter is something of a joker. For instance: 
“One day 1 went down the Missouri Riv< 
duck hunting and landed on a big sand bar 
says he. “There were no trees, no vegetatio 
of any kind where 1 could build a blind—nothin 
but the level sand bar. The ducks were Ilyin 
—out of range—and 1 didn’t know what to d 
for a while. Finally a happy thought came. 
“I got in my boat and rowed across to 
watermelon patch near the river bank, where 
picked out the largest melon I could find, 
cut off one end and hollowed out the red mea 
cut openings for the eyes and a place to bread 
through, forming one huge mask, lhen I row< 
back to the sand bar and put out my decoy 
I placed the watermelon mask over my hea 
letting it rest on my shoulders. Then I wad< 
out among the decoys so that only the wate 
melon apeared above the surface of the water. 
“The ducks came in droves. They settled : 
around me. All I had to do was to move abo 
cautiously and grab the ducks by the legs, 
jerked them out of sight and then twisted the 
necks while I had them under water. In th 
way I killed a wagonload—I mean a boatload 
of duc'ks.” . 
Much of the seventy-eight years of his life ! 
has spent out of doors with his dog and gu 
says the Kansas City Star. During the ear 
days in Kansas City he killed ducks for t 
market. He supplied several of the hotels ai 
restaurants with fresh game. Many of t 
travelers who enjoyed a blue-wing teal or 
mallard at the old Coates House or the ! 
James Hotel were indebted to Biederman. 1 
sent the game home and his wife dressed it f 
the market. Mrs. Biederman said that h 
husband used to kill an average of ninety due 
a day during the hunting season and that s 
generally sold 200 pounds of feathers. 
° Mr. Biederman rarely permitted any one 
accompany him on his hunting excursions. 1 
had better luck, he thought, when he was aloi 
When Milton McGee was Mayor of Kan: 
City he asked the hunter for permission to 
with him on a duck shooting trip. Mrs. Bied 
man objected at once. She was afraid that t 
Mayor was not accustomed to handling a g 
and that her husband might be wounded. 5 
McGee agreed to gjive Mrs. Biederman one 
the best lots in the McGee addition if 
wounded her husband, and finally the trip v 
arranged. The hunters boarded a train on 1 
old narrow gauge railroad, the “Northern N 
souri” line, now the Wabash, and went to N' 
borne, Mo. In two days several hundred dm 
were killed. 
“The guns, too, that hunters use now 
very different from those owned by the 0 
fashioned sportsmen,” said Mr. Biederm 
“When I was a young man we didn’t hi 
breechloading guns. We owned the muz; 
loaders, and you know how much trouble it \ 
to get them ready for business. I used to ca 
two guns when I went hunting; the large on 
used for killing swans and the small one 
ducks.” 
When Mr. Biederman began hunting, sw 
were numerous in Missouri. He remembers 
first bird of this kind that be killed. He s 
the swan and it fell in a lake. He did not n 
a boat and the water was too deep to wade^ 
he made up his mind to get that swan, 
next morning he returned with a horse 
urged the animal far out into the pond 
picked up the precious bird. But as he _ 
returning to shore a mishap occurred, 
horse stumbled and the hunter was thrown 1 
the cold water and was greatly chilled befon 
reached the nearest farmhouse. 
When Mr. Biederman went to Waterloo 
Lake City, before the railroads were built, 
rode a pony. Often he was compelled to v 
back home, because the pony could not c. 
him and the game, too. 
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