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GROUSE ON THE POCONO. 
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greased. A big cock with the speed of the wind 
bore down, a good quartering shot. The first 
barrel scored a clean miss—too far behind, I 
mentally observed, and throwing my gun full 
four feet ahead of the next bird I had the ex¬ 
hilarating satisfaction of seeing him turn in the 
air and come down with a crash but a short 
distance away, stone dead. Upon coming to¬ 
gether we found the doctor had killed, making- 
three nice birds out of the six. “Not so bad, 
boys, without a dog; if we can keep this up all 
da>' we’ll do.” But we didn’t. 
We then started down the hill toward the 
swale, where it looked grousy. Of course, when 
we least expected it, whirr, whirr, up got a 
couple and were off “for pastures new.” The 
doctor let drive. “Did I kill?” “Don’t know.” 
But the beating of wings on the ground, the 
thud, thud, so pleasant to sportsmen’s ears, told 
the story, and another was added to the bag. 
We reached the swale or alder swamp. George 
had a single barrel, or rather a single shot bar¬ 
rel (this gun was double, an old muzzleloader, 
with the other barrel rifle, good for deer, but a 
poor thing for grouse on the wing). He pro¬ 
posed that he go in, and that doctor and Jacob 
skirt along the edge and take what might come 
out. With finger on trigger, and eye and ear 
alert, we silently threaded our way. Whirr! 
there’s one. A big cock sprung out and essayed 
to sail over the bushy tops. A quick snapshot 
from Jacob and he was down. Much good it 
did us. Though we saw just where he fell, when 
we got there he was not there. “Mark cock!” 
from George, and two more came sailing out, 
one to be missed by Jacob, for he was mad at 
not gathering the other one, and one neatly stop¬ 
ped by the doctor. We found no more in that, 
and George proposed that we start for Goose 
Pond run, a good place. 
“I say, doctor, the next time you buy a hunt¬ 
ing coat please buy a shooting coat, not a fish¬ 
ing jacket with no game pockets in. This is 
too thin, or rather too thick. These birds, from 
a couple of pounds or less, are getting to weigh 
ten pounds apiece.” George only having his 
ranch buckskin roundabout had of course no 
receptacle for game and was made the pack 
horse for the expedition because, forsooth, I 
had pockets. 
We journey on, and now through the most 
abominable country—rocks, burnt stumps, cat- 
briers, laurels, grapevines and tangle roots. 
Would we ever get through? Why is it that 
these delicious birds are always found in the 
most inaccessible places? 
Well, here we are, out at last. Several birds 
we heard get up and had a fleeting glimpse of 
one or two, but it was too thick to even raise 
a gun. One had to watch out for his eyes all 
the time. We had killed nothing for more than 
an hour, when George said: “Now, down in 
the edge of this swamp we ought to find at 
least a dozen and we must kill at least six.” We 
had hardly skirted the edge a dozen yards when 
whirr, whirr, two guns to the shoulder; two 
quick discharges; whirr, whirr; two more ditto; 
four barrels; and for aught we know those birds 
are going yet. Not a word was said. A few 
steps further and whirr, whirr; two more bar¬ 
rels belched forth and the birds had business 
elsewhere. Whirr went the third bird from 
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