shells. Furthermore, they were not 
duck loads but old quail loads—number 
seven drop shot. I knew that if I 
killed mallards with them I had to get 
a close shot, very close. 
I left the bunk house about three 
that afternoon, determined to resist 
all temptation until I got the kind of 
chance I wanted. I intended to get 
two mallards if it took me the rest of 
the afternoon. 
As I passed the narrow lower end of 
the lake, several strays got up but I 
controlled myself and sneaked quietly 
through the cat-tails to my favorite 
stand on a point commanding a view 
of most of the lake. To my intense 
disappointment not a duck was in sight, 
although ordinarily several big 
bunches stayed there all day. 
I knew, however, that they often 
swam into a big bunch of rushes just 
across the lake and about five hundred 
yards away, so I decided to try calling. 
I didn’t have much cover so I had to 
squat down in the grass and imitate 
a rat house as closely as_ possible. 
Then I cleaned the sand out of my 
despised and neglected duck call and 
started quacking. 
Almost immediately two dark objects 
appeared at the edge of the rushes 
and swam out far enough to survey 
the lake. They were evidently dicap- 
pointed as they started slowly back 
into the rushes. Then I called again. 
They turned quickly and the drake 
stretched to his full height to take a 
good look. I saw (at five hundred 
yards) a puzzled expression on his 
face, followed by a look of grave 
suspicion. He shook his head slowly 
and remarked (I think) to his wife, 
“Well it sounds all right but I’ll be 
darned if I like the looks of that new 
rat house on the point.’”’ She evidently 
agreed with him and they swam 
quickly back to cover. 
It took about fiften minues of pa- 
tient calling to get them out again 
and then they repeated their first per- 
formance. To make a long afternoon 
short, I stayed there until nearly dark, 
calling patiently and keeping those 
ducks swimming out and back again. 
The old lady always came further than 
the drake and was evidently trying to 
convince him that she knew there was 
a big banquet (and incidentally a lot 
of choice gossip) going on in the 
puddle just behind the point, but she 
could never get him more than fifty 
yards from the rushes. He simply did 
not like the looks of that gosh darned 
rat house. 
Just as the sun was sinking over 
the sand hills and I had given up all 
hope, a solitary teal appeared from 
nowhere and dropped down with the 
mallards. I gave one farewell quack 
and without hesitation he got up and 
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