SEES EE SE SESE EEDESESE = See saeeeern strong” with the lunch when things 
commenced to happen, as they often do 
J. P. Sauer & Son 
at such times. Gene was busy peeling 
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the shell from a hard boiled egg, and 
making an excellent job of it, while I 
was contentedly browsing off an apple 
pie in right hand and a bit of cheese 
in left, when without a word or note 
of warning a big bunch of robin snipe 
seemed to arrive from behind, right in 



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Sauer-Mauser Rifles 















i rit the midst of our stool. Egg, pie and 
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and we were able to stop a few of them 
before they sped off frightened by the 
commotion we had caused. Things 
quieted down a bit after lunch and after 
a stroll to the beach and back I had a 
good hour’s nap. Towards’ three 
o’clock the flight picked up again and 
we had some nice shooting for the rest 
of the afternoon, adding 24 more birds 
to our bag. The sun was just about 
setting when we gathered up our traps 
and with our birds tied in bunches of 
ten or twelve, with a long, tough bit of 
sand grass run through their nostrils, 
we get the little skiff under way ana 
are soon flying homeward over the bay, 
with a free wind. 
ERMID, BARTRAWS Sandpiper, to give it 
RMUD its ornithological name, or, as it has 
always been most generally known, the 
ERMUL upland plover, though not in the strict- 
8-Day Tours-$90.00 and up est sense a game bird, was nevertheless 
9 Days-$96.00 and up much sought after by sportmen about 
Longer ‘Tours in proportion |{{@ Generation ago, partly because it 
All Outdoor Sports came on at an early season when little 
aes Ga One other sport with the gun was to be had 
Sea Gardens, etc. and also very largely I think, with 
ponmuce yeaa ip many, on account of its being a most 
Summer temperature, 77 deg. highly prized morsel when its last 
praises were sung at the dining table. 
Always an extremely shy bird, it was 
very hard to approach on foot near 
enough to shoot, nor have I ever heard 
of its having been killed over decoys as 
are so many of its near and distant re- 
lations of our bays and marshes. Its 
favorite haunts seem to be dry moor- 
land and open rolling land, such as one 
finds near Montauk Point, L. I. In 
former times many of these fine birds 
were also shot on the Hempstead plains 
and at Newport, R. I. The most com- 
mon method employed in their pursuit 
was for the sportsmen to be driven in 
some light wagon, the driver of which 
gradually circled nearer to the game, 
when just as it rose the sportsman 
would hop out and let fly. 
I well remember once walking for an 
entire morning vainly trying to get 
within shot of these birds, which at the 
time were fairly plentiful. I went home 
at noon empty handed, but after lunch 
saddled up a confidential old hunter, 
who didn’t in the least mind the gun, 





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UNCLE LISHA’S SHOP 
By Rowland E. Robinson 
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. The 
shop itself, the place of business of Uncle 
Lisha Peggs, bootmaker and repairer, was 
a sort of sportsman’s exchange, where, as 
one of the fraternity expressed it, the 
hunters and fishermen of the widely scat- 
tered neighborhood used to meet of eve- 
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ti AT Te Cloth, $1.75 |! giieg my pockets with cartridges and 
i Necoahere FOREST & STREAM PUB. CO. rode off to the scene of the morning’s 
i Telephone Endicott 1900 221 West 57th Street New Yuk’ NY. fruitless efforts. The first plover I 


marked down I popped off my horse, 
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