over to our farm and got Mather’s ‘Men 
I Have Fished With’ from my library 
and read it all through again. I some- 
times think they don’t produce those 
type of men any more. At least their 
kind is not common or encountered very 
frequently today. * * * 
je chapter that appealed perhaps 
most strongly to me in your book 
was ‘The Witchery of the Saginaw 
Marshes.’ It would appear that one 
great boon we both shared in common 
was that of having a marsh to grow up 
beside and have for a playmate in child- 
hood. And what a companion a marsh 
can be to boy and man, with all its 
wealth of feather, fur and fin to study, 
bag, revel in and live with. Often one 
realizes as he looks back it was a great 
privilege to have been so situated. One 
not always appreciated by even well-in- 
formed sportsmen, for, after all is said 
and done, it is a fact of natural history 
that all game loves a marshland coun- 
try. Through the years I have watched 
the seasons come and go, and ‘witchery’ 
is just the term to apply to the ‘marsh’ 
I dwell beside, and I can recognize 
how cleverly you have sketched their 
charm and moods in each of the sea- 
sons of the year. 
“T was reminded of your chapter on 
‘Rail Shooting’ just now as I came in 
from looking at a planting of wild rice. 
My shoving paddle rattled sharply 
against the wharf and a couple of Sora 
fluttered out from under it while several 
voiced a sharp cackle at the distur- 
bance out in the thatch. I took a speci- 
men of the King rail here beside the 
wharf a few seasons ago, one of the 
few records for the state. I maintain a 
little shooting shack here on a marsh 
island, one of the rough and ready sort, 
but good enough, and tight and warm, 
and like yourself I have come to love a 
marsh as one does a real friend and to 
find in it a place of peace and content- 
ment and comfort and solid enjoyment. 
“TT is not large, either pond or marsh, 
and though not far from a large cen- 
ter there is still enough wild life fre- 
quenting it to keep one gun quite active 
through the season and I get it pretty 
good on muskrat, mink and fox for fur 
and all the game birds from the Canada 
goose to the sporty little jacksnipe 
which I think I like to shoot as well as 
anything. Though it is now the off sea- 
son, I have Virginia and Sora rail, 
black duck, wood duck and pied-billed 
grebe, bittern and heron breeding about 
my door and never tire of watching 
them. The 16th of next month will be 
our first chance to unlimber at any- 
thing when the yellowleg flight sweeps 
by Cape Cod and it has again got so, 

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