bering hundreds of birds, flying high, 
circling, spying, incessantly honking 
and finally descending on the chosen 
spot with satisfied grunts. A more beau- 
tiful sight than the flocks of Canada 
geese on the wing during a bright Fall 
afternoon on the prairies is hard for 
me to imagine. They fly in ordered 
column with necks stretched and heads 
continually moving, the mottled gray 
of their under bodies set off by the me- 
tallic bluish tint of wing and tail feath- 
ers and by their pure white dickies. 
Surely a sight to gladden a hunter’s 
heart. 
FTER carefully marking the exact 
location of the field, and the feed- 
ing place of the geese, mainly using a 
strawstack as a landmark, we returned 
home. My two boys being as keen on 
the hunt as I, myself, Arlo and Sid- 
ney—nineteen and seventeen, respec- 
tively—packed our forty decoys in the 
car together with the trench tools, 
looked after the gas, oil and water and 
got everything ready for our three- 
o’clock start. The boys have their tent 
on the lawn, where they sleep all sum- 
mer, and shortly before three I called 
them, with a light breakfast and coffee 
already prepared. We had fifteen miles 
to drive and three pits to dig before 
daylight, so dressing and _ breakfast 
were dispatched in short order, and we 
were off for the hunt. It was pitch 
dark but clear, and a cold, bracing, 
north-easterly breeze beating in our 
faces, made the ride itself a delight. 
To determine the exact spot, we had 
the previous afternoon tied a white rag 
to the fence and, arriving, we left the 
ear by the roadside, shouldered our de- 
coys, trench tools and guns, striking 
westerly about a half mile into the field, 
first locating the strawstack, and from 
there the place where the geese had 
been. The pits were dug in a triangle, 
about eighty feet apart, some five feet 
deep and just large enough to allow 
elbow room, and the decoys nicely 
bunched some seventy-five feet in front 
of the pits in the wind’s eye. The geese 
always alighting against the wind, the 
decoys of course have to be so placed 
that the birds in flying down to them 
will pass over the pits. 
With the loose earth from our dig- 
gings well spread out and carefully cov- 
ered with straw and weeds, and with 
our well-worn khaki-colored hunting 
tlothes and caps hardly discernible 
from the surroundings, we stooped 
Jown in the pits absolutely immovable, 
awaiting the flight of “the scout.” 
E came with the first streak of 
dawn, a large, lone honker, flying 
very rapidly and without emitting a 
sound, never stoping to feed but scan- 
ning the fields very carefully and cov- 
ring quite a considerable territory be- 
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