rectly for me. Although not an expert 
judge of the age of chickens and not 
having Baldy, who coached Irwin Cobb, 
at my side to call the age I judged it 
to be a big young one. Flying high 
on the down slope at about seventy 
miles per hour, it was surely some 
chance. Throwing up the gun and fol- 
lowing fast till I overtook the chicken 
and passed it by what I thought was 
the right distance, I let go the right. 
Instantly it collapsed, drifted ahead 
by its momentum a hundred feet or 
more and struck the bottom with such 
force as to burst open. 
I call that the best shot I ever made 
at a chicken, but someone is always 
taking the joy out of life; when I 
They’re Hovering Over 
The Marshes Now 
G AME birds are pausing now in their long flight South 
—pausing, but wary and mighty fast on the get- 
away. In a flash they’re out of range of the ordinary 
shotgun. 
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i — =~ 
<= Le Cee’ — 
“No one ever blew my horn but my- 
self.” I will add in justice that she 
was some shot and flyfisher, if she did 
make a mean remark, which old-time 
friends will always do. But that is 
one of the evidences of friendship. No 
one but old friends can plainly state 
their differences of opinion to each 
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Illustrative of this I will mention an 
incident. I was with the lady above 
referred to and her husband on an 
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had longer experiences in the sage 
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shadow of Elk Mountain which is at 
the northeast point of the Medicine 
Bow Range. Crossing the creek through 
the alders which fringed it, two chick- 
ens jumped. Bill and the Mrs. let the 
birds go without shooting. They looked 
young to me, so I dropped both. Then 
came the remark, “What a fool you 
have made of yourself killing two old 
birds.” They proved to be as fine 
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