on a tide. The time is about two to 
two and a quarter hours and there has 
to be water enough on the marsh to 
push, and the rail will not jump after 
the tide has dropped from three to six 
inches. Formerly I used one or the 
‘ ; 
From Partridge to 
other of my twenty-gauge guns loaded 9 Fr 
Got CHMME gestion outce ot Neo Possum-— pick your eun 
shot, but for the past seven years I have 
for the season’s sport 
used a five and a quarter pound twenty- 
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Barrel full choke which assures close, hard shoot- 
about twelve to fourteen inches. I shot ing. Adjustable mainspring tension bar; com- 
one that I think was sixteen inches pensating locking bolt automatically takes up 
from point of bill to end of tail. There 
wear. Various gauges and lengths of barrel. 
is also a giant rail called the Limpkin 
which I have seen but never cared to 
kill. A sportsman should not shoot 
every bird he sees. Then there are 
several other rail, one kind very dark 
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The birds leave the northern marshes 
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frosts in October, as their feed is then 
gone. 
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That night I had a curious dream. 
I dreamed of actually catching one of 
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as I struggled to get it from the water, 
_ the water lowered, the bottom became 
dry and hard and the crab also 
hardened and seemed to change into a 
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