Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
TWO MILES A MINUTE.

ave held my watch on about every
kind of wild duck there H." eaid an old
time wild fowl hunter, "and ! can tell
just about to the sixty.third part of
dot, how much space any one Of 'em can
get over in an hour. There's no railroad
train on the continent that can hold q
candle to one side of the slowest duck
that flies.
1.-THE canvas-back can distance the
whole duck family. if it lays itself out to
do it. When the canvas-back is out
taking things easy, enjoying little run
around the block, as it were, it joys
through the air at the rate of eighty
miles an hour. If it has business some
where and has to get there, it puts two
miles behind it every minute it keeps
it's wings Tapping, and does it as easy a.
you or could step into Fritz's and call
for beer. Ityou don't believe it, just fire
square at the leader in q string of can
vasbacks that are out on q business
cruise sometime when you get the
chance. Duck shot travels pretty quick,
but if your charges bring down any Of
these ducks at all, I'll blow you off to q
pair of the best there is in the market,
with trimmings and all, if it isn't the
fifth or sixth one back from the leader
that drops. Ifyou have the faintest idea
that you will bring the leader down, you
must aim at space not less than ten feet
ahead of him. Then he'll run plump
against your shot. When he drops you
will find him quarter of a mile or go
on.
1.-THE mallard duck q slowl coach.
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minute, but he can do it when necessary.
His ordinary every day style OF getting
along over the country gets him from
place to place at the rate of forty miles
an hour. The black duck is about an
even match for the mallard, and the pin
tail, wedgeon and wood duck can't do
much better. The redhead can sail
along with ease and cover his ninety
miles an hour as long as he feels inclined
to. The blue winged teal and it's hand
some cousin, the green winged teal, could
fly side by side for hundred miles and
make the distance neck and neck for one
can fly just as fast as the other, and to 60
100 miles an hour is no hard task for
either of them. The gadwale-you don't
know what q gadwale is, I'll bet! I
thought not. Well, it is q duck that
doesn't get east very often, but is well
known in the west. It is something like
q mallard. only harder to shoot, because
it is not 30 unsuspecting as the mallard.
The gadwale is something of q daisy on
the fly, too, and will win money for you
every time if you bet it can make its
ninety miles an hour. E
maybe you wouldn't think that
goose could almost double discount the
fastest train that runs on our railroads,
but it can every time. It has q big
heavy body to carry, but it manages to
glide from one feeding ground to another
with suddenness that is q caution to
wing shots. To see cloud of honkers
moving along, 80 high that they seem to
be scraping their backs against the sky,
you'd never believe they were travelling
between eighty and one hundred miles
an hour, but they are. The wild goose
never has any time 70 fool away, and his
gait is always q business one.
1.-THE broadbill duck is the only wild
fowl that can push the canvasback on
the wing. Let broadbill and q canvas
back each do bis best for an hour, and
the broadbill would only come out about
ten miles behind. A hundred and ten
miles an hour can be done by the broad
bill, and he, consequently, makes mark
for q shotgun that q ereenhorn wouldn't
hit once in twenty. five years.