The sun., 1885-02-22
TWO NILEs 4 MINUTE.
wild Fowl TINT Could Make Loops Aro und
tho smokestack OF Tho Hest Locomotive.

"uo fOwu TINT SOnld VI axe Loops n rO ID
tho smokestack Of Tho Hest Locomotive.
"I've held my watch on about every kind
OF wild duck there is" said r. W. Winans. an
old-tims wild-fowl hunter. and can tell just
about to the sixty-thirl part of dot how muc
Space any one OF 'em can got over In an hour.
There's no railroad train on the continent that
can hold candle to one side Of the slowest
duck that flies
The canvasback can distance the whole
duck family. II il lays Itself out to do It. When
the canvasback is ont taking things easy. en-
Joying little FUN around the block. as it were.
II Joss through the air at the rate of eighty
miles an hour. II it has business somewhere
and has TO get there. it puts two niiss behind
i every minute it keeps its wings Mapping and
does 1t as easy AS y2u or wou Id step into Fritz's
and call for beer. II you don't beieve it. Just
backs that are out on a business cruise some
time when you get the chance. Duck-shot
travels pretty quick. but If your charge brings
Off TO a pair Of the best there is IN the market
with trimmings and all, It i isn't the Nth or
you have tho fan'est idea that you will bring
the leader down. you must aim AZ space not less
9 Wh4n he or ns
VIII find MIN aPgarter Of mile or 50 on;
h. Wants 10 Do a"sk o ro sH GnTSh H III
can do il when it is n.ccssnry. His ordinary
everyday style OF getting along over tho coun-
forty Ave- mile le-an-h hour rate. The black duck
IL about an even match for the ma lard. and
the pntail. widgeon. and wood duck can't do
much better. The rsdhrad can sail along with
ease and cover his ninety miles an nour IA long
ns he feels inclined To. The bue-winged teal
and Its handsome cousin, the green -wi n 1ei
teal. cou I'D fly side by side for hundred
miles and make the distance neck and neck
for ono can fly inst as fnst as the other. and to
goa hundred miles an hour is no hard task for
what a gadwale ia. III bot! thought not.
Well it's y duck hat doesnt I got East very often
but Ia well known in the West. 1t Ia something
ike mallard. only harder to shoot. because
hsnot SO unsuspccting rs tho mailard. The
gadwale Is something "f daisy on tho hy, too.
and VIII win monay for YOU every time IL you
bet II can mako its ninety niles nm hour
Maybe YOU wouldn't think that q goose
could almost double discount tho fastest fast
express train that runs on our railroads but
IL can every time. mean n Wild goose IL has
big. heavy body to carry. but IL manages to
glide from ons feeding ground to another with
q sudhennesa that is r caution to wing shots
To see n flock OF honkers moving along 40 high
up that they ssem TO be scraping tE.ir backs
against the sky. you'd never heliave they we're
an hour. but they are. The wild goose never
has any time to fool away. and his gait is al
WAYS n business one.
The broadbill duck is the only wild fowl
that can pnsh the canvashack on the wing.
Let broadbill and n canvasback each do his
best for an hour. and the broaihiIl would only
come out about ten miles behind. A hundred
and ton miles an hour can be done by the
hroadb,l and he, cOnsepuenty makes n mark
Tor shotgun that q gr"enhorn wouldn't hit
once In twenty y-seven years"