New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-21
4 SPOILED HUNT IN NORTH DAKCTA.
From The PHILADELPHIA lines.

The flights Of geese are something wonderful, and
II Is more wonderful st that 80 very few ~ th'm
are shot There Is more wary or snapl Iphs bIu
than the Canadn goose They VIII not Srlli, any
where without first carefully looklnG IN" Sipuhn w
From the height at which they rs ana N me rAi'no"
atmosphere OF the prairi'o they can Sc Tor n,i'
they carefully avoid any moving object pifIcuI'iI'
OF The human form We hid ,pnt several day ,hr r,
before abb" 10 discover Ia" i'idS th't w
feeding on. Then w'-en found the place IL "n WI,
literally 'prGca WIN their GGPPlnss an" Snr o'i tmo
feathers. W." elected suihbIe AP1, "", ,,,h,n
nxuriou, pits, fixed tlc edges mp with wheat S,
a. carefully q, possible .ci our d"c9ys ana lunp'
in to wait IA" coming Of tho "honker%' We nnu
been In the pits only few minutes when we saw
away of on the prairie what appeared To- be a. m" ~,
with dog lying down on III, back theh l"ihpn. up
and running bi,, then running around ~ i he was
dcfnentcd We held whispered consultation from
pit 20 rit as 10 what WIS best T. be done. as we
knew the goose would not come down Rom the clouds
~ long , that fellow was about u was decided
tla, ! should run over 10 him and get him TO vacac.
vamoosc~ from IN. prairie. on reaching him ! found
him TO be little German boy barcfoocd. with ,e'
sore from walking In the sharp poiutcd wheat siubblc
He bad lest his sheep, told Am TTherc We a had
sSort "' line when The Screaming and honing" Of
the first flight was heard, and pccpng oy'r me cdg"
straight for MS, but TO our utter disgust and annoy
ance also saw girl on an old black horse ambllng
her ~ voice: where did you see nv Sheep" We
told her whore. and asked her to "movc on "g
away" She was spelling our shooting "icr but
She didn't or wouldn't understand. and one man
,od her II she didn't hurry up he would put cha.g.
and whipping mp RO-lnante. she was soon out OF
sight. and 50 were the geese. The flock on seeing
her had Swcrvch by quarter OF mile away.
Then nothing 10 be done but - wait for The
next and the largest flight which In quarter 9f an
hour We heard coming toward ms. fully n couple o'
miles on.
But see something else Is coming. II Is wona1.
the mother of the little Ropeep and his sister. the
rider ~ the black horse. The girl had ridden home
tod her mother we had threatened to shoot her ana
tbe mothers German blood was aroused Inc
rnarti,l frcs OF the Fnhcrland were stirred within
nor and when she arrived within shouting distance
enc literally gave fits. She would listen 10 no
eyplanntion no defence She actually charged us
With having frirh"ned her sheep by having retriever
With us. and vowed VENGEANCE. We besee'hed h"r:
Imnlorod her n go-anvwhere so the geese wouldn't
sec hcr end she could have all the vengeance she
wanted after they had passed. But. no. she stooh
and iawed and emphasized her adjectlves hy waving
her arms like windmill. The geese pissed over
away ont Of range. and she finally let her arms fall
nv her side and stiil turning every minute or 80 I"
wind up her arguments IN compressed FORM she slowly
d,sappeared over n knoll and lost 10 sight Luz
not u memory dear. And wei Well. We got ont Of
onr pits and with spade and shovel silently illcd
them up again. and hardly daring 10 trnst ourselves
10 speak we cot into the wagon and drove t. the
town and to the train for this our last hunt for
the season Of 1892