The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-23

The old man RECALLED us with his conversation,
at the same time helping. us TO all we wanted.
hyin' dis mawnin,' said he. DE storm w~c@!dn't
allow 'em TO feed last night. an ef you genelmen
yen hevs all dc shootin' yo' can tend to. / seed
lots o. ducks fyin' over dar n while ago. Hits
stopped rninin' now. but hits BLOWN bout as
"Breakfas was disposed Of. and we got our
guns and ammunition and started down for de
lower pint The ratn had stopped, but IL was
blowing n gale from the northwest, and the
ducks were flying. in scattered punches across
the lower end of the island. We arranged our
selves So ~ not to interfere with each other. ]
scoorrt out u trench in tho sand behind an old
stump and piled some DRIFT stuff around me,
and laid my big gun tthe seven.gaugeJ across
q log and held my tNelye-Rauge ready for use.
was sh9Pting 80 dr "a, OF powder SO, rr ana NJ S2
Twelve, and drains Of powder and 2f ounces
No. . shot out OF my sevcn-ganRe. II was use
less TO think OF putting out decoys: first. he
cause We could not launch n boat through the
surf. and secondly, the decoys would have been
five biackhrnds came sweeping down. | laid down
the little gun and reached for the big fellow.
w whirIsd o mgvi my head hey NINA had sn 9 alsHss as s Shey
and killed two and crippled one. The dead ones
tel or the land but The crippled one fell about
q shot in the direction. where Carroll WAS sta
toned and saw acanvnsback, heavily hit, ssting
about twenty yards, and he SHED 10 the right,
showing a splendid cross shot. l killed him
S Su, a shot she fir r"m the extreme Sne'S end dP g: i the p p"inI ee.
yealed his position. and saw n pair OF black
heads fall from a bunch OF seven that we're n.y.
"Sfkiiled a canvashack about seventy yard.
distant with the big gun: he was coming head
on. a tribe TO the LETT. | fired about two feet In
advance Of him and puttwo shot through his neck
and -four in his body. He Tell as dead as a wet
made a splendid double shot; n pair ot nallerds
were crossing in front OF. him. and he waited
until they had passed. and fired both barrels.
There yaR scarcely AN interval of five ReCOnds
between the reports. Both, ducks fell dend, |
made a lnns shot at a eald;pate with the big
struck him, in the body. and . handful Of
feathers were borne Oft iy, the wind. The duck
saw, him fall and then heard the report OF
Boulden's gun.
ducks seemed TO have. taken a different course.
and | was about to 60 down and join Carroll. |
had picked qp the big gun when heard g rush
time to get n double shot at an immense flock OF
blue-winged teal. | killed five with the first
barrel. and as they punched together / delivered
my other shot right into the thickest OF them
aud. knocked out nine-six dead and three Grip
Piled. Four Of the dead ones fell into the water
and were washed ashore. but | recovered only
one Of the crippled; and had had to shoot him over
T S,sh, the ,ovs small gum gun, o bae H M",sb s9nt anai6ui ifs
to see. him deliver his fire. He cut down two
with the first barrel. and three with the other.
Boulder did not get n shot at them. hut a flock
OF mallards came sweeping past him. and he
poured the contents Of both barrels into them. |
COulu NOT see now many ne bIOukht uONn. but
learned later that he secured 1--WE. He shot q
No. 10 gun. loading five drains Of powder and
on. and n half ounces Of shot.
1--WE kept up our shooting until 2 o'clock.
when the wind abated. The tide had been ebb-
ing about three hours. and the ducks became
scarce. Toward the last we had to shoot them
singly and made some very long shots. Quite q
number went down wing broken and crippled
and fell into the water: none of these was re-
covered. Had / had a good strong retriever
"A Chesapeake, Bay dog-I have no doubt /
should have added at least ten or q dozen to my
bag. But | had enough. / had most excellent
shooting and rare good sport. and that Is what
went for. The old man called us TO dinner. l
answered that we were coming. and went down
toward Carroll. He said he had pretty nearly
enough OF II, and we counted up his ducks and
who beckoned us down towards him, and We
found that he had twenty-six, all large ducks
with the exception OF one teal. We gathered
them up and carried them to Carroll's pile, and
taking up both lots, brought them up TO wherel
had been shooting. My pile consisted OF twenty
one large ducks and twelve teal, making q total
Of eighty-two ducks-a good mornings work"