The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-01
RAlLBIRDS IN THE RICE.
MILLIONS OF THEM NOW ALONG THE
BANKS OF FOX RIVER.
Mystery Of Their Going and CominE-The
Pot-Huntera Way of Killing Them and
the sportsman's-Their Characteristios-
The Best Ways of Cooking Them,


Pot-Hunter'a Way of Killing Them and
the sportsman's-Their Characteristios-
The Best Ways OF Cooking Them.
MoHFNRY, Ill, Sept 22-The town OF Nc
Henry IL named for the county Of McTenry and
| the county OF McHenry is named for McIIenry,
| but lust who McHenry was the average 1llinolsan
| does not know or care II Ia a good gun country.
anyhow The Fox River which heads away
up in Wisconsin, runs through II, wide, clear.
| placid. gently flowing, with low green banks
| reaching back TO the prairies beyond, and along
these banks grows at this season tangle of wild
| rice feet tall. the heads Of II heavy with
| fat grains
just now the wild rice Of the Fox River is popu-
lous with rails. The number Of them Is meal
| cuable. They breed about the upper shores
| Of Lake Superior and even farther north. come
| by millions In a night or two. feed upon the rice
| grains until they are bursting fat. walt for the
first frost and are gone in twelve hours. One
day the river growths resound with their cries.
| the next day there is not feather Of them to be
| SEEN and there will not be until twelve months
have come and passed No man sees them arrive
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| in the air Silent and mysterious. upon tire
| less wings that have a slow and batlike motion.
they out of the dark and they 60 into the dark
| with never hint Of their going. They rise from
| the weeds and water grasses hundred thousand
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