The sun., 1903-01-18

! more deeply. A slight smell rose IRON II,
a smell of decaying. grass and leaves. heN
and there pools OF water. a ioot or t~o
| across. showed.
| The clumps Of red rusty weeds grow
| more frequent. They taggered on lew
| wards further, tho Foctor putting vieibiy.
The mud came nearly to their % Knees now
Two Jacks flushed sim,iltaneo one
| going TO right ono to left. They fired
! four barrels and got nothing. but icr-
bore to niention Z, since both were guilty;
A. the guns spoke two more oiros rose anu
| They had corpe TO the edge OF the Pitch;
I The Farmer and the Journalist had iouno
! il, too, and four hoarse reports came iroi
! them. The Farmer went forward an1
| etoOped twice; the Journalist stood stlH ana
| looked at his gun.
They had an hour Of tho warmest shoot.
| ing within their experience. some wv
| acres Of the low land lay around them and
| it seemed that every square yard OF II con-
| tanned feeding jack
The birds got up. not singly or in twos
| or fours, but literally in dozens. Ibeir
harsh cries filed the air. They did not
/ rise like quail apd sail away huncled, put
each snipc had its idea Of the hest way
| In which 10 60. "
They went in front to left and right;
| Some of them went nearly straight up aho
kept on soaring Others sprang gainst
| the wind and forbore To turn, keeping
| ftrnlRht on 10 the rear
| One few back over the Engineers head
30 close that he might have knocked
| down with his g,iil-barrels II he had been
a good and quick batsman One sailed
over the Doctors shoulder 40 near tnat
| he vowed that he felt the air from its
wings
They were troubled with an embarrass-
| nent Of riches, for they did not know at
! which bird to shoot 1t IL o puzzling ex-
! perience even for seasoned hands TO nave
n .,,t,S Iox inn
| easy to stop. Others flushed while the
! gums werr till at the shoulder and they
| prrssed the triggers recklessly.
The Engineer forgot all about waiting
| goriously. and now and then when one fell
he whooped and called to his opponent
| to give il up and 20 home. The Doctor was
] busy. Harkng back 10 his wpodcock
, experience. he looked only at a single bird.
| paying no heed to his gun barrels, and so
occasionally the muzzle dropped into the
| right line and the sniI@ fell
They took no count Of the number OF
! shells expended. IL was all stirring bang
bang with them. SO Il happened that
surprised AT the same time when the metal
| burned their left hands and they realized
! that the guns had grown too not 10 hold
| comfortably. They had killed ter. snipe
| each, and used up all but few OF their
| cartridges.
The Farmer, tired Of slaughter, came over
| TO them. He showed the warning couple
thing or two about snipe-shooting;
These birds are lying we'll he said,
F, 'because Of the heat from the sun. You
have plenty Of time, but yo.i don't want
| to wait until they are out OF range.
Look hard at the bird when 1t hushes
| and gets is image clearly in your mind.
| In doing this you will forget the others.
bird. RatRcr, keep looking at the bird
| and the gun will put itself on.
-In swinging from side to side the snipe
| covers n section OF air practically SIX feet
| wide Your gun muzzle wants TO be some-
where within this space.
Mote al the moment OF firing whether
the snipe is swinging from right to left
| or left TO right, In noting this your gun
| will swing with him and should swing a
little ahead of him. supposing that yen ,,%
IL the trigger is pulled under these
! conditions
.The snipe. unlike other birds, does not
| Jump very high except in rare instances.
! Generally, it flies at not more than SIX feet
| from the ground so the risk OF undershoct-
l ing il not 80 great. When you see the
| bird over the breech and it is inside of thirty
yards it is almost always dead bird.
.In this way the old hammer gun with
hammers above the line Of sight. was a
good deal OF help to some shooters. They
| Got the bird between the hammers and 90
| pulled. You don't have to have hammers
| however Look at the bird over the gun.
don't wait. all day and let the shot 60;
reached into the pockets OF bis coat and
produced fourteen jack-snipe; the Doctor
| produced fifteen. The Farmer had thrown
/ thirty birds in a separate pile. In tho gun
tract seventeen shells from his coat. well
| as they were used to his Workmanship.
eyes" he said in explanation. Il missed
three and that ought to not have hap.
pened The snipss were lying well and the
The Journalist had killed four and. holdinG
whispered conference with Alphonse
| made arrangements to have them pre-
| pared after the manner OF the 'Cadians. who
do not draw them. hut put them into
| email Dutch oven and smother them slowly
making a gravy OF the snipe juices. water
and a little white wine sliced sweet potato
Is stewed in the gravy.
The Doctor watched the Engineer who
| was busy at distasteful task.
when / See you mixing toddy. ht
| said, you remind me of my old friend
Judge Boulder Of the Supreme Court OF
| Kentucky
The Engineer snorted de6antly.
.The Judge says to me about toddie'
and the making OF them: I take half Z
tuInbler full Of spring water. sub. an po
IN two heapin' tablespoohfuls o sugah
sub Then stir il roun an roun' till tn.
particles O. sugah and particles o wattui
have became thuh'ly assimilated sub. be-
cause sugah will not dissolve in alcohol
Then DO In TO fingers o Of Bo bun, sab
an .tir II roun' and roun' till the particles o
| alcohol have been thuh'ly assimilated will
the particles o. sugah an wattuh Then
suh. I set it aside 70 fifteen minutes an
let it meller.'
But" said the Doctor. refectively, ac
cepting the glass from the Engineer ant
slipping refectively, 'the Judge was lying
I reckon. He never waited any flfteel
minutes"
SPEARING NySKALLONGE,