The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1908-11-28

we wished him well and Mr. Kuns
drove on and the men IN the back seat
held on.
Mr.. McGill seemed glad to see us as
we had been separated for year. We
brought two new members and they
were introduced in q scholarly manner
By the writer. Mr. McGill seemed
pleased TO enlarge his circle of ac-
-quaintance and Mrs. McGill passed
around a pan Of fried cakes and a
pitcher Of last nights milk 1t seemed
q little early to begin shooting geese
and we looked around the place A
colored man hitching UP a horse was
the first number on the programme. He
was seven feet tall and had wings to
match. Instead of walking around to
hitch the other tug he reached over
and made the necessary connections
Instead of speaking GROSSLY to the
horse, who was standing on the lines,
he. lifted him of the ground and Sc
cured the down trodden rein. One of
the members OF our party. who had
suggested that he felt like licking
someone that morning, climbed back
into the lumber wagon and made very
little noise. The coIored man was
good -natured, but he had the goods IL
picked on.
About one half mile from the lake
we set out three dozen as fine goose
decoys as you could see in three years
travel in a country inhabited by de-
coys. The bodies were made OF tin
i and no int fol WI 20 INzv Gn&n
and the heads, which were carved out
| of wood, had fine expression and
| naughty bearing. They covered about
half an acre of ground near bunch
of pig weeds, into which we crawled
and waited. We kept on waiting, but
nothing came our way except a man
looking for lost steer. We had one,
but 1t was the wrong steer. The man
borrowed some smoking tobacco and
moved carefully away so as not to
scare the tin geese. Occasionally a flock
of geese would leave the lake and fly
away in other directions, but there was
nothing doing around our tin goose
colony. We decided to separate and
| take in more territory. / secured a
place near a wire fence which had
been reinforced during the summer
/ with weeds. Just as I got settled in
my new quarters I saw four black
geese right of the Canadian ice, COM
ing straight for, me, low down. I was
| sure of getting two / looked at my
shells; double Bs In both barrels and
more in my pockets. / shook hands
with myself and breathed carefully
| through my rubber boots, when bang
went a gun off to my left and my
geese turned like an old woman car
rying eggs In an automobiles path
They also shifted on to the fast gear
and moved out of the township.
The man whose shot had rung ou
Il on the 4-o'elock air had succeeded IL
getting a single goose which was fly
ing around for exercise. Shortly aftel
the exercises closed a flock of blacl
geese flew over two of the boys ant
they dropped three. We went home
by the light of the new moon, speaking
OF the coming election, real estate ant
the price of beefsteak, but very littl'
was said about the big load Of gees,
in the wagon. .a'
The next day one of our party sho
twenty five ducks at Lone Tree pass
He went without his dinner and sal,
that besides hitting ducks he had Gu
good many large openings for homes
young men In the air, but he helped
to sWeeten up the bunch Of duck
hanging on the north side of the hen
house. All contributed something t
the bunch and, after a big, nine-cours,
supper served on a kite-shaped table
the phonograph was started and tn,
Bird on Nellie's Hat" came out b!
larnn light. and the 500 got us at nool