The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-24

the lake and cawed derislvely. when
the air was disturbed by the gunfire.
At 10 O'Clock five hunters resumed
the labor OF rowing back to the launchI
two miles ava One filed his boots
with lake water while trying to scram-t
BILE into the boat. The launch was still
obstinate, but an hour OF hard crank
ing and shivery talk got II under way.
so that amp was reached. "A game
warden inquired whether everybody
had licenses TO shoot, and whether any
body had exceeded the limit Of Isl
hadn't the second. There was no dues-t
ton about the bird limit. One mud
hen for the day.
Evening Shoot No Better.
lack In the camp, however, with the
wet toys steaming before a hot fire, the,
savory smell OF bacon and eggs and
hapJacks rising from the stove, the
hunters thawed out, and conversation
along the line OF how good the even
ing shooting would be and how many
birds each man would kill and how
many he had killed on certain other
occasions. But the resurrected one
said nothing. He was reaching the
point where he had to be shown.
In the evening another trip, minus
the launch, was made to the luck
blinds, n just as the sun presumably
pulled of it's boots the other side of the
gray curtain in the West. somebody
shot a widgeon. 1t wasn't the man
with the new s125 outfit. He had
played a cold hand of poker and was
stuck TO pick up the decoys. He did
II, somehow, and went back with the
other hunters to camp, to sleep and
think and dream of ducks by the mil
lion, each carrying an ice pack on his
head and a SNOWFALL In his f1ippers.
Ten Trips, Four pucksI
Ten trips he made to that nearby
lake and during that time hi shot
JUST four ducks. On the market they
are worth about two bits apiece, He
had fired away something like S. worth
OF shells and he still had his $125
to buy, costing a few simoleons. The
ducks cos him $36 each. But at that
1t was all right. His appetite had I'M
creased wonderfully, he could tell what
kind OF Il load" was best for q duck.
II one ever came mis- way and he
knew the difference bstwssn a widgeon
and a mudhen. And so he was In
fine fettle for a longer trip to a lake
where the waterfowl really exist. He
shot a few ana he was satisfied.
South Dakota Duck Grounds.
Lake Andes in South Dakota Is q
good place to duck shoot. There the
hunting fraternity has erected many
'shacks" where the shooter can 1.-Two
comfortably when pursuing his favor
lite sport. The lake produces little I'm
the way OF cover and most OF the
hunting IS done in fiat sneak boats.
In these the hunters lie in a cramped
up position while they slay the var
ious species OF web-footed birds, which
whistle over the lake on their way I
the South. Near Letcher, s. D., is a
slough called Long lake." q rush
0rovvn hodv ~ az far vvhfch sou -
waded easily. Here some of the best
shooting of the past season was en-
joyed, Near Oldham, s. D., is Lake
Thompson and neal that, Lake Pres
ton. good grounds for mallards. cam
vas backs and redheads. Bluebills,
which winter to a great extent on
Mobile bay, were thick at all the lakes
i this season, especially during the
southern flight. Few geese were bag
ged, these wary birds apparently hav-
Ing shifted their southern flight farth-
er to the west.