Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-02

I and three cartridges, repeating next ! day with eighteen cock and two par ! tridges. MT. Hubbard got four quail and two cartridges one day. Another gunner in our range of woods snot twenty eight gray squirrels without q dog. These bags show the relative abundance of each kind of game, nt Hungarians being shot by anyone.
 MT. A. h. Hibberd shot in all fif-y two birds. If the other ninety-seVei' men had killed as many, it Is easy L. imagine what would be the effect on the game supply next year. But man. did not secure half a dozen birds, and many others. discouraged by the many leaves and hard rains in october, gave up shooting. One man did not get his license till the last legal week, one in another town not till the last day Of grace, and still another took out a license when he had neither dog nor gun and never went hunting In his life To the credit of the sex We can report that no woman was licensed anywhere in this part of the state. The Quail Trap refugees did not need to shoot to supply their table. for one neighbor sent in to us four woodcoek. another three grouse, and third thoughtful neighbor sent a lot of dressed gravel bottom pouts- We were also offered rabbits and squirrels by the youngest Nimrod in town. A seaside friend sent chicken Holsters and Mumford Cove cups.
 
 One of the incidents of the chase here was the peppering of Cyril Paine's face and arms with No shot by the crossfire of a party of four gunners. A chicken partridge, followed by rain of shot and blinded by fear, dash ed through a window of the Woodstock library. This is not rare occurrence in my own experience. l have eight local records of ruffed grouse, terror ized by pursuit, killed by flying against barns and sheds. Goshawks appeared as early as October IT, and haNs been seen marrying the Hungarians.
 A special permit to collect for sci entifc purposes will not be applied for at the new point of field obser- vation. But for several days, in the last of the migration, our big black Persian cat seemed determined that we should begin a. new collection of birds, for he brought in juncos and a tree sparrow, and we freed fox -colored tree-sparrows from his talons. If Teddie had not gone back to his prop CT quarry of red squirrels and rats, it would have been the lethal chamber for this erring namesake of the first American citizen. Generous sympa- thizers in Chicago. Norwich, Hyde Park, New York and elsewhere, have made offers of a series of skins, eggs, and bird books. for special study and as a nucleus for a new collection.
 To be held up on the public highway by a small herd of deer is not an everyday experience. When I first saw the deer they were coming in single file across the flat at the foot of Gordon hill and I thought they were a pack of tan foxhounds on a silent trail But when we met on the crest of the hill, they were lined across the road so that my horse stopped of his own accord till the blockade was raised. There was no challenge or in f1v- a{r nf mt eJh raf fear, but long silent stare and scru- tiny of the team and spotted coach dog. Then .as if interested curiosity were satisfied, there was a short whis- tie. a bit of stamping by delicate feet, and in no great hurry. the pack turned and scampered down the hill and a long way up the road, with white flags waving as if in contempt for the shabby outfit following. Did the shooting of deer by licensed women gunners in the late open season in western Massachusetts add any luster to the Votes for women" escutcheon? |?
 C. l.. R.