Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-25
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BALL PLAYERS AND SCRIBE
 HAD FINE HUNTING TRIP


 and although you slipped me fast one I'm going to do my best to step into it and paste one on the snout for , baser.
 Iris Speaker and Leslie Nunamaker what is two great guys, and what was with me on the tour of the bushes" in Ontario, has went on down on the Gulf of Mexico to do three things. Get rid of me, escape the cold weather and to get them ducks down on the Texas shore what we missed on Rice and Pigeon Lakes.
 After the worlds series, Speaker, what is fondly known around the cir cult as Spoke" and big Leslie, what we calls plain Les" and myself, what you couldn't print what's called, lief here and went up to Peterborough, Ontario, to visit a fine guy named Chris Graham. what runs a hotel in his town. The three of us noted celebri- ties what made the trip had a grand time and gained much publicity in all the once-a-weekers in such part of that great province as we visited. In the first place we had good shooting on the lower end of Pigeon Lake and on Rice Lake. During week there we managed to pick off something like a hundred ducks, mostly the open water variety-can- vasbacks, redheads, bluebills, whist 1 lers, etc: Our decoys were set out on points" along the lake and when | some ducks would come along we would talk sweetly at 'em and maybe coax about 27 past our blind. The so and nobody didn't never fail to do some good. You know Spoke and 1 Les They both shoots bluerocks l at the gun club here and both is good l shooters, as the records will show; while you also know that when you was here we hit one out of three. This goes to show that me and Mo- well Hawkins, The Topperweins and | others is good shooters. Of you don't believe it ask any of us.)
 Speakers Fine Catch.
 Speaker got a big muskalonge on Rice Lake what weighed 25 pounds and four ounces. Bert Anderson,
 what is a Indian guide from the Hiawatha Indian reserve, was with him and told us that Spoke" played that durn he-fish until his, the fishes tongue was hangin' out. We have saw the fish and Pete" it was a dandy. They caught several other
 lunge, but as you know we is a great fisher in the summertime, so we just shot ducks. They was lots of fun around the Kawarthas, what is a great place for both fishing and duck
 hunting in the fall after the baseball
 season. Peterborough is kinda in the
 middle of the lakes and is a going in'' place. west, east, south and the
 opposite direction.
 We breezed up north of Lake Su- perior after the duck hunting and
 fishing business and went huntin' or
 Simpsons Island. off the burg O
 Rossport. On that trip we had deer
 meat, cub bear, caribou, deer and
 moose, in addition to fresh caughi
 salmon trout, whitefish and a few other varieties of unusual eats. (Yol . will excuse us for mentioning grul l but it is important item with al ball players and star ehroniclers.) We has all hunted Il other parts o : Canada and has got our share of tn } spells, but we never has seen no plact
 where they is more evidence of deer ; toba boundary. They was two fee of snow and every morning they wa l fresh tracks every place. As W , wasn't used to going without slee at nights we didn't catch up to muc game Pete but we had great tim D at that. They was a. inch of crust O
 the snow and it stayed with us cigh
 days.
 3 Spoke" bagged a big buck tha s would dress over two hundred an 3 he got a coupla shots at another ont 4 We saw four moose. They was a 4 of the lady variety and was as ire = from harm as a frog is from hai r One guy what was near us shot
 caribou and another bunch grabbe .c off couplt of moose. Which zoe ~ to prove that something made tn F track what We saw.
 A Not the Kill That Counts. L9 In cIosin' Pete" we just want = call your attention to the fact that '7 is not the kill that makes the tri