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Updated: May 18, 2025
"It will all break up in a few hours," said Burt, "and then hurrah for duck-shooting!" Although spring had made such a desperate onset the previous night, it seemed to have gained but a partial advantage over winter. The weather continued raw and blustering for several days, and the overcast sky permitted but chance and watery gleams of sunshine.
"I'm going to take him camping," observed Cardross, interrupting. "I want some duck-shooting; don't you, Hamil?" "Of course I do, but " "Then we start this week for the woods " "I won't let you," interposed his wife; "you'll talk that boy to death with your plans and surveys!" "No, I'll promise to talk shooting every moment, and do a little of it, too. What do you say, Hamil? Gray will go with us.
He even fired at a target in the yard, so that at last Yourii laughingly accepted a gun and some cartridges, much to Riasantzeff's pleasure. "That's first-rate!" he said, "I had meant to get some duck-shooting to-morrow, so we'll go together, shall we?" "I should like it very much," replied Yourii.
There are thousands of duck-shooting clubs in the United States. Men, or a body of men, rent or buy marshes, and keep the poor man out. Rich men acquire hundreds of acres, and make preserves. Possibly the sport of hunting wild fowl is the most characteristic of American sports. This also has its etiquette, its costumes, its club-houses, and its poker and high-balls.
He had thought of going for a day's duck-shooting with some friends in the Kankakee Marshes south of Chicago, but had finally changed his mind; he even decided to go out to the house early. What prompted this he could not have said.
How came you to be caught in this trap, my old boy, better have been out duck-shooting with the small bores I reckon?" But Desborough was in no humour to endure this mirth. Finding himself discovered, he had risen heavily from the litter to his feet, and now moved doggedly towards the guard house, where the men had orders to confine him.
They dogged Wayland from the dock at Calais, where the mule transport landed, all the way to Paris, then on a slow train to Quimperlé, and then, by stagecoach, to that little lost house on the moors, where ties held him most closely where all he cared for in this world was gathered under a humble roof. In spite of his lameness he went duck-shooting the week after his arrival.
But that was not all, for to the west of the plateau lay more than two hundred and fifty acres of land, a marshy expanse where pools stagnated amid brushwood, vast uncultivated tracts, where one went duck-shooting in winter.
I have also caught them preparing and eating sea gulls, terns, blue heron, egret and even the bittern. I have secured 128 convictions since the first of last September. Partridge are waning fast, quail gradually becoming extinct, prairie chickens almost extinct. Duck-shooting is rare. The gray squirrel is fast becoming extinct in Minnesota.
In return the party treated them with affection. Never did a band less bloody or bloodthirsty wander over the roof of the continent. Hay loved as little as Adams did, the labor of skinning and butchering big game; he had even outgrown the sedate, middle-aged, meditative joy of duck-shooting, and found the trout of the Yellowstone too easy a prey.
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