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Updated: May 18, 2025
There were the nights when he was expecting to go duck-shooting before daylight, and waked up at midnight with a strong conviction that he was already too late about starting. There were perhaps a dozen or so of "eeling" expeditions which had kept him out late enough for a full basket and a proper scolding.
A friend of mine in the South is the owner of a game preserve in which wild ducks are at times very numerous. Once upon a time he was visited by a northern sportsmen who takes a deep and abiding interest in the preservation of game. The sportsman was invited to go out duck-shooting; ducks being then in season there.
Let us now discourse on duck-shooting for a change, and because it is a safe subject, and like fishing, "has no sting in the tail of it." One of the "dear boys" at the club asked if I'd care to go duck-shooting on Sunday.
He assured her that he would not even think of it again, and then he stumbled upon a remark about the fishing in Lake Algonquin, and the duck-shooting, two things, he recollected afterwards, in which she could not possibly be interested, and finally he made his escape.
DUCK-SHOOTING "PRESERVES." A ducking "preserve" is a large tract of land and water owned by a few individuals, or a club, for the purpose of preserving exclusively for themselves and their friends the best possible opportunities for killing large numbers of ducks and geese without interference. In no sense whatever are they intended to preserve or increase the supply of wild fowl.
"Ha!" exclaimed Reilly, "poor Tom, sir, was with us to-night on our duck-shooting excursion, and, now that I remember, remained behind us in the old ruin and then he is in tears. What can this mean? I will go with you, Tom excuse me, sir, for a few minutes there can be no harm in hearing what he has to say."
"Pooh," said that gentleman, "I can't go with the market in this condition, would lose more than the whole house is worth." "You would go duck-shooting in a minute," said Holland, "and this would be a good deal better sport." Mr. Vaughan ignored this remark. "The thing to do," he said, "is to offer a reward, a big enough reward to attract some first-class detective."
All day we poled round the shore of the lake, over flooded fields where the mustard had spread its cloth of gold a short week ago, over the very hedges we had scrambled through when duck-shooting in April, until in the evening we entered the river just below Sumbal.
Reilly Willy Willy ay, that's it you will excuse me, Willy, for not bringing you to the drawing room. The fact is, neither of us is in a proper trim to go there both travel-soiled, as they say you with duck-shooting and I with a long ride besides, I am quite too much fatigued to change my dress John, some Madeira.
Charlie's duck-shooting preserves, endless marl lakes islanded with mangrove copses, lay on the fringe of this mysterious region. So Andros was plainly marked out for our destination. But, when Charlie was ready for the start, the wind, which is of the essence of any such contract in the Bahamas, was contrary.
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