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Show ! t wmw ii i . n mm CHANCE IN HABIT OF QUAIL This Iii Commonly Suppoied to Be the Beaion for Poor Shooting Shoot-ing of Year. Shooting Is not to good or bo plentiful as one might tab. Indeed, quail alicot-inR alicot-inR Is a dlftertnt thing now from what it was jeara ago. The face of the country coun-try hi3 measurably chunged and the habits of the birds are different from vhat they were. The field aro 1cm open than in ante nnd early post-bellum days, the grain stubble area Is smaller, creeks are margined mar-gined with brushwood, there Is mure cover and shelter for bird and the bags ro not made In a day's bunt, as they ence were, and, withal, the habits of quail seem to have changed with the Increase In-crease of sportsmen and the advent of the breechloader and pump gun. Once they were found In the open fields, and one could effectively put In two barrels on the llusb. Then they would fly and alight In full view upon ditch hanlis or In any light cocr. To this spot the rportsman would luilow them and pet good shooting In tho open, nftcr bagging eight or ten birds from a floclt. Now It Is rare to find a covy outside out-side of pine or oak brush or theiwamps. In these places they rcfuto to He to the dog, and when flushed they will fly from u halt to three-quarters of a mllo and alight in almost Impenetrable Jungles. It nover occurs to them now to scatter out along ditch banks, as they once did, nnd onu in n day will raise Hock alter Mock, succeed In. getting not a ehot on flush nnd utterly fall to find them tho eecond time. : - |