Show shirr ON THE WINS faast rr aroid triin abw with the wild dack and booie acir 1 or I 1 SM alio gadwall but there it likely you know what a is said an observant wild fowl hunter the gadwall is a duck it is a wild duck that cosent get east very often but u a familiar fowl in the west I 1 was just about to remark that the gadwall is a bird that can travel nearly a hun dred miles while the fastest rail road train is going fifty and yet it ia slow on the wing compared arith a canvasback ducic the broadbill or even the wild I 1 have held mv watch on about every kind of wild fowl there is and know to a dot jut how much space any of them can get over in an hour the canvasback can distance the wild fowl family if it lays itself out to do it when the canvasback ia out taking things easy he jogs along through the air at the rate of eighty miles an hour if he has business somewhere though and has to get there he can put two miles behind him every minute and do it easy if you dont believe that just fire square at the leader in a string of canvasbacks canvas backs that are out on a business trip sometime when you leavo the chance anck shot propelled by the proper quantity of powder travels pretty quick itself but if your charge brings down any member of thai string of ducks at all it will be the fifth or sixth one back from the leader and ill bet any hing on it if you havethe faintest idea in the world of dropping the leader you must aim at space not less than ten feet ahead of him then the chances are that he will run plump against your shot when he drops you will find him a quarter of a mile or so on be cause even after he is dead he cant stop shod of that distance the mallard duck is lazy he seldom cares to cover boore ahan a mile a minute but he can if he wants to his ordinary everyday every day style of getting along over the country takes him from place to place at a bout a 45 mile an hour rate the black duck can fly neck and neck with the mallard and neither one can give the other odds if the pintail pin tail widgeon and wood duck should start in to race either a mallard or a black duck it would be safe to bet on either one but if a redhead duck should enter the race you can give big odds on him for he can spin off hia ninety milea an hour as easy as you can walk around the block and can do it all day he would be left far behind though by the blue winged or the green winged teal these two fowl can fly side by side for miles and close the race in a dead heat in and hour and appear to make no hard task of it tho broadbill duck is the only fowl that flies that can push the canvasback can on the wing let a broadbill and a canvasback each do his beat for an hour and the broadbill will only come out about ten miles behind one hundred and ten miles an hour can be done by the broadbill broad hill and he conse makes a mark for a shotgun that a pretty good gunner be apt to hit once in a life time the wild goose is an on the fly it has a big heavy body to carry and to see it waddling on the ground you suppose it could get away from yau very fat on the wing but it manages to glide from one feeding place to another with a suddenness that is aggravating to the best of wing shots to see a flock of honkers moving along so high up that they seem to be sweeping the cobwebs off of the sky you probably dare to bet that they were traveling at the rate of ninety miles an hour but it is just what they ara doing any hour in the day the wild goose never fools any time away his gait is always a business one A sea serpent Mac liias early tuesday morning when bound east gap J L chase of schooner jerusha baker saw what was apparently a strange cidh of unusual lizs resting on the surface ot the water about a bun dred yards distant the captain called the attention of his mate to the supposed whale and while watching it the men were horrified to seo an enormous head rise from the water and the mass extend itself into a snakelike enak elike form leaving no room for doubt that they were in the presence of a veritable sea serpent he lifted that big head out d the water said the captain until he could overlook the jerusha deck and then much to our relief began slowly to satini in a direction to that in which we were moving sometimes looking back aa though watching us beside the head and five or six feet of neck covered with glistening scales we could see at least ten feet of the tail which waa smooth and shaped like an oar and altogether the creature could not have been an inch chort of forty feet long not being equipped for hunting sea serpents we kept on our course and were glad when tho stream of foam that marked the monsters path through abo arter disappeared both cap chase and tho mate mr charles hunlley are well known in this vicinity and their veracity will not be questioned they state positively that there could have been no or optical illusion in the matter the weather being clear fand every inch of the monsters head anil neck distinctly visible at a distance of more than a hundred yards when first acen and although may sneer and newspaper humorists deride cap chaab and hia crew are as confident that an immense the coast of maine aa they are of the existence of their own good schooner |