Show 1 WIERD TILE TALE OF aF I I DUCKS I Dorsey Burgess Burg SS Tells Hot Alt All I Club What Scientists Have 1 I Discovered i I I I Dorse Dorsey Burgess B dropped ed down in an ar I easy chair looking tired anti and worried jus t ti i as Captain J M Barratt called the me meet t E ing of the Hot Air All dub club to order one day da r last week The club holds regular ses sessions seSsions sessions r and the whole talk hinges on hunt bUilt I Ing fishing and the number of STaIns grains of 0 powder there should be in a s I trap load BUrgess is one of ot the thai most mosi L s active acUe members r of nit the who talks 3 I i I and dreams of 0 nothing but shotguns and ant I fishing rods rod As a rule rute rul he has a jovial jovia disposition and when wh n he lie appeared appear rath I er downtrodden on this occasion Harry Harr Harr Keefe spoke up and asked him if his hh I favorite gun had failed to deliver del er every ever shot of oC the charge within a Inn 1 circle at forty yards This was the only P thing on earth that would make Dorsey Dorse Dorse feel as he looked and the boys naturally r I thought he had ad discovered one lone shot I hole bole an Inch outside of the required cir clr cle J Scientific Article on Ducks p Xo No boys it is not that this time replied Dorsey but I have ha e ben been reading a scientific article arfice of the migration or 01 ot ducks duels and some of those scientists know I J I I more about ducks than we do I Immediately several members started 1 t I to take the floor to enter a vigorous pro test against such a statement but Dor 5 sey shook hook his head and holding I up one om hand said Now dont get excited boys i Its true You all nil know I 1 have hae studied I the tle habits of ducks for years and killed I millions of them but these scientists scientist are i certainly wise You see boys bos while we are sleeping they are up at nights looking at the thu stars Who the ducks or scientists broke 1 I I In the amateur Why the scientists replied Dorsey Dorser They ThC have their big telescopes and can car I see high into the air and this article I I read said they have discovered that due duck g In migrating go miles above the and that their speed Is something Where do the ducks dueks get their air to t breathe broke in Uncle John Sharp Have Air Chambers Oh they have got that figured out said Dorsey They The claim the ducks have a small air chamber in their necks which they fill with pure air before tak talc ing to the higher regions I never no iced this air chamber but the first duck 1 I kill this season I intend to see for tor my self how ho much these scientists know kno That all continued Burgess They say the ducks go JO Into training like prizefighters to reduce their weight before taking a long flight For a week before beCore the th time set for the flight the ducks do not eat a thing and practice fast flying every eer day da and when the day of flight comes every eer one has haa to show the leader just like Cans Gans had to show Nolan at Goldfield that they are down to weight or they are not allowed to make the trip By this time Burgess had bad the wise members of the club backed In the far corners of the room while he held the floor ily My but these scientists are wise They The tell lell a lot of or things about ducks I never dreamed of he continued We Ve all think ducks can fly some but these fellows with their long telescopes tell of speed made mad during these flights that beats anything I ever heard of Feet Get Hot I Do you ou know why ducks In these thes flights frequently come down to the earth Well ell Ill tell you OU They The fly CY so fast last that the friction on their feet teet and legs dangling below the body Is so great they become blistered If they the do not come down to earth and cool them In water right yelled Billy Tremayne Why Wh it is only last year I killed a duck out at Baileys that had both Its feet thoroughly cooked cook d I saw this duck coming from the direction of or Nevada and I suppose he crossed the desert where he could not find water to cool coo his feet teet Hes right continued Dorsey The scientists say sav BO so and they are terribly wise men They make the th only feasible explanation of Indian summers I 1 have hae ever heard of Yes ducks in these flights certainly travel some Why this hazo haze we wese see in the fall and call it Indian sum um mers iners these scientists say Is nothing more than the smoke made by b singed feathers of the migrating dunks ducks which are frequently set on fire lire by b their ter terrific terrific I rifle speed through the air Here Her the meeting m ting broke up and as tho members made a rush for the door Bur gess Jess was seen sen to shake his head and I mumble Oh OJ these scientists are tainy wise ise men me 1 |