Show WONDERFUL DUCK HUNT I Birds Frozen and Merely Had to Bo Picked Out of Water Speaking of hunting ducks said the man from Mississippi reminds mo of one of the strangest things I oversaw over-saw In my life and It happened during a very cold winter some years ago I think It was early In the nineties when the whole South was covered with snow and ice At any rte It was during one of the coldest winters of the last decade de-cade Duck hullng had been unusually good before th severe freeze and the lakes of Mississippi wore simply fled with members of the feathery tribe I Fond o duck hunting myself I made frequent excursions to the lakes In my section and II was an easy thing to get all the ducks one wanted A bad marksman oven could have good luck I was simply a question of pulling the trigger add landing the game But the scene I have In mind was prescntSa one morning when 1 had gone to Lake Washington In Washington county I i was with 3 party of friends and we md gone out early Intending to remain unlll dusk would begin to sclllc In the lake for the night J When we struck the head of the lake we found that It had been frozen and were Just about to abandon the l ea orb or-b < any ducks when he heard a fearful squawking and flapping oC wings some distance down the lake and around a slight bond In the lakes border I bor-der Wo slipped through the bushes I and cautiously wont lo a point where we could get a shot at the ducks We finally got a clear view of them I never saw as many ducks In my life There seemed to be millions of them I What surprised Us was the fact that hey I made no effort to fly and were I not swimming around as Is usual with ducks No good thorpughbrcd sportsman sports-man will shoot a duck in the water so when we had got within Bifc range wo made a nolec In order to make tho ducks fly up out of the lake They made an effort to fly but they could not They could do no morfi than flap their wings and squawk The truth then dawned upon us The ducks wore helpless prisoners In the Ice The fact was thai the whole lake which IK several miles wide and some eight or ten miles long was surfaced by a thick covering of let We walked right among the duck Their foci and legs were held hard and fast by tho Ice which covered the lake All wo had too r to-o was to pull them out and shovo thorn into a sack The sport had been marred aojrewlmt but we got all the ducks we wanted And that romlndn me of the way Home of the Australians have of catching ducks and But the Veracity Verac-ity club had adjournedNew Orleans TlmeqDempqraU i |