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Show I srEco nr canvas back ducks. Illr.1. Tl,al Can I If 1- allies a Mlnata ami Can Kf-ep 11 l' ffr lloora. Ilr Charles Marram Is n wealthy re-llml re-llml .li--Jrlanof Tortland, Ore, who for tho lut thn yenra has dcwited hla i time to hunting nnd Hdiuigand writing atorlesfor si-ortlng -aara Tho duo. lorhusiaido n study of the apcnl of the duck, Alel says tlio enlll'na balk tun fly farter than 'iny otlirr meuilar of tho duck family "TheeamAslwckca-i tlltnneo nny other duck," saM llio doetor. "It can fly two miles u minute, and keep It up for hours. The mallard Is the aloweai, la.it with an effort can gonmllon minute Tlio gndwndo ilnek Is not found lu tho cast often, but Is numerous In Oregon Tho members of litis family ran tmxrl eighty miles an hour The bn-ndblil tluik Is Almwt as swift as the .-minis bark, hut cannot keep tho paeons long as (he other. "Ynti may think (hat gee lly -lower limn mallard duck Thk Is not so. With the alow movement of their big wings they do not npicnr to 1st Hying rniAlly, but Ihey traiel from eighty to ono hundred miles an hour, nnd keep It up for a day." Tlie doelor tells soino Interesting stories sto-ries ulsmt his hunting exi-Krlence. I When hunting near Madison, Wis., ho had n narrow rn-1 1 -n from l-t Ing klllnl by the body of n duck which had fallen at his feet from tho air about W) ynnls above hint "A duck somi times when wounded will circle Around In llienlriiud try to get as high na is-saible, ' said he "1 had wounded A bkj mallunl, and It j ahu-ted to ilrilo upward tllrci lly oir I my Iii-ml. 1 hid n rhargn of buckaliot j In tho other barrel, and In foro It got ' outotrnngn I llml duo of tho bill , lets mtiat hue struck n vital iiart. for It eatno down Inatantly. It wosdircelly alovo mo, and hvl I not ilialgiil my head Jnt lu lime Its lly would havn struck mo s-pmro nism tho head It whirred mt my ear with lerrillo fi-rco and ft 11 at my ride Tltcro was not a laino hi Ita Ualy tliat was liot broken In n I Attempted lo pick It up. I am certain llio blow wio,ld haru ertiluil my skull Iiad tho Italy stnick moon the top of the head. "A friend of mlno named Haneroft, wlieuiliink huiitlnglii riorlda, nlwi had a rlo-at call It was Jut gelling dirk, and wo wmt WAlltnghi our boat a behind be-hind n tilii of weeds for tho dilcka to aiTM-or Wo heard somithhu eotna lunging ovir (ho lake, and luyfrii-ud suddenly rnlHil Itluix-lf lu lib lata! lo co what It was It vttva n leal durk, 'Ihohinl mut haxo U-en going nt tho rate of 130 miles nuhnnr Juatnallau croft 1'sikut up tho durk stnick him In the fonhind and kiusknl hint orrr Into tin, water. Tho blow was sohinl It rtiinuit hhn, and Itad I not ts-eti then- to pull him out he certainly would tune iln.wned. Tito blow kllleil the duck. Whru I iMml It out of tho uotir I found tho binla bn-oatbouo bmkell. Clik-ago Trlbuuo, |
