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Show Aeroplane Hunting. A sport with new elements and aom' exciting possibilities is the hunting of wild game from an aeroplane. In one way it is sport with the rnugh part ait out. Wich big game, for instance, the danger is practically eliminated; or rathtr, perhaps, we should say that the old hardships and dagger, with their attendant at-tendant thrill, are avoided and a new set substituted, with thrills of their own. The possibilities for the exerciseof skill in shooting are very goo I great, and the field of sport i3 expanded to an almost limitless degree. Writes H. M. Dubois in Flying (New York, June): Thelfollowins account of a hunting trip in which Fred Mills, the crack shot, and Glenn L. Martin, the Los Angeles aviator and constructor, participated o-ive a good idea of the sport afforded by aeroplane hunting: "Out in the hilly country near Rosco, Cal., a coyote had an experience the other day which, if he had lived to tell the tale and if the wild animals had histories, would have been handed down as the first onset of a new peril shemed against them by that trickiest and most dangerous of all animals man. "This coyote was gaily stalking a covey of quail, creeping along from cover to cover, thinking only of the toothsome morsels which he hoped soon to be crunching between his jaws and undreaming of danger to himself. Had he not reconnoitered cautiously before setting out in pursuit of his dinner? If there had been a foe before or behind, to right or to left, his keen eye and sharp nose would have told him so. Besides, Be-sides, a little behind him crept his mate as a sentinel. "If either of the four-foote l h'i"tr-happened h'i"tr-happened by chance to glance upwan' j and saw what seemed to b-( a great bir j wheeling in wide circle. half a mil i" ! the air, they dismissed the vi.ainn with j c n'empt. Peril did n t ennv to then-fro then-fro n the sky. Their enemie were tn be looked for on the ground p man hiding hid-ing behind some shrub (ir galloping un j on horseback, or a pack of dogs no sin a' nj onj's trail. "Si, turning all his attention to the chase, the coyote stole nearer an nearer his prey. Theqnaiis were un- aware of the gaunt, gray death which ! was cre'ping down upon them with ; slavering tongue snd blazing eyes. Now ; the hunter was close enough to risk a spring. He crouched, g ithering up his muscles like steel springs. His mate ttood as tensely as himself. "At that moment there was a shot, coming, it appeared, from nowhere. The quail whirred into the air, but their enemy, as if struck by lightning, tumbled dead. His mate whirled about, glaring this way and that for the foe who had eluded her watchfulness. "Literary Digest. |