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Show WONDERFUL DUCK HUNT. Birds rrozen and Merely Had to Be Picked Out of Water. ' Ppenklng of hunting ducks," said the man from Mississippi, "reminds me ot one of the stinugeit things I ever saw In my life, and It happened during n very told winter some jearn ago, I think it was early In the nineties, when the whole South was covered with snow and ice. At any rate. It was during one of the coldest winters of the last decade. de-cade. Duck hutlng had been unusually good before the severe freeze, and tho lakes of Mississippi were simply filled with members of the feathery tribe. Fond of duck hunting myself, I made frequent excurslqns to tho lakes In my section, and It was an easy thing to get all the ducks ana w anted. A bad marksman even could have good luck. It was simply a Question ot pulling the trigger and landing the game. Uut the sceno I have In mind was presented one morning when I had gone to Lake Washington, in Washington county. I was with a parly of friends, und we had gone out early, Intending to remain until dusk would begin to settle in the lake for the night. "When we sliuck the head nt the lake we found that it had boon frozen, and were Just about to abandon the Idea ot gcttlnar any ducks when he heard n rial ful squawking und flapping ot wings some distance down the lake ami mound a slight bend In the lako's border. bor-der. We slipped through the bushes and cautiously went to a, point wheie we could get a shot at the ducks. We finally got n clear view of them. I never saw as many ducks in my life. Tlure seemed to be millions of them. What surprhied ifv wis the fact that they mde tin effort to fly, and were not swimming around, ns Is usual with ducks. No good thoroughbred sportsman sports-man will shoot a duck In tho water, so when we had got within safo range we made it noise In order to make tho ducks fly up out of tho luke. They made on iffort to fly, but they could not. They could do no more than (lap their wings and suawk, "The ttuth then dawned upon. us. Tho ducks wore helpless prisoners In the Ice. The fact was that the wlioln lake, which Is several mllen wide and some fight or ten mil's long, was surfaced by a thick covering of ice We walked right among the ducks. Their feet and legs were held hard and fast by the Ice which covered the lake. All we had to ,o was to pull them out and ihove them Into n sack Tho sport had been marred somewhat, but we got all the ducks we wanted. And that reminds me of the way some of the Australlins have of catching ducks, and" Hut the Veracity Verac-ity club had adjourned New Orleans Tlmea-Demociat. |