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Show DOVES SO THICK SUN IS OBSCURED. I BASS TELLS US With fishing and fi?h stories almost a dead lsue and mourning dove hunting claiming the Intense Interest of sportsmen due to the opening of the season at dcv.n 10-nior 10-nior ruw morning, employes at the . it y hall today crowded around Charles Bass, weather observer, and asked him to relato his cx-1 cx-1 perienres with doves During the present year, Charlie ha told some of the most thrilling fish Stories that hae ever reached the f.irs of local sportsmen. Charile. being an all-around sporisman and one of the best shots in the west, came through with a yarn that will probably hold the local record for years to come "Now this story Is the ahsolufe truth.' Charlie said, "and Us veract- can he erlfied by writing writ-ing to any citizen of Wisconsin who has resided in that state for many years. "When I wm a boy there, the doves were so thick that they obscured ob-scured th" sun and the workers in the hayfields had to cease their labors whn the flocks flow ahoe thm Flocks of blackhlrds were .so thick they turned th day Into night. "The workers in the hayfields carried shotguns with them and I when the flocks of doves flew over they Just pointed their guns upward up-ward and fired. Wlthltl s. few moments th4 hayracks were filled with dead birds "W hy, the doyes were so thick In Wisconsin when I was a boy that a nlghoor of ours Invented the scarecrow to keep them from hurting the children." 00 |