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FOND OF HUNTING Maple Leaf Club, Family Herald and Weekly Star September 24, 1909 Arthur Kay ENGLISH LAD Box 103, Jenner, Alta. Dear Maple Leaves: I am very fond of fishing and hunting. I always look for the month of September so as to watch my father shoot ducks and geese. We are about one hundred and fifty yards from Cut Bank Lake. The lake is about a mile wide and two miles long. There are lots of rushes in the lake so it’s hard to get the ducks without a boat. Last winter I caught one hundred and eighty-one muskrats. I would like to correspond with anyone my own age, 12. OUR DUCK HUNT Pathfinders, Free Press Prairie Farmer January 2, 1924 Lloyd Essex (12) Colfax, Sask. Dear Pathfinders: I have not had the pleasure of joining this jolly club before. My story is about a duck hunt which a pal and I had this fall. I had a .22 repeater, and my friend had a shotgun. We started out about 5 o’clock in the morning. We soon came to a slough and shot eight ducks. I fired five shots and got four ducks. Fred shot three times and got four also. We cooked two for our dinner . About a half an hour after dinner we went to another slough. It was about 41 / 2 miles away. Here we got three more ducks. I shot two of these and Fred shot one. Well, I think I must close now. Good-bye. Animals: Friend, Foe, or Food 173 ...

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