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Identifier: outing63newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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y of nearly five days continuoustravel. The assistant and I fed and wa-tered the ducks and tried to keep themdry and clean—a hard proposition. Weroughed it in a colonist car and ate five-minute lunches, our train having noother facilities. Part of the way theducks had for company a consignment IN QUEST OF THE CANVASBACK 525 of foxes for ;i fur farm. Ducks andfoxes eyed and smelled one another acrossthe aisle—tantalizing, truly, for the lat-ter. The sights, sounds, and smells ofthat car worried the unfortunate expressagent and astonished the natives as wepassed through. All things come to an end, and at last,thank Heaven, I landed my numerous children, all but ten. salcl\ at their des-tination in Connecticut. They are goodducks, it 1 do sa\ so, docile and obedient,willing to be experimented upon. Any-how, 1 cannot help feeling fatherly to-ward them. 1 hope they may duly mul-tiply and help to replenish the earth inour eastern districts so woefully lackingin these splendid wild fowl.
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IF YOU HAVE TIME THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO BUILD A COOKING FIRE OUT OF DOORSWHEN COLD WEATHER CALLS FOR ECONOMY OF HEAT BOYHOOD WAR By WALTER PRICHARD EATON Drawing by Walter King Stone and Phillipps Ward I USED to wonder as a boy if baseball did not really originate in thesport of snow-balling — not as a small boy, perhaps, but after the period of self-consciousness had been reached. It seemed almost certain thatit had, when I watched the ludicrous efforts at ball throwing of some Italianyoungsters who had immigrated to our town. It came quite naturally for usto throw a baseball into another boys mit, because all our lives we had beenthrowing snow-balls at his head! The Italians had never thrown snow-balls —ergo, they had never invented baseball. It couldnt be a nationalgame in a snowless land—Q. E. D. To be sure, I was not then familiarwith the uncanny skill of the youngsters in County Mayo, throwing rocks.But, if I had been, I should doubtless have triumphantly retorted by poin

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