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Identifier: outing55newy (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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nbe had. The poorer class of natives and eventhe more prosperous farmers throughoutthe entire region are not reliable assources of information on quail hunting.Lots of birds reported by one of thesemay mean but one or two bevies. Thereason is that they are not to any greatextent quail hunters themselves. Bar-ring the market hunters, now fast passinginto oblivion under better game legisla-tion, the farmer does not consider thequail equal in value to the ammunition be of the best. Accommodation can behad easily in farmhouses, and barring adisposition on the part of the boys of anoccasional family to take part in thehunt and to bang away with blackpowder at every rabbit in a manner dis-concerting to the sportsman and thesportsmans dog, such a place is to bepreferred. Sometimes a tent can be used to ad-vantage, and frequently at this season ofthe year there are vacant cabins on thelarge farms which can be rented for oneor two weeks for a nominal charge.These cabins are usually better than
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IN SOUTHERN QUAIL FIELDS 151 tents in that they sometimes contain tworooms, always a fireplace, a floor slightlymore dry, and a roof a little less tightthan that of a tent. The empty cabin or house in the coun-try has the further advantage of beingalways near cultivated fields or aban-doned ones where the game is to befound. This method of hunting is notcommon in the South, but it works outsplendidly and saves many long andtedious drives morning and night, overalmost impossible roads. My own personal equipment on sucha trip which has often had as its ob-jective a point not more than a dozenmiles from home does not vary, exceptas to the tent which is carried when nocabin is available. It consists, first ofall, of a covered wagon for two horsesor mules, the cover being of the prairie-schooner variety common in the South.This affords protection for the outfit incase of rain and shelter for the dogswhich are bedded in hay in the wagonwhile in camp. Saddles and bridles are taken and twoord

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