They Will Get
Our Nice Clean House, And We Will Get One That Will Require The Same
Renovating We Have Just Been Struggling With.
I have made up my mind
unalterably to one thing - the nice little dinner I had expected to
give Major and Mrs. Bagley later on, will be for other people, friends
who have had less honey to dispose of.
The splendid hunting was interrupted by the move, too. Every October
in this country we have a snowstorm that lasts usually three or four
days; then the snow disappears and there is a second fall, with clear
sunny days until the holidays. This year the weather remained warm and
the storm was later than usual, but more severe when it did come,
driving thousands of water-fowl down with a rush from the mountain
streams and lakes. There is a slough around a little plateau near the
post, and for a week or more this was teeming with all kinds of ducks,
until it was frozen over. Sometimes we would see several species
quietly feeding together in the most friendly way. Faye and I would
drive the horses down in the cutter, and I would hold them while he
walked on ahead hunting.
One day, when the snow was falling in big moist flakes that were so
thick that the world had been narrowed down to a few yards around us,
we drove to some tall bushes growing on the bank of the slough. Faye
was hunting, and about to make some ducks rise when he heard a great
whir over his head, and although the snow was so thick he could not
see just what was there, he quickly raised his gun and fired at
something he saw moving up there.
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