Horatio Bigelow

Scattergun Sketches Horatio Bigelow

WHEN necessity and the cares of business bind and you just can't seem to get away on that long- anticipated shooting trip, you can find relief in the "Call of the Wild". How is it that some hunters get away, tramp the covers after partridge and woodcock, and call up and kill the fine fat gobbler? When you are bound for the metropolis, how often do you recall so vividly the red-letter day when the black ducks and mallards were literally falling over your gun barrels in that similar slough in the Southland, or when you rattle by the little brook trickling through the alder run? When gathered around the camp-fire how often have you heard the "old timers" spin the yarns that linger with you?It is because of these things and also for the reason that there is a great deal of satisfaction in setting down some record of your various shoots that your children may read them that I have written these stories.