The wild duck is a shy bird, apt to spread his wings and change his
quarters when a noble sportsman is seen approaching his habitation
with a fowling piece. You have heard of the ass who put on a lion's
skin, and wandered out into the wilderness and brayed. I have
elaborated a device of equal ingenuity and more convincing realism. It
is my habit during the duck-shooting season to put on the skin of a
Blondin donkey and so roam among the sedges bordering on the lakes
where wild ducks most do congregate. I have cut a hole in the face to
see through, and other holes in the legs to put my hands
through.--_London Graphic_
[Illustration: WILDFOWL SHOOTING IN SCOTLAND.]
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A PLEA FOR THE COMMON TELESCOPE.[1]
By G.E. LUMSDEN.
[Footnote 1: Paper read before the Astronomical and Physical
Society of Toronto, Canada, April 18, 1891.]
These are the palmiest days in the eventful history of physical and
observational astronomy.
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