Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1901 — SPORT IN WESTERN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

SPORT IN WESTERN CANADA.

While the Farmer*' Grain la Ripening and Hi* Stock Orowing Fat. He May Have Plenty of Sbootiag.

There is probably no country on tb# American continent-where the life of the farmer carries with it that assurance of comfort and success as doeF Western Canada. Nor is there to bn found anywhere else such a pleasant combination. Game abounds everywhere, and nowhere does it afford such perfect amusement. A noted sportsmais writing of the favorite pastime a&fht “There Is one particular spot where saw a man drop seventy mallards onemorning, and bring them all to bug. too, for they dropped in open water or on flat prairie. At the right season of the year you can see black lines and triangles cut sharply ont against th# sky all round you, moving very swiftly, and you begin to wonder whether yoo have enough cartridges to' hold out. You can hear the prairie chicken crowing like barn-door „fowls; and a Kttff td the northeast is a bit of marshy ground, cattle-poached, and dappled with gleaming pools, where the snip#are nearly as thick as mosquitoes. A thin column of blue smoke curling up in the distance shows you where a few wandering Indians have pitched their camp, but there Is no other indication of civilization in sight. Still, the neighborhood Is well settled, and a short drive will bring you to a farmhons# where you can buy the finest butter and the freshest eggs for uncivilized prices. “A very short railway journey witt bring you to a country full of deer-and the lordly wapiti, the king of the deer tribe the world over; and down on thF flat, boggy land by the lake shores thn moose will stand knee-deep in water on the summer evenings, ready to H# down when the files get bothering. All day you breathe the wild free air of the prairie, and at night you are lulled to sleep by the surge and ripple and splash of the waves on the beach, broken now and then by the weird banslieecry of strange water fowl.” Particulars regarding settlement of the lands of Western Canada can behad from any agent of the Canadian. Government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in your columns.

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