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...bluebird"weather -balmy days when the redhead and canvasback like to sit on the water, and the men in the blinds see few duck overhead. In Washington, an unseasonable freeze-up sent birds hightailing south through the state in two days. But there were plenty of white-tailed deer, plenty of ammunition, and plenty of hunters (some ten million in all), many of whom had never held a gun in their hands before. Red hunting caps were no guarantee of safety...
Deadly Sport. In Wisconsin, where the deer season was at its height, hunters shot at everything that moved, including each other. In five days, 14 hunters were dead - five by gunshot wounds, nine by heart attack - and many another woods man was grazed by bullets. William Brown spent eight days in Michigan's upper peninsula, trying to get a shot at a deer; on the way home, he ran down and killed an eight-point buck with his automobile. At Boulder Junction, Wis., a rifle bullet crashed through a school bus and the trigger-happy hunter explained that...
Mild Weather, Noisy Leaves. But enough city marksmen were getting their deer to keep a steady stream of autos roll back from Maine and Michigan with carcasses slung over the fenders. The day before the Michigan season opened, an eight-mile line of autos waited to get on the ferry at the Straits of Mackinac, to head for such choice spots as Turtle Lake Twenty Acres Domain. The weather had been too mild for ideal hunting ; there was little tracking snow and the leaves were noisy. But there was so much venison on the hoof that a record...
Picasso's Oriental Deer is delicate and fleet enough to outrun one of Buffon's best rhapsodies. His Grasshoppers-which, like Buffon, he conceives as armored leaping machines-are pictured with the immediacy of a farmer awakening from a nap in the field to find them right under his nose. The vital, trembling Horse looks exactly like what Buffon must have meant when he said horses were "the noblest conquest man has ever made...
Princess Elizabeth, achasing the wild deer and following the roe in the glens around Musselburgh, Scotland, bagged a twelve-point stag...