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...started the war as commander of the fleet air base at Reykjavik, Iceland. His relationship with the U.S. Army Air Force was sometimes-less than cordial. One day when the Air Force reported 13 German JU-88s on the radar screen and the pips turned out to be twelve ducks, Gallery gleefully asked for full technical details "of this revolutionary development in bombardment aircraft." He also asked what had become of the 13th. Says Gallery: "The colonel made a very silly, unmilitary, and totally impracticable suggestion as to what I could do with that missing duck if I found...
This is a good year for hunters. Quail, duck and pheasant are more plentiful than ever. In some states, seasons had to be lengthened to thin out the overflowing herds of elk and deer. Last week, from the bare-shouldered hills of Washington to the chilling marshes of South Carolina, at least 12 million licensed U.S. hunters were still blazing away...
Before dawn one day last week, a hunting party of five men sloshed through the rain-soaked woods of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia with their two Little River duck dogs, Dusty and Tootsie. At the rocky shore of Lake Mestock the party divided, settled down to wait in their spruce and fern blinds on opposite sides of the lake. They didn't have to wait long. Just after 8 o'clock a flock of nearly 200 ducks circled over the lake and landed on the water some 1,000 yards off the west shore...
Bred to Order. Listed today by the Canadian Kennel Club as thoroughbreds, Little River duck dogs like Dusty and Tootsie were a mongrel breed at the turn of the century. They were bred, so the story goes, to emulate the sly fox that hunters had watched flashing his tail to lure ducks ashore for his morning breakfast. The cross-breeding that first took place in the Little River district of Yarmouth County included collies (for their luxuriant tails), Chesapeake Bay retrievers (for their abilities on the hunt) and spitz (for their playful habit of chasing sticks all day). Somewhere along...
...parts of the continent, Little River dogs have never become very popular away from home. But in their own territory, people turn to stare at a hunter who works with any other dog than a toller. In Yarmouth County, at least, the hard-working dogs are appreciated. Any good duck hunter knows that given half a chance, a Little River dog will guarantee him his legal bag limit of seven birds...