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262 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
Some Mitchell's Lake Reminiscenses and Hunting
Scenes of Small Game Around San Antonio

\Iitcihell's Lake, Cassin's Lake,
and the old Greytown Laguna de
los I'atos,  as well as the more
nlld(,lrn  Blue Win i   Lake, are
all more or less known as fine
hunting preserves for the fleety
we)-foots, as  well   as  snipe,
swamp-rabbits and    occasionally,

es and a number of huge forest
trees submerged in the lake water,
with some ducks and water hens
gathered around a tree stump,
(under some moss-laden old hack-
berry trees). One of the old for-
est monarchs, fronting the boat-
house, had been felled years ago,

MITCIELL. 1'S LAKE SCENERY NEAR OI.D 3OAT HOUSE N(O\W Lo14 Ago AtI lOn Ced)
(PHOTO BY THE WRITER, WINTER 1905)

the haunts of wild geese, pelicans
and the long billed curlew or king
snipe: and what this interesting
Mitchell's lagoon looked like years
ago, is p)r(esent((e in the three orig-
inal p)hotog.raphic views herein
showing one of the old boat hous-

by lightning , and  remnants   of
same are seen at Mitchell's lake
to this day, and it had often been
used as a "blind" to pop some
of the waterfowl close to this tree
remnant. This part of the old
lake always presented a beautiful