THE HARRIERS 



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"And when do they leave us? " you may ask; to which 

 I answer you as the gunner answered me to whom I put 

 this question — ** I dunno when they go away ; I never see'd 

 'un go away." He himself had killed eight birds in one 

 season, and, truth to tell, few escape the long ten-bores, 

 whose owners are always in search for them. 



montagu^hakrikk's nest and young. {From life.) 



