274 Till. DOCTOR IN REQUEST. 



strand immediately levelled Ids piece, and was in the act 

 of discharging it; on observing which, the individual in 

 the nearest punt sang out lustily, with an mmameable 

 expletive: 'Don't you see I'm in the line of tire!' But 

 this warning availed not, for an instant afterwards he 

 received several shots in the face". When, however, he 

 had in degree recovered from the effects of the unwel- 

 come salute, he raised his gun to his cheek, which was 

 streaming with blood, and cried out to the misdocr in a 

 stentorian voice : ' I'll cure thee of shooting at people.' 

 Seeing that the wounded man was in earnest, the unlueky 

 wight who had caused the mischief ran off at his hest 

 pace, hut had only proceeded a short distance when se\ era I 

 leaden pellets were lodged in his heels. The smarting of t In- 

 wound at once 'brought him up,' and caused him forth- 

 with to deposit the most fleshy part of his person in the 

 mud, M!I ere he drew his knees up to his chin, and \\ith 

 both hands seized hold of the soles of his feet. To tin- 

 great amusement of the whole company, there he sat like 

 a huge baboon, mumbling between his teeth that a 

 bastinado was not a fit punishment for a Christian man, 

 and shouting loudly for a doctor, to whom, in fact, lieu as 

 shortly afterwards sent. It was soon ascertained, however, 

 that his boots had suffered more than his legs, and that tin- 

 services of a shoemaker were more iv<[itired than th<e 

 of a follower of Esculapius." 



Though multitudes of ducks, etc., are slaimhteivil whilst 

 in the Mapper stale, yet many others are shot when fully 

 fledged, and in a sportsmanlike way, on their rising from 

 the reed-beds. And admirable duck-shooting, in certain 

 localities at least, is obtainable in almost all parts of 

 both Sweden and Norway; but the best, probably, in 

 Non-land, where, Nordholm tells us, "there is more 

 wild fowl than in the rest of the Peninsula together;" 

 and to jud^e from what I myself saw whilst there, 



