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ord. Then I had the remarkable luck of 

 having the wind and tide just right and I got 

 to the right place. Then I carried home 

 twenty-six. Fully fifty thousand curlew 

 came on the marsh that afternoon. 



We get a few curlew when shooting gray- 

 back, willet and plover on the marshes from 

 blinds. But this can be done only in the 

 early part of the season. One shot from a 

 blind is all that is necessary to educate every 

 curlew who sees the performance. No 

 amount of whistle-calling will get him to 

 come in range of a blind again. 



At ebb-tide we shoot the grayback, black- 

 breast, yellow-legs and curlew on the mud- 

 bars, where they come to feed on fiddlers and 

 bugs as the tide ebbs off. I have killed a 

 dozen curlew sometimes from an ebb-tide 

 blind. 



One never-to-be-forgotten day the gray- 

 back came like chickens, and I made a bag 

 of eighty-two on the first of the summer 



