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come across a good fat mud-hen, you need not be 

 afraid to cook it for supper. Still, most people 

 prefer other birds for eating. A hunter who 

 brought in a brace of coots would wish they were 

 duck; though, at times, when it eats mostly 

 watercress and wild celery, a mud-hen is declared 

 to be "just as good as canvasback," 



