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taken as a frolic, by rheumatic or otherwise delicate folk, 

 who are apt to catch cold if they sit in a thorough draft, 

 and shiver at a strong breeze through a key-hole. It is 

 hard, earnest, downright work. It requires a man, who 

 not only can rough it, but who loves to rough it, for its 

 own sake who can endure cold, wet, fatigue, and the 

 weariness of long waiting, not only with patience but 

 with pleasure, and at last feel himself well rewarded if he 

 make a good bag, and not altogether unrewarded, if he 

 make a bad one. If he cannot bring himself to this, he 

 would far better stay at home by his cosy fireside, and 

 pretty wife or pleasant friend ; and, if he be past forty- 

 five years old, I do not know but he were wiser to do 

 so, whether or no. 



The third and last variety of fowl shooting is inland 

 duck-shooting, whether on the large fresh water lakes and 

 rivers of the interior, on the vast half saline, half fresh 



