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rose and fell to "G.'s" right barrel, and at 

 the report two or three others got up out 

 of shot. A hundred yards or so further 

 on "Sally" commenced to "draw on," and 

 then came to a dead point, and another snipe 

 rose, which " G." dropped ; and a second one, 

 which got up between us, gave me a not 

 very easy low crossing shot which I missed. 

 Shortly afterwards I made amends by nailing 

 three in succession, though the last took two 

 barrels out of me to bring him down. " G." 

 missed one and got one, and thus it went on 

 till we had beaten out the bog, when we 

 found we had got four and a half couple, and 

 we missed at least three couple more. 



Another quarter of an hour's walk over a 

 small, heather-clad hill brought us to the 

 Big bog. It would have been awkward 

 to beat it in the orthodox and approved 

 manner, i.e., down wind (snipe generally fly 

 head to wind) so we decided to beat it 



