INCONVENIENCE OF A SHADOW. /J 



spite, however, of this rule, the shadows would 

 occasionally trespass, and then, after several 

 double shots, and interminable altercations as to 

 who shot the birds which had been killed, the 

 tough old sportsman used to be obliged at last, 

 in self-defence, in a fit of desperation, and in spite 

 of his lameness, to plunge headlong into the 

 thickest cover he could find, as the only sure 

 method of ridding himself of his disconsolate 

 shadows, whose harmless practice against the 

 woodcocks, which then came in their way, fully 

 shewed the justness of the suspicion that the 

 birds which had been tossed up for had been 

 killed by the hody. 



