50 WARWICK WOODLANDS. 



Dan Faushe.% and a whole grist of Goshen boys is comin' over 

 c> island horo to fish ; but you carn't well go wrong." 



NVhy not ; are birds plenty!" 



" \Yoii ! 1 cuoss thev bo ! Plentier than ever yet I see them 

 hero." 



44 By Jove ! that's fijood news," Harry nMwered ; " whore 

 shall we find the first !* 



NVhv, amost anywheres but here, jist down by the first 

 bridge, uiere's a hull heap leastwise there was a Friday and 

 then you'd best go on to the second bridge, and keep the edge 

 of the hill right up and down to Merrit's Island; and then 

 boat UO-NMI lure homo to the t ; .rst hrio.^e a^iin. l*t uon'l you 



liquor P 



44 No, not this morning, John; we did our liquoring last 

 night Tom, do you hear" what John says I" 



44 1 hear, I hear/' growled out old torn ; * but the critter 

 lies like nauthen. He always does lie, cuss him." 



%% Well, hew goes, and we'll soon seel* 



And away we went again, spinning down a little descent, to 

 a flat space between the lull-foot and the river, having a thick 

 tangled swamp on the right, and a small boggy meadow full of 

 grass, breast-high, with a thin open alder grove beyond it on 

 the left Just as we reached the bridge Harry pulled up. 



44 Jump out, boys, jump out ! Here's the spot*' 



44 1 tell you there aint none ; dam you ! There aint none 

 never here, nor haint been these six years ; you know that now, 

 yourself Archer** 



44 We'll try it, all the same;' said Harry, who was coolly 

 loading his gun. " The season has been wetter than common, 

 and this ground is generally too dry. Drive on, Tim, over the 

 bridge, into the hollow ; you'll be out of shot there : and wait 

 till we come. Holloa ! mark, Tom.* 



For, as the wagon wheels rattled upon the brid$*, up jumped 

 a cock ottt of the ditch by the road side, from under a willow 

 brush, and skimmed past all of us within five yards. Tom 

 Dtmw and I, who had got out after Harry, were but in the act 

 of ramming down our first barrels ; but Harry, who had loaded 

 one* and was at that moment rutting down the wad upon the 

 second, dropped his ramrod with the most perfect sang-troid I 

 witnessed, took a cap ont of his right-hand pocket, applied 

 and piU^ p hfe gun, knocked down the bird 



