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to-day as they were before the battery 

 was in use, but this is on account of the 

 constant visits of new birds, families that 

 have probably never visited the water be- 

 fore. And these birds once treated to 

 the frightful spectacle of two gunners 

 bobbing out of the very bay itself and 

 firing into their midst is sufficient to keep 

 them from visiting it again. The point 

 shooting," continued Seth, more excit- 

 edly, "in the upper waters of the Great 

 South Bay, where batteries are forbidden, 

 is fine to-day, but it is only a quarter of 

 what it would be if batteries were abol- 

 ished at all places. And they will be 

 done away with very soon. They ruin 

 the sport of the real sportsman and are 

 only serviceable to a lot of fat fellows like 

 you and Doctor Corbin, who are too lazy 

 to point-shoot, and to the baymen who 

 are paid to rig out for you. Do away 

 with this slaughter and there '11 be sport 

 and game for all of us and for our boys 

 in years to come, Your keeping up the 



