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The Wild-Fowlers 



the fine open country beyond, the white 

 steeple of the little church of Amityville 

 came into view, and it was not long be- 

 fore the party were spinning through the 

 very centre of the settlement. 



44 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 

 There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 

 There is society where none intrudes." 



BYRON. 



