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jecting rocks, where the ground is bare, or to the edge of 

 a streamlet bank, where there are patches of bare ground, . 

 then you may follow them up, and you may have pretty 

 good sport with them, because here, ten to one, they will lie 

 for the dog to point them ; but should they fly and alight 

 where the snow is hard, it is only time lost to follow after 

 them to have sport, and you may as well credit yourself 

 with an endless tramping, and give them up. 



