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was followed by the usual spring, and after a few more 

 bounds the buck rolled over dead. 



I got up to him in a moment, and with the forester's help 

 dragged him into the cart, where he found a place near the 

 Eagle and the Black Stork 



Continuing our way in a slanting direction through a 

 coppice, we soon came to a more open place, where there 

 were a good many large old trees crowned with dead 

 branches, and on one of them I noticed a big nest, which I 

 thought must belong to an Osprey. The forester had not 

 seen it before ; and, while we were still sitting together in 

 the cart and discussing this new find, a pair of Ospreys 

 came flying gracefully overhead. I quickly covered one 

 of them, fired, and the bird fell dead, but unluckily hung in 

 the top of a young beech, and as all our attempts to get 

 down our booty by shaking the tre,e were unavailing, there 

 was nothing left but to fell it ; and this our driver attended 

 to in the most scientific manner, after he had tied up his 

 horses. I was highly delighted at this lucky incident ; for 

 we had found the nest, pulled up the horses at a sharp trot, 

 seen the eagle, and shot it all in less than a minute. 



As the next Black Stork's nest was close by, I proceeded 

 to it on foot. We found the long-legged bird at home, and a 

 few blows on the stem of the tree sufficed to drive it out ; 

 but I unfortunately missed, for the thickness of the foliage 

 allowed too little space for shooting. Time was pressing ; so 

 I quickly returned to the cart, where the driver had mean- 

 while felled the tree, and now brought me the large finely 

 plumaged Osprey. 



We still kept on through the thick wood, and soon came to 

 a broad ride, and, after driving a little way down it, again 

 halted, and plunged on foot into the depths of a young cover 

 varied with a few high trees. 



Here there were reported to be several nf?ts of the 



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