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on the water ; then for a time it will lift to 

 the height of a man and fall again ; and the 

 worst of it is, all sounds are deadened by it. 

 Some will keep the beach in all kinds of 

 weather, unless the waves run high and drive 

 them off it. Your cry of " Hail ! " to a shooter, 

 busy at work with some fowl that he can just 

 make out floating close in-shore, will not go 

 far ; but if, not knowing you are near, he 

 should fire in your direction, you are likely to 

 find out that stray duck-shot reaches quite as 

 far in foggy weather as it does in fine. 



All kinds of shifts and expedients are neces- 

 sary at times when in pursuit of fur or feather, 

 and no one is more forced to make use of them, 

 one and all, as occasion demands, than is our 

 rough shooter. 



