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and after a lot of waiting- for water we managed to get home about 

 seven o'clock, rather tired, but well satisfied with our out. The 

 same day an acquaintance with a single choke 8-bore, which I 

 found him, got a wigeon, teal, and lapwing, besides dropping a 

 curlew, which he could not find. This was not bad work, con- 

 sidering he had only eight shots. 



I am aware the above is not at all an extra good bag, either 

 as regards quantity or quality, but it is a very fair one, consider- 

 ing how near the place is to a large town and several popular 

 watering-places. I am afraid a good many shooters like to 

 exaggerate both numbers killed and quality and species of birds, 

 as, after an experience of over twenty years' shore shooting at 

 various places, I find it is very difficult indeed to get what the 

 books call "fowl." 



