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the whole season. I might just say here, that 

 I have learned by experience that diving-fowl, 

 like whistlers and shell -duck, will not toll 

 excepting at the mating season, nor will the 

 larger Canadian goose (known as the winter 

 goose), but the ordinary-flight geese will, 

 quite as well as ducks. Whenever in the 

 future of my gunning cruises my dog is 

 mentioned, it is Eeady who will be meant. He 

 was my constant companion, and travelled 

 thousands of miles with me, even to the foot- 

 hills of the Rocky Mountains. 



Besides the excellent bags made on the 

 ledges, and the pot-shooting by tolling, the 

 nearest lakes at times gave me splendid sport. 

 All sportsmen know that ducks and geese, in 

 flying to and from the lakes, follow the same 

 routes daily, so that catching on to these ranges, 

 I often got fine shots, dropping as many as 

 half a dozen at a time. Before the tide 

 drove them off the flats to the lakes, I would 

 get as close to the shore as ambush would let 

 me, and thereby often got within 30 yards 

 as they were rising to go out over the high 

 trees. I kept a small punt in one of the best 

 feeding-lakes (Lewis), the general haunt of the 



