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two barrels, as they were setting ; "bang," went 

 the other two as they jumped, followed by 

 dead ones by the dozen, very sick ones a 

 great number, wing-broken ones not to be 

 estimated, the whole making a great slaughter. 

 As the water was not over our waders, we 

 gathered the dead ones, and left to Keady the 

 collecting of the wounded, most of which he 

 got, killing them as he overtook them, and 

 afterwards landing them. When this was 

 done we had twenty-eight birds, and the next 

 morning the dog got five more along the 

 shore. This is such a large number that my 

 readers, I fear, may think it exaggerated. 

 Nevertheless, it is true. 



We were only half a mile from the home of 

 my companion, at which I was staying, but our 

 game made two back-loads for each of us ; and 

 they were a pretty sight when they were all 

 lying on one table. It was the greatest 

 number ever gathered at Port Joli from one 

 set of shot ; but I did know of a resident there 

 in the early settlement of the place, shooting 

 and getting nineteen winter geese at one shot, 

 when they were piled into a hole on the ice at 

 the mouth of a small brook, drinking. 



