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steer as a blind to get to the geese, which is 

 the method used by all the farmers. They 

 will not allow a horse to approach them, but 

 a cow or ox can walk up to and in among 

 them, and this fact is taken advantage of by 

 training an animal, which is soon done, and 

 then having a suit the colour of it ; the farmers 

 can thus have all the geese they want. The 

 geese leave the lakes at the first appearance 

 of daylight for the fields, and sometimes fly 

 10 and even 15 miles to their usual feeding- 

 grounds. About ten o'clock they return to 

 the lakes to wash and sleep ; then again at 

 four o'clock they start for their evening meal, 

 returning at dusk. In their flight they take 

 the same route continuously until disturbed, 

 so that the sportsman, taking advantage of 

 this habit, and using proper precaution, has 

 many an hour's splendid shooting. 



When they go to the lakes in the forenoon, 

 they wash, then seek the shore, where, with 

 their heads under their wings, they sleep, 

 while the sentinels of the flocks, the ganders, 

 do the watching, and yet with all their pre- 

 caution, many of them bite the dust. This 

 digression has been made in order that my 



