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one with each barrel. This was such wonder- 

 ful luck that we had to halloa couldn't help it. 

 Such special luck was making us drunk with 

 excitement. Neither of us had ever even 

 approached it. The ground all about was 

 dotted with dead and crippled geese, and the 

 poor old broken-winged chap hopped about 

 when he saw the five geese coming so near him, 

 as though able to get up and go along with 

 them ; yet he didn't. 



Nor was this the end of our morning's 

 sport not at all. There were several more 

 fat fellows on which we had a mortgage to 

 foreclose, and I spied them in the distance 

 coming right for us, but they evidently saw 

 our dead geese lying round, and became sus- 

 picious, turning or changing their direction 

 of flight from us. Our old gander was on 

 hand, however, to help them into the scrape. 

 When he saw them, he spoke, and the leader 

 of the flock answered, at the same time 

 turning towards him ; but, whether from his 

 high position he saw any movement of mine 

 in the pit, which caused him again to change 

 his course, I know not, but something did. 

 Yet while he led the flock by, out of my 



