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who was sitting with both barrels cocked and 

 scores in front of him listening for the word 

 from Bac to fire; the result in both cases 

 being the want of arrangement. There, 

 before these excited sportsmen, sat the dis- 

 turbed circle-shooter arranging his windrows 

 for future action, when all of a sudden the 

 scene was changed; the birds, being pressed 

 so closely, became bewildered by the light, so 

 that when a second lot of ducks jumped with 

 their danger-signal " quack! quack ! " up went 

 the whole of them with a deafening rush, 

 and up went the guns. 



Our friend Gun, not having straightened 

 his gun-barrel since he fired the circular shot 

 at a " shell-duck " wherein lies a tale I shall 

 not tell you here had this to do now, which 

 gave the others the opportunity they wanted, 

 and " bang ! bang ! bang ! bang ! " they are 

 tumbling in every direction. Such " houking" 

 as there was in their efforts to get away, 

 made it a complete Bedlam. Fifteen or more, 

 are there on the water, and several others are 

 threshing themselves off with broken wings. 

 While all this was being enacted, Gun spies 

 the windrow coming towards him as they 



