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geese abound at the same season in Andalusia. The Comtesse de 

 Paris has some excellent goose-shooting at Villamanrique, near 

 Sevilla, and numbers of these fine birds are shot on two islands in the 

 same locality, known as "las islas mayor y menor," the larger and 

 smaller islands. Immense flocks of eeese are seen in hard weather 



H.M. THE LATE KING (DON ALFONSO XIL) AND HIS SHOOTING PARTY 



on the marsh flats, but the birds are by no means easy to approach 

 in the ordinary way. I remember taking part in a successful goose- 

 shoot on "la isla mayor," in which seven of us arrived at six in the 

 morning. The keeper, in whose charge we were, then rode off, 

 leaving us for about three-quarters of an hour, at the end of which 

 time he rode back with the welcome news that there were numbers 



