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j of winged birds are lost. No. 5 shot will kill 

 at a considerable distance, and a charge of it 

 contains, of course, more pellets than does the same 

 weight of larger shot. If a strong wind should 

 be blowing across the large tank, the lee shore 

 should be searched after all the shooting is over, 

 and as late as possible before leaving the ground, 

 as duck often carry on after being mortally 

 wounded, die in the water, and are drifted by the 

 wind to the shore. 



I will give a brief account of my best day at 

 this class of sport. I was alone in camp at Hunsur, 

 -and, being lame from a temporary injury to one 

 foot, was unable to utilise a holiday in pursuit of 

 my favourite small game, viz., snipe. About nine 

 miles from Hunsur lay a chain of small tanks, on 

 which, when snipe shooting, I had seen a number 

 of teal, and these, when disturbed on the lower 

 tanks, flew up, I observed, to a very small one 

 which was the uppermost in the chain. I arranged, 

 therefore, to send natives with muzzle-loading guns 

 and powder, one to each of the lower tanks, with 

 instructions not to permit the teal to remain upon 

 them, but to keep them moving. With a tennis 

 shoe on my wounded foot, I rode some nine miles 

 to the small tank at the head of the chain, under 

 the embankment of which stood, in a convenient 

 position, a splendid, shady tamarind tree. I took 

 the precaution of posting two natives, at some 

 distance apart, on the grassy sward beyond the 

 tank, and not too close to the latter. These men 

 had orders to remain where they were unless and 



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