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existence of starvation. In the majority of cases 

 the birds must have experienced terrible agony. 

 Sometimes the programme was opened with a load 

 of shot from a large gun which the steamer carried ; 



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and with this, pathways were cut through the birds. 

 After an hour or so of this slaughter, which these 

 inhuman adventurers called sport, they steamed 

 away, leaving behind such a picture of destruction, 

 desolation, and agony as I hope the British Islands 



