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the summer and autumn months. When the leaves 

 have fallen, and the brook in question runs through 

 a clearer course, bird-catchers come more often, place 

 their nets across the water from bank to bank, and 

 then, by taking a long, circuitous course, and return- 



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ing along the stream-side, meanwhile beating the 

 bushes on the way, several may be caught within 

 an hour. Kingfishers fly swiftly up or down stream 

 close to the water, and through not seeing the fine 

 net dash into it, and so become thoroughly entangled 

 in the meshes. For ten years or more successively, 

 a pair of kingfishers have taken up their quarters 



