28o WITH THE WOODLANDERS. 



CHAPTER X. 



MORE ABOUT FOWLING ON LONGSHORE. 



I WAS talking late one evening about the damage 

 that had been caused by a very heavy inshore 

 gale, with one of my friends of the North Kent 

 marshes, when a message was brought that a 

 couple of men wished to see me. Going to the 

 door, I found there two individuals whose exploits 

 in the smuggling line I have mentioned elsewhere. 

 Muffled up to their eyes they were, and they 

 carried their duck -guns under their arms, the 

 locks as usual being bound round with the leg of 

 an old worsted stocking. " We wants ye," said 

 they, "to cum along the beach with us, to see 

 the work this 'ere gale's done 'tis a sight; an' 

 the birds is howlin', croakin'. an' whistlin' like 



