A MEDLEY OF SPORT 



THE FIEST WIDGEON OF THE SEASON 



HE little fishing hamlet 



of W is still wrapped 



in slumber, but the 

 " foreign " duck are be- 

 ginning to arrive in the 

 estuary in considerable 

 numbers, and Gaffer 

 Gilson, the professional 

 wild-fowler, goes blun- 

 dering along the un- 

 lighted, old-time street, 

 his heavy sea - boots 

 making almost as much disturbance as a loosely 

 " jointed " traction engine, as their ironbound soles 

 strike upon the uneven cobblestones. 



A long-barrelled, 4-bore duck gun, of antiquated 

 pattern, is carried at the " slope " over the broad right 

 shoulder of the old fowler, and in the " crook " of his left 

 arm a pinfire 12-bore " cripple-stopper," the barrels of 

 which are as bright as burnished silver, and the muzzles, 

 from constant use, worn almost as thin as a sheet of 

 notepaper. 



The sickly yellow glimmer of a "rush dip" placed near 

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