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a brace and a half of starlings, half a 

 couple of snipe, and the same number 

 of greenfinches. 



Then we saddled up and recrossed 

 the river, this time without accident. 

 Then when I proposed trying another 

 little bog I knew of, the Frenchmen 

 would not hear of it for one thing 

 they were evidently quite beat with 

 their exercise up to date, and for 

 another they argued that dejeuner 

 would now be awaiting us at the 

 farm. So I determined to try the 

 bog by myself, in reality much 

 relieved at their determination. 



I had not turned from them many 

 minutes ere I noticed a small Arab 

 evidently trying to overtake me. I 

 waited for him, expecting he might 

 have marked down some game near 

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