HAD] ANO 



like holly. Hadj Ano and I stationed 

 ourselves outside this cover and sent 

 the boys in to act as spaniels. Pre- 

 sently, with a silent whisk, a rich 

 brown woodcock flitted past me, 

 and then so suddenly changed his 

 course as to escape the shower of 

 shot with which I saluted him. But 

 no less than three more birds came 

 out of the same spinny, two to me 

 and one to the Hadji, and these were 

 all accounted for. As we went on a 

 tempting reach of reedy swamp re- 

 ceived our attention, and here we 

 had some very pretty snipe-shooting. 

 Alert they were as in the morning, 

 but they did not fly far on the first 

 rise, and my present companions, 

 keen and silent, were very different 

 from the noisy Frenchmen. As a 

 192 



