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tlin', a partridge will sit still within fifteen feet of you, 

 You may shoot half a dozen from the same tree, pro- 

 vided there's so many there, and you keep on whistlin'." 



" That's something new," said I, " and all I've got 

 to say about it is, that if they're charmed by such 

 music, they have a delicate ear and a singular taste." 



There are two things that I advise every sports- 

 man to do, after a hearty meal in the woods, on a hot 

 summer's day. The first is, to smoke a segar or pipe, 

 if he has one ; and the other is, to seek some cool 

 shade, and gather a bed of dry leaves, and spreading 

 his handkerchief from the rim of his hat, to keep off 

 the musquitoes and blackfly, lay himself quietly down 

 to sleep for an hour. A longer time will debilitate, 

 and a less time will not rest him. Ten minutes, more 

 or less, will make no great difference; but if called 

 upon to choose either, let him be sure to decide in 

 favor of more. 



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Having dined, and enjoyed our siesta, we travelled 

 on. We diverged from our direct route, to visit a 

 small pond in the south-east corner of the township of 

 Duane. This pond contains perhaps two hundred 

 acres, and was without a name, so far as I know. Its 

 waters are clear, and colder than those of the other 



