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full toll is taken of them. But to describe how this duck 

 was shot, how that one missed, would afford but mono- 

 tonous reading we fear, for after all one day's flapper- 

 shooting is very like another. Suffice it to say that when 

 a halt was called for lunch and the bunches of fowl laid 

 on the shady side of the sea-wall they were found to run 

 well into three figures. 



