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with which any reasonable sportsman might 

 well be as content as we were. 



Snipe-shooting, like other things, has two 

 sides to it, and though plunging about bare- 

 legged in the more than tepid water was 

 pleasant enough all day, I had to suffer bit- 

 terly for it all night. Of course, those gar- 

 ments which I had taken such care to preserve 

 from a wetting had got sodden by the partial 

 filling of our leaky old boat^ so that having 

 no change of clothes, I was obliged to sup in 

 a costume the lower portion of which had 

 been supplied by our good-natured hostess'; 

 the male portion of the village never appearing 

 to possess a duplicate pair of the most neces- 

 sary articles of clothing. The fun at my 

 expense in my loose pink and white attire 

 was naturally unbounded ; but this was harm- 

 less compared to the agony I endured from 

 my inflamed legs. Without my feeling it at 

 the time, the sharp-edged reeds had not only 



