It may interest some of my readers to know, that 

 since this little notebook has been in the printers' hands, 

 a wild goose has at last been bagged on Downholland 

 Moss. It was shot on Thursday, January I2//&, 1893^ 

 and was an immature specimen of the " Bean Goose." 

 The reader can well imagine, as I stroked the bird's 

 handsome plumage, how vividly those memories of 

 long unsuccessful stalks, and wet crawls over swampy 

 land came before me. 



