HADJ ANO 



consequence we soon began to run 

 up quite a little bag. We had no 

 dog, but slow and careful walking 

 got the birds up nicely, and the Arab 

 boys were as sharp as needles in 

 marking and retrieving fallen game. 

 Anon we came to a long and narrow 

 belt of thorn bushes lining both banks 

 of the streamlet. Hadj Ano took 

 one side and I the other, the boys 

 working along in the bush, tapping 

 as they went. Four shots at intervals 

 from Hadj Ano's gun began to make 

 me impatient of my own silence, but 

 at last along bill rose within the thorns 

 and came to my side, and gave an 

 easy shot as he turned to wing along 

 the side of the cover ; almost where 

 he fell another rose, and gave a long 

 shot for my left barrel. I should 

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