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eating. I went to the same place on another occasion, 

 but did not see a goose, and I can only account for 

 my having seen them when I did, by the hills in the 

 distance being so covered with snow. I heard from 

 a gentleman some time after that the peasants had 

 adopted my plan of lying under the railings, and 

 that they often killed some geese in the Campagna 

 in this manner. 



