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as how they didn't fly clean away with me. There's 

 more geese there to-night than there was t'other 

 morning when I got that good shot did you hear 

 of it, Mr. Richard ? I ought to have got more, but 

 I had no fair play ; but I got thirty of them, I did, 

 and that wern't so very bad according to the cir- 

 cumstances, as I may say. I'll tell you how it was. 

 I'd had a deal of trouble to get anyways near them, 

 but at last I got into a gutter that I thought should 

 do ; so I bided quite quiet till the tide should lift 

 me up to shoot over the cop. When I had got, as 

 I thought, almost right, I peeped over, and there 

 they was oh my ! what a lot of them there was ! 

 and I was almost aboard of them. But I soon found 

 that the tide would not lift me up high enough to 

 shoot from the punt, so I pushed the muzzle of my 

 gun on to the bank, and got it little by little, as I 

 thought, to a right elevation to catch them when 

 they rose. I looked over two or three times, and 

 thought that they must have seen me, but they were 

 feeding away from me, and didn't seem to know 

 but what I was at home and in bed. I guess they 

 was pretty full with feeding, for it was just grey of 

 morning, and they had been at it all night. 'Well,' 

 thinks I, 'I don't see as I can better it;' so I gets 



