232 KILL THREE GEESE WITH BALL. 



the yaclit, we began to think there must be 

 some mistake ; and not being in good walking 

 condition after our long confinement in the 

 sloop, we began also to get tired, and to think 

 we should have to pass the night on the shore. 

 We determined not to pass it supperless, at all 

 events, if we could help it ; so observing a large 

 flock of geese in a sort of creek on the shore, 

 with a ridge of trap rocks on one side of them, 

 we commenced to stalk them, in hopes of 

 getting near enough to kill one with our 

 rifles. When we got behind the rocks we 

 agreed sotto voce that I should fire first; so 

 peering over the rocks I saw the geese all busy 

 guzzling amongst the mud, and, taking a 

 cool aim, I was lucky enough to send rifle- 

 balls through two of them by a right-and-left 

 shot ; they were young birds and were slow in 

 getting on the wing, which enabled Lord David, 

 by a beautiful shot, to knock over a third as 

 they squatter ed along the surface of the water. 

 (N. B. Nothing makes a man shoot so well 

 as the fact of his dinner depending on the 

 shot.) We then walked about a mile or so 

 further, until we found a sheltered corner 

 amongst the rocks, with lots of drift-wood 

 lying about it ; here we agreed to pass the 



