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WILD SPAIN. 



exceeded the total named, but select this particular day 

 merely because it followed in immediate sequence to that 

 last described.* 



Since writing the above, the experience of two more 

 winters has served to confirm its correctness. From a 

 dozen or fifteen up to twenty ducks may occasionally be 

 secured at a shot, but the huge bodies of wildfowl on 

 open water remain actually inaccessible, and the visions 

 of heavy shots — 80 or 100 — of which we had dreamed, 

 no longer disturb our midnight slumbers. 



* Our biggest shot with the cabresto-Tpomes realized 74 ducks and 

 teal ; guns, a single 4- and a double 8-bore. 



