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the same gauge and length as yours. You say yours 

 is a modified choke in the right barrel, a full choke in 

 the left. Mine is full choke in both barrels, and I some- 

 times think I will have the choke taken down a little. I 

 like both barrels to shoot alike, as I always fire them in 

 alternation; but the full choke don't exactly suit my 

 snap-shot style of shooting. Come, let us be off, for it 

 is a beautiful morning in that loveliest of the months — 

 October. 



" Let us try this open pasture meadow; it is high, and, 

 for the most part, dry, but the dogs can take off their 

 wire edge on it. Yonder, you see, are one or two low 

 places, and they are almost always wet. 



"Look at my dogs; you see they don't go through 

 those places as a green dog would be likely to, but along 

 the down -wind side, or, as a sailor would say, on the lee- 

 ward side. 



"There! the bitch has a point, and the dog is backing 

 her. "Well, I did not expect we should find a bird quite 

 so soon. Only a lark, you say. No, siree! my dogs 

 don't point larks; but come up and take the shot. 



" There! stand where you are; I' 11 put him up. Well, 

 that was cleanly done. He did twist about some when 

 he first got up, but you let him go just to the right spot 

 before you pulled on him. 



" Xowhere is a wet meadow, with quite a creek wind- 

 ing through it. Yonder, about the center, you see those 

 old flood-gates; go right out to them, and cross over the 

 stream there. That is the most likely ground, and the 

 best walking, too. Take the red and white dog with you; 

 he will work for you while I am in sight. I'll keep the 

 bitch, for she will work for no one but me. Let the dog 

 have his own way, and give him no orders, except to 

 tell him to retrieve when you have a bird down; and 

 now go ahead." 



