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taken as a frolic, by rheumatic or otherwise delicate folk, 

 who are apt to catch cold if they sit in a thorough draft, 

 and shiver at a strong breeze through a key-hole. It is 

 hard, earnest, downright work. It requires a man, who 

 not only can rough it, but who loves to rough it, for its 

 own sake — who can endure cold, wet, fatigue, and the 

 weariness of long waiting, not only with patience but 

 with pleasure, and at last feel himself well rewarded if he 

 make a good bag, and not altogether unrewarded, if he 

 make a bad one. If he cannot bring himself to this, he 

 would far better stay at home by his cosy fireside, and 

 pretty wife or pleasant friend ; and, if he be past forty- 

 five years old, I do not know but he were wiser to do 

 eo, whether or no. 



The third and last variety of fowl shooting is inland 

 duck-shooting, whether on the large fresh water lakes and 

 rivers of the interior, on the vast half saline, half fresh 



