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taken as 2 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 uot kuow but he were wiser to do 
so, whether or no. 
The third and last variety of fowl shooting is inland 
duck-shooting, whether on the large fresh waiter lakes and 
rivers of the interior, on the vast half saline, half fresh 
