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a fairer mark when they next wheeled round. Then two, and 
often three, great geese came hurtling downwards, to fall with 
resounding thuds behind. Few mistakes occurred this morning 
and scarce a chance was missed. But never could we succeed 
in working-in the two doubles at once! The cramped space 
forbade that. The hole, having been dug for one, gave no freedom 
of action for two guns; its floor, moreover, had now become a 
compound of sticky glutinous clay a foot deep, and that further 
hampered movements. Only one gun could work the second 
barrel. 
After each shot, one of us jumped out and propped up the 
fallen geese as decoys. To leave them lying about all-ends-up 
has a disastrous effect. 
Ere the “flight” ceased we had five-and-twenty greylags 
down around our hide, besides several others that had fallen at 
some distance, duly marked by the keepers who now galloped off 
to gather these—say two mule-loads of geese. The discovery 
of that lonely ‘‘ sanding-place ” had had a concrete reward. 
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