CHAPTER 
XII 
SOME RECORDS IN SPANISH WILDFOWLING 
Eu Travierso, February 9, 1901.—An hour before dawn we 
(five guns) lay echeloned obliquely across a mile of water, the 
writer's position being the 
second out. No. 1 squatted 
(in six inches of water) 
between me and the shore ; 
but, being dissatisfied, moved 
elsewhere shortly after day- 
break, leaving with me two 
geese and about a dozen 
ducks. These, with thirty- 
six of my own, I set out as 
decoys. Shortly thereafter 
I heard the gagele of geese, and two, coming from behind, were 
already so near that there was only time to change one cartridge 
to big shot. 
The geese passed abeam, quite low and within 
thirty yards, but six feet apart—impossible to get them both. 
Held on; upon seeing that the decoys were a fraud, the geese 
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spun up vertically, and 
that one cartridge 
secured both. The in- 
cident gives opportun- 
ity to introduce two 
rough sketches pen- 
cilled down at the 
moment. During this 
day there were recur- 
rent periods when for 
ten or fifteen minutes ducks flew extremely fast and well— 
revoluciones, our keepers term these sporadic intermittent 
