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only at last to find you have come out 

 on the wrong side of it, and up against 

 a barbed wire government fence, which 

 of necessity has to be taken down to 

 allow your team to pass over it, which 

 you have to do by leading them care- 

 fully across it. At last you get straight- 



ened out for town and forget all this 

 unpleasantness, and, settling back, your 

 pipe comfortably between your teeth, 

 console yourself with the thought that 

 though you shot well, there are millions 

 of mallard left on those wonderful hot 

 toms. 



TAKING TO THE TALL TIMBER Photo by W. E. BALCH 



