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SMALL GAME SHOOTINO. 
We also had good duck shooting in the Indian corn stubbles ; 
these stubbles were peculiar, the grain was planted on the 
margin of tanks or artificial lakes so common in India ; when 
the periodical rains set in before the grain was ripe the fields 
became flooded, and on the grain ripening the cultivators cut 
off the corn heads, leaving the high stalks. Duck and snipe 
collect in these fields and afford first rate sport. 
