SANDY DOWN. 
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captured birds in bis net. In this manner as 
many as twenty brace of quail may be taken in 
a day. The goshawk has a long sillvcn cord round 
her neck, which is wound on a reel secured to the 
arm of her owner. 
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Fleecy white clouds were saihng softly across the 
pale blue sky, and a single skylark was singing 
clear and loud overhead. From the bay on the 
south side of Cape Vansittart, I passed to the bay 
on the north side. I reached a sandy down, where 
many flowers reminded me of home and “merrie 
England.” Among others I observed the storksbiU 
and the toadflax, but not the “ wee modest crimson- 
tipped flower” we all love so well. In its place, 
however, was the Chinese pink, which grew in 
abundance everywhere. A pretty campanula was 
also very common, and springing up in dry stony 
places were the spikes of a white-flowered stone- 
crop, looking just like a pigmy aloe in a miniature 
desert. Grasshoppers leaped up around me in 
prodigious numbers, and among the stunted shrubs 
