. Bird notes . the proprietor, and owning that he had. Ikmafisbers. {Meal time).Prom the original sketcli Iw K. K. BaiLKY. (15y special permission of Mr. W. H, Vale). To face page 9. 9 sliot inaii}^ merely for people to stuff, promised neveragain to point his gun at the poor little Kingfisher. Two word pictures I will paint as witnessed bymyself. My point of vantage is a large hawthorn])usli on the banks of a silvery stream. Resting therein tlie cool shade, after a long round or naturalisingwalk, about thirty yards in front of me, looking upstream, is a pole or lug (as it is called in this dis
. Bird notes . the proprietor, and owning that he had. Ikmafisbers. {Meal time).Prom the original sketcli Iw K. K. BaiLKY. (15y special permission of Mr. W. H, Vale). To face page 9. 9 sliot inaii}^ merely for people to stuff, promised neveragain to point his gun at the poor little Kingfisher. Two word pictures I will paint as witnessed bymyself. My point of vantage is a large hawthorn])usli on the banks of a silvery stream. Resting therein tlie cool shade, after a long round or naturalisingwalk, about thirty yards in front of me, looking upstream, is a pole or lug (as it is called in this district)stretched across the stream to prevent the cattle fromwading through the water and getting into otherpastures. As the banks are about six feet high, atintervals the ground is sloped out in order to allowthe cattle to get to the water for drinking. I have notsat there many minutes when aloug flashes his royalhighness the Kingfisher, who, coming up stream,takes his stand upon the pole, and settles himselfdown for business after a preliminary plum
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