. Nature and sport in Britain . 1 .t photograph by C. AND EGGS OF THE GREEN PLOVER : SUSSEX COAST. Plate XXV. SPRING AND AUTUMN BY THE SHORE We sat for a quarter of an hour, until a little ridgeof shingle and soft rock lay bare before us. As we ex-pected, the plaintive whistle of some small shore birdsfell presently upon our ears, and the flight, settlingupon the further part of the ridge, began to feed. Acertain youngster sitting at my side, fresh this seasonto the gun, was now burning to possess a do not believe in the least in the indiscriminateslaying of shore
. Nature and sport in Britain . 1 .t photograph by C. AND EGGS OF THE GREEN PLOVER : SUSSEX COAST. Plate XXV. SPRING AND AUTUMN BY THE SHORE We sat for a quarter of an hour, until a little ridgeof shingle and soft rock lay bare before us. As we ex-pected, the plaintive whistle of some small shore birdsfell presently upon our ears, and the flight, settlingupon the further part of the ridge, began to feed. Acertain youngster sitting at my side, fresh this seasonto the gun, was now burning to possess a do not believe in the least in the indiscriminateslaying of shore birds, or indeed any other kind offeathered creature; but the shooting of a specimen nowand again by a lad fond of natural history and anxiousto skin and set up his own captures is pardonableenough ; and so the boy picks up the breechloader andwalks stealthily towards the birds, now, from theirprotective colouring, well-nigh invisible upon the patchof shingle. The Schultze cartridge cracks, and a braceof birds reward the arden
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