. Bird-life of the borders, records of wild sport and natural history on moorland and sea. Birds -- Great Britain. AMONG THE WILD GEESE. 203 exquisitely pencilled plumage and brightly contrasting colours. This was a good beginning, and a mile or so further up we observed a couple of Geese sitting on a dry sand-bank. They were evidently " pensioners," or pricked birds, so we decided to wait till the flowing tide should take us to them, when I killed the pair, right and left, with the cripple-stopper, as they rose ofl' the sea within forty yards. This last acquisi- tion, however, had c
. Bird-life of the borders, records of wild sport and natural history on moorland and sea. Birds -- Great Britain. AMONG THE WILD GEESE. 203 exquisitely pencilled plumage and brightly contrasting colours. This was a good beginning, and a mile or so further up we observed a couple of Geese sitting on a dry sand-bank. They were evidently " pensioners," or pricked birds, so we decided to wait till the flowing tide should take us to them, when I killed the pair, right and left, with the cripple-stopper, as they rose ofl' the sea within forty yards. This last acquisi- tion, however, had cost us a considerable delay—over an hour—and during that time the main bodies of Geese had been passing in from the sea, filing off in long, black, gag-. SETTING TO GEESE. " Right a bit . . steadj-! That'll do . . steady !" gling skeins to the salt grasses ahead. And on our arrival on the edge of their feeding grounds, we truly appeared to have good reasons for abusing that unlucky pair of " pen- sioners," and our own folly in wasting a precious hour in securing them. For there, all congregated on the wide- stretching flat of slobby ooze, sat some thousand Geese, greedily guzzling on the succulent salt grass, while two creeks in the level mud, which appeared to converge on their posi- tion, were each occupied by a rival gunner. How we anathematized our "ill-luck" (as bad judgment. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929. London : Gurney and Jackson
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