The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . hundred yards off—great black-backs, destroyers of trout, and, asthe keeper declares, also of young grouse. Thepea-rifle lying on the seat is loaded, a steady aimis taken as far as the boat will allow, and the bulletthuds into the water just short of the carnivorousbird. Up get all the gulls with a splash, a clatter,and shrill complaint. Unluckily for itself, a coot,once too often, swims round the bend of the shore ;naturally, the rifle being in hand, a shot is taken be getting back, for have we not promised togo cuddy
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . hundred yards off—great black-backs, destroyers of trout, and, asthe keeper declares, also of young grouse. Thepea-rifle lying on the seat is loaded, a steady aimis taken as far as the boat will allow, and the bulletthuds into the water just short of the carnivorousbird. Up get all the gulls with a splash, a clatter,and shrill complaint. Unluckily for itself, a coot,once too often, swims round the bend of the shore ;naturally, the rifle being in hand, a shot is taken be getting back, for have we not promised togo cuddy-fishing with the children ? Off we start,therefore, for home, each our respective ways. And a sporting walk I have. I find the teal athome, and get a couple, the second as it comesback, poor thing ! to seek its mate, and circlesround the little marsh. Out of a wet tussock, asingle snipe is bagged ; and later, a sudden andunexpected curlew is badly missed. Two snipe getup out of a snipe bog, and fall. I start to retrievethem, when another snipe rises with a cry. Some-. CARRYING HOME THE BAG.(Photo. Reil, Wiaham.) at it, not for the first time. A puff, and the cootfloats lifeless on the water; it will do for the larder,ever clamouring for more. A frugal luncheon on the bank—midges andlunch, that is—and a pipe. One more turnbefore we go back, and at once I am fast in agood trout, which, almost as active as a sea trout,plays and jumps finely before it is in the net. Afish of i| lb., it fully recompenses us for the pre-vious hours of ill or no success. Then G has one, rather smaller, and I have another of exactlythe same size as the last. Laid side by side, thereis not a pin to choose between the two exquisite shapes. Nothing more offers, except one to G , of course, at the only moment of the day that hewas looking the other way ; and now we must what foolishly, it is fired at, and missed ; and theeye now fails accurately to localise the place wherethe other fell. Much search
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