. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. WILDFOWLING IN THE WILDERNESS. 377 they are "—was Vasquez's verdict, as he slowly shut up the glass after a long and particular survey of the distant foreshore. The words were spoken sadly, as though solilo- quizing, for the Grey Lag is altogether too wary and supicious a bird to fall readily into the snare of the fowler. Barely indeed is it possible, by this stratagem,* to approach within the short range which alone is fatal— forty yar
. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. WILDFOWLING IN THE WILDERNESS. 377 they are "—was Vasquez's verdict, as he slowly shut up the glass after a long and particular survey of the distant foreshore. The words were spoken sadly, as though solilo- quizing, for the Grey Lag is altogether too wary and supicious a bird to fall readily into the snare of the fowler. Barely indeed is it possible, by this stratagem,* to approach within the short range which alone is fatal— forty yards is the maximum for these ironclads, and twenty- five much more desirable. Exce2)t when in very small numbers—twos and threes together—it is barely worth while to attempt a stalk ; our friends only undertook the operation under protest, saying it was a compromise)—a thing calculated to compromise their aucipial repute. ^^Svi. AXSERJ-S SOX. Anseres son ! there, sure enough, on the utmost verge of the plain, sits a straggling line with detached groups of big, blue-grey forms, some slowly moving about, others squatted on the ground or resting in various attitudes of repose. Such big packs are inaccessible ; only once, that winter, did we seem to be really on the road to success. The bulk of the geese—some seventy in number—appeared to be peacefully sleeping away the mid-day hours, some * That is, with two men behind the pony. We have since then, going single-handed, occasionally succeeded in outwitting even the Grey 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; Buck, Walter John. London, Gurney and Jackson
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