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but I determined to have a blaze ... of the ... — which were still coming in in long lines. Charging both barrels with buckshot, I waded into a pool in the middle of which was a clump of flags under cover of which I waited with Dash til’ the gesse came over me.

Whilst I was thus waiting Dash made a bolt into the water and came out with a tortoise in his mouth, numbers of which are found in the marshes. After remaining up to my middle in water for some time, at last saw 20 or 30 geese flying slowly towards me headed by a huge red gander who alighted in the the pool some 70 yards from me but a movement of mine scared him and he rose again the others turning off to my left — out of shot — however I drove at the gander