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Title: Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929 Buck, Walter John
Subjects: Hunting -- Spain Game and game-birds -- Spain
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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GREY LAG GEESE FLIGHTING—DAYBREAK. squealing as only pigs can squeal. In an instant thegeese were on the alert—every neck at full stretch, everyeye seeking keenly the cause of the unwonted uproar. Fromthe sentinel gander came the low, clear alarm-note—Honk! honk ! The rest were still silent, but they knewfull well the significance of those low warning notes. Afew seconds more and, despite our utmost care, the whole
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Ph P S5 oo Q o 23O > WILDFOWLING IN THE WILDERNESS. 379 pack rose on wing, amid deep Spanish execrations on themothers and female relatives of those malditos cncltinos. The geese have particular spots along the shore to whichthey show a predilection—usually the point of some flatpromontory or tongue of land, to which they daily resort.By placing a few decoys before dawn, and lying in wait atthese qnerencias, several shots may be obtained at themorning flight. The difficulties of wild-goose shootingare, however, proverbial, and these big Grey Lags are,moreover, the hardest and most invulnerable fowl. Yet ifthe bag is sometimes light, those mornings spent in themarisma will never be regretted, nor the sights and soundsheard during the lonely hours of vigil be forgotten. Withinone hundred yards of the damp hole where we lie hiddenare three or four separate packs of Grey Lags swimming onthe silvery water, while fresh parties constantly keeparriving to join the assemblage, sailing wit

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