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Page 160 - ... your observations of her movements. If done quickly, she will catch sight of the break in the light, and be off. Now put the gun to your shoulder, pointing the piece parallel with the wall, and, rising suddenly, swing the gun over the wall and fire. 'On the edge of a pool of water or rivulet, sloping into deeper water, let a trap be thus placed and baited. Take a common hen-egg, blow it, and fill it with soft earth. Insert a pin of wood by the side of the egg ; thrust the other end of the pin...