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The fine art of telling a story

With the ever pressing demand to engage upon technical questions arising out of guns, boats, punts and other gear attendant on wildfowling, the lighter vein of storytelling is inadvertently passed over to another week and another. Then nothing is told of the joyful excursions experienced and revealed by so many of my delightful correspondents. We reach an

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