Personal Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Residence in the Model Settlement ...

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Personal Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Residence in the Model Settlement ...
Charles M. Dyce
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December i. — ^Wild duck of various kinds, wild geese and wild swans, bustard, etc., etc China New Tear (a movable feast, but occur- ring late in January or any time in February).
— Pheasant, etc, shooting ends.
February-March. — Winter snipe shooting.
Middle of April — Spring snipe arrive, and stay from three to four weeks.
No event in the world of sport made such a deep and lasting impression upon me as the advent of the spring and autumn snipe. One evening, towards the end of August, when th
...e summer was still in full swing, and we were still in the driest costume, my tai-pan called me ou^ after dinner, fi-om the drawing-room to the ve- randah, to listen to the sounds overhead. There seemed to be thousands of birds whistling above us. These, he said, were snipe, and that it was a sign that summer was over. He was right, and yet he was wrong. The sounds we heard were not made by snipe, but by other birds flying with them; they were all attracted by the lights of 112 Digitized by Google THE MODEL SETTLEMENT Shanghai, and passing over in an immense army Nor was the summer over by some four weeks.

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