Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 141
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head being behind a large branch. I fired BB shot the bird just to the ground. His companion moved away hand in hand swiftly, + then stopped at woods to look as us + bark & call for his companion. On plain my side of the gate I was surprised to find only 2 shot had struck him. one in the old man part lodged against the stomach & did no damage + the other penetrated the skull + broke ribs + then entered the lung place it caused a leaving which showed its annual filled with whole chest cavity not clotting blood. He died within a few seconds, as if shot from the butt. His stomach contained chiefly green pulp of leaves with some of the red forest berries + 2 large birdfruit pits size of a small olive. I can near hear a pair of Banty Partridges + shut one, & run again at the 3rd person +