Marstons Mills - 1875 215 Rail Shooting 1875. [Oct. 19] the direction of the town and following on what was our surprise to find them scattered about in the gardens, front yards and some on the very street itself. We did what shooting we could without running the risk of bagging anything undesirably large, and left them minus four of their original number. An occurrence thus is worthy of record. At the first A woman was ironing clothes in her kitchen one small window being open into the room. She appearing to look out she saw three birds swiftly passing the house when suddenly one of them turned at [illegible] right angle in its course and darting through the open window struck against a clothes horse which stood in front of the fire cord with drying clothes, and fell to the floor. The woman was for a moment completely surprised by the suddenness of the bird's appearance, but the next near ing herself she stooped to pick it up when it shot out through the window again and disappeared as quickly as it had come. This was one of the birds started at the first rise; its life was probably saved only by the elastic character of the surface against which it struck, for so great was its impetus that the horse, clothes and all was overthrown on to the hearth. We afterwards