around were comfortably 97 filled. I walked down the Brook and scared up several doves, then walked back again and when came to the dam I saw some thing in a bunch of tulip, so I fired. Something jumped up and down again till I could not see whether I had any game or not and as he was several rods off and the intervening space was filled with a forbidding compound (Earth + H2O = Mud), I decided not to investigate. I then walked up the brook till I was stopped by a side winder when I crawled under the tree to escape from the rain which had been stead- ily growing wetter and wetter. I tried to build a fire but the wet stuff wouldn't burn so at 9.30 I went back to the dam. This time I got the start of the doves by creeping up behind the dam and when I raised up I saw a half dozen swimming