They are the size of a dove; the time to shoot them is when they are settling at the edge of the water and when they rise; in two shots I killed fifty-four; they are called also sand-grouse.
Up the valley by the side of the bill was, when I used to visit it, a favourite resort for the muscovy duck, and where I have frequently gone to shoot them, but they are most difficult to get near.
The old Boer wanted to shoot them, but his vrow wished to keep and make servants of them.
Almost the only way to shoot them, indeed, is to dig a pit in the ground and hide inside it, covered over with branches, until they pass by.
A smaller kind is found in the mountains of Eastern Arabia, where very few, even sportsmen, have yet attempted to shoot them.
There they sometimes do an immense amount of damage, and as they generally come during the night, and leave again before daybreak, it is very difficult to trap or shoot them.
Watchers were employed to shoot them, traps were set for them, huge bonfires were lighted to keep them away; but all to no purpose.
The secesh ran upon them and cursed them, and said, "Damn them;" they thought they were free to shoot them.
If the plea is made that "if we don't shoot ducks in the spring we can't shoot them at all!
A good way to discourage sparrows is to shoot them en masse when they are feeding on road refuse, such as the white-throated, white-crowned and other sparrows never touch.
Somebody made a remark that they would not let them come up any further--that they had threatened to shoot them.
They did not propose to have anybody coming in there to shoot them down.
I wish they had got their deserts, but we none of us wanted to shoot them, though they did deserve it.
You can't shoot them, sir, for fighting their best--their way.
No, Mr Lennox, I can't shoot them; but it will be a horrible nuisance to have to keep them as prisoners.
More don't I, my lad; but it's shoot them or spear us; so load away.
I don't want to shoot them, and I certainly don't want to march them with us down to where the ship lies.
She persisted in her refusal, and they both knelt down together, begging the gendarmes who accompanied them to shoot them at once if shot they were to be.
Ranvier, meeting two of his colleagues thus disguised, who during the siege had been among the most beplumed, apostrophised them, threatening to shoot them if they did not at once return to their arrondissements.
Lovable and delightful creatures these seals are, indeed, for which reason the great idea is to shoot them, and they have been almost driven from our seas.
Not so many years ago the sight of these seals would have made me want to shoot them.
It had been agreed that the animals caught should be divided; but Godfrey felt that he was doing but little, for he was unable to shoot them, as this would have damaged their skins.
It will be of no use my trying to shoot them on the river," Godfrey said, "as I should have no means of picking them up; and I can tell you I found the water too cold this morning to care about stripping and swimming out for them.
They would drive the bears away, and it is too dark to see to shoot them.
Many crocodiles had ascended this small river to lay their eggs and were lying on sandbanks but we travelled so quickly that it was impossible to shoot them.
Later in the afternoon just before sunset, an immense flock of ducks and geese crossed the river, but as they were flying nearly a hundred feet up in the air, it was impossible to shoot them.
We could not spare cartridges to shoot them with, but we might make a trap of stones.
Naturally, to shoot them would be the most convenient and merciful way, but we are loath to expend our precious ammunition on them; the time may come when we shall need it sorely.
But, perhaps, he didn't want to shoot them, Susan.
He's carried them to shoot; and he promised to shoot them for me as soon as I carried the note.
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