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To the Editor, "The Listener" Sir,-Munchausen’s story, in reply to the fishy fish tale of a previous issue, reminds me, by its unique qualities, of an interesting and fruitful hunt-ing-cum-fishing experience I once enjoyed. In the Spring of ’89, while out with a party in the Rotorua district, I happened to separate from the rest of the party, and was walking along a small river bank. While I was in the very act of recharging my old muzzle-loader, a large swan went up directly ahead, and only a few feet away. So quickly did I aim and fire, I completely forgot to remove the ram-rod from the barrel. The resultant kick knocked me backwards, and I sat heavily onto a hare crouching under a tuft. Meanwhile, the ram-rod had hit the swan, bringing it down, and bounced back toward me. Out of the corner of my eye as I sat squashily on the hare, I saw a fat trout lying just under the surface of the river, and, grasping the flying ramrod, I just managed to spear the trout. Swan, hare and trout from one shot, Fair shooting?
Auckland,
RASTUS
December 16.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 10
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195MORE FISH STORIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 10
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