However, I said nothing.
"That night we slept at a country hotel, and drove the next morning to the banks of a small lake where the young men were told there would be plenty of wild ducks.

They were in no hurry to begin their sport.

They sat down in the sun on some flat rocks at the water's edge, and said they would have something to drink before setting to work.

They got out some of the bottles from the wagon, and began to take long drinks from them.

Then they got quarrelsome and mischievous, and seemed to forget all about their shooting.
"One of them proposed to have some fun with the dogs.