Fritz loaded himself with powder and shot, I opened the butter-cask, and my wife and little Francis filled the pot.

Ernest and Jack went to try and secure the geese and ducks; but they had become so wild that it would have been impossible, if Ernest had not thought of an expedient.

He tied pieces of cheese, for bait, to threads, which he floated on the water.

The voracious creatures immediately swallowed the cheese and were drawn out by the thread.

They were then securely tied, and fastened to the game-bags, to be carried home on our backs.