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I have heard their tales, and even full accounts of the 'shooting-up' of an egret rookery. Never has a man in Florida suggested to me that plumes could be obtained without killing the birds. I have known the wardens, and have visited rookeries after they had been 'shot-up, and the evidence all pointed to the everlasting use of the gun.
His physical strength and the influence of his personality were quickly used to check in incipiency any evidence of approaching disorder. His "shooting-up" consisted of pumping lead from an old revolver he owned into the spots on beech trees as he and his friends galloped along the road.
Travers with some embarrassment before that mute attitude. "I doubted my eyes," struck in d'Alcacer, who seemed embarrassed, too. Next moment he recovered his tone and confessed simply: "At the moment I wasn't thinking of you, Mrs. Travers." He passed his hand over his forehead. "I hardly know what I was thinking of." In the light of the shooting-up flame Mrs. Travers could see d'Alcacer's face.
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