Story

The Boalia Beel, not very far from our college, is a good haunt of game birds in our district. A few days ago I took two of my hostel-mates with me and went to the Beel on a shooting excursion. My hostel-mates were expert swimmers. We hired a boat and started for the Beel in the small hours of the night. We reached there before sunrise. I had my gun with me. We had also articles of food with us. A little while after sunrise we landed from the boat.  The shores of the Beel were covered with thick of reeds. We very cautiously made our way through the reeds and soon saw some flock of teals floating on water. A little a way ahead very tactfully and shot at a flock of teals. Some of the birds flew away but there rest was fluttering on water. My hostel-mates at once jumped into water, caught hold of almost all of them and carried them to the boat. Them we had our breakfast and started on our return journey. We reached our hostel amidst shouts of joy. It was really an exciting excursion.